Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light: 1887-1920, Wingett Matt

Автор: Wingett Matt, Doyle Arthur Conan, Dickens Charles
Название: Portsmouth - A Literary and Pictorial Tour
ISBN: 0995639485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995639485
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 4598.00 р.
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111 illustrations - 50 in colour - 3 maps

Join local writer Matt Wingett and see Portsmouth through the eyes of writers such as Charles Dickens, Beatrix Potter, P G Wodehouse, H G Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Olivia Manning and even Mahatma Gandhi.

From the heights of Portsdown Hill to the crowded streets of Portsea, from the chaos that was Old Portsmouth to the beaches of Southsea and even the skies above, discover just what writers famous and obscure wrote about the town. On the way, you will meet carousing sailors, enterprising bumboat women, obsessive fortune-tellers, fallen women, moral and immoral landladies, treacherous pilots, disapproving generals and many more characters both fictional and historical in this personal and slightly eccentric tour.

In this book you will discover -

- Which Portsmouth woman wrote America's first ever bestseller

- Why St Jago the monkey became famous at The Common Hard

- What H G Wells hated about Portsmouth

- Where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first set foot in Southsea

- What Lawrence of Arabia was doing in Southsea

- Where midshipman Peter Simple was sent for his cocked hat

Crammed with 111 illustrations, many in colour. Each location is illustrated with a picture taken from the author's personal collection, and he shares stories, facts, quasi-facts and complete fictions in an exploration of the literary heritage of the town.

For anyone interested in Portsmouth, great writing and history, this is the perfect read.

Автор: Cheverton Sarah, Wingett Matthew, Compton Zella
Название: Portsmouth Fairy Tales for Grown Ups
ISBN: 095724133X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957241336
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 3678.00 р.
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This collection of fairy tales for grown-ups contains dark moral tales, historical fiction, sci-fi, comedy, fantasy, crime, memoir and surreal fiction and is available post-free in the UK from the publisher's website, www.lifeisamazing.co.uk.. All the stories have been freshly-written and all are set in and around the UK's only island city. No chocolate box visions or soppy princesses in sight, the writers have used this magical genre to explore grown-up dilemmas, such as money problems, fear of rivalry in a relationship, floods, memories and changing bodies. Find out why the real Guildhall clock is buried in an underground city to save time. Hear about the man who wished himself onto a ship in a whisky bottle. Discover why a Victorian detective joined forces with the circus to fight Spice Island's criminals. Embrace your bank statement or the ghost ship will get you. Some stories delve into the city's rich island geography, others focus on rural Hampshire, its cow pats, mushrooms and breweries. Some have taken their favourite urban location and woven it into fantastical narratives that stretch back to Victorian times, or forward to a dystopian future. Raw, mischievous, dark and yet familiar, these tales showcase a city bubbling with literary minds. Authors are: Lynne E Blackwood, Tessa Ditness, Christine Lawrence, Zella Compton, Gareth Rees, Tom Harris, Tom Sykes, Sarah Cheverton, William Sutton, Diana Bretherick, Matt Wingett.