Jamrachs Menagerie

Author : Carol Birch
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857860410
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamrach's Menagerie written by Carol Birch and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London’s East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach – explorer, entrepreneur and collector of the world’s strangest creatures – the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, on an unusual commission for Mr Jamrach. His journey – if he survives it – will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits.

Author : Carol Birch
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921758457
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamrach's Menagerie written by Carol Birch and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1857- after surviving an encounter with an escaped tiger on the streets of Bermondsey, nine-year-old Jaffy stumbles into a job for its owner, the wild animal collector, Mr Jamrach. Commissioned by Jamrach to find and collect a sea dragon, Jaf soon joins a ship bound for the South Seas, and so begins a wonder-filled voyage of discovery. But when things start to go awry, Jaf's journey becomes a fight for survival which will push faith, love and friendship to their outermost limits. Brilliantly written and utterly compulsive, Carol Birch's novel evokes the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth century from the squalor of London to the islands of the South Seas. This historical adventure is a major literary accomplishment and will delight fans of Michel Faber and Sara Gruen.

Author : Carol Birch
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385541538
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orphans of the Carnival written by Carol Birch and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning work of historical fiction, the Booker Prize–nominated author of Jamrach’s Menagerie reimagines the incredible true story of Julia Pastrana, a woman branded a freak at birth. Although she was pronounced by the most eminent physician of the day to be “a true hybrid wherein the nature of woman presides over that of the brute,” Julia was fluent in English, French, and Spanish, and an accomplished musician with an exquisite singing voice. Alternately vilified and celebrated, all she wanted was for people to see beyond her hairy visage—and perhaps, the chance for love. When Julia meets a charming showman who catapults her onto the global stage, she believes that she has found true happiness at last. But the question of whether her lover truly cares for her—or if his management is just a new form of exploitation—lingers heavily. A deeply moving novel, in Orphans of the Carnival Carol Birch has crafted a haunting examination of how we define ourselves and, ultimately, of what it means to be human.

Author : Carol Birch
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385534418
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamrach's Menagerie written by Carol Birch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal. Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Thus begins a long, close friendship fraught with ambiguity and rivalry. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedi­tion. Onboard, Jaffy and Tim enjoy the rough brotherhood of sailors and the brutal art of whale hunting. They even succeed in catching the reptilian beast. But when the ship’s whaling venture falls short of expecta­tions, the crew begins to regard the dragon—seething with feral power in its cage—as bad luck, a feeling that is cruelly reinforced when a violent storm sinks the ship. Drifting across an increasingly hallucinatory ocean, the sur­vivors, including Jaffy and Tim, are forced to confront their own place in the animal kingdom. Masterfully told, wildly atmospheric, and thundering with tension, Jamrach’s Mena­gerie is a truly haunting novel about friendship, sacrifice, and survival.

Author : Walter Kempowski
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372061
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All for Nothing written by Walter Kempowski and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.

Author : Katherine Mansfield
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443439770
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Singing Lesson written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Meadows, a singing teacher, bustles into school one day in bad temper. Upon encountering her colleagues and young students, she is cold, bitter, and reproachful. But what could have brought out this sudden irritation and resentment in Miss Meadows? HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : Charles John Cornish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life at the Zoo written by Charles John Cornish and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol Birch
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860499722
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn Again Home written by Carol Birch and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic fiction.

Author : Carol Birch
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857863836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jamrach's Menagerie written by Carol Birch and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling venture falls short of expectations, the crew begins to regard the dragon--seething with feral power in its cage--as bad luck

Author : Charlotte Rogan
Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
ISBN 13 : 0316202843
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lifeboat written by Charlotte Rogan and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sinking of an ocean liner leaves a newly married woman battling for survival in this powerful debut novel. Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life. In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die. As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it? The Lifeboat is a page-turning novel of hard choices and survival, narrated by a woman as unforgettable and complex as the events she describes.