When I Was A Nipper

Author : Alan Titchmarsh
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409074676
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When I Was a Nipper written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In When I Was a Nipper Alan Titchmarsh goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. With characteristic wit, warmth and humour he draws on the experience of his own childhood, and also takes a broader perspective, creating a wonderfully detailed and evocative portrait of a way of life that is fast disappearing, and asks what can we learn from this era of austerity to make our lives better today? Born in Yorkshire in 1949 and brought up in a Britain still recovering from World War 2, Alan remembers a time of relative calm, when it was enough to return home at night knowing that the house would still be standing. We were known throughout the world for our patience, resourcefulness and resilience. 'Mustn't grumble' was almost a national catchphrase, and queuing was second nature. Peppered with wonderful archive photographs and advertisements, When I Was a Nipper takes us back to those days, down high streets and through farmyards, on to trolley buses and into local pubs. As we move towards a global economy, as communities fragment and customs are lost, When I Was a Nipper captures a world that is fast receding into history. It's powerfully nostalgic for those who remember those days, but it's also Alan's timely call to all recession-hit Brits to heed the lessons of austerity Britain: 'make do and mend'; 'look on the bright side' and 'take the knocks on the chin'.

Author : Alan Titchmarsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409074687
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When I Was A Nipper written by Alan Titchmarsh and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlie Mitchell
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007292597
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nipper written by Charlie Mitchell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie lives with Jock, his violent, disturbed, alcoholic father in a Dundee tenement. Money is scarce, and Jock′s love of vodka means that Charlie bears the brunt of his abuse. Often too bruised to go to school, Charlie lives in constant fear of Jock′s next outburst... Somehow Charlie escaped from the everyday struggle for survival. His dog Bonnie wasn′t so lucky. Charlie′s way out came in the form of a beautiful young woman who became the love of his life and his saviour.

Author : Leonard Read
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
ISBN 13 : 9780751531756
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nipper Read written by Leonard Read and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just after 7pm on the evening of Tuesday 4 March 1969, at the Old Bailey, the jurors filed back into Court 1 to give their verdict on Ronald Kray. The word 'guilty' brought to a triumphant conclusion the months of painstaking work put in by Read and his team in their efforts to bring the infamous Kray brothers to justice. Leonard Read tells his own story, that of the small Nottingham lad, nicknamed Nipper, who went to join the Metropolitan Police because of their less stringent height requirements - and who rose through the ranks to become part of the team solving the Great Train Robbery. In 1964 Read was invited to put together a team to 'have a go' at the Kray gang - the seemingly untouchable East End criminals whose reign of terror involved blackmail, protection rackets and finally murder. In an enthralling recreation of the operation, Read and Morton cover the case from the first time Nipper saw Ronald Kray in a pub in the Whitechapel Road - where he turned up flanked by minders - to the brothers' eventual arrest in May 1968 and the nailbiting suspense of their sensational trial.

Author : Joseph Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.SY/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Dialect Dictionary written by Joseph Wright and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: M-Q written by Joseph Wright and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Cookson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780552139731
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nipper written by Catherine Cookson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Catherine Cookson story of loyalty and determination set against the harsh background of life in a north-eastern mining area in the early 1800s. 15-year-old Sandy loses his job and his home when the small farm he lives on is sold, and then is horrified when The Nipper is sold as a pit-pony.

Author : Cecil Day Lewis
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whispering Roots written by Cecil Day Lewis and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1914 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oscar Chalupsky
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1776390210
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Retreat, No Surrender written by Oscar Chalupsky and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few athletes hold a record comparable to that of Oscar Chalupsky. He made history at the age of fifteen as the first person to win both the Junior and Senior Ironman titles on the same day at the South African National Lifesaving Championships, he was the country’s spokesman at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and he is a multiple-times global surfski champion, having won the internationally famous Molokai to Oahu World Surfski Marathon championships in Hawaii a record twelve times – his most recent victory being at the age of forty-nine. Then, in 2019, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable bone marrow cancer and told he had six months to live. But as with everything else Oscar does, he is determined to emerge victorious. He continues to paddle kayaks, play golf, and with a combination of medical treatment, exercise, iron determination and unconquerable optimism, he has defied every doctor’s prediction to date. How does he do it? In this book, Oscar relives some of his most exhilarating and nail-biting races, and shares the lessons he has learnt from winning on the international surf lifesaving, kayak and surfski circuits as well as running several successful businesses. The final chapters recount his courageous battle against cancer, the vital support of his family and friends, and his refusal to let the deadly disease dictate his life. No Retreat, No Surrender is an uplifting account of grit, perseverance, talent and attitude, vividly capturing the determined mindset of an inspirational sporting legend.

Author : Nathan Nipper
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1642939218
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life on Christmas Eve written by Nathan Nipper and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After watching It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time, thirty-one-year-old Julie Shelly’s predictable small-town life turns anything but as she begins experiencing uncanny parallels between her life and the fictional George Bailey’s. Initially intrigued by the way her life seems to imitate the classic movie, Julie secretly hopes the strange similarities bear some kind of deeper existential significance. But real life soon brings her back down to earth and she dismisses the episodes as mere coincidence and the wishful thinking of her restless spirit. Julie decides to put the Wonderful Life foolishness behind her…until a tragedy puts her faith to the test and forces her to view the odd movie coincidences in a completely different light. Her epiphany ultimately spurs her toward an extraordinary, life-changing encounter with a vulnerable stranger on Christmas Eve.