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Gladstone
by E J FeuchtwangerFirst published in 1975, this remains the only biography based on recent scholarship dealing with the whole of Gladstone's long life. `...thoroughly competent and well-proportioned.' Enoch Powell, Books and Bookmen `...balanced and judicious, this biography qualifies as a model of synthesis that manages adeptly at every stage to distinguish between Gladstone as he conceived of himself and as he appeared to the multitudes who worshipped him.' Stephen Koss, Observer
Glaki, Spear of the Depths: Series 25 Book 3 (Beast Quest)
by Adam BladeFree the Beasts. Live the Adventure. Battle Beasts and fight Evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up! In the prison kingdom of Vakunda, a wicked wizard has kidnapped Queen Aroha's nephew. In the sea surrounding the wizard's island lair Tom and Elenna must battle a ferocious water snake-Beast which has the power to freeze water with its eyes!There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in The Prison Kingdom series - don't miss out! Akorta the All-Seeing Ape; Lycaxa, Hunter of the Peaks; Glaki, Spear of the Depths and Diprox the Buzzing Terror.If you like Beast Quest, check out Adam Blade's other series: Team Hero, Sea Quest and Beast Quest: New Blood!
Glamorama (Tiempos Modernos Ser.)
by Bret Easton EllisThe centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn’t been and with people he doesn’t know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he’s living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now it’s time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world, the juncture where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.
The Glamorous: A Novel (Isabel Bookbinder Ser. #1)
by Holly McQueenThere's an aroma of fresh coffee and warming bagels as gorgeous bestselling novelist Isabel, 27, welcomes us into her sunny apartment, light glinting off the huge Tiffany diamond studs in her ears... For Isabel Bookbinder, there's no doubt about where she's headed. Reasons to become a bestselling author: - Opportunities to swish new Super-hair and captivate the lovely Joe Madison - Prove to father that Really Am Not a Waster- Leave column inch-measuring days at the Saturday Mercury behindPotential setbacks:- Don't yet have 'Yoko' bag, as carried by arch rival with book deal, Gina D... or honed size eight figure (useful for interviews)- Hmm. Am also at the centre of a major political sex scandal - Paparazzi are doorstepping my parents and boring boyfriend Russell Of course she hasn't yet quite got round to putting pen to paper yet, but Isabel's not one to let a little thing like that stand in her way ...
Glamorous Powers (Church Of England Ser. #2)
by Susan HowatchThe author’s most famous and well-loved work, the Starbridge series, six self-contained yet interconnected novels that explore the history of the Church of England through the 20th century.
Glamour: A Novel
by Louise BagshaweCalifornia, 1980s. Texan honey Sally Lassiter, English rose Jane Morgan and shy Jordanian Helen Yanna are best friends at an exclusive girls' school. They form a bond which, they swear, will never be broken... The girls grow up, becoming co-founders of the exclusive GLAMOUR chain - a runaway success the world over. They are fabulously wealthy, adored and blissfully happy. Or are they? For all is not as it seems. The empire is on the verge of collapse and the former friends are now embroiled in a bitter feud. So what went wrong? What has changed? And, in the final showdown between three powerful beauties, who will emerge as the queen of GLAMOUR?
The Glamour
by Christopher PriestCameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of 'the glamour'.
The Glamour Collection: A sexy and scandalous collection of sun, sin and sex for fans of Jackie Collins, Victoria Fox and Nigel May
by Aita IghodaroNow together in a deliciously fun collection, Sin Tropez and All That Glitters. Sin TropezFor best friends Tara and Abena, an invitation to stay on a luxury yacht in St Tropez is a chance to enjoy riotous hedonism and reckless adventure. For Latvian model Natalya, it is a long-awaited opportunity. She wants to find an oligarch who can fund her future - and help her forget her past.But as Abena becomes embroiled in a dangerous affair, Tara's partying spirals out of control and Natalya discovers the dark consequences of getting what you wish for, the jet-set lifestyle starts to look a lot less glamorous...All That Glitters Isabel Suarez-Octavio is beautiful, intelligent and fiercely ambitious. She uses her time at Oxford University to attend the wildest parties, join the right societies and involve herself with the power brokers of tomorrow. Before long, Isabel is prowling the corridors of Westminster by day and partying in Miami by night.But when Isabel joins a yacht trip along Italy's glamorous Amalfi Coast her glittering life quickly unravels. Suddenly, Isabel is in the frame for murder. To win her freedom, she must take on some of the world's most powerful men - and finally confront the dark secrets of her past.
Glamour in Glass: (the Glamourist Histories #2) (The Glamourist Histories #2)
by Mary Robinette KowalJane and David Vincent, both glamourists of some repute, are enjoying a blissful honeymoon on the continent when their romantic getaway goes horribly awry. They are in Belgium when they learn that Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed emperor, has fled from exile throwing Europe into turmoil. Suddenly Jane and David find themselves in great danger, with no easy way back home to England, no possibility of rescue from abroad, and no real way to tell friend from foe. When David is taken prisoner, Jane determines to put herself at risk, using her most cunning, strongest magic to save her beloved, herself, and their unborn child from harm. . .
Glanz und Blendung: Zur Ästhetik des Heroischen im Drama des Siècle classique (Lettre)
by Jakob WillisIm Frankreich des 17. Jahrhunderts findet ein grundlegender Wandel von Heldentum statt, der auch den Bereich der Dramenliteratur entscheidend geprägt hat. Wenngleich sich keine endgültige »démolition du héros« (Bénichou) beobachten lässt, geraten im Zuge von Moralistik und Frühaufklärung insbesondere militärisch geprägte Konzepte des Heroischen in eine Krise, während neue Helden wie der grand homme und das génie die Bühne betreten. Jakob Willis analysiert die Ästhetik des Heroischen im Drama und zeigt, dass sich bei allem Wandel ein regelrechter Heroisierungscode herausarbeiten lässt: Von Corneilles Cid bis zu Molières Don Juan und Racines Phèdre wird der Held im Modus von Glanz und Blendung visualisiert.
The Glare
by Margot HarrisonAfter living off the grid for more than a decade, a teenage girl must play a dangerous game -- and face the shadows of her past -- to save the world from a dangerous dark force.After ten years of living on an isolated, tech-free ranch with her mother, sixteen-year-old Hedda is going back to the world of the Glare -- her word for cell phones, computers, and tablets. Hedda was taught to be afraid of technology, afraid that it would get inside her mind and hurt her. But now she's going to stay with her dad in California, where she was born, and she's finally ready to be normal. She's not going to go "off-kilter," like her mom says she did when she was just a little kid.Once she arrives, Hedda finally feels like she's in control. She reunites with old friends and connects with her stepmom and half-brother. Never mind the terrifying nightmares and visions that start trickling back -- they're not real.Then Hedda rediscovers the Glare: the real Glare, a first-person shooter game from the dark web that scared her when she was younger. They say if you die thirteen times on level thirteen, you die in real life. But as Hedda starts playing the so-called "death game" -- and the game begins spreading among her friends -- she realizes the truth behind her nightmares is even more twisted than she could have imagined. And in order to stop the Glare, she'll have to first confront the darkness within herself.
The Glasgow Coma Scale
by Neil StewartWhen Lynne offers money to a homeless man on Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street she is shocked to recognise Angus, her former art tutor from college. Lynne once revered him, even dreamed of becoming an artist under his tutelage. Now, she works as a supervisor at an insurance call-centre. And as for Angus, he has fallen on even harder times . . .She insists on inviting him to stay at her flat, but just as Angus doesn't go out of his way to explain the reasons for his misfortune, neither is Lynne's insistence on taking him in to her home purely altruistic.The Glasgow Coma Scale is a barbed love letter to the city, a dysfunctional romance, and a story about damage: the kind done unthinkingly, the kind done deliberately, and the worst sort - the harm we do even as we're trying to do 'the right thing'.'Neil Stewart is the kind of writer who appears once in a generation, gifts fully formed. Through the unforgettable duo of Angus and Lynne, he takes us to places where other novels fear to treat, from the perils of life on a park bench through the murky grey areas of love to the ineffable mysteries of art. Compassionate, brave, singing with life, The Glasgow Coma Scale is an outstanding debut from an extraordinary talent.' Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies
Glasgow Kiss: 6 (William Lorimer #6)
by Alex GrayEric Chalmers is one of the most popular teachers at Muirpark Secondary School in Glasgow. Gentle and kind, he is the person the students come to when they want to confide in someone. So when precocious teenager Julie Donaldson accuses Chalmers of rape, the school goes into shock. How could a deeply religious family man like Chalmers do anything like that? With some students and teachers supporting Julie, and others standing by Chalmers, life at Muirpark is far from harmonious. And then things get much worse - Julie Donaldson goes missing, and the police are called in. For DCI William Lorimer, this is the second missing persons case in a week. He's been having sleepless nights about a toddler who has been missing for several days - with each day, the likelihood of her being found alive diminishes. Julie's disappearance adds a further burden to Lorimer's already overstretched workload.With hope fading, it becomes a breakneck race against time to find both missing girls.
A Glasgow Trilogy: The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A. (Canongate Classics #90)
by George FrielDistinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood and youth's casual cruelty, George Friel's books explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need and fading community. All these elements come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion and slum youth that is The Boy Who Wanted Peace; in the fate of old and disturbed Miss Partridge who is obsessed with the innocence of young Grace; and in the mental collapse of Mr Alfred, a middle-aged school teacher who is in love with one of his pupils. The humour, realism and moral concern of Friel's work clearly anticipate and stand alongside the novels of Alan Spence, Alasdair Gray, William McIlvanney and James Kelman.
Glasgow Zen
by Alan SpenceA superb new collection of haiku and other short poetic forms on the theme of Glasgow – its people, landscape, culture. As always, Spence is uniquely illuminating, witty and delightful. Incorporating some of the poems which appeared decades ago in the much sought-after collection of the same title, Glasgow Zen includes mostly new material from this highly popular and exquisite poet.
Glass (Object Lessons)
by John S. GarrisonObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Glass (Object Lessons)
by Professor John S. GarrisonObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
The Glass Bead Game: (magister Ludi) A Novel (Henry Holt Classics Library)
by Hermann HesseIn the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult. As Knecht fulfils his life-long quest he must contend with unexpected dilemmas and the longing for a life beyond the ivory tower.
The Glass-Blowers (Virago Modern Classics #543)
by Daphne Du Maurier'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it'Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive.The Glass Blowers is a remarkable achievement - an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier's own family history.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (The\glass Books Ser. #1)
by G. W. DahlquistG.W. Dahlquist's The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, the first in the series of adventures of Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson and followed by The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage, is a rip-roaring tale like no other.In The Glass Books of The Dream Eaters three most unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish 'process':Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes to learn why her fiancé Roger broke off their engagement...Cardinal Chang was asked to kill a man, but finding his quarry already dead he is determined to learn who beat him to it and why...And Dr Svenson is chaperone to a dissolute Prince who has become involved with some most unsavoury individuals...An adventure like no other, in a mysterious city few have travelled to, featuring a heroine and two heroes you will never forget.Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven - Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthA page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying - Giles Foden, GuardianAn erotically charged, rip-roaring adventure for adults with scarcely a dull moment to be had, which defies its great length to keep the reader on the edge of his seat - Daily MailG.W. Dahlquist fell asleep when trapped by a snowstorm, and The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in his dreams. He is the author of the The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage, the next books in the series.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 1 Temple)
by G. W. DahlquistEmbark upon an adventure like no other in a Dickensian style ebook serialisation of the fantastical The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist.A SPY. A KILLER. AN IMPOSTER.THREE EXTRAORDINARY HEROES. ONE UNIQUE NOVEL.Three most-unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish 'process':Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes only to learn why her fiancé Roger broke off their engagement ...Cardinal Chang was asked to kill a man, but finding his quarry already dead he is determined to learn who beat him to it and why ...Dr Svenson is chaperone to a dissolute Prince who has become involved with some most unsavoury individuals ... An adventure like no other, in a mysterious city few have travelled to, featuring a heroine and two heroes you will never ever forget. . .'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic' Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 10 Inheritrix)
by G. W. DahlquistThe final chapter in the ebook serialisation of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 10, Inheritrix.All is becoming clear and the cabal's dastardly plot is slowly revealed, as the unlikely trio battle to save themselves, and the world, from the power of the deadly blue glass. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 2 Cardinal)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 2, Cardinal, the second part of the ebook serialisation of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel. Feisty Miss Temple has escaped from the mysterious masked ball in the labrynthine country house and from an attempt on her life, but she fears her attackers may pursue...'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 3 Surgeon)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 3, Surgeon, the third instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Assassin Cardinal Chang is hot on the pursuit for a murderer but stumbles across an eerie chamber in which a book-like object made of glass pulses with an indigo blue light . . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 4 Boniface)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 4, Boniface, the fourth instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Surgeon Dr Svenson has agreed to assist the beautiful but deadly Contessa Lacquer-Sforza but finds himself kidnapped and bundled into the trunk of a carriage, which he must share with the body of a murdered man. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.