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Mrs Queen Takes the Train

Author	: William Kuhn
Publisher	: Harper Collins
Release Date	: 2012-10-16
ISBN	: 0062208306
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Mrs Queen Takes the Train written by William Kuhn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A witty, contemporary story of the Downton Abbey-esque tensions between servants and employers, the young and the old, and tradition and modernity.” — Glamour An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books—Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts. After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories—the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh. Hidden beneath a skull-emblazoned hoodie, the limber Elizabeth (thank goodness for yoga) walks out of Buckingham Palace and heads for King's Cross to catch a train to Scotland. But a colorful cast of royal attendants has discovered her missing. In uneasy alliance a lady-in-waiting, a butler, an equerry, a girl from the stables, a dresser, and a clerk from the shop that supplies Her Majesty's cheese set out to bring her back before her absence becomes a national scandal. Comic and poignant, fast-paced and clever, Mrs Queen Takes the Train tweaks the pomp of the monarchy, going beneath its rigid formality to reveal the human heart of the woman at its center.

Mrs Queen Takes the Train

Author	: William M. Kuhn
Publisher	:
Release Date	:
ISBN	: 9781459660625
Pages	: 455 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (66 download)

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The Queen

Author	: Catherine Ryan
Publisher	: Chartwell Books
Release Date	: 2018-01-16
ISBN	: 0785835733
Pages	: 197 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The Queen written by Catherine Ryan and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for 64 years, longer than any British monarch in history. During that time the Queen has endured the ups and downs that long life will bring. She was a beacon of hope during and after the Second World War in difficult times when the world faced a precarious future, and she has served as a role model for generations of men and women who continue to be in awe of her commitment to service, sacrifice, and the Commonwealth of nations over which she rules. The abdication of her uncle, Edward VIII, in 1936 turned her family’s world upside-down. When her father was crowned King George VI, Elizabeth was thrust into the eye of the storm as a future queen. A shy and reserved child, she grew into a wise and insightful monarch who has dealt ably with nine British Prime Ministers during her long reign, from Winston Churchill to Theresa May. It was, of course, not always straightforward and the Queen has found herself in hot water several times, most notably during the marriage of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales. When Diana was tragically killed in a car crash the standing of the Royal Family was probably at its lowest ebb. It is unlikely that we will ever see a monarch reign so long or so effectively again, holding together a disparate group of nations, each with its own aspirations, customs and traditions. Catherine Ryan has written an intriguing biography of one of the most famous women of modern times, who at 91 years old still seems fit and healthy and looks very unlikely to hand over the reins to her successors any time soon.

Jackie Stories: 1 A Boarding School Friend

Author	: William Kuhn
Publisher	: Montgomery Street Press
Release Date	: 2021-05-01
ISBN	: 0998917028
Pages	: 71 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Jackie Stories: 1 A Boarding School Friend written by William Kuhn and published by Montgomery Street Press. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Nancy Tuckerman were friends over seven decades. Nancy almost never talked to people writing books about Jackie. She made an exception for me because I was working with her former colleagues. She and I met for the first time at the Red Lion Inn on a cold day in February. She was wearing a plain brown sweater and hiding behind a newspaper. At first she was stiff with me. But at lunch the young waiter poured her a cold cup of coffee. When he stepped away we both laughed That was how we began a friendlier and franker conversation that lasted ten years. This is a revised and expanded version of my article “Inside Jackie O’s Longest, Most Complicated Friendship,” VANITY FAIR, July 2019. Nancy's insights about Jackie are on every page, but this is also the story of Nancy Tuckerman herself. As I'm telling the story, it's sometimes about me too.

Connections 500

Author	: Snoo Wilson
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2016-04-26
ISBN	: 1474284140
Pages	: 752 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Connections 500 written by Snoo Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays. Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play has been specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department over the years, with the young performer in mind. In 2016, these plays were then performed by approximately 500 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional partner regional theatres at which the works were showcased. The anthology contains all 12 of the play scripts; notes from the writer and director of each play, addressing the themes and ideas behind the play; and production notes and exercises for the drama groups. This year's anniversary anthology includes plays by Snoo Wilson, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt; Simon Armitage; Jackie Kay; Patrick Marber; Mark Ravenhill; Bryony Lavery & Frantic Assembly; Davey Anderson; James Graham; Katori Hall; Carl Grose; Stacey Gregg; and Lucinda Coxon.

Mrs Queen Takes the Train

Author	: William Kuhn
Publisher	: Harper Perennial
Release Date	: 2013-10-08
ISBN	: 9780062208293
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Mrs Queen Takes the Train written by William Kuhn and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books—Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts. Reminiscent of Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader, this lively, wonderfully inventive romp takes readers into the mind of the grand matriarch of Britain’s Royal Family, bringing us an endearing runaway Queen Elizabeth on the town—and leading us behind the Buckingham Palace walls and into the upstairs/downstairs spaces of England’s monarchy.

Eleven Houses

Author	: Christopher Fitz-Simon
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2013-07-04
ISBN	: 0141901144
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Eleven Houses written by Christopher Fitz-Simon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Fitz-Simon was born into an extraordinary Irish family, with Daniel 'The Liberator' O’Connell on one side and Ulster Protestants on the other, and his childhood coincided with the Second World War – or, as it was known in the southern Irish state, the Emergency. Eleven Houses is a crystalline memoir of his family's odd progress through those odd years, an account by turns hilarious and heartbreaking.Christopher’s father was an officer in the British army, serving in the middle east when war broke out, and the family home in these years was in fact a series of homes in every part of Ireland. Christopher’s mother, a restless, unsettled woman, moved him and his brother constantly: they stayed in the homes of relatives (including Annaghmakerrig in Co. Monaghan) and friends (Maidenhall in Co. Kilkenny); they were paying guests in country houses; and they lived in military accommodation in Co. Down. For long periods they were not enrolled in school, and the commencement of formal education proved a shock after years of the freedom of houses, orchards, lanes and fields.Drawing on his extraordinarily vivid recall of the places and feelings of those years, Christopher Fitz-Simon tells a story of growing up that is also, in effect, a story of various hidden Irelands during the twilit years of the war. Funny, moving and sharp, it is a childhood memoir like no other.

Prince Harry Boy to Man

Author	: William Kuhn
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2017-06-15
ISBN	: 9780998917009
Pages	: 314 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Prince Harry Boy to Man written by William Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Harry in his early 20s is more boy than man. Deployed to Afghanistan he acquires a best friend named Mustafa and a girlfriend who reports for CNN. His former nanny is also along for the ride. This light-hearted coming of age story explores the vulnerability under Harry's bad boy persona. The man he grows into discovers a new appreciation for what it might mean to be a prince.

Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

Author	: Fanny Burney
Publisher	: Philadelphia : Carey and Hart
Release Date	: 1842
ISBN	:
Pages	: 650 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay written by Fanny Burney and published by Philadelphia : Carey and Hart. This book was released on 1842 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Keeper of Lost Things

Author	: Ruth Hogan
Publisher	: HarperCollins
Release Date	: 2017-02-21
ISBN	: 0062473573
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Keeper of Lost Things written by Ruth Hogan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of character, wit, and wisdom, The Keeper of Lost Things is heartwarming tale that will enchant fans of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Garden Spells, Mrs Queen Takes the Train, and The Silver Linings Playbook. Lime green plastic flower-shaped hair bobbles—Found, on the playing field, Derrywood Park, 2nd September. Bone china cup and saucer—Found, on a bench in Riveria Public Gardens, 31st October. Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects—the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidently left behind—and writing stories about them. Now, in the twilight of his life, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile all the lost things with their owners. As the end nears, he bequeaths his secret life’s mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and and all its lost treasures, including an irritable ghost. Recovering from a bad divorce, Laura, in some ways, is one of Anthony’s lost things. But when the lonely woman moves into his mansion, her life begins to change. She finds a new friend in the neighbor’s quirky daughter, Sunshine, and a welcome distraction in Freddy, the rugged gardener. As the dark cloud engulfing her lifts, Laura, accompanied by her new companions, sets out to realize Anthony’s last wish: reuniting his cherished lost objects with their owners. Long ago, Eunice found a trinket on the London pavement and kept it through the years. Now, with her own end drawing near, she has lost something precious—a tragic twist of fate that forces her to break a promise she once made. As the Keeper of Lost Objects, Laura holds the key to Anthony and Eunice’s redemption. But can she unlock the past and make the connections that will lay their spirits to rest? A charming, clever, and quietly moving novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us.

The Letters of Queen Victoria

Author	: Queen Victoria
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2014-09-25
ISBN	: 110807779X
Pages	: 683 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Queen Victoria written by Queen Victoria and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nine-volume selection from the letters of Queen Victoria was commissioned by Edward VII, and published between 1907 and 1932.

The Santa Fe Magazine

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1927
ISBN	:
Pages	: 1316 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 download)

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More of a Man

Author	: Andrew Holman
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Release Date	: 2013-03-19
ISBN	: 1442662204
Pages	: 492 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book More of a Man written by Andrew Holman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed financially and emotionally amidst challenging circumstances. The diaries trace his transformations, from an immigrant newcomer to a respected townsman, a wage worker to an entrepreneur, and a bachelor to a married man. Carefully edited and fully annotated by historians Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson, More of a Man features an introduction providing historical context for McIlwraith's life and an epilogue detailing what happened to him after the diaries end. Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century.

Queen's Bench and Practice Court Reports ... [1844-1882].

Author	: Ontario. Court of King's Bench
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1857
ISBN	:
Pages	: 758 pages
Rating	: 4.F/5 ( download)

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Jackie Stories: Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Author	: William Kuhn
Publisher	: Montgomery Street Press
Release Date	: 2021-05-29
ISBN	: 0998917060
Pages	: 220 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Jackie Stories: Eight Friends of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis written by William Kuhn and published by Montgomery Street Press. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to meet and talk to people who knew Jackie Kennedy Onassis well? Each of these eight people gave me a surprising look into what it was like to live and work in Jackie's world. 1 Nancy Tuckerman was Jackie's friend from boarding school and also her lifelong assistant. 2 Jackie was wary around Nan Talese, one of the most important people in publishing. Jackie was also envious of Nan. 3 Distantly related to her by marriage, Louis Auchincloss gave Jackie a hard time when she wanted to slip out of the spotlight. 4 Sarah Giles was an editor at Vanity Fair. She worked with Jackie in her apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue on a book that got them both into trouble. 5 Ruth Ansel knew Jackie via man about town and major photographer Peter Beard. When Jackie had a rare chance to acquire an authorized biography of Audrey Hepburn, Jackie confessed to Ruth why she couldn't do it. 6 Rosamond Bernier gave sold-out lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was married to The New York Times'sart critic. Their wedding was at Philip Johnson's famous glass house in Connecticut. Nevertheless, Philip Johnson later proved treacherous both to Rosamond Bernier and to Jackie. 7 Francis Mason advised Jackie when she wanted to switch jobs. The story of how she ignored his advice and managed to remain friends with him is testimony to a high-spirited talent that the two of them shared. 8 Edith Welch and her husband went to India with Jackie. Jackie didn't always behave well on these trips, nor did Edith's husband.

The Illustrated London News

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Release Date	: 1863
ISBN	:
Pages	: 684 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry VI, Part III; King Richard III; King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Julius Cæsar PDF

Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry VI, Part III; King Richard III; King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Julius Cæsar

Author	: William Shakespeare
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1864
ISBN	:
Pages	: 722 pages
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Download or read book Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry VI, Part III; King Richard III; King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida; Coriolanus; Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Julius Cæsar written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: