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Furthermore, sometimes the concepts being used are not actually identical e. So, many apparent tautologies are worth thinking deeply about, as they often contain surprising insights. Tautology is also used as an important foundational principle in formal logic and philosophy, where it's known as the Law of Noncontradictaion: The name comes from William Shakespeare , who used tautologies a lot. In Antony and Cleopatra during a drunk scene:. This article was brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department , the Department that brought you this article.
Since it is percent true while imparting no new information, this is a subtrope of Mathematician's Answer , which is a supertrope of this. Can often overlap and sound the same as Buffy Speak see the numerous examples below. Contrast Circular Reasoning , which can resemble this but is logically fallacious. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. What manner o' thing is your crocodile? It is shap'd, sir, like itself , and it is as broad as it hath breadth; it is just as high as it is, and moves with its own organs.
It lives by that which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates. What color is it of? Of its own color too. And the tears of it are wet. The slogan for Raid insecticides has long been, "Kills bugs dead. Like the 7 Day Rail Pass, but lasts twice as long. And bored out of your mind. Local Liquor's slogan is "There's one near you". Which works great for TV ads. Emblazoned on the store that you're standing in front of? For some reason they thought it would be a good idea to end each ad with this: An oddly provincial advert for broadband Internet informs us that a Yorkshireman's word is "rock solid, like Yorkshire stone!
And more to the point, what the hell has it got to do with broadband? Much later, they decided that Nabisco now stands for Nabisco Biscuit Company. You eat the red Ritz, and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Often in commercials we are told "If you are not completely satisfied, return it, but keep X as a free gift.
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Red Dog beer once got in trouble because consumers assumed it was red in color. They launched an advertising campaign to correct this misapprehension: Defied "It's not red, and there's no rocks in it. Pepper ad where the head of a biker gang asks some guy what Dr. The guy can only describe it as, "It tastes like Dr. After beating the guy up, the biker drinks some Dr.
As opposed to the ones you can't. Back when mail-order computer retailers were still a thing, magazine ads instead of crediting all the various trademarks to their respective companies would say "Trademarks are the property of their owners". It's a Pillow Pet. The slogan mentions that U-Verse has "reliability you can rely on". No other station can make that statement! I know people there. The Japanese is more to the effect of, "Just because you're logically correct, doesn't mean you are morally right!
In context, Archer is telling Shirou to give up on his idealistic but impossible dream that will only hurt him in the future when he fails. Shirou acknowledges that it's impossible, but continues by insisting that just because it's impossible doesn't mean it isn't beautiful. In Haruhi Suzumiya , Kyon finds himself slipping into this: What does Haruhi Suzumiya mean to me? Haruhi is Haruhi, and nothing but Haruhi Summer should be like summer, so we have to do summery activities.
That was the worst part! If everyone thinks I'm being myself when I suddenly shout "Yahoo! That you're the sort of person who likes to shout "Yahoo! It's called a school festival. It's a festival organized by the school. We won't tell you what it is but it starts with L and rhymes with " Laputa ". A Mokona's a Mokona.
You count them one Mokona, two Mokona then you stop because there's only two Mokona. Allow me to explain. That didn't explain anything It stands for Detective Comics, the name of their first and once bestselling series. Now think about that for a moment. A letters column once explained the logic behind the company still being DC Comics, stating that news of a new "DC launch" might upset some of our foreign friends. While the company is officially DC Entertainment now The redundancy is also commented upon within the pages of Runaways , where the the tar tar pits appear.
Also, while Molly is pushing against a giant monster's foot: His foot smells like feet! Cheshire is a liar! He carved it into the shape of a different small bone, all right? The first band we're up against is Crash and the Boys. Oh, aren't they that one band with Crash Fan-written Fan Works Made by Fans. This Drawn Together fanfic contains the line "Sweetcakes believe in efficiency. You get more done that way. Only one duelist can be the star of this movie, and it's not the duelist that's not me! You're going to die! And then you'll be dead! Because I killed you!
The smoke was flying around his head and it shone in the sun like a shiny cloud of smoke. He didn't have a nose basically like Voldemort in the movie and he was wearing all black but it was obvious he wasn't gothic. The meal consisted of busk meat, which is a manly meat taken from the busk, those large, shambling animals used by Goreans for meat. In addition I had eaten several vulo eggs, these being the eggs of the birds that the Goreans call the vulo, and which the Goreans keep so they can eat their eggs.
This was as well in addition to the so-turgey bread I had eaten with my busk meat and vulo eggs, the flour for this bread being taken from the so-turgey plant, which is grown on Gor by the peasant caste. We stood before the slucking mass of yellow-tinged white yogurt that draped and spilled over the gerbil pens like some kind of I'm me-shaped, not square.
Don't understand why they keep grouping together like I must question you about the troll. Tell me about it. It was troll shaped. Buffy, Faith, can you head down and pick up Harry's stuff? I'd do it, but it's like super heavy. Is that all we are to you, Willow?
After all we've been through, are we really just pack mules to you? No, not just any pack mules. You're super special friend-shaped pack mules who I care for very much! A total inversion of this trope occurs in this joke from classic Greek philosophy times: Another inversion is the urban legend of celebrity X insert adlib appearing incognito on a celebrity X similarity contest. Motion Picture Films That Move. Don't you think you can put your history to the side, for the band? This might be justified considering some thing could have been responsible.
That would indicate visitors. They been that way all down through the ages. Or Paula Trent's response to her husband seeing a flying saucer: You mean the kind from up there? Seriously, Betty, you know what this meteor could mean to science. If we find it, and it's real, it could mean a lot. Now it's time to stop it being a secret. From recipes for gluten-free Spaghetti Vongole to chocolate beetroot cake, breakfast dahl to chicken and olive tagine, this book contains recipes for every meal of the day and every occasion, and proves that a free-from menu can be utterly delicious. Riddle of the Runes: Alva rushes through the trees in the dead of night with her sniffer wolf, Fen.
Being out alone when there's a kidnapper on the loose is reckless, but if she ever wants to be an investigator like her Uncle Magnus, she'll need to be first to the crime scene. But what Alva discovers raises more questions than it answers, drawing her into a dangerous search for truth, and for treasure. Janina is the course director for the Undergraduate Certificate in History of Art at the University of Oxford, and contributes to a number of courses, including a forthcoming seminar series on decoding symbols in art Trinity She continues to publish her research, most recently in international art history journal Gesta.
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When Emma Nash is ghosted by love of her life Leon Naylor, she does what any girl would do — spends the summer avoiding all human contact, surrounded by the Chewit wrappers he left behind. Chloe Seager grew up in East London with her mum and much-loved cat, Katie. Chloe lives back in East London with her boyfriend and pet fish.
Kindly donated by Chloe Seager. Friendship Fails of Emma Nash: Emma Nash is back…. Signing up for the school fashion show seems like the perfect opportunity. Would going back to creating a life for herself online reaaaaaallllyyy be so bad? A World On Fire: Free of Charge https: The two nations are divided, according to Amanda Foreman's history of the American civil war and its repercussions in Britain, not by a common language but by mutual animosity. Don't trust the cant of politicians about a special relationship. Offered a choice between the industrial Union and the slave-owning Confederacy, an MP such as John Roebuck had no hesitation about who to back.
The plantation owners of the south counted as honorary Englishmen; the immigrant hordes of the north were "the scum and refuse of Europe". She lives in New York with her husband and five children. She was born in London, brought up in Los Angeles, and educated in England. Kindly donated by Amanda Foreman. Tom will personally post his book to the winning bidder. It is always an event when Tom publishes a new book and this one is definitely no exception.
You will be greeted by the terrifying Tickler — a bizarre entity which attempts to tickle his victims to death, and you will learn about the Yovar — a race of ancient beings who are said to be even more evil than the Devil. There are accounts of timeslips in this amazing book and tales of witchcraft, possession and nercomancy; furthermore, you will read of two spine-chilling accounts of haunted sleepovers and an unearthly story about two strange deities who resurrected a heroin addict.
Lose yourself in the uncanny story of the teenager who fell in love with a satyr, but peruse the chapter on omens of death at your own risk, and do not dwell too long on the unsettling accounts of the ghost that gets around — the Night Maiden — or she may pay you a visit. These are just some of the terrors you will encounter in Haunted Liverpool Tom Slemen is a Liverpool writer, columnist and broadcaster, known foremostly as the author of the best-selling Haunted Liverpool series of books which document paranormal incidents and often unsolved or unusual crimes in his home town of Liverpool, past and present.
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Spanning from to present day, Elizabeth reveals the details of Britain's longest-reigning monarch's extraordinary life. Sarah Gristwood follows the twists and turns of Elizabeth Windsor's life and its key turning points—including her teenage years during the war, meeting and marrying the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip Mountbatten, and her ascension to the throne in Sarah Gristwood is a best-selling Tudor biographer, former film journalist, and commentator on royal affairs.
She wrote two bestselling Tudor biographies, Arbella: Kindly donated by Sarah Gristwood. Signed Hardback Personalised message available. Back at her childhood home, Maisey must make a heartrending life-or-death decision. Searching for answers, Maisey uncovers one unspeakable secret after another when she stumbles upon a shattering truth: Kerry Anne King is the author of the international bestselling novel Closer Home.
Licensed both as an RN and a Mental Health Counselor, she draws on her experience working in the medical and mental health fields to explore themes of loss, grief, and transformation. Kerry lives in a little house in the big woods of the inland northwest with her Viking, three cats, a dog, and a yard full of wild turkey and deer. She also writes fantasy and mystery novels as Kerry Schafer. Kindly donated by Kerry Anne-King.
Christmas at Rakehell Manor: Free of Charge Liz will personally post her book to the winning bidder. Prudence Eylesbarrow is resigned to dreary spinsterhood and to never finding love. All she wants is one Christmas where she's not at someone's beck and call. But when Prue finds herself snow-bound at the infamous Rakehell Manor, her curiosity with Hugo, Marquess of Warwick - mysterious, handsome, world-weary, cynical - tempts her to reveal passions she never knew she possessed.
Even so Prue is under no illusions. It was fool's game to think a penniless nobody could tame the master of Rakehell, for that way lay heartache and social ruin. Or has the time come for the power of passion, the promise of love and the magic of Christmas to unite two people from very different worlds? She lives in a village in the heart of England and writes whenever she can sneak away to her desk.
Kindly donated by Liz Hanbury. A Thousand Paper Birds: Free of Charge Tor will personally post her book to winning bidder. Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into a boat, a fish, a kimono, or any other extravagant vision. At other times it aches to return to its original folds. The paper begins to fray. After the sudden death of his wife, Audrey, Jonah sits on a bench in Kew Gardens, trying to reassemble the shattered pieces of his life.
Chloe, shaven-headed and abrasive, finds solace in the origami she meticulously folds. But when she meets Jonah, her carefully constructed defenses threaten to fall. Milly, a child quick to laugh, freely roams Kew, finding beauty everywhere she goes. But where is her mother and where does she go when the gardens are closed? Harry's purpose is to save plants from extinction. Quiet and enigmatic, he longs for something--or someone--who will root him more firmly to the earth. Audrey links these strangers together. As the mystery of her death unravels, the characters journey through the seasons to learn that stories, like paper, can be refolded and reformed.
Haunted by songs and origami birds, this novel is a love letter to a garden and a hymn to lost things. After studying theatre and film, Tor co-founded a dance-theatre company and spent most of her twenties directing, writing and performing. She taught drama for several years and choreographed an opera for The Royal College of Music. A Thousand Paper Birds is her first novel.
She lives in London with her husband and two young children. Kindly donated by Tor Udal. I Am Watching You: Free of Charge Teresa will post her book directly to the winning bidder. When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it—until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert.
The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls—beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard—has disappeared. A year later, Anna is still missing. Someone is sending her threatening letters—letters that make her fear for her life. But they are watching Ella. Teresa also writes women's fiction. During her long career as a journalist, Teresa worked for newspapers, magazines and television, including 15 years presenting the BBC TV news programme Spotlight. Covering crime for so long, she was deeply moved by the haunting impact on the relatives, the friends and the witnesses and it is those ripples she explores now in her darker fiction.
Teresa's books have been sold for translation in 15 languages. She lives in glorious Devon with her husband and two sons. Kindly donated by Teresa Driscoll. Teresa will personally post her book to the winning bidder. On a train with her husband, miles from home and their four-year-old son, Ben, Sophie receives a chilling phone call. Two boys are in hospital after a tragic accident. One of them is Ben. She thought she could trust Emma, her new friend, to look after her little boy.
Because how well does she know Emma, really? Should she have trusted her at all? Time is running out. Powerless to help her child, still hours from home, Sophie is about to discover the truth. And her life will never be the same. Signed Paperback Personalised Message Available. Claire will personally post book to winning bidder http: When twelve-year-old Ava and her brother return to their birthplace of Wyse, they discovers that their once magical town has been losing its charms under the control of Lord Skinner.
Uncovering a working magic mirror, Ava opens an unauthorized link to the twinned town of Unwyse, where she meets Howell, one of the unlucky Fair Folk who is being pursued by the terrifying Mr Bones. Discovering that they are the joint guardians of a grumpy old book that can tell the future, the new friends are unexpectedly launched headlong into an adventure to uncover the mysterious link between Mr Bones and Lord Skinner, and to find out what's happening to the waning magic that connects their two worlds. Claire Fayers writes comic fantasy featuring swashbuckling pirates, evil magicians, heroic librarians and man-eating penguins.
She grew up in South Wales, studied English in Canterbury, and is now back in Wales where she spends a lot of her free time tramping around castles in the rain, looking for dragons. She has worked as a church caretaker, a shoe shop assistant, in accountancy, in health and safety, in IT, and in a library.
Only one of these prepared her in any way for life as a full-time author. Her first book came about quite accidentally after she won a writing competition. She was more surprised than anyone. She now works from her home in Cardiff and shares her workspace with a pair of demanding cats and an ever-expanding set of model dinosaurs.
Kindly donated by Claire Fayers. Mark Of The Cyclops: Saviour will personally post book to winning bidder https: A thrilling mix of Sherlock Holmes and Ancient Greece from bestselling author Saviour Pirotta, with stunning illustrations from up-and-coming illustrator Freya Hartas. This exciting adventure will have readers gripped from start to finish. Young scribe Nico's new friend Thrax has a strange knack for figuring things out. When they travel to wedding with their master, a valuable vase is broken and Thrax's special skills might just come in useful.
Can the boys prove that slave girl Gaia is innocent, and discover what the mark of the cyclops means? This dramatic and mysterious tale is packed with wonderful characters and insight into the daily life of the ancient Greeks, a required topic in the KS2 History curriculum. Perfect for fans of the Roman Mysteries, or anyone interested in ancient Greece. Saviour Pirotta is the award-winning author of over one hundred fiction and nonfiction books for children. His works have been translated into 28 languages. Originally from Malta, he now lives in England. Kindly donated by Saviour Pirotta.
Secret Of The Oracle: The second book in the ancient Greek Mysteries series, a thrilling follow up to Mark of the Cyclops, is a mix of Sherlock Holmes and ancient Greece from bestselling author Saviour Pirotta, with stunning illustrations from up-and-coming illustrator Freya Hartas. Scribe Nico and his friend Thrax are back for another adventure in ancient Greece. Their master has brought them to Delphi, to seek guidance from the great oracle.
But between the majestic hills of the sacred city, a sinister plot has been formed, and a farmer's daughter has gone missing. Can Nico and Thrax solve the clues, save the girl and learn the secret of the oracle? Free of Charge Jo will personally post her book to the winning bidder https: Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara and his wife Julie.
The man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry as a horror-struck Julie watches, frozen by fear. Just an hour later the attacker, JP Carney, has handed himself in to the police. He confesses to beating Harry to death, but JP claims that the assault was not premeditated and that he didn't know the identity of his victim.
With a man as notorious as Harry McNamara, the detectives cannot help wondering, was this really a random act of violence or is it linked to one of Harry's many sins: This gripping psychological thriller will have you questioning, who - of Harry, Julie and JP - is really the guilty one? And is Carney's surrender driven by a guilty conscience or is his confession a calculated move in a deadly game? Jo Spain is the author of the Inspector Tom Reynolds series. The Confession is her first standalone thriller. Jo is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, a former political advisor in the Irish parliament and former vice-chair of InterTrade Ireland business body.
Jo lives in Dublin with her husband and four young children. In her spare time she has four children, there is no spare time really she likes to read. Jo thinks up her plots on long runs in the woods. Her husband sleeps with one eye open and all her friends have looked at her strangely since she won her publishing deal. Kindly donated by Jo Spain.
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Clarissa is almost seventeen when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is , the beginning of a blissful, golden summer - and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper, she is dazzled. Tom is handsome and enigmatic; he is also an outsider.
Ambitious, clever, his sights set on a career in law, Tom is an acute observer, and a man who knows what he wants. For now, that is Clarissa. Judith was born in Northumberland, England, and is the author of four novels: As well as being an author, Judith is an occasional painter, nature lover and reader. She lives in Hampshire, England.
Kindly donated by Judith Kingdom. The Fat Loss Plan: Joe Wicks The Body Coach. The Fat-Loss Plan shows how to adopt a lean lifestyle in a way that suits you. Inside the book are 60 reduced-carbohydrate and 40 post-workout recipes — all incredibly tasty and easy to make in 15 minutes flat. Thanks to sample weekly plans and ingredients lists, Joe makes it simple for you prep like a boss and eat well every day of the week.
Joe has more than 4 million followers on social media where fans share their personal journeys towards a leaner, fitter lifestyle. Become a Lean in 15 winner and start your journey to better health and fitness with The Body Coach. Joe Wicks is a British fitness coach, TV presenter and author, specialising in cooking and fitness books. His first published cookbook Lean in Kindly donated by Joe Wicks.
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But DI Adam Fawley knows that nothing is impossible. Cara Hunter is an established English author of fiction. She currently resides in Oxford. Hunter admits that she lives on a street that is very similar to those that she writes about in her novels. She specializes in novels in the crime fiction genre and her first series features a detective inspector that lives and solves cases in an area much like her own. Kindly donated by Cara Hunter. Joan of Arc A History: Helen is happy to personalise the book alongside her signature.
Free of Charge Helen will personally post her book to the winning bidder: Acclaimed historian Helen Castor brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman; a roaring girl fighting the English, and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing fifteenth century France apart.
Here is a portrait of a year-old peasant who hears voices from God; a teenager transformed into a warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believed women should not fight. And it is also the story behind the myth we all know, a myth which began to take hold at her trial: Joan and her world are brought vividly to life in this refreshing new take on the medieval world. Helen Castor brings us to the heart of the action, to a woman and a country in turmoil, a world where no-one - not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knew what would happen next.
She directed studies in History at Sidney for eight years before deciding to concentrate on writing history for a wider readership. Kindly donated by Helen Castor. Free of Charge Tom will personally post book to winning bidder. Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.
Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman Emperors and it's a colorful story of rule and ruination, running from the rise of Augustus through to the death of Nero. Holland's expansive history also has distinct shades of I Claudius, with five wonderfully vivid Emperors—Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—featured, along with numerous fascinating secondary characters.
Intrigue, murder, naked ambition and treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, decadence—the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia. Tom Holland is the author of Rubicon: His third work of history, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, was published in the autumn of Dynasty, about the first Caesars, has been published by Little, Brown Book Group and is out now in paperback. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, on subjects ranging from religion to dinosaurs.
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Kindly donated by Tom Holland. Free of Charge Helen will personally post book to winning bidder http: Seventeen-year-old Veerle is frustrated with life in suburban Brussels. But a chance encounter with a hidden society, whose members illegally break into unoccupied buildings around the city, soon opens up a whole new world of excitement - and danger.
When one of the society's founding members disappears, Veerle suspects foul play. But nothing can prepare her for the horror that is about to unfold when an old foe emerges from the shadows No one is safe, and The Hunter will strike again The Author: Helen Grant born in London is an author of novels for young adults, now based in Scotland. Kindly donated by Helen Grant. The Vanishing of Katherina Linden: Reviled in her German village home where her only friends are a fellow outcast and an elderly storyteller, young Pia investigates the disappearances of three local girls whom she believes are tied to unsolved missing persons cases from decades earlier.
Have the girls been spirited away by something supernatural-- or is Pia facing a world full of human evil? Helen's most recent novels are Silent Saturday , Demons of Ghent and Urban Legends , which form a trilogy of urbex-themed thrillers. In Helen's new novel, Ghost, will be published by Fledgling Press. Ghost is the first of Helen's books to be set in Scotland. Aaron will personally post book to winning bidder The Content: Each year on the first Monday of October, the Supreme Court reconvenes for another new term. But this year, the first Monday brings only terror and tragedy, as six bombs tear through their temple of law, killing people.
Meanwhile, former First Lady Rosemarie Irving volunteers to assist the current President in nominating replacements for the four Justices lost in the tragedy. Is her motivation the lasting legacy of her husband, or something more nefarious? Aaron Cooley is a producer and development executive for famed film director Joel Schumacher.
Kindly donated by Aaron Cooley. February, , 'The Winter of Discontent'. Economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain. As the rubbish on the streets begins to pile up, so does the murder count: There are no suspects and the manner of death is different in each case. The only link between the two victims is the location of the bodies, found within a short distance of each other near Rye Lane in Peckham.
Three days later another murder occurs in the same area. Press headlines scream that a serial killer is loose on 'Murder Mile' and that police incompetence is hampering the investigation. Jane is under immense pressure to catch the killer before they strike again. Working long hours with little sleep, what she uncovers leaves her doubting her own mind. Lynda La Plante born Lynda Titchmarsh is a British author, screenwriter, and erstwhile actress her performances in Rentaghost and other programmes were under her stage name of Lynda Marchal , best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series.
Her first TV series as a scriptwriter was the six part robbery series Widows, in , in which the widows of four armed robbers carry out a heist planned by their deceased husbands. Kindly donated by Lynda La Plante. Eloise will personally post book to winning bidder http: She distracts herself looking for sea glass on the foggy beach. But is someone following her? Who is the figure that Snow keeps drawing, the girl in green? Do the locals who tell them to leave the site just hate travellers, or is there something about the history of the beach that Lark needs to find out?
A story that perfectly combines the chill of a ghost story with the warmth of a family tale about standing up for each other and being brave. Eloise Williams was born in Cardiff in , which is a real year from history. Having worked as a travelling actor for over a decade, Eloise won a bursary to study the MA in Creative Writing at Swansea University where she graduated with distinction. Eloise lives in a tiny cottage by the sea in Pembrokeshire, west Wales, with her artist husband, Guy Manning, and her cairn terrier, Watson Jones.
She collects sea glass, sagely pretends to know about the tides and accidentally sings Welsh songs out loud on the beach. Kindly donated by Eloise Williams. All Nansi knows is that her mother disappeared on the day she was fished out of Cardiff docks. She can't remember anything else. Now, with no other family to turn to, she works for Sid at the Empire Theatre, sometimes legally, sometimes thieving to order, trying to earn enough money to hire a detective to find her mother.
Everything changes when Constance and Violet join the theatre, both with their own dark secrets. Nansi is forced to be part of Violet's crooked psychic act. But it's when Constance recognises her, and realises who her mother must be, that Nansi's world is turned upside down forever. She is soon on the run for her life and she will have to risk everything if she's going to find the truth. Waiting For Callback Set: All three bookd signed by Perdita Cargill.
Free of Charge Perdita has wrapped each book in ribbon and will personally post her books to the winning bidder. The Content Casting Queen Series 1 When Elektra is discovered by an acting agent, she imagines Oscar glory can't be far away, but instead lurches from one cringe-worthy moment to the next! Just how many times can you be rejected for the part of 'Dead Girl Number Three' without losing hope? And who knew that actors were actually supposed to be multi-lingual, play seven instruments and be trained in a variety of circus skills?
Off-stage things aren't going well either - she's fallen out with her best friend, remains firmly in the friend-zone with her crush and her parents are driving her crazy. One way or another, Elektra's life is now spent waiting for the phone to ring - waiting for callback. Can an average girl-next-door like Elektra really make it in the world of luvvies and starlets? Geek Girl meets Fame meets New Girl in this brilliantly funny new series!
And while it's obviously great news that she's moved from the friend-zone with Archie to become his almost-girlfriend, it would be better if he hadn't immediately relocated to Transylvania to play a vampire hunter surrounded by 'maidens of peerless beauty'. She's finished her first feature film even if her character was unexpectedly killed off half-way through filming , hosted the party of the year well, before her mum arrived and threw everyone out - how embarrassing!
But with social media to navigate actinggoals instanightmare , GCSEs looming and a seemingly never-ending parade of failed casting calls, Elektra's road to acting stardom is proving to be as rocky as ever. Perdita Cargill spent years working as a commercial barrister before she finally turned to writing. Bizarrely for a pessimistic Scot, she loves to write funny books. Now nineteen and at Oxford reading Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, she enjoys researching party scenes. Kindly donated by Perdita Cargill. Good Me Bad Me: Ali will personally post her book to the winning bidder.
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Revolver ' s release was preceded by "Paperback Writer". Rock's first concept album; MacDonald , p. McCartney sensed unease among the bandmates and wanted them to maintain creative productivity. McCartney creating a new identity for the group. Martin and McCartney took turns conducting; Gould , pp. Recording "A Day in the Life" required a forty-piece orchestra. Pepper cover featured the Beatles as the imaginary band alluded to in the album's title track, standing with a host of celebrities secondary source ; The Beatles , p.
Standing with a host of celebrities primary source ; Miles , p. On McCartney's design for the Sgt. Pepper cover primary source ; Sounes , p. Pepper cover secondary source. Pepper cover attracted curiosity and analysis; Miles , p. The growing influence of hippie style on the Beatles; Gould , p. Critical response; Lewisohn , p. Filming of the promotional trailer, Lewisohn , p. Yellow Submarine soundtrack release. Apple Corps formed as part of Epstein's business plan; Lewisohn , p. Epstein passed away"; Lewisohn , pp. The White Album , Lewisohn , pp. Paul and Linda's first meeting; Sounes , pp.
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