Tall Tales and Wee Stories (Connolly Billy)(Paperback)

Tall Tales and Wee Stories (Connolly Billy)(Paperback)

'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy,

Tall Tales and Wee Stories (Connolly Billy)(Pevná vazba)

'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy,

Windswept & Interesting : My Autobiography - Billy Connolly

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life.Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life

Journey to the Edge of the World (Connolly Billy)(Paperback / softback)

The very hilarious and idiosyncraticBilly Connolly guides readersthrough his gripping adventures and some of the world's most dramatic landscapes in the vast wilderness of the Arctic In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a 10-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the

Full Throttle: Stories (Hill Joe)(Paperback)

A New York Times BestsellerThirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including 'In the Tall Grass,' one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King and the basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.A little door that opens to a world of fairy-tale wonders becomes the

Nocturnes (Connolly John)(Paperback / softback)

Reissued with new jacket and two additional stories not previously

The Brothers Grimm Volume II: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales (Grimm Brothers)(Imitation Leather)

We all know the stories -- or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about 'Wise Folks,' 'The King's Son Who Feared Nothing,' and . . . well . . . 'Donkey Cabbages'--to name a few. Jacob and Wilhelm

Suburban Shaman - Tales from Medicine's Front Line (Helman Cecil)(Paperback / softback)

Presents stories that teach us about ourselves and our attitudes to health and illness, whether we are deliverers or recipients of health care. This book takes the reader from apartheid South Africa, where the author did his initial training to the London of the early 1970s, where he forswore

Elastic (Bille Johanne)(Paperback / softback)

From Danish novelist Johanne Bille comes a tale of perplexing female friendship and forbidden

Refugee Tales: Volume III (Gale Patrick)(Paperback)

In Refugee Tales III we read the stories of people who have been through indefinite immigration detention, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and who live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. Poets, novelists and writers have once again collaborated with people

The Power of Stories: Nurturing Children's Imagination and Consciousness (Kornberger Horst)(Paperback)

From the great myths and legends to enchanting fairy tales, parables, fables and folk tales, stories can have a great healing and educative power. They come from our subconscious and imagination, deep inside us. They have much to teach us about ourselves, therefore, and the world we create around

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, aparable of

Level 5: Taste and Other Tales (Dahl Roald)(Paperback / softback)

In this collection of Roald Dahl's finest stories we meet some quite ordinary people who behave in extraordinary ways. There is a man who is sure he can hear plants scream and the wife who discovers a perfect way to get rid of her husband. And there's a woman who finds an unusual use for a leg of

Level 2: Tales from Hans Andersen (Andersen Hans Christian)(Paperback)

Hans Andersen wrote many stories, and these are some of the best. We meet a very, very small child, a bird with a beautiful voice, a mermaid with legs, an ugly duckling with no friends and an emperor with some very strange new clothes. These stories teach us lessons for

Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn (Hearn Lafcadio)(Paperback)

A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis

Cumbrian Folk Tales (Thomas Taffy)(Paperback)

This text offers lore of the land, ghost stories, fairy stories, tales of the 'oak men', and the true historical tales that inspired many of the famous legends of Cumbria's wild

Welsh Folk Tales (Stevenson Peter)(Pevná vazba)

This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honors unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of

Small and Tall Tales of Extinct Animals (Rajcak Helene)(Pevná vazba)

Ambiguity Machines: And Other Stories (Singh Vandana)(Paperback)

A book of stories of how uncertainly we move through space and time by ourselves and with

Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (Schwartz Alvin)(Paperback)

Scary Stories 3 is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time.In this paperback edition, Stephen Gammell's artwork from the original Scary

Daft Wee Stories (Limmy)(Paperback)

Daft Wee Stories is Limmy's first book. It is a collection of stories. There are short stories. There are longer stories. There are stupid stories. There are thoughtful stories. There are upside-down stories. There are normal-way-up stories. There are weird stories. There are less weird stories

Confederacy of Dunces - 'Probably my favourite book of all time' Billy Connolly (Toole John Kennedy)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (Quiroga Horacio)(Paperback)

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in

Heroines of the Medieval World (Bennett Connolly Sharon)(Paperback)

These are the stories of women, famous, infamous and unknown, who shaped the course of medieval history. The lives and actions of medieval women were restricted by the men who ruled the homes, countries and world they lived in. It was men who fought wars, made laws and dictated religious doctrine