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  • Detour de France

    An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education

    Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her teenage years as a nanny on a boat moored at Cannes, his utter lack of travel experience (Weymouth, Cleethorpes and a day trip to Dieppe) still has the power to shock people into leaving dinner parties ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Fatty Batter

    How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)

    A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD

  • What's My Motivation?

    As a boy, Michael Simkins always wanted to be someone. While his friends were out getting laid and stoned, he was tucked up at home dreaming of his name in lights, of holding an audience rapt, of perhaps becoming a TV heart-throb, or having someone, anyone, ask for his autograph in the supermarket. This is the true story of an obsessive pursuit of acting fame. It is a life marked by occasional ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Last Flannelled Fool

    My small part in English cricket's demise and its large part in mine

    Michael Simkins is the ultimate Sunday cricketer - passionate, obsessive, technically inept, and hopelessly deluded. When an injury rules him out of an entire season, not only might it spell the end of his long career, he is faced more immediately with a summer aimlessly wandering garden centres and listening to The Archers.He decides instead to set off on an odyssey across the counties of England ... Leer más

    $17.69 USD

  • The Roman Army from Hadrian to Constantine

    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The year AD 122 was the first time a Roman Emperor had set foot in the Province of Britannia since the invasion in AD 43.No doubt he had read many reports concerning the damage caused by marauding tribesmen crossing from what is now Scotland into the Province. Hadrian, therefore, decided - in the words of his biographer - 'to build a wall to separate the Romans from the Barbarians'.This engaging ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Dear Lupin

    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Michael Simkins' immensely charming stage adaptation of Dear Lupin, the witty and touching collection of letters from a father to his son that became a huge bestseller, winner of The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year.Roger Mortimer's hilarious, touching, and always generous letters to his son, Charlie, are packed with crisp anecdotes and sharp observations. Spanning twenty-five years, their ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The First World War

    The war to end all wars

    Published to coincide with the anniversary of the First World War, this edition, superbly illustrated with contemporary photographs and colour maps, gives readers an insight into all aspects of the First World War, from the trenches to the Eastern Front, as well as the Mediterranean conflict.Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Mr Todd's Reckoning

    de Iain Maitland ...
    Narrado por Michael Simkins ...

    Completo

    9 hora 7 minutos

    Behind the normal door of a normal house, in a normal street, two men are slowly driving each other insane. One of them is a psychopath. The father: Mr Todd is at his wits end. He's been robbed of his job as a tax inspector and is now stuck at home . . . with him. Frustrated. Lonely. Angry. Really angry. The son: Adrian has no job, no friends. He is at home all day, obsessively chopping vegetables ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts

    From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao

    Traducido por Francesca Simkin ...
    Series series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
    The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic impact on global culture, showing through several twentieth-century masterpieces the generative and ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Dear Michael, Love Dad

    Letters, laughter and all the things we leave unsaid.

    de Iain Maitland ...
    Narrado por Michael Simkins ...

    Completo

    8 hora 30 minutos

    Letters, Laughter and all the things we leave unsaid...'wonderful, moving, humorous... extremely poignant' Charlie Mortimer, Dear LupinDear Michael,Moving your whatnots et al into the flat has put paid to any improvements in my back. Still, at least it's done now.Your mother is already worrying how you'll cope and is at work on reams of notes on all sorts of matters from how to tell if meat has ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Waves on Waves

    Simkin's poetry dares us to feel all there is, so that we can return to a state of wholeness. And just as the cure may lie in the poison, Simkin describes the machinations of the thinking mind to point us towards the quiet of the witnessing presence.Waves on Waves is an eclectic and delightfully engaging collection of 69 poems, divided into five sections according to the different types of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Six Hundred and Thirteen

    Jerusalem. A generation from now.Demographic shifts have transformed the Jewish state into an ultra-Orthodox society. The commandments are no longer simply observed. They are monitored and enforced.Every citizen carries a device that tracks behaviour, speech and vital signs. The result appears on the screen as a single number:Your Piety Score.At the centre of the system stands E.Z.R.A, a vast ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus