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Bluffer's Guides
The ''Bluffer's Guides'' are a collection of humorous pocket-sized guidebooks, written by experts and offering readers the opportunity to pass off appropriated knowledge as their own on a variety of subjects. The series has sold five million copies worldwide. History The guides were published between 1965 and 1975 in England, where four million copies of 16 books in the series were purchased. Peter Wolfe, the series' first publisher, sold its publication rights to Anne Taute, a second British publisher. Doug Lincoln, a CliffNotes vice president, discovered the guides while strolling through the Frankfurt Book Fair. He saw a throng of viewers looking at the Bluffer's Guides. Wolfe entered into an agreement with Taute to publish the guides in the United States under the CliffNotes brand. The ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''s Terry Lee Goodrich wrote that the ''Bluffer's Guides'' have been referred to as the CliffsNotes of life. The books in the series are roughly 60 percent humor and 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin American-Statesman
The ''Austin American-Statesman'' is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is owned by Hearst Communications. The distribution of the following ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Associated Press'', and ''USA TODAY'' international and national news, but also incorporates Central Texas coverage, especially in political reporting. The paper covers the area's music scene, especially the annual South by Southwest Music Festival, and co-sponsors Austin events such as the Capital 10K, one of the largest 10K runs in the U.S., and the Season for Caring charity campaign. In the Austin market, the ''Statesman'' competes with the '' Austin Chronicle'', an alternative weekly. Circulation In 2009, the ''Austin American-Statesman'' ranked 60th in circulation among daily newspapers, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Figures from Scarborough Research show the ''Statesman'' — in print and online – reaches 68% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Launay
André Joseph Launay was a novelist, essayist, humourist and dramatist of French descent who wrote in English under the pen names André Launay, Drew Launay, Andrew Laurance and Drew Lamark. He was the author of family dramas, psychic thrillers, humour and travel books published in the United Kingdom and in the US. Launay lived in Nerja, in the south of Spain until his death; He had three children: record producer Nick Launay, film director Matthew Launay, artist and illustrator Melissa Launay, and four grandchildren; Lee, Lana, Nicolas & Samuel. Fiction *The New Shining White Murder' *A Corpse in Camera' *Death and Still Life' *The Scream' *''The Premonition'' *''The Link'' *''The Unborn'' *''Catacomb'' *''Ouija'' *''The Black Hotel'' *''The Girl with a Peppermint Taste'' *''The Innocence Has Gone, Daddy'' *''The Snake Orchards'' *''The Medusa Horror'' *''The Latchkey Children'' (hard & paperback) *''The Harlequin’s Son'' (hard & paperback) *''Seance'' *She Modelled Her Coffi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susie Boniface
Susie Boniface (born in Tonbridge, Kent) is an English journalist and author who has written for several newspapers and uses the pseudonym Fleet Street Fox in her ''Daily Mirror'' column and on Twitter. She used the name Lillys Miles while writing an anonymous blog, but revealed her identity when her book ''Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox'' was published in 2013. Early life Susie Boniface was born in . She became interested in journalism in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall and then reading ''Bluff Your Way in Journalism'' (1988) by Nigel Foster. Career Aged 18, Boniface became a reporter at the '' Kent and Sussex Courier''. She later worked at the '' Plymouth Herald'' as defence reporter. She then joined the ''Sunday Mirror'', where she worked for ten years, until she volunteered for redundancy in March 2012. As of 2013, she was a freelance reporter at BBC, ''Bella,'' the ''Daily Express'' the ''Daily Mail'', ''The Mail on Sunday,'' the '' Daily Star Sunday,'' ''The Guar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Starling
Boris Starling (born 1969)Sohn, Amy (1999) "GETTING A HANDLE ON HOT 'MESSIAH' SCRIBE", ''New York Post'', 7 September 1999, p. 22, ("at 30 he's already been on endless European best-seller lists") is a British novelist, screenwriter and newspaper columnist. Career Starling has written seven crime novels. His first book, ''Messiah'', was published in 1999. Notable for its fast pace and high levels of gore, ''Messiah'' was a commercial and critical success, reaching both ''The New York Times'' and the official UK bestseller lists. It was subsequently adapted for television by the BBC, with Starling taking a cameo role as a murder victim's corpse.Henry, Andrea (2004) "A STIFF ONE; VODKA by BORIS STARLING", ''Daily Mirror'', 5 March 2004Weinman, Sarah (2007) "DEADLY PHOTO, SLEUTHING FAMILY, LONDON FOG ; CRIME FICTION", ''Baltimore Sun'', 4 March 2007Heffernan, Virginia (2004)TELEVISION REVIEW; A Litany of Murders Most Grisly, Unfolding Most Succinctly, ''New York Times'', 26 July 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated population of over 449million as of 2024. The EU is often described as a ''sui generis'' political entity combining characteristics of both a federation and a confederation. Containing 5.5% of the world population in 2023, EU member states generated a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of around €17.935 trillion in 2024, accounting for approximately one sixth of global economic output. Its cornerstone, the European Union Customs Union, Customs Union, paved the way to establishing European Single Market, an internal single market based on standardised European Union law, legal framework and legislation that applies in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where the states ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Toner (journalist)
Michael Toner (born 1944) is a British journalist. He was political editor, diplomatic correspondent and leader writer at the ''Sunday Express'', chief leader writer on the ''Daily Mail'' until 2006, a political author and novelist.School of the Black & Red, A History of Bedford Modern School, A.G. Underwood (1981) Life and career Toner was born in Bedfordshire in 1944 and educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of Cambridge. He began his career in journalism at the '' Stoke Sentinel'' before moving to the ''Sunday Express'' where, in 1981, he interviewed Margaret Thatcher with fellow ''Express'' journalist Keith Renshaw. He became leader writer of the ''Sunday Express'' where he covered many of the controversial topics of the 1980s and 1990s including articles about the IRA, ''Britain Fumes at US Over I.R.A. Guns'', the miners' strike, the Falklands War, child abuse and the war crime allegations involving Kurt Waldheim. David Alton described Toner's approach to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas V
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Idaho * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts and entertainment * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel), a 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Leckie
Peter Ross Leckie (born 6 May 1957) is a Scottish writer of historical novels, best known for his ''Carthage'' trilogy. Biography Leckie attended Drumtochty Castle Preparatory School and Fettes College. He studied classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was also President of the Junior Common Room. He met Vera Wülfing, a student of languages from Germany, and they married in 1979. They moved to Scotland in 1981. The couple had four children. In 1995 Leckie married Sophie Drinkall, and they had six children. They divorced in 2019. In 2022, Leckie was convicted of assaulting his former wife. He was found guilty on four charges. Works Carthage Trilogy # ''Hannibal'' (also as ''Hannibal: A novel'') # ''Scipio Africanus'' (also as ''Scipio: A novel'') # ''Carthage'' Non-fiction * ''The Bluffer's Guide to The Classics'' * ''Grampian Grampian () was one of nine local government regions of Scotland. It was created in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Clayton
Peter James Clayton (25 June 1927 – 10 August 1991) was an English jazz presenter on BBC Radio, jazz critic, and author. From October 1968 until his death in August 1991, Clayton presented jazz recordings, interviews, studio performances, and live performances on BBC Radio 1, 2, and 3, as well as the BBC World Service. He co-authored several books about music and jazz with Peter Gammond and was a frequent contributor to jazz magazines. Early life The son of a railway clerk, Clayton was educated at Aske's School in South London. One day in 1942, "when I should have been doing my homework", he recalled hearing "broadcaster Spike Hughes playing jazz on the wireless and contracted chronic Boogie Woogie, an incurable condition whose twinges flair flair up even now in certain phases of the moon." After leaving school in 1945, he served three years in the RAF, serving mainly in Iraq and Kuwait. After demobilisation in 1948, Clayton was employed for a short while as a catering ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bahn
Paul Gerard Bahn, (born 29 July 1953)'Bahn, Paul (1953-)' ''Encyclopedia.com''. Accessed 2 July 2020. is a British , translator, writer and broadcaster who has published extensively on a range of archaeological topics, with particular attention to . He is a contributing editor to '''' magazine. With |
Francis Coleman
Francis Coleman (12 January 192410 April 2008) was a conductor and television producer and director. Early life and education Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Coleman began working in an office at the age of fourteen while studying music at evening classes.Edward Joffe, "Obituary: Francis Coleman", ''Stage Screen and Radio'', July/August 2008 He continued his musical education at McGill University, the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec and then the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, before conducting under Pierre Monteux.Philip Purser,Obituary: Francis Coleman, ''The Guardian'', 17 June 2008 Career In Canada Coleman conducted a range of ensembles, including the Royal Canadian Air Force band, and was appointed the first musical director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. This led him to become the editor of ''Dance Magazine''. He also conducted concerts broadcast for CBC Radio, and it was this which attracted him to work on CBFT, the first televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It shares Anglo-Scottish border, a land border with Scotland to the north and England–Wales border, another land border with Wales to the west, and is otherwise surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and the Irish Sea to the west. Continental Europe lies to the south-east, and Ireland to the west. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population was 56,490,048. London is both List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, the largest city and the Capital city, capital. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic. It takes its name from the Angles (tribe), Angles, a Germanic peoples, Germanic tribe who settled du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
