Hartley: 383 books
Sold To Be A Wife
Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The powerfully moving new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maggie Hartley.
Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.
To...
Just Another Soldier
A Year on the Ground in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
This is not your father's war
This is Iraq, where a soldier's first duty is reinforcing his Humvee with sheet metal and sand bags. Or, in the absence of plumbing, burning barrels of human waste. Where any dead dog on the side of the road might be concealing an insurgent's bomb and anyone...
The Zanzibar Chest
A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
An examination of colonialism and its consequences. “A sweeping, poetic homage to Africa, a continent made vivid by Hartley’s capable, stunning prose” (Publishers Weekly).
In his final days, Aidan Hartley’s father said to him, “We should have never come here.” Those words spoke...
I Hope It's Not Hereditary
The Mostly True Stories of My Father Bob Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
“Just as I was about to make a mad dash for the road, Dad came bounding out of the gas station. He tossed me an ice cream sandwich and took a swig out of a sixty-four-ounce cup of his favorite soda concoction: equal parts Diet Dr. Pepper, Diet Coke, and raspberry ice tea, with just a dash of hot...
Project Management
A practical guide to planning and managing projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Organisations increasingly look to project management to deal with short timeframes, tight budgets, changing requirements and risk management in everyday operations, as well as for major strategic projects. Project management knowledge and skills are now essential for professionals just about everywhere,...
by L. P. Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction, the best of which is collected in The Travelling Grave and Other Stories.
This volume demonstrates Hartley’s versatility, ranging from traditional...
by Jean Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
First published in 1989 Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press, and Me is the story of how this small publishing company became a chapter in literary history when, in 1955, the then novice publishers, of which Jean Hartley was one, were entrusted with the manuscript of Larkin's The Less Deceived. The...
by Emily Post, Florence Hartley, Cecil B. Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The first name that comes to everyone’s mind about when discussing etiquette is Emily Post, whose most famous work is included herein. However, other writers have different perspectives, and they address them in the 2000 pages included within this volume. The volume includes different...
The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois
Paul Powell, Clyde L. Choate, John H. Stelle
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2017
Many people are unaware that from 1945 to 1975, downstate lawmakers dominated the Illinois political arena. In The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois, Robert E. Hartley details the lives and contributions of three influential southern...
by John Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led society. This is an open, investigative, critical, scientific task as well as an opportunity to engage with creative enterprise and culture. Now that every user is a publisher,...
by Robert Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Schizophrenic patients who hear voices describe them as being alien and external to themselves and they adopt a paranormal explanation. Although psychiatrists assert that a primary need is to establish the identity of the voices and to use the views of patients as a starting point of any treatment,...
by L.P. Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley’s finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend’s beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting...
by Florence Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
If the correct rules of etiquette fail you, never fear for this handy guide will instruct you in the correct ladylike manner! This indispensable nineteenth century guidebook will entertain, educate and inspire in equal measure. What should you do if you notice a stranger’s dress is tucked up at...
Ragged Glory
The Rainbow Nation in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
As a leading political journalist and newspaper editor, Hartley had the best seat in the house for the unfolding drama of the new South Africa, as well as privileged access to many key players, including Nelson Mandela himself. Admirably concise but rich in detail, drawing on a wide spectrum of interviews,...