Nigel: 1192 books

Welcome to the Diary Of The Tweople! On June 3rd, 2011, Twitter users from all over the world wrote about their day. June 3rd was Diary Day. This ebook is a collection of the best entries from the hundreds we received! Each diary entry is hyperlinked with the user’s Twitter...

Military history as told through the lives and deeds of warfare's most famous commanders, from ancient Greece through the World Wars, Vietnam, and the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with Leonides of Sparta, who died at Thermopylae in 480 b.c.e., and ending with General Giap, a Vietnamese leader;...

Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often we fight among ourselves - there have been a good few civil wars - and when we were not slaughtering each other, we practiced on our neighbours, the Scots, the Irish, the French . . . When that got too easy, we set off around the world...

Ever felt overworked and underlaid? Or that you're slogging away in a job you don't enjoy to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like? And that sometimes self-help books are no help at all? If so, Nigel Marsh knows how you feel. In this, his latest book, the...

Once the pride of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sarpedon krater is a wine-mixing bowl crafted by two Athenians, Euxitheos (who shaped it) and Euphronios (who decorated it), in the late 6thc BC. The moving image Euphronios created for the krater, depicting the stricken Trojan hero Sarpedon...

How did our ancestors die? Whereas in our own day the subject of death is usually avoided, in pre-Industrial England the rituals and processes of death were present and immediate. People not only surrounded themselves with memento mori, they also sought to keep alive memories of those who had gone...

'A fantastic writer.' Donald Ray Pollock THE SHADOWS OF DEATH is the latest collection from the prize-winning author Nigel Bird (SMOKE; IN LOCO PARENTIS; DIRTY OLD TOWN AND OTHER STORIES). His brilliantly observed slices of life allow us to visit places we may not normally choose to enter...

At last something laugh-out-loud funny for girls in this hilarious new series from TV and radio comedy writing talent Nigel Smith. The Most Embarrassing Dad in the World was embarrassing Nathalia even before she was born. He went and married Mum, didn’t he? Mum’s last name was De Montfort. Thanks...

Literary history generally locates the primary movement toward poetic innovation in twentieth-century modernism, an impulse carried out against a supposedly enervated “late-Romantic” poetry of the nineteenth century. The original essays in Active Romanticism challenge this interpretation by tracing...

The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' I>Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea...

Ever wanted your very own business that you can run from home? Start your own ironing business tomorrow working around your daily commitments. Maybe you just need some extra part time money. You decide as and when you want to work. The demand in the local area is big and I explain how to get started...

Nigel’s life was saved by creative writing and academia. He had been a runaway to the counterculture in London as a young teenager with all the accompanying chaos. He was later taken into County Council Child Care and then transferred to the psychiatric system. His life spiralled out of control...

Nigel Bird was the co-editor of 'the Rue Bella' magazine between 1998 and 2003. During that time, the magazine gained a reputation for being at the cutting edge of the poetry world. Not only did it feature the work of some of the worlds finest poets, but it provided a window for the words of a huge number...

On Christmas Eve, Stacey Franklin's toy monkey comes to life and tells her he is enchanted and only the love of a child can save him. The monkey then takes her on a journey to Monkia, where Stacey learns that the monkey had been a bad king and a wizard turned him into a toy to learn love. But...