Showing results for "The Block" in Literature & Fiction

All of a sudden the streets of your city are so overpopulated with security cameras and closed-circuit TV that you have to lock yourself in the bathroom to have an undocumented moment. And locks, which used to provide the recreational pleasure of a moderately challenging crossword puzzle, have become genuinely pickproof.

Sandy Thorne launched the first bestseller I've Met Some Bloody Wags!: By Biting the Top Off a Stubbie of Beer on the Midday Show, and has spent over 20 years travelling the world spinning bush yarns and humour. The irrepressible larrikin bushie and his wild and woolly brood move onto their 50,000 acre "block" way out in the back country. The result is chaos, calamity, colossal cock-ups…and a good chuckle or three every minute.

For all those craving more adventures of their favorite bookseller-by-day and burglar-by-night, The Burglar in Short Order for the first time ever collects all of Bernie Rhodenbarr's short-form appearances in one complete volume. From the story in which a prototype of Bernie first appeared (“A Bad Night for Burglars”) to his appearances in Playboy and (maybe? It's kinda complicated) Cosmopolitan...from an essay discussing Bernie's misadventures in Hollywood to a piece commissioned by a European publisher for a tourist guide to New York....

Conny, Beamtin im öffentlichen Dienst, macht den Job seit Jahrzehnten. Ihre Kolleginnen – Tief-einatmen-Petra, Gegen-alles-Gisela, Kussi-Doris, Küken-Dilara und Du-bist-der-Change-Ronja – sind ihr wohl oder übel zur Familie geworden. Der alltägliche Behördenwahnsinn schweißt sie zusammen. Gemeinsam trotzen sie Aktenbergen, Management-Geschwätz, Digitalisierung und viel zu selbstbewussten Bürgern. Und wenn gar nichts mehr geht: "Da bin ick nicht zuständig, Mausi".

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1950, Life with the Lyons was the first UK 'situation comedy'. More than 11 million listeners tuned in to the hilarious fictional misadventures of real-life Hollywood stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyons and their two children, Barbara and Richard, as well as Scottish housekeeper Aggie and next-door neighbours Florrie and Mr Wimple. Such was its popularity that the series ran for 11 years, spawning a TV spin-off, a West End play and two feature films.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The best rom-com I have read this year' This love story is a work in progress… When romcom author Allie Edwards crosses paths with bestselling crime novelist – aka publishing dinosaur – Martin Clark at a party, they discover they both have crippling writer’s block...