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The story of a man who gives up the rock ‘n’ roll dream… to play bowls.Alex Marsh wanted to be a rock star – but it didn’t work out. Instead he toiled away in the big city – only to give up his career, move to rural Norfolk, and become a househusband. Only he isn’t a very good one. Whilst his pride won't let him admit it, he struggles with the cooking, the cleaning and the isolation. He hires a cleaner without telling his wife, his repertoire of baked potatoes exhausts quickly. He becomes hooked on daytime television and computer solitaire. He is in danger of becoming weird.So he takes up bowls. In Sex & Bowls & Rock and Roll we follow a season in the life of the village bowls team, a group of amateur sportsmen and mild eccentrics. In doing so we see this unfashionable pastime in a whole new light, and very funny it is too. But Alex hasn’t quite given up on his dreams of rock stardom. Discovering that some of his mates down the pub are a bit handy with bass and drums he makes one final stab at being in a band, with an eagerly awaited local gig. It is a complete disaster.Join Alex has he comes to terms with life as a domestic disappointment, attempts to learn the fine art of bowls and finally realises that supporting the Sultans Of Ping at the Pink Toothbrush in Rayleigh really was the highpoint of his musical career. Sex & Bowls & Rock and Roll is a hilarious account of the life of a genuinely modern man. Everyone will recognise themselves (or their husbands) and you will be hard pressed not to laugh out loud.


The Dreams In The Witch-House The Dreams In The Witch-House

Автор: Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт

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The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, an witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.


Our village: sketches of rural character and scenery Our village: sketches of rural character and scenery

Автор: Mary Russell Mitford

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Our village : sketches of rural character and scenery / by Mary Russell Mitford».


An essay on the best means of promoting the spread of Divine Truth in the unenlightened villages of Great Britain An essay on the best means of promoting the spread of Divine Truth in the unenlightened villages of Great Britain

Автор: J. Thornton

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Полный вариант заголовка: «An essay on the best means of promoting the spread of Divine truth in the unenlightened villages of Great Britain / By J. Thornton».


The traveller; The deserted village and other poems The traveller; The deserted village and other poems

Автор: Оливер Голдсмит

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Полный вариант заголовка: «The traveller ; The deserted village : and other poems / by Oliver Goldsmith».


Dreams. Sex in the dialogues Dreams. Sex in the dialogues

Автор: Марк Довлатов

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Новый рассказ о Майкле Дуридомове. О чем говорят в постели – до и после и во время: Мишка и Белка говорят друг другу только правду, даже если это немножко стыдно. А если ей что-то такое приснилось? Может, она этого и хочет? И что же ему с этим делать?