Rebecca Gowers is the author of The Swamp of Death (Hamish Hamilton), the true story of a fatal showdown between a late Victorian conman and a corrupt detective, shortlisted for the 2004 CWA non-fiction Golden Dagger Award, and of a debut novel, When to Walk (Canongate), longlisted for the Orange Prize, 2007.
6 Ebooks de Rebecca Gowers
Rebecca Gowers: Twisted Heart
Kit, a work-obsessed literature student, decides on a whim to go to a dance class. And for a while it looks as if Joe, the shadowy figure she meets there, may tempt her to put her books aside and liv …
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Ernest Gowers & Rebecca Gowers: Plain Words
‘Be short, be simple, be human.’When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humou …
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Rebecca Gowers: Horrible Words
Nothing inflames the language gripers like a misplaced disinterested, an illogical irregardless, a hideous operationalisation. To purists these are ‘howlers’ and ‘non-words’, fit only for scorn. But …
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Rebecca Gowers: The Twisted Heart
When Kit goes to a dance class she is hoping simply to take her mind off her studies. Soon it looks like Joe, a stranger she meets there, might do more than that. But when Kit uncovers a mystery invo …
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Rebecca Gowers: When To Walk
It looks like just another week ahead. Then out of the blue Ramble’s husband ends their marriage over lunch and disappears. With no rent money and her world in shreds, she is forced to reconsider eve …
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Rebecca Gowers: Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNDiamond thief, guerrilla fighter, spy, decorated hero, bohemian rogue and lover of several notorious women – all describe Major Harry Larkyns. Yet he has long …
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