Tea At The Midland
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Tea At The Midland
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Author : David Constantine
language : en
Publisher: Comma Press
Release Date : 2013-11-29
Tea At The Midland written by David Constantine and has been published by Comma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-29 with Fiction categories.
**WINNER of the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award** **WINNER of the BBC National Short Story Prize** 'The excellence of the collection is fractal: the whole book is excellent, and every story is excellent, and every paragraph is excellent, and every sentence is excellent. And, unlike some literary fiction, it's effortless to read.' - The Independent on Sunday ‘Perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form.’ – The Reader To the woman watching they looked like grace itself, the heart and soul of which is freedom. It pleased her particularly that they were attached by invisible strings to colourful curves of rapidly moving air. How clean and clever that was! You throw up something like a handkerchief, you tether it and by its headlong wish to fly away, you are towed along... Like the kite-surfers in this opening scene, the characters in David Constantine’s fourth collection are often delicately caught in moments of defiance. Disregarding their age, their family, or the prevailing political winds, they show us a way of marking out a space for resistance and taking an honest delight in it. Witness Alphonse – having broken out of an old people’s home, changed his name, and fled the country – now pedalling down the length of the Rhône, despite knowing he has barely six months to live. Or the clergyman who chooses to spend Christmas Eve – and the last few hours in his job – in a frozen, derelict school, dancing a wild jig with a vagrant called Goat. Key to these characters’ defiance is the power of fiction, the act of holding real life at arm’s length and simply telling a story – be it of the future they might claim for themselves, or the imagined lives of others. Like them, Constantine’s bewitching, finely-wrought stories give us permission to escape, they allow us to side-step the inexorable traffic of our lives, and beseech us to take possession of the moment.
Midland Woman S Club International Tasting Tea Cook Book
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Author : Midland Woman's Club (Midland, Tex.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Midland Woman S Club International Tasting Tea Cook Book written by Midland Woman's Club (Midland, Tex.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Cooking categories.
Scent
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Author : Dinesh Allirajah
language : en
Publisher: Comma Press
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Scent written by Dinesh Allirajah and has been published by Comma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Fiction categories.
Before his untimely death at the age of 47, Dinesh Allirajah was one of the most versatile and accomplished writers working in the North of England. Whether as a performance poet, literary critic, wry social commentator or masterfully understated short story writer, his work was always international in scope, but local and personal in touch. Witty, irreverent, and intricately observed, his writing was informed by everything from raregroove jazz to experimental theatre, crime noir to stand-up comedy. Yet it always felt, and continues to feel, bespoke to us as readers. The short stories, in particular, allow us to eavesdrop on the most intimate, unattended moments in their characters’ lives. Here, we get to know outsiders – migrant workers, beleaguered mothers, old and unwanted regulars in a pub that’s facing a refurb – people being slowly ushered into the background, or kept at a distance. Yet it is on these peripheries – far from where everyone else is looking – that Dinesh finds his stories, here that identities are reconstructed and renegotiated, here that we learn the most about ourselves. Spanning over twenty years’ work, this definitive hardback volume presents a through-line of Dinesh’s compassion, activism, and literary perspicacity; a clarion call to find essential beauty - in art, music, sport, life - and to pass it on.
Under The Dam
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Author : David Constantine
language : en
Publisher: Comma Press
Release Date : 2013-12-03
Under The Dam written by David Constantine and has been published by Comma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-03 with Fiction categories.
David Constantine's Under the Dam was chosen as one of their Books of 2005 by both The Independent and The Guardian. See Press below. "FLAWLESS AND UNSETTLING" - Boyd Tonkin, Books of the Year 2005, The Independent. In the middle of a speech a businessman realises his soul has just left his body. In an Athens marketplace, a jealous lover finds himself staggering through a vision of hell. High in the Alps, a young woman’s body re-appears in the glacier, perfectly preserved, where she fell 50 years before. Entering Constantine’s stories is like stepping out into a wind of words, a swarm of language. His prose is as fluid as the water that surges and swells through all his landscapes. Yet, against this fluidity, his stories are able to stop time, to freeze-frame each protagonist’s life just at the moment when the past breaks the surface, or when the present - like the dam of the title - collapses under its own weight. “I started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed, read them all fast, and started re-reading them again and again. They are gripping tales, but what is startling is the quality of the writing. Every sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what it should be. Reading them is a series of short shocks of (agreeably envious) pleasure...” – AS Byatt, Book of the Week, The Guardian “A superb collection” – Nicholas Royle, The Independent “This is a haunting collection filled with delicate clarity. Constantine has a sure grasp of the fear and fragility within his characters.” – A. L. Kennedy
The Dressing Up Box
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Author : David Constantine
language : en
Publisher: Comma Press
Release Date : 2019-09-19
The Dressing Up Box written by David Constantine and has been published by Comma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-19 with Fiction categories.
Against the backdrop of war, a group of children barricade themselves in an abandoned townhouse, cherishing what’s left of their innocence with the help of a dressing-up box... A deep-sea diver takes to being suspended for hours at a time on the end of a line not long enough to reach the seabed... An aging widower moves into the shed at the end of his garden to plan out his ‘endgame’ surrounded by a lifetime’s worth of hoarded curiosities... The characters in David Constantine’s fifth collection are all in pursuit of sanctuary; the violence and mendacity of the outside world presses in from all sides – be it the ritualised brutality suffered by children at a Catholic orphanage, or the harrowing videos shared among refugees of an atrocity ‘back home’. In each case, the characters withdraw into themselves, sometimes abandoning language altogether, until something breaks and they can retreat no further. In Constantine’s luminous prose, these stories capture such moments in all their clarity; moments when an entire life seems to hang in the balance, the past’s betrayals exposed, its ghosts dragged out into the daylight; moments in which the possibility of defiance and redemption is everything. Praise for The Dressing-Up Box: 'A quietly furious and moving collection...' - A.L. Kennedy 'Precise in their intensity, unsettling, suddenly and unexpectedly luminous, these stories will stay with you and unfurl within you.' - Lucy Caldwell 'A beautifully crafted tender, evocative collection. Full of wisdom and light.' - Irenosen Okojie 'David Constantine's fifth collection of stories is a fierce and tender meditation on our struggle to live - a lyrical and plainspoken portrait of humanity at its pernicious worst and its suffering, creative, resilient best.' - Carys Davies
Developing Tea Market Through Analyzing The Value Chain Of Vietnam Tea Industry
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Author : Nguyen Cong Bien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Developing Tea Market Through Analyzing The Value Chain Of Vietnam Tea Industry written by Nguyen Cong Bien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Nowadays, the international trade in agricultural products is very well-organized, largely controlled by multinational supermarket chains. Because of increased consumer knowledge, the supermarket's demand for quality of agricultural products, which are based on the consumer needs in developed countries, is more and more high-required and becoming a technical barrier of many developing countries considering agricultural exports as a lever for economic development. Tea is identified as a major export product of Vietnam by the government. Tea production is an economic sector in the production development for rural agricultural area in the mountainous midland where tea is as a strategic product for export, helps to earn foreign currency for the country, and create employment for huge workforce. Moreover, the tea industry which is also one of the potential industries would increase a quantity (low tea yields), a quality (due to low quality of tea) and a selling price when the tea quality increases, the type of tea is increasing, then the price increases. Because tea plays the important role as one of Vietnam's important export agricultural products, it is definitely necessary for research investment to develop policies and solutions for developing the value chain of tea and increasing the added value of tea, particularly in intense competition of the world tea market where the demand for this product is decreasing due to the global economic crisis, and the number of suppliers participating in the tea market is increasing and becoming more and more professional. This article confirms that the development of tea export market of Vietnam is a right direction. The article shows that enhancing the value chain of tea industry is one of the factors promoting the development of the Vietnam tea market during the period of international integration. The paper, thence, proposes some solutions to develop the tea market Vietnam in the future.
The Life Writer
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Author : David Constantine
language : en
Publisher: Biblioasis
Release Date : 2016-09-19
The Life Writer written by David Constantine and has been published by Biblioasis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-19 with Fiction categories.
A New York Times Notable Book 2016 An October Indie Next List “Great Reads” Pick After the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, picks her way through a trove of his letters and postcards, slowly piecing together the entirety of his life. Surprised by an unlikely chapter in his past that was never revealed during their marriage, Katrin sets off on a heartbreaking journey to discover the man she never fully knew.
In Another Country
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Author : David Constantine
language : en
Publisher: Comma Press
Release Date : 2015
In Another Country written by David Constantine and has been published by Comma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Fiction categories.
A collection of short stories, includes "The Cave," in which a couple travels to a hidden cavern to lose themselves in a waterfall.
Davies
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Author : David Constantine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Davies written by David Constantine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Fiction categories.
Davies became famous briefly in 1911 when Home Secretary Winston Churchill raised his case in Parliament. But who was Davies? In this fictionalised account of a lifelong petty criminal, Constantine explores the mystery of a shadowy loner caught in a vicious circle of self-perpetuating crime.David Davies (1849-1929) was known in his day as the 'Dartmoor Shepherd'. He spent half a century in prison for a succession of minor offences, mostly for stealing coppers from the poor-boxes of local churches. In Constantine's novel three characters reflect on Davies' life, and understand him as best they can. But Davies remains uncomprehended and in isolation.Davies came from Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, and Constantine has set his novel in the counties of the Welsh Marches, in Flint and Montgomery, Shropshire and Cheshire. He has made much use of documentary material - Hansard, newspaper reports and a biography - and aims in his novel to seek a truth behind established facts. Although historically based, Davies is a novel whose concerns are very much relevant to the present day, particularly in its portrait of the habitual offender and of vagrancy.This first novel by a young award-winning Bloodaxe poet marks the emergence of an exciting new talent in British fiction.
Tea In Australia
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Author : Peter D. Griggs
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-26
Tea In Australia written by Peter D. Griggs and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-26 with Business & Economics categories.
Before 1950, Australians were the world’s highest consumers of tea per capita. This book tells the story of how tea emerged as the national beverage in the Australian colonies during the nineteenth century, and explores why Australians consumed so much of the beverage for so long. Special attention is devoted to analysing the evolution of the Australian tea distribution network, especially the marketing strategies used by the tea traders to promote their products. Other topics examined here include the development of tea rituals such as afternoon tea and high tea and their role in Australian society, the local manufacture of teawares, the establishment of tea rooms and the emergence of a tea growing industry in Australia after 1960. The first comprehensive account of the history of tea in Australia, this book will be of particular interest to individuals interested in Australian history, economic and social history, and food history.