Kingston: 487 books

In this, her second book of poetry, Ashley Rebecca Kingston draws back a curtain for her readers. She takes them on a journey - a jarring, dramatic journey full of love and woe, fraught with twists and turns. Each line invokes a feeling, each poem paints a picture. Light and dark, night and day. All...

Here is another book in the true Kingston style - lots of swimming, sharks, wrecks, battles, pirates, woundings. Paul goes to sea in the first place because his father has lost a legalcase in which the Devereux family had been claiming his estates and land. To Paul's surprise, who should be in the midshipman's...

The book, quite a long one, is concerned with the adventures of a boy, Walter Heathfield, and of his sister Emily. They appear on the scene in chapter one, in rather a dramatic fashion, as they are rescued from a sinking ship, along with their dying father, moments before the ship finally vanishes....

Another vintage Kingston book, this time with a background of the 1650s, when Cromwell and the Roundheads were in power. With acknowledgement to Chamber's Biographical Dictionary we read: Blake, Robert (1599-1657) English naval commander, the son of a merchant. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he...

The book that launched campaigns, featuring a new 2013 introduction from Margo Kingston. After the bestselling Not Happy, John! was published in 2004, we had three more years of: · secrecy, cover-ups and scandals - think AWB · laws like WorkChoices eroding people's prosperity · an unpopular and...

'Kingston is a writer who brings an unusually raw brand of passion to her work. . . . [the book] is much more than a profile of One Nations' leader and her supporters; it's an analysis of political campaigning and media coverage in a post-modern world - a sketch of some emerging faultlines in the...

Overal in onze omgeving verzamelen we rotzooi: in huis, op de werkplek, in de auto en zelfs in ons lichaam. Karen Kingston legt uit dat de warboel om ons heen van grote invloed is op hoe we ons fysiek, mentaal, emotioneel en spiritueel voelen. Haar ideeën zijn gebaseerd op eeuwenoude tradities en...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Foxholme Hall - And other Tales. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by...

Sadly, this was the last book Kingston wrote. He was diagnosed with a rapid fatal illness while he was writing it, and he used the opportunity of bidding his young readers farewell in the Preface. There is a lot of action in the book, from encounters with the Barbary Pirates in what is now called Morocco,...

This is one of Kingston's longest adventure stories, but possibly also one of his best. The eponymous hero is tracked through his time at sea as a midshipman. Exciting events follow on each other's heels, fast and furious. Very well written, showing the extraordinary depth of knowledge that the author...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The School Friends - Nothing New. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by...

This is a most remarkable book, copiously illustrated with interesting engravings. A young boy and his brother are sent home early from their boarding-school, because of illness among the pupils. Their father is a retired captain in the Royal Navy, who has had a beautiful yacht built. He suggests...

This is rather a standard Kingston book, with adventures this time shore-based in Africa, which, at the time of the story, the early nineteenth century, was largely unknown. The two young men sail as supercargoes, a post which at that time existed, but which later was to be known a ship's clerk. ...

This book is very largely about the work of Christian missionaries in the Pacific. There is a thin plot, but otherwise we are treated to lengthy texts extracted from the reports of various missionaries, and of Naval officers who had visited the area. The book is dressed up with a cover and a title that...