LIBROS DEL AUTOR: andy botterill

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  • Indie Kid
    Andy Botterill
    Bristol 1985 - at its heart a thriving indie music scene with its own clubs, shops like Revolver Records and releases by labels like Sarah Records which offer escape for fifteen-year old kids like Will, who holds imaginary conversations with the likes of Dan Treacy of The Television Personalities, Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine - until...
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    16,47 €

  • Daydreamers
    Andy Botterill
    The late 1990s in a provincial town in Greater London. Two very different characters, one male, one female, with one thing in common, dissatisfaction with their everyday lives and solace and escape in a private world of fantasies and daydreams. Martin is nerdy, obsessed with sports trivia, struggling to fit in at his workplace, where he is bullied. Jacqui an unmarried mum suffe...
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    16,37 €

  • Four Women
    Andy Botterill
    Simon is a would-be writer and a serial monogamist, with a habit of self-sabotage. He loves women but has a habit of messing up his relationships with them, despite his best efforts and starting each new relationship with optimism and genuine conviction it will last this time.’Four Women’ charts Simon’s life with consecutive girlfriends, one after another, over a twenty-year pe...
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    16,22 €

  • Marking The Occasions
    Andy Botterill
    Marking the Occasions collects all the author’s published short stories and short prose of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s in chronological order, and incorporates three collections Marking the Occasions, Funny Farm and The Word. By keeping to date order, it allows the reader to follow the author’s stylistic development over time from more experimental early works to short storie...
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    15,26 €

  • Young Punks
    Andy Botterill
    At college in early 1980s Britain, Mark doesn’t really fit in. A growing sense of alienation leads to tension with classmates, teachers and parents as he finds himself drawn to fellow loners who don’t conform to society’s rules. Along the way he finds love with Carrie and true friendship with Pat, bonded by a mutual love of punk fashion and music. With Pat he launches a band in...
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    19,29 €

  • The Wind Changes Direction
    Andy Botterill
    The Wind Changes Direction combines the poems of the 2007 full collection of the same name and the 2009 full collection Celebrations of Life by Exeter poet and novelist Andy Botterill in one poetry book. The poems are in a confessional style and in the vein of the American Beat tradition. They explore themes of reflection, relationships, family and friendships, the passing of...
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    12,93 €

  • Poems From The Eighties
    Andy Botterill
    Poems From the Eighties is an introduction to the early work of Exeter poet and novelist Andy Botterill. All the poems were written in the 1980s when the poet was in his late teens and early twenties and an undergraduate of Swansea University, before training and later working as a local news reporter in Devon. The poems are taken from the full collections Earth Rites, 1984, N...
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    15,39 €

  • The Sands Of Time
    Andy Botterill
    Sands of Time combines the poems of the 2013 full collection of the same name with the shorter pamphlets Missing Parts (2015) and Twenty Poems (2021), as well as a selection of new poems by Exeter poet and novelist Andy Botterill and are the most recent ones he’s written. The poems are in a confessional style and in the vein of the American Beat tradition. They explore themes...
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    13,38 €

  • At Heart A Romantic
    Andy Botterill
    At Heart A Romantic combines the poems of the 2004 pamphlet An Essentially English Voice, the 2005 full collection The History of Civilisation and the 2006 pamphlet At Heart A Romantic by Exeter poet and novelist Andy Botterill in one volume. The poems are in a confessional style and in the vein of the American Beat tradition. They explore themes of reflection, relationships, ...
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    13,17 €

  • Miscellaneous Thoughts
    Andy Botterill
    Miscellaneous Thoughts combines the poems of the 2001 full collection of the same name and the 2002 pamphlet A Different Game by Exeter poet and novelist Andy Botterill. The poems explore themes of reflection, lost love, childhood, marriage breakup, lifestyle, sport, growing up and growing old, with an increasing emphasis on use of language as well as conveying a story or mess...
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    12,93 €

  • Years Spinning By Out Of Control
    Andy Botterill
    Years Spinning By Out Of Control combines the poems of the 1998 collection of the same name and the 2000 pamphlet Water Under the Bridge by Exeter poet and novelist Andy Botterill. The poems explore themes of love, loss, longing, heartache and break-up, sex, substance abuse and social realism. Many appeared in their original format in the small presses of both the UK and Amer...
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    10,68 €

  • Welcome Lonely Hearts
    Andy Botterill
    Welcome Lonely Hearts is the fifth full collection of poetry by Exeter poet and novelist Andy Botterill, first published in 1994. It was five years in the making, collecting poems written from 1989 to 1994, when the author was working as a local news reporter in the South West of England, and the poet’s first collection since his 1989 short pamphlet Coming to Terms. The poems...
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    12,06 €

  • An Appointment With God
    Andy Botterill
    Jack - approaching sixty and pining for a lost love, Beth, living below an eccentric best friend, and working in a civil service job he hates - daydreams about a past he never had. Intermixed with reality, his daydreams are an obsessive fantasy world but one he writes down in more and more detail as it becomes strangely true but is it everything he expected and hoped it would b...
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    15,19 €