"Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2013After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee starts an apprenticeship at the local funeral home. Here, in the company of a crooning ex-publican, a closet pole vaulter, a terminally-ill hearse driver, and the dead of their local town, old wounds begin to heal and love arrives as a beautiful fl ..."
Pop(Updated) (Paperback) by KittyAldridge Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-942832-9, ISBN: 0-09-942832-6
Pop - SIGNED by KittyAldridge Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Jonathan Cape Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-224-06209-1, ISBN: 0-224-06209-3
Cryers Hill by KittyAldridge Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-09-950618-8, ISBN: 0-09-950618-1
"Two boys, growing up in the same village thirty-five years apart, have each seen something they shouldn't.Hailed by Salman Rushie on the publication of her first novel, Pop, Cryers Hill confirms Kitty Aldridge as a writer of immense talent, ..."
Pop(Large Print) by KittyAldridge Board Book, Published 2002 by Ulverscroft ISBN-13: 978-0-7089-4746-3, ISBN: 0-7089-4746-8
Cryers Hill by KittyAldridge Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-0-224-08041-5, ISBN: 0-224-08041-5
"Walter Brown went alone to the woodland pond on a July afternoon in 1934. He saw his girl swimming there. She wasn't his girl then, but he knew she would be. He was sixteen when he knew. He watched her floating and saw how white her skin was in the green water, her belly, her breasts, her pond-tangled hair. A naked girl. Then she turned over like an otter and dived down. She did not come up again. Two boys...Sean Matthews stands at the ..."
"Physical description [28] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. Notes; "Based on "The peacock at home" by a Lady (1807), a sequel to The butterfly ball and the grasshopper's feast" -- t.p. verso. Text surrounded by decorative borders. Initial vignettes in black and white on each page. List of other books illustrated by Alan Aldridge on t.p. verso. Case binding of green paper boards with illustration, title, illustrator and author on upper cover. Subj ..."
Cryers Hill by KittyAldridge Published by W. F. Howes Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4074-0554-4, ISBN: 1-4074-0554-3
"After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee lands a traineeship at their local funeral home and discovers there is life after death. Here, in the company of a crooning ex-publican, a closet pole vaulter, a terminally-ill hearse driver, and the dead of their local town, old wounds begin to heal and love arrives as a beautiful florist aboar ..."
POP by KittyAldridge Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2001 by Jonathan Cape Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-224-06246-6, ISBN: 0-224-06246-8
"After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee lands a traineeship at their local funeral home and discovers there is life after death. Here, in the company of a crooning ex-publican, a closet pole vaulter, a terminally-ill hearse driver, and the dead of their local town, old wounds begin to heal and love arrives as a beautiful florist aboar ..."
"Since 1997, several perchlorate treatment technologies have proven to be technically feasible at drinking-water treatment scale: biological reduction, ion exchange, reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, and granular activated carbon (GAC). The objectives of this project were to demonstrate the long-term performance of conventional ion-exchange technology for perchlorate removal and evaluate three disparate alternatives (chemical, biological, ..."
"Sometimes sad, often hilarious and ultimately tragic and deeply moving, A Trick I Learned from Dead Men is a pitch perfect small masterpiece from a writer described by Richard Ford as having 'a moral grasp upon life that is grave, knowing, ..."
"Political drama doesn't get more near the knuckle than Michael Dobbs' House of Cards trilogy, adapted for the screen by Andrew Davies and originally broadcast in the post-Thatcher years of the early 1990s. A splendid dissection of naked ambition, greed and rampant hypocrisy in the corridors of power, the original four-part series House of Cards documents in thrilling detail the rise of Tory Chief Whip Francis Urquhart (magnificent Ian R ..."
"In To Play the King, the second installment of this deliciously wicked political satire, Francis Urquhart (who rose to power in House of Cards) appears to have everything he wants. He is the prime minister, he has no immediate rivals, and everyone who knows of his crimes is either on his side or dead. But a new challenge arises when the queen dies and the new king (Michael Kitchen doing a perfect Prince Charles) proves to be a thorn in ..."