Results for: books tagged ‘Horses’
A Year at the Races: Jane Smiley
Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a ... More
Racing Lexicon: John Leigh and David Woodhouse
The ultimate guide to the strange and glorious language of horseracing.Why is it bad if horses cough but good if they hack up? Why do jockeys sometimes have to call ... More
Horse Latitudes: Paul Muldoon
The horse latitudes designate an area north and south of the equator in which ships tend to be becalmed, in which stasis if not stagnation is the order of the ... More
War Horse: Nick Stafford
At the outbreak of the First World War, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. Caught up in enemy fire, fate takes Joey ... More
Cavalier: Lucy Worsley
From Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, comes the story of the last great cavalier. William Cavendish embodies the popular image of a cavalier. He was both ... More
Horse Power and Magic: George Ewart Evans
The pioneering oral historian, George Ewart Evans, began to record the farming ways of East Anglia in the 1950s by listening to old men and women whose memories went back ... More
Nobody's Horse: Jane Smiley
Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares 'Jewel' and all the geldings 'George' and warns Abby ... More
Lean on Pete: Willy Vlautin
From the acclaimed author of The Motel Life and Northline comes an unforgettable story of friendship and hope, set across the American midwest. More
Secret Horse: Jane Smiley
Abby loves training the horses on her family’s ranch. She’s even starting to show them in the ring.But when she and her favourite horse, Black George, easily clear four feet, ... More