Something of the Night
eBook - ePub

Something of the Night

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Something of the Night

About this book

Who can say what the night might bring?

Fireworks and frivolity? A party? Music and dancing? The night is where we have the most fun. Or you could be reading in bed, between clean sheets, before falling into deep restful sleep and sweet dreams.

And who knows? The night might bring romance, or love or sex, if you play your cards right.

Or the night could be where we work. Millions of people do. If everyone slept all night, Britain would cease to function.

Or the night could be indifferent; cold, haunted, inhuman. When you look up into the night sky, you see that you are nothing. An insignificant mote of dust.

Or the night could be all too human.Hen parties in skimpy dresses and fairy wings are being slammed into the back of a police van. Prostitutes walk the streets; business men go to lap dancing clubs to forget what waits at home.

On an after-hours journey around the British Isles - investigating nightingales in the Cotswolds, meteors in Shropshire, dog-racing in Belfast, a service station in Lancaster and Bonfire celebrations in East Sussex - Ian Marchant sets out to discover the different ways that we while away that half of our lives normally spent in darkness.

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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781847397799
eBook ISBN
9780857202185
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Also by Ian Marchant
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication page
  7. Epigraph page
  8. Contents
  9. NEIL
  10. ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN
  11. IN DORSET?
  12. MAUDLIN REGRET
  13. TWO ENGLISHMEN IN WEST CORK
  14. OOH! AAH!
  15. BONFIRE BHOYS
  16. SHE'S ABOUT A MOVER
  17. NIGHT RALLY
  18. AUTHENTICITY
  19. WILLIN'
  20. DAVID!
  21. I'M AGAINST THE EIGHTIES
  22. BIG STAR
  23. 20TH CENTURY BOY
  24. WILD NIGHT
  25. FULL OF FIRE
  26. NOCTURIA
  27. THIS WOMAN'S WORK
  28. SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT
  29. RAY OF LIGHT
  30. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  31. NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

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