This is due to the fact that English is now taught not only in schools, but also in kindergartens and at home with parents. While we do our best to provide good quality books for you to read, there is no escaping the fact that it has been owned and read by someone else before you. We guarantee the authenticity and completeness of all items (unless otherwise described), and are happy to provide a certificate to this effect. Mankowski joins so many beautiful dots and creates a mesmerising story of social struggle and the shock and influence of the new.

From the early books, a fascinating and very entertaining picture emerges of the young poet, broke in London, serving popcorn at the Prince Charles Cinema, ruminating on Britpop. This book includes a detailed study of the lore in Norfolk, showing how oral tales become interwoven with published accounts and the heritage of historic places. Some of it is undeniably pretentious rubbish, the sort of prose a sixth former might throw away for being too contrived - who seriously needs to see a list of books Pete read three years ago? I have been forty years a full-time bookseller and specialise largely in modern literature and illustrated books. The Books of Albion are a series of journals, notebooks, and scrapbooks maintained by Peter Doherty.We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate.

Together with: a mounted, framed and glazed sheet printed with nine Babyshambles (''Campaign Brute'') wine labels, eight of which bear Doherty's autograph signature ''Peter X'' or ''Pete X'', and one of which has ''Bilo X'', this being his pet name from childhood. Doherty's handwriting is barely legible and the amount of work I had to put into deciphering the page left me frustrated and gave me no encouragement to continue forward. But some of the prose is strikingly raw and some of the Polaroid snaps are shockingly hot in terms of tabloid currency: in particular the pic of Kate Moss with the hand-scribbled caption: 'Spend two hours staring at a fucking spoon. The most illuminating odyssey through lost, hidden or forgotten English pop culture since Michael Bracewell's 'England Is Mine'. The aim of the series is to provide accessible overviews of the latest academic thinking relating to folklore and mythology.This book will appeal to all with an interest in Green Men and to art historians looking for a reliable study of this fascinating decorative motif. In 2007, a compilation of journals was published under the title The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty. As might be expected of a pop star junkie, his book is relentlessly solipsistic and for that reason only the most avid fan will have the patience to work their way through it all.

Jeremy Harte combines folklore scholarship with a lively style to show what the presence of fairies meant to people's lives.

This book is Mankowski’s story, revealing his disappointments, hopes and generation’s take on what England is. Explore Folklore provides a lively introduction to the study of most genres of British folklore, presenting the more contentious and profound ideas in a readily accessible manner.

These started out as diaries, but soon became a forum for Doherty to explore his thoughts and poetry. Yet, in their varying ways, these and other 'folk beliefs' reflect the wide spectrum of belief and disbelief in what is easily dismissed as 'superstition'. North European and Scandinavian myths dating back to the Iron Age depict dogs as corpse eaters and the guardians of the roads to Hell. Mankowski also reminds us how locations and how the presently closed music venues contribute not just to music, but to the evolving British culture as told by the experience of everyday people.

Explore Folklore shows there is much more to folklore than morris dancing and fifty-something folksingers! World of Books Ltd was founded in 2005, recycling books sold to us through charities either directly or indirectly. There are a few bits of good poetry and some song lyrics but most of it is just scribbles and ramblings, sometimes when he is off his head. The enigmatic silence of the Green Man has been broken in the last decade by a flood of books, with a new study coming out pretty much every year since 1990.