Ned Kelly: A True Story - Bookworms 1 When he was a boy, he waspoor and hungry. When hewas a young man, he wasstill poor and still hungry.He learnt how to stealhorses, he learnt how tofight, he learnt how to live– outside the law. Australiain the 1870s was a hard,wild place. Rich people hadland, poor people didn’t. Sothe rich got richer, and thepoor stayed poor.Some say Ned Kelly wasa bad man. Some say hewas a good man but thelaw was bad. This is thetrue story of Australia’smost famous outlaw. When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live outside the law.
From the Cradle to the Grave - Bookworms Collection
These stories explore the
trials of life from youth to
old age: the idealism of
young people, the stresses
of marriage, the anxieties
of parenthood, and the
loneliness and fears of older
people. The wide variety
of writing styles includes
black humour, satire, and
compassionate and realistic
observation of the follies and
foibles of humankind.
These stories explore the trials of life from youth to old age: the idealism of young people, the stresses of marriage, the anxieties of parenthood, and the loneliness and fears of older people. The wide variety of writing styles includes black humour, satire, and compassionate and realistic observation of the follies and foibles of humankind.
Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph and Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times that makes you into a true hero!
Glance inside a few people's lives, and you soon find loneliness and disappointment, self-hate, and despair. The people in these stories are paralysed: locked into the circles of their everyday lives, where they are caught waiting between life and death
