All glory is fleeting - Stowers, Antony J
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Plunge head-first into the mad adventures of Jethro Anson Nowsty, our ordinary and modest English hero, an innocent abroad, doing daily battle with the (often) frustrating but (equally) fascinating workings of modern France from 2016 up to the present date. Embracing teaching, motoring trips to Holland and Belgium, Catholic hypocrisy, gilets-jaunes, strikes and stoppages, absurd administrations, vandalised cars, hitchhiking, Swedish drama, a bizarre visitor, Brexit, a crippling bike accident, burn-out and the arrival of COVID-19, 'All glory is fleeting' is both an amusing and unsettling…mehr

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Plunge head-first into the mad adventures of Jethro Anson Nowsty, our ordinary and modest English hero, an innocent abroad, doing daily battle with the (often) frustrating but (equally) fascinating workings of modern France from 2016 up to the present date. Embracing teaching, motoring trips to Holland and Belgium, Catholic hypocrisy, gilets-jaunes, strikes and stoppages, absurd administrations, vandalised cars, hitchhiking, Swedish drama, a bizarre visitor, Brexit, a crippling bike accident, burn-out and the arrival of COVID-19, 'All glory is fleeting' is both an amusing and unsettling testament to the folly of human complacency and what it really means to be a Brit abroad.
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Darlington for Culture Review This is the story of an ordinary boy from an ordinary working-class family in an ordinary northern town. If that sounds ordinary, it's not!Jethro Anson Nowsty was born and brought up in Darlington and we follow his life from his very earliest memories up to his approaching adulthood. This mixed-up kid was born in the early 1960s and the author describes everyday life as it was then - warts 'n' all. The music, food, transport, housing and entertainment of the 1960s and 1970s are all brought into clear focus in a series of short stories. Instead of a strictly chronological order, the author goes back and forth through the years writing in a way that draws the reader back in time to when a computer filled a whole room and dialling a phone number took longer than the call itself. All of this is interwoven with national and international news and the background to all of these stories is Darlington. All the landmark buildings, roads and parks, shops and schools are mentioned and described. It's a history of a special time in a special town, told with humour and affection through the eyes of a special 'mixed-up kid'.'