Dear Miss Landau

Dear Miss Landau
Author: James Christie
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-07-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0957112874

Every morning James Christie puts on a blue rugby shirt and jeans. His wardrobe is full of identical outfits. Every day he eats the same meal and drinks from the same mug. These are not ingrained habits, but survival strategies. For James, coping with new experiences feels like smashing his head through a plate glass window. The only relief comes from belting the heavy bag at the boxing club or watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He's an autistic man lost in a neuro-typical world. Differently wired. Alien. Despite a high IQ, it seems he'll spend the next 20 years cleaning toilets. But then his life takes an amazing turn - from a Glasgow tenement to a rendezvous with a Hollywood star on Sunset Boulevard. On that road trip across America, the man who feels he lacks a soul will find it. Eight time zones and 5,000 miles away, he has a date with the actress who played Drusilla, the kooky vampire who changed his life when he saw her in a Buffy episode. Drusilla has no soul either. And maybe that's the attraction. But Drusilla is fictional. The lady he'll see on Sunset is Juliet Landau. She's real, and that's a very different proposition...

Differently Wired

Differently Wired
Author: James Christie
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-08-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1911105361

Differently Wired is an illustrated collection of around sixty articles and blogs written by James Christie for the Huffington Post UK, the Glasgow West End Guide, Autism Eye magazine - and even the Sherlock Holmes Journal. They cover subjects as diverse as Einstein's brain, Scottish independence, American civil rights, libraries, adults with autism, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, all with told with Christie's characteristic fluency and barbed wit and all offering the unique perspective of an autistic writer.

The House at Tyneford

The House at Tyneford
Author: Natasha Solomons
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101559330

Fans of Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden and TV’s Downton Abbey will love this sweeping New York Times bestselling historical novel of love and loss. The start of an affair, the end of an era... It’s the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay, where servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn. But war is coming, and the world is changing. When the master of Tyneford’s young son, Kit, returns home, he and Elise strike up an unlikely friendship that will transform Tyneford—and Elise—forever.

1882-1909

1882-1909
Author: George Meredith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1913
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN:

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1987

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1987
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1018
Release: 1986
Genre: United States
ISBN:

The Legend of John Macnab

The Legend of John Macnab
Author: James Christie
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1909183954

John Sandiman is a librarian at a run-down Glasgow college full of feckless students and overseen by hopeless jobsworths. Fed up with his job, still mourning the cowardly way that Jessica, his ex-girlfriend, dumped him and bemoaning the apathy of the Scots, Sandiman dreams of the time when Caledonia was led by kings. So when Natalie, his colleague and drinking buddy, mentions something called The Book of Deer, he takes no notice. After all, there's little a librarian can do to change the world. Or is there? What Sandiman did not anticipate was that a fictional character from Scotland's past would come vibrantly to life, hurling him into a quest to face his own past and change his country’s future. Spanning two millennia from the sea kingdom of Dalriada to the Scottish referendum of 1997, The Legend of John Macnab takes readers behind events they thought they knew and brings them face-to-face with a forgotten icon more splendid than the Stone of Destiny.