David Rees - Free Library Land Online

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In 1936 Stephen Faith, a young student, goes to Spain to teach English to Pablo, the seventeen-year-old son of the Mayor of Zahara de los Membrillos, and he finds himself falling in love with his pupil’s older brother. The beginning of the Spanish Civil War, however, interrupts this idyllic period of his life; Pablo is murdered and his brother, the leader of a group of daring Anarchists, inflicts a horrible revenge. Increasingly Stephen becomes involved in events outside his control as Zahara is besieged by the Fascists; on the wrong side of the lines eventually, he is deserted by his lover, tortured, and sentenced to death. His escape from prison is the exciting climax to this immensely readable, fast-moving story of love, war, betrayal and murder. It is without doubt the finest novel David Rees has written.]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:49:21 +0200 In The Tent https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169969-in_the_tent.html https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169969-in_the_tent.html

Tim, aged seventeen, sensitive and intellectual, has a number of seemingly intractable problems. Deeply disturbed by the realisation he was homosexual, his conflicts are made worse by his strict Roman Catholic upbringing, and the fact that the boy he has fallen in love with is not only attracted to girls but would reject him scornfully if he revealed his feelings. There seems to be no possible reconciliation between the pattern of his sexual orientation and the teachings of the church, nor any way that his love for Aaron can be other than frustrating and humiliating. Tim retreats into a fantasy-world in which, he imagines he is in Exeter during the Civil War, that he is a member of the besieged Royalist garrison trying to put off for as long as possible the inevitable capture of the city by the advancing Puritan armies. In reality, the crisis of his life occurs and it is partly resolved when he unexpectedly finds himself with Aaron and two other boys on a mountain walking expedition in the Lake District which goes disastrously wrong. Because of bad weather and the loss of their compass, they are forced to stay in the tent for several days, unsure of where they are, and have to face the possibility of dying from exposure or starvation if help does not come.]]> Sat, 14 Nov 2015 11:49:20 +0200 The Hunger https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169971-the_hunger.html https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169971-the_hunger.html

In rural Ireland in the 1840s, English landlord Anthony Altarnun and his servant Michael Tangney find themselves forced to cope not only with the horrors of the potato famine, but also the hostility aroused by their relationship in the small community they are trying to save from starvation.]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:49:21 +0200 Storm Surge https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169970-storm_surge.html https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169970-storm_surge.html

The wind, which had been blowing at gale force all morning, was beginning to fling water over the sea wall, but no one on Flatsea Island was seriously alarmed. They were used to January gales and, besides, everyone said those walls were impregnable. So even when the creek stayed full at what should have been low tide, the little community went about its business as though it were any other Sunday. And so no one was prepared when the water came surging through the walls that night, covering the bridge that joined Flatsea to the mainland and swamping the coastline too. Young Peter Brown was helplessly trapped in his family’s pub, where the flood had burst open the doors and was rising steadily up the stairs, and was worrying desperately about what had happened to his brother Aaron, due back on the last train home after a night out in Oozedam, or to Martin, who lived on the mainland and had left with his girlfriend only a short time ago, or to his parents, who had driven into town to see their first grandchild, or to his grandparents alone in their cottage a little way inland. David Rees tells his story of the flood and its aftermath with great power and clarity. You’ll find yourself getting involved with every member of the close-knit Brown family as they face this crisis, whose shocking effect is, for more than one of them, a turning-point in their lives. For older Puffin readers.]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:49:20 +0200 How to Sharpen Pencils https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169973-how_to_sharpen_pencils.html https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169973-how_to_sharpen_pencils.html

A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil ServantA hilarious guide to the lost art of artisanal pencil sharpening

"...I am so thrilled David Rees is picking up the reins of the forgotten art of manual graphite-encased-in-wood point-crafting. I love my pencil!"
—AMY SEDARIS

"You may think that sharpening a pencil is easy, but David Rees makes it look hard, and that makes all the difference."
—JOHN HODGMAN

"Truly, my life before I was presented with correctly sharpened pencils by an artisan was a dull and ill-sharpened void. Learn from my mistakes."
—NEIL GAIMAN

Have you got the right kind of point on your pencil? Do you know how to achieve the perfect point for the kind of work you need out of that pencil?

Deep in New York’s Hudson River Valley, craftsman David...]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:49:21 +0200 A Better Class of Blond https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/73579-a_better_class_of_blond.html https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/73579-a_better_class_of_blond.html

A Better Class of Blond is an absorbing account of a year spent in and around San Francisco. In his diary, the author records not only his impressions of cities and places, but of people and their way of life, and of falling in love —with a young Vietnamese man, with the landscape of California, and with San Francisco itself. “This diary should be one long hymn of praise to its beauty, the fascination of its streets, the diversity of its life-styles, the joys of its fleshly pleasures, the satisfactions of sex with its men.”]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2018 10:35:08 +0200 The Milkman's On His Way https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169974-the_milkmans_on_his_way.html https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169974-the_milkmans_on_his_way.html

Growing up gay, beginning as a teenager, to realize what you are: that's when you start to suffer. Just when everyone else is becoming involved with the opposite sex, you're alone in having to hide your feelings. Impossible to talk to anybody. It's not something you want to blurt out to your parents, obviously. Or to your teachers, Or to the boy you fancy: He'd jeer at you or hit you.The only salvation is to find people like yourself. And that's a big step. A very big step. Ewan Macrea is a 14 year old, living in the Enlish seaside town of Bude. A surfer, Ewan is having difficulties dealing with his disinterest in girls and his growing fascination with his best mate Leslie.]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:49:21 +0200 Out Of The Winter Gardens https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169976-out_of_the_winter_gardens.html https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169976-out_of_the_winter_gardens.html

Mike, aged 16 finds that the sleepy town where he has been brought up is small and boring. Then his father, who he hasn’t seen for 13 years unexpectedly gets in touch, and the next three weeks that he stays with him change everything. His first experiences with girls, and his first trip abroad show him how exciting growing up can be. And his discovery that his father is gay forces him to change his views about sex - and about the ‘grown up’ world in general. Full of the insights about childhood and adolescence that we have come to expect from David Rees, this new novel sensitively and humourously describes how it feels to be a boy on the edge of adulthood.]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:49:22 +0200 The Colour of His Hair https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169975-the_colour_of_his_hair.html https://westerns.library.land/david-rees/169975-the_colour_of_his_hair.html

1976 — a more liberal time for gay men and women than the mid-eighties. That doesn’t mean an easy ride, however, for the central characters of The Colour Of His Hair, Mark, aged eighteen, and Donald, aged seventeen, who fall in love and begin a relationship. When their so-called friends at school find out what is going on, the persecution begins. Donald nearly breaks down under the strain, despite help from an unexpected quarter — his English teacher, who is also gay. But the relationship survives into early adulthood, and ten years on it undergoes some surprising twists and turns in less liberal, AIDS-conscious 1986. The Colour Of His Hair is a return by David Rees to a novel about gay teenagers with whom, according to most critics, he deals more sympathetically and with more insight and understanding than any living novelist.]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:49:22 +0200