Editorial Abacus UK
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- Abacus UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14061-2
EAN 9780349140612
The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963? Philip Shenon, a veteran investigative journalist who spent most of his career at The ...
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- Abacus UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7515-5166-2
EAN 9780751551662
Under the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous grateful glance that accompanied it: it meant I was thanked, that there were secrets here. I could accept that.I too had secrets - who doesn't? Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922 to recover from ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13428-4
EAN 9780349134284
Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue - in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13966-1
EAN 9780349139661
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14072-8
EAN 9780349140728
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
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The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
How to Run or Ruin an Economy
- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13893-0
EAN 9780349138930
A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time.But how does this large-scale economic world really work? What would happen if ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14006-3
EAN 9780349140063
As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not cake and sunshine. Newlywed Angus Lordie has been booked by his bride into what he must not call the loony bin; Bruce's first encounter with hot wax brings more anguish than he bargained for; ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13950-0
EAN 9780349139500
Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving intellectual, is dashing yet ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13965-4
EAN 9780349139654
Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw, and her name is ...
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Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England
How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago
- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13860-2
EAN 9780349138602
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of invasion and revolution. The comfortable, tranquil country of her fiction is a complete contrast to the England in which she actually lived.From forced marriages and ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11942-7
EAN 9780349119427
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13859-6
EAN 9780349138596
Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death.Paul - the rising star in the Labour party ...
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Fractured Times
Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13909-8
EAN 9780349139098
Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As the century progressed, the forces of Communism ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00016-9
EAN 9780349000169
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13949-4
EAN 9780349139494
Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In so doing, she not only encapsulates ...
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- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13948-7
EAN 9780349139487
Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit.She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents, ...
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- Abacus UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13876-3
EAN 9780349138763
As a mother, wife, employer and editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, Isabel Dalhousie is aware that to be human is to be responsible. So when a neighbour brings her a new and potentially dangerous puzzle to solve, once again Isabel feels she has no option but to shoulder the burden. A masterpiece painting ...
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- Abacus UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13916-6
EAN 9780349139166
Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is in disarray. Recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew is taken up by a Dane called Bo, while Cyril eludes his dog-sitter and embarks on an odyssey involving fox-holes and ...
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- Abacus UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13923-4
EAN 9780349139234
Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmosphere is as flammable ...
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- Abacus UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13921-0
EAN 9780349139210
The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a ...
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