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, 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
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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- 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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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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- 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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Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- Abacus UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13942-5
EAN 9780349139425
Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is . . . well, perhaps a bit more challenging - particularly when ...
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- Abacus UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11500-9
EAN 9780349115009
Amsterdam in the 1690s - a boom town with Europe's biggest stock exchange and traders who will stop at nothing to get even richer. Lienzo, a Portugese Jew, stumbles across a new commodity - coffee - which, if he plays his cards right, will make him the richest man in Holland. But others stand in ...
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- Abacus UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12387-5
EAN 9780349123875
Happy with her husband-to-be and beloved son, Isabel Dalhousie has feelings about parenthood that grow more tender daily. So when Jane, a visiting academic adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, asks for help in tracing her Scottish origins, she cannot refuse. However, habitually upright Isabel finds herself beset by temptation - for instance, ...
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- Abacus UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12312-7
EAN 9780349123127
As well as its advantages, there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every Saturday night ears burn at dinner parties across the city, and anyone requiring the investigative abilities of a philosophical soul knows where to find her. Jillian McKinlay -- wife of a trustee of an illustrious school -- ...
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- Abacus UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11985-4
EAN 9780349119854
Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go ...
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- Abacus UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12259-5
EAN 9780349122595
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research ...
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- Abacus UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12371-4
EAN 9780349123714
Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.
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- Abacus UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,20 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12054-6
EAN 9780349120546
Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is drawn into a murky world of financial concealment.Minty is ...
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- Abacus UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12125-3
EAN 9780349121253
Emmanuel Jal was seven years old when he became a soldier and went into battle with the rebel army in Sudan's bloody civil war. Believing he was being sent to school, Emmanuel trekked his way to a refugee camp in Ethiopia where he became one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. After nearly five years ...
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