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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, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13915-9
EAN 9780349139159
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel.'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me ...
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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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The Red Sweet Wine of Youth
The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets
- Abacus UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12143-7
EAN 9780349121437
The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a remarkable body of work, at once political manifesto and literary beacon for the twentieth century. In this passionate recreation of the lives of the greatest poets to come out of the conflict, Nicholas Murray brilliantly reveals the men themselves as well as the struggle ...
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- Abacus UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12146-8
EAN 9780349121468
In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, she goes in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler - the man Rose credits with rescuing her from ...
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- Abacus UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00032-9
EAN 9780349000329
Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are somewhat lost due to sleep deprivation and the difficulties of telling their brood apart.Angus and Domenica ...
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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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Englishness is an ancient and powerful concept, but no one seems sure exactly what it means in the twenty-first century. In exploring our national identity, Tony Thorne has compiled a fascinating compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have become the cornerstones of modern English, and have been used - sometimes deliberately, but often ...
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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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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12084-3
EAN 9780349120843
How does one young man survive the deaths of his entire family and manage to make something worthwhile of his life? In Things The Grandchildren Should Know Mark Oliver Everett tells the story of what it's like to grow up the insecure son of a genius in a wacky Virginia Ice Storm-like family. Left to ...
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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11972-4
EAN 9780349119724
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents ...
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- Abacus UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12055-3
EAN 9780349120553
Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel ethics are not ...
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