Editorial Abacus UK
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In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William French and his faithful canine Freddie are recruited to the service of MI6 by a beguiling lady operative, William's neighbour Caroline finds her suitor James mysteriously lacking, and Barbara Ragg is tempted to the Highlands ...
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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
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11999-1
EAN 9780349119991
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife, majestic grasslands and sparkling water. However, it is also ...
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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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The crime: one scalding afternoon, the mutilated body of a young woman, half naked beneath her burqa, is discovered on a Saudi beach; soon afterwards a Western woman's husband vanishes without trace. The place: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the City of Veils. A city of narrow streets and closed shutters, where nothing is what it seems;and ...
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During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German concentration camps -- some were tortured, some were shot, and some died in ...
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- Abacus UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11958-8
EAN 9780349119588
In 1789 the world stood at the threshold of the modern age. While the French Revolution and the election of George Washington seemed to herald a new global order, Britain stood shocked at the new world unfolding before her. Two documents were drafted which would change the very meanings of citizens and statehood: the US ...
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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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1 July 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The hot, hellish day in the fields of northern France that has dominated our perception of the First World War for just shy of a century. The shameful waste; the pointlessness of young lives lost for the sake of a few yards; the ...
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- Abacus UK, 2010
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PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12139-0
EAN 9780349121390
Can true love triumph in the face of fierce family opposition? Mr Ali's marriage bureau is flourishing but trouble isnt far away once son Rehman begins secretly to woo TV journalist Usha in the small cafes and on the beautiful beaches of South Indian Vizag in an ill-advised romance. Meanwhile the lovely Aruna has a ...
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Conquest
The English Kingdom of France
- Abacus UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12202-1
EAN 9780349122021
Henry V's second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign that would put the crown of France on an English head. Only the miraculous appearance of a visionary peasant girl - Joan of Arc - would halt the English advance. Yet despite her victories, her influence was short-lived: Henry VI had his coronation in ...
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- Abacus UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12132-1
EAN 9780349121321
High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house, with its unique Glass Room, seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds ...
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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, 2010
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PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11997-7
EAN 9780349119977
It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswe's newest client is the big-shot owner of the ailing Kalahari Swoopers, that one thing lady detectives know very ...
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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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