Editorial Abacus UK
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- Abacus UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11731-7
EAN 9780349117317
From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great Tales of English History, Robert Lacey captures one hundred of the most pivotal ...
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- Abacus UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11805-5
EAN 9780349118055
Mysteries of love, romance and truth-telling lie at the heat of Isabel Dalhousie's concerns in Alexander McCall Smith's new Sunday Philosophy Club novel. Isabel's niece Cat is still worshipped by the young musician, Jamie, but Cat has a new and unsuitable love-interest. Meanwhile Isabel's Texan cousins have arrived in Edinburgh and are provoking a quite ...
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- Abacus UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11952-6
EAN 9780349119526
For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the ...
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Love over Scotland
44 Scotland Street
- Abacus UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11971-7
EAN 9780349119717
The third novel in Alexander McCall Smith's irresistibly charming series about the residents of 44 Scotland Street revolves around the many colourful characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness - the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, most importantly in ...
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- Abacus UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12009-6
EAN 9780349120096
Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) - a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in East Africa's most notorious slum and a ...
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Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has ...
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- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11959-5
EAN 9780349119595
Doctorow's new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major manoeuvres to bring the war to its conclusion. THE MARCH ranges widely over a diverse set of characters - each of whom ...
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- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11717-1
EAN 9780349117171
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire.In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming ...
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TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But a friendship developed and each ...
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Espresso tales
44 Scotland Street
- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11970-0
EAN 9780349119700
In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the residents of 44 Scotland Street, with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a new career as ...
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Never had it so Good
A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 928 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11530-6
EAN 9780349115306
In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and decline between 1956 and 1963. Arguing that historians have ...
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- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11662-4
EAN 9780349116624
Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service. The habits and sports of the aristocracy were an everyday indulgence. But it ...
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On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, arrives to find the body. Then follow more murders - an elderly man on a ...
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Machiavellian: a person who adopts the principles recommended, or supposed to have been recommended, by Machiavelli in his treatise on statecraft; a person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer. Usu. derogatory.' For more than five hundred years the name Machiavelli has resonated through the world of politics and power.He was ...
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- Abacus UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11897-0
EAN 9780349118970
The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club.We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, ...
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- Abacus UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13941-8
EAN 9780349139418
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades ...
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- Abacus UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14020-9
EAN 9780349140209
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