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This trenchant and illuminating book by one of Africas most influential and celebrated writers is a major statement on the importance and dangers of stories, one in which Achebe makes telling use of his personal experiences to examine the political nature of culture and specifically literature.It is the weaving of the personal into the bigger ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-552-9
EAN 9781838855529
'Extraordinary' Naoise Dolan'Seriously good' Louise NealonPICKED AS 'ONE TO WATCH' FOR 2022 BY IRISH TIMES, STYLIST AND IRISH INDEPENDENTDublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ways. She's overshadowed by her best friend Grace.She's been ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-723-7
EAN 9781786897237
SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE FOR SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR'One of the great Scottish crime writers' The Times'Brilliant' Sunday Times Crime ClubNO ONE WILL FORGETIn a grimy flat in Glasgow, a homemade bomb explodes, leaving few remains to identify its maker. Detective Harry McCoy knows in his gut that there'll be more to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-527-7
EAN 9781838855277
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWhen a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . .After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-832-6
EAN 9781786898326
THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Profound, witty and uplifting' Observer'Full of eloquent, cogent and positive reminders of the beauty of life' IndependentThe Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations offer ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-137-8
EAN 9781838851378
'Sweeping and quietly devastating' New York Times'A David and Goliath story for our times' O, the Oprah MagazineSet in the fictional African village of Kosawa, this is the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-575-2
EAN 9781786895752
Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves?How to Be Animal offers a radical take on what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal. Tracing the history ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-708-4
EAN 9781786897084
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEA monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics and conscience set in parallel LondonsThe Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Years later, Markriss Denny is one of the select few granted entry. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-703-5
EAN 9781838857035
No regrets.' You've heard people proclaim it as a philosophy of life. That's nonsense, even dangerous, says Daniel H. Pink in his latest bold and inspiring work.Everybody has regrets. They're a fundamental part of our lives. And if we reckon with them in fresh and imaginative ways, we can enlist our regrets to make smarter ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-321-1
EAN 9781838853211
Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society's obsession with women's bodies and fertility.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-195-8
EAN 9781838851958
A gleeful, page-flipping read' Observer'The ultimate summer escape' New York TimesOne wrong move, one misstep, and the course of a life can be changed for ever. Annie Perry is born beside the coal-muddied canals of the Black Country at the height of the industrial revolution. At nine years old she is sold for six guineas ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-122-4
EAN 9781838851224
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEMrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novelMrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted by her job and now seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. She meets Wolf, a troubled young writer, who - enthralled by her stories - begins to write Mrs ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-736-3
EAN 9781838857363
In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together. This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards nirvana, as were sent between the two authors during the period 1999 to 2000 during the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid A and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-443-0
EAN 9781838854430
A society that isn't sure what's true can't function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We're barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more?At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age of information ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-701-1
EAN 9781838857011
The first magical book in Matt Haig's festive series - now a major new film!BELIEVE IN THE IMPOSSIBLEYou are about to read the TRUE STORY of Father Christmas.If you believe that some things are impossible, you should put this book down right away.(Because this book is FULL of impossible things.)Are you still reading? Good.Then let ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-236-8
EAN 9781838852368
The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-026-5
EAN 9781838850265
The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from 17.50 to 750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system that was designed to drive innovation and patient ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-368-6
EAN 9781838853686
THE EPIC ADVENTURE OF A TEENY-TINY HEROMiika just wants to belong. Living with elves and trolls and pixies can make a mouse feel like the odd one out. When he makes friends with a fellow mouse, Miika thinks his problems are over.But really, his quest is just beginning . . .A Mouse Called Miika is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-524-6
EAN 9781838855246
One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house - a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-411-9
EAN 9781838854119
If the truth's in the shadows, get out of the light . . .Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he's dead and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful friends, Carter's left behind his share of enemies. So, who dealt ...
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