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PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33163-5
EAN 9780571331635
Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places (rather than 'travel writer'), elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant, fastidious, supple, and sometimes gloriously gaudy. For many readers she is best known for her candid memoir ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-571-32680-8
EAN 9780571326808
Picked for BBC Radio 2's Book Club. Everyone said the Graces were witches. They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake.Stares followed their backs and their hair. They had friends, but they were just distractions. They were waiting for someone different.All I had to do was show them that person was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-571-32723-2
EAN 9780571327232
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter.This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-32787-4
EAN 9780571327874
From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years, a story of first love and redemption. One night in London an eighteen year old girl, recently arrived from Ireland to study drama, meets an older actor and a tumultuous relationship ensues. Set across the bedsits and squats of mid-nineties north London, ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-29090-1
EAN 9780571290901
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-33139-0
EAN 9780571331390
The first book of essays by Teju Cole, award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief, and one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature and commentary.Known and Strange Things collects essays on art, literature, politics and place, on subjects ranging from Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin and WG ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-31631-1
EAN 9780571316311
Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-32285-5
EAN 9780571322855
These ten classic stories are masterful depictions of the underside of life, deep in the American South. On receiving an early copy, Evelyn Waugh remarked 'If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable. "She's horrifyingly funny ...It's that cool, removed style combined with very black stories." (Donna ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-27599-1
EAN 9780571275991
A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of different ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-31396-9
EAN 9780571313969
The Girl in Green takes us deep into heart of Iraq, as British journalist Thomas Benton is persuaded by ex-US soldier Arwood Hobbes, and supported by relief worker Marta Strom, to embark on what may be a fools' errand, as they try to atone for their failure to save a local girl over twenty years ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-31765-3
EAN 9780571317653
They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. 'A tale to freeze the blood,' was the only rule. Switzerland, 1816.On a stormy summer night, Lord Byron and his guests are gathered round the fire. Felix, their serving boy, can't wait to hear their creepy tales. Yet real life is about to take a chilling turn ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28036-0
EAN 9780571280360
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Not simply an effort to free the country from German occupation, it was part of a Europe-wide anti-fascist struggle, which included Spanish republicans, Italian and German anti-Nazis, communists, Jewish resisters and Christian rescuers. Robert Gildea returns ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31192-7
EAN 9780571311927
In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A.Richards, remained mysterious to Dan, but the chance discovery of her 1935 memoir, Climbing Days, leads him on a journey. Perhaps, in the mountains, ...
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PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27866-4
EAN 9780571278664
From the author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemptionJohn Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what ...
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PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31605-2
EAN 9780571316052
Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head-turning, heartfelt, these poems attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing confirms Nick Laird's assessment, in the New York Review of Books, ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-31467-6
EAN 9780571314676
The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair Mews at his knee for dainty fare; Old Rover in his moss-greened house Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse. Carolina Rabei's stunning illustrations beautifully illuminate Walter de la Mare's glorious celebration of a balmy summer's evening. This is one of four exceptional Walter de la Mare ...
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PVP: 7,68 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32879-6
EAN 9780571328796
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32875-8
EAN 9780571328758
This is a selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber together with the National Trust. At once a voice arose among; the bleak twigs overhead; in a full-hearted evensong; of joy illimited; an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, in blast-beruffled plume, had ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32874-1
EAN 9780571328741
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32878-9
EAN 9780571328789
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our ...
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