Editorial Faber & Faber
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- Faber & Faber, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-34113-9
EAN 9780571341139
As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the book generated enormous interest around the ...
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Empire of the Clouds
The Golden Era of Britain's Aircraft
- Faber & Faber, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-34148-1
EAN 9780571341481
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner.The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful ...
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The Normans in the South, 1016-1130 I
The Normans in Sicily
- Faber & Faber, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-571-34024-8
EAN 9780571340248
Chronicling the 'other Norman invasion', The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between the times of Caesar and Napoleon. In one year, 1084, he had both the Eastern and Western Emperors retreating before him and one of ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,85 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33032-4
EAN 9780571330324
From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33646-3
EAN 9780571336463
The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped and inspired him."How are they doing it?" is the key questions Wenders asks as he looks at the dance work of Pina Bausch, the paintings of Cezanne, ...
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Harold Pinter's Betrayal received its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in November 1978. After an initially guarded response from the critics, the work was rapidly reevaluated and won the Olivier Award for Best New Play the following year. Set in London and Venice the play has an innovative chronology that opens at the end ...
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Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece; a thrilling ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22048-9
EAN 9780571220489
With great delicacy, Nothomb updates the age-old divide between East and West in this delectable little book.' O, The Oprah MagazineAmelie, a well-intentioned and eager young westerner, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie, ...
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The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194 II
The Normans in Sicily
- Faber & Faber, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-34023-1
EAN 9780571340231
When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was fantastically cosmopolitan; and to an atmosphere of racial and religious toleration unparalleled in Europe. But sixty-four years later, ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33693-7
EAN 9780571336937
Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33135-2
EAN 9780571331352
P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a short story for Christmas, and four of the best have been drawn from the archives and published here together for the first time.From the title story about a strained country-house Christmas party, to another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33966-2
EAN 9780571339662
Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017Beautifully presented in a large, paperback format, and fully illustrated in colour throughout, this wonderful anthology is a treat for all the family. Be shocked and amazed by these incredible real-life stories of extreme survival, including... The Man Who Sucked Blood from a Shark, ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-0-571-30770-8
EAN 9780571307708
Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British sea-power since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable.Though menaced on all sides by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 48 páginas
PVP: 5,37 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33596-1
EAN 9780571335961
Once upon a time in Spain, there was a little bull and his name was Ferdinand . . .Unlike all the other little bulls - who run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights - Ferdinand would rather sit under his favourite cork tree and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33265-6
EAN 9780571332656
The City Always Wins is a remarkable novel from the psychological heart of a revolution. From the communal highs of pitched night battles against the police in Cairo to the solitary lows of defeated exile in New York, Omar Robert Hamilton's debut is a unique immersion into one of the key chapters of the 21st ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33024-9
EAN 9780571330249
Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe's classic novel about the adventures of a shipwrecked sailor. Yet the complex story of Britain's relationship with this distant, tiny island is more surprising, more colourful and considerably darker. Drawing on voyage accounts, journal entries, maps and ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31449-2
EAN 9780571314492
For the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926-2011) - political rebel, inventor of the poster poem, pioneer of poetry and jazz - was at work on a very different project: a rewriting of Homer's Iliad. The volumes that appeared from War Music (1981) onwards were distinct from translations, in that they set ...
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Stalin and the Scientists
A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953
- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29008-6
EAN 9780571290086
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION. War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. It succeeded through terror, folly and crime - but also through courage, imagination and even genius. Stalin believed that science should serve the state and with ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33607-4
EAN 9780571336074
In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after the narrator's uncle founds a successful spice company. As the narrator - a sensitive young man who is never named - along with his sister, his parents, and his uncle move from a ...
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