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"My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost..." The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim ...
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Abandoned by a succession of relatives, orphaned sisters Ruthie and Lucille find themselves in the care of their eccentric aunt Sylvie in their rural home town in Idaho. Ruthie narrates the sisters' story as Lucille moves out into the world and Ruth falls further back into her own family's dark past. Against the stunning backdrop ...
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Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its architecture, its bridges, its tourists, ...
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32271-8
EAN 9780571322718
Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they could have borrowed from our own lives. This is how to deal with ...
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32277-0
EAN 9780571322770
T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude.Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this collection himself in 1954 ...
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Money is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elite can be complex, jargon-filled and completely baffling.Above all, the language of money is the language of power - power in the hands of the same economic elite. Now John Lanchester, bestselling author of Capital and Whoops! ...
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22454-8
EAN 9780571224548
This book is Winner Of The Folio Prize 2015. For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet, everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land ...
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Poems of the Decade
An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 252 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31503-1
EAN 9780571315031
The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other - worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey ...
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27392-8
EAN 9780571273928
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly ...
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- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,10 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32293-0
EAN 9780571322930
Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is 'the hard problem' which ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31464-5
EAN 9780571314645
A timeless collection of stories for younger children. In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There's magic afoot in Mrs Cherry's Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed! ...
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Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story.He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31502-4
EAN 9780571315024
The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about.Marcus Chown, himself baffled by other attempts to explain these ideas to ...
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What a Wonderful World
Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell
- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27841-1
EAN 9780571278411
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 37,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24007-4
EAN 9780571240074
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in "Collected Poems (1988)', and in the "Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005)", some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in his letters. The manuscript ...
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- Faber, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27029-3
EAN 9780571270293
Edna O'Brien's classic, rocket of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering originality. Out of print for some time, and now ...
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