Editorial Faber
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-30177-5
EAN 9780571301775
What're you doing here Robert? - Well to be frank with you, I've really no idea. I thought I would just suddenly appear, so I did. I suddenly appeared.A family Christmas is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Uncle Bob. Who is he? Why has he come? Why does his wife stay out in the ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-30196-6
EAN 9780571301966
One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink.I don't know what I'm doing here anyway. One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.' Nick Payne's "Constellations" is a play about free will and friendship; it's about quantum multiverse theory, love and honey."Constellations" premiered at ...
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Deals with the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. A brand new translation of the legendary tale of King Arthur, from the acclaimed poet and writer Armitage. Deals in the cut and throat of warfare and politics, and the ever topical ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29689-7
EAN 9780571296897
A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world ...a saleroom here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover. People spoil things; there are so many of them ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28810-6
EAN 9780571288106
Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet "Laurels and Donkeys", on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28289-0
EAN 9780571282890
Incapable, Awkward, Artless - That's what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret - she wants to fail. Gifted with the ability to weave time and matter, Adelice is exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen as a Spinster is ...
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Focuses on Homer's extended similes and on the brief biographies of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names, but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably - and unforgotten - in the copiousness of Homer's glance. An original new poem which is also a version of Homer's Iliad , from the ...
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Pax Britannica II
The Climax of an Empire
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29071-0
EAN 9780571290710
Jan Morris recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of its vigour and self-satisfaction, imposing on the rest of the world its traditions ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29070-3
EAN 9780571290703
Jan Morris traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic brilliance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissolution of the British Empire. The British Empire is fortunate in having found in ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29069-7
EAN 9780571290697
Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plantations, as she traces ...
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Narcopolis
Booker 2012 Shortlist
At the heart of Narcopolis is an opium den and brothel in Bombay, where we witness the mixed fortunes of a cast of gangsters, poets, pimps and prostitutes. Over the twenty-five year span of the novel we watch this community start to suffer and slide in to debauchery just as Bomby is transforming itself into ...
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Swimming Home
Booker 2012 Shortlist
Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner set in the French Riviera over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists come loose at the seams. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28449-8
EAN 9780571284498
When Atticus receives an anonymous message summoning him to a meeting in a sleepy English coastal town, he packs his bags and sets off. The world's greatest cat burglar likes a good mystery and this time curiosity has got the better of him. The writer of the message, it turns out, is none other than ...
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Where China Meets India
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 10,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23964-1
EAN 9780571239641
From their very beginnings, the civilizations of China and India have been walled off from each other, not only by the towering summits of the Himalayas, but also by the vast and impenetrable jungle, hostile tribes, and remote inland kingdoms that once stretched a thousand miles from Calcutta across Burma to the upper Yangtze River. ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28898-4
EAN 9780571288984
Kimberly Clark was born to the sound of cackling witches in 1984. Having moved to London to follow her heart's dream, the sweet-but-slow Stevie, she soon tires of him and decides to destroy the relationship from within by being as vile as is humanly possible. When this tactic leads to Stevie's violent death by his ...
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City of Fortune
How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24595-6
EAN 9780571245956
A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empire unfolded in a series of ...
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The Legend of the Loch Ness Lilo
You and Me and Thing
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27261-7
EAN 9780571272617
Ruby and Jackson get the surprise of their lives when they discover a Thing living at the bottom of their gardens. But Thing is cute, and funny, even if sometimes when he's upset he gets a bit ARRGHH! And that's when the trouble starts. Like the time he goes to a pool party, and Ruby ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-0-571-27920-3
EAN 9780571279203
According to Paul Ormerod, author of the bestselling Butterfly Economics and Why Most Things Fail, the mechanistic viewpoint of conventional economics is drastically limited - because it cannot comprehend the vital nature of networks. As our societies become ever more dynamic and intertwined, network effects on every level are increasingly profound. 'Nudge theory' is popular, ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28800-7
EAN 9780571288007
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28862-5
EAN 9780571288625
Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign.In 1961, Trujillo's decadent inner circle ...
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