Editorial Faber
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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 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 · 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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When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet. Years ago, when Yashim first entered the sultan's service, Fevzi Ahmet was his mentor. Ruthless, cruel, and - in Yashim's eyes - ultimately ineffective, he is the only ...
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Explorers of the Nile
The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24976-3
EAN 9780571249763
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and their reputations in the name of this quest. They journeyed ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78072-038-8
EAN 9781780720388
Dinners meant a lot to Churchill a friend once said of him, He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything. But meals were always more for him than just good food and fine wine. Over seventy years the dinner table became a stage for his own ...
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On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming -- not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-25065-3
EAN 9780571250653
We now live longer today than at any time in history. In the UK, more people are aged over sixty-five than under sixteen and by 2050, over a third of the developed world will be over sixty. How should we deal with this phenomenon? What are the scientific reasons for ageing? And can - or ...
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