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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 dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27382-9
EAN 9780571273829
Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, "Terminal Moraine", to the dramatic and political monologues of "The Memory of War" and "Children in Exile", through ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27705-6
EAN 9780571277056
To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the sixty years of Her Majesty's reign. Celebrated writers suchas Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, Wendy Cope, Geoffrey Hill, Jackie Kay, Michael ...
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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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An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the world are all brought to life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. London 2010, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24505-5
EAN 9780571245055
Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23461-5
EAN 9780571234615
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have.At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively ...
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By Heart
101 Poems to Remember
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 59,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27874-9
EAN 9780571278749
In his introduction to this anthology, the Poet Laureate explains a system for memorizing poetry. The 101 poems which follow are among his favourites, and are well suited to the described method. This is a new updated edition.
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27873-2
EAN 9780571278732
Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an adept of the form, has devised an ...
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Sounds Good
101 Poems to be Heard
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28816-8
EAN 9780571288168
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27943-2
EAN 9780571279432
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. Though he ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27032-3
EAN 9780571270323
A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-24964-0
EAN 9780571249640
On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead. During the stand-off that follows, ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-28062-9
EAN 9780571280629
From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of ageing she achieves ...
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Short and Sweet
101 Very Short Poems
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27872-5
EAN 9780571278725
Short and Sweet is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of ...
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The Dreaded Noodle-Doodles
You, Me and Thing
- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27259-4
EAN 9780571272594
Want to know a secret? There is something very, very strange living in the trees behind my house. If you tiptoe slowly and quietly (ssh!) to the bottom of my garden, you might hear it rustling and rootling and 'peh!'ing in the dark undergrowth, on the other side of the low stone wall. And if ...
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