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Since 2003, Iraq has rarely left the headlines. But less discussed is the fact that Iraq as we know it was created by the British, in one of the most dramatic interventions in recent history. A cautious strategic invasion by British forces led - within seven years - to imperial expansion on a dizzying scale, ...
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Luke's mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon.Jon is massively strange. He wears 1950s clothes, has a side-parting and a twitch. The kids at school call him 'Slackjaw'.When Luke ...
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'One evening', wrote Jean Genet in a prefatory note to "The Blacks", 'an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast. But what exactly is a black? First of all, what's his colour?' - which is, perhaps, as good an introduction as any to this immensely interesting and exciting play. Translated by ...
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She Wolves
The Women who Ruled England before Elizabeth
- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23706-7
EAN 9780571237067
The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps even recently; but now his face was swollen and disfigured by disease, and by the treatments his doctors had prescribed in the attempt to ward off its ravages. Their failure could no longer be mistaken.When Edward VI - Henry VIII's ...
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Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23742-5
EAN 9780571237425
Beware of small states', wrote the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, of nineteenth-century Europe: they are the victims of greater states, yet a source of danger to them too. Lebanon - a country no bigger than Wales, chequerboard of competing sects, crossroads of East and West - might almost have been designed to be the small ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27664-6
EAN 9780571276646
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I traveled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .'So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story ...
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This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5 and more tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured ...
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Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this crackling , lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience with the Queen...
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The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother, ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23890-3
EAN 9780571238903
In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives... Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27661-5
EAN 9780571276615
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Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27663-9
EAN 9780571276639
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27665-3
EAN 9780571276653
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of ...
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We may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious.We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying? In "The ...
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Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with aviators, car salesmen, Chinamen and impressarios, Peter Carey's novel is a contemporary classic.
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