Editorial John Murray
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- John Murray, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84854-811-4
EAN 9781848548114
Timothy Casson, a bachelor writer, is forced to return from a contented life in Venice to an English village. Taking a house by the river where he can pursue his passion for rowing, he has to do battle with the locals to overcome his isolation and feelings of incompleteness. This most complex of Hartley's novels ...
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- John Murray, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84854-813-8
EAN 9781848548138
Chartered accountant Harold Eastwood, conventionally minded, chances to meet Alec Goodrich on the train, travelling first-class with a third-class ticket. Alec is a best-selling novelist. He soon finds Harold's knowledge of income tax allowances useful and when Alec pays a visit to the accountant his wife, Isabel, who yearns for culture and literature, quickly takes ...
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- John Murray, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 38,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84854-066-8
EAN 9781848540668
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a turning-point in modern history. The destruction of the Iranian monarchy not only upset the political order in the Middle East and brought on a quarter-century of warfare, but introduced a new way to look at history. In Days of God James Buchan lives each moment of the revolution ...
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- John Murray, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-2733-3
EAN 9781444727333
Now a major TV series from JJ Abrams and Stephen King, starring James Franco (Hulu US, Fox UK and Europe, Stan Australia, SKY New Zealand). WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that ...
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- John Murray, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6549-6
EAN 9780719565496
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated polymath, ...
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- John Murray, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6889-3
EAN 9780719568893
The second in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new as they journey by boat to China with the Opium war a constant backdrop to their travels.
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- John Murray, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6909-8
EAN 9780719569098
A boy runs across a busy road. His father catches him and smacks him. A passer-by looks on.This is what happens next.
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- John Murray, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6736-0
EAN 9780719567360
London, 1930. Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, receives a most unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cedric Lawton's son Ralph really is dead.This is a case that will challenge Maisie in unexpected ways, for Ralph Lawton was an aviator shot down by enemy fire in 1917. To get to the bottom of ...
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Along the Enchanted Way
A Story of Love and Life in Romania
- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-9800-5
EAN 9780719598005
When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In spring as the ...
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Arthur James Balfour possessed intellect and charm in legendary abundance. On becoming Prime Minister in 1902, it seemed that he had come into his inheritance as a true grandee. He held office longer than any other Cabinet minister and, in a fifty-year career, dealt with successes and defeats with similar equanimity.When he chose, he retreated ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6257-0
EAN 9780719562570
Peace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this assumption turned out to be deeply misplaced as people began to realise that the men they loved were never coming home. The Great Silence is the story ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6991-3
EAN 9780719569913
Christmas Eve, 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the Home Secretary receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met.Maisie is invited into Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch as a special adviser ...
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The Art of Conversation
or What to Say, and When
- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84854-166-5
EAN 9781848541665
Every day we use our mobiles and computers to communicate, but ironically we are losing touch with face-to-face talk. Catherine Blyth reveals the endless possibilities of conversation and shows that when it works it can come close to heaven. With examples from Elizabeth I to Tommy Cooper, courtesans to nomads, The Art of Conversation is ...
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6102-3
EAN 9780719561023
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6897-8
EAN 9780719568978
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast ...
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 414 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6447-5
EAN 9780719564475
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly ...
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6005-7
EAN 9780719560057
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistans fractious union. Five thousand years ago, ...
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Swindled
From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats
- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6776-6
EAN 9780719567766
Salmonella ...toxins ...additives ...food scares ...Have you ever wondered how our food has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat? Via a fascinating mix of food politics, history and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many methods by which swindlers have tampered with our food throughout history. From ...
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- John Murray, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6303-4
EAN 9780719563034
The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the extraordinary human drama that played out on this world-changing vessel. Drawing on thirty years of maritime research, he demonstrates the truth of ...
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- John Murray, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6243-3
EAN 9780719562433
One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with ...
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