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Paris, 1869. Houses are being razed, whole neighbourhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris into a modern city.In the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand.Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the ...
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Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15,000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In it, Ackroyd ...
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The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace for decades, bastions of civilization, prosperity and sophistication. They have been protected by treaties, trade and a belief in the reasonable nature of their neighbours. But meanwhile, in far-off corners, the Wasp Empire has been devouring city after city with its highly trained armies, its ...
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'It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely wary in your dealings with her.' The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname 'The ...
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WINNER OF THE 1999 DUFF COOPER PRIZE. 'Brilliant .. this book must be read and re-read' Neal Ascherson'.'A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Denunciations thundered from speaker's platforms around the US and Europe. One open letter to The Times was ...
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Living the high life in LA -- cocktail parties, exotic restaurants and a cosmopolitan boyfriend -- Ree Drummond thinks she's got it all figured out. But, try as she might, she can't shake the feeling that something is missing. Returning to her hometown to get her life in order, Ree is struck by a bolt ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-0165-6
EAN 9781447201656
The fifth novel in the highly popular Commissario Brunetti seriesCommissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that Brett Lynch, a friend since a murder case at La Fenice, has suffered a savage beating.The attack, in the beautiful palazzo home of Flavia Petrelli, reigning diva of La Scala, had come with a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-0166-3
EAN 9781447201663
Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door.Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor'lmmacolata, the nun who once cared for his mother at the casa di cura in Dolo. But Maria ...
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Jack Montfort grew up in the shadow of Glastonbury Tor in a town revered as the mythical burial place of King Arthur, and, according to New Age followers, a source of strong druid power. Montfort has little more than a passing interest in the history of the area - until he comes across an extraordinary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,35 €
ISBN 978-0-330-35169-0
EAN 9780330351690
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53431-4
EAN 9780330534314
From the author of Perdido Street Station, an epic and breathtaking fantasy of extraordinary imagination A colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination. A human cargo bound for servitude in exile . . . A pirate city hauled across the oceans . . . A hidden miracle about be revealed . . . These ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53419-2
EAN 9780330534192
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53422-2
EAN 9780330534222
Step into a London ravaged by unearthly creatures at once utterly alien and chillingly familiar. In China Mieville's award-winning novella 'The Tain', we learn the reason for the invaders' terrible revenge. One survivor must trek through the ruins of the city with a desperate plan to stand against their assault.In addition to 'The Tain', this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,35 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53538-0
EAN 9780330535380
Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old Margaret's life in service was about to begin...As a kitchen maid -- the lowest of the low -- she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51365-4
EAN 9780330513654
On 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower of the UN-backed South in a war that can be seen today as the stark prelude to Vietnam. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51823-9
EAN 9780330518239
Fifty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51363-0
EAN 9780330513630
The Falklands War was one of the strangest in British history 28,000 men sent to fight for a tiny relic of empire 8,000 miles from home. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity, but the British victory confirmed the quality of British arms and boosted the political fortunes of the Conservative ...
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