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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45748-4
EAN 9780330457484
In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain's first Opium War (1839-42) with China. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,35 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52275-5
EAN 9780330522755
A quiet English town is left reeling when twelve-year-old Daniel Blake is discovered to have brutally murdered his schoolmate Felicity Forbes.For provincial solicitor Leo Curtice, the case promises to be the most high profile andmorally challenging - of his career. But as he begins his defence Leo is unprepared for the impact the public fury ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-1220-1
EAN 9781447212201
Summer seemed to arrive at that moment, with its mysterious mixture of salt, cold flesh and fuel.The epitome of East Coast glamour, Tiger House is where the beautiful and the damned have always come to play in summer, scene of martinis and moonlit conspiracies, and newly inherited by the sleek, beguiling Nick.The Second World War ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52610-4
EAN 9780330526104
Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees -- and ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45423-0
EAN 9780330454230
From the bestselling author of the Patrick Melrose novels, this is a thought-provoking and entertaining insight into a sniping world of literature, celebrity culture and ambition.
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-330-50915-2
EAN 9780330509152
When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But before long Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett realise that, rather than the suspected suicide, Diamond Dick' has in fact been murdered.Jewell had made many enemies over the ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-48327-8
EAN 9780330483278
In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52986-0
EAN 9780330529860
Mark Casey did not expect to fall in love.But from the minute he saw Joanne Lynch across the garden of a Dublin pub, it seemed that nothing else was possible. Soon they start a relationship that is as chaotic and exciting as the city they share. But Mark is also drawn back guiltily to his ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52614-2
EAN 9780330526142
Migraine is an age-old the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years and often debilitating condition, affecting a substantial minority' of the population across the globe. In this book, Oliver Sacks offers at once a medical account of its occurrence and management; an exploration of its physical, physiological, and psychological underpinnings and consequences; ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,40 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53469-7
EAN 9780330534697
It's an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home until his long-absent muse wanders in. Mary Foxe (beautiful, British and 100% imaginary) is in a playfully combative mood. You're a villain, she tells him. A serial killer . . . ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,35 €
ISBN 978-0-330-53233-4
EAN 9780330532334
Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business in Kazakhstan crushed, the cost of his scrutiny a terrible tragedy . . .Now employed by a private London intelligence agency, Webster's interest is piqued when a client asks him to expose the dealings of shadowy Russian oligarch Konstantin Malin. Before ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-1990-3
EAN 9781447219903
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life.When he woke up, he didn't know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut.As his stretch limousine moves across town, his world begins to fall ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52360-8
EAN 9780330523608
'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories' Independent on Sunday As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-0296-7
EAN 9781447202967
THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVELPatrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies, he finds his search for redemption and capacity for forgiveness challenged by his observation of the cruelties around him. Armed with his biting wit and a ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-330-43592-5
EAN 9780330435925
For Patrick Melrose, family' is more than a double-edged sword. As friends, relations and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor an heiress who forsook the grandeur of her upbringing for good works', freely bestowed upon everyone but her own child Patrick finds that his transition to orphanhood isn't necessarily the ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-330-49227-0
EAN 9780330492270
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed ...
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'Banville is superb ...there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus is among the very best of them' - "The Economist". The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-0248-6
EAN 9781447202486
First you take a drink, F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52292-2
EAN 9780330522922
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR .The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist' John Updike, New Yorker Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty-year-old Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling against the torment of cultural displacement. Now in exile ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1152 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-1187-7
EAN 9781447211877
Ulrich has no qualities in the sense that his self-awareness is completely divorced from his abilities. He is drawn into a project, the "Parallel Campaign", to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's coronation in 1918.Ulrich has no qualities in the sense that his self-awareness is completely divorced from his abilities. He is drawn ...
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