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- Picador, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-5205-4
EAN 9781447252054
One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London home. He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack, until he recognizes a friend from his student days, a brilliant man who disappeared years earlier under mysterious ...
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- Picador, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-330-44567-2
EAN 9780330445672
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker PrizeHarvest is a masterful novel from the Booker-shortlisted author Jim Crace, in which he draws once more on his genius with landscape and myth to create a lost and bewitching English world. 'An achievement worthy to stand alongside those of Crace's great fictional influence, William Golding.' Sunday TimesAs late ...
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This poignant novel about fathers and daughters is also a love letter to London A moving, life-affirming debut.' Marie ClaireAlice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye.Daniel ...
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Christine Falls (TV tie-in)
Quirke Mysteries Book 1
- Picador, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-3731-0
EAN 9781447237310
The first in the Quirke mysteries - now a major TV series starring Gabriel ByrneNow a major TV series: Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne and written by Andrew Davies.Quirke's pathology department, set deep beneath the city, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his control. Until late one evening after a ...
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The Silver Swan (TV tie-in)
Quirke Mysteries Book 2
- Picador, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-3732-7
EAN 9781447237327
The second novel in the Quirke mysteries, now a major TV series starring Gabriel ByrneNow a major TV series: Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon and written by Andrew DaviesTime has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; ...
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From Pultizer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy: The Counselor, dark and full of suspense-and soon to be a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender-follows a respected lawyer who, on the eve of becoming a married man, makes a risky entrée into the drug trade and quickly gets in over his head. The unforgiving ...
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- Picador, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-4302-1
EAN 9781447243021
A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Two diaries, two enduring best-sellers, one unforgettable character. This is Bridget Jones: The Singleton Years. V.g.
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4472-0898-3
EAN 9781447208983
A hung Parliament, terrorist bombs, sex trafficking and tabloid war ... Welcome to London, 1885.In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond. All ...
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'Robustly brilliant ... This collection will provide manna to his admirers, and serve as the perfect introduction for those who have yet to discover his obsessive world.' Daily Telegraph Don Delillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011.
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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 · 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
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 · 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 · 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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