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In a Time of Distance
In a Time of Distance
- Polygon, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-660-5
EAN 9781846976605
What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and soar, and descriptions that will make you laugh and realign ...
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Goodbye, Dr Banda
Lessons for the West From a Small African Country
- Polygon, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-627-8
EAN 9781846976278
In a ruined dictator's palace, Alexander Chula - a classicist-turned-doctor, fresh out of Oxford - stumbles upon an oak treasure chest. Inside is a priceless, antique edition of Julius Caesar's Gallic War.This unexpected talisman of Western high culture belongs to the mercurial Dr Banda, a man of many parts: scholarly physician, anti-colonial hero, brutal tyrant, ...
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- Polygon, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-622-3
EAN 9781846976223
A powerfully poignant tale of one of the most turbulent moments in Scotland's history: the North Berwick Witch Trials. IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh's High Street, convicted witch Geillis Duncan receives a mysterious visitor - Iris, who says ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-444-1
EAN 9781846974441
Described by Gore Vidal as a novel written at the top of her form and so unique', Reality and Dreams concerns the delirious, egocentric filmdirector Tom Richards, who is recovering from injuries sustained while falling off a crane on set. His obsessive passion to make a film about asimple young woman sucks his wife, daughters, ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-446-5
EAN 9781846974465
Often described as the perfect partner to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark's last novel is set in Switzerland where Rowland and his wife Nina run a finishing school. Murderous jealousy soon rears its head when a precocious young student shows promise in her writing career. Thisis Spark at her sharpest, her purest and ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-445-8
EAN 9781846974458
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-441-0
EAN 9781846974410
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-440-3
EAN 9781846974403
When Fleur Talbot becomes the secretary of the Autobiographical Association - a gathering of eccentric, egomaniacal upper-class twits ledby the malevolent Sir Quentin - she begins to notice that the plot of her own novel is foreshadowing real life. Mayhem and murder ensue withgloriously entertaining results. This is one of the 22 novels written by ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-439-7
EAN 9781846974397
Described by Edmund White as a hilarious account of political and romantic intrigue', Territorial Rights tells the tale of aspiring art historian Robert who encounters an enigmatic Bulgarian refugee, Lina, in the labyrinthine canals and streets of Venice. This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime.
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 108 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-437-3
EAN 9781846974373
It is time to elect a new abbess at the Convent of Crewe. There are two contenders: nuns Alexandra and Felicity. Alexandra is busy bugging the convent while Felicity calls the police when her love letters (to a young Jesuit priest) are stolen.A brilliant laugh-out-loud satire on the Watergate scandal. This is one of the ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-438-0
EAN 9781846974380
Italy, the setting an enchanted lake southeast of Rome, and American heiress Maggie - famed for her beauty, wealth and steely will - is thetarget for an assortment of con men, jewel thieves, counterfeiters, adulterers and spongers. A dazzling, pacy thriller.
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-436-6
EAN 9781846974366
During World War II, Elsa and Paul were involved in secret propaganda work in England. It is now 1973 and they are living in New York. Elsa isconvinced that a German ex-POW - and former lover - who has appeared in New York, may be planning to kill them.And what's more, hershadow is pointing in ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-435-9
EAN 9781846974359
Geneva. As a ferocious thunderstorm rages outside, behind the locked doors of the library the aristocratic Klopstocks are not to be disturbed'. In the attic, Baron Klopstock's lunatic brother rants and raves.But in the staff quarters, all is under control. The butler and servants are makingtheir own preparations for the long night that follows . ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-433-5
EAN 9781846974335
Actress Annabel Christopher's glamorous public image must be maintained at all costs for the paparazzi and her adoring fans. But all is not wellbeneath the carefully constructed facade of her marriage and husband Frederick is sick of it. He decides to take his revenge .. . A sharp lookat celebrity culture that's even more relevant ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-434-2
EAN 9781846974342
Lise has had enough. She's been working in the same accountancy firm for years and so she decides to take off abroad on the holiday of alifetime. Her quest for new experiences, sex and adventure quickly becomes a dark journey of self-destruction.Described by Muriel Spark as a whodunnit', The Driver's Seat is a tour de ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-430-4
EAN 9781846974304
Edinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the glamorous, free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, schoolteacher at the Marcia Blaine Academy, whose guiding principle is Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she'll be mine for life. I am dedicated to you in my prime.' While Miss ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-431-1
EAN 9781846974311
London, 1945. The girls of slender means are the residents of the May of Teck Club, a genteel yet rather shabby boarding house established for the social protection of ladies of slender means below the age of thirty years'. The novel concerns their everyday affairs over a period of a few weeks before a shocking ...
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-429-8
EAN 9781846974298
Spiritualist and extortionist Patrick Seton is coming up for trial. He's been accused of forgery, and suddenly West London's bachelors are all in a tizzy. Described by Evelyn Waugh as the cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark's clever and elegant books', The Bachelors is a biting comedy of English manners.
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- Polygon, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-432-8
EAN 9781846974328
1961. While on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, English teacher Barbara Vaughan becomes intent on joining her archaeologist fiance Harry, who is working on the site of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ignoring warnings not to cross the Mandelbaum Gate - the boundary between Israel and Jordan and the division between an old land and ...
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- Polygon, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84697-442-7
EAN 9781846974427
After young publishing assistant and war widow Mrs Hawkins crosses swords with writer Hector Bartlett the repercussions are swift. Set in postwarliterary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a mischievous and stylish tale of the cost of telling the truth.
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