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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-498-2
EAN 9781846684982
'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of non-fiction around' - William Dalrymple, Guardian'Colley takes you on intellectual journeys you wouldn't think to take on your own, and when ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-575-9
EAN 9781781255759
'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' The TimesTour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past the already ancient Luxor monuments ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-164-0
EAN 9781788161640
'Astounding ... To call this a "history" does not do justice to Helen Gordon's ambition' Simon Ings, Daily Telegraph 'Awe-inspiring ... She has imbued geological tales with a beauty and humanity' Shaoni Bhattacharya-Woodward, Mail on Sunday The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there in the curves of hills, the colours ...
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A dead police officer. A murder that no-one wants to solve...Dublin, 1986. The murder of an off-duty officer in Phoenix Park should have brought down the full power of the Dublin police force. But Kieran Lynch was found in a notorious gay cruising ground, so even as the press revels in the scandal, some of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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ISBN 978-1-78816-440-5
EAN 9781788164405
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-722-2
EAN 9781788167222
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021As heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row'A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel' Chris Kraus'Tremendously funny and sexy as hell' Juliet Jacques'I loved this very smart book from start to finish, with its beautifully drawn, complicated, and winning characters.' Madeleine MillerReese nearly had it all: a loving relationship ...
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Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome.In this magisterial work, Professor Paul Stephenson charts the centuries surrounding this epic shift of power. He traces the cultural, social and political ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-077-8
EAN 9781781250778
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'The first significant biography of the artist' Michael Prodger, The Times' 'Best art books of 2021''For those who love Magritte and those who do not, Danchev's biography will come as a revelation' Literary Review' A monumental biography of the inimitable surrealist artist ... sure to be the definitive account ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-868-7
EAN 9781788168687
'A writer of prodigious gifts' GuardianFull of jagged, complex emotion and powerful, incisive writing, the stories in Don't Cry are a testament to Mary Gaitskill's incomparable excavation of character. 'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; 'Folk Song' dissects the lives of people behind newspaper headlines, including a murderer who ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-815-1
EAN 9781788168151
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBrideNuanced, daring and tender, these essays from the celebrated author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior, consistently fascinate and provoke. Mary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-610-2
EAN 9781788166102
Old English is the language we think we know until we actually see it. Used in England over a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven't changed (word), others that are unrecognisable (neorxnawang - paradise) and some that are curiously mystifying (gafol-fisc - tax-fish). In this beautiful little book, Hana Videen has ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-912-2
EAN 9781781259122
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-859-5
EAN 9781788168595
*** OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD ****** THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ****** A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK ****** SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JENNIFER GARNER ***'The ultimate page turner' - REESE WITHERSPOON'A master storyteller. Gripping, big-hearted and twisty' - GREER HENDRICKS'Powerful, intense and beautifully observed' - T.M. LOGAN IT ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-513-6
EAN 9781788165136
In this bestselling classic, James Finn Garner has rewritten classic stories for more enlightened times; from Snow White's relationship with seven vertically challenged men, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the cross-dressing wolf who set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, to the Emperor who was not naked but was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-801-4
EAN 9781788168014
In the bleak midwinter ... murder awaits. The halls might be decked, and the mistletoe hung, but in these ten classic crime stories you're more likely to come across a corpse under the Christmas tree than a present.From a Santa Claus with a secret to a violent theft that snowballs into something quite unexpected, pull ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-867-0
EAN 9781788168670
Bold, dramatic and deeply unsettling' GuardianWhen Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a couple in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significant. Soon Velvet finds herself torn between her hosts - Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic ...
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'Gets deep under your skin ... Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment.' Sunday Times'Gaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger, reactivity, danger and social recalibration of the MeToo movement into an extremely potent, intelligent and nuanced account.' Sarah Hall, Guardian'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-455-9
EAN 9781788164559
'A riotous delve into the dark medical world of Restoration London' - S.G. MACLEAN'An infectious read, packed with atmosphere and colourful characters' - OSCAR DE MURIEL'A gripping whodunnit with a sinister twist' - JENNIFER RYANWHO WOULD MURDER THE DYING... London, 1665.Hidden within the growing pile of corpses in his churchyard, Rector Symon Patrick discovers a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-342-2
EAN 9781788163422
A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge under AttackFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-257-9
EAN 9781788162579
The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a military conflict ongoing every year since 1945. The same can be said for every century of recorded history.Is ...
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