Editorial Sceptre
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The Lonely Century
Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart
- Sceptre, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-2927-8
EAN 9781529329278
Even before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like social distancing, loneliness was already becoming the defining condition of the twenty-first century. But it's also one we have the power to reverse. Combining a decade of research with first-hand reporting, Noreena Hertz takes us from a 'how to communicate in real life' class for ...
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- Sceptre, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-4510-0
EAN 9781529345100
In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Australia. Posted to a remote sheep station in New South Wales, Edward discovers that his father's fame has reached even there, as has the gossip about his father's scandalous liaison with an actress.Amid colonists, ex-convicts, local tribespeople and a handful of eligible young women, ...
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- Sceptre, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-9947-7
EAN 9781444799477
Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of.Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent lives and times. The band produced only two ...
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- Sceptre, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-5927-5
EAN 9781529359275
I don't just want to be having any kind voice . . .I want a louding voice. At fourteen, Adunni dreams of getting an education and giving her family a more comfortable home in her small Nigerian village. Instead, Adunni's father sells her off to become the third wife of an old man.When tragedy strikes ...
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- Sceptre, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-7252-9
EAN 9781473672529
As another baking hot day dawns over Louisiana in 1943, a young black man wakes in a town jail to the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime some believe he did not commit. In a tale taut ...
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- Sceptre, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-8468-8
EAN 9781444784688
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose.One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain.Gradually Lacroix recovers ...
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- Sceptre, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-4918-7
EAN 9781473649187
In a field outside Bromsgrove, two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages. No one visits and they never speak to each other. Until the day Zohra Dasgupta, a young postwoman, delivers an extraordinary letter - from a woman claiming to be the sister they thought had been murdered fifty years earlier.So begins an intriguing ...
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- Sceptre, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-3999-7
EAN 9781473639997
Set in the near-distant future, Spaceman follows a Czech astronaut as he launches into space to investigate a mysterious dust cloud covering Venus, a suicide mission sponsored by a proud nation. Suddenly a world celebrity, Jakub's marriage starts to fail as the weeks go by, and his sanity comes into question. After his mission is ...
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- Sceptre, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-9908-8
EAN 9781444799088
Naoki Higashida met international success with THE REASON I JUMP, a revelatory account of life as a thirteen-year-old with non-verbal autism. Now he offers an equally illuminating insight into autism from his perspective as a young adult. In concise, engaging pieces, he shares his thoughts and feelings on a broad menu of topics ranging from ...
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- Sceptre, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-7966-0
EAN 9781444779660
The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. Their success seems to prove her point, but there's a sting in the tail - when she unmasks herself, not everyone ...
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- Sceptre, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-340-96342-5
EAN 9780340963425
We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific.The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And ...
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- Sceptre, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-340-82278-4
EAN 9780340822784
'Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies ...'A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall ...
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- Sceptre, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-340-82280-7
EAN 9780340822807
It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor -- covert stammerer and reluctant poet -- anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, an exotic Belgian emigre, a threatened gypsy ...
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- Sceptre, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-340-58123-0
EAN 9780340581230
Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an ...
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Samurai William
The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan
- Sceptre, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-340-79468-5
EAN 9780340794685
In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for Asia, and he had washed up in the forbidden land of Japan. The traders were even more amazed to learn ...
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- Sceptre, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-340-73975-4
EAN 9780340739754
An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her ...
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- Sceptre, 1997
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-340-68236-4
EAN 9780340682364
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