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'Cherry' Ingram
The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms
The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman'This is not just a tale of trees, but of . . .endeavour, war and reconciliation' Sunday TimesCollingwood Ingram, born in 1880, became known as 'Cherry' for his defining obsession. As a young man, he travelled to Japan and ...
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A big, glorious novel in every sense, this sprawling family saga...is a funny and big-hearted epic from a seriously gifted wordsmith'Marie ClaireBertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts - ever since she was discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery with nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold ...
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Maoism
A Global History
'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters' Jonathan FenbySince the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People's Republic. With disagreements between China and ...
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Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the reader on an imaginative journey around its secret stairways, courtyards, alleys and hidden places. Whether evoking the cool of a deserted church ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948365-6
EAN 9780099483656
'This is a raw, true book that evokes not just the life of the great singer Billie Holiday but an entire jazz era....' Mail on Sunday Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-486-5
EAN 9781784704865
It's just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him. With her safe, comfortable world shattered, Anna distracts herself with someone else's story: a true-crime podcast.That is until she recognises the name of one of the victims and becomes convinced that ...
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERSOnce upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-570-1
EAN 9781784705701
'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith'The Parisian is a gripping historical novel, a poignant romance, and a revelatory family epoch. Above all, it is a generous gift. There is a kind of joy that can hold not only pleasure, but struggle, and even sadness.This novel tells ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-261-8
EAN 9781784702618
The gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world. The last decade has seen the News industry face unprecedented change. The sometimes-century old institutions which were once the bastions of truth have had their dominance eroded by vast innovations in viral ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-598-5
EAN 9781784705985
Bestselling author Tim Parks embarks on an entertaining quest to understand the theories of consciousness and what it means to think and feel. Can computers be conscious?Is our universe real of a simulation?Is the mind a unique quality of human beings?As technological breakthroughs in AI continue to advance, topics like this have become part of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-586-2
EAN 9781784875862
Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood moments in life itself, rich with many kinds of potential meanings and intimations' Times Literary SupplementDazed ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-391-2
EAN 9781784703912
'Wry, readable and often astonishing ... nimbly combines breadth and sweep with fine-grained attention to detail. The result is a provocative and absorbing history of the United States' NEW YORK TIMES For a country that has always denied having dreams of empire, the United States owns a lot of overseas territory.America has always prided itself ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-909-9
EAN 9781784709099
Knife sees Harry waking up with a ferocious hangover, his hands and clothes covered in blood. Not only is Harry about to come face to face with an old, deadly foe, but with his darkest personal challenge yet. It is the twelfth instalment in Jo Nesbo's bestselling crime fiction series, which have sold over 40 ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-908-2
EAN 9781784709082
This is the king of Norwegian crime on top form' ObserverHARRY HOLE'S DEADLIEST ENEMY IS BACK... AND OUT FOR BLOOD Harry is in a bad place: Rakel has left him, he's working cold cases and notorious murderer Svein Finne is back on the streets. THE FIRST KILLER HARRY PUT BEHIND BARS IS OUT TO GET ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-995-2
EAN 9781784709952
'Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic Frankenstein, discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. As Brexit grips Britain, Ry, a young transgender doctor, is falling in love. The object of their misguided affection: the celebrated AI-specialist, Professor Victor Stein.Meanwhile, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-9953-5
EAN 9780749399535
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias CanettiWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRWELLOne morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the other ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958129-1
EAN 9780099581291
In 1994 Tim Willocks burst onto the scene with an unforgettable novel called Green River Rising . Hailed as 'the best thriller since The Silence of the Lambs ( Daily Telegraph ), it was particularly praised for the quality of Tim Willocks' prose and for his extraordinarily dark imagination. Both these qualities are very much ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947842-3
EAN 9780099478423
Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947837-9
EAN 9780099478379
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928609-7
EAN 9780099286097
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, ...
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