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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-664-7
EAN 9781784706647
The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded Bx{0026}Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959285-3
EAN 9780099592853
'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-709-5
EAN 9781784707095
When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-370-7
EAN 9781784873707
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKER In the summer of 1964, Tom Wolfe joined author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters as they set out on a trip like no other. Blazing across America in their day-glo schoolbus, doped up and deep in the pudding', the Pranksters' arrival on the scene anarchic, exuberant ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959294-5
EAN 9780099592945
In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria ( wolf dens' or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure.Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city; from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-537-4
EAN 9781784705374
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-024-9
EAN 9781784700249
A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue' Daily ExpressThe bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealousy, bullying and revenge. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei knows he needs an ally if he is to survive ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-576-3
EAN 9781784705763
'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) -- The Sunday Times Number 1 BestsellerWhat happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power. Varoufakis sparked one of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-956953-4
EAN 9780099569534
What does it take to be a family?Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything she never knew she wanted. It's perfect but for two things: their children.Julia's beloved daughter Gwen loathes James and James's son Nathan takes pleasure in antagonising his new stepsister. Uniting two households is never ...
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A meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature, growing all manner of plants.While some perished beneath wind ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954269-8
EAN 9780099542698
40 Years. 40 Stories. Experience Star Wars: A New Hope from a whole new point of view.On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C-3PO, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and a galaxy full of possibilities. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, more than forty contributors lend ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955449-3
EAN 9780099554493
How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page? In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200 years - from Charles Dickens to Martin Amis, Henry James to Philip Roth - David Lodge pursues this question with characteristic verve and wit. One of the best novelists and critics ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-557-2
EAN 9781784705572
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out.She visits the boy in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-173-4
EAN 9781784701734
What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom prises open the central, defining events of our century - displacement and migration - but not as you imagine them. Five characters, in very different circumstances, from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-336-3
EAN 9781784873363
After decades of British rule Kenya has declared its independence, but drought and poor harvests still govern the village of Ilmorog. Undeterred by nature, Munira, Karega, Wanja, and Abdulla, move to Ilmorog in search of a more provincial life, only to find themselves suspects in a crime that signals a sign of the times. A ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78487-335-6
EAN 9781784873356
To honour the Ruler's birthday, the Free Republic of Aburiria set out to build a tower, a modern wonder of the world that reaches the gates of Heaven. But behind this pillar of unity a battle for control of the Aburirian people rages. Among the contenders: the eponymous Wizard, an avatar of folklore and wisdom; ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-100-0
EAN 9781784701000
*** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist *** A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' ObserverLondon, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959339-3
EAN 9780099593393
The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook. If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It is the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London; bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-337-0
EAN 9781784873370
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First published in 1975, Secret Lives x{0026} Other Stories brings together a range of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's early and later political short stories. From tales of the meeting between magic and superstition, and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-364-6
EAN 9781784703646
You can't tell me you haven't heard.' Heard what?' About the lynching over in Marvel.' The what?'Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw. Quick of mind and pleasing to the eye, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and ...
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