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Six Minutes in May
How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister
- Vintage UK, 2018
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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The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London
- Vintage UK, 2018
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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- Vintage UK, 2018
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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- Vintage UK, 2018
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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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-411-7
EAN 9781784874117
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 4,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-405-6
EAN 9781784874056
Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again. Here are stolen glances and nervous advances, meddling parents and self-important cousins, society whisperings and the fluttering hearts of young lovers. All of them have their ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 5,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-449-0
EAN 9781784874490
A soldier falls asleep on duty and is threatened with being court-martialled. An officer lies in mud, fighting for his life and the life of his men. A young man walks across Waterloo Bridge, explosives in his rucksack, heart pounding.In this powerfully moving book, Faulks shows us the true face of war. These are stories ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-409-4
EAN 9781784874094
Have you ever dreamt you were naked on stage, or woken having failed an exam? In these fascinating, pioneering essays, Sigmund Freud plunges into the recesses of our minds, and awakens the hidden meanings behind our most typical and surprising night-time fantasies. From dreams of violence and death, to the more prosaic moments in our ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-402-5
EAN 9781784874025
How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader on a journey from the very first coins through to 21st century ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-403-2
EAN 9781784874032
What is the secret to true friendship? Is it really love's quieter relation or something stronger and more profound? And where does the line between the two lie? Rose Tremain looks at two unlikely lifelong friendships, which - though tested - prove unbreakable. Thought-provoking and life-affirming, this is at once an examination and a celebration ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 5,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-410-0
EAN 9781784874100
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 5,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-404-9
EAN 9781784874049
Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a spot of disc ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 5,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-408-7
EAN 9781784874087
How to go on in a world where everything is set against you? With hope? In fear? Or, in violent struggle? In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger Thomas - a young black man trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78487-147-5
EAN 9781784871475
When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels and stories that he never wrote. Now ten of our best contemporary authors and James enthusiasts have written new short stories based on these 'germs' of ideas. Differing dramatically in setting and style, these stories are modern interpretations of ...
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Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957506-1
EAN 9780099575061
You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry MarshTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / WINNER OF THE 2017 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver SacksWhy do human beings behave as they do? We are capable of savage acts of violence ...
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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.Brilliantly conceived ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-758-3
EAN 9781784707583
Four friends. One promise. But someone isn't telling the truth.The twisting new mystery from bestselling phenomenon Ruth Ware. The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you.Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her ...
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The Catholics
The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day
- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958754-5
EAN 9780099587545
The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'a first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome - English Catholics ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-278-6
EAN 9781784702786
Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to.Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened. The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town ...
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The Islamic Enlightenment
The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason
- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957870-3
EAN 9780099578703
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017'An eye-opening, well-written and very timely book' Yuval Noah Harari'The best sort of book for our disordered days: timely, urgent and illuminating' Pankaj Mishra'It strikes a blow...for common humanity' Sunday TimesThe Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise and adapt. Yet in this sweeping narrative ...
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