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A breathtaking feat of scholarship' The Times. 'I can do no more than praise, recommend, insist that you buy and read this book. It supersedes all other Dickens biographies' Anthony Burgess, Independent.In Peter Ackroyd's abridged edition of his classic biography of Charles Dickens, the acclaimed biographer takes us to the heart of one of the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952642-1
EAN 9780099526421
A newly-wed Harriet stands poised on the threshold of the adult world. Her husband, James, is setting off to join the Duke of Wellington's troops in Spain. Left in London, Harriet is taken under the wing of Kitty, Lady Wellington. While the women are plunged into new worlds of politics, finance and science, the men ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944508-1
EAN 9780099445081
After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of Rome. He is destined, despite vicious power struggles, bloody wars and family strife, to transform his realm and become the greatest ruler the western world had ever seen: Augustus ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954696-2
EAN 9780099546962
Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb. Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting but one hot afternoon in Valencia he has to replace his boss, judging a festival corrida that stars Spain's most famous young matador. That night, he is summoned back to the bullring where the young matador's ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957033-2
EAN 9780099570332
The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers. Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. A powerful, unsettling and beautifully crafted new novel ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955583-4
EAN 9780099555834
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve year-old, must battle to save it. After the death of her beautiful and legendary mother, Swamplandia!, Ava's island home in the Florida Everglades, is under threat from a nearby competitor; her sister Osceola has eloped with a ghost, her Grandpa ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-956493-5
EAN 9780099564935
In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life. Woken by intense cold one night, she discovers an old RAF ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-956497-3
EAN 9780099564973
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit.Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-09-955366-3
EAN 9780099553663
This title is winner of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. Dr Jennifer White's best friend has been found dead. Amanda was stabbed to death at home, and four fingers were neatly removed from her right hand.Jennifer's work as an accomplished surgeon and the stormy nature of her friendship with Amanda mean that she is the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950255-5
EAN 9780099502555
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957202-2
EAN 9780099572022
When Ravi Kapoor, an over-worked London doctor, is driven beyond endurance by his obnoxious father-in-law, he asks his wife: 'Can't we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.' His prayer seems to have been answered when his entrepreneurial cousin, Sonny, sets up a retirement home, recreating a lost corner of England in a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-956129-3
EAN 9780099561293
Selected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics of heartache, fiery political statements and a frank celebration of sex. This is an enticing, distinctive and celebrated collection of poetry from the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953986-5
EAN 9780099539865
This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes. Not many solutions to Einstein's tantalising universe equations have ever been found, but those that have are all remarkable. Some describe universes that expand in ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954840-9
EAN 9780099548409
Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace.Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for his interest in the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928362-1
EAN 9780099283621
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952866-1
EAN 9780099528661
When the Melmottes arrive in London everyone agrees their manners are wanting, their taste is execrable and their lineage and background decidedly shadowy. But their money is far from revolting, and city society quickly makes allowances for the mysterious financier and his family. Soon hearts, minds and family savings are swept into the whirl of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955544-5
EAN 9780099555445
Tommy and Eve live a simple life at 6 The Cottages up on the hill, apart from the town, not to mention Eve's vindictive sister Miriam and her ever-growing brood of boys. The birth of Jeannie Eliza crowns the young couple's happiness - just as her shockingly early death casts them low
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952864-7
EAN 9780099528647
Alice Vavasor should be married to the sensible, kindly John Grey. But despite what her respectable relations might think, Alice cannot quite reconcile herself to this fate. Once upon a time she was engaged to her wild cousin George, and now he stands in need of her money and, perhaps too, her good influence. Meanwhile ...
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- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955608-4
EAN 9780099556084
'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now...' Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it ...
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Self Comes to Mind
Constructing the Conscious Brain
- Vintage UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949802-5
EAN 9780099498025
Self Comes to Mind explores two questions that have haunted philosophers, neurologists, cognitive scientists and psychologists for centuries: how do brains construct minds, and how do minds become conscious? Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his work has garnered acclaim for its singular melding ...
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