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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955419-6
EAN 9780099554196
A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928689-9
EAN 9780099286899
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo. It is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literarture, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's ...
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The Future History of the Arctic
. How Climate, Resources and Geopolitics are Reshaping the North, and Why it Matters to the World
- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952353-6
EAN 9780099523536
Previously always at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic has now found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century. The region is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet and its future is uncertain, with the rush to claim the territory ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954902-4
EAN 9780099549024
A compulsive womaniser, Michael Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-9957-3
EAN 9780749399573
. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club.Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is ...
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First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jacket, then a corpse in a golden aeroplane. After another body, Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth...Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actress with a raffish entourage. Georgia's best friend just happens to be Valentine, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955456-1
EAN 9780099554561
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952078-8
EAN 9780099520788
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955535-3
EAN 9780099555353
One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a ...
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Through the Language Glass
Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950557-0
EAN 9780099505570
'Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics...he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just as important, how we perceive the world' - "Observer". Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953955-1
EAN 9780099539551
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined The Ephrussis came from ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955499-8
EAN 9780099554998
From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman who reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman 'incarcerated' in an ...
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- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954678-8
EAN 9780099546788
One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love. So began a quest that would unravel three centuries of mystery, intrigue, history, politics, and passion. The Cello Suites is the story of that ...
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How To Live
A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
- Vintage UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948515-5
EAN 9780099485155
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 9,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-133588-9
EAN 9780141335889
One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118991-8
EAN 9780141189918
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928880-0
EAN 9780099288800
Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father's money and promptly marries a handsome, calm and unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But, intelligent and sensual, she quickly becomes bored by her oppressively conventional life, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954097-7
EAN 9780099540977
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halleand Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950778-9
EAN 9780099507789
A wonderful, panoramic novel and an achingly poignant love story that goes back to Irène Némirovsky's roots, sweeping the reader from the Jewish quarter of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century to Paris in the twenties and thirties and again to eastern Europe in a snowy winter on the eve ...
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- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953042-8
EAN 9780099530428
This title includes an introduction by Sir Paul McCartney. First published in 1964 and 1965, "In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works" are a brilliantly inventive and offbeat collection of John Lennon's stories, drawings and poems.
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