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Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity - masks, practical jokes, a flock of multi-coloured doves - and his homosexuality. Before the war he made Faringdon an aesthete's paradise, where exquisite food was served to many of ...
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ISBN 978-0-09-957276-3
EAN 9780099572763
For ten years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast at Clarke's restaurant on Kensington Church Street. Over tea and the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss art. It was, in effect, Freud's private salon.In this kaleidoscopic memoir, Greig remembers ...
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ISBN 978-0-09-954659-7
EAN 9780099546597
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014. Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year.Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and ...
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ISBN 978-0-8041-7070-3
EAN 9780804170703
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958967-9
EAN 9780099589679
BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-6878-6
EAN 9780804168786
In a series of brilliant variations, William Gass presents a man's life--futile, comic, anarchic--arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms, and tones, with music as both theme and structure. It begins in Graz, Austria, in 1938, when Joseph Skizzen's father pretends to be Jewish and emigrates to avoid the Nazis. In London with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-345-80695-6
EAN 9780345806956
Nancy Mitford's first novel, a comedy set in a Scottish castle, long out of print and now reissued with an introduction by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey.In Highland Fling, a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-0-307-27802-9
EAN 9780307278029
One of our most omnivorously talented cultural critics --the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn-- presents a primer of Western art's defining moments, from the tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas's digitallyenhanced duel in Revenge of the Sith. America's premier intellectual provocateur returns to the subject that made her famous: the ...
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ISBN 978-0-09-958308-0
EAN 9780099583080
'This night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.' It's Christmas time in the Stanton family house: presents, carol singing, good cheer. But for eleven-year-old Will Stanton something sinister has begun, inching round his subconscious, shouting silent warnings he can't decipher. Then on Midwinter Day Will wakes up to a different world - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-0-224-09628-7
EAN 9780224096287
The job of the skin is to keep things in. On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless.Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable .monster! Where did ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-954048-9
EAN 9780099540489
On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, the Iranian prime minister. To Winston Churchill he was a lunatic, determined to humiliate Britain. To President Eisenhower he was delivering Iran to the Soviets. Mossadegh must go. Bertrams Buyer's Notes:A ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-0-224-08703-2
EAN 9780224087032
This is a collection of classic recipes in the form of simple, expertly drawn graphic illustrations. Each recipe is broken down into easy-to-follow steps, all cleverly displayed on one graphic table top, a bit like a comic strip recipe for grown-ups. It includes incredible hand-drawn, easy-to-follow recipes showing every slice, sizzle and stir.It is the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957172-8
EAN 9780099571728
Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to know. But when his ...
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ISBN 978-0-307-38905-3
EAN 9780307389053
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Back for an amazing ninth printing, this is our bestselling book ever, a Catcher in the Rye for its generation and the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film. It tells the story of Enid and Rebecca, two above-it-all best friends confronted with the prospect of adulthood and the uncertain future of their friendship.
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iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. Brautigan expresses the mood of a new generation
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955547-6
EAN 9780099555476
The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. These ancient tales illuminate some of our most enduring and profound problems: cowardice, the struggle with evil, the difficulty of facing past mistakes, achieving ...
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ISBN 978-0-09-950695-9
EAN 9780099506959
1967. Rigby John Kluesener stands in the moonlight, a flower in his hair, his thumb out trying to hitch a ride on the road to San Francisco. The story of how he came to be there - of an adolescence spent on his parents' farm in Nowheresville, Idaho, of his father's misanthropy, his mother's strict ...
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ISBN 978-0-224-07990-7
EAN 9780224079907
Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country recently opened the door a crack to foreign investment, cartoonist Guy Delisle found ...
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