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The Northern Clemency
Booker Shortlist 2008
- Harper Collins, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 8,99 €
ISBN 978-0-00-717480-5
EAN 9780007174805
Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, The Northern Clemency' is Philip Hensher's epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history on the move. Set in Sheffield, it charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their ...
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- Vintage UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952413-7
EAN 9780099524137
'It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks.' The long-haired poet - 'Mad Shelley' - and the serious-minded student from ...
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- Faber, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 9,76 €
ISBN 978-0-571-23897-2
EAN 9780571238972
Accompanied by two young children, Olivia has left a violent marriage and returned to her childhood home, an austere chateau surrounded by formal gardens. Haunted by unspoken past events, she considers herself to be already murdered' - dead before dying.At the same time as this unannounced homecoming another couple are expected at the chateau: her ...
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- Gollancz, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-575-08256-4
EAN 9780575082564
One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years.Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his work. First published in 1930, Last and First Men is full of pioneering speculations ...
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- Harper Collins, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-730576-6
EAN 9780007305766
A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. My Sister, My Love' is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbours and even the young girl's own family. Told from the ...
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Celebrity
. How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy
- Harvill, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84655-259-5
EAN 9781846552595
Do you wonder where it's all going to end? Does the word celebrity' sound like a fifth horseman of the apocalypse? Then this book is for you: a hilarious, appalling portrait of a world obsessed to the point of lunacy by celebrity, a guide to our times and a classic piece of comic writing.These days, ...
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- Hamish Hamilton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-14452-7
EAN 9780241144527
Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable - though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet. ...
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- Hamish Hamilton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-14458-9
EAN 9780241144589
Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But ...
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- Puffin, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 32 páginas
ISBN 978-0-14-150229-8
EAN 9780141502298
Lola is clearing out some of her old things because she does not want her bedroom to ever get as messy and pongy as Marv's older brother Marty's bedroom - yuk! Charlie persuades Lola that instead of throwing her things away, she should recycle them. 'Recycle it? What is that?' asks Lola. With a bit ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119092-1
EAN 9780141190921
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119103-4
EAN 9780141191034
A beautiful evocation of the peaceful life on the English waterways.Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119083-9
EAN 9780141190839
The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats's ode to Autumn, the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119086-0
EAN 9780141190860
The American Henry James's descriptions of the countryside, monuments, universities, cathedrals, castles, customs and manners of the English are filled with elegant charm and good humour. Here he delights in the hidden corners of ancient Chester streets, marvels at the drunken jollity of Epsom Derby day and savours the calm shadows of Glastonbury abbey, in ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 5,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119101-0
EAN 9780141191010
Francis Kilvert's diary shows a compassionate and thoughtful delight in the people and beautiful surroundings of the English countryside. With good cheer he records his loves (among them poetry and the attentions of pretty girls) and his dislikes (including a distaste for bathing in knickers that leaves more than one beach scandalized), as well as ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119093-8
EAN 9780141190938
The letters of the eminent naturalist Gilbert White are full of precise, unaffected and delightful observations of the wildlife of his beloved village of Selborne, describing the habits, colours and songs of birds from lapwings to barn-owls, wrens to house-martins. Here too are exquisite writings on trees, fossils, bats and rainfall, filled with intellectual curiosity ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119107-2
EAN 9780141191072
Journeying through England on horseback, the intrepid seventeenth-century traveller Celia Fiennes recorded every sight and experience of her adventure in her journal, from her delight at countryside cakes and the beauty of remote landscapes, to the challenges of disagreeable landladies, choppy sea crossings and a troublesome horse. Describing potteries in Staffordshire, cheesemaking in Cheshire, dyers ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119087-7
EAN 9780141190877
This is a celebration of the beauties and possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula, Snapdragon, Spanish Iris and Corydalis, and all the other plants that enliven and exalt the gardens of England. Gertrude Jekyll gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure. Writing with enthusiasm on the colours ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119100-3
EAN 9780141191003
The beautiful and peaceful heart of the Lake District, Grasmere was an inspiration to both Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Hills, lakes and orchards, letter writing, walks and welcome visitors (including fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) provoked in Dorothy's journal great, lyrical prose, which in turn influenced her brother's unsurpassed poetry. The two - journal entries ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 7,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-119084-6
EAN 9780141190846
This magical and poignant evocation of coming of age in the countryside describes lovers in secluded lanes, cricket and church bells, cherry trees hung with snow and woods full of bluebells. Yet in A Shropshire Lad the fields and hills are also places of loss and sorrow, where men die young or are sent far ...
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