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Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creatures - but we're idiots about how clever we really are. In this entertaining and ingenious book, ...
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EVERYTHING IS MADE OF MAGIC . . .Effie Truelove and friends Lexy, Wolf, Maximilian and Raven must use their magical skills to defeat the Diberi, a corrupt organisation intent on destroying the worlds at Midwinter. But during a visit to the Otherworld, Effie is mistaken and imprisoned for being a galloglass - a dangerous, selfish ...
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- Usborne, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 16 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4749-6831-7
EAN 9781474968317
This delightful book allows little children to take a fingertip journey through the alphabet, following a trail from acrobatic anteaters to zebras on zipwires. Charming illustrations, novelty die-cut elements and quirky themes combine to make this an engaging, interactive abc, introducing children to the shapes and sounds of the alphabet.
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Crusaders
An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
- Head Of Zeus, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78185-889-9
EAN 9781781858899
From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told.Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight' HELEN CASTOR. 'A fresh and vibrant account of a conflict that raged across medieval centuries' ...
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- Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-197-1
EAN 9781789291971
Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world. From the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where remains of some of our earliest tool-using ancestors were found, to the CERN laboratory, where ...
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Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective's hunt to discover the ...
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Libro · 432 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-9222-7
EAN 9781471192227
From the very first page, Nicci French remains one step ahead of us as we race to unpick Neve Connolly's deadly tangle. Expertly paced, psychologically sharp, thoroughly enjoyable' Louise Candlish 'You know a book's gripping when you sneak away at any opportunity to read it. Meticulously plotted, psychologically astute' Sarah Vaughan 'This book is a ...
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William Arrowood returns . . .'Crackles with energy and wit' The Times South London, 1896. William Arrowood, Victorian London's less salubrious private detective, is paid a visit by Captain Moon, the owner of a pleasure steamer moored on the Thames. He complains that someone has been damaging his boat, putting his business in jeopardy.Arrowood and ...
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Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany's oldest city. So when a man is found dead with, his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth. Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 11,85 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0250-3
EAN 9781526602503
The new historical chiller from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97760-6
EAN 9780241977606
In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West. But in the GDR he finds himself ...
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The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place.Juliette, convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,34 €
ISBN 978-0-571-35805-2
EAN 9780571358052
Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it ...
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE 'A distinctive new voice for fans of 'Fleabag' or Sally Rooney' Independent'Raw, intimate and authentic' The Sunday Times'Luminous' Observer'Lyrically poetic' Evening Standard'Disarmingly honest . . .I wish I had read this when I was 19.' GuardianWhen Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It ...
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Powerful, sensual and gripping' - Madeleine Miller, author of Circe'Fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife will love this one' - Elle Model. Muse. Lover.Artist. Paris, 1929. Lee Miller has abandoned her life in New York and a modelling career at Vogue to pursue her dream of becoming a photographer.When she catches the eye ...
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From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing. Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a dead man tucked into his top pocket - the only clue ...
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Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience of ordinary people with humour, intelligence, and compassion. In Henry, Himself, he offers an unsentimental, moving life story of a twentieth-century everyman. Henry, Himself is a wry, warm-hearted portrait of an American original - a man who believes he's reached ...
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'A remarkable debut which doesn't go where you expect it to go. I very much look forward to seeing what she writes next.' JOJO MOYES A lifetime together. Six months of silence.One last chance.Frank hasn't spoken to his wife Maggie for six months.For weeks they have lived under the same roof, slept in the same ...
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'You don't read this book, you live it' Erin Kelly If Stella Fortuna means 'lucky star,' then life must have a funny sense of humour. Everybody in the Fortuna family knows the story of how the beautiful, fiercely independent Stella, who refused to learn to cook and who swore she would never marry, has escaped ...
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When Laura's marriage falls apart she needs to find a home for her and her daughter. And quickly. Welcome to The Close, a beautiful street of mansions, where Laura rents a tiny studio above a garage, and gorgeous Stella is the indisputable Queen Bee - who soon suspects Laura of having designs on her fiance.But ...
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