Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2018
ISBN 10: 1408878844 ISBN 13: 9781408878842
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - 'A wonderful literary trompe l'oeil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy . Dark, smart, strange, compelling' Harriet Lane, bestselling author of HerOverwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L.L. embodies everything Delphine admires; sophisticated and unusually intuitive, she slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. And as their lives become further entwined, L. begins to threaten Delphine's identity and her safety.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Dez 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 140886679X ISBN 13: 9781408866795
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - _______________'One of the most emotive accounts of life in Nazi Austria that I've ever read' - Guardian'A moving portrait of a girl forced to come of age in a world at war' - Sunday Times'Vividly depicted and shrewdly observed . The world evoked here strikes me as fundamentally true' - Sydney Morning Herald_______________An unforgettable, nightmarish coming-of-age story set in rural Austria towards the end of the Second World War.It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim, life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, idly thieving from the village shop, enlisted in endless chores by her mama and sister and running wild with her adored older brother Anton. But when Russian prisoners escape from the local concentration camp, her mama starts an affair with a married man, her friend goes missing and her brother's allegiance to the Hitler Youth emerges in shocking ways, Ursula finds herself alone, disturbed by dark memories, and surrounded by threat. In this new world of conflict, Ursula discovers a bravery she has never known before and is forced to recognise that danger comes not only from the enemy at the door but from the enemy within. My Own Dear Brother is a remarkable coming-of-age story and an unflinching study of both cruelty and courage. Rich in folklore, it introduces a daring young heroine and a powerful new literary voice._______________'Intensely imagined' - Independent'A powerful and absorbing novel . Brilliantly done' - Esther Freud, author of Mr Mac and Me'A touching chronicle of some of the lesser-known casualties of war and of the resilience of human spirit' - Washington Independent Review of Books'Muller creates a flawed and vulnerable young heroine we believe in' - The Australian.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jun 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1408876035 ISBN 13: 9781408876039
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism Fourteen-year-old Alireza Courdee contains multitudes. He is a straight-A student and an affable stoner; the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants, and a Californian surf kid; Alireza, and just plain Rez. But when a terror incident shocks the nation - and then another, and another - Rez finds that the world has only one idea about the type of person he is; that his name and the colour of his skin make him an object of suspicion. But there are new friends to shine a light into Rez's isolated, angry existence - Arash, a fellow Muslim student, and the beautiful Fatima. Little by little, Rez is drawn into a new circle, a circle as troubling as it is consoling - and which has a grim and glorious mission in mind for him. Insightful, nuanced and timely, A Good Country is an unforgettable coming-of-age story which deftly captures a young man's alienation and search for identity in a flawed and violent world.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Mai 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408866099 ISBN 13: 9781408866092
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - A powerful collection of stories from the critically-acclaimed, prize-winning author David Park.'One of the shrewdest observers of the way we live now' Independent'Park is an excellent writer; psychologically astute, lyrically unflinching' Telegraph'He writes prose of gravity and grace' GuardianGods and Angels locates, with pinpoint accuracy, the quiet but deeply charged moments in life that can define a person.A seventeen-year-old boy visits his estranged mother on Boxing Day in a grey seaside town; a university lecturer who is learning to swim falls in with a group of older men who inhabit a very different world; a detective breaks into his former home to spy on his estranged family; a couple reflect on twenty-five years of marriage under the Northern Lights; and an old man volunteering in a charity shop forms a tender bond with a young single mother.______________________'David Park is one of my favourite writers. This beautiful, nuanced, perceptive collection of stories is a considerable achievement. Somehow he writes with both grace and muscularity, and every page resounds with the sort of truthfulness that stirs deep recognitions in the reader. This is important, committed work from a writer who knows what he's about, but Park is also such a pleasure to read. I loved this book' Joseph O'Connor.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408865068 ISBN 13: 9781408865064
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - ________________________'A terrifying thriller . Visceral' - Entertainment Weekly'An emergency from its very first sentence . A literary thriller that summons the survivalist terror of The Road' - Patrick Somerville, author of This Bright River ________________________WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE WATER RAN DRY On a searing summer evening, Eddie Chapman has been stuck in a traffic jam for hours. There are accidents along the highway, but ambulances and police are conspicuously absent. When he decides to abandon his carand run home, he sees that the trees have been burned and the water in the stream bed is gone. Something is very wrong.When he arrives home, there is a power cut and no running water. The pipes everywhere, it seems, are dry. Eddie and his wife, Laura, find themselves thrust together with their neighbours while a sense of unease thickens in the stifling night air.Thirst takes place in the immediate aftermath of a mysterious disaster - the Chapmans and their community suffer the effects of the heat, their thirst and the terrifying realisation that no one is coming to help. As violence rips through the community, Eddie and Laura are forced to recall secrets from their past and question their present humanity. In crisp and convincing prose, Benjamin Warner compels readers to do the same.________________________'A timely, necessary, character-driven meditation on morality, society, and responsibility. Thirst presses us, accuses and implicates us in the failures of its characters' - Chicago Review of Books.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408866528 ISBN 13: 9781408866528
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE VOSS LITERARY PRIZE 2016LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister, Meg. But the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram. When their father Stefan discovers a car wreck and human remains on their farm, old secrets emerge to threaten the fragile family. A storm is coming and the Müllers are in its path.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408881594 ISBN 13: 9781408881590
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - An inventive, ambitious interpretation of Don Quixote for our times, Mr Iyer Goes To War is a playful, profound adventure heralding a bold new voice in Indian fictionDispatched to a home in the sacred city of Varanasi, Lalgudi Iyer spends his days immersed in scripture. When an accident leaves him with concussion, he receives a vision of his past incarnation - he was the mythological warrior Bhima, sent from the heavens to destroy evil.Convinced of his need to continue Bhima's mission and revive the noble principles of the Mahabharata, Iyer embarks on an epic adventure down the sacred Ganges with the help of his trust companion Bencho, the undertaker. His attempts at restoring order to the world - and winning the heart of the half-beautiful but oblivious widow Damayanti - are hampered only by his complete detachment from the reality of contemporary India.Mr Iyer Goes to War introduces a bold, witty new voice of Indian fiction in this playful and profound tale of love, adventure and friendship.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408867109 ISBN 13: 9781408867105
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - WINNNER OF THE CROOK'S CORNER BOOK PRIZE 2016'This is a great love story' Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own StoryWendell Wilson, a taxidermist, and Frank Clifton, a veteran, meet after the Second World War. But, in this declining textile town in a southern US state, their love holds real danger. Severing nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they carve out a home for themselves on the outskirts of town. For decades, their routine of self-reliant domesticity - Wendell's cooking, Frank's care for a yard no one sees, and the vicarious drama of courtroom TV - seems to protect them.But when Wendell finds Frank lying motionless outside at the age of eighty-three, their carefully crafted life together begins to unravel. As Frank's memory and physical strength deteriorate, Wendell struggles in vain to hold on to the man he once knew. Faced with giving care beyond his capacity, he must come to terms with the consequences of half a century in seclusion: the different lives they might have lived - and the impending, inexorable loss of the one they had.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Mai 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408884887 ISBN 13: 9781408884881
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 'Jangly with secrets' Sunday Times'Funny, inventive, surprisingly moving' Guardian'Royal Tenenbaums-style saga of dysfunctional family' The TimesWhen Arthur Hayman, author of The Hayseed Chronicles, dies, a bizarre chain of events makes his series of children's novels world-famous. But buried deep inside the books lie secrets that begin to shake Arthur's family - his son, Luke, reluctantly immortalized as the young hero; his daughter, Rachel, for whom the books are a hole through which her life has fallen; and his enigmatic wife, Martha, who knows that secrets are best kept well-hidden. And at the heart of The Hayseed Chronicles is the mysterious Mr Toppit, who will let none of the Haymans out of his grasp.A darkly comic story of a family shaped by their father's literary legacy, exploring fame, fandom and long-buried secrets.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Mär 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408840804 ISBN 13: 9781408840801
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - By the author of A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, an LA Times bestseller: a beautiful and gripping story of love and betrayal, set in 1920s Jerusalem and 1930s SussexJerusalem, 1920: eleven-year-old Prudence feels tensions rising as her architect father launches an eccentric plan to redesign the Holy City. When he employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that sparks between Harrington and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer - a nationalist, intent on removing the British. Years later, in rain-soaked Sussex, Prue opens her door to an unwelcome visitor. What he reveals unravels her world, and she must follow the threads back to secrets buried long ago in Jerusalem.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747594716 ISBN 13: 9780747594710
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - 'Temples of Delight makes you laugh and it moves you' Sunday Times'A joyous and winking style reliant on coincidence and irony, sparkling sung . As messy, glorious and strange as life itself' Lauren GroffJem is a joyful mystery to Alice: a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, Alice is left bereft.But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend and the mystery and chaos still surrounding her. Alice finds herself being seduced all over again.'So readable, so full of incidental pleasures and curiosities . In her readability, her richness, her plain, clear style, Trapido is quite like what Iris Murdoch is supposed to be' Philip Hensher, Guardian'Very funny . fizzes along at a cracking pace' Sunday Telegraph'As lush and original as it is playful and ironic . Quirky, wise and warm, full of charm and entirely original' San Francisco Chronicle.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1408843536 ISBN 13: 9781408843536
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - Grantchester Mysteries 2_______________'Runcie is emerging as Grantchester's answer to Alexander McCall Smith. The book brings a dollop of Midsomer Murders to the Church of England, together with a literate charm of its own: civilized entertainment, with dog-collars' - Spectator'A perfect accompaniment to a sunny afternoon, a hammock and a glass of Pimm's' - Guardian'Totally English, beautifully written, perfectly in period and wryly funny. More, please!' - Leslie Geddes Brown,Country Life_______________Grantchester is now a major, prime-time six-part series for ITV1955. Canon Sidney Chambers, loveable priest and part-time detective, is back. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador, Dickens, and the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King's College Chapel, a case of arson at a glamour photographer's studio and the poisoning of Zafar Ali, Grantchester's finest spin bowler.Alongside his sleuthing, Sidney has other problems. Can he decide between his dear friend, the glamorous socialite Amanda Kendall and Hildegard Staunton, the beguiling German widow To make up his mind Sidney takes a trip abroad, only to find himself trapped in a web of international espionage just as the Berlin Wall is going up._______________'The series has a charming quaintness and deftly turning plot twists but what renders it unique as detective fiction is its overtly Christian content' - Arifa Akbar, Independent'It takes a first-class writer to put together a convincing storyline for such unlikely circumstances. James Runcie does it admirably . He is a good man in an imperfect world and we should welcome him to the ranks of classic detectives' - Daily Mail.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Apr 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408885115 ISBN 13: 9781408885116
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - 'Enthralling' Observer'A spectacular read' Sunday Express'An award-winning writer at the top of her game' TelegraphA moving story of overlapping lives from the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel CantoTip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Teddy thinks he has found his calling in the Church, and both are increasingly strained by their father's protective plans for them.But when they are involved in an accident on an icy road, the Doyles are forced to confront certain truths about their lives, how the death of Doyle's wife Bernadette has affected the family, and an anonymous figure who is always watching.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Apr 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 1408801027 ISBN 13: 9781408801024
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal.Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. But he hadn't believed that it really existed until he met Uncle Vanya. Now the old man's story catapults him into the neon-drenched wilderness of Aberystwyth Prom in search of a girl who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Soon Louie finds his fate depending on two most unlikely talismans - a ticket to Hughesovka and a Russian cosmonaut's sock.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Apr 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1408850893 ISBN 13: 9781408850893
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - 'A knotty, postmodern tale. The quicksilver narrative slips between dream, memory and reality . A beguiling enigma' Financial Times'A poetic masterpiece of world literature . An oriental Kafka, enriched with the literary achievements of Islamic mysticism' Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungIn an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he staggers to bed that night, drunk on raki and his own well-deserved success, the village is prosperous. But when he is woken by his wife the next evening he discovers that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared without a trace in the dead of night, and the community begins to fracture.In a nameless town far, far away, Nuri walks into a barbershop as if from a dream, not knowing how he has arrived. Try as he might, he cannot grasp the strands of his memory. The facts of his past life shift and evade him, and as other customers come and go, they too struggle to recall how they got there.Blurring the lines of reality to terrific effect, Shadowless is both a compelling mystery and an enduring evocation of displacement from one of the finest, most exciting voices in Turkish literature today.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Feb 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408866323 ISBN 13: 9781408866320
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - A gripping and beautifully observed novel of power, corruption and innocence from the author of Terms & ConditionsCharlie, a curious boy with a dangerous Dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the eccentric guests of the Mirage Hotel, as the African nation of Bwalo prepares for the annual appearance of its Glorious Leader Tafumo. Sean, who's given his heart (and the best part of his liver) to Bwalo, struggles to write the great African novel - if only his crazed fiancée would stop distracting him. Josef, kingmaker and mythmaker, starts to hear the ominous rattle of skeletons in his closet. Hope, the nurse caring for the King, keeps the old man alive as she mourns her own broken dreams. And storm clouds gather as petty criminal, Jack, smuggles something into Bwalo - to the Mirage Hotel - that will change the lives of all of them for ever.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jan 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1408894815 ISBN 13: 9781408894811
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - \*\*ESCAPE FROM SPIDERHEAD NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX - STARRING CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND MILES TELLER\*\*The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations.A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular.With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0747585156 ISBN 13: 9780747585152
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neuware - In this ravishing tale of sexual and textual obsession, the young unnamed narrator sets forth from Cambridge on a quest. He is to rescue the subject of his doctoral research, Paul Michel, the brilliant but mad writer, from incarceration in a mental institution in France. What ensues is a drama of terrible intimacy and tenderness played out one hot and humid summer in Paris and in the south of France. Hallucinating Foucault is a literary thriller that explores with consummate mastery the passionate relationship between reader and writer, between the factual and the fictional, between sanity and madness. In blurring these boundaries, Patricia Duncker has written a novel of astonishing power and beauty.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747574162 ISBN 13: 9780747574163
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, Versand Büchersendung - Verity Bell has very big eyes, alphabetical leanings and a look that says she'd like to get inside your brain somehow. Or so her best friend Sally tells her, confessing that back at their school, most children thought she was a witch. Sally, a fellow only-child to whom Verity has been glued since girlhood, has become a worry in her twenties because she has actually allowed a married man to set her up in a flat to be his mistress.Verity sees no correlation whatsoever between this retrograde and fairly shocking love-nest and her own transforming passion for a married man called John, who surely yearns to leave his wife and three children to be with her. Doesn't he Verity lives in a world of her own and we glimpse her grudges (from 'ants' to the 'zeitgeist'), her personal development (from 'ambition' to 'wobbling') and her idiosyncratic network of obsessions (pick a letter, any letter) in a narrative arranged alphabetically by topics in the most curious and satisfying way.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0747571732 ISBN 13: 9780747571735
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - It is the 1980s and deep in mid-Wales the inhabitants of the Nant Valley believe they are successfully holding out against the modern world. However, outsiders have discovered the Valley and believe it to be an idyll. The rich and mysterious Stefan, for example, buys a derelict manor house and sets about being a squire - but finds that his money is failing to impress anyone, and he can t even get served in the pub as Gwillim the landlord hates all customers. Jane and Rob, poor and arty urbanites, want to live The Good Life, but find that their enthusiasm for alfresco nudity has tragic repercussions for the farming community. Dafydd, the all-seeing postman, doubts the Valley is ready for outsiders, and as the locals struggle with sexual scandal, hostile artisans, an unsuccessful laundromat exhibition and a corpse, the omens are not good .
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0747579733 ISBN 13: 9780747579731
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungeles. Mängelexpl., Lagerschaden (Knicke/Schmutz) mögl., gestempelt, Büchersendung - 'Shadow Child' presents an examination of the grief of a father over the death of his baby daughter.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0747580596 ISBN 13: 9780747580591
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Mängelexemplar mit leichten Lagerspuren, Sofortversand - Presents an insight into the mysteries and magic of everyday life.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2002
ISBN 10: 0747557713 ISBN 13: 9780747557715
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Mängelexemplar mit leichten Lagerspuren, Sofortversand - Since walking out on her life at sixteen, Lamb has lived alone in the gaps between other people's lives. Secretly inhabiting the cellar of an elderly man for whom she cleans, she keeps herself to herself, her life a precarious balancing act until she meets Doggo, a young criminal on the run.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2007
ISBN 10: 0747585679 ISBN 13: 9780747585671
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungeles. Mängelexpl., Lagerschaden (Knicke/Schmutz) mögl., gestempelt, Büchersendung - The heartbreaking story of a bag lady and her daughter.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN 10: 0747568227 ISBN 13: 9780747568223
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: UNSPECIFIED. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - Schnitt leicht angeschmutzt, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2007
ISBN 10: 0747585210 ISBN 13: 9780747585213
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - 'I m sick of all this pointless glamour,'his glamorous girlfriend said.'I want a simple life.'If only Connor McNab had listened. Now Philomena is off to California, allegedly on a fashion shoot, but he doesn t know where she is staying and a sinking feeling tells him that she might never come back. Connor s friend Jeremy Green is no help: he is the famous short-story writer (which they both agree is an oxymoron) with an imminent publication date and some people holding his dog to ransom for reasons too Machiavellian to blurb. Connor s sister Brook, genius mathematician and anorexic, is too busy anguishing over Rwanda and Bosnia. His editor at Ciao Bella is only concerned about the suddenly elusive celebrity of the month. Thanks goodness for Pallas, a knock-out table dancer with a heart of gold.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0747578893 ISBN 13: 9780747578895
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die before their time and she s come to think she s bad luck. Fascinated by Christabel, diabetologist Elias Newman is keen to know her better but she s afraid of what might happen. Taking the reader from the River Lea via a haunted woodland bog, out to the crash of the Pacific surf on Kahakuloa Head in the Hawaiian Islands, this is Russell Hoban at his engrossing, inimitable best.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0747579318 ISBN 13: 9780747579311
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - What makes good writing good In his brilliant new book, Al Alvarez argues that it is the development of the voice - voice as distinct from style - that makes a writer great. A poet as well as a critic, Al Alvarez approaches his subject both as an informed observer and an insider. Here are - among others - Sylvia Plath, John Donne, Jean Rhys, Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Coleridge and W. B. Yeats, dissected with clarity, depth and a profound understanding of the mechanics of writing. Like the best literary criticism, The Writer s Voice makes writing come vividly alive. Written with passion and insight, it is the ideal gift for anyone who loves to read.
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Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0747579148 ISBN 13: 9780747579144
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, Versand Büchersendung - Offering an original look at English football, this title journeys to the heart of Englishness and sheds light on the true nature of a rapidly changing game that was never really meant to be beautiful. It also shows how Victorian sexual anxiety underlies England's many World Cup failures.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747576602 ISBN 13: 9780747576600
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: NEW. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, Versand Büchersendung - An exquisite allegorical tale of following one's dreams by the author of The Saddlebag.