Cb editions gb (154 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: New. In the early 20th century, a woman and her husband emigrate from Estonia to Canada. Voices over Water is their own record of this passage, evoking in the fine detail of their experience the larger forces to which their lives are subject: war, the unyielding land, famine, silence, and the irreducible st…

Paperback. Condición: New. We kill auntie - who is kind, who looks after us - to free ourselves. But how do we dispose of the body? And then, after the blunt saw and the mincer and the choking stove, what to do with the freedom? Translated from the Polish and introduced by Wiesiek Powaga, this volume includes, in addition to the…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Last but not least, alive but not at all well, seated near the seat of power, front row, just off centre,  the President's closest friend and bosom buddy,  his court jester and backdoor courtier, Charles Gregory Bebe Rebozo, inscrutable .' A fantasia on the life of Bebe Rebozo, Cuban-American sidekick…

Paperback. Condición: New. The Simplon Road is a book about literary obsession. In contrasting essays that delve into childhood and early reading, Ann Pearson and Charles Boyle - who have both written novels about the 19th-century French writer Stendhal - chronicle their involvement with an author who was notoriously keen to cov…

Paperback. Condición: New. Handicapped at school by his dyslexia and facing the strap at home, Rocky seeks out his own education from the fields and streams around him on the Isle of Skye. He develops an instinctive talent for improvisation: cord to snare rabbits fashioned from nettle stalks, a bicycle from scrap metal, a trip t…

Paperback. Condición: New. The Absent Therapist is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and meander . . . Sons and lovers, wanderers, wonderers, stayers, leavers, readers and believers. These are gripping narratives, with intriguing shifts of register, but they are a…

Paperback. Condición: New. The Absent Therapist is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and meander . . . Sons and lovers, wanderers, wonderers, stayers, leavers, readers and believers. These are gripping narratives, with intriguing shifts of register, but they are a…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'Last but not least, alive but not at all well, seated near the seat of power, front row, just off centre,  the President's closest friend and bosom buddy,  his court jester and backdoor courtier, Charles Gregory Bebe Rebozo, inscrutable .' A fantasia on the life of Bebe Rebozo, Cuban-American sidekick…

Paperback. Condición: New. Inheritance, Paul Bailey's first book of poems after a lifetime of writing fiction, was acclaimed by Carol Rumens in the Guardian as 'a collection to engage everyone who appreciates elegant craft, shapely storytelling and delicate love lyrics, with a touch of acerbic mischief to offset melancholy and n…

Paperback. Condición: New. Brilliant Corners is both an inquiry into and a redressal of inherited cultures and the language that trips off our tongue. Its preoccupations are the tangible damage inflicted by empires, plunder of the global money markets, disfigured lives, and the bitter salves of Western privilege. Engaging with w…

Paperback. Condición: New. A blush is a gulp, a glitch, a stammer, a flutter, a flinch. A blush is hot. A blush is an index of confusion. A blush, according to Darwin, is 'the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions'. A blush says something and it speaks true . Texts by Jack Robinson (with citations from a range of f…

Paperback. Condición: New. There is gridlock on the M40 and a banana skin on every pavement. Lovers are disturbed in bed and my father becomes a rain god. Complacency is mocked. Death hovers. Shit happens. How the messiness of life is translated into fiction is considered and no conclusions are reached. Why, anyway, setting out…

Paperback. Condición: New. These are the stories of one boy's adolescence in the USSR. Sovetica grew from Caroline Clark's fascination with a handful of stereo slides made by her Russian husband in the 1980s. Her unforced retelling of his memories - recorded, translated and transformed - together with the colour and black-and-wh…