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Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0747579733ISBN 13: 9780747579731
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. 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.
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Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747578613ISBN 13: 9780747578611
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - I'm Scarface. I m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I ve bumped off six or eight myself and another one - especially a rat like you - wouldn t mean a thing in my young life. Get me In the mean streets of Chicago, a young man is unwilling to follow his parents into a life of squalor and poverty and hungers to become a big shot. Tony Guarino has grown up in the hard world of the bar and the poolroom, where every gangster is a hero and every cop an enemy. Only the tough make it. At the age of just eighteen, Tony commits his first serious crime. He shoots dead the gang boss and ruthless slayer Al Spingola. In an era when gunplay is still rare, Tony s actions unnerve the other gang leaders, and Tony is catapulted into notoriety and fame. This is just the beginning of his path to becoming the most powerful and feared man in the Chicago underworld. 192 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747574103ISBN 13: 9780747574101
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - Thirteen-year-old Cath is a new girl at a Catholic convent. She is afraid of the nuns, unused to the restriction and terrified of God. She finds refuge in nature, and her friend Olive s vision of the starry limitless universe. Cath s sister Very is at art school in seventies Punk London. She lives a wild chaotic life with bedraggled artists, outrageous homosexuals, and shadowy nightclub owners. When Cath visits Very, the two sisters whirl through the city together, along Chelsea Embankment and through the alleys of late-night Soho. But London, like the convent, holds its dangers and Cath must find her own way through. 256 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2002
ISBN 10: 0747557713ISBN 13: 9780747557715
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. 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.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN 10: 0747568227ISBN 13: 9780747568223
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - Schnitt leicht angeschmutzt, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0747580596ISBN 13: 9780747580591
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Mängelexemplar mit leichten Lagerspuren, Sofortversand - Presents an insight into the mysteries and magic of everyday life.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2007
ISBN 10: 0747585679ISBN 13: 9780747585671
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungeles. Mängelexpl., Lagerschaden (Knicke/Schmutz) mögl., gestempelt, Büchersendung - The heartbreaking story of a bag lady and her daughter.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747568243ISBN 13: 9780747568247
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - A novel from the author of 'Child of My Heart'. 192 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2007
ISBN 10: 0747579377ISBN 13: 9780747579373
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand 320 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN 10: 0747568340ISBN 13: 9780747568346
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Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, Versand Büchersendung - 'What was the use of living in a porn film now, at her age ' pondered Peyton Amberg, alone in a Hong Kong hotel room. At twenty, when she could have pulled a film star, she'd had no sex drive at all. Then she - and her mother - had wanted love and commitment so she married the 'Jewish dentist' who thought she was a goddess but left her cold. 352 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747574189ISBN 13: 9780747574187
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand 192 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747577080ISBN 13: 9780747577089
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - Ever spent sleepless nights feeling fearful or lonely Been anxious about money, family or partners Worried about your sexuality, your body weight, or the size of your genitalia Loved someone, but they drove you mad Felt crippled by shyness, anger or unhappiness Or perhaps you just enjoy the vicarious thrill of reading about other people s problems Dear Mariella - is guaranteed to bring relief. It is an airing cupboard for the complexities of modern life. Other people s dilemmas have much to tell us about our own lives, and this collection of quandaries from journalist, broadcaster and Observer agony aunt Mariella Frostrup may not solve your problems but it will undoubtedly make you think, and certainly make you laugh. 256 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747574677ISBN 13: 9780747574675
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2005 A modern day Huckleberry Finn set in the lush tropical landscape of Mauritius The Rape of Sita won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1994 and was long-listed for the Orange Prize in 1996 208 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747568251ISBN 13: 9780747568254
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor s, but isn t quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world - of real struggles, passion, pain and love - spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber - by a man s real touch and by a real story in search of an ending. This is a luminous novel of memory, revelation and desire. 304 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747572917ISBN 13: 9780747572916
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - For fans of Maggie O'Farrell, this is a wonderful love story set in the infamous 'lead years' in Italy. Haunting, evocative and moving. 320 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 10: 0747571759ISBN 13: 9780747571759
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - The weather is hotter than hell in Tucson, Arizona, and weird things are afoot in the crumbling desert community of Rancho Sin Vacas. Sixteen-year-old Kendra hones her muscles and grapples with bad grammar, occasionally worrying about her brother, Thomas, who spends all day watching wrestling on TV. Their neighbour Merv is stuck in a rut, still living at home at thirty and looking after his troubled mother. When the strung-out teenager from over the road, Kendra s sometime-boyfriend, goes missing it affects them all in different and surprising ways. And although Kendra is apparently unconcerned, claiming that he s just run away, she can t shake the feeling that something strange is in the air this summer. 304 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jun 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1408876035ISBN 13: 9781408876039
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. 256 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408867109ISBN 13: 9781408867105
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. 272 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408881594ISBN 13: 9781408881590
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. 224 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408866528ISBN 13: 9781408866528
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. 320 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408865068ISBN 13: 9781408865064
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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 304 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Mai 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408884887ISBN 13: 9781408884881
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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 384 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Dez 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 140886679XISBN 13: 9781408866795
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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 464 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408845946ISBN 13: 9781408845943
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Sacrilegious to say it but Elizabeth Luard even beats Elizabeth David. Exquisite writing and wonderful food, and funny too' Prue Leith'Elisabeth Luard proves that no matter where you are, there is food to be gathered, or hunted, or found. Squirrel Pie is a beautifully written tribute to food that has all but vanished from our everyday lives' Alice WatersElisabeth Luard, one of the food world's most entertaining and evocative writers, has travelled extensively throughout her life, meeting fascinating people, observing different cultures and uncovering extraordinary ingredients in unusual places. In this enchanting food memoir, she shares tales and dishes gathered from her global ramblings.With refreshing honesty and warmth, she recounts anecdotes of the many places she has visited: scouring for snails in Crete, sampling exotic spices in Ethiopia and tasting pampered oysters in Tasmania. She describes encounters with a cellarer-in-chief and a mushroom-king, and explains why stress is good news for fruit and vegetables, and how to spot a truffle lurking under an oak tree. Divided into four landscapes - rivers, islands, deserts and forests - Elisabeth's stories are coupled with more than fifty authentic recipes, each one a reflection of its unique place of origin, including Boston bean-pot, Hawaiian poke, Cretan bouboutie, mung-bean roti, roasted buttered coffee beans, Anzac biscuits and Sardinian lemon macaroons. Illustrated with Elisabeth's own sketches, Squirrel Pie will appeal to anyone with a taste for travel, and an affinity for that most universal of languages, food. 400 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747594716ISBN 13: 9780747594710
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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 368 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Apr 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 1408850893ISBN 13: 9781408850893
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. 320 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Feb 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1408866323ISBN 13: 9781408866320
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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. 304 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 1408813173ISBN 13: 9781408813171
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The gripping finale to Patricia Highsmith's legendary RIPLEY series, the inspiration for the hit Netflix series'Compelling . Highsmith's writing is as insistent as strange footsteps in the fog' SUNDAY TIMES'The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable' THE TIMESTom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny, and a basement with suspicious stains on the floor.This fifth and final novel in the series finds the sophisticated and amoral American expatriate being harassed by David Pritchard, a fellow American whose boorishness marks him as something of Ripley's alter-ego. Inexplicably familiar with all the incriminating details of Ripley's past, Pritchard is determined to expose him.He shadows Ripley's every move, first spying on him at home in France and then following him to Morocco. Tensions build on the return to Villeperce as Pritchard sets out to locate a body in a nearby river, one Ripley would prefer to remain hidden. 256 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747578745ISBN 13: 9780747578741
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - The House of Saud can no longer bribe its people and Arab neighbours into silence. Throughout the Middle East, Islamic movements deplore the Saudi royal family's waste of the country's wealth on private expenditure and costly Western armaments. They are also opposed to the immorality of a dynasty whose men have purchased women in bulk and plundered the country's oil revenues in pursuit of pleasure and who cling to retrograde policies such as expelling, imprisoning and executing dissenters. The developed countries of the West, in particular the USA, are committed to seeing on the Saudi Arabian throne a king who will keep the oil flowing at the right price. Yet the future of the country is likely to see the birth of a militant, vengeful Islamic regime and a huge increase in the price of oil, possibly leading to a world depression and even greater conflict between the West and the Islamic world.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747576637ISBN 13: 9780747576631
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Burningham, John (illustrator). Neu Neuware, Importqualität, , Sofortversand - In John Burningham's enchanting and truthful compendium of childhood the well known and the unknown contribute funny, moving, magical and occasionally dark childhoodmemories. From Michael Palin s memory of seaside holidays with his dad and Seamus Heaney s evocation of a crashed Cadbury s chocolate van ( a trail of silver papers up the road ) to the institutional upbringing of the mixed-race child of a black GI in the 1950s and a typical rural childhood in the Scottish highlands, it is full of evocative memories. And woven into the mix is a rich selection of quotations and fifty more of John Burningham s witty and poignant drawings.