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Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529003830ISBN 13: 9781529003833
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A novelty board book presenting the classic historical Chinese story popular across generations. Features push, pull and slide mechanisms. 10 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529023335ISBN 13: 9781529023336
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The adventures of a mischievous puppy called Pip are revealed through push, pull, slide and turn mechanisms. 10 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529023815ISBN 13: 9781529023817
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A craft book featuring make and do activities and more than two-hundred stickers, immersing young readers in the revelatory world of Scheffler/Donaldson hit 'The Snail & The Whale'. 32 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 152902384XISBN 13: 9781529023848
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Craft activities and a set of over two-hundred stickers featuring characters and ideas from the world of the popular 'Monkey Puzzle' picture book from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. 32 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 0753444844ISBN 13: 9780753444849
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Children's picture books on the logistics of taking particularly rewarding paths in life. Illustrated by Sarah Lawrence. 48 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529029260ISBN 13: 9781529029260
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Magic and (mis)adventures abound in Max and the Midknights, a hilarious illustrated novel from the New York Times bestselling creator of the Big Nate series, Lincoln Peirce.'Max is epic fun!' - Jeff Kinney, bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.'Fantastic! I loved it!' - Dav Pilkey, bestselling author of the Dog Man series.Join Max's quest to become a knight in this laugh-out-loud New York Times bestselling adventure!Max wants to be a knight - too bad that dream is about as likely as finding a friendly dragon. But when Max's uncle Budrick is kidnapped by the cruel King Gastley, Max has to act . . . and fast! Joined by a band of brave adventurers - the Midknights - Max sets out on a thrilling quest: to save uncle Budrick and restore the realm of Byjovia to its former glory!With his trademark comic book-style illustrations, Lincoln Peirce brings epic adventure, riotous fun and medieval silliness in the series which continues with Battle of the Bodkins. 288 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509887911ISBN 13: 9781509887910
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Lenton, Steven (illustrator). Neuware - 'Wit and teamwork win the day in this android adventure.' Kirkus ReviewsRunaway Robot is a funny and heartwarming adventure about two best friends helping put themselves back together, from the award-winning Frank Cottrell-Boyce, illustrated by Steven Lenton.When Alfie goes to Airport Lost Property, he finds more than he bargained for. A lot more. Because there's a giant robot called Eric hidden away on the shelves. Eric has lost one leg and half his memory. He's super strong, but super clumsy. He's convinced that he's the latest technology, when he's actually nearly one hundred year's old and ready for the scrap heap.Can Alfie find a way to save Eric from destruction - before Eric destroys everything around him 320 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529008565ISBN 13: 9781529008562
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Collins, Ross (illustrator). Neuware - The sequel to the popular 'I Am Tiger'. A feisty Mouse is forced to explain to a series of passing animals that, despite his floppy ears and pointy nose, he is not - as each of them suggest - an elephant. Have they considered that he might be an owl, sheep, yak or cow A hilarious and quirky book about who each of us is inside. 32 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1447298292ISBN 13: 9781447298298
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Hard, gritty and unrelenting. You won't sleep until you're finished' Robert Crais 432 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529023351ISBN 13: 9781529023350
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Lodge, Jo (illustrator). Neuware - A bestselling cloth book with high-contrast images, crinkly pages and mirror, perfect for sharing with babies from birth. 8 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529024420ISBN 13: 9781529024425
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A ten-year-old girl who has spent much of her childhood in care struggles in each placement. Prolific foster carer Angela Hart sets out to use quiet care and a sympathetic ear to get to the bottom of Grace's behavioural issues. 368 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509855165ISBN 13: 9781509855162
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Ash Princess is dead. Long live the Queen. Princess Theodosia was a prisoner in her own country for a decade, made to wear a crown of ash. But there was fire in her blood and she escaped, gathering a misfit army of rebels behind her.Now they have a new and terrifying enemy - the Kaiserin. Possessed of magic no one understands, she is determined to burn down anything and anyone in her way. As the Kaiserin's power grows stronger and her beloved Prinz Søren is taken hostage, Theo is forced to make a terrible choice - will she overcome her heart to liberate her enslaved people and finally reclaim her rightful place as Queen Ember Queen is the explosive final part of Laura Sebastian's New York Times bestselling Ash Princess trilogy. 467 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509879846ISBN 13: 9781509879847
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bawdsey Manor holds a secret.1936: the threat of war hangs over Europe. Churchill gathers the brightest minds in Britain at a grand house in Suffolk. Bound to complete secrecy, they work together on an invention that could mean victory for the Allies. Among them is Vic, a gifted but shy physicist who, for the first time, feels like he belongs. 416 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529025567ISBN 13: 9781529025569
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On 9 October 1986, nine-year-olds Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway went out to play on their Brighton estate. They would never return home; their bodies discovered the next day concealed in a local park. This devastating crime rocked the country.With unique access to the officers charged with catching the killer, former senior detective Graham Bartlett and bestselling author Peter James tell the compelling inside story of the investigation as the net tightens around local man Russell Bishop. The trial that follows is one of the most infamous in the history of Brighton policing - a shock result sees Bishop walk free. Three years later, Graham is working in Brighton CID when a seven-year-old girl is abducted and left to die. She survives . . . and Bishop's name comes up as a suspect. Is history repeating itself Can the police put him away this time, and will he ever be made to answer for his past horrendous crimes Both gripping police procedural and an insight into the motivations of a truly evil man, this is a fascinating account of what became a thirty-two year fight for justice. 352 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529018471ISBN 13: 9781529018479
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is the 1930s and the Maitland family have spent the years following the Great War struggling to come to terms with its catastrophic aftermath, and their hopes now lie with the next generation. Their Lincolnshire village of Doddington suffered terrible loss and it has taken great courage for the bereaved families to rebuild their lives without their loved ones.When war is declared again, it is Daisy Maitland and her peers who must now take up the fight for freedom. Feisty and a daredevil like her beloved Aunt Pips, who spent World War One on the front line serving with a flying ambulance corps, Daisy had persuaded a family friend to teach her to fly as a young woman. Now her country is at war, she is determined to put her skills to good use, enlisting in the Air Transport Auxiliary. There she forges new friendships - but she never forgets her childhood friend and cousin, Luke, who has joined the RAF as a fighter pilot.As war rages in the skies and on the ground, Daisy, her friends and her family - at home and across the Channel - will find their bravery and strength tested to the very limits in their determination to save their country. And they have learned one of the most valuable lessons of all: true love will find a way.PRAISE FOR MARGARET DICKINSON'The Queen of Saga' Daily Express'A gripping saga full of heart-rending drama' Yours 544 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 152903020XISBN 13: 9781529030204
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Love love love this book. It doesn't just simplify wine, it simplifies life. Essential reading.' - India KnightDo you frequently panic in the wine aisle and end up reaching for the same old thing. Every. Single. Time Have you found yourself picking the bottle with the nicest-looking label Do you automatically pick the second-cheapest wine on the list Are you looking to extend your wine horizons beyond Pinot Grigio You need The Knackered Mother's Wine Guide. Come and explore the wonderful world of wine with drinks expert Helen McGinn. With tips on how to make the right wine choices for every occasion, from children's parties (because adults need something fizzy too) to planning a wedding or matching wine with food, this book will help you to choose with confidence.Learn what to look for in the discount deals and discover the can't-go-wrong crowd-pleasers, perfect reds to go with your Sunday roast, the best wine to drink with chocolate, plus some unexpected suggestions for your next night in. Wine is about far more than just what's in the glass (although that's important too); it brings us together and helps us to find a moment to stop, connect and share stories. This crash-course guide will help you know what to look for in fridge-door whites, store cupboard reds so that you can make the most of time spent together to raise a glass for a special occasion, or wind-down when the kids have finally gone to bed.Because life's too short to drink bad wine. 256 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529007674ISBN 13: 9781529007671
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Sexy, funny, genre-bending . . . a radical book' ElleIt's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Paul transforms his body at will from male to female in a desiring and sometimes tragic search for belonging that travels across the US, from Iowa City to San Francisco.Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp, queer bildungsroman whose hero/ine winds his way through a world gutted by loss in the wake of AIDS, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimate connections. Andrea Lawlor has written one of the most groundbreaking debut novels of recent years, an instant cult classic.'I love this book, in all its ecstasy, wit, and hilarity . . . Paul is on fire, and an antihero for the ages' Maggie Nelson'Riotous, gleeful, and wonderful from start to finish. I adored it and dare anyone else not to' Sophie Mackintosh 352 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509867325ISBN 13: 9781509867325
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A woman far ahead of her time, Maud West opened her detective agency in London in 1905. She sleuthed for society's finest and wrote up her exploits in newspaper articles that grabbed headlines throughout the world. But was she really who she said she was 320 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 150986251XISBN 13: 9781509862511
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this second volume of Rise of the Jain, Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war. Their nemesis lies in wait . . . Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc's event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination.Earth Central, humanity's ruling intelligence, knows Orlandine was tricked into releasing her weapon, and fears the Jain are behind it. The prador king knows this too - and both foes gather fleets of warships to surround the disc. The alien Client is returning to the accretion disc to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She upgrades her vast weapons platform in preparation, and she'll need it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc's swirling dusts - and the Jain have committed genocide before.The Warship is set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe.'Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain' - John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of Old Man's War and The Collapsing Empire. 480 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529014050ISBN 13: 9781529014051
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With an introduction by publisher and acclaimed author Robert McCrum.Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply unfamiliar world. In between them lies the landscape of an unnamed country, a brutal place reminiscent of Idi Amin's Uganda. This central story is about those who once thought of Africa as liberating, but now find themselves in an increasingly harsher reality.Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971, In a Free State is one of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul's many towering literary achievements. It is a story of the desperation and heartbreak we find in those who are displaced and who try, often in vain, to make a home in their new surroundings. Frightening, disquieting and merciless, this is one of Naipaul's greatest novels: fraught but full of pity. 272 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529011833ISBN 13: 9781529011838
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Warden introduces us to the lives of some of the most beloved characters in all literature.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an introduction by Margaret Drabble and illustrations by F. C. Tilney.Scandal strikes the peaceful cathedral town of Barchester when Septimus Harding, the warden of charitable foundation Hiram's Hospital, is accused of financial wrongdoing. A kindly and naive man, he finds himself caught between the forces of entrenched tradition and radical reform amid the burgeoning materialism of Britain in the 1850s. The deeply insightful portrayals of figures such as the booming Archdeacon Grantly and the beautiful Eleanor Harding are at the heart of this moving and deliciously comical tale. The Warden launched the enduringly popular Barsetshire Chronicles series of six novels and won Anthony Trollope a seat in the pantheon of great literary figures. 288 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509889604ISBN 13: 9781509889600
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now a major ITV series, The Long Call, adapted for television by screenwriter Kelly Jones and starring Ben Aldridge.The Long Call is the No.1 bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series from Sunday Times bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves.In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too.Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose.A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.Finding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there. 382 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529003156ISBN 13: 9781529003154
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A selection of poems by women, from classic voices to the fringes of modern poetry, with the overall effect of a panorama of female experiences and emotions across history and culture. Maya Angelou, Wheeler Wilcox, Liz Berry and many more. 304 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529021065ISBN 13: 9781529021066
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Anna Sherman and delightful illustrations by Sayuri Romei.This short book, written in English by a Japanese scholar and artist, was first published in 1906 at a time when Japan was opening up to Western culture. In response to that, Okakura Kakuzo set out to explain the beauty and simplicity of Japanese daily life which was greatly inspired by teaism. He describes in detail the different aspects of the tea ceremony, how it was founded, the role of the tea masters, the architecture of the tea-room and the stages of making and serving the tea. He then goes on to explain the connection between Taoism and Zennism with tea and he also writes chapters on art appreciation and the art of flower arranging. 160 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529014093ISBN 13: 9781529014099
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself, moving to an unnamed country in the heart of the continent he believes he is doing so to fulfil his duty as a man. He buys a small shop in a sleepy town, at a bend in the river, where he sells sundries to the locals. First published in 1979, A Bend in the River is V.S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. Serving as a microcosm of this changing world, his bend in the river is a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. And from this rich landscape emerges one of the author's most potent works - a truly moving story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. 352 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509865853ISBN 13: 9781509865857
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'My most anticipated book of the year' - Peter F. Hamilton, Britain's no.1 science fiction writerChildren of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with new characters and a thrilling narrative.It has been waiting through the ages. Now it's time . . .Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time.Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth.But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed.And it's been waiting for them.'Books like this are why we read science fiction' - Ian McDonald, author of the Luna seriesAll underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern - but with the sensibility of classic science fiction'Stephen Baxter, author of the Long Earth series (with Terry Pratchett) 564 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509886427ISBN 13: 9781509886425
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of frank and insightful essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.'Passionate, angry, self-effacing, nuanced and utterly compelling in every single way' - Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantWhen was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the 'traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women's voices are still pushed to the fringes - the figures leading the discussion are white and male.Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It's Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won't see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country.With a mix of British and international women writers, from activist Mona Eltahawy's definition of a revolution to journalist and broadcaster Saima Mir telling the story of her experience of arranged marriage, from author Sufiya Ahmed on her Islamic feminist icon to playwright Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's moving piece about her relationship with her hijab, these essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each of them is a passionate declaration calling time on the oppression, the lazy stereotyping, the misogyny and the Islamophobia.What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today According to the media, it's all about the burqa.Here's what it's really about.Shortlisted for Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year'Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous' - Observer 241 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529011744ISBN 13: 9781529011746
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Complete and unabridged.One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its expansive cast of characters and interweaving plots.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and original illustrations by Marcus Stone.John Harmon made his fortune collecting 'dust'. On his death his estranged son is due to inherit his wealth on the condition that he marry Bella Wilfer, a young woman who he has never even met. But when his son is presumed dead, John's riches pass to his servants Mr. and Mrs. Boffin and they in turn take Bella into their own home. They hire a secretive young man, John Rokesmith, to be Mr. Boffin's secretary - but what is this man's real identity and what is his interest in Bella.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1509803262ISBN 13: 9781509803262
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2019Shortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited what became France, another Germany and the third Lotharingia: the chunk that initially divided the other two. The dynamic between these three great zones has dictated much of our subsequent fate.In this beguiling, hilarious and compelling book we retrace how both from west and from east any number of ambitious characters have tried and failed to grapple with these Lotharingians, who ultimately became Dutch, German, Belgian, French, Luxembourgers and Swiss. Over many centuries, not only has Lotharingia brought forth many of Europe's greatest artists, inventors and thinkers, but it has also reduced many a would-be conqueror to helpless tears of rage and frustration. Joining Germania and Danubia in Simon Winder's endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, Lotharingia is a personal, wonderful and gripping story.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Feb 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1529026164ISBN 13: 9781529026160
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times 'An excellent, rich and amusing read' The Times, Book of the WeekFor centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe and Germany and interfered everywhere - indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without them.Danubia plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a guinea-pig village. Full of music, piracy, religion and fighting, it is the history of a dynasty, but it is at least as much about the people they ruled, who spoke many different languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in many rival gods and often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna. Joining Germania and Lotharingia in Simon Winder's endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, Danubia is a hilarious, eccentric and witty saga.