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On Silbury Hill
ISBN: 9781908213365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Silbury Hill, the largest pre-historic mound in Europe, like Stonehenge, has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Adam Thorpe, author of the highly influential book Ulverton, reflects on what Silbury Hill has meant to him throughout his life. Silbury Hill, the largest pre-historic mound in Europe, like Stonehenge, has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Adam Thorpe, author of ... |
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73,19 zł |
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An idyllic, old farmhouse in France is the background to a gripping story suffused with tension.
Two Oxford historians, Johnny and Sarah Thomson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote and beautiful old farmhouse in the hills of Languedoc. But the farmhouse has its own histories, rather more fraught and alive than those the Thomsons are used to dealing with on the page. As the illusion of Eden retreats, the Thomsons start to feel the vulnerability of being aliens in this unpredictable wildness. While Sarah frets about the danger of the swimming pool and... An idyllic, old farmhouse in France is the background to a gripping story suffused with tension.
Two Oxford historians, Johnny and Sarah Thomson, ... |
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103,69 zł |
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Set in 1968, this story is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply dysfunctional, and Gilles is blithely unaware that any of this is out of the ordinary. There is a deeper trauma here, however, far more shocking that Gilles could have dreamt of.
Set in 1968, this story is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. ...
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43,63 zł |
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Flight
ISBN: 9780099539766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An exhilarating new novel following Bob Windrush: a divorced, middle-aged commercial pilot, running from his past after turning down a suspicious job in the Middle East.
Bob Windrush used to fly passengers, then worked for years as a 'freight dog', flying consignments of goods and sometimes people to all the corners of the world -- including bush-strips in war zones: 'real flying, ' as he called it. Until, one day, he walked away from a deal that didn't smell right -- something a freight dog should never do. Now working as a private pilot for an Emirate prince in Dubai, he finds... An exhilarating new novel following Bob Windrush: a divorced, middle-aged commercial pilot, running from his past after turning down a suspicious job ...
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70,93 zł |
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Presents a collection of stories that expose the characters' deepest desires, their catastrophic fears, and their perilous frailty in the face of the responsibilities they carry.
Presents a collection of stories that expose the characters' deepest desires, their catastrophic fears, and their perilous frailty in the face of the ...
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43,63 zł |
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Outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past.
Outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypoth...
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98,23 zł |
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Missing Fay
ISBN: 9780099584124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the YearA spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the varied lives of six locals - all touched in life-changing ways.
'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the YearA spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from...
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50,87 zł |
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Between Each Breath
ISBN: 9780099479925 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jack Middleton, once 'England's most promising young composer' now lives comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress. Jack is no longer young nor has he ever quite fulfilled his remarkable promise. And then he visits Estonia, in search of inspiration, and falls for a young waitress, Kaja. Six childless years on and Jack and Milly's marriage shows the strain, but they battle on better than most - until the past returns with a vengeance...
Jack Middleton, once 'England's most promising young composer' now lives comfortably in Hampstead with his wife Milly, an heiress. Jack is no longer y...
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92,77 zł |
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Nineteen Twenty-One
ISBN: 9780099272984 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes.
It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in th...
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49,09 zł |
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Rules Of Perspective
ISBN: 9781784700966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When he finds an exquisite painting in what remains of the museum vaults, he is immediately reconnected with a lost world of beauty and order. As the narratives interweave, the story of the painting reveals the hidden story of Herr Hoffer and his three associates - and in doing so uncovers other, darker mysteries.
When he finds an exquisite painting in what remains of the museum vaults, he is immediately reconnected with a lost world of beauty and order. As the ...
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87,31 zł |
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Hodd
ISBN: 9780099503668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Adam Thorpe's ninth novel is both a thrilling re-examination of myth and a moving reminder of how human innocence and frailty fix and harden into history.
Adam Thorpe's ninth novel is both a thrilling re-examination of myth and a moving reminder of how human innocence and frailty fix and harden into hist...
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87,31 zł |
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Birds With A Broken Wing
ISBN: 9780224079440 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Adam Thorpe's fifth collection of poetry coincides with the publication of his novel Between Each Breath. His poems find purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. They remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, history and ourselves.
Adam Thorpe's fifth collection of poetry coincides with the publication of his novel Between Each Breath. His poems find purpose in the discarded, the...
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49,14 zł |
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On Silbury Hill
ISBN: 9781915068361 / Miękka / 2024 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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71,27 zł |
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Ulverton
ISBN: 9780099573449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The reissue in Vintage Classics marks the 20th anniversary of first publication. The reissue in Vintage Classics marks the 20th anniversary of first publication. |
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50,87 zł |
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Nine Lessons from the Dark
ISBN: 9780224063852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This powerful, fourth poetry collection from the author of Ulverton continues the poet s engagement with history -- the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past."
This powerful, fourth poetry collection from the author of Ulverton continues the poet s engagement with history -- the living continuum that connects...
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49,14 zł |
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Notes from the Cevennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France
ISBN: 9781472966315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cevenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic. In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cevennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the people of this part of France for his inspiration. In his charming journal, Notes from the Cevennes, Thorpe takes up these themes, writing about his surroundings, the village and his house at...
Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an anc...
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50,87 zł |
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Words From the Wall
ISBN: 9781787330993 / Miękka / 2019 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,91 zł |
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Voluntary
ISBN: 9780224094177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of poems that takes us on a journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging. It explores our chances, records our traces - in the marks on skin, home movies, stone walls, the pressure of our blood, or the clearing of a dying father's study: foraging backwards until something is revealed, however tentative.
A collection of poems that takes us on a journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging. It explores our chances, records our trace...
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54,60 zł |
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From The Neanderthal
ISBN: 9780224090889 / Miękka / 2010 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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70,93 zł |
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The Rules of Perspective
ISBN: 9780312426583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On April 3, 1945, the advancing American army shells the historic town of Lohenfelde, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm museum. Within the museum's vaults, Heinrich Hoffer is hiding from the bombardment, and trying to keep a priceless Van Gogh from falling into the hands of a rogue Nazi. After the shelling, an American corporal, Neal Parry, finds a beautiful eighteenth-century oil painting in the rubble, and must confront both its beauty, and the morality of stealing it. The stories of Herr Hoffer, Parry, and their paintings unfold simultaneously in this gripping, brilliantly structured novel about... On April 3, 1945, the advancing American army shells the historic town of Lohenfelde, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm museum. Within the museum's vaults, He... |
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99,02 zł |
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