wyszukanych pozycji: 25
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The Child's Child
ISBN: 9780241963579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When Grace and Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they get on well, the house is large, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house?
When Grace and Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they get on w...
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84,96 zł |
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The House of Stairs
ISBN: 9780140114461 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lizzie hasn't seen her old friend, Bell, for some fourteen years, but when she spots her from a taxi in a London street she jumps out and pursues her despite 'all the terrible things' that passed between them. As Lizzie reveals those events, little by little, the women rekindle their friendship, with terrifying results...
Lizzie hasn't seen her old friend, Bell, for some fourteen years, but when she spots her from a taxi in a London street she jumps out and pursues her ...
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84,96 zł |
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A Dark-adapted Eye
ISBN: 9780241976883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. James The prize-winning classic that 'changed the thriller landscape', with a new foreword from Val McDermid. VERA HILLYARD. AUNT. MOTHER. MURDERESS. Faith Severn's life has long been overshadowed by the mystery surrounding her aunt. A respectable woman who committed a crime so terrible she was hung for it. Now, the time has come to piece her story together. What secret caused two devoted sisters to turn from love to hate? And was Vera born a killer. . .Or was she driven to it? 'Brilliantly plotted. Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean...
'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. James The prize-winning classic that 'changed the thriller landscape', with a new foreword from V...
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50,87 zł |
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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
ISBN: 9780141040165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - a classic crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine 'Gripping, almost impossible to put down' Guardian 'One of the most frightening novels I have ever read ... Gerald Candless, the monster at the heart of the maze, is a marvellous creation' Amanda Craig, Express on Sunday When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And...
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - a classic crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine 'Gripping, almost impossible to put down' Guardian...
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90,27 zł |
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The Brimstone Wedding
ISBN: 9780140252804 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Brimstone Wedding - a masterful mystery about love and madness by bestseller Barbara Vine 'Intriguing, absorbing and compelling' Spectator Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband . . . Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling...
The Brimstone Wedding - a masterful mystery about love and madness by bestseller Barbara Vine 'Intriguing, absorbing and compelling' Spectator Jenny's...
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90,27 zł |
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Grasshopper
ISBN: 9780375726507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon."
When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon--one of the great electrified structures that dot the English countryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppers--Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops with a gang of... "They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon."
When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she... |
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73,33 zł |
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Die im Dunkeln sieht man doch : Ausgezeichnet mit dem Edgar Allan Poe Award 1987, Kategorie Best Novel. Roman
ISBN: 9783257244687 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die Geschichte der Vera Hillyard, einer der letzten Frauen, die in England gehenkt wurden, erzählt von Barbara Vine, der Königin des Kriminalromans.
Die Geschichte der Vera Hillyard, einer der letzten Frauen, die in England gehenkt wurden, erzählt von Barbara Vine, der Königin des Kriminalromans.
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58,83 zł |
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A Fatal Inversion
ISBN: 9780141040479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the long hot summer of 1976 a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. They hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live. Ten years later the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery.
In the long hot summer of 1976 a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. They hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live. Ten year...
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50,87 zł |
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Grasshopper
ISBN: 9780140293029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 535 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Grasshopper is an enthralling, chilling novel by the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine 'They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon' When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon - a gargantuan electrified grasshopper - Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops...
Grasshopper is an enthralling, chilling novel by the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine 'They have sent me here because of what happened on the p...
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100,89 zł |
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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
ISBN: 9781416531937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured and utterly absorbing page-tumer, Vine adds to her growing reputation as one of the great writers of our time.
Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her... Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured a...
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89,59 zł |
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The Birthday Present
ISBN: 9780141036212 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It's 1990 & Ivor Tesham, a rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, & Hebe Furnal, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage, embark on an affair. Tesham decides to give Hebe a birthday present to remember. He arranges for her to be snatched from the street, bound & gagged, & delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue.
It's 1990 & Ivor Tesham, a rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, & Hebe Furnal, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage, e...
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84,96 zł |
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The Minotaur
ISBN: 9780307278326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author Time magazine calls "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world," comes an elegant and gripping new novel that blurs the line between psychological suspense and Gothic horror. Kerstin Krist arrives at the vine-covered Lydstep Old Hall in rural Essex to care for John Cosway, a former mathematical genius, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and kept under heavy sedation. John is the sole heir of the immense Cosway estate. As he takes his daily walks or sits quivering in a labyrinthine library, the rest of the family plots their own ways of coming into the...
From the author Time magazine calls "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world," comes an elegant and gripping new novel that blurs...
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81,48 zł |
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King Solomon's Carpet
ISBN: 9780141040431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse over looking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. Other misfits are also drawn towards his house, Alice and Tom and Axel, whose deadly secret casts a shadow over all their lives.
Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse over looking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. Other misfits are also drawn t...
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84,96 zł |
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Asta's Book
ISBN: 9780141040455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1905 Asta and her family come to east London. With her husband away on business, Asta keeps loneliness at bay by writing a diary. Over 70 years later these diaries are published and Asta's granddaughter unearths their buried secrets.
In 1905 Asta and her family come to east London. With her husband away on business, Asta keeps loneliness at bay by writing a diary. Over 70 years lat...
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100,89 zł |
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The Blood Doctor
ISBN: 9781400032525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sometimes it s best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria s favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancee. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated and horrified he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he s done monstrous, quite appalling things ?
Barbara Vine (a.k.a.... Sometimes it s best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victo...
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73,33 zł |
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Astas Tagebuch
ISBN: 9783257245363 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2020 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "Psycho-Thriller der Superklasse."
Frankfurter Rundschau "Psycho-Thriller der Superklasse."
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63,36 zł |
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The Minotaur
ISBN: 9780141042602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John, a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. Kerstin is determined to help John. However there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated.
Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John, a grown man fed drugs by his family to control ...
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90,27 zł |
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Frederick County, Virginia, Militia Records 1755-1761
ISBN: 9781585495580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is an abstract of court martial records during the French and Indian War. It includes the name of the unit, the infraction and the amount of the fine. Removals because of age or infirmity are also included.
This is an abstract of court martial records during the French and Indian War. It includes the name of the unit, the infraction and the amount of the ...
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54,76 zł |