wyszukanych pozycji: 84
A Good Man in Africa
ISBN: 9780141046891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed ... Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive of him to get involved in wholesale bribery. Nor was it exactly oiling his way up the ladder to hunt down the improbably pointed breasts of his boss's daughter when officially banned from horizontal delights by a nasty dose ... Falling back on his deep-laid reserves of misanthropy and guile, Morgan has to fight off the sea of humiliation,...
Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed ... Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But ...
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51,35 zł |
Der Romantiker
ISBN: 9783311100492 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Mit sechzehn Jahren erfährt Cashel Greville, dass er nicht ist, wer er glaubte zu sein. 1799 im irischen Cork geboren, hätte er seine Eltern früh bei einem Schiffsunglück verloren, hat seine Tante Elspeth ihm gesagt. Jetzt eröffnet sie ihm: Sie selbst ist seine Mutter, er der uneheliche Sohn eines Adeligen. Sein ganzes Dasein eine himmelschreiende Lüge! Immerhin, sagt er sich, gehört sein Schicksal jetzt ihm, und keiner kann ihn daran hindern, sich neu zu erfinden. Und das tut er nicht zu knapp im Lauf seines Lebens, das das gesamte 19. Jahrhundert währt und Cashel um den ganzen...
Mit sechzehn Jahren erfährt Cashel Greville, dass er nicht ist, wer er glaubte zu sein. 1799 im irischen Cork geboren, hätte er seine Eltern früh b...
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127,89 zł |
Ordinary Thunderstorms
ISBN: 9780061876752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything--home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone--never to get them back. William Boyd's electrifying follow-up to the Costa Award-winning Restless,... One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a ... |
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68,33 zł |
Die blaue Stunde
ISBN: 9783453425880 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Einer der schönsten Romane von Bestsellerautor William Boyd - jetzt im Taschenbuch!
Los Angeles, 1936. »Bitte setzen Sie sich mit mir in Verbindung. Es gibt so viel zu erzählen«, steht in dem Brief, den die junge Architektin Kay eines Tages an ihrer Türschwelle findet. Geschrieben hat ihn ein gewisser Dr. Carriscant, der behauptet, ihr Vater zu sein, und ihr eine ganz und gar unglaubliche Geschichte erzählt, die sich 1902 in Manila zugetragen haben soll. Hat er tatsächlich sechzehn Jahre in philippinischen Gefängnissen verbracht für einen Mord, den er nicht begangen... Einer der schönsten Romane von Bestsellerautor William Boyd - jetzt im Taschenbuch!
Los Angeles, 1936. »Bitte setzen Sie sich mit mir ... |
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54,81 zł |
Sweet Caress
ISBN: 9781408867990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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54,97 zł |
The Destiny of Nathalie X
ISBN: 9780679767848 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I in Vienna, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters. Artful, witty, moving, The Destiny of Nathalie X is a confirmation of Boyd's standing as a master storyteller. 208 pp. Author tour. 15,000 print.
"From the Hardcover edition. This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World...
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64,10 zł |
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth
ISBN: 9780241979761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A dazzling collection of short stories from one of Britain's best novelists. The collection depicts the random encounters that bring the past bubbling to the surface; the impulsive decisions that irrevocably shape a life; and the endless hesitations that wickedly complicate it. The funny, surprising and moving stories are a confirmation of Boyd's powers as one of our most original storytellers.
A dazzling collection of short stories from one of Britain's best novelists. The collection depicts the random encounters that bring the past bubbling...
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46,20 zł |
The Dream Lover: Short Stories
ISBN: 9780747592297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.
A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.
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58,39 zł |
The New Confessions: A rich exploration into one man’s life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart
ISBN: 9780141046914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ... John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the...
The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of...
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51,35 zł |
Any Human Heart: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
ISBN: 9780141044170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the story of Logan Mountstuart, told through his journals. His travels take the reader from Uruguay to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York and Africa. This is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart.
This is the story of Logan Mountstuart, told through his journals. His travels take the reader from Uruguay to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York an...
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51,35 zł |
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd
ISBN: 9780241987339 / Miękka / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,48 zł |
Ruhelos
ISBN: 9783311150299 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »Eines Tages kommt jemand und bringt mich um«, hat Sally Gilmartin ihrer Tochter schon vor Jahrzehnten gesagt. Nun, da sie alt ist, macht Ruth sich ernsthaft Sorgen und fragt sich, ob ihre Mutter unter Wahnvorstellungen leidet. Schließlich offenbart Sally ihrer Tochter, dass sie in Wahrheit nicht Sally Gilmartin heißt, sondern Eva Delektorskaja, und dass sie als russische Emigrantin 1939 in Paris vom britischen Geheimdienst angeworben wurde. Wahrend alles, was Ruth je meinte, über ihre Mutter gewusst zu haben, langsam in sich zusammenfallt, spürt sie schon bald, dass ihre Mutter ihr...
»Eines Tages kommt jemand und bringt mich um«, hat Sally Gilmartin ihrer Tochter schon vor Jahrzehnten gesagt. Nun, da sie alt ist, macht Ruth sich ...
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63,95 zł |
Any Human Heart: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
ISBN: 9780241981450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,20 zł |
Brazzaville Beach
ISBN: 9780061956317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Utterly engaging....A novel of ideas, of big themes....William Boyd is a champion storyteller." - New York Times Book Review William Boyd's classic Brazzaville Beach has been called as a "bold seamless blend of philosophy and suspense... that] nevertheless remains accessible to general readers on a level of pure entertainment." (Boston Globe). Released to coincide with Boyd's latest novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Brazzaville Beach tells the story of a British primate-researcher who relocates to war-torn Africa in the wake of her... "Utterly engaging....A novel of ideas, of big themes....William Boyd is a champion storyteller." - New York Times Book Review Willi... |
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64,06 zł |
All die Wege, die wir nicht gegangen sind
ISBN: 9783311210030 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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82,22 zł |
An Ice-cream War
ISBN: 9780241953563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks). It follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy.
An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks)...
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51,35 zł |
Brazzaville Beach
ISBN: 9780141044194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa.' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but is also completely enthralling.
'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one...
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51,35 zł |
The Romantic
ISBN: 9780241994078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,35 zł |
Trio
ISBN: 9780241295977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych.
An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress. An elating read' Sunday TimesA prod... |
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51,35 zł |
The Argument
ISBN: 9781474236508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. That's why we shout and scream at each other. Clears the air. A kind of truth begins to emerge. We see clearer. As their families and friends become embroiled in Pip and Meredith's separation, past prejudices, harsh judgements and painful truths come to light. The arguments that... That's why we shout and scream at each other. Clears the air. A kind of truth begins to emerge. We see clearer. |
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71,57 zł |