wyszukanych pozycji: 43
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Here We Are
ISBN: 9781471188961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A quietly, devastating, magical novel' Daily Telegraph'Beautiful, gentle, intricate... Here We Are smuggles within the pages of a seemingly commonplace tale depths of emotion and narrative complexity that take the breath away.' The Observer It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each... A quietly, devastating, magical novel... |
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The Light of Day
ISBN: 9781471161964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday
An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday
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50,40 |
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Ever After
ISBN: 9780679740261 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe. It is the story of Bill Unwin, a man haunted by the death of his beautify wife and a survivor himself of a recent brush with mortality. And although it touches on Darwin and dinosaurs, bees and bridge builders, the true subject of Ever After is nothing less than the eternal question, "Why should things matter?"
"Ever After is explicitly concerned with historical... Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedroo...
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Last Orders
ISBN: 9781471187292 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996 Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Margate. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them . . . On the surface a simple tale of an increasingly bizarre day's outing, this Booker-prize winning, internationally acclaimed novel is a resonant and classic exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives. Intensely local but overwhelmingly universal, faithful to the fleeting rhythms and accidental eloquence of everyday...
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996 Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes s...
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50,40 |
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Waterland
ISBN: 9781471187322 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, is driven by a bizarre marital crisis and the provocation of one of his students to forsake the formal teaching of history-and tell stories . . . Waterland is a classic of modern fiction: a vision of England seen through its mysterious, amphibious Fen country; a sinuous meditation on the workings of time; a tale of two...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper H...
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55,44 |
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Wish You Were Here
ISBN: 9780307744395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction |
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72,42 |
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Learning to Swim
ISBN: 9781471187544 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Graham Swift's first collection of short stories confirms his power to bring an edge of the extraordinary, the dangerous or the subversive into otherwise familiar, safe, even comforting settings. On a holiday beach, a mismatched couple wage a sexually charged war for the devotion of their literally floundering son. A family doctor, oppressed by his own domestic insecurities, intimidates an apparent time-wasting patient. A zookeeper becomes the keeper of a bizarre fixation . . . ...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Graham Swift's first collection of short ...
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45,36 |
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Mothering Sunday: A Romance
ISBN: 9781101971727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair--but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted.
As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers--expands with every page. In Mothering Sunday, Booker... On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the y...
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57,17 |
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Twelve Post-War Tales: 'A marvel of the storyteller's art', Financial Times
ISBN: 9781398535480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and Mothering Sunday 'His archly modulated, precise prose, reminiscent at times of his friend Kazuo Ishiguro’s, has lost none of its power ... immensely readable late-career Swift from start to finish, Twelve Post-War Tales is a marvel of the storyteller's art', Financial Times ‘The characters in this collection share their thoughts and memories with the reader as though with a close friend, and the warmth of their confidences... The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and Mothering Sunday 'H... |
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95,79 |
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Shuttlecock
ISBN: 9780679739333 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going crazy. His files keep vanishing. His boss subjects him to cryptic taunts. His family despises him. And as Prentis desperately tries to hold on to the scraps of his sanity, he uncovers a conspiracy of blackmail and betrayal that extends from his department and into the buried past of his father, a war hero code-named "Shuttlecock"--and, lately, a resident of a hospital for the insane.
Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going cra...
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57,17 |
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Here We Are
ISBN: 9781471188930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The extraordinary new novel from the author of Mothering Sunday and winner of the Booker Prize
The extraordinary new novel from the author of Mothering Sunday and winner of the Booker Prize
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75,62 |
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Tomorrow
ISBN: 9781471162022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday
An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday
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45,36 |
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The Sweet-Shop Owner
ISBN: 9780679739807 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, the sweet-shop owner, confronts the specters of his beautiful and distant wife and his clever, angry daughter, the history through which he has passed, and the great, unrequited passion that has tormented him for forty years.
The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally ...
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49,55 |
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Wish You Were Here
ISBN: 9781471161988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called `Profound and powerful . . . an unputdownable read' by Scotland on Sunday. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton - former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park - receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother's remains, but also to return...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called `Profound and power...
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45,36 |
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The Light of Day
ISBN: 9781400032211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) On the anniversary of a life-shattering event, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, revisits the catastrophes of his past and reaffirms the extraordinary direction of his future. Two years before, an assignment to follow a strayed husband and his mistress appeared simple enough, but this routine job left George a transformed man. Suspenseful, moving, and hailed by critics as a detective story unlike any other, The Light of Day is a gripping tale of murder and redemption, as well as a bold exploration of love and self-discovery. This powerful novel...
On the anniversary of a life-shattering event, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, revisits the catastrophes of his past and rea...
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87,66 |
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Ever After
ISBN: 9781471187407 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Bill Unwin, an academic of dubious status, has never recovered from the death of his famous actress wife and is now convalescing from a recent brush with his own mortality. He has two tales to tell. One, spanning post-war Paris, 1950s Soho and contemporary sexual and scholarly entanglements, surveys the muddle of his own life. The other, drawn from the notebooks of a Victorian ancestor, is the very different story of Matthew Pearce, a serious-minded man whose happiness is destroyed by...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Bill Unwin, an academic of dubious status...
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50,40 |
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The Sweet Shop Owner
ISBN: 9781471187353 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner For forty years, Willy Chapman has struck a strange but steadfast bargain between the two poles of his life: his beautiful but emotionally damaged wife and the sweet shop he runs on a south London high street. Devoted to each, he has maintained a delicate, precarious balance. Now, on a hot summer's day, he attempts to settle his final accounts and reach an understanding with a third, disruptive element in his reckoning: his angry, unforgiving daughter. Spanning five decades and...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner For forty years, Willy Chapman has struck...
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45,36 |
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Waterland
ISBN: 9781841593562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, this book takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy.
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, this book takes in ee...
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England and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781471137419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland; 'a powerful statement about English ways of life and death' Independent on Sunday Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to India, and Mrs Kaminski, on her way to Poland via A&E. Meet Holly and Polly, who have come to their own Anglo-Irish understanding; Charlie and Don, who have seen the docks turn into Docklands; Daisy Baker, terrified of Yorkshire; and Johnny Dewhurst, stranded on Exmoor. Binding these stories together is Graham Swift's affectionate but unflinching instinct for the story of us all: an...
A collection of new stories from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland; 'a powerful statement about English ways of life and de...
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45,36 |
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Twelve Post-War Tales
ISBN: 9780593803387 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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114,35 |