wyszukanych pozycji: 35
The Needle's Eye
ISBN: 9780156029353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 427 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news.
Now, separated from her Greek husband, she lives alone with her three children. Despite all the efforts and sneers of her friends, she refuses to move from her slum house in a decaying neighborhood to which she has become attached. Gradually, Simon becomes aware that Rose is a woman of remarkable integrity and courage. He is... Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to driv...
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82,15 zł |
The Radiant Way
ISBN: 9781838857196 / Miękka / 2022 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women
The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women
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56,48 zł |
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
ISBN: 9781786899712 / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw and the part it plays in the patchwork of its distinguished author's life. A mix of memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of puzzling
A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw and the part it plays in the patchwork of its distinguished author's life. A mix of memoi...
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56,48 zł |
The Sea Lady
ISBN: 9780141027456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love.
Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry...
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87,64 zł |
The Millstone
ISBN: 9780156006194 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Margaret Drabble s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman s decision to become a mother.
" Margaret Drabble s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman s decision...
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69,17 zł |
A Natural Curiosity
ISBN: 9781838859718 / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,35 zł |
The Needle's Eye
ISBN: 9781838857172 / Miękka / 2022 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love
An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love
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56,48 zł |
The Dark Flood Rises
ISBN: 9781250160058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,85 zł |
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780141196435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, sheexamines the intense private worlds and passions of everyday people. From one man's honeymooning epiphany in Hassan's Tower to the journeying fantasies of A Voyage to Cythera, and from the sharp joy of The Merry Widow to the bloody reality of the collection's title story, these are moving, witty and provocative tales, exploring cruel and loving relationships, social change and personal obsessions, and confirming her status as a leading...
Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, sh...
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51,35 zł |
The Sea Lady
ISBN: 9780156034265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back toreceive honorary degrees from a new university thereHumphrey on the train, Ailsa flyingthey take stock of their lives, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements, romantic and otherwise. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender. Their mutual pasts unfold in an exquisite portrait of English social life in thelatter half of...
Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back toreceive ho...
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77,83 zł |
The Seven Sisters
ISBN: 9780156028752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London--and begins to pour her soul into a diary. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life?
In a voice that is pitch-perfect, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts... When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, wa...
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77,83 zł |
A Summer Bird-Cage
ISBN: 9781838857110 / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Witty and compassionate, the extraordinary debut from one of our greatest novelists, about lies and deceit, love and forgiveness
Witty and compassionate, the extraordinary debut from one of our greatest novelists, about lies and deceit, love and forgiveness
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51,35 zł |
Pure Gold Baby
ISBN: 9780544228030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Achingly wise . . . Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book." Wall Street Journal
Jessica Speight, an anthropologist in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair leaves her a single mother. Anna is delightful a pure gold baby. But as it becomes clear that Anna is not a normal child, the book circles questions of responsibility, potential, even age, with Margaret Drabble s characteristic intelligence and wit. Told from the point of view of Jess's fellow mothers, The Pure Gold Baby is a... "Achingly wise . . . Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book." Wall Street Journal
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77,83 zł |
The Red Queen
ISBN: 9780141018164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. Why does the Red Queen pick Babs to keep her story alive, and what else does she want from her?
200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her ex...
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87,64 zł |
The Witch of Exmoor
ISBN: 9780156006040 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a profoundly moving, intellectually acute novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three grasping children in this dazzling, wickedly gothic tale.
" In a profoundly moving, intellectually acute novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh (Los Angele...
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73,50 zł |
The Sea Lady
ISBN: 9781838859725 / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,35 zł |
The Peppered Moth
ISBN: 9781838857165 / Miękka / 2022 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family
Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family
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56,48 zł |
The Millstone
ISBN: 9780241979174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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49,28 zł |
The Millstone
ISBN: 9780141041728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rosamund Stacey is a young woman with a vast knowledge of literature and very little knowledge of life. When she finds herself pregnant after her only sexual encounter, she takes the brave decision to risk social stigma as an unmarried mother.
Rosamund Stacey is a young woman with a vast knowledge of literature and very little knowledge of life. When she finds herself pregnant after her only...
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71,20 zł |
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
ISBN: 9780547386096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries about jigsaw puzzles -- did you know that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales? -- Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first trip to...
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her ...
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77,83 zł |