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The Camomile Lawn
ISBN: 9781784871284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and world-weary at only nineteen. Calypso is gorgeous, utterly selfish and determined to marry for money. Polly and Walter, brother and sister, play their cards close to their chests. Then there's little Sophie, who nobody loves. Soon the world will be swept into war again and the five cousins will enter a whirligig of sex, infidelity, love and loss, but for now they have one last, gaspingly hot summer at the house by the cliffs with the camomile lawn.
A beloved bestseller from an author ahead of her time, The Camomile Lawn is a... Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and world-weary at only nineteen. Calypso is gorgeous, utterly selfish and determined to marry for mone...
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Darling Pol: Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967
ISBN: 9781784704476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again. These remarkable letters, which were inspired by Mary's great love story with Eric, were also the means by which the novelist found her voice.
Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again. These remarkable let...
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56,22 |
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An Imaginative Experience
ISBN: 9780099499091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A traveller on an InterCity train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back in a field, unable to rise. Righting it, the woman turns, and he sees her face is full of tragedy.
Considering tragedies of his own, he does not intrude, but the image lodges in his mind: a strange but familiar despair, unable, despite itself, to ignore the desperation it recognizes in others. From these seeds Mary Wesley draws out a plot of an... A traveller on an InterCity train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a whi...
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88,84 |
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The Camomile Lawn
ISBN: 9780099499145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'The Camomile Lawn' presents a vivid and lively picture of wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins.
'The Camomile Lawn' presents a vivid and lively picture of wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins.
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51,10 |
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Harnessing Peacocks
ISBN: 9780099501688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A compartmentalized life becomes entangled.
Hebe listens in the darkness of the hall to a family conference. Her stern grandfather and the others are discussing Hebe's unexpected pregnancy. The decision, unanimous, is that it be terminated. Hebe, dissenting, flees into the night. Twelve summers later she is living happily alone with her son in a seaside town where he is receiving an expensive education. Hebe has organized her life oddly but well. She has two chief talents in life -- cooking and making love -- and these she has exercised with dignity, in privacy and for profit. It... A compartmentalized life becomes entangled.
Hebe listens in the darkness of the hall to a family conference. Her stern grandfather and the others ... |
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88,84 |
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Second Fiddle
ISBN: 9780099513063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Laura Thornby, independent, individual and slightly exotic, manages her life with exquisite control. Her affairs are brief but delightful, her career fulfilling. But when she meets struggling writer Claude Bannister, she is swept by an irresistible desire to interfere, manipulate and experiment with him -- for his own good, of course. What she does not foresee, however, are the possibilities that he may one day write well, and that she might fall in love.
Laura Thornby, independent, individual and slightly exotic, manages her life with exquisite control. Her affairs are brief but delightful, her career ...
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A Sensible Life
ISBN: 9780099499138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language.Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926--leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures--Flora was a ten-year-old misfit.Ignored by her self-absorbed parents, unloved, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany that summer, Flora was--peripherally--included in their gracious circles.And there, meeting kindly civilised people for the first time, she fell in love--with Cosmo--with Hubert--with Feix.It took forty years for the love affairs...
She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language.Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holi...
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88,84 |
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The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew
ISBN: 9780099501671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This lively and entertaining romp through England and Africa.
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew opens with two key events: the departure of Poppy's thoroughly detestable lover, Edmund, for a richer woman, and the death of her father who, to the irritation of the nursing staff, dies in the midst of raucous laughter. Poppy follows her father's dying wish and organizes a "fun" funeral complete with black-plumed horses and a suspicious number of glamorous women. Present at the funeral are three men who are determined to become her suitors. However, the treacherous Edmund shows up as well... This lively and entertaining romp through England and Africa.
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew opens with two key events: the departure of Poppy's ... |
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88,84 |
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Part Of The Furniture
ISBN: 9780099513056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Early in 1941, seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe is hurrying down a London street. Planes thunder overhead; a battery of guns opens up. She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger who offers her the protection of his house. Given this respite from the bleakness of an existence where she has no home and family, June encounters a series of events that take her to a house in the West Country, where war only occasionally intrudes, where she may find peace, and no longer just be part of the furniture.
Early in 1941, seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe is hurrying down a London street. Planes thunder overhead; a battery of guns opens up. She is rescued f...
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51,10 |
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Not That Sort Of Girl
ISBN: 9780099499121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. For the whole of Rose's respectable married life, she had kept faith with both men. To Ned she was a perfect wife and mother of his son. To Mylo, Rose was an unconventional mistress, answering his erratic calls. After Ned's funeral Rose looks back on a life of dual constancy, passion, humour, and the ambiguities of love - and chooses her future.
For the whole of Rose's respectable married life, she had kept faith with both men. To Ned she was a perfect wife and mother of his son. To Mylo, Rose...
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51,10 |
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Jumping the Queue
ISBN: 9780099499152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Matilda Poliport is recently widowed and has decided to end it all. But, when constructing her careful plan, she comes across Hugh Warner, also hatching a similar ploy. And so life begins again for them both.
Matilda Poliport is recently widowed and has decided to end it all. But, when constructing her careful plan, she comes across Hugh Warner, also hatchi...
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A Dubious Legacy
ISBN: 9780099513049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Henry brought his new bride, Margaret, to Cotteshaw in 1944. On the threshold she gave him a black eye and went straight to bed where she remained, apart from the occasional malevolent outburst, for the rest of her life. Two young couples became regular if uneasy house guests over many years, listening, speculating, keeping a watchful eye on Margaret's door until finally, piecing together the gossip and the rumours, they found themselves tangled in the web of Henry's life.
Henry brought his new bride, Margaret, to Cotteshaw in 1944. On the threshold she gave him a black eye and went straight to bed where she remained, ap...
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88,84 |
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Tenley's Magic Thumb
ISBN: 9781985017641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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41,45 |
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A Legacy of Forgiveness: The Story of Thomas Emmanuel Hermiz
ISBN: 9781953285928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,18 |
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Sci-Fi Stories - Starships
ISBN: 9781722704698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,56 |
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