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The Road To Lichfield
ISBN: 9780140061178 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus.
Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she sha...
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The Photograph
ISBN: 9780141011943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man. Glyn's work as a historian should have inured him to unexpected findings and reversals, but he is ill-prepared for this radical shift in perception.
Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, it shows his w...
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Metamorphosis: Selected Stories
ISBN: 9780241514771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Judgment Day
ISBN: 9780802139665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Judgment Day takes readers into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a seemingly drowsy village enlivened by sideshows of adultery and gossip. With flawless precision, Lively brings the village and its inhabitants to life as an unpardonable death reminds them all that the world is a very uncertain place.
Judgment Day takes readers into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a seemingly drowsy village enlivened by sid...
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Treasures of Time
ISBN: 9780141044859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, a spellbinding story of the dangers of digging up the dark secrets of the past. This edition features an introduction by Selina Hastings. Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Penelope Lively's Treasures of Time was published in 1979,...
Treasures of Time is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively, a spellbinding story of the dangers of digging up the dark secr...
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Nachtglimmen
ISBN: 9783038201533 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Claudia Hampton war Kriegsreporterin, sie ist Schriftstellerin und Historikerin. Eine kluge und selbstbewusste Frau, berühmt, in ständiger intellektueller Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Umgebung und sich selbst. Jetzt, todkrank in einem Krankenhausbett, blickt sie zurück. Persönliche Erinnerungen gehen nahtlos über in politische Ereignisse. Sie erzählt von einer Kindheit kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, über den Zweiten Weltkrieg und darüber hinaus. Alles in ihrem Leben ist Gegenwart: Kindheit und Krieg, Ägypten und England, die ganze Welt und ihre Vergangenheit. Aber Claudias... Claudia Hampton war Kriegsreporterin, sie ist Schriftstellerin und Historikerin. Eine kluge und selbstbewusste Frau, berühmt, in ständiger intell... |
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Consequences
ISBN: 9780143113430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Booker Prize?winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women
?One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day? (The Washington Post ) follows the lives and loves of three women?Lorna, Molly, and Ruth?from World War II?era London to the close of the century. Told in Lively's incomparable prose, this is a powerful story of growth, death, and renewal, as well as a penetrating look at how the major and minor events of the twentieth century changed lives. By chronicling the choices and consequences that comprise one family's history, Lively offers an... The Booker Prize?winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women
?One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day?... |
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Heat Wave
ISBN: 9780141196824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing.
Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daught...
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Život v zahradě
ISBN: 8594169483061 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Penelope Lively je nejen oceňovaná spisovatelka, ale také náruživá zahradnice. V knize Život v zahradě se obě její vášně propojují: vzpomíná na život strávený v zahradách, ať už během svého dětství v Káhiře, na babiččině zahrádce, nebo na svých vlastních zahradách v Oxfordshiru a Londýně. A zároveň si vybavuje všechny záhony, na které narazila při svém bloumání světovou literaturou. Život v zahradě je okouzlující kniha, ze které téměř cítíte vůni starého papíru a mokré hlíny. Na stránkách se střídají příběhy spisovatelů a...
Penelope Lively je nejen oceňovaná spisovatelka, ale také náruživá zahradnice. V knize Život v zahradě se obě její vášně propojují: vzpo...
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Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
ISBN: 9780060926229 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a...
A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unus...
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How It All Began
ISBN: 9780241957271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When... Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is ...just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events.
When... Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Mario...
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Perfect Happiness
ISBN: 9780140069969 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After a long and happy marriage, Frances is plunged into mourning when her husband dies leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. She is submerged in her own loss, until, shocked into feeling by the revelations and sufferings of others, she is drawn into the sunlight of new hope.
After a long and happy marriage, Frances is plunged into mourning when her husband dies leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. She is submerged in her...
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The Road To Lichfield
ISBN: 9780241981405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Photograph
ISBN: 9780142004425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest masterpiece opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands with a man who is not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked "DON'T OPEN--DESTROY." But Kath's husband does not heed the warning, embarking on a journey of discovery that reveals a tight web of secrets--within marriages, between sisters, and at the heart of an affair. Kath, with her mesmerizing looks and casual ways, moves like...
Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's...
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Cleopatra's Sister
ISBN: 9780060922177 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The House in Norham Gardens
ISBN: 9780141361901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. No.40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms all full of old furniture, old papers, old clothes, memorabilia - it is like a living museum. Clare discovers in a junk room the vividly painted shield which her great-grandfather, an eminent anthropologist, had brought back from New Guinea. She becomes obsessed with its past and determined to find out more about its strange tribal origins. Dreams begin to haunt her - dreams of another country, another culture, another time, and of shadowy...
No.40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms...
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Měsíční tygr
ISBN: 9788075777898 / Czeski / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Claudia je silná a nezávislá žena. Dětství strávila v předválečné Británii, působila jako válečná zpravodajka v Káhiře a vydobyla si místo v čistě mužské disciplíně — historii. Roky ubíhaly a její život se postupně prolnul s osudy dalších lidí. Nalezla i ztratila pravou lásku, porodila dceru, kterou nedokázala milovat, měla milence, kterému se nedalo věřit, a bratra, jehož zbožňovala. Teď leží na nemocničním lůžku a v duchu sepisuje „historii světa a zároveň s ní i tu svou“. Je nemilosrdnou kritičkou všeho a všech, ale jako...
Claudia je silná a nezávislá žena. Dětství strávila v předválečné Británii, působila jako válečná zpravodajka v Káhiře a vydobyla si...
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Passing on
ISBN: 9780802136268 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Still dominated by the memories of her late mother, Helen looks back on their lives together, and wonders why only her younger sister, Louise, found the courage to leave and live an independent life.
Still dominated by the memories of her late mother, Helen looks back on their lives together, and wonders why only her younger sister, Louise, found t...
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Consequences
ISBN: 9780141021287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and Lorna's dreams - away.
In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington exi...
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Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
ISBN: 9781405966993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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