wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Counting Churches: The Malta Stories
ISBN: 9781460987896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of stories brings Rosanne Dingli's recollections of Malta vividly to life. Some are family anecdotes, some are folkloric, and others are figments of the author's imagination. The reader's task is to distinguish which is which. In all the stories, one can feel the atmosphere and enjoy the descriptions of place, time and people of this Mediterranean island, whether they embellish a mystery, a journey, a lover's dilemma or a family saga. "Rosanne Dingli's impressive stories bristle with drama, reflect quietly on memories, contemplate the power of nostalgia ..." Dr Dennis Haskell,...
This collection of stories brings Rosanne Dingli's recollections of Malta vividly to life. Some are family anecdotes, some are folkloric, and others a...
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45,42 zł |
The Astronomer's Pig
ISBN: 9781461019282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a collection of succulent short stories, featuring various locations, each of which is accompanied by a recipe. Where will this book live: in the kitchen? On the coffee table? The international flavour of the locations and recipes will add distinction and interest to your reading and cooking.
This is a collection of succulent short stories, featuring various locations, each of which is accompanied by a recipe. Where will this book live: in ...
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40,83 zł |
How to Disappear
ISBN: 9781514353424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A purple bicycle, a broken statuette, doughnuts, and a spur-of-the-moment drive with a virtual stranger take Selby Green away from her grey existence toward real life. She discovers belonging and warmth through the cruel route of heartbreak; the price of impulsiveness. Bohemian glass, the forests of Moravia, escape from behind the Iron Curtain, and a ten-pound assisted passage to Australia bring Edmund Eben from nowhere to here. He designs vases, sells hats, paints pictures, yearns to belong, learns to love. Edmund and Selby are somehow connected. Time, history, pain and the inexorable pull...
A purple bicycle, a broken statuette, doughnuts, and a spur-of-the-moment drive with a virtual stranger take Selby Green away from her grey existence ...
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59,00 zł |
The Frozen Sea
ISBN: 9780648650232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,18 zł |
The Day of the Bird
ISBN: 9781477651629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Award-winning literary fiction author Rosanne Dingli follows the success of "The Astronomer's Pig" and "Counting Churches - The Malta Stories "with another volume. Read fourteen atmospheric stories crammed with exotic ingredients and locations, which engage and somehow ring with the familiar and the unexpected. Historical fiction, folkloric tales, and anecdotes linked strongly with their location are this author's favourite forays into storytelling. Each short story or novella has indelible links with the facts that form its base and background. Rosanne Dingli has authored three popular...
Award-winning literary fiction author Rosanne Dingli follows the success of "The Astronomer's Pig" and "Counting Churches - The Malta Stories "with an...
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49,97 zł |
A Funeral in Fiesole
ISBN: 9781519245779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At a crumbling but beautiful villa on the Fiesole hills outside Florence, four siblings reunite for the funeral of their mother, Nina Larkin. They bring with them light suitcases, and hearts heavy not only with grief, but also with small mysteries from childhood, grown large with age and time. All in their fifties now, and all with their particular variety of experiences, they remember what it was like to holiday in those hills. Youthful memories rarely match; the four recall their mother very differently. The inheritance they hope to take away is bound up in Nina Larkin's will. The only...
At a crumbling but beautiful villa on the Fiesole hills outside Florence, four siblings reunite for the funeral of their mother, Nina Larkin. They bri...
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63,55 zł |
A Place in Society
ISBN: 9781698392653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,09 zł |
Camera Obscura
ISBN: 9781477505342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fast-moving yet poignant art heist adventure, Camera Obscura is one desperate man's struggle with obsessive love. When an explosion in a cafe blasts a mysterious woman into Bart Zacharin's life, he is not prepared for what follows. Nothing but a monotonous existence in Western Australia and a dull photographer's job stand in his way to pursue Minnie Cuff. Now, he must compete with a million-dollar crime empire, search for meaning and belonging, and battle frustration by bad luck and misadventure. Her attraction becomes a fixation, no matter how many lies she tells. It escalates into a chase...
A fast-moving yet poignant art heist adventure, Camera Obscura is one desperate man's struggle with obsessive love. When an explosion in a cafe blasts...
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68,09 zł |
Death in Malta
ISBN: 9781479159574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Disillusioned and depressed, Gregory Worthington sets off from Perth in search of inspiration. He arrives in Malta full of resolve to reignite a flagging writing career. Quaint surroundings, the potential of a love affair, and the antics and warm-heartedness of villagers he befriends fuel his imagination, but his writing brings him more disquiet and confusion than it is worth. What is inspiration, and what is the reality behind the disappearance of little Censinu Mifsud, a ten year-old boy who was never found? There is a secret in the village, one Worthington resolves to unravel, to turn into...
Disillusioned and depressed, Gregory Worthington sets off from Perth in search of inspiration. He arrives in Malta full of resolve to reignite a flagg...
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72,63 zł |
I Never Drove a Bulldozer: There's a Hole in my Bucket List
ISBN: 9780984800339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Did old age sneak up on you? Karla Telega has cobbled together a semi-comprehensive guide for the newly-old (those at that awkward age between hot flashes and the senior menu). If you need glasses to read this book, drop everything and go get your gray roots touched up. The book will still be here when you get back.
Did old age sneak up on you? Karla Telega has cobbled together a semi-comprehensive guide for the newly-old (those at that awkward age between hot fla...
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49,97 zł |
All the Wrong Places
ISBN: 9781461010494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rosanne Dingli's sensual poetry focuses on emotion. Her sense of location and occasion explore overlaps of sensation prompted by a lifetime of changes and shifts to different places. The poems imbibe some of the more challenging aspects of life with a tongue-in-cheek defiance. "All the Wrong Places is an engaging collection of verse. Readable, warm and honest, it should help win a wider audience back for poets and their craft." Rod Moran
Rosanne Dingli's sensual poetry focuses on emotion. Her sense of location and occasion explore overlaps of sensation prompted by a lifetime of changes...
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27,26 zł |
The White Lady of Marsaxlokk
ISBN: 9781511622936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A doctor returns to a dilapidated mansion after 25 years, seeking something he thinks he saw on his honeymoon. Obsessed about the house and its history, he has dreams of restoring it and starting a business. Uncertain whether his deteriorating marriage will sustain such a plan, unsure whether a madcap scheme to start a guesthouse is even worth considering, he becomes as haunted as the locals say the house is. Memories, visions and dreams merge to present something inescapable; the story of a young woman whose life, whose possessions, could not be extinguished or destroyed by time or death....
A doctor returns to a dilapidated mansion after 25 years, seeking something he thinks he saw on his honeymoon. Obsessed about the house and its histor...
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68,09 zł |
The Frozen Sea
ISBN: 9798416146740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,80 zł |
The Hidden Auditorium
ISBN: 9798416114497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,80 zł |
Box of Rocks: A Maggie Gorski Mystery
ISBN: 9780615725628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At age 55, Maggie is losing the battle with her fear of failure and small designer dogs. At the advice of her psychiatrist, she and her friend Cher embark on a series of ill-conceived hobbies. Whether hunting for a fabled lizard man in the swamps of South Carolina, or panning for gold, their adventures are sure to test the limits of common sense. When archaeology student, Paul Lakeland stumbles too close to a secret goldmine, he becomes a liability to Bear's clandestine mining operation. Bear's attempts to kill Paul before he can leak the mine's location meet with repeated disaster. The...
At age 55, Maggie is losing the battle with her fear of failure and small designer dogs. At the advice of her psychiatrist, she and her friend Cher em...
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49,97 zł |