wyszukanych pozycji: 10
The Cryptographer
ISBN: 9781408844137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'People like to think that money and love are opposites. Anna Moore, tax inspector A2 Grade, has come to be less sure ...' John Law is Anna's latest client, and her most formidable challenge. The 'Cryptographer', people call him. He is mysterious and charming, the world's first quadrillionaire, the inventor of an unbreakable code, the creator of the world's first great electric currency. In the new millenium, it is no longer quite acceptable to admire the rich. But Law is both distrusted and admired more than most, more than Anna understands. That will have to change. Rule number one:...
'People like to think that money and love are opposites. Anna Moore, tax inspector A2 Grade, has come to be less sure ...' John Law is Anna's latest c...
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82,79 zł |
The Hidden
ISBN: 9780061768255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From PEN/Macmillan award-winning novelist and poet Tobias Hill comes The Hidden, a gripping story of a naive newcomer whose arrival at a high-stakes archaeological dig of ancient Spartan ruins unearths long-buried secrets. Interweaving scenes of ancient Sparta with present-day events in a fascinating study of group dynamics, Hill cuts to the heart of the games people play to stay in control. Written with astonishing grace and power, The Hidden is a novel about secrets and the true cost of fulfilling one's desires.
From PEN/Macmillan award-winning novelist and poet Tobias Hill comes The Hidden, a gripping story of a naive newcomer whose arrival at a high...
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74,21 zł |
The Hidden
ISBN: 9781408844199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Sparta, a city that masks age-old secrets & private enmities, a close-knit group are excavating. When Ben comes to Greece to escape private failures, he is drawn to them, thrilled by the idea of acceptance & excited by the dangerous games they play. But there is more to the group than Ben understands.
In Sparta, a city that masks age-old secrets & private enmities, a close-knit group are excavating. When Ben comes to Greece to escape private failure...
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104,88 zł |
What Was Promised
ISBN: 9781408840924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. London in the aftermath of war: children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders strive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette Malcolm have come five thousand miles in search of prosperity, but find the Mother Country not at all as has been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are strangers in a strange land, struggling to belong even as they try to make sense of their past; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take with both hands all that the world owes them, wherever it leads them, whatever the cost. In the street markets and tenements...
London in the aftermath of war: children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders strive for better lives in a country beggared by victory...
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93,84 zł |
Skin
ISBN: 9781408844175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In an isolated trailer home in the far north of Japan, an old criminal scrutinizes his tattooed skin while he waits for the past to catch up with him. A year later, the life of a young policeman breaks down as he investigates a tattooed corpse and the history of death and guilt embedded in its skin. From the Japanese underworld to midnight in the London Zoo aquarium, Skin charts the lives of people in a world made stark and fantastical. The grief of a young computer programmer who cannot erase the ghostly memories of his twins. The vicious logic of the games played by children while their...
In an isolated trailer home in the far north of Japan, an old criminal scrutinizes his tattooed skin while he waits for the past to catch up with him....
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49,65 zł |
The Love of Stones
ISBN: 9780312311315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Burrowing through the goldsmiths' quarters and hidden archives of London, Tokyo, and Istanbul, Katharine Sterne is on the trail of a ruby, diamond, and pearl brooch once worn by Queen Elizabeth I. Interwoven with the tale of her hunt is that of a pair of Iraqi Jewish brothers who traveled to London two hundred years earlier with fortunes made from an unearthed jar of priceless stones. Spanning two continents and six centuries, Tobias Hill's The Love of Stones follows three very different people, each consumed by the same desire-possession of the legendary jewel-which binds their...
Burrowing through the goldsmiths' quarters and hidden archives of London, Tokyo, and Istanbul, Katharine Sterne is on the trail of a ruby, diamond, an...
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117,94 zł |
Zoo
ISBN: 9781844715503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Zoo" is Tobias Hill's third collection of poems. It shows the growing maturity of a voice already distinctive three years ago, when his first collection was noted for its 'grand irony and playful humour, with episodes of tenderness and even charm'.
"Zoo" is Tobias Hill's third collection of poems. It shows the growing maturity of a voice already distinctive three years ago, when his first collect...
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69,67 zł |
Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow
ISBN: 9781844712625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this latest collection of poems, Hill invokes people and place, mythologizing and demythologizing city lives as they are led. From poignant vignettes and celebrations to urban-pastoral and elegy, these poems extend Hill's romance with London's psychic and surreal fabric. Selected as a Next Generation poet, Hill continues to delight us with sensuous observation and imaginative embrace.
In this latest collection of poems, Hill invokes people and place, mythologizing and demythologizing city lives as they are led. From poignant vignett...
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65,30 zł |
Year of the Dog
ISBN: 9781844715534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Dominated by images and narratives from author's stay in Japan, as well as other travel poems, this book contains his celebrated sequence 'A Year in Japan', with its sweeping filmic narratives of the poets encounters in a distant and strange land.
Dominated by images and narratives from author's stay in Japan, as well as other travel poems, this book contains his celebrated sequence 'A Year in J...
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69,67 zł |
Midnight in the City of Clocks
ISBN: 9781844715497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Includes poems that are crammed with a young man's curiosity and eye for detail, and show his great ability for story-telling.
Includes poems that are crammed with a young man's curiosity and eye for detail, and show his great ability for story-telling.
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69,67 zł |