wyszukanych pozycji: 90
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The Destiny of Nathalie X
ISBN: 9780679767848 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I in Vienna, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters. Artful, witty, moving, The Destiny of Nathalie X is a confirmation of Boyd's standing as a master storyteller. 208 pp. Author tour. 15,000 print.
"From the Hardcover edition. This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World...
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57,02 |
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Trio
ISBN: 9780241295977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.)
An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress. An elating read' Sunday TimesA prod... |
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50,28 |
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Sweet Caress
ISBN: 9781408867990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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55,79 |
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Any Human Heart: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
ISBN: 9780141044170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is the story of Logan Mountstuart, told through his journals. His travels take the reader from Uruguay to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York and Africa. This is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart.
This is the story of Logan Mountstuart, told through his journals. His travels take the reader from Uruguay to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York an...
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50,28 |
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The Predicament
ISBN: 9780241761144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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80,47 |
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Eines Menschen Herz
ISBN: 9783311150657 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Logan Mountstuart ist ein Lebemann mit vielen Talenten und ebenso vielen Schwächen. 1906 in Uruguay geboren, wird er Schriftsteller, heiratet in den englischen Landadel ein, trifft Berühmtheiten, wird Kunsthändler, dann Berichterstatter im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg, schließlich Spion. Ein ungewöhnliches Leben und dennoch typisch, denn auf der Suche nach Liebe und Glück macht er die gleichen Fehler wie wir alle. Irgendwann landet er in einem Schweizer Gefängnis, arm und verbittert. Schließlich, als alter Mann, wird er glücklich - beinahe. Das Leben ist eine Achterbahn mit Höhen und...
Logan Mountstuart ist ein Lebemann mit vielen Talenten und ebenso vielen Schwächen. 1906 in Uruguay geboren, wird er Schriftsteller, heiratet in den ...
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71,57 |
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A Good Man in Africa
ISBN: 9780141046891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed ... Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive of him to get involved in wholesale bribery. Nor was it exactly oiling his way up the ladder to hunt down the improbably pointed breasts of his boss's daughter when officially banned from horizontal delights by a nasty dose ... Falling back on his deep-laid reserves of misanthropy and guile, Morgan has to fight off the sea of humiliation,...
Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed ... Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But ...
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Stars and Bars
ISBN: 9780141046921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to become just another weirdo. Or could he? This hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy, which Boyd also adapted for screen for the 1980s film starring Daniel Day Lewis, was described in the Guardian as, 'Splittingly shrewd and engaging ... with an extra and uneasy little something...
All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited h...
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50,28 |
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An Ice-cream War
ISBN: 9780241970751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elicits the cruel futility and tragedy of it all.
Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elic...
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50,28 |
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Restless
ISBN: 9780747586203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd
The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd
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50,28 |
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All die Wege, die wir nicht gegangen sind
ISBN: 9783896677808 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Bethany Mellmoth hat sich ein großes Ziel gesetzt. Sie will Schriftstellerin werden. Oder vielleicht doch Fotografin? Oder Schauspielerin? So schnell sie einen Plan fasst, so schnell ist er wieder passé. Irgendetwas kommt eben immer dazwischen. Und auch in der Liebe hat Bethany kein glückliches Händchen. An Verehrern ist kein Mangel, nur taugt leider keiner von ihnen. Und als wäre das alles nicht genug, muss Bethany sich auch noch mit den Liebeswirren ihrer Eltern befassen. So stolpert sie durch ihr Leben in London - von Job zu Job, von Mann zu Mann, von Pleite zu Pleite - und lässt...
Bethany Mellmoth hat sich ein großes Ziel gesetzt. Sie will Schriftstellerin werden. Oder vielleicht doch Fotografin? Oder Schauspielerin? So schnell...
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cena:
58,15 |
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Armadillo
ISBN: 9780375702167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From the award-winning author of A Good Man Africa and An Ice-Cream War comes Armadillo, a brilliant satirical noir set in contemporary London.
To his colleagues, Lorimer Black, the handsome, mild-mannered insurance adjuster rising through the ranks of his London firm, is known as the guy who has it all: the sleek suits, the enviable status. But when Lorimer arrives at a routine business appointment and finds his client hanging from a water pipe, his life spirals out of control. His company car is blowtorched after he investigates a fire at a luxury hotel. He becomes the fall guy of a new... From the award-winning author of A Good Man Africa and An Ice-Cream War comes Armadillo, a brilliant satirical noir set in contemporary London.
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76,02 |
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Love is Blind
ISBN: 9780241295922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman...
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judg...
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50,28 |
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Trio
ISBN: 9780241990261 / CD-Audio / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
102,27 |
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The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
ISBN: 9781421418780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region's number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp... When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched ... |
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227,56 |
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On the Yankee Station: Stories
ISBN: 9780375705113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In his first collection of stories, William Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives. From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. Stranded in an African hotel during a coup, an oafish Englishman impresses a young stewardess with stories of an enchanted life completely at odds with his sordid existence in The Coup. In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam...
In his first collection of stories, William Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem ...
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57,02 |
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The Predicament
ISBN: 9780241761137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
100,64 |
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The Argument
ISBN: 9781474236508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) That's why we shout and scream at each other. Clears the air. A kind of truth begins to emerge. We see clearer. As their families and friends become embroiled in Pip and Meredith's separation, past prejudices, harsh judgements and painful truths come to light. The arguments that... That's why we shout and scream at each other. Clears the air. A kind of truth begins to emerge. We see clearer. |
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61,31 |
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The Romantic
ISBN: 9780241994078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
50,28 |
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Any Human Heart: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
ISBN: 9780241981450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
45,24 |