Télécharger le livre :  Summer In February
Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern Art. The effect of his diatribe is doubly shocking, leaving not only his distinguished audience gasping but also many people tuning in to...

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Parution : 2012-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Learning Game
We are all caught up in our children's lives. We all remember our own schooldays and, as parents, we watch anxiously as our children go through it. As we look at the world of teaching from the outside we wonder not only what is going on but what we can do to help. ...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Decisive Duel
London, 15 September 1940. The air battle over Britain on that day saw two of the most advanced fighter planes, the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109, battle for supremacy of the skies. The Decisive Duel tells the stories of these iconic,...

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Télécharger le livre :  In a Dark Wood
Thirty-nine, divorced, jobless: Benedick Hunter is going nowhere, heading in the exact opposite direction he expected. So when he comes across a children's book that his mother, Laura, wrote, he decides that her life and work - haunting stories replete with sinister...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Night Falls On The City
Vienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish, and just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are primed for the Anschluss. When the SS...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Road to Urbino
A story of obsession, love and art set in Tuscany, Sri Lanka and London. Ras, a Sri Lankan who fled his country as a child following the violent death of his mother and his father's disappearance, has committed a crime. Dogged by his past and unable to come to terms...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-07-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lost Girls of Rome
A young girl has mysteriously disappeared in Rome. As rain lashes the ancient streets, two men, Clemente and Marcus, sit in a café near the Piazza Navona and pore over the details of the case. They are members of the ancient Penitenzeri - a unique Italian team, linked...

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Parution : 2012-07-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Consider The Lobster
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's...

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Télécharger le livre :  Oblivion: Stories
A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ... He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us....

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time.A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  A Vicious Circle
'An excellent and entertaining read' Daily Mail'A love story and political comment, a defence of the art of fiction, a masterpiece' Evening Standard'Rich and splendid...viciously funny and a rip-roaring read' ElleA Vicious Circle exposes the corruption of London's...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Kingdom Of Strangers
Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddah's murder squad. But for the past year, he has been having an affair with a woman named Maria. One day though, she disappears.Terrified and with nowhere else to turn,Ibrahim goes to Katya, one of the...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Breathing On Glass
Rhea - dark, intense and brilliant - and her golden, voluptuous sister Amber are not alike, but they are bound tighter than most: by love, by the loss of their father, and by the man who stands between them. Lewis is Amber's husband and the ferociously driven director...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  When The Devil Drives
The second book in the Jasmine Sharp series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves?When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who has vanished without trace, it becomes...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dark Side of the World
An elderly refugee couple sit patiently on the train waiting to see their long lost son; a young destitute mother is forced to give up her daughter; a middle-aged Tamil woman sits at her kitchen table, alone in her house in England, waiting for her husband, and a boy...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Jaggy Splinters
Everyone's favourite unorthodox journalist, Jack Parlabane, goes undercover to investigate the mysterious and lucrative world of alternative medicine: in particular the practice of homeopathy. Are there unexplained forces that can be harnessed to heal us, or is it all a...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-06-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Duke of Windsor's War
Drawing on unique sources, Michael Bloch describes the career of the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War.As a military liaison officer in France during 1939-40, he issued warnings which, had they been heeded, might have avoided the defeat of France;as Governor...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Reign and Abdication of Edward VIII
Michael Bloch gives a new twist to the oft-told story of King Edward's short reign.Drawing on a decade-long study of the King's personality, and on privileged access to his papers, he sees the King's abdication partly as the result of a plot to get rid of him by men who...

Editeur : Abacus
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Télécharger le livre :  The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor
In this brilliant and authoritative work, based on their private correspondence and papers, Michael Bloch describes the feud which developed between the Duke of Windsor and the British royal establishment after the Abdication, the humiliations which were suffered by the...

Editeur : Abacus
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