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All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days
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All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days

Rebecca Donner - Canongate Books , EAN: 9781786892195

Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment-a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin.

20,95 € Detail
Explorer
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Explorer

Benedict Allen - Canongate Books , EAN: 9781786896230

What does it mean to be an explorer in the twenty-first century?

20,20 € Detail
Cosmogramma
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Cosmogramma

Courttia Newland - Canongate Books , EAN: 9781786897091

In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.

14,92 € Detail
Collected Screenplays
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Collected Screenplays

Hanif Kureishi - FABER & FABER , EAN: 9780571214334

Hanif Kureishi's cinematic storytelling embraces a wide spectrum of characters from all classes and nationalities, depicting them with compassion, humour and relish, though never fighting shy of controversy. This volume comprises four of Kureishi's screenplays.

18,44 € Detail
The Passenger
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The Passenger

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz - PUSHKIN PRESS , EAN: 9781782275404

BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht, and synagogues are being burnt, Jews rounded up and their businesses destroyed.

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When We Cease to Understand the World
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When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamin Labatut - PUSHKIN PRESS , EAN: 9781782276142

When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence.

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Reckless IV: The Silver Tracks
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Reckless IV: The Silver Tracks

Cornelia Funke - PUSHKIN PRESS , EAN: 9781782693291

The fourth adventure in the enchanted Mirrorworld leads to the Far East, where Jacob and Fox finally track down Will, who is travelling with a one of Jacob's worst enemies. Putting his feelings aside, Jacob agrees to travel with them to the beautiful Island of the Foxes in quest of another magical Mirror.

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An Editors Burial
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An Editors Burial

Various - PUSHKIN PRESS , EAN: 9781782276647

A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, S.N. Behrman, Luc Sante, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross; plus, portraits of their editors William Shawn and New Yorker founder Harold Ross.Together: they invented modern magazine journalism.

13,16 € Detail
Punishment of a Hunter
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Punishment of a Hunter

Yulia Yakovleva - PUSHKIN PRESS , EAN: 9781782276777

1930s Leningrad. As a mood of fear cloaks the city, Investigator Vasily Zaitsev is called on to investigate a series of bizarre and seemingly motiveless murders. In each case, the victim is curiously dressed and posed in extravagantly arranged settings.At the same time, one by one precious old master paintings are going missing from the Hermitage collection.

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Chewing the Fat
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Chewing the Fat

Jay Rayner - Guardian Faber Publishing , EAN: 9781783352395

'This is Rayner at his rambunctious best: upfront, full-fat, and always deliciously written.' Nigella Lawson'A sophisticated palate and a fiery, comic tongue. Jay Rayner's food writing is brilliant.' Stanley TucciWhy are gravy stains on your shirt at the dinner table to be admired? Does bacon improve everything? And is gin really the devil's work?

9,64 € Detail
Collected Essays
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Collected Essays

Hanif Kureishi - FABER & FABER , EAN: 9780571362455

This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film: race, class, sexuality - issues that were provoked by his childhood and family situation.

16,68 € Detail
Harsh Times
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Harsh Times

Mario Vargas Llosa - FABER & FABER , EAN: 9780571365654

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREGuatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas.

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She Come By It Natural : Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived her Songs
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She Come By It Natural : Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived her Songs

Sarah Smarsh - PUSHKIN PRESS , EAN: 9781911590514

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLEThe world can't seem to get enough of Dolly Parton. Her image is blazoned across T-shirts, she burns on desks as blasphemous candles, and well into her seventies she continues to grace awards stages, arenas and talk shows where women of a certain age are rarely seen.

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The Song of Achilles
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The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC , EAN: 9781526648174

**OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD****A 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR**WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE INTERNATIONAL SENSATIONA SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Captivating' DONNA TARTT'I loved it' J K ROWLING'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUEGreece in the age of heroes.

22,84 € Detail
The Floor is Lava
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The Floor is Lava

Ivan Brett - Headline Publishing Group , EAN: 9781472257505

Packed with 100 different screen-free games for the whole family to enjoy.

11,40 € Detail
Zoom 3
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Zoom 3

Filip Kulisev - Amazing Planet , EAN: 9788097333928

Desaťročia cestovania sú pre nás dôkaz, že naša planéta a príroda sú zázrak. Ako inak nazvať šantenie s miliónmi zlatých medúz na súostroví Palau alebo nočný ponor k veľkým rajam na Havaji?

26,31 € Detail
Zoom SET
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Zoom SET

Filip Kulisev - Amazing Planet , EAN: 8588005862622

Trojica kníh ZOOM, ZOOM 2 a ZOOM 3 v rámci jedinečného setu mapuje veľkú časť zážitkov z ciest po viac ako 140 krajinách sveta. Desaťročia cestovania sú pre nás dôkazom zázračnosti našej planéty a prírody. Za našimi fotografiami je mnoho príbehov, ktoré na prvý pohľad nevidieť.

60,72 € Detail
Lilys Promise
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Lilys Promise

Lily Ebert - PAN MACMILLAN , EAN: 9781529073416

The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he'd written 'Good luck and happiness'.

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Gods and Monsters
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Gods and Monsters

Shelby Mahurin - HarperCollins Publishers Inc , EAN: 9780063038936

Evil always seeks a foothold. We must not give it one. The electrifying conclusion to the New York Times and Indiebound bestselling Serpent & Dove trilogy is perfect for fans of Sarah J.Maas and Kendare Blake. Lou has spent her whole life running. Now, after a crushing blow from Morgane, the time has come to go home-and claim what is rightfully hers.

16,50 € Detail
David Austins English Roses
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David Austins English Roses

David Austin - ACC Art Books , EAN: 9781788840194

"Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent." - The Irish Garden"Experts will appreciate the notes on each rose's breeding.

28,12 € Detail