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Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0099578387ISBN 13 : 9780099578383
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKDCI Serena Flanagan is forced to confront a disturbing case from her past: the murder conviction of a 12-year-old-boy who has just been released from prisonDCI Serena Flanagan hasn't heard the boy's name in years. Not since the blood on the wall and the body in the bedroom. Not since she listened as he confessed to brutally murdering his foster father. But now Ciaran Devine is out of prison and back in her life. And so is his brother, Thomas - the brother that Flanagan always suspected of hiding something. When Ciaran's probation officer comes Flanagan with fresh fears about the Devines, the years of lies begin to unravel, setting a deadly chain of events in motion.'Deeply chilling, but full of tenderness.utterly compelling. The best book yet from a hugely talented writer'Sunday Mirror 'A quietly superb, sensitive plot'The Times 'A must read'Irish Times 'DCI Serena Flanagan is the hero for whom we've all been waiting'Megan Abbott 384 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 1784702900ISBN 13 : 9781784702908
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has been guiding down the river seek to save him, Aljaz is beset by visions horrible and fabulous. As the rapids rise, Aljaz relives not just his own life but also his country's dreaming. 336 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0099593122ISBN 13 : 9780099593126
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo's life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird's foot. Until one day she meets Sabalu, a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace. 256 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 1784704180ISBN 13 : 9781784704186
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father. 448 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 1784700568ISBN 13 : 9781784700560
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Paperback edition of the latest novel from the author of 'Trainspotting', this was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction in 2015. Welsh's filthiest book yet, it's set in Edinburgh and follows a misogynist hustler. 'It's a stern reader who wouldn't fall for his filthy charm.' 'Sunday Telegraph' 496 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 1784702927ISBN 13 : 9781784702922
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen's Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to defend Franklin's reputation amid rumours of his crew lapsing into cannibalism.Dickens responds by staging a play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of reason's triumph, only to fall in love with an eighteen-year-old actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier between civilisation and barbarity dissolves, and Mathinna, now a teenage prostitute, goes drinking on a fatal night. 272 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0224092057ISBN 13 : 9780224092050
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - William Fotheringham is the number-one bestselling author of Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike. He writes for the Guardian and Observer on cycling and rugby and is the critically lauded author of Fallen Angel, Roule Britannia, and Put Me Back on My Bike, which V¿ magazine called `the best cycling biography ever written¿. A racing cyclist and launch editor of Procycling and Cycle Sport magazines, he has reported on over twenty Tours de France. 400 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 1784702919ISBN 13 : 9781784702915
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In einem Fußballstadion werden drei Bomben entdeckt, und Gina Davis verbringt eine Nacht mit einem Fremden. Als sie aufwacht, ist der Mann verschwunden und sie eine mutmaßliche Terroristin. Noch bevor sie sich stellen und alles aufklären kann, entgleitet ihr die Kontrolle über ihr gesamtes Leben. Wer soll ihr noch glauben Sogar sie selbst kann sich der endlosen Schleife der Fernsehbilder kaum entziehen: Tariq und sie auf den Bildern der Überwachungskameras, Schnitt. Die Bomben im Stadion, Schnitt. Anschläge in Städten auf der ganzen Welt. Gina wird klar, dass diese gigantische politische und mediale Maschinerie nicht mehr zu stoppen ist. In nur drei Tagen ist aus ihr ein vollkommen anderer Mensch geworden: Sie ist der Feind. Sie ist die Angst vor der Bedrohung durch das Unbekannte, das unsere Welt dieser Tage in Schrecken versetzt. 336 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 1784702897ISBN 13 : 9781784702892
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer and forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish. 480 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0224100149ISBN 13 : 9780224100144
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win' Gary Lineker Packed with exclusive interviews with key protagonists, Raphael Honigstein's book lifts the lid on the secrets of German football's success.13th July 2014, World Cup Final, the last ten minutes of extra time. Germany forward Mario Götze, receiving a floated pass from his international teammate André Schürrle, jumps slightly to meet the ball and cushion it with his chest. Landing on his left foot, he takes a step with his right, swivels, and in one fluid motion, without the ball touching the ground, volleys it past the onrushing Argentine goalkeeper into the far corner of the net. The goal wins Germany the World Cup for the first time in almost twenty-five years. In Das Reboot, journalist and television pundit Raphael Honigstein charts the return of German football - how did German football transform itself from its efficient, but unappealing and defensively minded traditions to the free-flowing, attacking football that was on display during the last World Cup The answer takes him from California to Stuttgart, from Munich to the Maracaná, via Dortmund and Durban. 'German football boasts not only the World Cup, but superb writers.A fine account of how Germany reclaimed hegemony' Guardian 304 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 022410053XISBN 13 : 9780224100533
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A story of tennis, obsession and Roger Federer for tennis fans and the general reader alike.For much of the past decade, William Skidelsky has not been able to stop thinking about Roger Federer, the greatest and most graceful tennis player of all time. A devotion has been all-consuming.In Federer and Me, Skidelsky asks what it is about the Swiss star that transfixes him, and countless others. He dissects the wonders of his forehand, reflects on his rivalry with Nadal, revels in his victories and relives his most crushing defeats.But this is more than just a book about Federer. In charting his obsession, Skidelsky explores the evolution of modern tennis, the role of beauty in sport and the psychology of fandom, weaving his own past into the story.Thought-provoking and beautifully written, Federer and Me is a frank, funny and touching account of one fan's life.'A splendid deconstruction of Federer's technique' Sunday Times 304 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0224100084ISBN 13 : 9780224100083
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - David Millar was a professional cyclist for eighteen years, and was the first Briton to wear the leader's jerseys in the Tour de France, Vuelta a Espa¿a and Giro d'Italia. He is now part of the ITV cycling commentary team and a key spokesman on anti-doping. His first book Racing Through the Dark was a bestseller and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0224092243ISBN 13 : 9780224092241
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Paperback edition of the history of the West Indies cricket team, inspired by the documentary film by Stevan Riley. Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, it also includes a foreword by Clive Lloyd, who led the side out of the doldrums in 1974. 'Outstanding.' Richard Whitehead, 'The Times'.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 1784871036ISBN 13 : 9781784871031
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born in 1905 near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and went on to become managing director of an engineering business, writing novels in his spare time. His first novel, Blindness (1926) was written whilst he was still at school and published whilst he was at Oxford. He married in 1929 and had one son, and during the Second World War served in the London Fire Brigade. Between 1926 and 1952 he wrote nine novels, Blindness, Living, Party Going, Caught, Loving, Back, Concluding, Nothing and Doting, and a memoir, Pack My Bag. Henry Green died in December 1973.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 1784871133ISBN 13 : 9781784871130
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Bee Journal is a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive. Because of its genesis as a working journal, there is here an unusual intimacy and scrutiny of life and death in nature.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 0224102346ISBN 13 : 9780224102346
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Bryan Talbot (illustrateur). Neuware - A graphic novel chronicling the life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed 'The Red Virgin of Montmartre'. She fought on the barricades defending the short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 against the reactionary regime that massacred thousands of French citizens. Deported to a penal colony, she took up the cause of the indigenous population against French oppression. From the author of 'Alice In Sunderland'. \*Also appeared in April Buyer's Notes\*.