Télécharger le livre :  A Million Heavens

In a hospital in a small New Mexico town, a father sits by the bed of his young son, who is in a coma. Outside, a group of locals gather to hold vigil for the boy, each drawn by their own reasons.Every member of the group has their own story. There's Dannie, a...
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Parution : 2013-03-21

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Télécharger le livre :  George Orwell

'Adds enormously to our understanding of the man' Evening StandardGeorge Orwell was one of the greatest writers England produced in the last century. He left an enduring mark on our language and culture, with concepts such as 'Big Brother' and 'Room 101.' His reputation...
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Parution : 2013-03-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Queens' Country

The gay community'. For years Paul Burston has heard talk of this fabled people, whose votes are wooed by politicians, whose pink pounds are courted by advertising executives and whose alternative lifestyle is derided by defenders of family values. But he's never been...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-03-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Shameless

'Fast, wild, sexy and outrageously funny. I loved it!' Russell T. DaviesMartin is kind, decent and good-looking. And look where it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His friends John and Caroline are no help - John prefers infamy...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-03-14

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Télécharger le livre :  The Only Way Was Essex

In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-02-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Going Into A Dark House

Molly Fielding's mother had been a terrible woman...'A terrible woman indeed. One need only to look at the old sepia photograph to see a vision of nastiness. The look of cunning, the self-satisfied smile, the aura of hauteur as she watches the little Italian...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Flight Of The Maidens

'A formidably intelligent, gentle, comic genius' A.N. Wilson'Gardam is a brilliantly subtle comedian who can keep the reader enraptured until the last page' The TimesSet during the post-war summer of 1946, The Flight of the Maidens follows the growing-up of three young...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  They Would Never Hurt A Fly

Slavenka Drakulic attended the Serbian war crimes trial in the Hague. This important book is about how ordinary people commit terrible crimes in wartime. With extraordinary story-telling skill Drakulic draws us in to this difficult subject. We cannot turn away from her...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Missing The Midnight

Jane Gardam reveals again her brilliant diversity and deep understanding of the human condition. In 'Light', an evocative, lyrical piece of magic realism, a beautiful Himalayan girl defies the destiny laid out for her by her mother, but in so doing destroys the village...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  A Mountain In Tibet

Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods...
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Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Taste Of A Man

One autumn in New York, a young Polish poet, studying literature, and a Brazilian anthropologist researching a new book, meet, fall in love and move into a tiny apartment together. Tereza has a lover waiting for her in Poland, Jose a wife and child in Sao Paulo, and it...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Café Europa

Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East and the West. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What divides us today? To say simply that it is the understanding of the...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Old Filth

Jane Gardam's funny and wise masterpiece, reissued with a new introduction by Nina Stibbe'Old Filth has stayed with me for years' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny' HILARY MANTEL'The last great book I read' RACHEL WEISZ 'Gardam's...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  As If I Am Not There

This is a story of hope and survival amidst the Balkan tragedy. S., a teacher in a Bosnian village, is 29 when war breaks out. One day a young Serbian soldier walks into her kitchen and tells her to pack her bag. She is taken to a concentration camp where there is a...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The People On Privilege Hill

'Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted' The New YorkerIt is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner,...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  High Season In Nice

Nice is the queen of the Côte d'Azur. Founded by the Greeks some time after the sixth century BC, it has borne the tread of Roman legionnaires and Italy-bound Englishmen on the Grand Tour as well as Lost Generation literati from Hemingway to Fitzgerald. Since the late...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Man In The Wooden Hat

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never...
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Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Dreaming Of Jupiter

Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and Asia. A number one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is still regarded...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-12-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Bitter Cross

A Knight of the Order of St John, Gerard Paulet is languishing in the Grand Priory of Rome. He is a man who fought alongside the legendary Leone Strozzi, who made extreme sacrifices for his faith, and is the last of a generation able to speak of the great crusades. ...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-12-06

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Télécharger le livre :  A Place in Italy

'You can't go and live there,' a despairing friend remarked, 'it's not even in Rome.' And it certainly wasn't, but still the author and his wife went to Avea, tucked away amongst the woods and gorges of the Lazio countryside.There they found no Colosseum, or Pantheon;...
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