Télécharger le livre :  Vanished Years

Rupert Everett's first memoir - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared him to Evelyn Waugh, David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron. ButRupert Everett is - of course - one of...
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Parution : 2012-09-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Road To Nab End

William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-09-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Scott And Amundsen

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-09-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Cocaine Train

One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly 'massacre', drink drivers play chicken and kidnap stories pass for dinner party conversation; nine times more dangerous than the United States, Columbia is no place for the nervous...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-09-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Cuba: The Land Of Miracles

For a growing number of British holidaymakers, Cuba is a Caribbean paradise, but it is also a land of cutbacks and economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island, and his search for the real Cuba inevitably becomes a search for Fidel Castro too. Before...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-09-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Nature's Child

As I write Hermione's twelfth year is drawing to a close. The years of innocence are waning. But we have had the good fortune to live through a period when a child's mind is wide open and as absorbent as a sponge. Blessed years of exploration and discovery, fat and full...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-09-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Beneath the Blue Sky

In a lifetime traversing Britain's lanes and byways, Dominic Reeve has witnessed a changing world for the Romani Gypsies. Since the 1950s, the horse-drawn wagons have given way to brightly chromed vehicles, stopping-places have disappeared - but the Travellers still...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-08-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Nansen

Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-08-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Night Of The Mi'raj

When Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears from her home in Jeddah just days before her arranged marriage, desert guide Nayir is asked to bring her home.But when her battered body is found, Nayir feels compelled to uncover...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-08-16

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Télécharger le livre :  The Essence Of Wisdom

His Holiness The Dalai Lama's indispensible advice for achieving wisdom, balance and happiness.
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-08-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Sunshine on Scotland Street

Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is in disarray. Recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew is taken up by a Dane called Bo, while Cyril eludes his...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-08-02
Collection : 44 Scotland Street
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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...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-07-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Night Windows

Someone has stolen Patrick Balfour's identity. A successful headmaster of a London school, a regular broadcaster and a writer of historical novels, as well as having a fairly spicy private life, Balfour is the object of some unsurprising envy. Yet who would be so...
Editeur : Abacus
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. ...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-07-26

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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,...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-07-26

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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 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...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-07-05

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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 :  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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