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...
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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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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...
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Télécharger le livre :  Shantaram

'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily TelegraphA novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the...
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 :  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...
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Parution : 2012-06-07

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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...
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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...
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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 Duchess of Windsor

Royal scandal is nothing new. In 1936, the royal family was rocked by events that threatened its very existence. Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, Emperor of India, gave up his throne. A constitutional crisis ensued. The...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-05-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Operation Willi

In this fascinating piece of historical detective work - the result of several years' research and the interrogation of numerous surviving witnesses - Michael Bloch has penetrated one of the great mysteries of the Second World War: the plot to bring the Duke of Windsor...
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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...
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Télécharger le livre :  Wallis and Edward, Letters:1931-37

When Wallis & Edward was first published in 1986, weeks after the death of the Duchess of Windsor, it caused a sensation: this was the story the world had been waiting for. For the first time, the story of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII was revealed in their own...
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Parution : 2012-05-28

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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...
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Parution : 2012-05-28

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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
Parution : 2012-05-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Mrs Ali's Road To Happiness

Mrs Ali's much loved home is suddenly under threat - a road widening scheme threatens to destroy both it and the family business, the Marriage Bureau for Rich People. Meanwhile,Mrs Ali's niece, Pari, a young Muslim widow, adopts a destitute Hindu boy, and this...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-05-03
Collection : Marriage Bureau For Rich People
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Télécharger le livre :  A Rage To Live

Richard Burton was a brilliant, charismatic man - a unique blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed to Western...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-05-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Straight On Till Morning

Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa. Pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer, unscrupulous seducer - her life story is for every reader who was enthralled by Blixen's exotic world, that of Kenya between the...
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Parution : 2012-05-03

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Télécharger le livre :  The Girl Who Fell From The Sky

An 'utterly gripping' tale of love and espionage in Occupied France by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room (Daily Mail)Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French,...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-05-03
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