Télécharger le livre :  Adrift in Caledonia
One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat-hopping odyssey that would take him 2500...

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Parution : 2009-12-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Testimony
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voice -- those of the men, women,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-12-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Clouds Beneath the Sun
Kenya, 1961. As a small plane carrying Nathalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Nathalie knows she's run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archaeologist, she has fought hard to be included in a team excavating ruins inKenya, her...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-11-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Olympiad
'Wry and droll, fascinating and funny, by bringing us Alexander's nether parts this novel gives momentous matters unforgettable life' - Ross Leckie'Witty, ironic ... and achieves a deeply felt authenticity' - New York TimesTwo thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  A Change in Altitude
Margaret and Patrick, married just a few months, set off on a great adventure - a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices medicine,Margaret works as a photojournalist, capturing a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city on film.When a British couple invites the...

Editeur : Abacus
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Télécharger le livre :  Limey Gumshoe
House-sitting in Boston one winter, Will Randall picks up with one of his more disreputable travel buddies, Jack J. Makepeace, and life gets a great deal more exciting.Makepeace introduces Randall to his current employers, Chestnut Investigations, and soon Will finds...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  My Paper Chase
From a wartime beach in Wales to the gleaming skyscrapers of twenty-first-century Manhattan, the extraordinary career of Fleet Street legend Harold Evans has spanned five decades of tumultuous social, political and creative change. Just how did a working class...

Editeur : Abacus
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Télécharger le livre :  Botswana Time
Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on a play to help save their school. In Botswana he was taken up by a...

Editeur : Abacus
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Télécharger le livre :  Bandit Roads
There are many ways to die in the Sierra Madre, a notorious nine-hundred-mile mountain range in northern Mexico where AK-47s are fetish objects, the law is almost non-existent and power lies in the hands of brutal drug mafias. Thousands of tons of opium and marijuana...

Editeur : Abacus
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Télécharger le livre :  The Walled Orchard
'Read THE WALLED ORCHARD so you can tell your descendants, 'I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature''. - WASHINGTON POST'This book is a hilarious yet well-researached historical novel.' - HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEWThe...

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Télécharger le livre :  Indian Summer
While attempting to teach at an inner London comprehensive Will Randall is taken up by an elderly German woman who asks him to accompany her to India. Nothing ventured, he agrees and so begins a wonderful life-changing adventure. Set down in Puna (3 hours from Bombay)...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Song for Nero
History tells us that in 69AD, at the ripe old age of 32 and on hearing that General Glaba's forces were closing in, Nero fled his palace in Rome. He stabbed himself in the throat with a pen and was trampled to death by horses in a muddy ditch. His last words were,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lost Art of Gratitude
Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders.Isabel...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Transition
A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Glass Room
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'A passionately detailed portrait of individuals struggling to snatch order and happiness from frightening, irrational times' Sunday Telegraph'Mawer embeds...provocative aesthetic and moral issues in a war-torn adventure story that's...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Amelia Earhart
When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering aviator, and ambassador extraordinary for the United States. Married to a man with a genius for publicity, her life was...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Dear Undercover Economist
Are there tangible benefits in flossing? Is it wrong to fake orgasms? What does the perfect online dating ad look like? Should we bother doing the ironing? Is it really impossible to buy the perfect Christmas gift? (Other than this book, of course.)Economists might not...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-07-30
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Télécharger le livre :  La's Orchestra Saves the World
With a failed marriage behnd her, La -- short for Lavender -- moves to the Suffolk countryside to nurse her broken heart on the eve of the Second World War. Lonely and at a loss, a friend encourages her to bring the villagers and the men from the local airbase together...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-07-02
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Télécharger le livre :  City of Thieves
Nic Lamparelli works for a leading US investment bank in London. Starting at the bottom, he rises rapidly through the ranks to reach the pinnacle of his profession. Even at the top, he holds true to his principles while those around him abandon theirs. And that's what...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-07-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Ashes to Ashes
In summer 2009, by far the most popular event in the cricketing calendar comes round again - the Ashes series between England and Australia. The anticipation will be intense, the hype absurd, the sense of expectation never remotely likely to be satisfied, for two good...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-06-18
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