Télécharger le livre :  A Life in Secrets
During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German concentration camps...

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Télécharger le livre :  Every Secret Thing
A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bess Of Hardwick
A biography of one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era - next to Queen Elizabeth the most powerful woman in EnglandBess of Hardwick, born into the most brutal and turbulent period of England's history, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed for the...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Death in Tuscany
In the picturesque Tuscan hill town of Scandicci, the body of a girl is discovered. Scantily dressed, she is lying by the edge of the woods. The local police investigate the case - but after a week, they still haven't even identified her, let alone got to the bottom of...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  A Corkscrew is Most Useful
In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838 Bradshaw's famous portable railway timetable appeared.In 1841 Thomas...

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Télécharger le livre :  Aldous Huxley
The grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his eyesight then improved enough for him to start writing, and by the 1920s...

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Télécharger le livre :  Kafka
This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship to his father and his inheritance as a member of the Jewish mercantile...

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Télécharger le livre :  Red Dust
There was probably only one person who could make Sarah Barcant, successful prosecutor, leave New York and return home to Smitsrivier, the small town in South Africa she left years before. Ben. Her lawyer mentor and inspiration; the man who encouraged her to get out and...

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Télécharger le livre :  And Did Those Feet
The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we're following the same path as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, or that we're driving past the exact spot where King Harold was killed,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Solomon Time
Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson - who spent several years in the South Pacific - here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands. Most unexpectedly, Will Randall, once a happy schoolteacher, found himself...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-05-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Full Hearts and Empty Bellies
Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-04-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
THE TENTH BOOK INTHE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIESThe one where Mma Makutsi has a love rival . . . Mma Makutsi's engagement to Phuti Radiphuti has progressed smoothly so far, but suddenly there is trouble in the form of her glamorous, empty-headed rival...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  War Child
Emmanuel Jal was only seven years old when he was taken from his family home to become a child soldier with the rebel army in Sudan's bloody civil war for nearly five years. Beaten, starved and brutalisedEmmanuel was put into battle in Ethiopia and southern Sudan...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Darwin's Island
The Origin of Species is the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure the genius of Charles Darwin's other works.The Beagle voyage, too, occupied only five of the fifty years of his career. He spent only five weeks on the Galapagos and on his return...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2009-02-05
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Télécharger le livre :  A Serpent in Eden
Night comes quickly to the Bahamas. That of 7 July 1943 was unpleasantly close and humid, for though the rains were nearing their end, the air was heavy with an approaching storm. It struck Nassau soon after midnight. By the time it had blown itself out, one of the...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Marriage Bureau for Rich People
What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls?Why, open a marriage bureau, of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag in South India, sees his new business flourish as the indomitable Mrs Ali and able assistant Aruna look on with careful...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sunday Philosophy Club
THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OFTHE MUCH-LOVED ISABEL DALHOUSIE SERIESAmateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-10-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Kalahari Typing School for Men
THE FOURTH BOOK INTHE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIESThe one with the rival detective . . .Mma Ramotswe faces the unexpected and unwelcome appearance in town of a new private detective, Mr Cephas Buthelezi. To ensure she does not lose clients to him, she...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-10-02
Collection : No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Comfort of Saturdays
Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws her into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice....

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2008-10-02
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