Verlag: Corsair 06/05/2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1472155858 ISBN 13: 9781472155856
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Verlag: Corsair, 2021
ISBN 10: 1472155858 ISBN 13: 9781472155856
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Minor shelf wear. Pulling to the binding has cause the pages of the book to become slightly loose along the inside of the spine.
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1472155858 ISBN 13: 9781472155856
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 'A book from the psychic fault lines of 21st Century Britain, Peterdown's big ambitions never lose sight of the human and everyday. The result is something simultaneously down to earth and epic' Johny Pitts, author of Afropean Peterdown, an industrial town with a noble past and a lacklustre present, has been chosen as the regional hub for a soon-to-be-built, ultra-high-speed railway line. The development promises to propel Peterdown headlong into a prosperous future; but in order to get there, something from the landscape of Peterdown's past will have to be demolished. On the shortlist are the Larkspur Hill housing estate, a significant modernist landmark, and the Chapel, the raucous home of the town's football team, Peterdown United. Ellie Ferguson, an architect exiled from London, is as determined to save the Larkspur as her partner, Colin, a lifelong United fan, is desperate to save the Chapel. As they each find themselves leading increasingly passionate and opposing campaigns, their essential differences become hard to ignore. Out of this spins an epic, wide-angle novel, rich with character and incident. Affairs are embarked upon. Conspiracies are uncovered. A broad-based popular insurgency ignites. Peterdown brings England's beleaguered streetscape to life and finds lurking there a playful and storied counterculture: mad monks and machine breakers, avant-gardists and non-conformists. Full of warmth, comedy, character and anarchic radicalism, Peterdown is an ambitious tale about work and play, community and place, and how, ultimately, we might live in the face of history. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 1472155858 ISBN 13: 9781472155856
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 608 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group Mai 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1472155858 ISBN 13: 9781472155856
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It was announced just before Christmas, the Goods Line is getting revived, upgraded, made a key part of the new national infrastructure: High Speed+. The plus sign is the evidence of the ambition. The ante has been upped, this is High Speed Ultra . . . the route's new Excalibur trains will levitate on magnets, flying along its tracks at near enough 500 kph.\*But where will they go, I hear you cry, these trains of the future Why, to an airport of the future, of course. It's taken decades of wrangling but the nation has finally had the gumption to say Goodbye, Gatwick! Hasta la vista, Heathrow! And - after eight years, four transport secretaries, three London mayors, and a near-derailment by our old friend Brexit - finally, 'Allo Avalon. A mythical name for a near-mythical airport. A floating island, off the coast of Kent, opened by the Queen on January 1st, exactly one month ago today . . . But why such haste to get from shiny Avalon to Peterdown, this city of heart failure, of special measures and mismanaged decline Well, we've only been chosen, haven't we Picked out of a parade of fellow down-at-heelers, rusty-belters, post-industrialists. We're going to be the regional hub, the splitter station, the knot in a pair of braces, one side pinging up to Edinburgh, the other across to Manchester.\*The future is coming to Peterdown for the first time in a long time. But where will it stop, this ultra-train, and whom will it serve.
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group, 2021
ISBN 10: 1472155858 ISBN 13: 9781472155856
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New. A contemporary debut novel full of warmth, comedy, character and anarchic radicalism. Peterdown is an epic tale about community - our streets and houses, pubs and football clubs, art and architecture. What happens when what s ours becomes theirs - and h.