faber faber aug 2022 (32 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An epic story, full of danger wrapped up as a sea shanty from enormously talented poet Elena de Roo and rising star illustrator Hannah Peck.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The launch of an outstanding debut fantasy series.'A fresh, wild, gripping adventure.' Kieran Larwood, author of The Legend of Podkin One-Ear'A thrilling, highly imaginative and action-packed fantasy.' Louie Stowell, author of Otherland and Loki'Thrilling . . . a wonderful adventure.' L. D. Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency'I absolutely loved it.' Tolá Okogwu, author of Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun'Pulse-pounding action.' A. F. Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn ThiefBeware of the shadows, the Reaper King is coming . . .Mia always dreamed of being an umbra tamer until she met the wild creature on the Nightmare Plains. Since that day, she prefers to stay safe within the walls of Nubis. Safe, that is, until a surprise attack. With her parents captured, Mia's only hope is to travel to the City of Light to find help. But with only her little brother, two friends and one solitary tamed umbra, the journey feels impossible. Mia not only has to overcome her fears, she also has to learn to harness her umbra taming abilities if they are to complete the quest in time.For fans of Amari and the Night Brothers, The Legend of Podkin One-Ear and Nevermoor, this is the first in the sensational Umbra Tales series, illustrated by Ana Latese.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - By the celebrated author of The Pear Affair and The Secret Starling - Patch finds adventure on every deck of the 'floating palace' she accidentally stows away on.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Dempsey, Sheena (illustrator). Neuware - Lin the panda is on a mission: to find her best friend, Fu. He's disappeared from the zoo! Has he been stolen by the Horrid Human Only her badness can help her find him. Luckily this panda is as fearless as she is fluffy! Just don't call her 'cute'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.' - Ali SmithThe hugely anticipated new novel from the beloved author, shortlisted for the Goldsmith's Prize 2022.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Smart and funny. Wild Pets is an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction.'Guardian'A wickedly funny and emotionally complex novel.'Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Sparkling. funny, it is also cutting, a nearly forensic study of family conflict. both compulsively readable and thought-provoking.' New York TimesThe Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their parents. But they have been desperate to escape each other ever since they were born.Now, on the verge of their departure for college and so close to their long-coveted freedom, the triplets are forced to contend with an unexpected complication: a fourth Oppenheimer sibling has just been born. What has possessed their parents to make such an unfathomable decision The triplets can't begin to imagine the the power this little latecomer is about to exert - nor just how destructive she'll be to their plans . . .'Korelitz draws us in again, this time with her ease, grace and wit, in a satisfying novel that spans generations, lives, and fates.' Meg WolitzerFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDOING - NOW A MAJOR TV SERIESWhat readers are saying:'Powerful, beautifully written, and well plotted.' 'Think Succession meets The Goldfinch.such captivating characters and plot with an excellent ending.''You don't want to skim over a single word of the exquisitely woven story.''This book will definitely stay with me for a long time. I loved it.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*\* Adapted into the Oscar-nominated film adaptation, An Cailín Ciúin / The Quiet Girl \*\*From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These, a heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers.'A real jewel.' Irish Independent'A small miracle.' Sunday Times'A thing of finely honed beauty.' Guardian'Thrilling.' Richard Ford'As good as Chekhov.' David MitchellIt is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Underwood Lane - the winter sun hangs like a suppurating boil glued to a giantsheet of dirty asbestos above the blackened tenements that rear up fromthe cobbled street like a row of broken teeth.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I still play to their chords. Livin within conventions. Livin within restrictions. Livin within a structure. Lettin someone write my narrative. Toye is preparing for his piano exam to get into a prestigious music school.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the Twentieth Century.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For fans of The Passenger, this thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost noir gem, introduced by Anthony Quinn and narrated on audio by Mark Gatiss.'Stunning: incredibly good, tense and compelling and morally complex.' Ian Rankin'This extraordinary novel had me hooked from start to finish.' Sarah Waters'An outstanding novel: gripping, tense and darkly unsettling. ' Jonathan Freedland'A wonderfully compelling noir thriller and audacious and challenging act of imagination.' William Boyd'One of the best London novels of the 20th century.' Benjamin Myers Nothing is more inviting to disclose your secrets than to be told by others of their own .London, June 1965. Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in Pimlico: hatless, with a bow-tie, greying hair, slight in build. His new neighbours are intrigued by this cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner; many are fellow émigrés, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse .'A haunting, remarkable novel, as startlingly original as any of Pressburger's films.' Nicola Upson'A dark and harrowing window on the past: the ending will haunt your dreams.' Janice Hallett.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of internationally acclaimed novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga's complex relationship with race and gender. At once philosophical, intimate and urgent, Dangarmebga's landmark essays address the profound cultural and political questions that underpin her novels for the first time. An urgent collection of essays from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'Nervous Conditions'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I feel so fucking sillybut I thought they meant real peacefucking hell KateyI thought they meant that even my bodyit might stopbreakingNorthern Ireland, 1998.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The bark creeps up my body like a rising sea level. I wonder what will happen when it reaches my heart.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYWhen My Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention - one that foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of Western mythologies and a deeply rooted cultural history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and entertained.')Benjamin Zephaniah: 'A must-read.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The perfect companion to The Rusty Pianist, Playable Pieces is packed with even more easy-to-learn piano solos designed to be ideal for returning players. Combining beautiful arrangements of well known piano favourites with exciting new repertoire by best-selling composer Pam Wedgwood, pieces are presented progressively from late-elementary to intermediate level. With Pam's unique commentary alongside each piece plus demonstration audio as recorded by Pam herself, you'll have everything you need to enjoy playing again.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Jess PauweLs (illustrator). Neuware - A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A writing career which is the most consistently adventurous of any British dramatist.' ObserverRecording dizzying changes in culture and politics, this is a powerful compilation of prose and poetry by one of the distinctive thinkers of our time.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A joy to read.' Sunday Times'Outstanding.' Daily Telegraph'Excellent.' The Spectator'Superb.' Literary Review'Scintillating . Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts - streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar years.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - And in the fourth part of Paterson's ongoing poem 'The Alexandrian Library', the poet-as-amateur scientist - from a weather station at the top of Ben Nevis to the cellar of The Arctic - bears witness to the imminence of man-made extinction.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Work is a book of lyrics and illustrations by the late Scott Hutchison, lyricist, vocalist and songwriter of Frightened Rabbit. This paperback follows the sold-out limited hardback edition and presents the band's complete lyrics (including B-sides and rarities) with handwritten excerpts by Scott, alongside his illustrations. The book is meant both as a celebration of and tribute to Scott's unbridled creativity. It aims to fulfil his wishes by being the book that he wanted to create and had spoken of creating before his death.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and thought-provoking. It humanises literature in this toxic moment.'MAX PORTER, author of Lanny'Seemingly simple yet so deeply profound, The Passengers is an absorbing insight into the lives and minds of so-called ordinary people: their hopes and fears and idiosyncrasies at a specific moment in time.'CLIO BARNARD, director of Ali & Ava and The Essex Serpent'A nation's psyche comes to the surface. The Passengers is not just an oral history of the contemporary moment but, drenched in mood and texture, renders the country itself as a sonic collage.'SUKHDEV SANDHU, GUARDIANBetween October 2018 and March 2021, Will Ashon collected voices - people talking about their lives, needs, dreams, loves, hopes and fears - all of them with some connection to the British Isles. He used a range of methods including letters sent to random addresses, hitchhiking, referrals from strangers and so on. He conducted the interviews in person, on the phone, over the internet or asked people to record themselves. Interview techniques ranged from asking people to tell him a secret to choosing an arbitrary question from a list.The resulting testimonies tell the collective story of what it feels like to be alive in a particular time and place - here and now. The Passengers is a book about how we give shape to our lives, find meaning in the chaos, acknowledge the fragility of our existence while alleviating this anxiety with moments of beauty, love, humour and solidarity.'A magical mystery tour of Britain . . . extraordinary.'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Ashon's gloriously polyphonic book scales the heights. A deeply felt and humane portrait of where we are.'NIVEN GOVINDEN, author of Diary of a Film 'This book couldn't have come into my life at a better time. It's a guiding mate. It enters like a cat through a window, ready to take your attention and show you what it needs to.'TICE CIN, author of Keeping the House.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Piano Player: British Classics presents 20 iconic pieces of British classical music, specially arranged for intermediate piano solo. The collection includes the theme from Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis alongside music by Rachel Portman, Benjamin Britten, Howard Goodall and more, as well as traditional classics from across the British Isles.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Po, Terri (illustrator). Neuware - For as long as there have been secrets to keep, there have been spies, the world over, trying to uncover this classified information. Spying goes on all the time, and everywhere, but some of the most astonishing exploits occur during wartime. The stories in this beautiful collection unpick some of the most astonishing missions undertaken during World War Two, actions that helped to save many lives. Amazingly, many of these tales had to remain a deadly secret at the time and are little known even to this day. Discover twenty-seven of the most courageous and daring, including: Giliana Gerson, Britain's first female spy, Harry Ree, teacher turned saboteur, Margery Booth, the spy who sang for Hitler, Roald Dahl, the spy who became a bestselling author, Noor Inayat Khan, the first woman wireless operator, Scotch Lass, Britain's smallest ever agent, 'Major Martin' the man who never was and many more!

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