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Verlag: Faber & Faber Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0571298427ISBN 13: 9780571298426
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Owen Underwood's family move to Barrow, it's because there's nowhere safer in the Valleys - and safety is very important. Especially when the threat of tornadoes, and giant bears, is constant. But in Barrow, safety is taken to extremes. Children have to wear bright yellow at all times and are never allowed outside except to go to school. How can Owen face an entire summer of that In secret, Owen and his friends form the Tornado Chasers. Their mission: to get as close to a Grade 5 tornado as possible. It's time for them to face their fears! And then. And then. The second hilarious, thought-provoking, highly original book from an extraordinary young talent - you've never read a novel like it 288 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Faber & Faber Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0571308295ISBN 13: 9780571308293
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dane Washington and Billy D couldn't be more different. Dane is clever and popular, but he's also a violent rebel. Billy D has Down's Syndrome, plays by the rules and hangs out with teachers in his lunch break. But Dane and Billy have more in common than they think - both their fathers are missing. Maybe they'll just have to suck up their differences and get on with helping each other find some answers. Powerful, funny, moving - the ultimate coming-of-age novel. 384 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Faber & Faber Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0571320767ISBN 13: 9780571320769
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I choose to take back my life. My life. Medea is a wife and a mother. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear. Ben Power's version of Euripides' tragedy Medea premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2014. 80 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Faber & Faber Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0571316913ISBN 13: 9780571316915
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape.'Tutuola . has the immediate intuition of a creative artist working by spell and incantation.' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman 176 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Faber & Faber Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0571311741ISBN 13: 9780571311743
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil GaimanFor fans of Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen -- with an introduction by Reece ShearsmithAickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Cold Hand in Mine, first published in 1975, stands as one of Aickman's finest collections and contains eight tales including 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' which won the World Fantasy Award. 'He had the ability to invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night, and specialised in subverting notions of safety and sunshine into something sinister and unforgiving.' Christopher Fowler, Independent 368 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Faber & Faber Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0571297625ISBN 13: 9780571297627
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Behind doors is another story. Behind doors you can do what you like. Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently married the charismatic Mr Zedland. But Zedland has secrets of his own and Sophia comes to suspect that her marriage is not what it seems. In cramped rooms in Covent Garden, Betsy-Ann shuffles a pack of cards. A gambler, dealer in second-hand goods, and living with a grave robber, her life could not be more different to Sophia's - but she too discovers that she has been lied to. As both women take steps to discover the truth, their lives come together through a dramatic series of events, taking the reader through the streets of 1760s London: a city wearing a genteel civility on its surface and rife with hypocrisy, oppression and violence lurking underneath. 512 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Faber & Faber Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0571284108ISBN 13: 9780571284108
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - North East India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment along. Was he the intended target Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, with a roving brief to inspect security arrangements, would not be the working holiday he had hoped for. The country seethes with political and racial tension. Aside from the Jamalpur shooting, someone is placing venomous snakes - including giant king cobras - in the first class compartments of the railway. Jim also has worries on the home front: his daughter has formed a connection with a Maharajah's son, who may in turn have a connection to Jim's incredibly rude colleague, the bristling Major Fisher. Jim must do everything he can to keep his family safe from harm, as he unravels the intrigues that surround him. 352 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Faber & Faber Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0571315283ISBN 13: 9780571315284
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers of our present day.Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation of young men sacrificed - as it seems to the next generation, one in unprecedented rebellion against its fathers - by guilty old men: generals, politicians, profiteers. Owen has now taken his place in literary history as perhaps the first, certainly the quintessential, war poet.
Verlag: Faber & Faber Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 057130785XISBN 13: 9780571307852
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The collection also includes two short plays about relationships in crisis - A Second of Pleasure and Helter Skelter - which are in equal part tender and chilling. Together these plays form a complex and compelling portrait of the sexes - sometimes warring, sometimes loving, but never fully at peace.
Verlag: Guardian Faber Publishing Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1783350156ISBN 13: 9781783350155
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Vogue Factor is the former Australian Vogue Editor-in-Chief's candid account of life at the heart of the fashion industry, from photo shoots and celebrity interviews to the ugly truth behind the glamour - infighting, back-stabbing and the dangerous pursuit of beauty.This is the behind-the-scenes story of an illustrious career in fashion, from receptionist to the editor's chair. It's a life of dazzling parties, outrageous fashion and exotic travel that most people can only dream of.But behind the glossy photos is a hidden world of chaos and pressure, where girls as young as twelve starve themselves to fit into a sample size.Kirstie Clements' eye-opening account of life in fashion's fast lane has hit headlines all over the globe. Both a celebration and a critique of this extraordinary industry, The Vogue Factor is this season's must-have 240 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd. Jul 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0571311539ISBN 13: 9780571311538
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded as the seminal work of African literature.'Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching.' Dylan Thomas, Observer'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe 136 pp. Englisch.