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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1405912723ISBN 13: 9781405912723
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the heart-warming Lost and Found, discover tales from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home that celebrate the power of animals to transform people's lives.We hear from the young boy whose Battersea dog helped him to deal with a serious autoimmune disease, and from a woman whose Staffie was the friend who got her through cancer. We meet the couple who were brought together by a Battersea dog; the man who took on a three-legged kitten which changed his life; and the former Battersea hound who became a search and rescue dog.Read these and many other powerful stories from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. Lost and Found has something for dog and cat lovers alike, and is perfect reading for fans of A Streetcat Named Bob and Paul O'Grady's For The Love Of Dogs.Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is the UK's oldest and most famous home for dogs and cats. The Home aims never to turn away a dog or cat in need of help, reuniting lost dogs and cats with their owners or caring for them until new homes can be found. Battersea also works to educate the public about responsible pet ownership. Every year the Home cares for over 9,000 lost, abandoned and neglected dogs and cats, and in 2010 the home marked its 150th anniversary. 320 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141395346ISBN 13: 9780141395340
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR\*Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' IndependentFor many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal.Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man.'Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations' Irish Times'Funny, wise and true' Roddy Doyle 256 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141393459ISBN 13: 9780141393452
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Georges Simenon (Author) Georges Simenon was born in Li¿, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. 144 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969832ISBN 13: 9780241969830
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance And miles away, a restless woman looks for a change NICK HORNBY'S HILARIOUS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR FILM'A comic delight' Evening Standard _____________In 1986, legendary musician Tucker Crowe disappeared from the public eye and for 20 years, his rabid fans have speculated his whereabouts. Annie lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked, and has put fifteen years into a safe relationship with one such 'Crowe-ologist', Duncan. And she wants her money back, please.Then Tucker releases new material. Duncan thinks it's genius, Annie does not, and when she dares to go public with her dislike, there are unexpected, life-changing consequences for all three . . .Juliet, Naked is a humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to our own potential. If you like David Nicholls, David Sedaris and Jonathan Coe, you will love this book._________________'Ingenious, funny and moving' Daily Mail'Pitch-perfect' Observer'Sharply funny, touching' Daily Telegraph 256 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969824ISBN 13: 9780241969823
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE MILLION-COPY NO.1 BESTSELLER'Enormously powerful' Guardian'Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive' The Times___________________'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more. . . 'London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe it's time to move. . . This laugh-out-loud novel, from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity, will have you gripped from start to finish and will appeal to fans of David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe, as well as readers in need of a moral compass everywhere.___________________'Pins you in your armchair and won't let go . . . How to be Good How to be bloody marvellous, more like' Mail on Sunday'It does exactly what it says on the cover. Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut' Independent'The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant . . . Hornby's best book since Fever Pitch' Lynn Truss, The Times 256 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1405914939ISBN 13: 9781405914932
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new novel from the author of 'On Dublin Street' and 'Down London Road', this follows the love trials of Olivia and Nate. Olivia is shy, but hopes that moving to Edinburgh will give her a new start. Nate is terrified of commitment but he's as loyal as they come. 416 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969956ISBN 13: 9780241969953
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Extremely funny . . . and wise' Sunday Times'Impossible to put down . . . enthralling' The GuardianTHE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE__________________________'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block 'For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all . . . but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons.Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices if cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, A Long Way Down is a darkly hilarious and moving novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby. __________________________'Sensitive and empathetic, but damn funny as well. My new Hornby favourite' Observer'Some of the finest writing I've ever had the pleasure of reading' Johnny Depp 272 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141395974ISBN 13: 9780141395975
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology.This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in which an ordinary man's fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality, as well as essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Making fun of his own weaknesses and those of other people (and dogs) - the English teacher who looked only at figures of speech, the Airedale who refused to include him in the family, the botany lecturer who despaired of him totally - James Thurber is a true original, whose off-beat imagination shows us everyday life from a different angle.James Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio, where, as he once said, so many awful things happened to him. After university (Ohio State) he worked at the American Embassy in Paris from 1918 to 1920, and then turned to journalism. From 1927 onwards he was on the staff of the New Yorker, and first published much of his work in it. He died in New York in 1961, and is today recognised as one of America's greatest twentieth-century humourists.'One of the absolutely essential books of our time' Saturday Review of Literature'One of the great humorists' Sunday Times 416 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241950341ISBN 13: 9780241950340
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple are married and live in Suffolk. There are twenty bestselling novels by Nicci French, published in thirty-one languages. Blue Monday was the first thrilling story in the Frieda Klein series, which concludes with Day of the Dead. 576 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141393092ISBN 13: 9780141393094
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. 176 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969840ISBN 13: 9780241969847
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE HILARIOUS COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ABOUT A BOY'Touching, very funny' Guardian __________________ 'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.'Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam; his Mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia.Then a little accident happens. One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (let alone skate) away from this one. He's a boy facing a man's problems and the question is - has he got what it takes to confront them Slam is a novel about a boy who has to grow up in big, big hurry. It is The Catcher in the Rye for the 21st century.______________'Very funny.very real' Daily Telegraph'Hornby gets his point across with the subtlety and skill of a born novelist who always deserves to be read' Independent'A moving read for anyone' Elle 304 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241960541ISBN 13: 9780241960547
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking) and War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra) here examines how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world, and how, for instance, we often misperceive everything from our relationships with family, friends and business associates, the reasons for our investment decisions, to our own past.Your preference in politicians, the amount of tip you give the waiter-all our judgments and perceptions-reflect the workings of our mind on two levels, the conscious, of which we are aware, and the unconscious, which is hidden from us. The latter has long been the subject of speculation, but over the past two decades scientific researchers have developed remarkable new tools for probing the hidden, or subliminal, workings of the mind. The result of this explosion of research is a new science of the unconscious, and a sea change in our understanding of how the mind affects the way we live. These cutting-edge discoveries have revealed that the way we experience life-our perception, behavior, memory, and social judgment-is largely driven by the mind's subliminal processes and not by the conscious ones, as we have long believed. Employing his trademark wit and his lucid, accessible explanations of the most obscure scientific subjects, Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a tour of this research, unraveling the complexities of the subliminal self, increasing our understanding of how the human mind works, and how we interact with friends, strangers, spouses and coworkers. In the process he changes our view of ourselves and the world around us.Leonard Mlodinow received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and now teaches at the California Institute of Technology. His previous books include War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra); the two national best sellers The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking) and The Drunkard's Walk (a New York Times Notable Book and short-listed for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books); Feynman's Rainbow; and Euclid's Window. He also wrote for the television series MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation. 272 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141042400ISBN 13: 9780141042404
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman is the final instalment in his epic Cale and the Sanctuary of Redeemers series. The Beating of his Wings is the third and final instalment in the epic Paul Hoffman trilogy following Cale and the Sanctuary of the Redeemers. Following The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things, this climatic ending will bring this sensational narrative to a close, and finally the fate of the angel of death will be revealed.Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series.Praise for Paul Hoffman:'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph'A cult classic . . .' Daily Express 512 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141975237ISBN 13: 9780141975238
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that the institutions that were once the four pillars of Western society - representative government, the free market, the rule of law and civil society - are degenerating. The Great Degeneration is a powerful indictment of an era of negligence and complacency. To stop us frittering away the institutional inheritance of centuries, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform. 'A refreshing perspective on the economic decline of advanced countries and the origins of the crisis' Samuel Brittan, Financial Times 'He writes with splendid panache and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' The Times 'One of the most incisive writers of history, politics and economics today' Sunday Telegraph 'Niall Ferguson has transformed the intellectual landscape' Economist 192 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969794ISBN 13: 9780241969793
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ABOUT A BOY 31 Songs is best-selling author Nicky Hornby's ultimate desert island disksThrough thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, Nick Hornby tells us what music means to his life. These personal and passionate pieces - refreshingly free of pretension - are a celebration of the joy that certain songs have given him. Together with additional writings on music from his column in the new Yorker - seen in the UK for the first time - 31 Songs is for Hornby what many of us have always wanted: a soundtrack to accompany life.Winner of The National Book Critics Circle award, this funny and touchingly personal book is a must for music fans everywhere.'Original, well written and wholly lacking in pretension.as good a book about pop music as I have read in many years and the most accomplished of Hornby's books so far' Spectator'Funny, provocative, immensely readable. It is not simply about music.it is about Hornby, and us, and about being alive. His enthusiasm is such that he makes me want to be a better listener - and I can offer no better compliment. A triumph' Tim Lott, Evening Standard'Refreshing, candid, very moving. Reminds you why you loved music before you knew enough to explain your love away' Uncut 256 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1405916389ISBN 13: 9781405916387
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides smokers with the motivation to break free from addiction forever, covering how to achieve the right frame of mind to quit, how to avoid weight gain, quit without rules or gimmicks, enjoy the freedom of not smoking and quit without willpower. From the author of 'The Easy Way To Stop Smoking'. 480 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141019913ISBN 13: 9780141019918
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Looks at how and why we so often deceive ourselves. This book examines not only how we self-deceive, but also why, taking examples from aviation disasters, con artists, sexual betrayals and conflicts within families. It can make you rethink something that you think you know. 416 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241959500ISBN 13: 9780241959503
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank' Daily TelegraphFirst they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I heard her voice . . .In 1941, aged 12, Helga Weiss, her mother and father were forced to say goodbye to their home, their relatives and all that they knew, and were interned in the Nazi concentration camp of Terezín. For the next three years, Helga documented her experiences there, and those of her friends and family, in a diary. Then they were sent to Auschwitz, and the diary was left behind, hidden in a wall.Helga was one of a tiny number of Jewish children from Prague to survive the holocaust. After she returned home, she eventually managed to retrieve her diary and completed the journal of her experiences. The result is one of the most vivid first-hand accounts of the Holocaust ever to have been recovered. 'Anne Frank's diary finished when her family was rounded up for the camps: in Helga's Diary, we have a child's record of life inside the extermination factories. Shines a light into the long black night that was the Holocaust' Daily Express 'Resounds with a ferocious will to endure conditions of astonishing cruelty. Displays a rare capacity to remain keenly observant and to find the right words for transmitting . . . memory into history' New Statesman 'A moving testimony to courage and endurance. Remarkable . . . what is so compelling is the immediacy and unknowingness' Financial Times 272 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241961734ISBN 13: 9780241961735
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Clive Cussler (Author) Clive Cussler is the author and co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt¿ adventures, such as Celtic Empire; the NUMA¿ Files adventures, most recently The Rising Sea; the Oregon Files, such as Shadow Tyrants; the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with The Chase; and the recent Fargo Adventures which lastly included The Oracle. He lives in Arizona.Thomas Perry (Author) Thomas Perry is the author of 23 novels including the Jane Whitefield series, Death Benefits and Pursuit. He has co-written The Tombs and The Mayan Secrets with Clive Cussler. He lives in Southern California. 416 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1846146267ISBN 13: 9781846146268
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Zizek explores the concept of 'event', in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophyWhat is really happening when something happens In the second in a new series of accessible, commute-length books of original thought, Slavoj Zizek, one of the world's greatest living philosophers, examines the new and highly-contested concept of Event. An Event can be an occurrence that shatters ordinary life, a radical political rupture, a transformation of reality, a religious belief, the rise of a new art form, or an intense experience such as falling in love. Taking us on a trip which stops at different definitions of Event, Zizek addresses fundamental questions such as: are all things connected How much are we agents of our own fates Which conditions must be met for us to perceive something as really existing In a world that's constantly changing, is anything new really happening Drawing on references from Plato to arthouse cinema, the Big Bang to Buddhism, Event is a journey into philosophy at its most exciting and elementary.Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Communist political activist. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art. His main work is Less Than Nothing, a study on the actuality of Hegelian dialectics. 224 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1846147816ISBN 13: 9781846147814
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf,' Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now in Why this World, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's development as a writer was directly connected to the story of her turbulent life. Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice became, virtually from adolescence, a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer, and asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true heir to Kafka as well as the unlikely author of 'perhaps the greatest spiritual autobiography of the twentieth century.' From Chechelnik to Recife, from Naples and Bern to Washington and Rio de Janeiro, Why This World strips away the mythology surrounding this extraordinary figure and shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman's struggles into a universally resonant art.Benjamin Moser is the New Books columnist of Harper's Magazine. He was born in Houston in 1976 and currently lives in the Netherlands. He is a contributor to the The New York Review of Books, and he has written for Conde Nast Traveler and Newsweek, as well as many other publications.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1846144434ISBN 13: 9781846144431
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An updated edition of the widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller. Sets out the entire story of human endeavour it all its grandeur, folly, drama and pain.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0670919888ISBN 13: 9780670919888
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, West Africa, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. Now this broken family has a chance to heal - but can the Sais take it 'Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one family's fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members. With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period. An astonishing debut' Teju Cole, author of Open City 318 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141395435ISBN 13: 9780141395432
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally . an inferior people'. When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club, and Flory can help. Flory's life is changed further by the arrival of beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen from Paris, who offers an escape from loneliness and the 'lie' of colonial life. 299 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141395451ISBN 13: 9780141395456
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.Published with an introduction by Richard Hoggart in Penguin Modern Classics.'It is easy to see why the book created and still creates so sharp an impact . exceptional immediacy, freshness and vigour, opinionated and bold . Above all, it is a study of poverty and, behind that, of the strength of class-divisions'Richard Hoggart 224 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0141395478ISBN 13: 9780141395470
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.Enlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence, with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics. 275 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969948ISBN 13: 9780241969946
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE HILARIOUS COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ABOUT A BOY'Touching, very funny' Guardian __________________ 'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.'Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam; his Mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia.Then a little accident happens. One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (let alone skate) away from this one. He's a boy facing a man's problems and the question is - has he got what it takes to confront them Slam is a novel about a boy who has to grow up in big, big hurry. It is The Catcher in the Rye for the 21st century.______________'Very funny.very real' Daily Telegraph'Hornby gets his point across with the subtlety and skill of a born novelist who always deserves to be read' Independent'A moving read for anyone' Elle 292 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969891ISBN 13: 9780241969892
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, FEVER PITCH has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind ofsports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation. 239 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969875ISBN 13: 9780241969878
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - About a Boy is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller 'How cool was Will Freeman 'Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool And can Marcus help Will just to grow up This astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book, as will lovers of fiction everywhere.'A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping' Marie Claire'About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision' Irish Times'It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets' Literary Review 278 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969808ISBN 13: 9780241969809
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE MILLION COPY NO. 1 BESTSELLER THAT BECAME AN ACCLAIMED FILM STARRING HUGH GRANT AND NICOLAS HOULT 'A very entertaining and endearing read' The Times___________________Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Will loves his life. Living carefree off the royalties of his dad's Christmas song, he's rich, unattached and has zero responsibilities - just the way he likes it.But when Will meets Marcus, an awkward twelve-year-old who listens to Joni Mitchell and accidentally kills ducks with loaves of bread, an unlikely friendship starts to bloom. Can this odd duo teach each another how to finally act their age Hugely funny and equally heartfelt, Nick Hornby's classic proves you're never too old to grow up. Perfect for fans of David Nicholls and Mike Gayle.___________________'A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping' Marie Claire'About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision' Irish Times'It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets' Literary Review 278 pp. Englisch.