Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872652 ISBN 13: 9781784872656
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss. From basic roast chicken and pea risotto to white truffles and Turkish Delight figs, Nigella brings the joy back into the kitchen.Selected from the books How to Eat and Kitchen by Nigella LawsonVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Drinking by John CheeverHome by Salman RushdieSummer by Laurie LeeLiberty by Virginia Woolf.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872768 ISBN 13: 9781784872762
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds, lochs and sea that define a watery island. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, a celebration of the magic of water - this book will indeed make you want to strip off and leap in.Selected from the book Waterlog by Roger DeakinVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Eating by Nigella LawsonLiberty by Virginia WoolfSummer by Laurie LeeDesire by Haruki Murakami.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872644 ISBN 13: 9781784872649
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What's the worst another drink could do John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are stories suffused with beauty, sadness, and the gathering storm of a bender well-done. Seen through the gin-lacquered looking glass of Cheever's writing, your next drink may have you reaching for a lime and soda instead. Selected from the book Collected Stories by John CheeverVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Swimming by Roger DeakinEating by Nigella LawsonCalm by Tim PeaksLove by Jeanette Winterson.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872660 ISBN 13: 9781784872663
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads. How to be a good father Children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard's compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the boring struggles of domesticity, this is one father's personal experience, and somehow, every father's too.Selected from the book A Man in Love by Karl Ove KnausgaardVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Desire by Haruki MurakamiBabies by Anne EnrightEating by Nigella LawsonLanguage by Xiaolu Guo.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 178487258X ISBN 13: 9781784872588
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the long reaches of the night. Everyone, from parents to the mildly curious, can delight in Enright's funny, eloquent and unsentimental account of having babies. Selected from the book Making Babies by Anne Enright VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series:Fatherhood by Karl Ove KnausgaardMotherhood by Helen SimpsonDrinking by John CheeverSisters by Louisa May Alcott.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 178487275X ISBN 13: 9781784872755
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she'll always share with you a totally unique bond. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four of the most famous sisters in literature, and these stories of the joys and heartaches they share are a touching celebration of the special ties of sisterhood.Selected from the books Little Women and Good Wives by Louisa May AlcottVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Fatherhood by Karl Ove KnausgaardMotherhood by Helen SimpsonBabies by Anne EnrightLove by Jeanette Winterson.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872733 ISBN 13: 9781784872731
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day gift. Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree and engrossed in work and sex, now try to solve age-old arguments and search fruitlessly for another hour in the day. Perhaps you know this land well, or perhaps you're entering it for the first time - either way, you need these honest funny humane stories from an expert guide.Selected from Helen Simpson's short story collections Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life and ConstitutionalVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Language by Xiaolu GuoFatherhood by Karl Ove KnausgaardEating by Nigella Lawson Drinking by John Cheever.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872709 ISBN 13: 9781784872700
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Have you ever tried to learn another language When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker.Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series:Babies by Anne Enright Depression by William Styron Race by Toni Morrison Home by Salman Rushdie.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 178487292X ISBN 13: 9781784872922
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do you remember the summers of your childhood For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked and gobbled, and games played until the last drop of dusk. Lee's joyful and stirring writing captures the very essence of England's golden season. Selected from the book Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee 'An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished' J.B. PriestlyVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784703125 ISBN 13: 9781784703127
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship. Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Both friends become entangled with Robert Cosway, a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their lives. Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the 1960s, Freya plots the unpredictable course of a woman's life and loves in extraordinary times.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 178470217X ISBN 13: 9781784702175
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Summer 1893. In a small Norwegian fishing village, local girl Johanne dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot for painters as 'The Strawberry Girl'.When Johanne becomes a maid for the wealthy Ihlen family, their wayward daughter recruits her as a go-between in her pursuit of the controversial painter Edvard Munch. But when she is asked to hide more than just secrets, Johanne must decide whether to take the risk.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784705926 ISBN 13: 9781784705923
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rose Tremain¿s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784702102 ISBN 13: 9781784702106
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Revisit the haunting debut short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Everything Under.'Full of unabashedly, refreshingly angry women. In a year that made me furious, Daisy Johnson's Fen was a howl I didn't know I needed' Celeste NgThe Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt.This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to a, well, what 'Instant classic.a bold, take-no-prisoners collection situated somewhere between Angela Carter and Deborah Levy' Jeff VanderMeer.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784706175 ISBN 13: 9781784706173
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paperback edition of the latest novel featuring the much-loved character, Bridget Jones, as she becomes a mother.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0099593823 ISBN 13: 9780099593829
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A delightful history of an everyday institution that many of us take for granted. From 'one of Britain's finest pop cultural historians.', Elborough explains why we need to fight for our parks.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784741396 ISBN 13: 9781784741396
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018\*\*Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018\*'A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 191121408X ISBN 13: 9781911214083
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of love poems, elegies and heart-rending reflections on the Great War and the Northern Irish troubles. 'One of the most perfect poets alive.' Sebastian Barry.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0224100513 ISBN 13: 9780224100519
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Having survived the trauma of the Munich air disaster aged just 20, Sir Bobby Charlton played as if every game was for his fallen colleagues, recovering from his injuries to reach the pinnacle for both Manchester United and England. Playing as an attacking midfielder Sir Bobby is regarded as one of the greatest footballers the game has ever seen. During his playing career that spanned twenty years he won three League Championships, the FA Cup, the European Cup and the World Cup. With England he played in four World Cups scoring a then-record 49 goals. He is currently a director of Manchester United.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 178470590X ISBN 13: 9781784705909
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 21ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana, and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency, he was arrested and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at the Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. Told with humour, charm and candour, Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story.'The story of a remarkable life, lived by the very brilliant and exceptionally wonderful Mr Nice'Irvine Welsh'Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal'GQ'A man who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric'Loaded'A folk legend'Daily Mail.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784702226 ISBN 13: 9781784702229
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really happened on that dark winter night In Van Gogh's Ear, Bernadette Murphy reveals the truth. She takes us on an extraordinary journey from major museums to forgotten archives, vividly reconstructing Van Gogh's world. We meet police inspectors and café patrons, prostitutes and madams, his beloved brother Theo and fellow painter Paul Gauguin.Why did Van Gogh commit such a brutal act Who was the mysterious 'Rachel' to whom he presented his macabre gift Did he really remove his entire ear Murphy answers these important questions with her groundbreaking discoveries, offering a stunning portrait of an artist edging towards madness in his pursuit of excellence.BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKPRIMETIME BBC2 DOCUMENTARY WITH JEREMY PAXMAN.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784700347 ISBN 13: 9781784700348
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A mother and child are found dead in an old caravan on a remote piece of land. There is a bloody footprint at the scene.Meanwhile, another mother confesses to her son that he is adopted. The man who abandoned them, now the focus of the boy's obsession, is not his real father.Chief Inspector Sejer is tasked with investigating the murder - and soon receives important information about the two families.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Jun 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784703443 ISBN 13: 9781784703448
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die renommierte Oxford-Historikerin Lyndal Roper, eine der wichtigsten Expertinnen für die deutsche Geschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts, präsentiert in 'Der Mensch Martin Luther' ein neues Bild des berühmten Theologen, eine tiefgehende und einfühlsame Biographie, die uns Luther so nahe bringt wie nie zuvor. Sie zeigt, wer Luther wirklich war und warum gerade er zum großen Reformator wurde, der die Welt aus den Angeln hob.Lyndal Roper hat sich aufgemacht, Luthers ganze Persönlichkeit zu verstehen, seine innere Welt und die Beziehungen zu seinen Freunden nachzuvollziehen. Dafür hat sie seine Schriften und vor allem seine Briefe noch einmal neu gelesen und in den Archiven vor Ort (u.a. Wittenberg, Mansfeld, Leipzig, Eisenach) über zehn Jahre hinweg zahlreiche Dokumente über Luther und sein Umfeld zusammengetragen und ausgewertet.Sie schildert den Reformator als Mann, der mit beiden Beinen im Leben stand, als Menschen aus Fleisch und Blut. Für Luther waren der Körper und die Sexualität Teil des Mensch-Seins, er wollte den Körper vom Makel der Sünde befreien. Sein Glaube an die Einheit von Körper und Geist führt zum Kern seiner Theologie, der zu einem der großen Streitpunkte des Christentums werden sollte: Luthers unumstößliche Überzeugung, dass Christus bei der Eucharistie leibhaftig anwesend ist.Erst durch die lebendige Darstellung von Luthers innerer Entwicklung wie auch der Entwicklung seiner Beziehungen wird deutlich, warum und wie es zur Reformation kommen konnte. Eine großartige Lektüre, ein Lesevergnügen für alle, die Luther und die Reformation neu entdecken oder erstmals kennen lernen wollen - eine neue Luther-Biographie für unsere Zeit. Opulent ausgestattet mit mehr als 100 Abbildungen in Schwarzweiß und farbig.'Ein brillanter Blick auf Luther als Mensch.'Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Göttert'Lyndal Roper bürstet Luther gegen den Strich und legt neue, bislang unerkannte Facetten des großen Reformators frei.'Professor Dr. Thomas Kaufmann.