Historia y biografías
Dickens the Novelist
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Breaking the Code
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Orozco
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Biografía del temperamental pintor jalisciense que abarca toda su vida artística. Cardoza y Aragón realizó aquí no solamente un acercamiento a la obra y la vida de Orozco, sino que entró de lleno en el universo conceptual del dramatismo plástico orozquiano.
Historia del contramaestre Casado valor y abnegación
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El 6 de febrero de 1884, reinando en España Alfonso XII, el Ministrode Marina Antequera dispuso que volviera a abrirse en elDepartamento de Ferrol la Escuela de Aprendices Marineros debidoa la escasez existente de la clase de Marineros para dotar a los buquesde la Armada, por lo que el 28 de (...)
Newman (1801 - 1890)
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La mejor y más completa biografía escrita sobre John Henry Newman.
The Making of Memento
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The brilliance of Christopher Nolan's ingenious thriller Memento has had moviegoers coming back for more. James Mottram now offers the fullest imaginable guide to the film's many complexities. Memento's protagonist Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) is on a mission to find the man who murdered his wife. (...)
Gillespie and I
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As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved.Back in 1888, the young, (...)
The Albigensian Crusade
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In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinful.Jonathan Sumption's acclaimed history examines (...)
Lucy Carmichael
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Lucy Carmichael Margaret Kennedy s tenth novel, first published in 1951 and a work by a mature novelist at the height of her powers opens on an unforgettably disastrous scene, as the novel s eponymous heroine, preparing to savour her wedding day, is instead jilted at the altar. Lucy Carmichael (...)
The Art of Happiness
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'It is not our struggle to be happy that is mistaken; it is our false idea that we can find happiness anywhere but in ourselves... happiness does not depend on outward things. It is born of the mind, it is nourished by the mind, it is what rises, like breath in a frosty air, from the mind's (...)
No Angel
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Private, mysterious and some say sinister, 79 year-old Bernie Ecclestone criss-crosses the globe in his private jet mixing with celebrities, statesmen and sporting heroes. Ecclestone s success has not just been to create a multi-billion pound global business but to resist repeated attempts to (...)
The Possessions of Doctor Forrest
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Three respected Scottish doctors - psychiatrist Steve Hartford, paediatric surgeon Grey Lochran and cosmetic surgeon Robert Forrest - have been close friends since their Edinburgh boyhoods, and now live handsomely in suburban London. But for each, midlife has brought certain discontents, (...)
The Road to Inver
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The Road to Inver gathers the verse translations of Tom Paulin from four decades, and brings together distinguished versions of classical and European poets which have appeared in his previous collections, from Liberty Tree (1983) to The Wind Dog (1999). But The Road to Inver also includes dozens (...)
Lucifer Before Sunrise
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Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Beginning in the winter of 1940/1 and ending with the uneasy 'sunrise' of peace in 1945, this volume sees Phillip Maddison striving idealistically to hold a balance while lamenting the division and possible total ruin of Europe, as he copes with (...)
Mr Secretary Peel
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Norman Gash s magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel Mr Secretary Peel (1961) and Sir Robert Peel (1972) is the standard work on the great statesman, and is widely considered one of the great biographies of 19th-century prime ministers. Faber Finds is delighted to return both to print, (...)
Behind the Shades
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In virtually all areas of Dylan's life - his immigrant antecedents, his business dealings, his various addictions and his romantic attachments - Heylin is able to provide a fascinating picture of a man who changed the whole course of popular music in the sixties and, over thirty years later, (...)
The Coalition Chronicles
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They ve stopped holding late-night sessions in Parliament. Or have they? Imagine a House of Commons with the cameras switched off, the press and public excluded, but with the bar still open. What sort of vile abuse might hon. Members hurl at each other if they were pissed and off the record? In (...)
Where China Meets India
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Since ancient times, China and India have been separated not only by the towering summits of the Himalayas, but also by a vast expanse of near impenetrable jungle, hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms, stretching a thousand miles from what is today Calcutta across central Burma to the upper (...)
Weeds and Wild Flowers
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Weeds and Wild Flowers is a magical meeting of the poems of Alice Oswald and the etchings of Jessica Greenman. Within its pages everyday flora take on an extraordinary life, jostling tragically at times, at times comically, for a foothold in a busying world. Stunningly visualised and skilfully (...)
Like Punk Never Happened
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A controversial and honest account of My Life On The Road With Rock Group, a potted history of pop from '79 '85, and a serious analysis of the whole mess… Dave Rimmer has one great weapon at his disposal. He was there. David Quantick, NME As sharp a study of British pop as we'll get ... Rimmer s (...)