Historia y biografías
The Faber Pocket Guide to Handel
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A larger-than-life figure in his time, Handel s reputation has been less than steady since his death in 1759. Was he (in the words of Berlioz) just a great barrel of pork and beer , or (as Handel himself claimed) truly the master of us all ? Now, in this 250th anniversary year, there is more (...)
Illywhacker
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The Remains of the Day
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In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a (...)
The Trouble with Science
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In the Country of Last Things
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'That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no sense . . .'This is the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. Like the City itself, however, it is a journey that (...)
All Names Have Been Changed
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Set in the Dublin of the mid 1980s - gripped by a heroin epidemic and light years from the post EU economic boom of today - All Names Have Been Changed tells the story of a small group of mature students on a writing course at Trinity, who become dangerously obsessed with their tutor, a notorious (...)
Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
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When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as a mirror of England (Walter de la Mare). This edition, drawn from Thomas (...)
An Expert in Murder
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An Expert in Murder is the first in a new series that features Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey as its lead character, placing her in the richly-peopled world of 1930s theatre which formed the other half of her writing life. It s March 1934, and Tey is travelling from Scotland to London to (...)
Snow
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As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place - there's a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the local elections, and the head of the intelligence service is viciously effective. When the (...)