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20 produkter
Balkan Trilogy
Häftad, 2021
239 kr
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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid; it amuses, it diverts and it informs, and to do …
Great Fortune
The Balkan Trilogy 1
E-bok, 2013
100 kr
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Autumn, 1939. Newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle step aboard the train to Bucharest. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie - but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. As Guy's world collides with that of his new bride, Harriet realises how little …
Great Fortune
The Balkan Trilogy 1
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters'Wonderfully entertaining' ObserverAutumn, 1939. Newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle step aboard the train to Bucharest. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside …
Levant Trilogy
'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters
Häftad, 2025
218 kr
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'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters'An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity' Lauren Elkin'These books are clearly among the very best fiction about the Second World War' The Sunday Times'One of the most gifted …
Balkan Trilogy
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid; it amuses, it diverts and it informs, and to do …
Levant Trilogy
''Fantastically tart and readable'' Sarah Waters
E-bok, 2013
39 kr
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''Fantastically tart and readable'' Sarah Waters ''An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity'' Lauren Elkin ''These books are clearly among the very best fiction about the Second World War'' The Sunday Times ''One of the …
Doves Of Venus
Häftad, 1992
203 kr
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Pretty, brave and eighteen, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove, is also the husband of another. And Petta, his once beautiful wife, …
Doves Of Venus
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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Pretty, brave and eighteen, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. But Quintin, the seducer of one dove, is also the husband of another. And Petta, his once beautiful wife, …
School For Love
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction.
Rain Forest
E-bok, 2011
100 kr
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From one of the classic writers of post-war English literature comes a stunning novel of love, betrayal and redemption. Married but obstinately set in their separate ways, Hugh and Kristy Foster know nothing of Al-Bustan, a far-flung island in the Indian Ocean. Too late they discover how it seethes …
Friends And Heroes
The Balkan Trilogy 3
E-bok, 2011
100 kr
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'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverAthens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young …
Spoilt City
The Balkan Trilogy 2
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverBucharest, 1940. The city is on the brink of …
Fortunes of War
A BBC Radio 4 Full cast dramatisation of the complete Balkan Trilogy
Ljudbok, 2022
118 kr
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A sweeping adaptation of Olivia Manning''s classic war novels, starring Joanna Lumley and Honeysuckle Weeks ''A rare and many-layered pleasure'' Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph 1939, and naive young newlywed Harriet Pringle arrives in Bucharest with her husband, Guy - just as Europe is about to rip …
Rain Forest
Häftad, 2016
198 kr
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From one of the classic writers of post-war English literature comes a stunning novel of love, betrayal and redemption. Married but obstinately set in their separate ways, Hugh and Kristy Foster know nothing of Al-Bustan, a far-flung island in the Indian Ocean. Too late they discover how it seethes …
Friends And Heroes
The Balkan Trilogy 3
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverAthens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young …
Spoilt City
The Balkan Trilogy 2
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully entertaining' - ObserverBucharest, 1940. The city is on the brink of …
Der größte Reichtum
E-bok, 2020
340 kr
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Harriet Pringle fährt mit ihrem Mann im Zug durch ein vom Krieg bedrohtes Europa Richtung Osten. Guy arbeitet seit Längerem in Bukarest, nun nimmt er seine junge Braut mit in diese Metropole zwischen Moderne und orientalischem Durcheinander, eine Stadt, in der sich Spione, Militärs, verarmte …
Die gefallene Stadt
E-bok, 2021
340 kr
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Als Bürger des Vereinigten Königreichs waren sie Achtung, ja Bewunderung gewöhnt. Doch im Jahr 1940 wird es für Harriet und Guy Pringle in Bukarest zunehmend ungemütlich. Sie spüren den Stimmungswechsel, in den Cafés übersieht man sie, die rumänischen besseren Kreise suchen die Nähe der Deutschen. …
Freunde und Helden
E-bok, 2021
340 kr
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Harriet Pringle ist vor dem Einmarsch der Deutschen in Rumänien nach Athen entkommen. Nervös wartet sie auf Nachrichten ihres Mannes Guy, der immer noch in Bukarest festsitzt. Als die beiden endlich unter griechischer Sonne wiedervereint sind, ahnen sie nicht, dass die große Kriegsmaschinerie sie …
