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52 produkter
Confessions of Edward Day
E-bok, 2009
45 kr
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''There are shades of Highsmith here, and Wilde''s Dorian Gray. This novel is marvellous and unmissable'' THE TIMES '' Valerie Martin is a goddess. Her prose is so sharp, intense and wickedly witty, you''ll whip through this story like lightning... Glamour, intrigue and passions run high in this …
Trespass
E-bok, 2008
40 kr
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''A compelling, wonderfully observed study of families and the histories from which they evolve ... a strikingly resonant and emotive novel'' TIME OUT ''Serene echoes of Ian McEwan''s SATURDAY'' FINANCIAL TIMES '' Mesmerizing ... a war novel that gives you a glimpse of what war might really mean …
Unfinished Novel and Other stories
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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''Spellbinding'' NEW YORK TIMES ''Entrancingly good'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''A narrative gift that can raise the hairs at the top of the spine'' SUNDAY TIMES In the six stories that make up The Unfinished Novel, Valerie Martin turns an unflinching eye upon artists - driven and blocked, desired and …
Ghost of the Mary Celeste
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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''A masterpiece'' GUARDIAN ''A wonderfully ingenious novel, compelling, convincing and exciting'' John Banville A mystery unsolved to this day A mystic who confounds the cynics A writer looking for the story that will make his name A ghost ship appears in the mist. To the struggling author Arthur …
Property
E-bok, 2007
158 kr
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Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her …
Salvation
Scenes from the Life of St. Francis
E-bok, 2007
189 kr
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Inspired by the fresco cycles that depict the life of St. Francis of Assisi, acclaimed author Valerie Martin tells the life of Francesco di Pietro Bernardone in a series of vividly realized “panels” of moments both crucial and ordinary. Drawing from myriad sources and moving in reverse …
Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
E-bok, 2007
158 kr
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In this vital and heartbreaking collection of stories, Valerie Martin, the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and the internationally acclaimed Property , turns an unflinching eye upon artists—driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime, as they struggle beneath the tyranny of Art …
Confessions of Edward Day
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a dark comedy about love, sex, an actor''s ambition, and the perils of playing a role too well. In this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-creates the seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on …
Great Divorce
E-bok, 2013
173 kr
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Three surprising women, their lives riven by divorce both literal and metaphorical: Ellen Clayton, reeling from her husband’s decision to leave her after twenty years, finds meaning in caring for her teenage daughters and in her work as the veterinarian at the New Orleans Zoo. Her young assistant …
Italian Fever
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
173 kr
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"Acutely observed...charmingly old-fashioned."-- Los Angeles Times In Italian Fever , Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman''s headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros. Part romance, part gothic suspense story and wholly entertaining, Italian Fever is the …
Mary Reilly
E-bok, 2013
205 kr
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From the acclaimed author of the bestselling Italian Fever comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll''s dutiful and intelligent housemaid. Faithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson''s classic, Martin …
Property
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Häftad, 2003
144 kr
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2003Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension …
Mary Reilly
Häftad, 2004
144 kr
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From the acclaimed author of Orange Prize winning PROPERTY comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid. Faithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin …
Salvation
Scenes from the Life of St Francis
Häftad, 2004
262 kr
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Inspired by the great frescoes of St Francis of Assisi, the highly-praised author of PROPERTY has written a new and wholly original biography. Composed in a series of vividly realised 'panels', SALVATION begins with the dying Francesco - and the rivalry for his body among the towns of medieval …
Property
Winner of the Women''s Prize for Fiction
E-bok, 2020
44 kr
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2003 Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension …
Trespass
A Novel
E-bok, 2007
221 kr
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Two women, Chloe Dale, an artist comfortably ensconced in bucolic suburbia, and Salome Drago, a wily, seductive refugee from a country that no longer exists, confront each other in a Manhattan restaurant, and the battle lines are drawn. Toby Dale, son of the artist and ardent suitor of the refugee, …
Ghost of the Mary Celeste
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
173 kr
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A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as Martin''s landmark Mary Reilly . In 1872 the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact and there was no sign of struggle, but the …
Sea Lovers
Selected Stories
E-bok, 2015
221 kr
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From the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and the internationally acclaimed Property, a brilliant collection featuring Valerie Martin''s finest short stories to date. For four decades Valerie Martin has been publishing novels and stories that demonstrate her incredible range as a writer, moving …
I Give It to You
A Novel
E-bok, 2020
142 kr
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A timeless story of family, war, art, and betrayal set around an ancient, ancestral home in the Tuscan countryside from bestselling novelist Valerie Martin. When Jan, an American academic, rents an apartment in a Tuscan villa for the summer, she plans to spend her break writing a biography of …
I Give It to You
A Novel
Häftad, 2021
207 kr
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An "immensely satisfying” story ( The Guardian ) of family, war, art, and betrayal set around an ancient, ancestral home in the Tuscan countryside from the bestselling, award-winning author of Property . When Jan Vidor, an American writer and academic, rents an apartment in a Tuscan villa for the …
Salvation
Scenes from the Life of St Francis
E-bok, 2008
45 kr
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nspired by the great frescoes of St Francis of Assisi, the highly-praised author of ITALIAN FEVER has written a new and wholly original biography. Composed in a series of vividly realised ''panels'', SALVATION begins with the dying Francesco - and the rivalry for his body among the towns of …
Set In Motion
Häftad, 2005
119 kr
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From the Orange Prize-winning author of Property, the story of a woman on the run from sexual obsession'An impressive writer...I admire her straightforward style and the intelligence and strength of her heroine' Ann TylerHelene is a woman constantly on the run. A social worker, she spends her days …
Primary Healthcare Premises
An Expert Guide
Av Neil Niblett, Valerie Martin m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
535 kr
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Primary healthcare premises are increasingly becoming more sophisticated offering health promotion minor surgery and specialist services. The acquisition of new premises expansion or investment in traditional surgeries can be the greatest financial commitment and also one of the most daunting. This …
