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45 produkter
Africa, My Passion
Häftad, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
201 kr
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In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places, then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people. Joined by her …
Writing on the Wall
Häftad, 2009
144 kr
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This is one of Scandinavia's top crime writers in the tradition of Henning Mankell. It was one of those days in February of which there are far too many, despite its being the shortest month of the year. February is the year's parenthesis. The tax forms have already been sent in and the tourist …
Back from Africa
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
133 kr
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Corinne Hofmann describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles, with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback.
See You Tomorrow
Av Tore Renberg
Häftad, 2015
168 kr
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"Intense, riotous, funny, sexy and thrilling . . . Renberg is a great writer" MATT HAIG"An exceptional novel . . . majestic page-turner" KARL OVE KNAUSGAARDPal has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much more than he can ever hope to pay back on his modest salary as a civil …
Revolt
Häftad, 2013
179 kr
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An incisive portrait of small-town life, exploding into a panoramic portrayal of the nature of change, freedom, pride and prejudice.
Water and Peace
A journey through the world's most explosive conflict zones in search of deep water
Av Alain Gachet
Inbunden, 2023
292 kr
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In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace.With the growing impact of climate change, an estimated one third of the world's population lacks fresh water. By 2050 it could well be over half, some five billion people.Alain Gachet, known …
Life Cycles
How One Bike Courier Circumnavigated the Globe In 169 Days and Broke a World Record
Häftad, 2023
158 kr
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"A wonderful, vivid account of a record-breaking, 18,000-mile adventure" Cycle ActiveAn incredible record-breaking journey around the world in 169 days - solo and by bike - by the Stanford Dolman Prize-winning travel writer.When Julian Sayarer learns the world record for a circumnavigation by …
Brenton Brown
Av Alex Wheatle
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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"A rich layering of motive and emotion . . . robust dialogue, streetwise humour and muscular, mischievous vernaculour" IndependentSet on the streets of Brixton, south London, BRENTON BROWN is a fatal love story about a man who never got over his first love, a perfect love with his half-sister …
Home Boys
Av Alex Wheatle
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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'Alex Wheatle writes from a place of honesty and passion with the full knowledge and understanding that change can only happen through words and actions' - Steve McQueen Four schoolchildren decide to run away from the the horrors of their everyday lives in a children's home. Seeking asylum in the …
Good Clean Fun
Häftad, 2004
119 kr
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Short stories from the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti'[These stories] simply and elegantly break your heart. They deserve a wide audience, and will create a wiser one' Amanda CraigArditti imbues his stories of loneliness, confusion and the uncertainties of sexual neophytes …
Unity
Häftad, 2005
119 kr
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The story of a lost film about the relationship between Adolf Hitler and the English aristocrat Unity Mitford'A wonderful novel, written with exceptional knowledge and understanding of past and present Germany' Gitta Sereny'The most intriguing and thought-provoking novel I have read this year' …
Psalm 119
Häftad, 2008
119 kr
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'To stand with your peace-flag in front of an army tank and be surprised when you get shot at: this is all the joy of youth. To ask to be fired upon and then have all your friends be outraged for you: this is love.'In the first years of this century, three young people, Anne-Marie, David and …
Parallel Lines
A Journey from Childhood to Belsen
Av Peter Lantos
Häftad, 2007
131 kr
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"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBAThis is a story of a young boy's journey from a sleepy provincial town in Hungary during the …
When Memory Dies
Häftad, 2013
144 kr
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The Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering. Few family sagas, especially first ones, have captured this aspect of suffering and so many other truths in as lyric a fashion as "When Memory Dies". Through the viewpoints of three generations of a Sri Lankan family (taking the reader from …
Typhoon
Häftad, 2007
131 kr
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"Gripping, hugely involving, and very satisfying" KATE MOSSE"A dramatic story of family intrigue, religious passions and riproaring romance" MICHELE ROBERTSTyphoon is set in Chiragpur, a Pakistani village warped in time, space and guilt, whose inhabitants are still traumatised by what happened some …
No Trace
Häftad, 2008
156 kr
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This is an edge-of-your-seat Brock and Kolla mystery set within a radical artists' community in London where three children have been abducted in a matter of weeks. The most recent is six-year-old Tracey Rudd, daughter of the infamous Turner Prize winner Gabriel Rudd. After his wife's suicide five …
Tree Without Roots
The Guide to Tracing British, African and Asian Caribbean Ancestry
Av Paul Crooks
Häftad, 2008
167 kr
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An expert's guide to tracing ancestry in the Caribbean islandsBy a genealogist who has dedicated more than 11 years of his life to uncovering the saga of his African slave ancestors comes a guide for others to capitalise on his informed techniques and discover just what it means to know where one …
Conversion
Häftad, 2008
156 kr
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One night, two men waving guns and knives break and enter their Paris hotel room, terrorizing Russell and his much older companion, a famous American poet named Edward Cannon. The intruders, not finding what they seemingly expected, leave without further incident. But the baffling, traumatic events …
Spider Trap
Häftad, 2009
107 kr
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Skeletons are discovered in a wasteland behind Cockpit Lane, a poor largely black area of inner south London, and DCI David Brock and DS Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard's Serious Crimes Branch are called in to investigate. The discovery that the victims died during the Brixton riots, over twenty years …
On Loving Josiah
Av Olivia Fane
Häftad, 2011
119 kr
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Josiah Horatio Nelson is born to unusual parents. Having met in a psychiatric hospital, they decide to bring up their child far away from the constraints of conventional society. But social services soon intervene to remove him from his idyllic home. Friendless, ostracised and bullied, Josiah is …
Life Is a Joke
A Writer's Memoir
Häftad, 2010
144 kr
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The hazards and secrets of the book trade and writing for television and the theatre are revealed and co-mingle with the joys of travel, family and entertaining. The alarums and excursions of an arson attack and the efforts to ease the lot of fellow writers imprisoned for their beliefs in democracy …
Shameful Suicide of Winston Churchill
Av Peter Millar
Häftad, 2011
156 kr
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The year is 1949 and the Allied Powers' advance on Moscow in the wake of Nazi defeat has failed. As Stalin's tanks rumble through the streets of London, Winston Churchill decides to put an end to his life. Fast forward to 1989 and England is divided between the Soviets and the Americans, with the …
All Gone to Look for America
Riding the Iron Horse Across a Continent (and Back)
Av Peter Millar
Häftad, 2012
205 kr
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At the age of 52 and with a shoestring budget, Peter Millar set about rediscovering the United States by following the last traces of the technological wonder that created the country in the first place - the railroad. On a rail network now ravaged and reduced, he managed to cross the continent in …
Holy Woman
Häftad, 2013
144 kr
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"Gripping, hugely involving, and very satisfying" KATE MOSSESet in Pakistan, London and Egypt, this epic drama centres around the life of Zarri, the glamorous daughter of a wealthy landowner. Zarrie Bano is the charismatic 28-year-old daughter of a wealthy Muslim landowner. She falls in love with …
Jubilate
Häftad, 2012
107 kr
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A turbulent affair plays out in the pilgrim city of Lourdes'Carries you through with humour, warmth and, above all, the urgency of a great romance' Guardian'Closing this novel after reading the last page, one briefly believes in miracles, at least of the human redemptive kind' Independent on …
Slow Train to Guantanamo
Av Peter Millar
Häftad, 2013
156 kr
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Starting in the ramshackle but romantic capital of Havana, Peter Millar travels with ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories and political opinions to the far end of the island, the Guantanamo naval base and detention camp.
1989 the Berlin Wall
My Part in Its Downfall
Av Peter Millar
Häftad, 2014
158 kr
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Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.
Tomorrow, Berlin
Inbunden, 2015
131 kr
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Berlin. A city where nightclubs stay open from Friday night till Monday morning. A city with an underbelly as dark and addictive as the 24-hour drugs, drinking, dancing and sex in filthy toilets that it serves up. Three young men, from different backgrounds, meet here by chance, struggling to find …
Fan
Av Danny Rhodes
Häftad, 2015
144 kr
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"Rhodes' depiction of disaster and ensuring PTSD has the ring of authenticity: he was at Hillsborough that fateful day" DAILY MAIL"A remarkable thing to read. It has immense power and is utterly compelling" SCOTT PACKIn 1989, 18-year-old John Finch spends his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest …
Possibly A Love Story
Av Olivia Fane
Häftad, 2016
119 kr
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Laura Glass's life seems perfect. She's beautiful, wealthy, her husband loves her and their teenage kids Leo and Jemima are at good schools. Then one day Laura's happiness is shattered when she sees her husband kissing a young woman in a doorway. Some of Laura's friends tell her to divorce him; …
