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  • BLACK BUTTERFLIES
    MORRIS, PRISCILLA
    SARAJEVO. SPRING 1992.Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside.When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety with her daughter in England. Reluctant to believe tha...
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    12,75 €

  • A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    New annotated edition of George Orwell’s A Clergyman’s DaughterTwenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, a local atheist and libertine, she is glimpsed in...
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    11,50 €

  • MRS. DALLOWAY
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames' In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. ...
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    13,25 €

  • ROAD TRIP, THE
    O'LEARY, BETH
    Addie and her sister are on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in rural Scotland. But, not long after setting off, a car slams into theirs. The driver is none other than Addie's ex, who she hasn't seen since their traumatic break-up two years earlier.Dylan and his best mate are heading to the wedding too, so Addie has no choice but to offer them a ride. And with four hundr...
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    13,64 €

  • THE PROFESSOR
    BRONTE, CHARLOTTE
    When the orphaned William refuses his uncles´ proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of his brother´s mill, he decides to accept a position as an English teacher at a boys´ school in Brussels. When his career leads him to take up an additional post at a girls´ school nearby, William becomes emotionally involved with the manipulative head...
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    12,50 €

  • CHRISTIAN THE LION -BRADT
    RENDALL, JOHN / CATTANI, DEREK
    The story that captured the imagination of the world...In 1969 Harrods department store in London sold a three month old lion cub to two young Australians, John Rendall and Anthony (Ace) Bourke. They called him Christian. For a year Christian lived happily and safely with John and Ace and his human 'pride', initially in the World's End on the King's Road in Chelsea, where Derek...
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    22,50 €

  • RAVE
    WELSH, IRVINE
    Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave’s utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a spot of disc jockeying and clos...
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    5,45 €

  • WILD ABOUT BRITAIN -BRADT
    JACKMAN, BRIAN
    A new collection of award-winning journalist and author Brian Jackman's nature and travel writings from the past 40 years. This is a nationwide celebration of Britain's unspoiled coast and countryside, concentrating in particular on Britain's wildlife and the wild places in which its most spectacular species are found, but also touching on fishing, sailing and the way Britain's...
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    15,00 €

  • WILD TIMES -BRADT ON BRITAIN -BRADT
    REDDY, JINI
    A unique title from a highly experienced author showcasing extraordinary experiences connecting with nature around Britain. From barefoot walking to forest skills, foraging to horse whispering, wild pottery to a full moon meander, rewilding to urban birding, prehistoric cookery to permaculture gardening and much more, the book suggests both mainstream and more off-beat pursuits...
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    22,50 €

  • PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    AUSTEN, JANE
    This title comes with an introduction by Alexander Mccall Smith. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton andintroduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion. ...
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    10,15 €

  • ROOM WITH A VIEW
    FORSTER, E.M.
    The Penguin English Library Edition of A Room with a View by E. M. Forster '"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..." Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ord...
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    10,85 €

  • EMMA
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage....
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    21,25 €