Télécharger le livre :  The Wit In The Dungeon

He was born in the year Dr Johnson died, and died in the year A.E. Houseman and Conan Doyle were born. The 75 years of Leigh Hunt's life uniquely span two distinct eras of English life and literature. A major player in the Romantic movement, the intimate and first...
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Parution : 2016-04-07

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Télécharger le livre :  William Shakespeare

Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream biography of...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2016-04-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Savage Wars Of Peace

Since the Second World War the British Army has been engaged in armed conflicts around the globe in every year except 1968. Some have been full-scale military campaigns, but most have been undeclared wars, fought out in such widely differing theatres as Malaya, Kenya,...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2016-01-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Stephen Hawking

'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its combination of erudition, warmth, robustness, and wit is entirely appropriate to their subject' New Statesman'Intriguing . . . There are larger...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2016-01-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Tales From the Dark Continent

Charles Allen captures the vanished world of British Colonial Africa in the recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there.
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Parution : 2015-12-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Tales From The South China Seas

This work chronicles the adventures of the last generation of British men and women who went East to seek their fortunes. Drawn into the colonial territories scattered around the South China Sea, they found themselves in an exotic, intoxicating world. It was a land of...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Hunter of the Dark

A brutal killer is on the streets of Rome.He leaves no trace. And shows no mercy.A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst,...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Plain Tales From The Raj

The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by few, with the...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Search For Shangri-La

The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La' to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in his novel LOST...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Kipling Sahib

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Happy Now

I do not believe that a man can be truly happy unless he fully understands what he is and can act accordingly ... how can it be wrong to be happy?' These lines are taken from Will's diary, a seemingly innocuous exercise book which details his house-breaking activities....
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-09-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Getting Rid Of Mister Kitchen

A man kills a prospective buyer for his car. On the verge of becoming a name in the interior design world, he can't afford a scandal and must discreetly dispose of the body-- not an easy job when the whole of London seems to be conspiring against him.
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-09-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Full Whack

Dennis 'The Menace' Pike, former wild man of Tottenham, is going grey and going straight. Anyway, it was hard work being a yob- the birds, the brawls, the endless beers- and he hasn't really got the energy any more for life on the edge. Then two old faces turn up from...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-09-17

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Télécharger le livre :  King Of The Ants

It seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. The first problem was how to do it. Thirteen thousand pounds in an envelope seems a fair price for a man's...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-09-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Thames

The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven through Britain's centuries, the Thames is the subject of this significant biography. Following its course, geologically and chronologically, THE THAMES will chart the growing importance...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-09-03

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Télécharger le livre :  The Revolving Door of Life

For seven-year-old Bertie Pollock, life in Edinburgh's most celebrated fictional street has just got immeasurably better. The enforced absence of his endlessly pushy mother Irene - currently consciousness-raising in a Bedouin harem (don't ask) - has manifold and...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-08-13
Collection : 44 Scotland Street
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-07-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Way Of The Women

How can you speak when speech has been taken away? When the only person listening refuses to understand? Milla, trapped in silence by a deadly paralysing illness, confined to her bed, struggles to make herself heard by her maidservant and now nurse, Agaat. Contrary,...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-05-19
Collection : William Lorimer
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Télécharger le livre :  Triomf

This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-05-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Dream Boogie

One of the most influential African American singers/songwriters in the late 1950s, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes - the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed to white...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-04-30

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