Télécharger le livre :  Words of Mercury
Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he...

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Parution : 2010-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Violins of Saint-Jacques
On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano, and, in time, she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century. ...

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Parution : 2010-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Traveller's Tree
In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Between the Woods and the Water
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where...

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Parution : 2010-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Unmentionables
We say a lot about ourselves by what we don't say. Words and phrases like 'collateral damage', 'wardrobe malfunction', 'vertically challenged', and old favourites like 'unmentionables' (trousers, apparently) or 'lady of the night' - all are ways of not using particular...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Wait for Me!
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Boffinology
The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for the reasons given. This has a lot to do with the people responsible. ...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Landfalls
For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of the Monsoon
Michael Smith, at the US embassy in Cambodia, has an urgent assignment: do what it takes to help a US oil company secure its contract with the Cambodian government before upcoming elections strengthen a Chinese competitor. His affair with Zainab, the British charge's...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Something Sensational to Read in the Train
This is a diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful observation, providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving account of Gyles...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Captain's Wife
1762. Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when her marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces the damp salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail on the Isabella, away from the land of her childhood towards unseen...

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Parution : 2010-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  In This Way I Was Saved
I pounded myself against the inside of his head, but it was useless. He couldn't hear me;I was trapped. So, like any other prisoner,I waited.I bided my time. Luke is six. He is a lonely child, but he has one friend, his best friend -- Daniel -- whom he met in the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-07-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Hurricane
In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would establish German tyranny.The Luftwaffe greatly outnumbered the RAF, but during the Battle of Britain it was the RAF that...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Art of Marriage
Joining your life with another person's, until death do you part, is perhaps the biggest decision you can take. But once the vows have been sworn, the cake has been cut, and the honeymoon is over, what are the secrets of a lasting marriage? The Art of Marriage explains...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Eating for Britain
'Who are these people? Look at what they eat.' Simon Majumdar travels the country to find out what British food -- from Arbroath Smokies to Welsh rarebit to chicken tikka masala -- reveals about British identity. Exploring the history of British food, he celebrates the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Children who Fought Hitler
Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War. This expatriate outpost grew around the British ex-servicemen who cared for the war memorials and...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  City of Lost Girls
In LA there's a killer on the loose. He kills young and rootless girls and he always kills in threes. Back in Dublin, Ed Loy, happy in a new relationship, is reunited with Jack Donovan, a film director friend from LA with a turbulent personal history. When the third...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  All the Dead Voices
Ed Loy has made some changes. He has moved into an apartment in Dublin's city centre, leaving behind his family home: he wants to break free of the ghosts of his own past, to live in the teeming present. But if that's what he wants for his own life, it's not always what...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Reluctant Bride
Will Lucy make it down the aisle? It's going to be an uphill struggle . . . The bride: A late starter in life, Lucy always swore she'd never get married. But now she has to find a caterer who doesn't charge a fortune for a cupcake, a dressmaker who doesn't make her cry...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The English Marriage
The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. Long after the rest of Europe and neighbouring Scotland had reformed their marriage laws, England clung to the chaotic and contradictory laws of the medieval Church, making it all too easy to enter into a...

Editeur : John Murray
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