Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872083 ISBN 13: 9781784872083
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral.In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million years or so to glimpse a dying world of blood-red beaches and menacing shapes; and on again to the last days of our planet, a remote twilight where nothing moves but darkness and a cold wind.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872393 ISBN 13: 9781784872397
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Brontë.When Agnes's father loses the family savings, young Agnes determines to make her own living - as a governess. Working for the Bloomfields, her enthusiasm is soon dampened by isolation and the cruelty of the children in her charge. Agnes hopes for better in her second job, but when the scheming elder daughter Rosalie makes designs on Agnes's new friend, the kind curate Mr Weston, she feels herself silenced and sidelined. Becoming a governess is one thing, becoming invisible is quite another. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SAMANTHA ELLIS.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872105 ISBN 13: 9781784872106
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable.this is his story. They say that terror is a disease.A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped creatures move in the gloom. In this island paradise, the horrific experiments of the infamous Doctor Moreau will reach their inevitable conclusion.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1784704733 ISBN 13: 9781784704735
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of TrainspottingYears on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realise his ambitions within the Adult industries, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton. Still scheming, still scamming, Sick Boy and Renton soon find out that they have unresolved issues to address concerning the unhinged Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other.T2 Trainspotting was previously published as Porno.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 178470315X ISBN 13: 9781784703158
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - Discover a daughter's journey into her father's past in this Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm. But these were not always enough to sustain a family.As his memory began to fail, Keggie embarked on a quest to unravel his story once and for all. Dadland is that journey. It takes us into shadowy corners of history, a madcap English childhood, the poignant breakdown of a family, the corridors of dementia and beyond.'OH THIS BOOK. Beautiful and fierce and brave. Memory and war and family and loss and, well, wow' Helen Macdonald, bestselling author of H is for Hawk'A thrilling history of Churchill's Special Operations Executive. combined ingeniously with a tender, moving, funny portrait of the author's father' Nick Hornby, Observer.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0099584441 ISBN 13: 9780099584445
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - Revelatory.Daily Telegraph). Fascinating. (Observer). Engrossing.(Daily Mail). David Litvinoff was one of the great mythic characters of '60s London. Flitting between the worlds of music, art and crime, he exerted a hidden influence that helped create the Krays twins' legend, connected the Rolling Stones with London's dark side, shaped the plot of classic film Performance - and saw him immortalised in a portrait by Lucian Freud. Litvinoffs determination to live without trace means that his life has always eluded biographers, until now. Intent on unravelling the enigma of Litvinoff, Keiron Pim conducted 100 interviews over five years, speaking to Eric Clapton and Marianne Faithfull, James Fox and Mad Frankie Fraser. The result is an extraordinary feat of research that traces a rogue's progress amongst aristocrats, gangsters and rock stars.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0099556073 ISBN 13: 9780099556077
Seller: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware -'An entertaining history of literary life' Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily TelegraphSpanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles fought between Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists to the impact of creative writing degrees and the media don of today and taking in 'star reviewers', sniping critics, caballing editors and megalomaniac professors along the way, The Prose Factory explores the myriad influences on English literary life in the past century and the way in which they have shaped our preferences.'An amazing achievement' David Lodge'A pleasingly gossipy history of literary life in England since 1918.very enjoyable' Observer'Elegantly written, defiantly intelligent, scrupulously researched and richly enjoyable' Mail on Sunday 528 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0099587041 ISBN 13: 9780099587040
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSelected as a Book of the Year in the Herald In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velázquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile.Fusing detection and biography, this book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania. And on the trail of John Snare, Cumming makes a surprising discovery of her own. But most movingly, The Vanishing Man is an eloquent and passionate homage to the Spanish master Velázquez, bringing us closer to the creation and appreciation of his works than ever before.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0099593564 ISBN 13: 9780099593560
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - The most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you'll ever read, from the world-renowned, multi-award-winning, superstar physicist Lisa Randal.66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object from outer space hurtled into the Earth at incredible speed. The impact annihilated the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. But what if this catastrophe was the sign of something greater: an opening vista onto the interconnectedness of the universe itself This is the story of the astounding forces that underpin our existence; a horizon-expanding tour of the cosmos that unifies what we know about the universe with new thinking. From the far-flung reaches of space, the makeup of the universe and our solar system's place within it, to the mysterious and elusive stuff of dark matter and how it affects life here on Earth.'A fascinating, and surprisingly simple, theory.and a tantalising premise' The Times'Extremely engaging' BBC Focus.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1910931454 ISBN 13: 9781910931455
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - Dominika Minarovic (Author) Dominika Minarovic is a natural beauty lover, DIY expert and natural skincare formulator. She co-founded Clean Beauty Co with Elsie Rutterford, a natural beauty brand based out of London, empowering individuals to take control of what they put on their skin. Before stepping into beauty, Dominika worked in digital advertising and knows more about ad tech than she cares to share. The brand regularly appears in the pages of the Evening Standard, Red Magazine, In Style and the Daily Mail and she also co-hosts annual event Clean Cult. She grew up in Australia and Hong Kong, but currently lives in London.
Published by Vintage Publishing Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1847924514 ISBN 13: 9781847924513
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: NEW. Neuware - Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.'A modern masterpiece' Andrew MarrOpening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People's Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded.Illustrated with over 100 photographs and now including a new introduction that reflects on the revolution's centennial legacy, A People's Tragedy is a masterful and definitive record of one of the most important events in modern history.'The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since Doctor Zhivago' Independent.