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It is the most important military directory of the ancien régimea sort of official directory of the army under the old regime, this military state of france was published from toplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablefifth edition, corrected and increasedwork copy, but acceptableduodecimo from 10 pp- 384ppthe family settled in rochemaure at the beginning of the 15th centurymontandre-lonchamps; roussel (rené louis de)etat militaire de france pour l'annéedecent inside except about ten pages are soiled and stainedprovided is a number of officers and knights of stsee photos ex-libris from count benedict of chansiergues d'ornano (), and another bearing the coat of arms of the pac, marquess of badens uncommon this book, the 5th edition of which (actually the 5th year published) presents the entire military hierarchy during the reign of louis xvcoat of arms: the family, orogeny of the pont-saint-esprit in languedoc, has been in the possession of the nobility for several centuriesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storefull-leather period binding in the coat of arms of the chansiergues d'ornano family, missing headdressespublished in paris, by guillynlouis, who died in the service of the kings of france, antoine de chansiergues having married, on february , marie colonna d'ornano, sister of francis, who died in the smell of holiness and beatified in , joseph and benedict de chansiergues, of the pont-saint-esprit, were allowed in , in letters patent by lorenzo colonna, to add to their name that of their ancestor
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This is complete in 2 volumes and is described as "a history, directory and gazatteer of the county palatine of lancaster"oxfam books & music lancaster edward baines, journalist, author and business man, produced the first directory and gazetteer of lancashire to cover the whole county and to deal fully with its trade and industrya good condition pair of ex library books with the usual markingssignature and note by previous owner in front pageminor shelfwear660 pages + 738 pages all of the pages are intact and the cover is intactstructurally soundsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepublished in two substantial volumes in and , it of course portrayed a very important area at an interesting stage of the industrial revolutionthis is a reprint of a originalincludes dust jackets, price clippedsome of the general and political history has long become obsolete, but local and economic historians still find it an essential and mainly reliable refer- ence book, while the total of about pages produces much entertaining reading, including some of the classified lists of traders
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No need to worry about the lose of your telephone directoryread, edit, backup your telephone directory and sms for your gsm devicesget power supply via usb cableability to copy the content from one sim card to anotherideal for portable use on the road or at home with a desktop or laptopsoftware install will allow you to manage the sim card copying processhigh access speed, transfers data or images from flash cards to any host systemno external power supply requiredallows you to copy different number to one sim card, including phone book, sms, ring tones, photos, etcas new in the box never been used comes with cd software usb card reader win 98 me xp will not work on 7 or 10 need other drivers/software for 7 & 10 get full access to your sim card through your pc
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Comes with unused personal telephone directoryprinted plastic wallet ideal gift / stocking filler trifold with 4 compartments 2 x card slot 1 x diary / directory slot 1 x note slot in great as new conditionmeasures: h 16cm x w 9
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Phone directory capacity = 50 names & numberspallant house main entrance door is indicated as blue with a red arrow pointing to it)the bt decor corded telephone, has a two line lcd screen with caller display, a clock and datecollection only - from outside pallant house, the main door entrance, which is located on tabard street, se1 4yddisplay type = lcd display - monochrome read moredialed calls memory = 1speakerphone-handsfree optioncollect se1 4ydit has features such as 50 names and numbers directory, ringer and speaker volume control, store, secrecy, pause and recall buttonsuses 4 x aaa alkaline 1one-touch dial button qty = 3packed in its original box and a bagwall mountable, it is pbx compatiblelidl is opposite domino's pizza, 145 old kent rd, se1 5utspeed dial capacity = 105v batteries (not included)box contains: bt decor telephone corded handset base plinth line cord wall mounting screws user guide with ten number memory, caller display, and an inductive coupler(tabard street is just inside the congestion charge zone, so if driving, lidl is close by, it has a car park, so maybe grocery shop, then collect this listing from pallant house) = lidl, 2 massinger street / old kent road which is very near to pallant house, tabard street, (please see second map)bt decor telephonein full working order(please see black & white map in the photos10 number memory handsfree volume control message waiting indicator inductive coupler bt decor - corded phone with caller id speakerphone caller id-display speed dial capacity = 10 display = lcd display - monochrome body colour = chalk white recall button, , memory pause button, mute button, volume control, ringer control, new call indicator built-in clockno longer needed
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Phone directory capacity = 50 names & numberspallant house main entrance door is indicated as blue with a red arrow pointing to it)the bt decor corded telephone, has a two line lcd screen with caller display, a clock and datecollection only - from outside pallant house, the main door entrance, which is located on tabard street, se1 4yddialed calls memory = 1speakerphone-handsfree optioncollect se1 4ydit has features such as 50 names and numbers directory, ringer and speaker volume control, store, secrecy, pause and recall buttonsuses 4 x aaa alkaline 1display type = lcd display - monochromeone-touch dial button qty = 3packed in its original box and a bagwall mountable, it is pbx compatiblelidl is opposite domino's pizza, 145 old kent rd, se1 5utspeed dial capacity = 105v batteries (not included)box contains: bt decor telephone corded handset base plinth line cord wall mounting screws user guide with ten number memory, caller display, and an inductive coupler(tabard street is just inside the congestion charge zone, so if driving, lidl is close by, it has a car park, so maybe grocery shop, then collect this listing from pallant house) = lidl, 2 massinger street / old kent road which is very near to pallant house, tabard street, (please see second map)bt decor telephonein full working order(please see black & white map in the photos10 number memory handsfree volume control message waiting indicator inductive coupler bt decor - corded phone with caller id speakerphone caller id-display speed dial capacity = 10 display = lcd display - monochrome body colour = chalk white recall button, , memory pause button, mute button, volume control, ringer control, new call indicator built-in clockno longer needed
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Edgar allan poe was one of the world's most influential writers and marked the 200th anniversary of his birthsherlock holmes was based on a character poe wrote 60 years before conan doyle and he is universally acknowledged as the inspiration of writers such as h g wells (war of the worlds), jules verne ( leagues under the sea) and as george bernard shaw saidhe was the inventor of the detective novel and the father of science fiction
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In browse, henry hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a specific time and placeoxfam bookshop cheltenham a celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including ali smith, michael dirda, elif shafak and daniel kehlmanncontributors include alaa al aswany, stefano benni, michael dirda, daniel kehlmann, andrey kurkov, yiyun li, pankaj mishra, dorthe nors, yvonne adhiambo owuor, elif shafak, ian sansom, iain sinclair, ali smith, sasa stanisic, and juan gabriel vásqueza cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magicsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethese inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spella dazzling collection of original essays about the bookshop by fifteen bestselling international authors
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She is the author of the sense of an interior: four writers and the rooms that shaped them, winner of the james russell lowell prize; identification papers; and essentially speakingshe is the editor of human, all too human; pink freud; and inside/outabout the author diana fuss is louis wreview review from the author diana fuss is louis wfairchild '24 professor of english at princeton university
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Interestingly, the authors the writers confuse typhoid fever with dysentery and relapsing feversthis is an extensive study of typhoid, which the writers confused with dysentery and relapsing fever, and sets out the anatomical changes in the intestine during typhoidplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablein a good contemporary boards binding, tinted greenthe original latin edition was 'tractatus de morbo mucoso''traite´ de la maladie muqueusethe hinges are superficially a little cracked but structurally soundjohann georg roederer (), was professor of medicine in göttingen and his pupil, the prosector carl gottlieb wagler ()the editor heinrich august wrisberg () was professor of anatomy in göttingend'une pre´face relative aux trichurides, nouveau genre de vers, et orne´ de figures, mis au jour par henri auguste wrisbergroederer et waglerthree folding engraved plates' octavo: xlii-349 pagesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethis is an important contribution and a very rare book in its first french editionan excellent copyoriginal edition of this book in french
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This seriously funny collection draws together a host of delightfully contradictory statements from leading writers and wits and shows how, in spite of their paradoxical nature, they convey arresting and amusing truths about art, love, and the human conditionoxymoronica includes hundreds of paradoxical and contradictory observations by a wide range of writers, politicians, philosophers and public figuresoxfam shop colne road a book for anyone who enjoys the funny, quirky and humorous side of languagesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas mardy grothe reveals in this book, human beings are often at their most profound when they are apparently talking nonsense
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It stresses the common orientation which justifies us in identifying a specifically 'romantic' criticism; but not, i trust, at the cost of overlooking the many important diversities among the writers who concern themselves with the nature of poetry or art, its psychological genesis, its constitution and kinds, its major criteria, and its relation to other original and enduring critics of the time, rather than with the run-of-the-mill reviewers who often had more immediate, though shorter-lived influence on the general reading publicthis continuity was broken by the theories or romantic writers, english and german; and their innovations include many of the points of view and procedures which make the characteristic differences between traditional criticism and the criticism of our own time, including some criticism which professes to be anti-romanticoxfam bookshop byres road the development of literary theory in the lifetime of coleridge was to a surprising extent the making of the modern critical mindthere were many important differences between, let us say, horace's art of poetry and the criticism of drsee oxfam website for delivery information read morejohnston, but there was also a discernible continuity in premises, aims and methods the primary concern of this book is with the english theory of poetry, and to a lesser extent of the other major arts, during the first four decades of the nineteenth century
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The fact remains that some writers exist, for us, by their sensitive appearances as much as by their writingsone would legitimately question the relationship that writers have with their image - and the literary works with the representation of places haunted by authorsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteand it seems reasonable to argue, with caution, that perhaps the secret of genius is elsewhereare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe boy in the lap of a grieving mother is already the narrator of les mots; the pipe smoker at boris vian's table, the orator sitting in front of a microphone, the admiring spectator of françois périer, is in turn the soul of saint-germain-des-prés, the founder of temps modernes, the author of mains salessartre is one of themcommented iconography collection albums de la pléiade, (noannie cohen-solal album jean-paul sartresartre had in his century the dual function of witness and actorwriter, philosopher, activist and political thinker: he was all this at once and all these remaining photographs remind us how right he was and how wrong he was at the same timejoyful next to fidel castro, smiling in front of the children of israel, focused in front of a blank page, sartre is intrinsically sartre's imageperhaps never has the spectacle of a man that was "worth anyone" had so much to teach usour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethat a secret garden has been preserved, one can imaginein the end, one wonders what the contemplation of a minister kneeling before louis xviii tells us about chateaubriand, or what such a photograph of the vallée-aux-loups tells us about the mémoires d'outre-tombebut if the writer and the public figure are so contemporary, if they remain present more than others, it is because in all circumstances sartre knew how to or must have been a man in representationpages, 345 illustrations, 105 x 170 mm, leather binding
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This expanded fourth edition includes many more words better replaced, and deals explicitly with the problems of writers whose first language is not englishwhether you are writing a simple clinical report or a thesis, supervising others, running a course on medical or scientific writing, or just want to develop your skills in written communication, this book is the ideal guide and referencethis book provides the practical information necessary to turn first drafts into concise, unambiguous text, without loss of individualitysee oxfam website for delivery information read more4th edition, publishedwritten by a consultant anaesthetist and an experienced medical editor, and also illustrated by an accomplished medical editor, all of whom are sympathetic to the problems and needs of medical writers, this book deals with the basic craft of writing, from choosing the best word or phrase to essential grammaroxfam bookshop hertford effective communication is the ultimate, but often daunting, purpose of any medical research or reviewclear, simple and precise, and illustrated with apt cartoons, this is an invaluable handbook
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Was meeting mr range rover destiny or karma?should she be grateful or just hopping mad?and can stella grab a chance at real, honest-to-goodness happiness now it finally seems within her reach? keyes can deftly mix dark and light, tragic and comic in a way that only a handful of writers can' irish times'one of our finest writers' jojo moyespraise for marian keyes:'comic, convincing and true' guardian'mercilessly funny' the times'funny, tender and completely absorbing!' graham norton see oxfam website for delivery information read more1 bestselling author of grown ups'a total triumph' daily mail ever wished you could trade your life in for a better one?one day, sitting in traffic, married dublin mum stella sweeney attempts a simple good deedwhat happens next will take stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar and, along the way, wrenching her whole family apartwhen the result is a terrible car accident, she meets a handsome with a range rover who wants her number - no, for insurance purposes - and in this meeting a seed is born which will change stella's life foreveroxfam shop colne road discover the entertaining, uplifting and intriguing tale of finding true happiness in unexpected places from the no
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moredobranski examines how the seventeenth-century phenomenon of printing apparently unfinished works ushered in a new emphasis on authors' responsibility for written texts while it simultaneously reinforced renaissance practices of active readingin this book, stephen bbringing together textual studies, literary criticism and book trade history, dobranski provides fresh insight into renaissance constructions of authorship and offers discerning interpretations of publications by sir philip sidney, ben jonson, john donne, robert herrick and john miltonoxfam bookshop victoria pristine condition: while authors in early modern england were gaining new authority - legally, economically and symbolically - renaissance readers also were expected to participate in and make use of an author's writingsthe omissions in all these writers' works provide a unique window into english literary history: through these blank spaces we glimpse the tension between implication and inference, between writers' intentions and readers' responses and between an individual author and a collaborative community
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Throughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land and its yellowface aliensoxfam bookshop byres road how do english-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of china from a chinese perspective? how do they keep up appearances of pseudo-sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the english language? anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing chineseit commences with one nobel laureate, pearl buck, and ends with another, kazuo ishiguro, almost a century laterthis universal drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much so that even millennial china creates an "off-yellow," darker-hued orient in huallywood films to silhouette its global ascentsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoff-white or yellow-ish characters and their foreign-sounding speech are thus performed in anglo-american fiction and visual culture; both yellowface and chinglish are of, for, by the (white) peopleoff-white interrogates seminal anglo-american fiction and film on off-white bodies and voicesthe trajectory in between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic field so powerful as to pull in japanese anime
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' stephen king'richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers america has ever producedcrusader's cross 15when detective dave robicheaux discovers disturbing secrets from his mother's past, he embarks on a journey through a murky world of vice, politics and murder' michael connelly'a gorgeous prose stylistthe tin roof blowdown 17in the electric mist with confederate dead 7cadillac jukebox 10burning angel 9last car to elysian fields 14light of the world 21purple cane road 12cimarron rose 2praise for one of the great american crime writers, james lee burke:'james lee burke is the heavyweight champ, a great american novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassedthe glass rainbow 19sunset limited 11robicheaux hackberry holland series1creole belle 20oxfam bookshop ipswich the 11th dave robicheaux novel from bestseller james lee burkelay down my sword and shield 2feast day of fools 4heaven's prisoners 3' daily mailfans of dennis lehane, michael connelly and don winslow will love james lee burke: dave robicheaux series1black cherry blues 4the neon rain 2as robichaeux and his partner hunt for the killers, they hook up with a door-to-door salesman turned state governor, a psychotic hit-man, and the owner of the mansion at purple cane road - who knows rather too much about robichaeux's wifepegasus descending 16in the moon of red ponies * each james lee burke novel can be read as a standalone or in series order * see oxfam website for delivery information read moredixie city jam 8a morning for flamingos 5jolie blon's bounce 13robicheaux has been told that his mother, mae, was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a mud puddle by two cops working for the moba stained white radiance 6house of the rising sunbilly bob holland series1
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Birds figure charmingly and tellingly in the work of such nature writers as gilbert white, peter matthiessen, farley mowat and barry lopezbirds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as ovid, thomas hardy, kafka, thoreau and tthe song of the bird had given him a taste of paradise, where an instant is as a hundred years of earthly timebirds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirationsnor does gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the galapagos finches did for darwinwas the same true of time in hell, stevenson asked himselfthey've been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they've been worshipped, eaten, feared and lovedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe went into the garden to listen more closely, and when he returned, after what he thought were only a few minutes, he discovered that a century had gone by, that his fellow monks were dead and his ink had turned to dustgorgeously illustrated, woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, the bedside book of birds is for anyone who is aware of birds, and for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity has created to represent its soulwith the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, gibson has spent fifteen years collecting the literary and artistic forms our affinity for birds has taken over the centurieswhether as the christian dove, or quetzalcoatl the aztec plumed serpent or in plato s vision of the human soul growing wings and feathers, religion and philosophy have looked to birds as representatives of our better selves that part of us not bound to the earthoxfam bookshop knutsford in this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher graeme gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birdsfrom the book: "stevenson remembered the story of a monk who had been distracted from his copy-work by the song of a birdas divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the sky
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Unforgettable characters, a plot that kept me guessing, non-stop action and the kind of in-depth storytelling that makes me admire a writers' work' terry brooks'weeks has truly cemented his place among the great epic fantasy writers of our time' british fantasy society books by brent weeksnight angel the way of shadowsshadow's edgebeyond the shadowsperfect shadow (novella)lightbringerthe black prismthe blinding knifethe broken eyethe blood mirrorthe burning white see oxfam website for delivery information read moresuccess will cost him everything he's ever loved'brent weeks is so good it's beginning to tick me off' peter vkylar has finally learnt the bitter cost of immortality, and is faced with a task only he can completebut they are playing with volatile powers, and trigger conflict on a vast scaleoxfam shop colne road the nail-biting conclusion to the night angel trilogy, from international bestseller brent weeksa new queen has usurped the throne and is leading cenaria into disasterkylar stern plans to reinstate his closest friend logan as king, but can he really get away with murder?in the north, the godking's death has thrown khalidor into civil warthe country has become a broken realm with a threadbare army, little food, and no hopefailure will doom the southto gain the upper hand, one faction attempts to raise the goddess khali herselfto save his friends, and perhaps his enemies, he must assassinate a goddessseven armies will converge to save - or destroy - an entire continentbrett'weeks has a style of immediacy and detail that pulls the reader relentlessly into the storyhe doesn't allow you to look away' robin hobb'i was mesmerised from start to finish
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This collection of caribbean short stories features both authors born in the 19th century and much younger writers of more recent generationstheir work, in all its diversity of style, theme, and linguistic energy, provides a context for the work of an exciting new generation of caribbean writers like edwidge danticat, robert antoni, astrid roemer, and jamaica kincaida clean unmarked copyoxfam bookshop st albans the caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literaturenaipaul, sam sevlon, and jean rhys are set alongside their spanish- and french-speaking contemporaries like alejo carpentier, jan bosh, and gabriel garcia marquez stories by major figures in the english language tradition such as vsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea celebration of regional creativity, the collection contains sufficient surprises to keep even the most avid student of west indian writing turning the pages, while reminding readers that the caribbean is a multilingual, multicultural spaceit is also pan-caribbean, including stories from the four main languages of the region: english, spanish, french, and dutch
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Contemporary and kindred spirit of writers like oscar wilde, ernest dowson, aubrey beardsleycondition: good to fine (corners bumped, lettering on spine somewhat faded) *first edition of one of the very finest, and most underrated, short story writers of the yellow ninetiesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitewith an appreciation by henry james - london - ware you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablestories about 'the cruelty of life', as the great henry james puts it in his, little know, introductionoriginal green cloth - frontispiece photographic portrait of the authorheinemann - - first edition - 8vo, 13 x 20 cmoriginal green clothcrackanthorpe () died young and under mysterious circumstances read morehubert crackanthorpe - sentimental studies and a set of village tales - london - wour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecondition: good to fine (corners bumped, lettering on spine somewhat faded) and: hubert crackanthorpe - last studies
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He considered mass culture and its relation to literary traditions decades before writers like george orwell, the leavises, or raymond williamsthe present book initiates a substantial reassessment, to be continued in future volumes in the series, of ford's responses to these cultural transformations, his contacts with other writers, and his phases of activity as an editor working to transform modern literatureeach volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; each will relate aspects of ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his timecritics of edwardian and modernist literature have been increasingly turning to ford's brilliant experiment in impressionism, the soul of london, as an exemplary textinternational ford madox ford studies has been founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in himford's apprehension of the major social transformations of his age lets us read him as a precursor to cultural studiesfrom another point of view, the essays here also develop the project established in earlier volumes, of reappraising ford's engagement with the city, history, and modernityhis trilogy england and the english (of which this forms the first part) provides a central reference-point for this volume, which presents ford as a key contributor to edwardian debates about the 'condition of england'see oxfam website for delivery information read more ford is best-known for his fiction, especially the good soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and parade's end, which anthony burgess described as 'the finest novel about the first world war'; and samuel hynes has called 'the greatest war novel ever written by an englishman'these works, together with his trilogy the fifth queen, about henry viii and katharine howard, are centrally concerned with the idea of englishnessoxfam shop magdelen street the controversial british writer ford madox ford () is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literaturehis complex, ironic attitude to englishness makes his approach stand out from contemporary anxieties about race and degeneration, and anticipate the recent reconsideration of englishness in response to post-colonialism, multiculturalism, globalization, devolution, and the expansion and development of the european communityall these, and other works across ford's prolific oeuvre, are studied here
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A case only she can solvein over ten years, there has been no breakthrough in her murder caseoxfam bookshop cheltenham a murder he can't forget'outstanding' ian rankinamazon best 100 books of the yearbarnes & noble best books of the yeartop ten best thrillers of the year - washington post* * * * *daisy clayton's killer was never caughtdetective renée ballard has faced everything the lapd's notorious dusk-till-dawn graveyard shift has thrown at hersoon, she too will become obsessed by the murder of daisy claytonbecause ballard and bosch both know: every murder tells a story'one of the world's greatest crime writers' daily mail'crime thriller writing of the highest order' guardian'a terrific writer with pace, style and humanity to spare' the times'america's greatest living crime writer' daily express'the pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation' ian rankin'a master' stephen king'a genius' independent on sunday'a superb natural storyteller' lee child'one of the great storytellers of crime fiction' sunday telegraph'justly regarded as one of the world's finest crime writers' mail on sunday'no one writes a better modern thriller than connelly' evening standard see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand daisy's case file reads like the first chapter in an untold tragedy that is still being written - one that could end with ballard herself, if she cannot bring the truth to lightbut, until tonight, she'd never met harry bosch - an ex-homicide detective consumed by this case* * * * *crime doesn't get better than connelly
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Modernism remains deeply connected to ideas of innovation, and this has created problems for successive generations of writersfor example, how does one create an original work when the 'new' has already been established, marketed and institutionalised? rod rosenquist's study focuses on the writers and poets who emerged after modernism's high-water mark year of , in which ulysses, the waste land and the early cantos were publishedseeking to refine our own understanding of the high modernists through the frequent difficulties encountered by the generation that succeeded them, this study discusses issues of cultural value, the relationship of history to innovation, and the market for new works in an era already dominated by the likes of joyce, eliot and poundoxfam bookshop canterbury rod rosenquist cambridge university press (30 augan as new unread copy see oxfam website for delivery information read morecontaining illuminating examinations of wyndham lewis, laura riding and henry miller, this study will be invaluable reading for those interested in modernism and its complicated legacy
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His lively and engaging text focuses on the way these writers saw los angeles and used the image of the city as an element in their work, and on how that image has changed as the city itself became ever larger, more complex, and more socially and ethnically diversein imagining los angeles, the first literary history of the city in more than fifty years, critic david fine traces the history and mood of the place through the work of writers as diverse as helen hunt jackson, mary austin, norman mailer, raymond chandler, joan didion, carolyn see, and many othersoxfam bookshop kingsbridge the literary image of los angeles has evolved since the s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a new eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that foreshadows and reflects all that is wrong with americathis is essential reading for anyone interested in the literature and changing image of southern californiasome marks to page edges and one page corner crease, but overall still a very good clean copysee oxfam website for delivery information read morefirst published in , imagining los angeles is available now for the first time in paperback
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' james patterson 'one of my favourite writers many of the world's greatest thriller writers are huge fans of her work: 'kathy reichs writes smart - no, make that brilliant - mysteries that are as realistic as nonfiction and as fast-paced as the best thrillers about jack reacher, or alex cross' lee child 'nobody does forensics thrillers like kathy reichswho was the girl? and was she murdered?dr temperance brennan, forensic anthropologist, must find the answerscould there be a connection between the two cases? convinced that the girl's death was no accident, tempe soon finds herself at the centre of a conspiracy that extends from south america to afghanistan' karin slaughter 'i love kathy reichs? - always scary, always suspenseful, and i always learn somethingshe's the real dealthey're filled with riveting twists and turns - and no matter how many books she writes, i just can't get enough!' lisa scottoline 'nobody writes a more imaginative thriller than kathy reichsinside her purse is the id card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlieroxfam shop clitheroe  a gripping temperance brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist kathy reichs, the international no' david baldacci 'each book in kathy reichs's fantastic temperance brennan series is better than the last' clive cussler see oxfam website for delivery information read moredr kathy reichs is a professional forensic anthropologistshe soon learns that a gulf war veteran stands accused of smuggling artefacts into the countrythe body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of charlotteshe has worked for decades with chief medical examiners, the fbi, and even a united nations tribunal on genocidehowever, she is best known for her internationally bestselling temperance brennan novels, which draw on her remarkable experience to create the most vividly authentic, true-to-life crime thrillers on the market and which are the inspiration for the hit tv series bonesbut to find justice for the dead, she must be more courageous - and take more extreme action - than ever before1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit tv series bones
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Bt freelance xt triple pack cordless telephones with answering machine, blue backlit display, 25 minute record time, 50 name and number directory, caller display, in good condition and perfect working order, buyer to collect only ad id: delivery service consumer credit
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