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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the exquisite last novel from nobel prize-winning author yasunari kawabata ineko has lost the ability to see thingsthe doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover'lusciously peculiar' paris review see oxfam website for delivery information read moreat first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancas ineko's mother and fianc walk along the riverbank after visiting time, they wonder: is her condition a form of madness - or an expression of love? exploring the distance between us, and what we say without words, kawabata's transcendent final novel is the last word from a master of japanese literature
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham from cox's "magna britannia" (), publishedformer owners signature on front end paperssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebound in half-leather boards, front board virtually detached, some damage to leather spinewith contemporary fold-out map of the county; interior in good condition for age, bindings tight
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the baileys women's prize for fiction shortlisted for the costa novel awardlonglisted for the man booker prizewinner of the irish novel of the year hanna, dan, constance and emmet return to the west coast of ireland for a final family christmas in the home their mother is about to sell**one of the guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century** see oxfam website for delivery information read moreas the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham par arthur mangin, quatrieme edition, published in france - all text in frenchillustrated with monochrome platessee oxfam website for delivery information read morehardback, some damage to green cloth boards at top of spine, bindings tight, most pages clean, minor foxing to few pages
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham this is something specialbut he goes furtherhe makes belfast mythicalthis is an extraordinary book, illuminating not only the political map of belfast but also the dark ring-roads of collective memory and the secret blueprints inside our headseoin mcnamee evokes the intimate particularity of events and topography of the city and the run-down wastelands where atrocities take placehe has a vision of universalityit is mcnamee's first novel' see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham robert grainier is a day labourer in the american west at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary timesbuffeted by the loss of his family, grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new worldas his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform america in his lifetimesuffused with the history and landscapes of the american west - its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge-builders - train dreams captures the disappearance of a distinctly american way of lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham this text is both a history of the town of newmarket and the sport that dominates itsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreits society is both feudal and democratic, as was the sport of kings, and it is one of wealth with links to royalty and the new 'kings', the arabs
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'buying & selling a home for dummies' presents property advice for the first-time buyersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit provides an independent, plain-speaking guide to every aspect of the whole process
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'visual basic for dummies' offers readers a fun and creative environment for developing programs with visual basicsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'or john wilkes seated between vice and virtue', by adrian hamiltoninterior unmarkedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is not accompanied by contemporary the special reading copylimited edition of copies, this copy printed as numberhardback, quarter cloth and decorated paper boards, some shelf wear to the board edges, and mark to the cloth spine - see photos
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham very scarce copy of this review of the tsr2 projectcontributors include many of the people involved in the projectcloth-bound hardback in as new condition, including dust jacket which has light rubbing marks to front and rearpublished by the royal air force historical society, the book is the result of a very ambitious seminar held at filton in april to consider the history and lessons of the tsr2 project which so dominated the military aviation scene in britain in the mid-50s and 60ssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham this edition includes additional chapters on incorporating meaning and purpose into work, into goal-setting, and a spiritual approach to coaching, together with a final section on "coaching the organizations' culture"see oxfam website for delivery information read moreadopted by many of the world's major corporations, this work also argues for using questions, rather than instructions and commands, and following the grow sequence - goals, reality, options, will - to generate prompt action and peak performanceit explores the dynamics of team development and it positions coaching as the essential team leadership skill
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham hardbacks, in two volumes, chapters a1-f11, & g1-p4 with indexboth volumes in very good condition, matching slipcase is sound, but with some wearsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the letters reprinted in this book were written by a girl to her lover between the end of and the autumn ofhardback, blue cloth boards and interior in good condition, price-clipped dust jacket is grubby, with small stainsfirst edition , reprinted from sheets of the first edition in andsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreillustrated with portraits and a facsimile of dorothy osborne's writing
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham first edition, written by marcel ayme, translated into english, this first english edition published by the bodley headsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreextremely hard to find edition, overall good conditionhardback, blue cloth boards clean, interior unmarked, very minor foxing to page ends, dust jacket lightly scuffed on rear page
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham like ain morpho eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studiesbyatt's booker prize-winning novel, possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth centuryin the conjugal angel, curious individuals - some fictional, others drawn from history - gather to connect with the spirit worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethroughout both, byatt examines the eccentricities of the victorian era, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance, science and faith into a sumptuous, magical tapestry
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the year is and the first plague victim has reached english shoressee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand at their heart is the strange, cold child - narigorm - who reads the runesthe ill-assorted company - a scarred trader in holy relics, a conjurer, two musicians, a healer and a deformed storyteller - are all concealing secrets and liesand each in turn is driven to a cruel and unnatural deathbut as law and order breaks down across the country and the battle for survival becomes ever more fierce, narigorm mercilessly compels each of her fellow travellers to reveal the truthpanic erupts around the country and a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the deadly disease, unaware that something far more deadly is - in fact - travelling with them
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the first world war, the russian revolution, and the struggle for votes for womentheir destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to uthe williams, a welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine ownerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morepresident woodrow wilson and to two orphaned russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to america fall foul of war, conscription and revolutionin a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, fall of giants moves seamlessly from washington to st petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mightythe coronation day of king george vlady maud fitzherbert falls in love with walter von ulrich, a spy at the german embassy in london
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham it is just months before the nazi occupation of poland, and, from the mud of a buried city, jakob beer, an orphaned jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviourbut the trauma of jakob's early life refuses to leave himhe is saved by the geologist and humanist athos roussos, who takes him to his greek island home where he becomes his studentsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreliving forever in the shadow of the holocaust, although jakob has escaped the most terrible fate of all, he must yet steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham ***longlisted for the man booker prize ******shortlisted for the costa novel award ***'an engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' roddy doylefarouk's country has been torn apart by warsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom war-torn syria to small-town ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of homelampy's heart has been laid waste by chloeeach is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of waysjohn's past torments him as he nears his end
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham new york, august : a man is walking in the skyin the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for everbetween the newly built twin towers, the man twirls through the airsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefar below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: corrigan, a radical irish monk working in the bronx; claire, a delicate upper east side housewife reeling from the death of her son; lara, a drug-addled young artist; gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of new york
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham resistance opens in , as the women of a small welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gonesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein his hugely anticipated debut novel, owen sheers has produced a beautifully imagined and powerfully moving story of love and losssoon after that a german patrol arrives in their valley
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham because alice and howard goodwin run a small dairy farm in the midst of encroaching suburbia, and because their whimsical ways betray their city origins, they are shunned as 'that hippie couple', outsiders in the small midwestern town of prairie centernevertheless, they feel that they and their two daughters are living in a self-made paradisebut alice has always believed that all it would take to fall from grace is 'one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident'spellbinding, lyrical, and universal in its themes, this powerful, emotional page-turner shows that jane hamilton is a writer of exceptional talenta map of the worldis a harrowing tale of guilt, betrayal and the loss of innocencesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis sets into motion a devastating and irrevocable string of events that will change the goodwins' lives for ever as they find themselves trapped in a nightmare from which they cannot escapeand one morning, while alice is babysitting her neighbour's children, a tragic accident does occur on the farm
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a story of struggle and hardship and one girl's battle for survival from the best-selling author of if you were the only girl and another man's childtragedy strikes and angela is left to rear her frail daughter on her own, though the worst is yet to come when angela suffers another terrible misfortunewhen angela marries her childhood sweetheart, she has hopes of a brighter future, which are dashed when her husband is called up to fight in the great warbut the dream of a better life is dashed as bad fortune dogs the familypregnant and destitute and already with one mouth to feed that she can ill afford, there is nowhere left to turnangela mccluskey comes to birmingham from ireland with her family as a young girl to escape the terrible poverty in her homelandwhat destiny awaits angela and her unborn child? caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, will angela forever be punished for the choices that she makes? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham in yorkshire, the potter family are preparing to celebrate elizabeth ii's arrival on the throneits three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matterson the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desiresstephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curateanxious teenager marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visionsthen there is fredericathe first frederica potter novel see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham bond does not himself feature until quite late in this novel - the opening chapters, one of fleming's most amazing fantasies, creates the nightmare world of smersh - the russian counter-spy organisation, its sickeningly foul section head rosa klebb and her top assassin grantsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen the action shifts to istanbul and klebb's plot to destroy the unsuspecting bond one of the most brilliant chase sequences in fiction (unrivalled even by buchan or greene) unfoldsone of the defining books of the cold war (and one of president kennedy's favourite books) from russia with love is perhaps even more enjoyable to read now than when it first became a huge international bestseller
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'i'm still rather fond of this first book of mine, in spite of all the time that has elapsed, and in spite of the way my style has evolvedit's never easy to face the fact that a man you once loved passionately has found the girl of his dreams, as alice discovers when joe introduces her to his new girlfriendas the stories seem to intertwine, alice comes to realize that her instinctive hatred of joe's new girlfriend may not just be due to jealousy, as she is plunged into a nightmare world of obsession, revenge, seduction - and bloodsee oxfam website for delivery information read more' joanne harriscaution - may contain vampiresthen alice finds an old diary and reads about two men and the mysterious woman who bewitched them both, buried in grantchester churchyard half a century ago
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham new novel from bestselling author of divorcing jack and starring the inimitable hero dan starkeydan starkey gets caught up in the world of writing (he can handle that) terrorists (he's been there before) and movie hype (more frightening than anything yet encountered) in a cracking adventure that takes him from dublin to the cannes film festivalsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand it's not just bullets that dan is dodging, when a smouldering romance threatens the frequently-rocky balance of his marriage to patriciathis novel can be read entirely without reference to the other starkey books, and may be bateman's best yet
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham "we came out here to begin againno one said to us: beware of fresh starts" timely and suspenseful, sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhoodno one said to us: god knows what will beginwith elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is also an unforgettable story about a mother's fight to survivesurely their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their little familywith their relationship under intolerable pressure, violence erupts and alice is faced with the unthinkable as she fights to protect her unborn childbut the mountains and their people hold a different kind of dangersee oxfam website for delivery information read morea terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around themabove all, alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban populationwe came out here for the clear air and a fresh startheavily pregnant alice and her partner pete are done with the city
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a return to the epic romance, heroism, history and warm and eccentric cast of characters that made captain corelli's mandolin such an extraordinary hit (2can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the great war? see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthoodwhen the boys end up scattered along the western front, rosie is left confused by her love for two young men - one an infantry soldier and one a flying acein the brief golden years before the outbreak of world war i, rosie mccosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in kent, with their neighbours the pitt boys on one side and the pendennis boys on the other5 million copies sold)
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