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00 on chisil beach by ian mcewan paperbackshop / curiosities on chisil beach by ian mcewan paperback * * ÂŁ2used 1 in stock 1 add to basket category: curiosities tags: book, craigkiddltd, curiosity, hardback, ianmcewan, onchisilbeach, paperback, reading
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The stopper is a screw fitting, possibly steel/metal with 'war grade' embossed on the topoxfam shop hexham for beer or advertising devotees an empty early green bottle of mcewan's pale ale28cms x 8cms see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop victoria the imitation game is a television play written by ian mcewan and directed by richard eyre, a bbc play for today, first broadcast on 26 aprilit is in frinton and 19-year-old cathy raine turns down a job at the local munitions factory and, much to the consternation of her parents and boyfriend tony, joins the atssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe overhears the male staff discussing the eponymous imitation game, devised by bletchley park's alan turinglater cathy is caught in turner's room reading documents relating to the ultra programme, and she is incarcerated in military prison for the remainder of the warcathy is befriended by cambridge mathematics don turner (based loosely on turing) and they end up in bed together but for turner it is a failure and he accuses her of planning it all to humiliate himafter an altercation in a pub she is moved to bletchley park, the centre of the code-breaking operation, only to find herself cleaning and making teashe is assigned to a wireless listening station, transcribing enigma coded morse transmissions from nazi germany and makes friends with mary
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Solar (, jonathan cape) the children act (, jonathan cape) - hardback => collection from norfolk st, central worthing bn11 4bb (victoria park, between the 2 schools)
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2 x berger chairs upholstery in brora tweed by mcewan of inverness few scratches as you would expect from age a lovely pair of chairs thank you for looking read more
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2 x berger chairs upholstery in brora tweed by mcewan of inverness few scratches as you would expect from age a lovely pair of chairs, will sell separatethank you for looking read more
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As and a2 english lit books used but in good conditions some revision notes included
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Winter : grace bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of riverton manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicideoxfam bookshop cheltenham summer : on the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand english country house, a young poet takes his lifea shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but grace never couldsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracksthe only witnesses, sisters hannah and emmeline hartford, will never speak to each other againhartley's the go-between, and lovers of the film gosford parka thrilling mystery and a compelling love story, kate morton's the house at riverton will appeal to readers of ian mcewan's atonement, l
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Director joe wright (pride and prejudice) deserves high praise for translating ian mcewan's highly internalised, multilayered tale of guilt, redemption, and the power and limits of the artistic imagination, into a sumptuous visual feast that not only conveys the intricate plot points of the novel, but dives headfirst into the emotional subtleties that make the story so wrenching
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Oxfam shop ulverston joe wright directs this adaptation of the novel by ian mcewan starring keira knightley and james mcavoyon the hottest day of the summer of , thirteen-year-old briony tallis (saoirse ronan) sees her older sister cecilia (knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country houserobbie and cecilia have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination - and briony has committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will colour her entire liferomola garai and vanessa redgrave co-star as briony as she grows olderfor regions 2 and 5 see oxfam website for delivery information read morewatching cecilia is their housekeeper's son robbie turner (james mcavoy), a childhood friend who, along with briony's sister, has recently graduated from cambridgeby the end of that day the lives of all three have been changed forever
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On the hottest day of the summer of , thirteen-year-old briony tallis (saoirse ronan) sees her older sister cecilia (knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country housesee oxfam website for delivery information read morerobbie and cecilia have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination - and briony has committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will colour her entire lifedisc and case in very good conditionromola garai and vanessa redgrave co-star as briony as she grows olderwatching cecilia is their housekeeper's son robbie turner (james mcavoy), a childhood friend who, along with briony's sister, has recently graduated from cambridgeby the end of that day the lives of all three have been changed foreveroxfam bookshop carlisle adaptation of the novel by ian mcewan, starring keira knightley and james mcavoy
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But, though plenty has been written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction  from robert harris and ian mcewan to andrew hodges' biography of turing what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? what was life like for them an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military? sinclair mckay's book is the first history for the general reader of life at bletchley park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed angus wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) of a youthful roy jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other's workthis country house in the buckinghamshire countryside was home to britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like alan turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology  indeed, the birth of modern computingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham bletchley park was where one of the war's most famous  and crucial  achievements was made: the cracking of germany's enigma code in which its most important military communications were couchedthe military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the battle of the atlantic and the war in north africa
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It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 yearsthere is only one le carrédon't wait for the paperback' the times'perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in britainhe's in the first rank' ian mcewan'one of those writers who will be read a century from now' robert harris see oxfam website for delivery information read morevintage john le carréeloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' daily mail'splendid, fast-paced, riveting' andrew marr, sunday times'remarkableintelligence operations that were once the toast of the service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the berlin wallthe reason? cold war ghosts have come back to haunt himoxfam bookshop st albans chosen as a book of the year in the times literary supplement, the evening standard, the daily telegraph, the guardian, the times'a brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' evening standard'vintage le carré'utterly engrossing and perfectly pitchedreally, not since the spy who came in from the cold has le carré exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' john banville, guardianpeter guillam, former disciple of george smiley in the british secret service, has long retired to brittany when a letter arrives, summoning him to londonlike wine, le carré's writing has got richer with agesomebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater goodimmensely clever, breathtaking
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On a hot summer day in , thirteen-year-old briony tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, cecilia, and robbie turner, the son of a servantoxfam bookshop st albans ian mcewan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of english prosesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of world war ii and into the close of the twentieth century
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Oxfam shop pershore read the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years 'a beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' ian mcewan william stoner enters the university of missouri at nineteen to study agriculture'a brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' nick hornby 'a terrific novel of echoing sadness' julian barnes see oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual lifestoner becomes a teacherhe marries the wrong womanhis life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarelya seminar on english literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm
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Winter : grace bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of riverton manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicidea shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but grace never couldsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hertford summer : on the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand english country house, a young poet takes his lifeghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracksthe only witnesses, sisters hannah and emmeline hartford, will never speak to each other againhartley's the go-between, and lovers of the film gosford parka thrilling mystery and a compelling love story, kate morton's the house at riverton will appeal to readers of ian mcewan's atonement, l
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For fans of jonathan coe's classic comic bestsellers what a carve up! and the rotters' club, this hilarious new novel, which is set in the mad men period of the mid 50s, will also be loved by readers of nick hornby, william boyd and ian mcewansee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop royal exchange square london, : unassuming civil servant thomas foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to brusselsbut thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: two british spies are following himhis task: to keep an eye on the britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the british presence at expo 58 - the biggest world's fair of the centuryas soon as he arrives, thomas is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by anneke, a lovely flemish hostess
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The book introduces a new generation of contemporary british writers (rachel cusk, kiran desai, hari kunzru, jon mcgregor and david mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists arundhati roy, james kelman and ian mcewaneach chapter explores a different theoretical key concept, including 'glocality', 'glomicity', 'tour du monde', 'connectivity' and 'compearance'oxfam shop magdelen street while traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop aberystwyth tv adaptation of the popular muriel spark novel starring geraldine mcewan as the titular characterthough her pupils are captivated by her, as they begin to develop their own personalities tensions inevitably emerge and one of them will ultimately betray hermiss jean brodie educates her pupils in a flamboyant manner, presenting life as one long romantic adventure and giving voice to her fervently held views on art and musicsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop hebden bridge award-winning actress geraldine mcewan stars as miss marple in this set of murder mysteriesbetween them, they attempt to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years beforefinally in 'the sittaford mystery', in a remote house in the middle of dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seancedespite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its pastsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein 'by the pricking of the thumbs', when tommy (anthony andrews) and tuppence (greta scacchi) visit an elderly aunt in sunny ridge nursing home, tuppence is concerned by one resident, mrs lancaster (june whitfield), who rambles about a dead child behind the lounge fireplaceunfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on footlittle do they know that they will ultimately unveil a murdererin 'the moving finger', after a serious motorcycle accident, the dashing jerry burton (james d'arcy) arrives in the sleepy village of lymstock with his sister joanna (emilia fox) to recuperatewhen tuppence is introduced to one resident's friend, miss marple, she finds herself joining forces with her to follow the clues which lead them to the norfolk village of farrell st edmund where there they find a community guarding a number of deadly secretsin fear, gwenda turns to miss marple to exorcise her ghoststension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'captain trevelyanworse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairsis this black magic or simply a macabre joke? the only way to be certain is to locate captain trevelyanin 'the sleeping murder', soon after gwenda (sophia myles) moved into her new home, odd things started to happentogether miss marple and jerry set out to stop the malicious messages before they result in another tragedytheir expectations of peace and quiet are quickly dashed when they discover a poison pen-writer is at large in the village
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