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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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Oxfam 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 morethe stopper is a screw fitting, possibly steel/metal with 'war grade' embossed on the top
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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 aprilsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe overhears the male staff discussing the eponymous imitation game, devised by bletchley park's alan turingshe is assigned to a wireless listening station, transcribing enigma coded morse transmissions from nazi germany and makes friends with marycathy 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 teait 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 atslater 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 war
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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 suicidesee 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 crackshartley's the go-between, and lovers of the film gosford parkthe only witnesses, sisters hannah and emmeline hartford, will never speak to each other againa thrilling mystery and a compelling love story, kate morton's the house at riverton will appeal to readers of ian mcewan's atonement, loxfam 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 could
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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 mcavoyfor regions 2 and 5 see oxfam website for delivery information read moreby the end of that day the lives of all three have been changed foreverwatching cecilia is their housekeeper's son robbie turner (james mcavoy), a childhood friend who, along with briony's sister, has recently graduated from cambridgeon 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 older
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Used condition with some scratching but very good for 50 years of ages blue glass pub ashtrayadvertising newcastle brown ale; wm younger's keg beers; mcewan's export
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Disc and case in very good conditionby the end of that day the lives of all three have been changed foreversee 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 cambridgeon 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 houseoxfam bookshop carlisle adaptation of the novel by ian mcewan, starring keira knightley and james mcavoyrobbie 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 older
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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 workoxfam 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 couchedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis 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 computingthe military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the battle of the atlantic and the war in north africa
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Like wine, le carré's writing has got richer with agehe'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 moreoxfam 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 carrésomebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater goodthere is only one le carréimmensely clever, breathtakingvintage john le carrédon't wait for the paperback' the times'perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in britaineloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' daily mail'splendid, fast-paced, riveting' andrew marr, sunday times'remarkable'utterly engrossing and perfectly pitchedthe reason? cold war ghosts have come back to haunt himintelligence operations that were once the toast of the service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the berlin wallit gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 yearsreally, 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 london
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See 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 centuryoxfam 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 proseon 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 servant
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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 morea seminar on english literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farmstoner becomes a teacheryet 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 lifehis life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarelyhe marries the wrong woman
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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 suicidesee 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 crackshartley's the go-between, and lovers of the film gosford parkthe only witnesses, sisters hannah and emmeline hartford, will never speak to each other againoxfam 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 lifea thrilling mystery and a compelling love story, kate morton's the house at riverton will appeal to readers of ian mcewan's atonement, la shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but grace never could
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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 mcewanhis 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 centuryoxfam bookshop royal exchange square london, : unassuming civil servant thomas foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to brusselsas 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 hostesssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: two british spies are following him
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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 mcewan see oxfam website for delivery information read moreeach 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
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Oxfam bookshop aberystwyth tv adaptation of the popular muriel spark novel starring geraldine mcewan as the titular charactermiss 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 morethough her pupils are captivated by her, as they begin to develop their own personalities tensions inevitably emerge and one of them will ultimately betray her
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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 beforetension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'captain trevelyantheir expectations of peace and quiet are quickly dashed when they discover a poison pen-writer is at large in the villagein '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 recuperateunfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on footdespite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its pastin fear, gwenda turns to miss marple to exorcise her ghostslittle do they know that they will ultimately unveil a murdererwhen 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 secretssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreis this black magic or simply a macabre joke? the only way to be certain is to locate captain trevelyanfinally in 'the sittaford mystery', in a remote house in the middle of dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seancein 'the sleeping murder', soon after gwenda (sophia myles) moved into her new home, odd things started to happenin '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 fireplaceworse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairstogether miss marple and jerry set out to stop the malicious messages before they result in another tragedy
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