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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 hertford winner of the mckitterick prizeshortlisted for the east midlands book awardshortlisted for the man booker prize shortlisted for new writer of the year in the specsavers national book awardsobserver book of the year the lighthouse begins on a north sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to germany for a restorative walking holidaybut the story he keeps coming back to, the person and the event affecting all others, is his mother and her abandonment of him as a boy, which left him with a void to fill, a substitute to findin the morning, futh puts the episode behind him and sets out on his week-long circular walk along the rhinesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time aroundhe recalls his first trip to germany with his newly single fatherspending his first night in hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barmanat the end of the week, futh, sunburnt and blistered, comes to the end of his circular walk, returning to what he sees as the sanctuary of the hellhaus hotel, unaware of the events which have been unfolding there in his absenceas he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage and his own
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Longlisted for the man booker prize run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with holly sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflictoxfam shop dumfries the dazzling novel from the bestselling author of cloud atlasand as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survivalover six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imaginingsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop wolverhampton a brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double man booker prize-winning author of 'wolf hall' and 'bring up the bodies'whether set in a claustrophobic saudi arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirithilary mantel is one of britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writerschildhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in 'comma'; nurses clash in 'harley street' over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting gamein these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday façadessee oxfam website for delivery information read moredisplaying all of mantel's unmistakable style and wit, they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powers
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Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for the booker prize and the arthur cand, as ever, she displays her unique and inimitable literary style, at once funny, wise and sadjan morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as venice, coronation everest, hong kong, spain, manhattan '45, a writer's world and the pax britannica trilogyoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells in a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, jan morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth centuryranging from new york to venice, sydney to berlin, and the middle east to south africa, jan morris was a witness to such seminal moments as the eichmann trial, the first ascent of everest, the fall of the berlin wall and the handover of hong kong'a glorious compendium of adventure and wisdom' pico iyer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoffering a tremendously perceptive and highly personal view of the world, she is as much concerned with conveying the 'feel' of these moments as the events themselves
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease have a look on the remarks on albums gato barbieri, sonny rollins, lamont dozier, lou reed the shipment will be done in a strong reinforced package for more security: weight around 5 kgplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteif tea break over back on your eads booker-t evergreen the best of booker-t and the mg's weather report black market sonny rollins the way i feel remark transversal scratch please see pictures gato barbieri tropico (us release importred) remark very slight transversal scratch please see picture between the two white threads it is hard to find joe jackson body and soul lamont dozier going back to my roots remark: a scratch before the beginning of the fisrt track lou reed remarks: one spot on the jacket, slight transversal scratch the lps have been all kept in a very good conditionlot of 9 albums 70s-80s with betters and 'to-know' ones: 9 vinyl lp recordsrelease years have been estimatedour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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Oxfam shop dumfries ***winner of the man booker prize *** forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the line, and the rest of humanity, who were notstruggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life foreverin the despair of a japanese pow camp on the burma death railway, surgeon dorrigo evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earliersee oxfam website for delivery information read morehailed as a masterpiece, richard flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truth
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the man booker prize winner of the galaxy british book awards 'author of the year' 'an extraordinary and brilliant first novel' sunday times meet balram halwai, the 'white tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murdererhe works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escapeadiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and visionwhen he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to delhi at the wheel of a hondaamid today's india's cockroaches and call-centres, its gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new indiadriven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the tiger might escape his cagesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebalram was born in a backwater village on the river ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller
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This novel by a booker prize nominee is an engaging saga of two lovers paired for life, bound by strong family ties and firmly united by their terror of a common enemyoxfam bookshop ludlow signed first edition, lovely copy of the cult bookher life with camio in trinity wood is equally hazardous; daily survival is difficultthe author endows his anthropomorphized characters with complex emotions, clear thinking, reasoned judgment and a shared stock of ancient clan memoriescomplete with very tidy dust jacket, no tearsunmarked board cover and inside pages clean and brighta familiar scenario, perhaps, but here the devoted couple is a pair of foxes--o-ha, a vixen born in the british countryside, and her second mate, camio, who, after escaping from the zoo, becomes a streetwise scavenger in the suburbstheir adventures and the misadventures of their pups are seen through a framework of their own mythology, a world governed by rituals and traditions that began at the time of creation: firstdarka true sense of peril, a wry observance of their other enemy, man, some quixotic digressions into the lives of their offspring and avoidance of sentimentality all combine to invite comparison to watership downsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreo-ha's first mate was killed by fox hunters and her initial litter froze to deathyet the most ominous threat is from sabre, a vengeful ridgeback hound bent on destroying them both
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Winner of both a booker prize and pegasus prize for literature, the bone people is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerising emotional complexityout of this unorthodox trinity keri hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where maori and european new zealand meet, clash, and sometimes mergethere is writing on the first page of the book see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth in a tower on the new zealand sea lives kerewin holmes, part maori, part european, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her familyone night her solitude is disrupted by a visitora speechless, mercurial boy named simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possessionas kerewin succumbs to simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his maori foster father joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham longlisted for the booker prize after the upheavals of the second world war, the richardson family - sam, ellen and their young son joe - settle back to working-class life in the cumbrian town of wigtonsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas the old order begins to be challenged and new vistas open, sam and ellen forge their future together with differing needs and desires - and conflicting expectations of joe, who grows up with his own demons to confrontyet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same again
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square mary renault's classic greek historical novels 'the alexander trilogy', the first of which was nominated for the lost man booker prize inthis beautifully illustrated folio society edition is in excellent condition and is housed in its own boxed pictorial sleevea fine gift for any mary renault fan or reader of greek historical fictionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Drawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world orderthe allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves createdat the paris peace conference of , the allies agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationsas imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easier to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinybritain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwiseas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencesthe first world war threw the imperial order into crisisoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good conditionminor signs of shelf wearnew states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handscolonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva to demand a repartition of the spoilssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe pages are clean and tight and appear unread
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In 'reading turgenev', which was shortlisted for the booker prize, an irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older manoxfam bookshop cheltenham two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurredbut she finds unusual solace - in secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for russian novelsthe second story, 'my house in umbria' tells how romantic novelist emily delahunty helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train and invents colourful pasts for her convalescent patientssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the booker prize and whitbread novel of the year awardin the summer of , four people reach a turning point: alice valentine, who lies gravely ill in her west country home; her two sons, one still searching for a sense of direction, the other fighting to keep his acting career and marriage afloat; and lászló lázár, who leads a comfortable life in paris yet is plagued by his memories of the hungarian uprisingfor each, the time has come to assess what matters in life, and all will be forced to take part in an act of liberation - though not necessarily the one foreseensee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This book will be useful for students, academics and policymakers in the fields of international development, international relations, international political economy, cultural policy and cultural theorythe book goes on to explore some of the practical implications that this international treaty is beginning to have for the ways that culture is (and is not) being integrated into contemporary development policy and practicethis development has generally been welcomed, but also raises a number of questions: what are the implications in policy and practice? who are the most influential voices in promoting a global agenda for culture and development, and to what extent has the creation of new international policy instruments reflected a consensus? more fundamentally, what is meant by "culture" in these discussions and who has the power to give particular definitions political and legal authority? the politics of cultural development seeks to provide a theoretically and historically informed response to such questions, illustrated by reference to case studies (including the european union, the caribbean and china)oxfam shop nether edge there is a growing recognition of the role that culture can play in sustainable development strategiesnote: has dedication to inner leaf, otherwise as newparticular attention is paid to the formation of the unesco convention on the protection and the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions, a landmark instrument in debates about culture and developmentsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Shortlisted for the orange prize and the booker prizelondonsue trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of mrs sucksby and her 'family'see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop inverness the book that inspired park chan-wook's astonishing film the handmaidenbut from the moment she draws breath, sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away
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Winner of the booker prizethe story is told by its chief protagonist, saleem sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical eventsoxfam bookshop hertford portraying india's transition from british colonialism to independence and the partition of india it is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literaturesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop clitheroe a moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, man booker shortlisted author karen joy fowlersix people - five women and a man - meet once a month in california's central valley to discuss jane austen's novelsover the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of jane austen a couple of them even fall in love'if i could eat this novel, i would' alice sebold, author of the lovely bones'a thoroughly delightful comedy of contemporary manners' entertainment weekly'we defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novel' mail on sunday see oxfam website for delivery information read morethey are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships
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It took place on april in oslo, norway and includes performances by otis redding, sam & dave, eddie floyd, arthur conley, the mar-keys and booker t and the mgsin the midnight hourhot buttered soul
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the sunday express book of the year award and short-listed for the booker prize, 'nice work' is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings'a work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting' observerbut, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselvessee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen vic wilcox, md of pringle's engineering works, meets english lecturer dr robyn penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on
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Oxfam shop evesham a world book night title and short listed for the booker prizein india in the mid-'s, four unlikely people find themselves thrown together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a "state of internal emergency"see oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen
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This pb is in excellent condition, shortlisted for the man booker prize
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Edmunds osprey's study of the international brigades of the spanish civil war ()in the case of the republicans the comintern organised the international brigades, eventually recruiting over peoplethe international brigades were the republican forces elite and as such were stationed at the toughest sectors and often led the most desperate attacksoxfam books & music bury stken bradley details the history, recruitment, composition, organisation, uniforms and equipment of these brigadesboth the loyalist republican troops and the nationalists under general franco used foreign volunteers to supplement their own forcesthe civil war fought in spain was one of the most bloody and bitterly fought military campaigns of the 20th centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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It won the booker prizeoxfam shop dumfries how late it was, how late is a stream of consciousness novel written by scottish writer james kelmansee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe glasgow-centred work is written in a working class scottish dialect, and follows sammy, a shoplifter and ex-convict
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He finds in the international development community a close-knit coalition of policy makers who have inserted themselves into the local political process and pushed the honduran nation-state to conform to international norms and integrate into a transnational structure of governancein the process, he draws a provocative connection between the efforts of international development workers and the emergence of global governancejackson examines the significant roles played by international development workers-"the globalizers"-operating in honduras over the past thirty years, particularly in the troubled construction of the el cajĂłn hydroelectric dam, the creation of maquiladoras, and the multinational relief, recovery, and reconstruction efforts following hurricane mitchjackson illuminates the processes by which wealthy western countries target countries in latin america, asia, africa, and the middle east for political economic construction, or nation buildingusing honduras as a case study, jeffrey tsee oxfam website for delivery information read morejust one light smudge on page edgesjackson examines the mechanisms of power at the disposal of these development organizations, the expertise of those administering development aid, the agency of development workers, and the benefits that accrue to donor countriesoxfam bookshop skipton very good conditionin doing so he makes a persuasive connection between nation building and global governance-raising important questions about whose nations are being built and why
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It’s a record about self–exploration, about learning to love yourself and opening yourself up to love others, about choosing the kind of person you want to be, about confronting death and appreciating lifei wanted to make a record about the things in my life i never wanted to talk about
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Oxfam shop devizes the record is in excellent condition and the sleeve is very good with just a little edge scuffing and discolourationsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreplease see photos for personnel and track details
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Short novel, shortlisted for the booker prizecash on collection preferred, but happy to post if requiredplease message me with any questions and check out my other advertshappy to consider a discounted price if multiple items purchasedthank you! read more
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Oxfam bookshop st albans an exhibition of contemporary ceramics in conjunction with the international academy of ceramics with the rapid widening on international publicity it becomes increasingly important to evaluate from ti to time the relative strength of international and national styles in this sensitive medium see oxfam website for delivery information read more distinguished exhibitions of this nature have been held previously in such centres as prague, geneva and istanbul; we hope this exhibition in the victoria and albert museum will prove a worthy successor
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