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Winner of the moravia prize for fiction, the jewish husband is a bittersweet story of passion, hatred, cruelty and oppressionhe wins her affections, but the price is greata very good condition copy, used with light shelf wear but with no major flawsa young jewish professor entertains a tormented passion for the beautiful and enigmatic soniashe is everything that he is not - the privileged daughter of a family that is wealthy, prominent and, above all, gentilesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music salisbury it is and fascist italy has imposed its infamous race laws
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Author: lionel shriver winner of the orange prize for fiction read moretitle: we need to talk about kevin
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'helen dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' daily mail 'a beautiful and inspired novel' john le carré 'secrets, unspoken words, lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make dunmore's stories ripple with menace and suspense' sunday times helen dunmore has published eleven novels with penguin: zennor in darkness, which won the mckitterick prize; burning bright; a spell of winter, which won the orange prize; talking to the dead; your blue-eyed boy; with your crooked heart; the siege, which was shortlisted for the whitbread novel of the year award and for the orange prize for fiction ; mourning ruby; house of orphans; counting the stars and the betrayal, which was longlisted for the man booker prizeh lawrence and his german wife, frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips londonthey befriend clare coyne, a young artist struggling to console her beloved cousin, john william, who is on leave from the trenches and suffering from shell-shocklawrence and his german wife hiding out in cornwall during the first world waroxfam bookshop cheltenham in her prize-winning first novel, zennor in darkness, helen dunmore reimagines the plight of dinto this turmoil come dshe is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writersee oxfam website for delivery information read morespring, , and war haunts the cornish coastal village of zennor: ships are being sunk by u-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy storiesyet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escape
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the man booker prize winner of the costa book of the yearshortlisted for the women's prize for fiction'simply exceptional i envy anyone who hasn't yet read it'daily mail'a gripping story of tumbling fury and terror'independent on sundaywith this historic win for 'bring up the bodies', hilary mantel becomes the first british author and the first woman to be awarded two man booker prizes (her first was for 'wolf hall' in )by thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final dayscromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careeran astounding literary accomplishment, 'bring up the bodies' is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistsbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymour
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the man booker prize winner of the costa book of the year shortlisted for the women's prize for fiction'simply exceptionalby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifean astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistsi envy anyone who hasn't yet read it'daily mail'a gripping story of tumbling fury and terror'independent on sunday with this historic win for bring up the bodies, hilary mantel becomes the first british author and the first woman to be awarded two man booker prizessee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final dayscromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careerbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymour
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Oxfam shop evesham winner of the man booker prize winner of the costa book of the yearshortlisted for the women's prize for fiction'simply exceptionalby thomas cromwell is chief minister to henry viii, his fortunes having risen with those of anne boleyn, the king's new wifean astounding literary accomplishment, bring up the bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelistssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of anne's final dayscromwell must find a solution that will satisfy henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own careeri envy anyone who hasn't yet read it' daily mail'a gripping story of tumbling fury and terror' independent on sundaywith this historic win for bring up the bodies, hilary mantel becomes the first british author and the first woman to be awarded two man booker prizesbut anne has failed to give the king an heir, and cromwell watches as henry falls for plain jane seymour
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Oxfam bookshop hertford winner of the baileys' women's prize for fiction winner of the desmond elliot prize we all do stupid things when we're kidsthe only one on ryan's side is his girlfriend karineif he blows that, he's all aloneryan cusack's grown up faster than most - being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for youand nobody says ryan's stupidthe neighbour who says she's trying to help but maybe wants something more than thatthe prostitute searching for the man she never knew she'd miss until he disappeared without trace one nightnot even behind his backit's the people around him who are the problemsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe gangland boss using his dad as a 'cleaner'but the truth is, you don't know your own strength till you need it
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Oxfam shop evesham winner of the baileys' women's prize for fiction winner of the desmond elliot prize we all do stupid things when we're kidsthe only one on ryan's side is his girlfriend karineif he blows that, he's all aloneryan cusack's grown up faster than most - being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for youand nobody says ryan's stupidthe neighbour who says she's trying to help but maybe wants something more than thatthe prostitute searching for the man she never knew she'd miss until he disappeared without trace one nightnot even behind his backit's the people around him who are the problemsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe gangland boss using his dad as a 'cleaner'but the truth is, you don't know your own strength till you need it
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Awards: winner of the baileys women's prize for fiction and the desmond elliot prizecondition: very goodcollection onlygenre: contemporary irish culture
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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 winner of the pulitzer prize for fiction and richard and judy pickthe story spans the vibrant intellectual world of concord and the sensuous antebellum south, through to the first year of the civil war as the north reels under a series of unexpected defeatsas alcott drew on her real-life sisters in shaping the characters of her little women, so brooks turned to the journals and letters of bronson alcott, louisa may's father, an idealistic educator, animal rights exponent and abolitionist who was a friend and confidante of ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreaufrom the author of the acclaimed 'year of wonders' and 'people of the book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the american civil warset during the american civil war, 'march' tells the story of john march, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in 'little women', louisa may alcott's classic american novellike her bestselling 'year of wonders', 'march' follows an unconventional love storysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit explores the passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held beliefas he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a washington hospital, he must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind and body, and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been throughin brooks's telling, march emerges as an abolitionist and idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself and in the union cause when he learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism and racism
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Oxfam bookshop hertford 'a cracking historical novel - with a twinge of the surreal - about passion and obsession' the timesshorlisted for the women's prize for fiction one september evening in , the merchant jonah hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstepthis meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new coursewhat will be the cost of their ambitions? and will they be able to escape the legendary destructive power a mermaid is said to possess? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreits arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence and through the doors of high society, where he meets angelica neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes onas gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see mr hancock's marvelhe has sold jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaidand a courtesan of great accomplishment
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Oxfam shop colne road shortlisted for the orange prize for fiction iasi, romania, the early sdeaf and mute, he is unable to communicate until a young nurse called safta brings paper and pencils with which he can drawbut while augustin's world remained the same size safta's expanded to embrace languages, society - and a fleeting love, one long, hot summerslowly, painstakingly, memories appear on the pagea nameless man is found on the steps of a hospitalbut then came war, and in its wake a brutal stalinist regime, and nothing would remain the sameborn six months apart, they grew up with a connection that bypassed wordssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe memories are safta's alsofor the man is augustin, son of the cook at the manor house which was safta's family home
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Longlisted for the orange prize for fictionoxfam shop dumfries hal treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant careerbut action changes hal, and the atrocities he is drawn into take him not only further from clara but himself, too; a betrayal that is only the first step down a dark pathsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreclara shares hal's sense of duty and honour; she knows she must settle down, make the best of things, smileimpatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, clara, and when hal is transferred to cyprus she and their twin daughters join himbut the island is in the heat of the emergency; the british are defending the colony against cypriots - schoolboys and armed guerillas alike - battling for union with greece
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Winner of the women's prize for fictionpaperback book is in very good conditioncollection onlythe road home by the author rose tremain
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Typeset in the future:how the design of science fiction defines o how the design of science fiction by dave addey (hardback, ) delivery uk delivery is within 3 to 5 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham beyond the blue mountains is a collection of short stories by booker prize winning author penelope livelyin any circumstances, from a wedding to a christmas shopping expedition, lively finds an emotional dilemma, engaging the reader as thoroughly as if they were reading a novel and leaving them speechless' daily mailpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and childrenthe fourteen warmly humorous stories in beyond the blue mountains range from the fantasy of scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in exquisite prose the subtle but significant events that go to create everyday experience'the fourteen brief stories in beyond the blue mountains reveal penelope lively at her most polished and perceptiveshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread award"the slovenian giantess" is a condensed masterpiece' sunday times'penelope lively is a genius and this collection is a joysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all beganpenelope lively lives in london
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She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham city of the mind is the second novel by booker prize winning author penelope livelypenelope lively lives in london'this is the city in which everything is simultaneousshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardthere is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction'in london's changing heartland, architect matthew halland is aware of how the past and the present blendhere too is the london of prehistory, of georgian elegance, of the blitz'a glorious novel' observer'the descriptions of the london blitz are achingly real' sunday telegraphpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and childrenshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all begansee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for london in docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his ownit stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him
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In addition to these, the comic also featured science fiction stories, adventure stories and sports storiesoxfam shop redruth the victor was a british comic paper published weekly by d the victor ran for issues from 25 january until it ceased publication on 21 novemberone of these, from issue 15, appeared in classics from the comics in maythis annual was first published in , with the last edition published init featured many stories that could be described as "boy's own" adventuresin particular, each week the front cover carried a story of how a medal had been won by british or commonwealth forces during the great war or the second world war associated with it was the annually published the victor book for boysthe book featured a selection of reprints from the weekly comic many of the victor's stories focused on the exploits of the british military in world war twoslight damage on binder edge and bottom of pages but does not harm reading or picturessee oxfam website for delivery information read morea hardback book, the best of the victor, was published in ready to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this popular adventure comicthe victor told adventure tales in comic book format
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fictionnational book award finalistnew york times bestsellerwinner of the carnegie medal for fictiona beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind french girl and a german boy whose paths collide in occupied france as both try to survive the devastation of world war ii'open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close foreverthe walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the nazis invade paris'for marie-laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazesin this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories ofmarie-laure and werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one anothersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe miniature of a paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way homethe microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the museum of natural historyand a future which draws her ever closer to werner, a german orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the hitler youth
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Oxfam bookshop carlisle wole soyinka was the first african to be awarded the nobel prize for literaturea few decades ago the existence of collective fear had an immediately identifiable face - the nuclear bombnow it is much more complexwe are all potential targetsfor soyinka, 11th september did not instigate the development of the climate of fear that has enveloped the world, it was in when, a few months before the lockerbie disaster, a passenger plane was brought down by terrorists over the republic of nigerfrom niger to manhattan, and now to madrid, this climate of fear has stretched to engulf the globe, warning its inhabitants that there is now no distinction between the involved or non-involvedfrom the fear of a terrorist with a bomb in his bag to the threat of a virus sent by a computer hacker with a lust for destruction, fear of the invisible threat is now omnipresentin this year's prestigious series of reith lectures, soyinka considers fear as a predominant theme in world politicssee oxfam website for delivery information read morepages are slightly dog-eared and shows signs of agecover & spine in very good conditionthe fear is created by tyranny and by furtive, invisible power, the power of the quasi-state, and terrorismin this extraordinary book, developed from the bbc radio 4 reith lectures, soyinka explores the changing face of fear: the conflict between power and freedom; the complex motives behind unthinkable acts of violence; the meaning of human dignity; while comparing the fanaticism of powerful terrorists with the attitude of world leaders - discovering terrifying similarities
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It should be remembered that maurice maeterlinck was the only belgian writer to receive the nobel prize for literature inthis ballet is one of the last works by maurice maeterlinck who died a few years later in nice, france inthis leaflet is the staging text for the ballet intended for the american publicour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storea very rare 4-page leaflet of a ballet written and directed in the ucatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteby maurice maeterlinck in during his stay in america after the second world warthis is one of the only known copiesit should be pointed out that there is no written record of this balletare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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Insulin was a wonder-drug with ability to bring patients back from the very brink of death, and it was no surprise that in the nobel prize for medicine was awarded to its discoverers, the canadian research team of banting, best, collip, and macleodwelch medal of the american association for the history of medicineoriginally published in and updated in , the discovery of insulin has won the city of toronto book award, the jason hannah medal of the royal society of canada, and the william hedmunds the discovery of insulin at the university of toronto in was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of diseaseoxfam books & music bury stin this engaging and award-winning account, historian michael bliss recounts the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin - a story as much filled with fiery confrontation and intense competition as medical dedication and scientific geniussee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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His collected poems won the pulitzer prize for poetrywhether he was writing about his native ohio, the natural world, love lost and found, or the luminous resonant italy of his later work, wrights mastery of language and his powerful, haunting voice marked him out as one of the finest writers of his time, a poet whose work caught the spirit of americas anxious yet hopeful post-war yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morejames wright was born in martins ferry, ohio, inoxfam shop arnold james wright is one of the most significant, most enduring figures in modern american poetry, the central figure of a greatly talented generation
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Annals of the former world is the winner of the pulitzer prize for nonfictionas clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern non-fictionoxfam shop ulverston the pulitzer prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 46 billion years twenty years ago, when john mcphee began his journeys back and forth across the united states, he planned to describe a cross section of north america at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled withsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelike the terrain it covers, annals of the former world tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through itthe structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title annals of the former world
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Gide writes here of his disillusionment with communism and would go on to win the nobel prize for literature ten years later inlibrary, not a book club, no remainder mark or owner's marks; dust jacket not price clippednear fine with some browning to paper in a very good jacket with light browning to spine and light soilingour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehardcover first edition (knopf, ), first printingare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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Winner of the pulitzer prize for general non-fiction and described by the jury as "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal" eight pages of monochrome photographs dust jacket has some marks and edge wear; blue board covers, with title etcoxfam shop barnard castle a lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have feared, lived with, and died from for more than five thousand years by an award-winning cancer physician and researcherin gilt on spine, in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more text, clean, bright and unmarked throughout
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There's a whole world out there: with this book, anyone can get out and explore itthe dangerous book for boys is written with the verve and passion that readers of conn iggulden's number one bestselling novels have come to expectchapters in the dangerous book for boys include: the seven ancient wonders of the world, conkers, laws of football, dinosaurs, fishing, juggling, timers and tripwires, kings and queens, famous battles, spies, making crystals, insects and spiders, astronomy, girls, the golden age of piracy, secret inks, patron saints of britain, skimming stones, dog tricks, making a periscope, coin tricks, marbles, artillery, the origin of words and the solar systempublished in by harper collinshardback, first edition, sixth printing, in fine condition - appears unreadteach your old dog new trickssee oxfam website for delivery information read morehow many other books will help you thrash someone at conkers, race your own go-cart, and identify the best quotations from shakespeare? the dangerous book for boys gives you facts and figures at your fingertips swot up on the solar system, learn about famous battles and read inspiring stories of incredible courage and braverylavishly designed and fully illustrated in colour and black and white throughout, it's set to be a perfect gift for father's day and beyondthis book, his first non-fiction work, has been written with his brother as a celebration of the long summers of their youth and as a compendium of information so vital to men of all agesunderstand the laws of cricketmake a pinhole cameraoxfam shop tunbridge wells inspiration for the tv show if ever there were a book to make you switch off your television set, the dangerous book for boys is it
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Looking for the perfect idea for a giftmeasures 60mmx40mmx40mmthis laser edged personalised crystal will be the perfect gift for you or someone you knowjust send over a picture and leave the rest to us
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Unravel the sordid secrets of the castle, meet colorful characters, and remember: horror always lurks beneath the surfacejoin hans in a fantasy world and experience a unique adventure, full of surprises and challengesthe count lucanor for nintendo switch, boxed and mintget hooked on an immersive tale, where every decision counts and every clue is a piece to solve the puzzle and get the treasure
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