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Days of Atonement

Okładka - Days of Atonement Autor: Gregorio Michael
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571229314
Ilość stron: 445
Cena : 29.97 zł
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29.97 zł


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Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate, but everything begins to unwind. Serge Lavedrine, a criminologist attached to the invading French army, steps in to resolve the mystery, and Stiffeniis is packed off to collect the husband from a remote fortress on the Russian border. But the husband, Bruno Gottewald, is dead and buried - killed while out on field manoeuvres. In less than a week więcej...

His Illegal Self

Okładka - His Illegal Self Autor: Carey Peter
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2008
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571231539
Ilość stron: 274
Cena : 54.72 zł
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54.72 zł


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Carey, who has made a career out of boring into the psyches of scoundrels, delivers a cunning fugitive adventure set largely in the wilds of Australia. Raised by his boho-turned-bourgeois grandmother on New York's Upper East Side, Che Selkirk, seven years old in 1972, hasn't seen his Weathermenesque parents since he was a toddler, but when a young woman who calls herself Dial walks into Che's apartment one afternoon, he believes his mother has finally come. Within two hours, Dial and Che are on the lam and heading for Philly więcej...

Julius Winsome

Okładka - Julius Winsome Autor: Donovan Gerard
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2008
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571235377
Ilość stron: 216
Cena : 40.05 zł
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40.05 zł


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Sunday Times'Donovan's disturbing novel brilliantly describes the pleasures of being alone and the simultaneous peril of loneliness.' Guardian'An intensely beautiful world of freezing starlit nights and hunters in the snow provides the backdrop to a ... revenge tragedy.' więcej...

Volk's Game

Okładka - Volk's Game Autor: Ghelfi Brent
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2008
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571236787
Ilość stron: 312
Cena : 35.64 zł
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35.64 zł


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Alexei Volkovoy is a veteran of Russia's war in Chechnya, and he serves two masters. By his side is Valya, a dangerous weapon in Volk's arsenal. Together they are commissioned to steal a masterpiece from St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum. Volk must choose which powerful man he will betray in order to escape with the painting and with his life. więcej...

Machiavelli Covenant

Okładka - Machiavelli Covenant Autor: Folsom Allan
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2008
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780765351586
Ilość stron: 693
Cena : 33.48 zł
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33.48 zł


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Former Lapd Detective Nicholas Marten's investigation into the murder of his former girlfriend leads him across the globe and to a chance meeting with U.S. President John Henry Harris. But President Harris is on the run from a murderous cabal. With the help of Demi Picard, a beautiful and enigmatic French photojournalist, Marten and Harris uncover one of the most secretive and brutally powerful groups this world has ever known. This brotherhood of blood will stop at nothing to realize their depraved ambitions. więcej...

Snake Stone

Okładka - Snake Stone Autor: Goodwin Jason
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2008
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571236411
Ilość stron: 308
Cena : 29.97 zł
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This is the second in the series of novels featuring the eunuch Yashmin - the first being the equally good introduction "The Jannissary Tree". Set in the mid 1800's in Turkey at the height of the Ottaman Empire this is a detective novel with a slight quirky nature. Anyone who likes Boris Akunin will, I am sure, take just as kindly to this hero as they have done to Erast Fandorin or Sister Pelugia. Jason Goodwin carefully weaves colourful portraits of Istanbul, life within a Sultans palace, political intrigue and więcej...

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Okładka - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Autor: Larsson Stieg
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9781847243492
Ilość stron: 533
Cena : 49.86 zł
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49.86 zł


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Crusading liberal journalist and author Stieg Larsson died suddenly, shorty after delivering three novels to his Swedish publisher. Tragically, he did not live to see the phenomenon that his work has become. więcej...

Fourth Man

Okładka - Fourth Man Autor: Dahl K.
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571230921
Ilość stron: 288
Cena : 58.05 zł
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58.05 zł


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In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in crossfire. By the time he learns that she is the sister of Jonny Faremo, wanted member of a larceny gang, it is already too late. He is obsessed. Suspected, suspended, and blindly in love, Frolich must find out if he is being used before his life unravels beyond repair. więcej...

You Don't Love Me Yet

Okładka - You Don't Love Me Yet Autor: Lethem Jonathan
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571235636
Ilość stron: 230
Cena : 35.55 zł
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35.55 zł


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From the acclaimed author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes this quirky romantic comedy about a struggling alternative rock band in LA. Lucinda, the band's bass player, meets a man she calls "the complainer", and falls in love. When the complainer's tants end up being the inspiration for their break-out song, he isists on joining the band and Lucinda realises that things will never be the same again... więcej...

Family Romance

Okładka - Family Romance Autor: Lanchester John
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571234424
Ilość stron: 394
Cena : 41.4 zł
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41.4 zł


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In this acclaimed memoir, award-winning novelist John Lanchester pieces together his parents' past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets. From his grandparents' beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, through his mother's decision to become a nun and her adoption of a new identity, Lanchester navigates his family's stories with clear-eyed compassion. więcej...

Certainty

Okładka - Certainty Autor: Thien Madeleine
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571234189
Ilość stron: 312
Cena : 36.45 zł
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36.45 zł


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Gail Lim was in the midst of bringing an unravelling of a mystery to life, when she died.As a producer of radio documentaries, she had been given a diary in which nothing was written but endless lists of numbers. It clearly dated from the wartime prison camps and if the code could be found, who knows what would be learned.There is nothing sinister in her death, however. A simple pneumonia. But she dies suddenly and away from home, which makes it hard for those who love her: her parents and her long-time lover.In the aftermath więcej...

Ten Bad Dates with De Niro

Okładka - Ten Bad Dates with De Niro Autor: Kelly Richard T.
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571237661
Ilość stron: 459
Cena : 67.95 zł
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67.95 zł


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Is Richard E. Grant's "Withnail" a far superior screen drunk to Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey"? What is the cinema's most tragic farewell, its most ingenious plot-twist, its most shocking murder? And why do Robert De Niro's characters behave so badly to women? All film fans keep mental records of their movie-going tastes, and their post-show arguments in the pub. This book is a rollicking collection of such 'Top Tens', contributed by a fine cast of leading film writers, acclaimed film-makers and novelists więcej...

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd

Okładka - The Act of Roger Murgatroyd Autor: Adair Gilbert
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571226382
Ilość stron: 320
Cena : 42.75 zł
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42.75 zł


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It is Boxing Day circa 1935. The place is a snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. It is a Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon. Fortunately (though, for the murderer, unfortunately), one of the guests is the formidable Evadne Mount, the bestselling author więcej...

Fourth Man

Okładka - Fourth Man Autor: Dahl K.O.
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571230914
Ilość stron: 276
Cena : 57.6 zł
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57.6 zł


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In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in crossfire. By the time he learns that she is the sister of Jonny Faremo, wanted member of a larceny gang, it is already too late. He is obsessed. Suspected, suspended, and blindly in love, Frolich must find out if he is being used before his lifeunravels beyond repair. więcej...

Theft

Okładka - Theft Autor: Carey Peter
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania:
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571231492
Ilość stron: 304
Cena : 32.4 zł
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32.4 zł


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"A humane, gloriously Australian book of grand passion, bad breath and high mischief. It is a rudely brilliant, infuriatingly beautiful, belligerently profane work of art.. Patrick Ness, Guardian więcej...

Observations

Okładka - Observations Autor: Harris Jane
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2006
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 0571232892
Ilość stron: 523
Cena : 31.95 zł
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Bessy Buckley can hold her head up with Moll Flanders and Becky Sharp as a living, breathing mortal...Sarah Burton, The Times więcej...

The Janissary Tree

Okładka - The Janissary Tree Autor: Goodwin Jason
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2006
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 0571229220
Ilość stron: 332
Cena : 55.8 zł
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55.8 zł


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A fabulously rich and entertainig novel of detection and conspiracy in nineteenth-century Istanbul. więcej...

Critique of criminal reason

Okładka - Critique of criminal reason Autor: Gregorio Michael
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2006
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571232901
Ilość stron: 402
Cena : 32.4 zł
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32.4 zł


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In 1793, Hanno Stiffeniis travels to Konigsberg to seek advice from Immanuel Kant. Whatever was said at that private meeting, it changed both their lives. Shortly afterwards, a close friend of the philosopher extracts a promise from the young man: never to return to Konigsberg. But ten years later, having become a magistrate, Stiffeniis is ordered to return there by the King. He must investigate a spate of murders which has reduced the city to a state of terror. Four people have died, and there is no sign of an end to the więcej...

The Remains of the Day

Okładka - The Remains of the Day Autor: Ishiguro Kazuo
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2005
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 0571225381
Ilość stron: 258
Cena : 43.2 zł
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43.2 zł


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In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past...A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love. więcej...

Faerie Wars 1

Okładka - Faerie Wars 1 Autor: Brennan Herbie
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania:
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780765356741
Ilość stron: 382
Cena : 25.2 zł
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25.2 zł


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Henry Atherton thinks his life is spinning out of control. But nothing prepares him for the invisible portal in old man Fogarty's backyard...and the unexpected stranger who comes throught it. więcej...

Ludmila's Broken English

Okładka - Ludmila's Broken English Autor: Pierre DBC
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania:
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 0571231667
Ilość stron: 328
Cena : 32.4 zł
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DBC Pierre?s second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev?s appearance on a Russian brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding Gnez troops, Ludmila?s journey into the world and womanhood is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat?s piss.Thousands of miles to the West, the Heath twins are separated after thirty-three years conjoined at the abdomen. Released for the first time from an institution więcej...

The Assassin's gate

Okładka - The Assassin's gate Autor: Packer George
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2006
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571230440
Ilość stron: 510
Cena : 48.6 zł
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As the death toll mounts in the Iraq War, Americans are agonizing over how the mess started and what to do now. George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins the debate with his thoughtful book The Assassins' Gate. Packer describes himself as an ambivalent pro-war liberal "who supported a war [in Iraq] by about the same margin that the voting public had supported Al Gore." He never believed the argument that Iraq should be invaded because of weapons of mass destruction. Instead, he saw the war as a way więcej...

Maps for Lost Lovers

Okładka - Maps for Lost Lovers Autor: Aslam Nadeem
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2004
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 0571221823
Ilość stron: 369
Cena : 33.3 zł
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33.3 zł


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In an unnamed English town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for murder. Telling the story of the next twelve months, Maps for Lost Lovers opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, nationality and religion, and expresses their pain in a language that is arrestingly poetic. więcej...

Tenderwire

Okładka - Tenderwire Autor: Kilroy Claire
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2007
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 9780571229758
Ilość stron: 269
Cena : 37.35 zł
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Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Leaving her steady partner, she quickly falls in love with a mysterious man, and shortly thereafter comes across a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must raise the required payment in cash in less than a week. But, haunted by the ghost of her father, racked with jealousy, and unsure whom she can więcej...

The uninvited

Okładka - The uninvited Autor: Geling Yan
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2006
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 0571220525
Ilość stron: 276
Cena : 59.4 zł
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This is the fantastical tale of Dan Dong, an unemployed factory worker whose life takes a series of unexpected twists upon his discovery that simply by posing as a journalist he can eat exquisite gourmet meals free of charge at state-sponsored banquets. But the secrets Dan overhears at these events eventually lead him down a twisted, intrigue-laden path, and his true and false identities become increasingly harder to separate. When he becomes privy to a scandal that runs from the depths of society up to its highest rungs więcej...

Travels in the Scriptorium

Okładka - Travels in the Scriptorium Autor: Auster Paul
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2006
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 0571232558
Ilość stron: 138
Cena : 54.9 zł
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An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises.Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from więcej...

Home

Okładka - Home Autor: Kapur Manju
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania:
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 0571228429
Ilość stron: 346
Cena : 32.4 zł
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Tender and funny, Manju Kapur's third novel is an engrossing story of family life amid the bustle and commerce of the Banwari Lal Cloth Shop.When their traditional Delhi business - selling saris - is threatened by the new fashion for jeans and stitched salwar kameez, the whole family knows it must adapt to the world outside. But can it, when tensions at home are so strong? So begins a series of struggles - to have children, to find education, illicit love, or even to manufacture pickles - that will see the family tested więcej...

The Coma

Okładka - The Coma Autor: Garland Alex
Wydawnictwo: Faber And Faber Ltd.
Data wydania: 2005
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 0-571-22712-0
Ilość stron: 0
Cena : 32.4 zł
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Carl is brutally assaulted in an underground train while protecting a young woman from a gang of thugs. Beaten unconscious he lies for days in a hospital bed - but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, visiting friends, seeing his girlfriend - until he starts to notice strange leaps in time, distortions in his experience. Is he truly interacting with the outside world, or could he still be in the coma? So begins a dark pschological drama of the unconscious więcej...

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