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Painting Death (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high societyMorris Duckworth has a dark past.
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Destiny (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Three months after returning to England, Christopher Burton, receives a phone-call at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge that informs him of his son's suicide. But why on... Læs mere
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Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World... Læs mere
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Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power is derived from the family bank. This book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank.
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians - conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants, this title captures what makes Italian life distinctive.
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Cleaver (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Overweight and overwrought, Howard Cleaver, London's most successful journalist, abruptly abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power.
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Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A revelatory read with delightful cultural and literary references, Teach us to Sit Still by Booker-shortlisted author Tim Parks examines how the philosophy of 'sit still, relax and stop worrying' can be profoundly life-altering. ‘Teach us to Sit Still made me laugh;
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Sex is Forbidden (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Trauma leaves her no alternative but to bury herself in the austere asceticism of a community that wakes at 4am, doesn't permit eye contact, let alone speech, and keeps men and women strictly segregated.
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An Italian Education (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
How does an Italian become Italian? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at home, at work and at play.
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A Literary Tour of Italy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give English readers, and lovers of the Bel Paese and its culture, the lay of the literary land of Italy.
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Judge Savage (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience - it's time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Day by day Judge Savage presides over those whose double lives have been exposed.
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Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and Italian Ways, Italian Life is a particular reckoning with a beloved adopted country.
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