A brooding, contemporary novel of secrets, lost love, perfume and Provence

Take one precocious eleven-year-old girl called Flavia. Add an ancient country house somewhere in England in 1950. Then sprinkle with murder, mystery and dark family secrets...For very nearly eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce country seat, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare

\'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so\' The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, systematically set about committing each of the Seven Deadly Sins. He has picked fights with douche bags openly brandishing guns. He has set himself on

The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many t

Ez a könyv lényegében az \"1991 - érdekességek és feladatok egy évszámról\" című könyv új, alaposan átdolgozott kiadása.

The first five books in Bernard Cornwell\'s No.1 bestselling THE LAST KINGDOM series, a captivating historical fiction series that transports readers to a time when epic heroes rose amidst the tumult and war of the 9th Century. BBC2\'s major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. Bernard Cornwell\'s captivating historical fiction series, THE LAST KINGDOM, tells the

An oversized, full-color hardcover art book containing concept art and commentary from the development of DOOM Eternal, the next entry in the iconic first-person shooter series. The newest chapter in the quintessential game franchise from id Software is here. Witness DOOM Eternal! This epic volume explores the art and development of the hotly anticipated sequel to the 2016 Game Award-winner for Best

For as long as Fei can remember, there has been no sound in her village. Her people are at the mercy of a mysterious faraway kingdom, which delivers food in return for precious metals mined from the treacherous cliffs surrounding them. When villagers begin to lose their sight, their rations shrink and many go hungry. Fei\'s home, the boy she loves, and her entire existence is plunged into crisis, under

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This original collection features the most remarkable vinyl artifacts ever produced: a connoisseur\'s selection of records in a plethora of colors, shapes, and forms, imprinted with extraordinary effects and images. Produced in collaboration with Colors magazine, this book showcases over 500 of the most exceptional records owned by leading collectors Alessandro Benedetti and Peter Bastine. Featuring

\'I shall never forget the day I wrote The Mark on the Wall\" - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. \"The Unwritten Novel\" was the great discovery, however. That - again in one second - showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted it... I saw, branching out of the tunnel I made, when I discovered that method of approach, Jacob\'s

This witty and irreverent collection of essays presents Eco\'s playful but unfailingly accurate takes on everything from militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, librarians and bureaucrats to meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, express mail, fax machines and pornography. An uncanny combination of the profound and the profane.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí,

Publikace představuje 16 nejpozoruhodnějších australských mladých architektonických ateliérů a jejich 60 projektů. This book explores the sixteen most exciting young architectural studios in Australia, and the progressive projects built in Australasia tha

In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance. Having fled Melbourne for the seedy, sweaty streets of Kuala Lumpur, Chubb finds himself, just as Frankenstein was, haunted and pursued by his

Wenn die große Liebe verloren scheint... Der 91-jährige Ira steht nach einem schweren Unfall an der Schwelle des Todes. Nur die Erinnerungen an seine verstorbene Frau Ruth halten ihn am Leben. Währenddessen kämpfen Sophia und Luke, ein junges Paar, um ihre Liebe. Sie sind so verschieden, dass eine gemeinsame Zukunft kaum vorstellbar ist. Können sich die beiden Generationen gegenseitig retten? Nach

In gleicher Ausstattung wie die bereits erschienenen Sonderausgaben Das Glasperlenspiel\", \"Unterm Rad\" und \"Siddhartha\" liegt nun auch Hesses einflußreichster Roman \"Der Steppenwolf\" vor. Die Ausgabe enthält in einem Anhang erstmals den kompletten Zyklus der Krisis-Gedichte, einem lyrischen Tagebuch der Jahre 1925 bis 1926, aus dem dieses internationale Kultbuch vieler Generationen hervorgegangen

Beloved series character Sid Halley, a champion jockey, makes a welcome return in the latest fast-paced crime novel from bestseller Francis (Come to Grief). When a crippling injury forces Halley into retirement, he begins a second career as a PI. Thanks t

A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It’s her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things – the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the children?

Depuis qu\'Annabelle, son ancienne amie, s\'est mariée, David Kelsey passe tous ses week-ends dans une maison qu\'il a louée sous un nom d\'emprunt et ou il s\'imagine, dans une sorte de reve, qu\'il la retrouve...Cela, jusqu\'au jour ou le mari d\'Annabelle...