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Tremain, Rose: Islands of Mercy
Erscheinungsdatum: 09/2020, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Islands of Mercy, Autor: Tremain, Rose, Verlag: Random House UK Ltd, Imprint: Chatto & Windus, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: Englische Belletristik // Historischer Roman // Erzählung // Englische Bücher // Belletristik // Victorianisch // Viktorianisch // Paris // Roman // Dublin // Borneo // Bath // 1837-1901 // Viktorianische Periode // City // Belletristik: Themen // Stoffe // Motive: Liebe und Beziehungen, Rubrik: Belletristik // Romane, Erzählungen, Seiten: 356, Herkunft: GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB), Gewicht: 455 gr, Verkäufer: averdo- Shop: averdo
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Rice, Anne: Blood Communion
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2018, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Blood Communion, Titelzusatz: The Vampire Chronicles 13, Autor: Rice, Anne, Verlag: Random House UK Ltd, Imprint: Chatto & Windus, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: Amerikanische Belletristik // Roman // Erzählung // Englische Bücher // Belletristik // Horror // Romane // Erzählungen // Heftromane // Vampir // Frankreich // Humor // Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch // Horrorliteratur und Übernatürliches // Dark Fantasy, Rubrik: Belletristik // Romane, Erzählungen, Seiten: 272, Gewicht: 338 gr, Verkäufer: averdo- Shop: averdo
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Ackroyd, Peter: Queer City
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2018, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Queer City, Titelzusatz: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day, Autor: Ackroyd, Peter, Verlag: Random House UK Ltd, Imprint: Chatto & Windus // Vintage Books, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: Europa // Geschichte // Kulturgeschichte // Erotik // Homoerotik // Gender Studies // Homosexualität // LGBTQ // London // Sozialgeschichte // Englische Bücher // Politik // u. Sozialwissenschaft // LGBTQ+ // Untersuchungen zu Homosexualität // Bezug zu Schwulen // Bezug zu Lesben // Greater London // Städte // Stadtgemeinden // Europäische Geschichte // Sozial // und Kulturgeschichte // Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte // Soziologie, Rubrik: Soziologie, Seiten: 262, Gewicht: 265 gr, Verkäufer: averdo- Shop: averdo
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Morrison, Toni: Mouth Full of Blood
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.02.2019, Medium: Buch, Einband: Gebunden, Titel: Mouth Full of Blood, Titelzusatz: Essays, Speeches, Meditations, Autor: Morrison, Toni, Verlag: Random House UK Ltd, Imprint: Chatto & Windus, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: Afroamerikaner // Amerikaner // Amerikanische Belletristik // Essay // Feuilleton // Reportage // Diskriminierung // Englische Bücher // Belletristik // Gender Studies // Geschlechterforschung // Globalisierung // Literaturwissenschaft // Politik // Weltpolitik // Gender Studies: Gruppen // Geopolitik // Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte // Amerikanische Geschichte // Literarische Essays // Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik // Bezug zu Afro-Amerikanern, Rubrik: Belletristik // Lyrik, Dramatik, Essays, Seiten: 354, Gewicht: 583 gr, Verkäufer: averdo- Shop: averdo
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Hero: A Simon Serrailler Short Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 51min
When Simon Serrailler was a rookie constable with the Met, he did something reckless in the course of a night's work which caused a man's death. But his act was praised by his colleagues, and he was called a hero. Years later, now a detective chief superintendent who has been badly injured in the course of duty, he receives a medal for bravery at Buckingham Palace while recollecting that fateful night of his early career, when chance disguised itself as bravery. Susan Hill has won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelyn Rhys prizes and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has written 55 books in several genres, including ghost stories. The play of The Woman in Black is still running in London's West End after 25 years. I'm the King of the Castle has been a GCSE set text. She has also published collections of short stories, fiction for children, several nonfiction books and the highly successful crime novel series about the detective Simon Serrailler, who features in this short story. Her new novel, The Soul of Discretion, published by Chatto & Windus, is the final title in the Serrailler series. Susan Hill is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of King's College, London, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours of 2012. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Pacey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027853/bk_adbl_027853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Will von der Mühle
Will von der Mühle ist eine allegorische Kurzgeschichte des schottischen Schriftstellers Robert Louis Stevenson, die 1887 in der Sammlung Die tollen Männer und andere Geschichten bei Chatto & Windus erschien.Die Liebe des Naturphilosophen Will zu der Pfarrerstochter Marjory (in einigen Übersetzungen: Margreet) ist unglücklich.Die Mühle, in der der kleine Will mit seinen Pflegeeltern in einem Hochlandtal lebt, ist nur über einen holprigen, gefährlichen Gebirgspfad erreichbar. Will hat Fragen an den Müller: Wohin geht der Fluss? Was treiben die Menschen unten in der Ebene?... Der Junge vermutet, 'das wirkliche Leben' spiele sich dort unten ab. Die Zeit vergeht. Nachdem die Mühle auch mit dem Wagen erreichbar geworden ist, macht der Müller aus dem Mühlhaus eine Wegschenke. Einmal kommt ein Professor aus der Stadt herauf und lädt Will zum Mitkommen ein. In der Ebene soll der Junge eine gute Erziehung erhalten. Die Pflegeeltern sind stolz auf ihren Will. Aber dieser bleibt bis an sein Lebensende, also bis zum 72. Lebensjahr, oben in seinem Hochlandtal...- Shop: Audible
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The Dreadful Hollow : Nigel Strangeways, Book 10 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 549min
Someone is sending poison pen letters in the small village of Prior's Umborne, and they have already driven one of the inhabitants to suicide. Private detective Nigel Strangeways is commissioned to find the source of the letters by arrogant financier Sir Archibald Blick, whose two sons live in the village, only for Sir Archibald to meet an untimely end at the bottom of the dreadful hollow...Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Blake initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, A Question of Proof, in 1935. Blake went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations. During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Dyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005715/bk_adbl_005715_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sad Variety: Nigel Strangeways, Book 15 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min
The government's security department have asked private detective Nigel Strangeways to keep a discreet eye on Professor Alfred Wagley, a research scientist who is spending the Christmas holidays in the South-West of England. But someone else is also very interested in the professor and his work, and when his young daughter is kidnapped, Nigel finds himself in a race to avert a tragedy. Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Blake initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, A Question of Proof, in 1935. Blake went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations. During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Dyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008201/bk_adbl_008201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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End of Chapter: Nigel Strangeways, Book 12 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 457min
Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well-respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers' best-selling authors - glamorous novelist Millicent Miles - is found dead in the offices.Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Blake initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, A Question of Proof, in 1935. Blake went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations. During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Dyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005717/bk_adbl_005717_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Smiler with the Knife: Nigel Strangeways, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min
Detective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government. It will take all of Nigel's brilliance and Georgia's bravery if they are to infiltrate the order and unmask the conspirators.Nicholas Blake was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Blake initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, A Question of Proof, in 1935. Blake went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations. During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder, and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Dyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005711/bk_adbl_005711_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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