Télécharger le livre :  Morality Play
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It is the late fourteenth century, a dangerous time beset by war and plague. Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of travelling players and compounds his sins by joining them.Yet the town where they perform reveals another drama: a young...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-08-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Sacred Hunger
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WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-10-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Stone Virgin
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For five hundred years a statue of the Madonna has watched over Venice. Now, dulled by time and pollution, she is prepared for restoration. As Simon Raikes immerses himself in the painstaking task of cleaning and repairing, he is inexorably drawn to the stories of...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-09-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Losing Nelson
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As the child of an absent mother and a disapproving father, Charles Cleasby found comfort in solitary games of chess. Many years later, in the house where he grew up and now lives alone, he re-enacts the naval battles of his hero Horatio Nelson, moving model ships as...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-09-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Land of Marvels
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1914, and an English archaeologist called Somerville is fulfilling a lifelong dream: to direct an excavation in the desert of Mesopotamia. Yet forces beyond his control threaten his work. The Great War is looming, and various interest groups are vying for control over...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Quality of Mercy
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It is the spring of 1767, two years after the events of Barry Unsworth’s Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger. Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Liverpool slave ship owner, has had the rebellious sailors of his father’s ship brought back to London to stand trial on charges...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-10-31

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