Télécharger le livre :  Umbrella
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George Gordon, cousin to Byron, heir to a desolate Scottish estate, superficially enjoys a brilliant career: he dines at Malmaison with Napoleon and Josephine, excavates the Acropolis, shares a night in a hayloft with Metternich, inherits the Earldom of Aberdeen,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-01-31

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Télécharger le livre :  The British Constitution Now
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In this book the former head of Mrs Thatcher's policy unit looks at the state of the British Constitution at a crucial time in its history, arguing that recent years have seen an increased willingness to monitor itself on the part of the Establishment, but that more...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-12-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Of Love And Asthma
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We should have awakened to the sun streaming in from across the valley, but this is not a story about things as they should be, and it was a dark blustery morning, blasting the blossom off the may. Only in the shelter of the high hedgerows down in the lanes streaked...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Man Who Rode Ampersand
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The man who rode Ampersand was in fact, an amateur jockey named Harry Cotton. Harry is a compulsive gambler.The resulting decline in his fortunes takes him through three decades of adventures, melancholy, heroic, and comic by turn, which cut a broad swathe of disorder...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Fairness
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Fairness is about Helen, the tiny, blonde, serious girl whom the narrator meets when they are both looking after children during a summer vacation in Normandy. Her adventures in search of a morally satisfying life lead her into situations that are neither satisfying nor...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Heads You Win
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Heads You Win is a tragicomedy of second chances. After taking early retirement, Gus Cotton is surprised to find himself persuaded by two old friends - a disgraced wheeler-dealer and a convicted drug smuggler - into taking on the City by launching the greatest...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Condor's Head
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A fair-haired young man from Virginia sees a dark girl rowing on the lake at Versailles and he falls in love. She turns out to be the Duchess de La Rochefoucauld, known as Rosalie, married to a man twice her age who also happens to be her uncle. It is the spring of 1875...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Jem (and Sam)
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How does Jeremiah Mount, the dealer in pornography, come to be the lover of the Duchess of Albemarle and the colleague of the great Samuel Pepys? In Pepys' Diary, Jem Mount plays a shadowy role, but in Jem's own memories Sam looms large. Friends and drinking partners at...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-31

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