Télécharger le livre :  Dreaming the Karoo
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A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2022-06-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Time Song
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2019-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Threads
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Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in and out of what...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2015-04-02

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Télécharger le livre :  The Leper's Companions
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To escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. In a village by the sea she watches the lives of the inhabitants unfold around her. But the year is now 1410 and this is a world of devils and miracles, a world in which there are no clear boundaries...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  The Book Of Colour
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'Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and finally to England, the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears, cursed by racial prejudice, sexual inhibition and recurrent mental illness. This first novel is a powerfully and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Charles Waterton 1782-1865
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Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. During his lifetime he was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-03-31

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Télécharger le livre :  The Emperor's Last Island
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The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here. It follows him through the eyes of those who...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-12-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Thin Paths
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought her close...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-12-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Daisy Bates In The Desert
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In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years.In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  My Animals and Other Family
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In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father. First comes Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar via...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Old Man Goya
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In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf.In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Three of Us
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Winner of the J. R. Ackerley AwardThis is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates; Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious. After...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-07-31

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Télécharger le livre :  With Billie
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'This is a raw, true book that evokes not just the life of the great singer Billie Holiday but an entire jazz era....' Mail on Sunday ...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-04-13

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