A House and Its Head - Ivy Compton-Burnett

Reducere. A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels ...

Acerbic, brutal and mordantly funny: Ivy ComptonBurnett's most unsparing dissection of the patriarchal family, finally back in print.

A ruthless satire of power struggles and petty economies, Manservant and Maidservant exposes the violence and cruelty at the core of Victorian fami...

'Shrewd, sly, mordantly funny and magnificently odd, few literary voices are as distinctive, or as entertaining, as Ivy Compton-Burnett's. To see a...

The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden plots and allegiances in her girls' school, reissued...

Reducere. Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was a reclusive novelist who in the 1950s became known in literary circles as "the English Secret, " and was consid...

Reducere. Description"The sight of duty does make one shiver, " said Miss Herrick. "The actual doing of it would kill one, I think." Ever anxious to keep up ...

Reducere. At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Hor...

Reducere. "The Head of the House of Coombe" - Lord Coombe is considered to be the best-dressed man in London. During one of his social forays, he meets a sel...

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Reducere. This special re-print edition of Owen B. Maginnis' book "How To Frame a House" is a guide to constructing houses. Written in 1914, this classic tex...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagIllustration(s): 200 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 299 x 25Cover type: Ha...

The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we s...

Publisher: Left Field EditionsAuthor(s): Valerie ThomasIllustration(s): 72 colour & black & whitePublication date: 2020Dimensions: 200 x 253 x 29Co...

The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years.

Publisher: Fircone Books LtdAuthor(s): Ralph BeardmoreIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2020Dimen...

The Cosmos Explained pinpoints where you are in space and time, charting the life of our universe from the Big Bang to the future of our galaxy and...

Reducere. Detective Sarah Pribek has seen what happens when a cop goes rogue in pursuit of justice: Her husband Shiloh is in a Wisconsin prison, serving the ...

Reducere. It's happened to all of us at some point. You walk into the kitchen, or flip open your laptop, or stride confidently up to a lectern, filled with p...

Includes character guide, author's introduction, Jacqueline Wilson on her love of the book, character and book quizzes, author info, glossary, and ...

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Comedian and actress Arden Myrin delivers a hilarious and heartfelt memoir about navigating adulthood and her rise on the comedy scene despite an u...

Reducere. Meet the girl who ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE is trying to avoid The completely unreliable and totally irrepressible Ivy Pocket must orchestrate a most dar...

The final outrageous adventure of the infuriating anti-heroine, Ivy Pocket. With breathtaking adventure, courage and frightful danger, it is illust...

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Cand Mary Lennox ajunge la mosia sumbra a unchiului sau, se simte deznadajduita si singura. Insa casa se dovedeste a fi plina de secrete captivante...

Reducere. Captain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower, enrolls his young daughter Sara at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, to prepare h...

Reducere. Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became 'show pupil' - a little pr...

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Soon to be a major film starring Cate Blanchett and Jack Black, this enduring American classic initiates a twelve-part series following orphan Lewi...

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As Lewis and Rose Rita investigate all the supernatural happenings in New Zebedee, they get more than they bargained for when a new family moves in...

DescriptionA HOUSE IN ITS HUNGER is a collection that grapples with the intimacy of relationships behind closed doors. In this stunning debut, Jenn...

Reducere. Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain damage...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Charnelle Pinkney BarlowIllustration(s): Full colourNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

A Tudor mansion on the edge of Dartmoor guards the moor's secrets... The new standalone horror novel from Graham Masterton.