Moon Tiger: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, Paperback - Penelope Lively

Reducere. Winner of the Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories...

Penelope Lively's Booker Prize-winning novel weaves an exquisite mesh of memories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a haunting story of loss and ...

Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the fi...

Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her g...

Description"China, " Napoleon once remarked, "is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." In 2014, President X...

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DescriptionTrue accounts of one man's long-distance trucking career that began in the late 1960s, these adventurous anecdotes are told by one of th...

Supported by Eurasia Pacific Uninet, the second international conference on 'Archaeology and Conservation along the Silk Road' was jointly organize...

The unbalanced nature of China's trade relationship with Europe is proposed in this look at the political aspirations and economic strategies behin...

Reducere. A palaeontologist by choice--and perhaps due to the accidental discovery of a fossil fragment on the north coast of England when he was six years o...

Reducere. Booker-Prize winning author Penelope Lively is that rare writer who goes from strength to strength in book after perfectly assured book. In Passing...

An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks.Publisher: Profile Boo...

DescriptionDiscover an iconic city, stroll along the foggy cliffs of the coast, and climb the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas with Moon Northern Califo...

From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key ...

Description'Tanb r Long-Necked Lutes Along the Silk Road and Beyond' explores the origin, history, construction, and playing techniques of tanb rs,...

Reducere. An expert on China's global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks.From the ocea...

China's Route Heritage examines the creation, development and proliferation of the route heritage discourse of chama gudao, The Ancient Tea Horse R...

The Booker-winning author of }Moon Tiger{ contemplates her life through the lens of experiences in the garden, interspersed with an exploration of ...

No 40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. In the junk room, Clare discovers the vividly pain...

In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a pennyless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington ...

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Hop in the car and set off on an adventure along the Natchez Trace Parkway, from the country music capital to the birthplace of jazz. Inside Moon N...

An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networksPublisher: Profile Book...

Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her dau...

Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband - clever, agnostic and inter...

Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepa...

Presents an acutely observed study of marriage and manipulation. This title tells the story of the dangers of digging up the dark secrets of the past.

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Penelope LivelyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 26Cover type: Paperback / s...

Travelling by bike at a stately 14 mph, Steve Silk heads north, searching out milestones and memories, coaching inns and coffee shops. The Great No...

In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is aware of how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his boyhood, the ear...

Reducere. Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination...A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award, republished in the Colli...

Includes fourteen stories that range from the fantasy of Scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in exquisite prose the subtl...

Written in lovely prose, this book displays all the skills for which Thubron is renowned: scholarship, sensitivity, sensibility and a magical mix o...

In her 16th novel, Booker winner Penelope Lively again displays her mastery of different viewpoints as she explores the mystery of happy family lif...

Reducere. Buckle up for the best of the PNW's breathtaking wilderness, eclectic cities, and quaint coastal towns with Moon Pacific Northwest Road Trip. Insid...

Reducere. To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and i...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Silk Road, then keep reading...The Silk Road, which has been understood as a generalized rou...

From its stirring legends to its stunning landscapes, Ireland is a living, breathing fairy-tale. Ignite your imagination with Moon Ireland. Inside ...

The latest novel, now in paperback, from the Booker Prize-winning author. It follows the success of Family Album, and explores how one random event...

Reducere. Matthew Halland is an architect, intimately involved with the new face of the city, while haunted by earlier times of destruction and loss in its h...

Whilst attending university, Herman is selected to lead a group of unlikely candidates on an expedition to retrace the Silk Road journey of Marco P...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Penelope LivelyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious car...