Summer. Vintage Minis, Paperback - Laurie Lee

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer lik...

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. How do we carry on when som...

How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist had ever contemplated before. In this true accoun...

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation ret...

Thought-provoking and life-affirming, this is at once an examination and a celebration of friendship in all its glorious complexity.Selected from t...

Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' In inimitable st...

'This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing.

In these beautifully told cases we find compulsive liars, deceived spouses, violent children and delusional adults but we also find ourselves and i...

'Because "God" is infinite, nobody can have the last word'What is this thing, religion, supposedly the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries...

Both are the unforgettable creations of the deeply independent and brilliant Charlotte Bronte.Selected from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villet...

Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and f...

Can we truly know the one we love? The author looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven t...

A self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', the author explores the true meaning of home. He looks at what it means to belong...

In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, ...

What's the worst another drink could do? From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to t...

'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Could any writer portray Lo...

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This swimming tour of Britain offers a frog's-eye view of the country's best bat...

'Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days'Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective.

How to be a good father? From children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, to humiliating antenatal music classes, this account of fa...

Freedom and enfranchisement. Something anarchical which pushes at boundaries. The sweetness of leisure time. Each of these rich avenues of meaning ...

LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Murde...

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A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee was still a ...

Reducere. At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosie is a charming memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a wo...

Reducere. In this gripping, poignant memoir--a #1 bestseller in the United Kingdom--Laurie Lee returns to the scene of his wartime coming of age, portraying ...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with RosieAbandoning the Cotswolds village that raise...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror...

Reducere. The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside. Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a rem...

Reducere. Necazuri in dragoste - Seria Lady Truelove Draga Lady Truelove, Sunt o fata de familie nobila, dar sunt dureros de timida, mai ales atunci cand am ...

Reducere. Seria Lady Truelove Pe Henry, duce de Torquil, nu l-ai prinde nici mort citind popularul editorial , ,Draga Lady Truelove", dar cand sfaturile aces...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): J.M. LeeTranslator: An Seon JaeNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 216 x 148 x 27Cover typ...

Reducere. Remi Brenner will one day see the world. Literally. She's one summer away from starting her degree in aerospace at MIT, but then her dad cuts off h...

Children's Crown Award MasterlistFrom sunrise to sunset, an African American boy spends an activity-filled summer day helping his family on their f...

Schadenfreude, baby! - Laura Lee

The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint don't pay much heed to the harbourmaster's friendly warning as they set off for China. They are on a round-...

'When someone looks back and writes a history of this summer, two people they will almost certainly leave out are Sue and Daniel Bagnold...'So begi...

Reducere. Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted b...

Publisher: Out-Spoken PressAuthor(s): laura jane leePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 138 x 302 x 9Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farm...

Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. Written while he was living in California, this is Huxley's response to Hollywood's superficiality and obsession with...

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