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Bus Stop Killer(2011) WANSELL, GEOFFREYOn 23 Jun 2011 the convicted double-murderer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old school girl Milly Dowler. Milly disappeared on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey in 2002. Six months later her body was discoveredVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
On Grief And Reason(2011) BRODSKY, JOSEPHA collection of essays, that casts a reflective eye on the author's experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With erudition, it explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the emigre writeVezava: Mehka20,83 € -
Cunning Man(2011) DAVIES, ROBERTSONWhen Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic ideas have earned him the soubriquet 'cunning man' - wants to know why. But it is only through looking back at his own long life that answers are foVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Red Sky at Sunrise(2014) LEE, LAURIEPresents a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long.Vezava: Mehka20,83 € -
Cornish Trilogy(2011) DAVIES, ROBERTSONThe University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will.Vezava: Mehka26,39 € -
Deptford Trilogy(2011) DAVIES, ROBERTSONAt two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay; his 'lifelong friend and enemy' Percy Boyd Staunton; and, Paul Dempster premaVezava: Mehka26,39 € -
Good Girl(2015) NEILL, FIONARomy Field finds herself at the centre of a scandal, least of all her mother Ailsa - who is also the head of her new school. Ailsa is quick to hold Romy's new boyfriend and his parents responsible for what has happened. But as mother and daughter reveal tVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Roses of No Man's Land(2013) MACDONALD, LYNWalking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents they fought another war, a war against agony and death. This book captures a panoraVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Ship of War(2013) RUSSELL, SEAN THOMAS1794. As the terror rages in France, Captain Charles Hayden leaves Plymouth with orders to gather intelligence from a spy off the Le Havre coast. But the enemy lies in wait. In the foulest of weather, Hayden's seamanship is tested to the limit and a terriVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Somme(2013) MACDONALD, LYNThe year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever beVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Last Asylum(2015) TAYLOR, BARBARAPresents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This memoir tells the story of author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the deVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Brideshead Revisited(2011) WAUGH, EVELYNCharles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. BVezava: Mehka12,50 € -
Goodbye to All That(2011) GRAVES, ROBERTTells the story of the author's experiences as a young officer in the First World War. This title describes life in the trenches and how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked.Vezava: Mehka22,22 € -
Connectome(2013) SEUNG, SEBASTIANWhat really makes us who we are? This book shows that our identity does not lie in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells - our own particular wiring, or 'connectomes'. It reveals the secrets of the brain, showing how our connectome makVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Templar Cross(2011) CHRISTOPHER, PAULArmy Ranger Lt Col John 'Doc' Holliday is teaching at West Point when he receives desperate news. His niece Peggy has been kidnapped while joining an ancient tomb excavation in Egypt. Holliday sets out to locate and rescue her. But Peggy's captors belongVezava: Mehka26,39 € -
Pocketful of Holes and Dreams(2011) PEARCE, JEFFLittle Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life was tough and from the moment Jeff could walk he learned to go doorVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Ways of Curating(2015) OBRIST, HANS ULRICHMoving from meetings with artists to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev, skipping between exhibitions, continents and centuries, the author argues that curationVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Puppy that Came for Christmas and Stayed Forever(2010) RIX, MEGANWhen Megan and Ian got married, they wanted to start a family. And into their home one day came Emma, a puppy with whom they fell in love. However, Emma was given to someone in need. To get over their broken hearts, Megan and Ian took in another pup: FredVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Age of Iron(2010) COETZEE, J MIn Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she fiVezava: Mehka13,88 € -
Race(2012) CUSSLER, CLIVE,SCOTT, JUSTIN1910, and America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged... Newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway is offering a big prize for the first aviator to cross America in under fifty days. He wants Josephine Frost - the country's leading as wellVezava: Mehka16,66 €
