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This profound and poetic novel has been described as George Mackay Brown's most innovative work. He recounts the tale of the murder of the Earl of Orkney in the 12th century and links it to the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian imprisoned and executed by...

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Parution : 2014-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Northern Lights
Many of the places, people, legends and seasons that formed Brown's vision and work are presented here, with poems appearing among the prose. Included are memoirs of his parents, friends and passing strangers with legends and stories of the places.

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Beast in the Jungle
April 1914. Former US President Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit have embarked on a dangerous expedition down an uncharted river in the Brazilian Amazon. Threatened as they are by disease, drowning and starvation, an even greater peril awaits them when they are...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Greenvoe
The small Orcadian community of Greevoe has remained unchanged for generations. Now a shady government project, Operation Black Star, threatens to destroy the islander's way of life. George Mackay Brown's first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Never Mind the Bullocks
**A Scotsman Non-Fiction Book of the Year** Vanessa Able wanted a truly independent Indian adventure, but nothing prepared her for the noise, chaos and terror of driving 10,000 km around the subcontinent or for finding the love of her life. Behind the wheel of a yellow...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-03-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle
'ORIGINAL AND ENTHRALLING' Guardian'AFFECTING AND TENDER' The Times'COMPLETELY ENCHANTING' Penny Vincenzi Elizabeth Pringle lived all her long life on the Scottish island of Arran. But did anyone really know her? In her will she leaves her beloved house, Holmlea, to a...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-03-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Face at the Window: Three Stories
The three stories in this short collection from acclaimed author Louise Welsh all confront fear. In 'The Face at the Window' Fiona is convinced someone is breaking into her house, but the only evidence for the break-in is a face at the window that no one else can see....

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-02-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Selected Poems 1954 - 1992
A compilation of poetry written by George Mackay Brown over a 30-year period, which represents his favourite work. These poems reflect the richness of the Orkney Island community where he lives - a community permeated with its past and still close to the natural world.

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Wreck of the Archangel
This collection of the poetry of George Mackay Brown centres on the theme of journeys - including an ill-fated 19th century trip ending off the Orkney island of Westray, from which the book takes its title.

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Parution : 2014-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Portrait of Orkney
Portrait of Orkney is a personal account of a people, their history and their way of life, and of a landscape that has shaped them, and been shaped by them.

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories
An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the story from which this collection takes its name. The stories range from the first century, to the 1920s - when the author was a child - to one which ends a hundred years from now.

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Buddhism: All That Matters
Get a glimpse of what it means to be a Buddhist in today's world.Buddhism: All that Matters follows the daily lives of four fictional characters who represent four Buddhist traditions (Theravada, Chinese Pure Land, Japanese Zen and Tibetan), describing what being a...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-01-31
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Télécharger le livre :  History of Medicine: All That Matters
The History of Medicine is an amiable amble through medicine's past, designed as a primer for those taking history of medicine modules as part of their studies and for the wider public seeking a relaxed yet informative read. The approach is to follow medicine's history...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-01-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Where Memories Go
'A fine book' The Sunday Times 'Powerful' Guardian 'Wonderful' The Telegraph'Moving, funny, warm' Mail on Sunday'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro'This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I had to hand....

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-01-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Virgins
'A brilliant and under-read fever dream of a novel' New York Times'Erens brilliantly captures the dark side of adolescence . . . On a par with the likes of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides' Independent'Flawlessly executed and irrefutably true' John Irving'A must...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-01-30
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Télécharger le livre :  For the Islands I Sing
George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. Here we see the author's simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-01-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Under the Wide and Starry Sky
'FABULOUS' The Times'FASCINATING' New York TimesTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift Osbourne leaves her philandering husband in San Francisco and sets sail for Belgium to study art, with her three children and nanny in tow. Not...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Plato: All That Matters
In Plato: All That Matters, Ieuan Williams argues that no one can study philosophy or politics without an awareness of Plato, whose work has reverberated through 2500 years of philosophy and history. Dr Ieuan Williams explains both what Plato thought, and why this...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2013-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  River Town
When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2013-12-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Water: All That Matters
The world's population is increasing; but its supply of water is not. Empires have grown and declined due to discovery and exhaustion of their water sources, and now the West is at last catching on to the fact that abundance of water can no longer be taken for granted....

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2013-11-30
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