Télécharger le livre :  Great Food, All Day Long
A mouth-watering combination of recipes and autobiographical sketches from the much-loved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA'She moved through the world with...

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Parution : 2011-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  She's Leaving Home
Liverpool late 1950s. This is a story of three people: a suppressed mother; a father, projectionist at the local cinema which has seen better days; and their daughter Martha. It is a time of many escapes: Nureyev defects in London; Gagarin escapes the earth's...

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Parution : 2011-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Caravaners
Dear Husband, she said, actually imitating me. I know what you are going to say. I always know what you are going to say. I know all the things you ever can or ever do say. She paused for a moment, and then added in a firm voice, looking me straight in the eyes, By...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sleeping Beauty
INTRODUCED BY DAVID BADDIEL'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times...

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Parution : 2011-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Solitary Summer
I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life.I want to be as idle asI can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Nobody shall be invited to stay with me, and if anyone calls they will be told thatI am out, or away, or sick . . . Wouldn't a...

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Parution : 2011-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Girls
I have never looked into my sister's eyes.I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. I've never used an aeroplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that... So many things I've never done,...

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Parution : 2011-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Rush Home Road
Sharla Cody is only five but has already had a troubled life. Then she finds herself dumped with an elderly neighbour when her mother takes off for the summer. AlthoughSharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two...

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Télécharger le livre :  In Other Worlds
From the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace*Rabbit superheroes. A theory of masks and capes. Victorian otherlands.From her 1940s childhood to her time at Harvard, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with SF. In 2010, she delivered a lecture series at...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-10-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Mad, Bad And Sad
Mad, bad and sad. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud and Jung and the radical breakthroughs of psychoanalysis to Lacan's construction of...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  A Force To Be Reckoned With
Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over 200,000 women in the...

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Parution : 2011-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth And Her German Garden
May 7th -- There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies ...'Elizabeth's uniquely witty pen records each season in her beloved...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  At Mrs Lippincote's
The debut novel from Elizabeth Taylor - shortlisted for the Booker Prize*Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Palladian
Introduced by Neel Mukherjee'All her writings could be described as coming into the category of comedy. Comedy is the best vehicle for truths that are too fierce to be borne' Anita Brookner'Elizabeth Taylor has an eye as sharply all-seeing as her prose is elegant - even...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  A View Of The Harbour
INTRODUCED BY SARAH WATERS'Every one of her books is a treat and this is my favourite, because of its wonderful cast of characters, and because of the deftness with which Taylor's narrative moves between them ... A wonderful writer' SARAH WATERSIn the faded coastal...

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Parution : 2011-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Mrs Cameron's Diary
Dave's mobile went - poor Cleggsy, wanting to know what the Queen was like. "Incredibly nervous," Dave said. "But Sam soon put her at her ease."'We have heard, it seems, every opinion on the rise of the coalition save one: that of the new Prime Minister's wife,...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Game Of Hide And Seek
'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen, author of The Heat of the DayIntelligent and haunting, with echoes of Brief Encounter, this is a love story by one of the best British writers...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  A Wreath Of Roses
INTRODUCED BY HELEN DUNMOREElizabeth Taylor's darkest novel . . . She writes with a sensuous richness of language that draws the reader down the most shadowy paths . . . Extremely beguiling. Taylor makes the living moment present, touchable, disturbing, enchanting -...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Childhood Interrupted
In 1950, Kathleen O'Malley and her two sisters were legally abducted from their mother and placed in an industrial school ran by the Sisters of Mercy order of nuns, who also ran the notorious Magdalene Homes. The rape of eight-year-old Kathleen by a neighbour had...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Something Was There . . .
The latest stunning collection of short stories, including the winning entry of the 2011 Asham Short Stories Award, which was set up 1995 to encourage and promote new writing. It is the only short story competition whose winners and runners-up are published alongside...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Long Goodbye
Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to her mother, but...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2011-08-25
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