The Siege of Krishnapur (Farrell J. G.)(Paperback)

The Siege of Krishnapur (Farrell J. G.)(Paperback)

Winner of the Booker Prize. An insightful and thrilling novel about the British Empire in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857, as seen through the eyes of a young, love-struck idealist. India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British

Troubles - The Siege of Krishnapur (Farrell J G)(Pevná vazba)

Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland in the aftermath of World War I in order to meet his fiancee Angela in a remote seaside hotel owned by her father. Angela dies unexpectedly, but Archer remains in Kilnalough, captivated by the Majestic and its inhabitants, and seemingly unaware of the

Troubles (Farrell J.G.)(Paperback / softback)

'A work of genius' (Guardian) and winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize in

Hill Station (Farrell J.G.)(Paperback / softback)

A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author'One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation'

Lives in Architecture: Terry Farrell (Farrell Terry)(Paperback)

Terry Farrell is one of Britain's most influential architects of the twenty-first century. Offering a compelling personal account of his life in architecture as an influential postmodern designer, architect-planner and principal of a leading global practice, this autobiography includes anecdotes

The Singapore Grip - Farrell J.G.

Singapore, 1939: Walter Blackett, ruthless rubber merchant, is head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. And his family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. No one suspects it - but this world is poised on the edge of the abyss

Singapore Grip - NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA (Farrell J.G.)(Paperback / softback)

A love story and a war story: a modern classic from Booker prize-winner J.G

Children of the Siege (Costeloe Diney)(Paperback)

After the Franco-Prussian War and the siege of 1870-1871, the St. Clair family return to Paris, only to be swept up into the terrible cruelties and violence of the Commune. Here their young daughter, Helene, falls ill, becomes separated from the family, and is captured, before escaping to fend for

J.G. Ballard's Politics (Cord Florian)(Paperback)

This book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. A product of and reaction to the cultural-socio-economic moment commonly designated as the postmodern condition, Ballard's oeuvre is read as a continuous and developing meditation on the

Guard the Mysteries (Sigo Cedar)(Paperback)

Guard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity politics, early influences, and poetic form to

User's Guide to the Millennium (Ballard J. G.)(Paperback / softback)

J.G.Ballard is the author of the novels 'Crash', 'Empire of the Sun' and 'Rushing to Paradise'. Throughout his career he has also been a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. This book collects together pieces of his journalism, grouped under themes including science and

Hello America (Ballard J. G.)(Paperback / softback)

A terrifying vision of the future from one of the twentieth century's most renowned writers - J. G. Ballard, author of 'Empire of the Sun' and

Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stamatopoulou-Robbins Sophia)(Paperback)

Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians are obliged to forge their lives. To speak of waste siege is to describe a series of conditions, from smelling wastes to negotiating military

Siege of Macindaw (Ranger's Apprentice Book 6) (Flanagan John (Author))(Paperback / softback)

The Siege of Macindaw is the sixth thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series - over eight million sold worldwide. A renegade knight has captured Castle Macindaw, poisoning the royal family and conspiring to overthrow the Kingdom. The fate of Araluen rests in the hands of two

Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - The Siege, Book 1 (Parker K. J.)(Paperback / softback)

World Fantasy Award-winner K. J. Parker returns with a sweeping new epic

Sarajevo Under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime (Maček Ivana)(Paperback)

Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the

The Iliad (Agrimbau Diego)(Paperback)

After ten years of siege by Greek forces, the walls of Troy remain intact. Only the intervention of the greatest warrior of all time, Achilles, can tilt the balance in favor of the invaders. On the Trojan side, Prince Hector is the only one who can face him. This is the story of the greatest war of

Atrocity Exhibition (Ballard J. G.)(Paperback / softback)

A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. This edition includes explanatory notes from the

Acupuncture for Surviving Adversity: Acts of Self-Preservation (Farrell Yvonne R.)(Paperback)

Unique in its approach, the new book by Yvonne Farrell provides a framework for understanding how effective the channel system is at supporting survival through allowing the body to hide or store trauma, stress and burnout in acts of self-preservation. She looks at how these latencies are created

The Iliad (Homer)(Paperback)

It is the ninth year of the siege of Troy by the Greeks. Will the fighting go on forever? Achilles, the greatest of Greek heroes, is angered by Agamemnon and decides to withdraw from the battle. What is the reason for his wrath? Is there anything that will make him change his mind and return to the

Miami and the Siege of Chicago - An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (Mailer Norman)(Paperback / softback)

Iliad (Agrimbau Diego)(Paperback / softback)

After ten years of siege by Greek forces, the walls of Troy remain intact. This is the story of the war that brought all the heroes of Ancient Greece together and turned them into immortal legends. It is the war that made the gods of Olympus face each other, due to their envy and vanity. This is

The Siege of Troy (Kallifatides Theodor)(Paperback)

In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation. Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about

The Schelling Reader (Whistler Daniel)(Paperback)

F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The Schelling Reader introduces students to Schelling's philosophy by guiding them through the first ever English-language anthology of his key texts-an