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Published by Harvill Press Paperbacks, 2003
ISBN 10: 1860469604ISBN 13: 9781860469602
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Harvill Press Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN 10: 1843431696ISBN 13: 9781843431695
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Published by Harvill paperback, 1993
ISBN 10: 000271194XISBN 13: 9780002711944
Seller: Lilian Modlock, Gillingham, United Kingdom
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Softcover. Translated from the French and with a Glossary by Ralph Manheim. 160 pages. Very Good.
Published by Harvill Pr 1999 Paperback, 1999
ISBN 10: 1860465536ISBN 13: 9781860465536
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. A' diabolically good' hacker puts a message on the pope's computer, pleading for him to save a seventeenth-century Spanish church- a church that is killing to defend itself.Although Our Lady of the Tears is but a crumbling baroque building in the heart of Seville, it is also the center of a multilayered mystery- one that will force ecclesiastical sleuth Father Lorenzo Quart to question his loyalty, his vow of chastity, and his faith itself. 352 pages.
Published by Harvill Paperback, 2001
ISBN 10: 1860468462ISBN 13: 9781860468469
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 8.50x5.31x0.87 inches. In Stock.
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Published by Harvill 1998 Paperback, 1998
ISBN 10: 1860464386ISBN 13: 9781860464386
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 85 pages.
Published by The Harvill Press 1997 Paperback, 1997
ISBN 10: 1860462057ISBN 13: 9781860462054
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? In the painting, the Duke of Flanders and his knight are locked in a game of chess, and a dark lady lurks mysteriously in the background. Julia is determined to solve the five-hundred-year-old murder, but as she begins to look for clues, several of her friends in the art world are brutally murdered in quick succession. Messages left with the bodies suggest a crucial connection between the chess game in the painting, the knight's murder, the sordid underside of the contemporary art world, and the latest deaths. Just when all of the players in the mystery seem to be pawns themselves, events race toward a shocking conclusion. A thriller like no other, The Flanders Panel presents a tantalizing puzzle for any connoisseur of mystery, chess, art, and history. 295 pages.
Published by The Harvill Press 1997 Paperback, 1997
ISBN 10: 1860460755ISBN 13: 9781860460753
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. France is the most popular country in the world with foreign visitors. Each year millions of people arrive there to take delight in its landscapes, its extraordinarily rich history, its art and architecture, its food and its wine. For many visitors, especially, perhaps, the British, the only difficulties lie with the people. The French, it is generally agreed, are either irritating or baffling or both. Theodore Zeldin's book is an erudite but tongue-in-cheek guide to the French which will dispel any lingering Francophobia in the minds of those who read it. In chapters with titles like 'Why it is hard to meet an Average French Person', 'How to understand what they are trying to say' and 'How to sympathise with them', he unravels the mysteries of the French. This is a brilliantly sustained, readable and amusing cultural analysis which unlocks the door to the French mind and the French spirit. 542 pages.
Published by Harvill Secker 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846555930ISBN 13: 9781846555930
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Near Mint. Roger Brown has it all: Norway's most successful headhunter, he is married to a beautiful gallery owner and owns a magnificent house. But he's also a highly accomplished art thief. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is Greve the perfect candidate for a position that Brown is recruiting for; he is also in possession of 'The Calydonian Boar Hunt' by Rubens, one of the most sought-after paintings in modern art history. Roger sees his chance to become financially independent, and starts planning his biggest theft ever. But soon, he runs into trouble - and it's not financial problems that are threatening to knock him over this time. 272 pages.
Published by The Harvill Press 1993 Paperback, 1993
ISBN 10: 0002713632ISBN 13: 9780002713634
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 320 pages.
Published by Harvill 2000 Paperback, 2000
ISBN 10: 186046727XISBN 13: 9781860467271
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. 327 pages.
Published by Harvill Secker 2007 Paperback, 2008
ISBN 10: 1843430487ISBN 13: 9781843430483
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His childhood was unsettled; an alcoholic father, and a mother disappeared, only alive in old photographs. His adolescence was no easier as he lost both his best friend and his lover tragically. Alone and adrift, as a young man his only desire is to fulfil his lover s dream and visit the grave of a legendary missionary who survived alone in the remote hills of Northern Zambia. On reaching Africa, Olofson is struck by its beauty and mystery. After fulfilling his initial quest, an opportunity of employment in the region tempts him to stay. Time passes quickly. Though dismayed by the attitude of the white population to their adopted country, which is compounded by their vulnerability to alcohol and malaria, he is interested enough to take up sole responsibility for the farm he manages. For almost two decades Hans Olofson battles with a hostile environment and a placid, but resistant workforce. Set in the 1970s and 1980s, The Eye of the Leopard explores the relationship between the white farmers and their native workers. Through Olofson s descent into near mental collapse it becomes clear that many years spent in a foreign land do not necessarily breed an understanding of its people: a handful of generations of white settlers cannot change a continent underpinned by myth and superstition. The Eye of the Leopard is a first-rate and original psychological thriller delving deep into the mind of a man lost in an unknown world. 320 pages.
Published by The Harvill Press 1996 Paperback, 1996
ISBN 10: 1860461670ISBN 13: 9781860461675
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. 416 pages.
Published by Harvill Secker 2008 Paperback, 2008
ISBN 10: 1846550254ISBN 13: 9781846550256
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Just before Christmas on a farm in Northern Norway, 80-year-old Anna Neshov, matriarch of a troubled family, is taken gravely ill. Her three sons have been quietly immersed in their work: one an undertaker, one a window-dresser, and the eldest running the family farm, but now they are forced to reunite for the first time in many years. Their personalities are as disparate as their careers, and tensions mount from the second they meet, climaxing over Christmas dinner when the matter of inheritance prompts the revelation of disturbing family secrets. Anne B. Ragde has created an engrossing dark comedy brought vividly to life through extraordinary characters. While perfectly in tune with their professions the Neshov sons as a family are little short of dysfunctional; nevertheless, the real theme of the novel is a sense of belonging. The farm itself defines this, with its power to draw people back to their roots, whether they like it or not. 300 pages.
Published by Harvill Press 2000 Paperback, 2000
ISBN 10: 1860465382ISBN 13: 9781860465383
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. What was the real history of Long John Silver, the enigmatic, treacherous, and yet strangely likable pirate whose exploits made him the antihero of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island? He lived out his twilight years on Madagascar, rich, one-legged, and attended by a handful of devoted slaves. He had a price on his head, the Royal Navy was out to bring him to justice, but it was posthumous obscurity he feared. So he set down his memoirs, 'The true and eventful History of my Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune and Enemy to Mankind'.Now published in paperback alongside Harvill's edition of Stevenson's Treasure Island. 400 pages.
Published by The Harvill Press 1996 Paperback, 1996
ISBN 10: 1860461190ISBN 13: 9781860461194
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good.
Published by Harvill 1999 Paperback, 1999
ISBN 10: 186046422XISBN 13: 9781860464225
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. 120 pages.
Published by Harvill Secker 2008 Paperback, 2008
ISBN 10: 1846551536ISBN 13: 9781846551536
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 400 pages.
Published by The Harvill Press 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 1860468713ISBN 13: 9781860468711
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 352 pages.
Published by Harvill Paperback, 1988
ISBN 10: 1860460909ISBN 13: 9781860460906
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 592 pages. 8.50x5.31x1.54 inches. In Stock.
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Published by The Harvill Press 2002 Paperback, 2002
ISBN 10: 1860469655ISBN 13: 9781860469657
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. With perhaps his fiercest intensity to date, Richard Ford, America's most unflinching chronicler of modern life, is drawn to amorous relationships inside, out and to the sides of marriage. In these extraordinary stories all human relations, our entire sense of right and wrong, are put into vivid and unforgettable play. 288 pages.
Published by Harvill 1993 Paperback, 1993
ISBN 10: 0002713284ISBN 13: 9780002713283
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 339 pages.
Published by Harvill Secker 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 184655215XISBN 13: 9781846552151
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Near Mint. Ruth Maier was born into a middle-class Jewish family in interwar Vienna. Following the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938, the world of the substantial Viennese Jewish community crumbled. In early 1939, her sister having left for England, Ruth emigrated to Norway and lived with a family in Lillestrom, about thirty miles from Oslo. Although she loved many things about her new country and its people, Ruth's relationship with her hosts soon turned stale, then sour. Ruth became increasingly isolated in Norway until she met a soul mate, Gunvor Hofmo, who was to become a celebrated poet. Norway itself became a Nazi conquest in April 1940, and Ruth's attempts to join the rest of her family - now in Britain - became ever more urgent. She never left Norway, and in November 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz where she was exterminated on arrival. She had just turned twenty-two. Ruth Maier kept a diary from 1934 until just before she was murdered. Despite being only in her teens she shows a sophisticated understanding of the political forces shaping central Europe as well as extraordinary prescience. The book is much more than just historical documentation, however. In a lucid yet highly lyrical style, with an incisive talent for narrative and a sharp wit, Ruth explores universal themes of isolation, identity, friendship, love, sexuality, desire, morality, justice and sacrifice. Most of all, however, she seeks what it means to be a human being. Published only recently for the first time in Norway, Ruth Maier's Diary is one of the most moving testimonies to emerge from this dark period of European history 413 pages.
Published by Harvill 1997 Paperback, 1997
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. 326 pages.
Published by The Harvill Press 1996 Paperback, 1996
ISBN 10: 1860461700ISBN 13: 9781860461705
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Roman om Frank Bascombe, tidligere sportsjournalist, nu ejendomsm gler. Han, en venlig, men up lidelig mand, fort ller om nogle episoder, han kommer ud for i sommeren 1988. 464 pages.
Published by Harvill Secker 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554926ISBN 13: 9781846554926
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. Nineteenth-century Europe?from Turin to Prague to Paris?abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to notorious forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay one lone man? What if that evil genius created the most infamous document of all? Eco takes his readers on an unforgettable journey through the underbelly of world-shattering events. The Prague Cemeteryis Umberto Eco at his most exciting, a novel immediately hailed as his masterpiece. 439 pages.
Published by Harvill 2003 Paperback, 2003
ISBN 10: 1843430568ISBN 13: 9781843430568
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French scholar Fran ois Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of 'American imperialism', he was chained and imprisoned. His captor, Douch, later responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, interviewed him at length; after three months of torturous deliberation, during which his every word was weighed and his life hung in the balance, he was released. No other Western prisoner survived. Four years later, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. Fran ois Bizot became the official intermediary between the ruthless conqueror and the terrified refugees behind the gate of the French embassy: a ringside seat to one of history's most appalling genocides. 285 pages.
Published by Harvill Secker 2007 Paperback, 2007
ISBN 10: 1846550386ISBN 13: 9781846550386
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. The long-awaited and hugely-entertaining sequel toMr. Nice. During the mid-1980s, Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and companies trading throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to fifty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada. He was eventually busted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana for marijuana smuggling. He was released in April 1995, after serving seven years. Se¤or Nice tells the story of what happened next. After release from prison, Marks changed careers: he wrote two best-selling books, became a sports and travel writer, stood as a parliamentary candidate, and embarked on a long-running sell-out series of one-man shows. While performing in his home town of Kenfig Hill, Wales, an elderly aunt told him of his outlaw ancestry: William Owen, the legendary Welsh smuggler (who had operated for some time in South America) and his great-great-grandfather Patrick McCarty, the half-brother of Billy the Kid, who had joined Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Patagonia. So, Marks decided to explore South America. His travels took him to Jamaica and Panama in the footsteps of the Welsh buccaneer Henry Morgan; to a search for obscure Welsh settlers in Brazil whom he never found; and a search among the thriving Welsh community in Patagonia for signs of Billy the Kid?s half-brother. Richly comic and charged with the sense of adventure that induced this Oxford graduate to become the world?s most notorious marijuana smuggler,Se¤or Niceis the hugely entertaining sequel toMr. Nice. 288 pages.
Published by Harvill Secker 2013 Paperback, 2013
ISBN 10: 1846557453ISBN 13: 9781846557453
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good.
Published by The Harvill Press 2004 Paperback, 2004
ISBN 10: 1843431149ISBN 13: 9781843431145
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide. He succeeds in killing himself and his whole flock of worshippers, save one. One man escapes.In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, handwritten corrections and amendments on every page. A string of incidents, including attacks on domestic animals, has been taking place and Inspector Wallander fears that these events could be the prelude to attacks on humans on a much greater scale.Linda Wallander, preparing to join the Ystad police force, arrives at the station. Showing all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper - she becomes involved in the case and in the process has to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners.Before The Frost is a totally compelling and atmospheric crime story. 384 pages.