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Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2024
ISBN 10: 0007439113ISBN 13: 9780007439119
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The first book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo. Written in the 1960s, 10 books completed in 10 years, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo - a husband and wife team from Sweden. They follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction; without his creation Ian Rankin's John Rebus or Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander may never have been conceived. The novels can be read separately, but are best read in chronological order, so the reader can follow the characters' development and get drawn into the series as a whole. 'Roseanna' begins on a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. Three months later, all that Police Inspector Martin Beck knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln, Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people. With its authentically rendered settings and vividly realized characters, and its command over the intricately woven details of police detection, 'Roseanna' is a masterpiece of suspense and sadness.
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Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2024
ISBN 10: 0007441304ISBN 13: 9780007441303
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Product Description The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together. But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end. About the Author Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993 to great acclaim and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Frances Prix Medicis and has sold more than 3 million copies.
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Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2003
ISBN 10: 0006550193ISBN 13: 9780006550198
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. New edition. The Blue Flower.
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Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2024
ISBN 10: 0007270720ISBN 13: 9780007270729
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed examination of the events which would profoundly influence his work. Beginning with his early childhood spent exploring the vibrant surroundings of pre-war Shanghai, Ballard charts the course of his remarkable life from the deprivations and unexpected freedoms of the Lunghua Camp to his return to a Britain physically and psychologically crippled by war. He explores his subsequent involvement in the dramatic social changes of the 1960s, and the adjustments to life following the premature death of his wife. In prose displaying his characteristic precision and eye for detail, Ballard recounts the experiences which would fundamentally shape his writing, while simultaneously providing an striking social analysis of the fragmented post-war Britain that lies behind so many of his novels. 'Miracles of Life' is an utterly captivating account of an extraordinary writer's extraordinary life.
Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007269749ISBN 13: 9780007269747
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain.Fine Just The Way It Is marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of Brokeback Mountain and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebrushed and weatherworn country has known, from the native Indian tribes to the modern day ranch owners and politicians, and their cowboy forebears.In A Family Man, an old man nearing the end of his life unburdens himself of the weighty family secrets that were his fathers unwelcome legacy. Them Old Cowboy Songs follows Archie and Rosie, a young pioneer couple, and their hardships in their attempt to homestead in the exposed wintry expanses of the prairie, and Testimony of the Donkey finds a young international couple, Marc and Caitlin, struggling with much more modern concerns, and confronting uncertainty as their relationship comes to its end.These are stories of desperation and hard times, often marked by an inescapable sadness, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyomings traditional character and attitudes - confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty - with the more benign values of the new west. These are bold, elegant and memorable pieces, and once more confirm Annie Proulx as one of the most talented, unique short story writers in the language.
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Published by Brand: Fourth Estate Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 1841154881ISBN 13: 9781841154886
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "The Great Inland Sea is a novel about a boy who escapes the scorched landscape of his youth and returns as an adult to nurse his ailing father, discovering the secrets buried there." "David Francis's debut novel tells a story of a boy's loss and enduring hope as he endeavors to forge connections with the world around him. After witnessing his mother's death, Day flees his remote family farm in New South Wales to become caretaker of a racehorse named Unusual, with whom he travels to America." On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Day falls in love with Callie, a tough and ambitious young American who wants to be the first licensed woman jockey. Their destructive love ultimately leads him back to the Riverina, where he began, and where his past reveals itself in ways that even he would never have imagined.
Published by Brand: Fourth Estate Ltd, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007320965ISBN 13: 9780007320967
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. UK ed. Paperback. Pub Date :2009-08-20 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.On Battersea Reach. a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats. rising and falling with the tide of the Thames.There is good-natured Maurice. by occupation a male prostitute. by chance a receiver of stolen goods.And Richard. an ex-navy man whose boat. much like its owner. dominates the Reach.Then there is Nenna. an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore. whose domestic predicament. as it deepens. will draw this disparate community together.
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Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2024
ISBN 10: 0007150385ISBN 13: 9780007150380
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A Great American Novel -- from the author of 'Borrowed Finery' Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked outside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighbourhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives, revealing the faultlines and fractures in a marriage -- and a society -- wrenching itself apart. Includes an introduction by Jonathan Franzen.
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Published by Brand: Fourth Estate Classic House, 1994
ISBN 10: 1857021207ISBN 13: 9781857021202
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In "Coltrane in a cadillac", Robbie Coltrane indulges his passion for vintage American cars with a 4,000-mile journey-across the belly of America in a stunning black and white 1951 Cadillac coupe convertible. From the Aladdin's cave of Frank Corrente's "Cadillac Corner" in Los Angeles, where Robbie searches for his dream car, the trip takes in the polyester decadence of Las Vegas, the eerie Mormon capital Salt Lake City and frontier town Dodge City until Robbie reaches the world-famous Indianapolis 500 Speedway track where he plays out another car fantasy. On the way to New York Coltrane also pays tribute to American heroes such as James Dean and Huckleberry Finn and laments the tarnishing of the American Dream in places such as motor city Detroit and rundown East St Louis.
Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2023
ISBN 10: 0007360622ISBN 13: 9780007360628
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Fourth Edition. 101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st.<br />Life is made up of individuals meeting one another. They speak, or dont speak. They get on, or dont get on. They make agreements, which they either hold to or ignore. They laugh, they cry, they are excited, they are indifferent, they share secrets, they say, How do you do? Often it is the most fleeting of meetings that, in the fullness of time, turn out to be the most noteworthy.<br />One on One examines the curious nature of different types of meeting, from the oddity of encounters with the Royal Family (who start giggling during a recital by TS Eliot) to those often perilous meetings between old and young (Mark Twain terrifying Rudyard Kipling) and between young and old (the 23-year-old Sarah Miles having her leg squeezed by the nonagenarian Bertrand Russell), to contemporary random encounters (George Galloway meeting Michael Barrymore on Celebrity Big Brother). Ingenious in its construction, witty in its narration, panoramic in its breadth, One on One is a wholly original book.
Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2024
ISBN 10: 0007150245ISBN 13: 9780007150243
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by James Robertson.
Published by Brand: Fourth Estate Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 1857023706ISBN 13: 9781857023701
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Derived from Nigel Slater's column in the "Observer", this book is full of recipes, technical tips, short-cuts, snippets of history, anecdotes and meditations on the aesthetics of eating. Most of all it is a testament to the pleasures of good food, from the grand poetry of a wild salmon in cream and dill sauce to the sheer sensuousness of hot buttered toast. Nigel Slater is the winner of the Glenfiddich Trophy, the Glenfiddich Cookery Writer of the Year and joint winner with Kevin Summers of the Glenfiddich Visual Award.
Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2013
ISBN 10: 0007285310ISBN 13: 9780007285310
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Top young fashion designer Luella Bartley celebrates English style and explains how to acquire it.What makes English girls the coolest in the world? What is the English style which girls around the world try to emulate? In this book Luella Bartley - crowned Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2008 - sets out to capture what it is that makes English girls just a little bit special.First up are the clothes - Luella investigates the combination of smart and scruffy, classic and street-style, which ensures that English girls are always at the cutting edge of fashion. Then there are the icons - the English girl knows that Kate Moss and The Duchess of Devonshire both have a place in the style pantheon.Luella explains the style tribes vying for the English girl's allegiance, the social rituals she undergoes - from surfing in Cornwall to clubbing in Berlin - and the status symbols she marks herself out with. All this requires a lot of photographs, drawings, and, occasionally, diagrams.But Luella's Guide to English Style isn't simply a book about fashion and style, it's a work of social anthropology - delivered with a wink and a kiss on the cheek. Luella describes the English girl's approach to love and shows how the English girl gets better with age.With her background as Londons hippest designer and as an editor on Vogue and the London Evening Standard, Luella Bartley is brilliantly placed to map out English style and what it means for girls.
Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 1998
ISBN 10: 1857027728ISBN 13: 9781857027723
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In their latest collaboration, chefs Alastair Little and Richard Whittington have distilled their considerable knowledge into a volume that will surely become a valued resource for modern cooks. Addressing current culinary topics, the authors provide abundant information on new ingredients and techniques, gathering recipes and ideas from all corners of the globe. At the heart of their book are 500 international recipes, ranging from traditional favorites like French Onion Soup and Roast Goose to the more unusual Char Siu Pork, Umbrian Lemon Poussin, Scallops la Bordelaise, and Naan Bread. The Global Kitchen Glossary explains 300 culinary terms, from Ackee to Zampone, and the pages are peppered with hundreds of tips and hints on kitchen equipment, cooking techniques, and entertaining. The authors' previous books include Keep It Simple and Food of the Sun.
Published by Brand: Fourth Estate, 2008
ISBN 10: 0732283663ISBN 13: 9780732283667
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A forgotten fragment of Australia's past inspires a powerful new novel. It is the end of the nineteenth century, and one of the most powerful storms in history is born when a hurricane named Mahina moves across the Coral Sea. To a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets and a native policeman trying to solve a murder. Nearly two thousand men, women and children are gathering around Cape Melville, right in the path of the storm that is about to cause Australia's deadliest natural disaster. Based on real events, this is the story of an unstoppable force of nature and the birth and death of an Australian dream.
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Published by Brand: Fourth Estate Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 184115752XISBN 13: 9781841157528
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. A dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at 16, at 18 Mary ascended the throne that was her birthright and began ruling one of the most fractious courts in Europe, riven by religious conflict and personal lust for power. She rode out at the head of an army in both victory and defeat; saw her second husband assassinated, and married his murderer. She was a woman so magnetic, so brilliant in conversation that her cousin, Elizabeth I, refused to meet her in the course of their lifetimes for fear of being overshadowed or outwitted. At 25 she entered captivity at the hands of her rival queen, from which only death would release her. The life of Mary Stuart is one of unparalleled drama and conflict. From the labyrinthine plots laid by the Scottish lords to wrest power for themselves, to the efforts made by Elizabeth's ministers to invalidate Mary's legitimate claim to the English throne, John Guy returns to the archives to explode the myths and correct the inaccuracies that surround this most fascinating monarch. He also explains a central mystery: why Mary would have consented to marry - only three months after the death of her second husband, Lord Darnley - the man who was said to be his killer, the Earl of Bothwell. He also solves, through careful re-examination of the Casket Letters, the secret behind Darnley's spectacular assassination at Kirk o'Field. With great pathos, Guy illuminates how the imprisoned Mary's despair led to a reckless plot against Elizabeth - and thus to her own execution. The portrait that emerges is not of a political pawn or a manipulative siren, but of a shrewd and charismatic young ruler who relished power and, for a time, managed to hold together a fatally unstable country. The book is a work of historical scholarship that offers radical new interpretations of an ancient story.
Published by Brand: Fourth Estate Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 1841154350ISBN 13: 9781841154350
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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