Books set in United Kingdom (482)
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Cahokia Jazz : A Novel by Francis Spufford EN
EnglandDescription:
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, factory whistles blow, Americans drink in speakeasies and dance to the... continue
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl EN
WalesDescription:
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
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Churchill's Secret War : The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee EN
IndiaDescription:
A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts of Churchill's record have gone woefully unexamined.As journalist Madhusree Mukerjee reveals, at the same time that Churchill brilliantly opposed the barbarism of the Nazis, he governed India with a fierce resolve to crush its freedom movement and a profound contempt for native lives. A series of Churchill's decisions between 1940 and 1944 dir... continue
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Colecţionarul by John Fowles RO
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Colectionarul, primul roman al lui John Fowles, este o carte cu o conceptie absolut originala, despre pasiunea unui functionar neinsemnat. Un tanar timid, asocial, el este usor-usor cuprins de nevinovata bucurie de a colectiona obiecte. Odata cu primirea unei mosteniri consistente, mica lui placere ia proportii si ajunge treptat sa-i domine viata. Destinul sau capata o intorsatura neobisnuita atunci cand rapeste si sechestreaza o studenta la Arte Frumoase, incercand sa stabileasca astfel o legatura afectiva imposibila intre el si victima.
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Come Rain Or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro EN
JapanDescription:
In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.
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In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall—until Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only different. The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and keep her with them. . . . Forever. Coraline is an extraordinary fairy tale/nightmare from the uniquely skewed imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
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Crimenes Imperceptibles by Guillermo Martínez ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Pocos dias despues de haber llegado a Oxford, un joven estudiante argentino encuentra el cadaver de una anciana que ha sido asfixiada con un almohadon. El asesinato resulta ser un desafio intelectual lanzado a uno de lo logicos mas eminentes del siglo, Arthur Seldom, y el primero de una serie de crimenes Mientras la policia investiga a una sucesion de sospechosos, maestro y discipulo llevan adelante su propia intestigacion, amenazados por las derivaciones cada vez mas riesgosas de sus conjeturas.Crimenes imperceptibles, que conjuga a los sombrios hospitales ingleses con lo juegos de lenguaje d... continue
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Crops : Anthology of Qatari short stories by Kalthm Jabr, Dalal Khalifa, et al. EN
QatarDescription:
This collection of Qatari short stories was edited by Dr. Amir Al-Azab and translated by Samar Hammood Alchichakli.
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Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh EN
Description:
GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTSFrom the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery . . .'A shimmering fever-dream of a novel' Telegraph'A dreamy sapphic romp' The Times'Gauzy [and] gripping, a qu[Bokinfo].