Tarquin Winot - hedonist, food obsessive, ironist and snob - travels a circuitous route from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. Along the way he tells the story of his childhood and ... Zobraziť viac
John Lanchester, author of Whoops! and Capital takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Tube to show its secrets, just how much we take for granted about it, and what we\'re really talking about, since we so often do talk about it. In short, he shows what a... Zobraziť viac
Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall. Zobraziť viac
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day ... Zobraziť viac
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life... Zobraziť viac
Kavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has to do two years of this. 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and will never have to spend another... Zobraziť viac
Explains everything from high-frequency trading and the World Bank. This book includes everything you need to demystify the world of high finance. It's a reference book you'll find yourself reading in one sitting. Zobraziť viac
Faber & Faber: The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumour,... Zobraziť viac
We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, \"The Debt to Pleasure \"is a wickedly funny ode to food. Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of France, Tarquin Winot, the book\' s snobbish narrator, instructs... Zobraziť viac
There's probably a word in German for that feeling you get when you can understand something while it's being explained to you, but lose hold of the explanation as soon as it stops... Zobraziť viac
