Jonathan - Libros y biografía

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is...

Les Voyages de Gulliver marquent un sommet de la satire sociale et politique au travers d'éléments mêlant, sur le mode du pamphlet ou de la description narrative, de la philosophie, de la logique, du...

- Diese Ausgabe ist einzigartig; - Die Übersetzung ist vollständig original und wurde für das Ale. Mar. SAS; - Alle Rechte vorbehalten. A Modest Proposal to Prevent the Children of Poor People from Being...

Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous...

Enttäuscht vom Leben und den Menschen darin und unfähig an einen Gott zu glauben reist der aus dem Rheinland stammende, ehemalige Bankmanager Peter von Bergen jedes Jahr Ende März von seiner neuen Heimat...

Join Jonathan on his 40th year as he takes you through the highs and lows, the funny and the sad, and the shockingly rude bits of being 40 Single Gay. He finds himself unexpectedly single after being...

Could there be a genie in that magic lamp?Bella is so excited when she discovers an old lamp, because it looks just like the lamps in those stories she loves. What will happen if she rubs it? Will a genie...

Monsters and monsters and more monsters, oh my!Strange things are happening in Maddie's house. Objects keep disappearing, and Maddie's family can't imagine where they've gone. Only Maddie knows that her...

Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel...

L’anno è il 1645 ed Edimburgo si trova nella stretta della peste peggiore della sua storia. Nessuno sa chi sarà il prossimo a soccombere… nessuno eccetto il Dottore della Notte, una figura mascherata...

In this vivid account, the author punctures some generally held assumptions: despite slaughter and famine, the province on the eve of the Plantation was not completely depopulated as was often asserted...

THE ONLY BOOK ON IRISH HISTORY YOU'LL EVER NEED!From invasions to rebellions, heroic martyrs to pragmatic politicians, industrial development to mass emigration, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by...

Three men, three lives and three eras sinuously entwine in a dark, startling and unsettling narrative of sex, exploitation and dependence set against London's strangely constant gay underworld.Jack Rose...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD When 64-year-old Grace Wellbeck thinks she sees the ghost of her first husband, she fears for her sanity and worries that she's having another...

Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest...

A guide to the secrets of rune-reading, an ancient predictive art, that teaches you how to lay out runes and interpret them instantly. Once the sacred alphabet of the Germanic people of Northern Europe,...

The greenhouse opens up a new dimension to gardening; making tropical conditions, a temperate room or even an alpine house a possibility. This practical guide adopts a simple and logical approach to what...

French nymphing, or European nymphing as it is often known in the US, is the most important new development in flyfishing for a generation. The use of ultra-long tapered French leaders provides huge advantages...

Marijuana is the everyman drug. Teenagers surreptitiously toke on it, politicians refuse to inhale it, even your mum and dad have had a go. Marijuana is a mellow, let's put on a Barry Manilow CD, open...

The first novel by Jonathan Lethem (author of the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn) is a science-fiction mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp serving further evidence that Lethem is the distinctive...

Guerrilla Teaching is a revolution. Not a flag-waving, drum-beating revolution, but an underground revolution, a classroom revolution. It's not about changing policy or influencing government; it's about...

Landlocked, almost inaccessible to foreigners, Nagaland has been fighting a secret, often brutal war for independence for more than half a century. Portrayed either as a land of ruthless guerrillas or...

18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world's greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the...

This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and was made a god - twice.

Based on the popular BBC Radio Ulster series of the same name, A Narrow Sea traces the epic sweep of Ireland's relationship with Scotland, exploring the myriad connections, correlations, personalities...

A brilliant contemporary reimagining of the greatest comic relationship of all time, which goes far beyond pastiche to places even Wodehouse couldn't.Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young,...

Meet the real French, and chuckle!The French are savvy, sophisticated, elegant — Right? Wrong! The French...* lecture the world about haute cuisine yet they eat more McDonald's hamburgers than anywhere...

Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Jonathan Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current takes...

In November 1918, socialist revolution sweeps across Germany, transforming Berlin, already ravaged by war, into a political battleground. Four women from the slums are discovered dead, all with identical...

<p><strong>Shortlisted for the 2016 East Midland Book Awards</strong></p><p><em>Melissa</em> is set in 1999-2000. At roughly 2pm on 9th June 1999, on a small...