LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan kennedy

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  • The War and Alex Vere
    Alan Kennedy
    'The government would be wise to tell the truth and, if a sufficient emergency arises, to tell one big, thumping lie that will then be believed.' Extract from a secret internal memorandum on the workings of the United Kingdom war-time Emergency Powers Act.Based entirely on true accounts of disinformation projects in London and Paris, this extraordinary novel addresses the dile...
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    33,26 €

  • The Boat in the Bay
    Alan Kennedy
    '...off his starboard bow clouds of spray were flying over the cabin of the boat in the bay, tethered to her unseen mooring ... a faint vibrating sound rumbled towards him across the lake. Something was wrong, he was sure of that, but he could not work out what and there was no time now to go and look...'It is July 1929. Four children arrive for a boating holiday to find thems...
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    27,48 €

  • The Broken Bell
    ALAN KENNEDY
    The Broken Bell, the second book in Alan KennedyÕs Boat in the Bay trilogy. When he arranges a surprise holiday for the children Uncle Albert imagines he can look after them well enough. But before this story ends he is the one who needs looking after. Set on a remote island off the coast of southern France, an idyllic holiday gradually becomes a terrifying race against time, b...
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    14,03 €

  • THE THINGS THAT ARE LOST
    ALAN KENNEDY
    ''It will all have gone. Erased. Forgotten. Like throwing letters in the fire.''The completion of Alan Kennedy’s WW2 trilogy takes up the story one year after the events of A Time to Tell Lies. Following the disastrous visit to John Cabot in Oxford, Justine has vanished. Alex, posted to a Spy School in Scotland, finds life a kind of benign imprisonment. The Things That Are Lost...
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    14,15 €

  • THE PINK HOUSE
    ALAN KENNEDY
    The final book in a trilogy which includes The Boat in the Bay and The Broken Bell.The Pink House finds the children growing apart.Poppy must chose between painting and adventure as the others discover a lost lake in a secret valley. The decision to stay behind and begin her first painting changes her life for ever as, too late, she discovers the dreadful consequence of their d...
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    13,59 €

  • LUCY
    ALAN KENNEDY
    Lucy is a painter. She has everything: fame, money and reputation. She also has Oscar. At least, he has always been there. One fine day, she will do something about that. It was, as she says, hardly a love affair, more a kind of marriage. Perhaps, even war-torn France is safe enough on the Oscar front. But Lucy is deceiving herself. Set before and after the second world war in ...
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    7,87 €

  • The Boat in the Bay
    ALAN KENNEDY
    It is July 1929. Four children arrive for a holiday to find their cottage locked up, the lake flooded, and their little boat inaccessible. Their boating holiday seems over before it had begun. Initially, this might be the story Arthur Ransome never got round to writing. But these children do not lead a charmed life. They are given to making mistakes and things do not invaria...
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    14,21 €

  • A Time to Tell Lies
    Alan Kennedy
    In the morning of Tuesday November 10, 1942, near a small village in SW France, the scheduled pickup for a Special Operations Executive agent goes terribly wrong. Alex and Justine, agents with a life expectancy measured in weeks, find themselves entangled in a desperate project they never fully understand. They are also lovers. Trained to lie to their wartime masters and to the...
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    26,52 €

  • OSCAR & LUCY
    Alan Kennedy
    Oscar was one of those people cursed to live in interesting times; indeed, times interesting enough for a dozen normal lives. He was the architect of extraordinary - even heroic - deeds, yet they are completely forgotten now. He must be counted along with people who shaped the history of the 20th Century. Someone who played a key role in the allied victory in WWII, but is now c...
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    14,71 €

  • The Alpha Strategies
    Alan W. Kennedy / Alan WKennedy / Thomas E. Kennedy / Thomas EKennedy
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    18,30 €

  • The Beast of Bodmin Moor - Best Goon Brèn
    Alan M. Kent / Alan MKent / Neil Kennedy
    Watch out... the Beast is about! This new story for young readers is based on the mysterious legend of the Beast of Bodmin Moor. The acclaimed Cornish writer Alan M. Kent tells the charming tale of how a big cat came to wander the wild landscape of Cornwall. Filled with delight and wonder, this is a tale to enrich the imagination and stay long in the memory. The illustrations a...
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    24,56 €

  • Denial and Deception
    Alan Kennedy-Shaffer
    Denial and Deception: A Study of the Bush Administration’s Rhetorical Case for Invading Iraq delivers a refreshingly objective snapshot of the relationship between President George W. Bush’s misleading statements, public opinion, and the war in Iraq. Using statistical analysis, Alan Kennedy-Shaffer presents the first academic study of President Bush’s efforts to bully the nati...
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    25,25 €