LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david g bailey

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  • The Tuesday-Thursday Tontine
    David G Bailey
    ’A tontine only makes any sense in times of war or plague.’So are three friends told, when a fourth’s will binds them in a tontine, a legacy payable only to the last of them to follow him in death, the last man standing. None of them want the money on those terms: How good will all the beer in the world taste over the dead bodies of your best mates? Within months COVID-19 is ev...
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    22,47 €

  • The Sunny Side of the House
    David G Bailey
    You can’t choose your mum and dad, even when they choose you. In my early teens I had a taste for horror comics. In one strip I read of a handsome young couple at last alone in their honeymoon suite. He is crisply suited, clean-cut. She, lovely in her wedding finery, offers him the chance to watch her disrobe. The bride is not shy. She reveals herself, frame by frame, to be a h...
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    26,36 €

  • Them Feltwell Boys
    David G Bailey
    If women are so much trouble, Ray, why do you always want more than one?Parallel narratives of a schoolboy’s developing first love affair and his career and marriage unravelling 25 years later eventually converge at a school reunion.Ray Roden is a Fenland schoolboy in trouble with teachers and friends as well as women after his boys’ grammar merges with the girls’ high. He has ...
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    26,36 €

  • Them Roper Girls
    David G Bailey
    They were beauties all right, them Roper girls - but sometimes even four aces don’t make a winning hand.In an unsettled household in the 1950s, how will the sisters come up from their shipwrecked childhood? Facing issues including domestic and sexual abuse, physical and mental illness, they struggle to offer their own children a better legacy. Follow them over sixty years to se...
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    26,56 €

  • Seventeen
    David G Bailey
    He will take seventeen to the match - how many will he bring back?In Cibola football is a matter of life and death. Sir Tristram must reunite his Blood City teammates - Knights, Pirates and Westerners - to win the prestigious Seskie tournament against their oldest rivals.Behind the match is a bigger power play, a king’s mission to bring down his greatest rival by persuasion, tr...
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    18,53 €