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KIWI TASCHENBUCH, 2009
Wie kommt man richtig nach Aldi? Und wie zu gutem Deutsch Beachtet man ein paar wenige Dinge und schaut auch mal zweimal hin, so ist es gar nicht so schwierig, richtiges und gutes Deutsch zu sprechen und zu schreiben.
Price: 6 295 Ft
ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2017
Ein Tag Altenheim kostet 180 EUR, ein Tag Kreuzfahrt nur 120 EUR. Ich habe das mal meiner Tochter gesagt.
Price: 5 750 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2016
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.
Price: 4 725 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2015
In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world.
Price: 4 725 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2016
Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of.
Price: 4 725 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2015
It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life a large portion of it quite deadly.
Price: 4 725 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2016
This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world.
Price: 4 725 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2016
Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture.
Price: 4 725 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2009
Who would have thought that a book about the English language would be so entertaining? Certainly not this grammar-allergic reviewer, but The Mother Tongue pulls it off admirably.
Price: 4 125 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2015
Bill Bryson’s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years.
Price: 4 725 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2016
Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth.
Price: 4 725 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2015
In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had...
Price: 4 725 Ft
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2009
This short biography of William Shakespeare by world famous writer Bill Bryson brims with the author's inimitable wit and intelligence. Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths...
Price: 5 295 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2016
Bill Bryson’s first travel book opened with the immortal line, ‘I come from Des Moines.
Price: 4 725 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2015
And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn’t hold him, but it did lure him back.
Price: 4 695 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2015
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country.
Price: 4 725 Ft
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2011
The plot lines of The Campus Trilogy, radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures of academics who move outside familiar territory.
Price: 7 275 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2011
The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements.
Price: 3 850 Ft
GUARDIAN FABER PUBLISHING, 2020
From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, horsemeat lasagne to Trump in the White House: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles the dumbfounding times we live in.
Price: 4 725 Ft
GUARDIAN FABER PUBLISHING, 2015
There are many aspects of modern life that trouble award-winning comedian David Mitchell, such as:
Price: 4 290 Ft
SEIX BARRAL EDITORIAL, 2013
Marie tiene un gran talento para enamorase del hombre equivocado. Poco después de que su boda haya sido cancelada, conoce a un carpintero. Es un hombre diferente a todos los que ha conocido antes: sensible, atento, desinteresado.
Price: 4 025 Ft
ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2016
Daisy trinkt, faulenzt und bestiehlt auch schon mal ihre WG-Genossen. Marc ist ein arroganter Hollywood-Star. Und beide haben keine Ahnung, was das Wort Liebe eigentlich bedeutet.
Price: 7 575 Ft
ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2009
Warum wollt ihr ausgerechnet dorthin, von wo alle abhauen? Freunde und Bekannte sind fassungslos, als Dieter Moor und seine Frau Sonja eröffnen, dass sie ihr Haus in der Schweizer Postkartenidylle verkauft haben, um nach Brandenburg zu ziehen.
Price: 6 895 Ft
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DTV, 2010
Wie gut, dass Ines nichts schrecken kann. Ohne ihre patente Schwester wäre Christine sonst ziemlich mulmig zumute. Ihre Freundin Marleen hat sie angefleht, für ein paar Tage ihre Pension auf Norderney zu übernehmen..
Price: 5 275 Ft
THREE RIVERS PRESS, 2005
Does the sensation of Tingrith(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone Ahenny(2)? Can you deal with a Naugatuck(3) without causing a Toronto(4)? Will you suffer from Kettering(5) this summer?
Price: 5 275 Ft
RIVERHEAD BOOKS, 2018
The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.
Price: 6 950 Ft
AUFBAU VERLAG, 2016
Die alleinerziehende Maja hat mehr Sorgen als genug: Ihr Bio-Friseursalon mit seinen betreuungsintensiven Kunden fordert ihren vollen Einsatz, Sohn Willi steckt mitten in der Pubertät, und ihr Freund Robin kommt und geht, wie es gefällt.
Price: 5 575 Ft
AUFBAU VERLAG, 2013
Sex oder nie Was tun, wenn Flaute im Bett herrscht? Ganz klar: her mit heißer Wäsche, Handschellen und allem, was den antriebsarmen Mann wieder munter macht!
Price: 5 575 Ft
AUFBAU VERLAG, 2013
Schmeckt’s dir nicht, Schatz? Beim ersten Mal ist es noch ein Versehen: Statt Pfeffer landet Rattengift im Gulasch – und schon ist Vivi ihren Haustyrannen Werner los.
Price: 5 575 Ft
AUFBAU VERLAG, 2014
Frikadelle zum Frühstück Charlotte ist Ärztin, hat einen tollen Job, eine tolle Wohnung, tolle Freunde – nur leider keinen Mann. Und das mit 39! Langsam wird es eng.
Price: 5 075 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream--and the price required to make it come true.
Price: 3 750 Ft
SCEPTRE, 2015
At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet.
Price: 4 995 Ft
MANPOCKET, 2021
En man som heter Ove-författaren Fredrik Backman är tillbaka med sin sannolikt brakigaste roman hittills.
Price: 4 650 Ft
SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2023
This is a small story about big questions.
Price: 5 350 Ft
PENGUIN, 2021
Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood
Price: 4 125 Ft
WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS, 2019
A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team.
Price: 8 525 Ft
STARKS-STURE VERLAG, 2009
Die Neuauflage der erheiternden Pflichtlektüre.nicht nur für Ungarn, sondern für alle, die auf höchst amüsante Weise alles Wichtige über dieses Land und seine Menschen erfahren wollen.
Price: 11 650 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
An indispensable manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness - a complete guide to the British Way of Life.
Price: 3 750 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.' But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart,......
Price: 3 375 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2004
This humorous account of the unconventional Durrell family living on the sun-drenched, thymescented Greek island of Corfu before World War II is Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to his very popular book, My Family and Other Animals.
Price: 5 650 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS (USA), 2007
Durrell tells the story of how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of founding his own private zoo, the Manor of Les Augres, on the English Channel island of Jersey.
Price: 2 825 Ft
ALIANZA EDITORIAL, 2011
Gerald Durrell combina en sus libros el retrato de gentes y lugares, la autobiografía y un insuperable sentido del humor. Mi familia y otros animales es sin duda su obra más conocida y celebrada.
Price: 10 625 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu.
Price: 3 375 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006
Durrell's memories of those enchanted days gave rise to these three classic tales, loved by generations of adults and children alike, which are now available in one volume for the first time.
Price: 5 625 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS (USA), 2005
This is the true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo.
Price: 5 650 Ft
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2018
The hilarious second novel, and Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller, from author of the smash hit Why Mummy Drinks.
Price: 5 150 Ft
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2009
When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished.
Price: 4 290 Ft
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 2019
A stoner, an Instagram model, a Czech oligarch, and a missing unicorn. Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare have their work cut out for them in their weirdest, wildest adventure yet in this New York Times bestseller by Janet and Peter Evanovich.
Price: 7 195 Ft
MICHAEL JOSEPH, 2021
An idyllic spot offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows and natural springs, it's the perfect plot of land for someone to delegate the actual, you know, farming to someone else while he galivants around the world in cars.
Price: 6 350 Ft
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PIRATFÖRLAGET, 2018
Analfabeten som kunde räkna är Jonas Jonassons andra roman, efter världssuccén med Hundraaringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann.
Price: 3 195 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2016
It’s always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in south Stockholm, it’s particularly awkward because the money belongs to the hitman currently staying in room seven.
Price: 4 825 Ft
CARL'S BOOKS, 2016
Johan Andersson – seit seinen zahllosen Gefängnisaufenthalten nur noch "Mörder-Anders" genannt – ist frisch aus dem Knast entlassen und braucht einen neuen Job sowie neue Freunde.
Price: 12 100 Ft
PENGUIN VERLAG, 2017
Johan Andersson – seit seinen zahllosen Gefängnisaufenthalten nur noch "Mörder-Anders" genannt – ist frisch aus dem Knast entlassen und braucht einen neuen Job sowie neue Freunde.
Price: 6 350 Ft
HARPERVIA, 2021
Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna.
Price: 4 350 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2018
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne.
Price: 4 350 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2014
As delightfully wry and witty as his bestselling debut, ‘The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’, this is a tale of how one woman’s attempt to change her future ended up changing everything.
Price: 4 350 Ft
ABACUS, 2015
It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there.
Price: 4 450 Ft
4TH ESTATE, 2023
Sweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on the 21st of September that year, around 21.20 to be more precise, bringing about the end of times.
Price: 4 350 Ft
GAUTIER LANGUEREAU, 2022
Pourquoi dit-on myope comme une taupe ? Laid comme un pou ? ou Doux comme un agneau ? Mais surtout, les taupes sont-elles vraiment myopes et les poux vraiment laids ? On dit que les agneaux sont doux et sages mais il n'en a pas toujours été ainsi.
Price: 12 290 Ft
ULLSTEIN TASCHENBUCHVERLAG, 2018
Sensation, Sensation: Archäologen haben in einem Geheimfach in Marc-Uwes Schreibtisch neue Geschichten vom Känguru und seinem Kleinkünstler gefunden! Dies ist nicht die Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung der Känguru-Chroniken.
Price: 4 125 Ft
ONE WORLD, 2019
A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout, about a father who will do anything to protect his son--even if it means turning him white.
Price: 9 825 Ft
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction.
Price: 3 350 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Bertie Wooster has been overdoing metropolitan life a bit, and the doctor orders fresh air in the depths of the country.
Price: 4 290 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable.
Price: 4 290 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the commissioning of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show.
Price: 4 295 Ft
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ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Château Blissac, on its hill above St Roque, is in a setting where every prospect pleases. But it doesn't please its current occupier, J. Wellington Gedge.
Price: 4 275 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
The beefy 'Stilton' Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament - which is lucky for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp and buttered the lawn with him.
Price: 3 450 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he's astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham.
Price: 4 290 Ft
SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2006
Lord Holbeton hat ein Problem: Er kann seine Angebetete, Sally, nicht heiraten, weil sein Vermögen vom alten Duff treuhänderisch verwaltet wird und der seiner Wahl niemals zustimmen wird;...
Price: 4 550 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood.
Price: 3 475 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Lady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of dark plottings...
Price: 3 850 Ft
EVERYMAN, 2011
First published as "Mike" 1909, this book was split by Herbert Jenkins, Wodehouse's publishers, into "Mike at Wrykyn" and "Mike and Psmith" in 1953, with some modernization of the language.
Price: 5 550 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there’s a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody.
Price: 4 290 Ft
EVERYMAN, 2006
Containing drafts of stories later rewritten for other collections (including Carry On, Jeeves), My Man Jeeves offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act.
Price: 5 550 Ft
SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2007
Dank der praktischen Intelligenz seines Butlers Jeeves gelingt es Bertie Wooster auch dieses Mal, die verschlungenen Fäden zu entwirren, als die sich die Ereignisse in Steeple Bumpleigh präsentieren.
Price: 7 575 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle – particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives une
Price: 3 475 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim – nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise.
Price: 2 450 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Captain Biggar, big-game hunter and all round tough guy, should make short work of the two bookies who have absconded with his winnings after a freak double made him a fortune. But on this occasion Honest Patch Perkins and his clerk are not as they seem.
Price: 3 475 Ft
SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2008
Eine Kollektion der Sonderklasse: Da ist Galahad Threepwood, der aristokratische Bonvivant und Anekdotenonkel, der die Verwandtschaft mit der Drohung in Schach hält, er werde seine saftigen Memoiren doch noch in Druck geben.
Price: 6 300 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
As a peer of the realm, Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings, surely the most considerable pig in the whole world, and travel to London for the opening of parliament.
Price: 4 290 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon.
Price: 3 850 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Bertie Wooster looks pretty stylish in his new Tyrolean hat – or so he thinks: others, notably Jeeves, disagree. But when Bertie embarks on an errand of mercy to Totleigh Towers, things get quickly out of control and he’s going to need all the help.
Price: 3 450 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared.
Price: 4 290 Ft
EVERYMAN, 2014
The stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse’s own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good deal more.
Price: 4 695 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
If you come into a lot of money, life becomes easier, right? No, wrong – at least not for Sally Nicholas, whose generosity of spirit immediately runs into all the slings and arrows outrageous fortune can send.
Price: 3 475 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Young Jerry West has a few problems. His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn't all he seems. His other uncle Willoughby is rich but won’t hand over any of his inheritance.
Price: 4 275 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
From his favourite chair on the terrace above the ninth hole, The Oldest Member tells a series of hilarious golfing stories.
Price: 3 490 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Seize this wonderful chance to embark on a Wodehousian voyage on the luxurious liner S.S. Atlantic – in the company of Monty Bodkin, whose passion for Gertrude Butterwick knows no bounds
Price: 3 450 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2022
This is an omnibus of wonderful Jeeves and Wooster stories, specially selected and introduced by Wodehouse himself, who was struck by the size of his selection and described it as almost the ideal paperweight.
Price: 6 425 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2008
Uncle Fred (Lord Ickenham) wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, a not very successful American sculptor in Chelsea.
Price: 3 475 Ft
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EVERYMAN, 2013
Anthony, fifth Earl of Droitwich, is engaged to Violet, a millionaires daughter which was a result of their families planning rather than natures course.
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EVERYMAN, 2002
One of Wodehouse's most sparkling comedies, replete with an attendant cast of tyrannical aunts, demon children and literary fatheads.
Price: 4 725 Ft
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SHURKAMP TASCHENBUCH, 2012
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2005
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EDIZIONI ANFORA, 2010
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DOM QUIXOTE, 2006
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VIVIANE HAMY, 2005
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AMFORA, 2005
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EINAUDI, 2009
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