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ISBN: 9780571247950 - Empire of the Clouds Empire of the Clouds
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 0571247954  ISBN13: 9780571247950
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 May 2011
Just what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? In this book, the author fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane... More

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ISBN: 9780571278893 - Empire of the Clouds Empire of the Clouds
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 0571278892  ISBN13: 9780571278893
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: Special edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Oct 2011
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. This book offers a behind the scenes glimpse into a lost world of pioneering design, engineering and the daring of a... More

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ISBN: 9780571247943 - Empire of the Clouds Empire of the Clouds
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 0571247946  ISBN13: 9780571247943
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Oct 2010
In 1945, Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft. This book tells the story of great and charismatic machines and the men who flew them: heroes such as Bill Waterton, Neville Duke, John Derry and Bill Beaumont who took... More

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ISBN: 9780571220915 - Cooking with Fernet Branca Cooking with Fernet Branca
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 0571220916  ISBN13: 9780571220915
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Jun 2005
Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include 'Mussels in Chocolate and Garlic' and 'Fernet Branca Ice Cream'. His idyll is shattered by the... More

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ISBN: 9780571229383 - Seven-tenths Seven-tenths
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 0571229387  ISBN13: 9780571229383
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2007
A classic exploration of the sea, this work includes the acclaimed essay Sea Burial. More

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ISBN: 9780571238477 - Rancid Pansies Rancid Pansies
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 0571238475  ISBN13: 9780571238477
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Jun 2009
Gerald Samper is not a lucky man. Ghost writer of terrible celebrity memoirs and lethally bad cook, he now watches as his beloved house falls off a hill in Tuscany. But he and his guests have been saved from certain death by an apparition ... More

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ISBN: 9780571283774 - Empire of the Clouds Empire of the Clouds
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 0571283772  ISBN13: 9780571283774
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: Signed ed.
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Oct 2011

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ISBN: 9781862074934 - Gerontius Gerontius
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 1862074933  ISBN13: 9781862074934
Publisher: Granta Books
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Apr 2002
The starting point of this novel is a cruise to the Amazon in 1923 by Sir Edward Elgar. In telling the story of that journey, the author explores the waning of creative genius, post-war disillusionment and the way in which England treats its artists. More

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ISBN: 9780571229406 - Amazing Disgrace Amazing Disgrace
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 0571229409  ISBN13: 9780571229406
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jul 2007
Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars - rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions - and to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, and the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical environmental group. Gerald pines for greater... More

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ISBN: 9780571238453 - Rancid Pansies Rancid Pansies
James Hamilton-Paterson

ISBN10: 0571238459  ISBN13: 9780571238453
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jul 2008
The hero of this black farce of a book is Gerald Samper, a Tuscan expat with his mind on higher things than he has yet managed to reach. A ghostwriter to celebrities he despises, his dream is to compose the libretto to a grand opera. More