Editions - Böcker

Nr 1 på franska och italienska bästsäljarlistor och utnämnd till italiens mest populära "lockdown-roman". Färskt vatten till blommorna är en förtrolig och innerlig roman om en kvinna som envisas att tro på lycka mot alla odds. Violette T...

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Jag heter Virginie. Av Nina, Adrien och Etienne är det endast Adrien som fortfarande talar med mig. Nina föraktar mig. Vad gäller Etienne är det jag som inte vill ha med honom att göra. Trots det har dessa tre fascinerat mig sen barndomen. Jag har...

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Vinnare av Goncourt-priset 2020 och utnämnd till New York Times Best Thriller of the Year 2021! En brokig skara människor, som alla bär på en hemlighet, en sorg, en dröm. Bland dem: Blake, professionell yrkesmördare som på kvällarna åker hem till ...

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Lär dig och ditt barn spela piano eller keyboard på ett lätt och roligt sätt. Noterna har bytts ut mot skojiga figurer: t.ex. flygmaskin, elefant och citron. Kan användas från fyrårsålderen, hemma och i musikskolan. Boken innehåller 33 kända barnv...

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Poetisk spänningsroman i vildmarksmiljö Jag blundar och tar ett djupt andetag. Återkallar bilden av mitt lilla bo som jag tvingades fly ifrån, husvagnen där jag hade det så bra, tvättlinan som svajar i vinden, lönnlövens doft av rost, mitt eget fö...

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Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, televi...

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Han kallades Trollkarlen i Kreml . Den gåtfulle Vadim Baranov hade varit verksam som tv-producent innan han blev grå eminens hos Vladimir Putin, den s.k. tsaren. När han lämnade sin post som tsarens rådgivare spreds alla möjliga rykten, men ingen ...

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In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year...

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In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, writt...

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Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the fre...

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A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the citys most radical mode...

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Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living ...

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Following on from his internationally acclaimed books, Jacques Baud returns to the war in Ukraine. He explains how Russia waged the war, and reveals how the image portrayed by the West led to Ukraine's failure.

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*A NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* *Jane Garvey and Fi Glover's book club pick* Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of ...

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has onl...

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With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, revea...

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Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirists defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, televis...

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Alma Revel, 49 år, är en aktad och ambitiös domare specialiserad på terrordåd vid Paris tingsrätt. Utöver en omänsklig arbetsbörda brottas hon dagligen med motstridiga känslor, och varje beslut hon fattar kan få dramatiska följder för samhället, f...

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Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family lit...

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This novel is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This analysis of the life of a provincial English town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of D...

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Felix Kersten drömde om att bli lantbrukare, han skulle komma att bli Heinrich Himmlers fysioterapeut. Mellan 1939 och 1945 kallade SS-chefen på den finska massören vid hela 200 tillfällen för behandling av sina svåra magsmärtor. Där alla läkare m...

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Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attach to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing...

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A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gr...

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'I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I h...

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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, dur...

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Det är kul att lära sig spela piano med Pianolek och bok 2 tar över där bok 1 slutar. I bok 2 används samma figurer (t.ex. citron, elefant och cykel) som i bok 1, men i bok 2 får du också lära dig bastonerna, och det är både roligt och värdefullt ...

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Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Ea...

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Sheila Heti collected hald a millions words from a decade's worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayh...

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Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who...

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The heartfelt memoir of Ray Cappo (a.k.a. Raghunath Das), a legendary hardcore punk musician-turned-monk—and pioneer of the straight edge movement—told with warmth, candor, and humor. Ray Cappo was a hardcore punk musician and pioneer ...

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