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Original Bliss
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle thinks she has lost God - but it is simply love that she's missing. She can't find it at home, with the violent, …
On Bullfighting
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2010
122 kr
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Bullfighting - the ultimate spectator sport.Acclaimed novelist A. L. Kennedy unpeels the layers and explains the mechanics before dissecting them with surgical precision. Beyond the theatre, the costume and the well-worn plot she focuses on the fact that a man faces his death while a crowd looks …
Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains
Av A.L. Kennedy
Häftad, 2004
179 kr
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The heroes and heroines of Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, A. L. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and who never make the headlines. Often alone and sometimes lonely, her characters ponder …
On Writing
Av A.L. Kennedy
Häftad, 2014
215 kr
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After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books – it’s just a wonder she’s found the time. These are missives from the authorial front line – urgent and …
All the Rage
Av A.L. Kennedy
Häftad, 2015
215 kr
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The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day and The Blue Book.She doesn’t ever lie to him unless it’s for the best.A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them. A woman contemplates the idea of her lover dying as she queues in a …
Serious Sweet
Av A.L. Kennedy
Häftad, 2017
139 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEJon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world. Meg is a bankrupt accountant – two words you don’t want in the same sentence, or anywhere near your CV. Living on …
Original Bliss
Av A.L. Kennedy
Häftad, 1998
215 kr
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The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle thinks she has lost God - but it is simply love that she's missing. She can't find it at home, with the violent, …
Chord Changes on the Chalkboard
How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans
Av Al Kennedy
Häftad, 2005
733 kr
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The world's fascination with New Orleans stems from the allure of the music of the city—music that owes its origins and development to many sources. Until now, popular and scholarly books, dissertations, and articles that attempt to explain these sources have failed to recognize the unsung heroes …
Day
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2008
100 kr
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Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, …
Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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The heroes and heroines of Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, A. L. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and who never make the headlines. Often alone and sometimes lonely, her characters ponder …
Indelible Acts
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Its characters' lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in their own way immolated by hope. A queue outside …
Paradise
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her …
Looking for the Possible Dance
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Mary Margaret Hamilton was educated in Scotland. She was born there too. These may not have been the best possible options, but they were the only ones on offer at the time. Although her father did his best, her knowledge of life is perhaps a little incomplete. Margaret knows the best way to look …
So I Am Glad
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice. A professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artist, she has retreated into a world of words. Behind the sound-proof double doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from the painful inconveniences of hate and love. Until …
Now That You're Back
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Exposing and exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence, anguish and love, A.L. Kennedy examines the nature of the individual, both in isolation and society, as characters define and deny their chosen identities. While showing us the unlikeliness of intimacy and the impossibility of …
Everything You Need
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2010
147 kr
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Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. Frustrated by his life and the way he lives it, he is sustained only by his passionate devotion for his estranged wife and their teenage daughter, Mary. When Nathan contrives to have Mary invited to the island where he lives …
Blue Book
Av A.L. Kennedy
Ljudbok, 2011
172 kr
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Elizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK - temporarily - Elizabeth may also be in flight from her past and the charismatic Arthur, once her partner in what she came to see as a series of …
Blue Book
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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You are crossing the Atlantic on a liner with your boyfriend who may or may not be planning to propose.You are fleeing the past - your ex-lover Arthur, the man who helped you dupe the vulnerable into believing loved ones were trying to make contact from beyond the grave. But there's a secret you've …
On Writing
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2013
144 kr
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After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books – it’s just a wonder she’s found the time. These are missives from the authorial front line – urgent and …
Doctor Who: The Death Pit (Time Trips)
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2013
40 kr
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Something odd is going on at the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotel. Receptionist Bryony Mailer has noticed a definite tendency towards disappearance amongst the guests. She’s tried talking to the manager, she’s even tried talking to the owner who lives in one of the best cottages in the grounds, but to …
Doctor Who: Time Trips (The Collection)
Av Cecelia Ahern, Jake Arnott m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
170 kr
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Time Trips is a unique and beautifully illustrated collection of Doctor Who adventures from bestselling and award-winning writers including Joanne Harris, Trudi Canavan, Nick Harkaway, A.L. Kennedy and more. Taking you from ancient Alexandria to nameless planets in the far future, these tales are …
Doctor Who: The Drosten’s Curse
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2015
100 kr
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Isn’t life terrible? Isn’t it all going to end in tears? Won’t it be good to just give up and let something else run my mind, my life?Something distinctly odd is going on in Arbroath. It could be to do with golfers being dragged down into the bunkers at the Fetch Brothers’ Golf Spa Hotel, never to …
All the Rage
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2014
102 kr
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The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day and The Blue Book.She doesn’t ever lie to him unless it’s for the best.A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them. A woman contemplates the idea of her lover dying as she queues in a …
Serious Sweet
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2016
102 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEJon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world. Meg is a bankrupt accountant – two words you don’t want in the same sentence, or anywhere near your CV. Living on …
Chord Changes on the Chalkboard
How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans
Av Al Kennedy
E-bok, 2005
779 kr
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The world''s fascination with New Orleans stems from the allure of the music of the city-music that owes its origins and development to many sources. Until now, popular and scholarly books, dissertations, and articles that attempt to explain these sources have failed to recognize the unsung heroes …
We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time
Av A.L. Kennedy
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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'Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation keeps you reading' Sunday TimesHumour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories as they navigate changing circumstances, accumulating losses, moments of comprehension and tenderness. Here is the …
We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time
Av A.L. Kennedy
Häftad, 2021
152 kr
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'Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation keeps you reading' Sunday TimesHumour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories as they navigate changing circumstances, accumulating losses, moments of comprehension and tenderness. Here is the …
Charles Dickens: A BBC Biography
Av Claire Tomalin, Alexander McCall Smith m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2021
171 kr
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A BBC radio collection celebrating Charles Dickens'' life, work and influence Charles Dickens was a literary giant, second only to Shakespeare in the ranks of England''s greatest writers. This extensive biographical collection looks at the man, his novels and his legacy to provide an all-round …
Subterranean Homesick Blues: The Complete Series 4 and 5
A BBC Radio 4 drama
Av A.L. Kennedy
Ljudbok, 2022
158 kr
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The final two series of A L Kennedy''s wry comic drama about love in later life In their youth, John and Maggie had a tempestuous on/off affair that ended badly. Now in their sixties, they''ve decided to give their romance another chance - and discovered that love doesn''t get any easier when …
