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70 produkter
Bland huliganerna
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2026
208 kr
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”Den bästa boken som skrivits om fotbollsvåld.” – Tony Parsons Allting börjar 1982 när journalisten Bill Buford hamnar på ett tåg som tagits över av brittiska fotbollssupportrar. Han ser förundrat på när de metodiskt slår sönder hela tåget framför ögonen på ordningsmakten. Händelsen väcker hans …
Dirt
Adventures in French Cooking
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2021
159 kr
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From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.'A romping, chomping, savoury tour de force... Hilarious' Simon SchamaWhat does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon …
Heat
An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
159 kr
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Bill Buford, an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home cook, was asked by the New Yorker to write a profile of Mario Batali, a Falstaffian figure of voracious appetites who runs one of New York's most successful three-star restaurants. Buford accepted the commission, on the condition Batali allow …
Walton Ford
Pancha Tantra. 40th Ed.
Av Bill Buford
Inbunden, 2024
372 kr
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At first glance, Walton Ford’s large-scale, highly detailed watercolors of animals recall the prints of 19th-century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear. A closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic universe, full of symbols, sly jokes, and allusions to the …
Among The Thugs
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
153 kr
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___________________________THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCEWelcome to the world of football thuggery. They have names like Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin’ Sammy. They like lager, football, the Queen, and themselves. They love England. They dislike the rest of the known universe. …
Jord : en kockaspriants och familjefars äventyr i Lyon, på spaning efter hemligheten bakom den franska kokkonsten
Av Bill Buford
Inbunden, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
281 kr
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Bill Bufords strävan att förstå det franska köket tar honom till världens gastronomiska huvudstad, Lyon. Han studerar vid L’Institut Bocuse, lagar mat på Michelinrestaurangen La Mère Brazier, uthärdar oändliga timmar i köket och blir besatt av att bevisa att han är värd de gastronomiska …
Among The Thugs
Av Bill Buford
E-bok, 2011
111 kr
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___________________________THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCEWelcome to the world of football thuggery. They have names like Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin’ Sammy. They like lager, football, the Queen, and themselves. They love England. They dislike the rest of the known universe. …
Dirt
Adventures in French Cooking
Av Bill Buford
E-bok, 2020
125 kr
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From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.'A romping, chomping, savoury tour de force... Hilarious' Simon SchamaWhat does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon …
Bland huliganerna
Av Bill Buford
E-bok, 2026
169 kr
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”Den bästa boken som skrivits om fotbollsvåld.” – Tony Parsons Allting börjar 1982 när journalisten Bill Buford hamnar på ett tåg som tagits över av brittiska fotbollssupportrar. Han ser förundrat på när de metodiskt slår sönder hela tåget framför ögonen på ordningsmakten. Händelsen väcker hans …
Granta 19
More Dirt
Häftad, 2008
228 kr
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Over the course of the last five years, more and more people have realized that the dominant voice in American fiction is altogether different from what it was. Three years ago, Granta devoted an issue to this new voice, entitled 'Dirty Realism', and published in it the work of eight authors, whose …
Granta 48
Africa
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
259 kr
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What is happening on the continent of Africa? What are its images? This book addresses these questions in a range of essays that span the continent. The contributors include William Boyd, Paul Theroux, Sousa Jamba, Nelson Mandela, Ahdaf Soueif, Mark Doyle and Gilles Peress.
Waiting for a Goal
Av Bill Buford
E-bok, 2014
16 kr
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A selection from the beloved bestseller Among the Thugs , “Waiting for a Goal” pinpoints the actual soccer amid the rampant hooliganism. They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin’ Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs, and themselves. Their …
Granta 8
Dirty Realism
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy. Understated, …
Granta 21
The Storyteller
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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What does 'story-teller' suggest? Folk-tales, myths, sea voyages, a cartoon campfire: in short, a way of writing that is distinctly unmodern. Granta 21 presents the work of three authors who are, in their way, distinctly and deliberately unmodern.Bruce Chatwin follows nomads through the Sahara and …
Granta 5
Modern Common Wind
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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For long hours Shebani sat up there with open eyes listening to the weeping. It was more whimpering, really, someone weeping from fear of too much silence. During those hours there, paralysed, not moving in his blanket, Shebani grew old. Ever after, we say, he carried Makokha's weeping in his body. …
Granta 9
John Berger, Boris
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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Boris is a novella that works on several levels: a love-story, a tragedy, a depiction of pain and self-destruction. It is a moving and strangely understated chronicle of an obsession, but it is an obsession with political and historical implications that extend far beyond its seemingly …
Granta 10
Travel Writing
Häftad, 2008
375 kr
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Travel writing is undergoing a revival: not since the 1920s and '30s has it been so popular or so important. What accounts for its sudden appeal? A need for escape? Nostalgia for an experience that means not tourism but adventure? Or does travel writing - being part reportage, part fiction, and …
Granta 11
Greetings From Prague
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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What is Milan Kundera's writing about? Sexual conquest and Russian tanks, arousal and totalitarian repression, infidelity and political betrayal, desire and the quiet tragedy of Europe. Kundera is a literary acrobat, a master of paradox and parody. An exile from communism and a critic of the West, …
Granta 15
The Fall Of Saigon
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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Ten years ago, James Fenton went to Saigon, having made up his mind that, no matter what happened, he was not going to miss what he had travelled 10,000 miles to see: a Communist victory. And so he remained, long after the US troops and most members of the western press had been evacuated. He …
Granta 16
Science
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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For the last thirty or forty years, it has been a commonplace that science and literature don't mix. But recently science writing has undergone a revival and has come to constitute a literature in itself. What accounts for its sudden appeal? That attraction of facts? Or the possibility that 'facts' …
Granta 18
The Snap Revolution
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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James Fenton is a rather peculiar individual.He was, after all, among the first to loot the US Embassy as the city of Saigon fell. This year, he found himself in the Presidential Palace in Manila, and his booty included one towel (with the monogram of Imelda Marcos) and a letter to President Macros …
Granta 22
With Your Tongue Down My Throat
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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What is Nadia - living over there in Pakistan - really like? A girl of bangles and perfume and lots of money, forever sitting under a palm tree, drinking yogurt?And what is Nina - living over there in London - really like? A wild animal, a brute hardened by drugs and thieving and massage …
Granta 23
Home
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
328 kr
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Prague, Beirut, Des Moines, the ugliest village in Essex. What is home for an Arab in Israel? For an ex-patriot returning for the Iowa Country Fair? For a man surrounded by chickens?Plus:Nicholas Shakespeare, in the Andes of Peru.T. Coraghessan Boyle, witnessing miracles in Ireland.Ian Hamilton, in …
