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10 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
158 kr
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'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES'I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY ITS BEAUTY AND HUMANITY' COCO MELLORS'Electric and intimate' Guardian'Impossibly, ineffably beautiful’ Russell T Davies'Intoxicating' Irish TimesLondon, June 2019. Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the home town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is harbouring secret dreams of his own.Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith already has a boyfriend. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him. As Saturday night approaches in a city on the brink of political upheaval, all their lives are set to change forever. It’s the hottest summer on record, and the weekend is about to begin. What readers are saying… 'I’ve had a week long book hangover. Read it!''A book I will carry with me in my heart''The best book I've read in recent years''My life got just a bit richer from having read this book''I absolutely loved it, every word'
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
319 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
216 kr
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'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES'I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY ITS BEAUTY AND HUMANITY' COCO MELLORS'Electric and intimate' Guardian'Impossibly, ineffably beautiful’ Russell T Davies'Intoxicating' Irish TimesLondon, June 2019. Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the home town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is harbouring secret dreams of his own.Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith already has a boyfriend. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him. As Saturday night approaches in a city on the brink of political upheaval, all their lives are set to change forever. It’s the hottest summer on record, and the weekend is about to begin. What readers are saying… 'I’ve had a week long book hangover. Read it!''A book I will carry with me in my heart''The best book I've read in recent years''My life got just a bit richer from having read this book''I absolutely loved it, every word'
E-bok
Engelska, 202411 kr
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'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES'I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY ITS BEAUTY AND HUMANITY' COCO MELLORS'Electric and intimate' Guardian'Impossibly, ineffably beautiful’ Russell T Davies'Intoxicating' Irish TimesLondon, June 2019. Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the home town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is harbouring secret dreams of his own.Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith already has a boyfriend. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him. As Saturday night approaches in a city on the brink of political upheaval, all their lives are set to change forever. It’s the hottest summer on record, and the weekend is about to begin. What readers are saying… 'I’ve had a week long book hangover. Read it!''A book I will carry with me in my heart''The best book I've read in recent years''My life got just a bit richer from having read this book''I absolutely loved it, every word'
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
217 kr
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The highly anticipated new novel by breakout debut writer Oisín McKenna, author of Evenings and Weekends Set in Hackney, East London, between the 1990s and 2023, the story follows a cast of local characters in two timelines: focusing on a young Irish woman as she struggles to make a life for herself in 90s London and her son, living with and reckoning with his mother’s decisions thirty years later. Moving, witty and tender, it explores questions of community, belonging, trauma and and how to make a happy, fulfilling life in the contemporary world.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
192 kr
Kommande
The highly anticipated new novel by breakout debut writer Oisín McKenna, author of Evenings and WeekendsSet in Hackney, East London, between the 1990s and 2023, the story follows a cast of local characters in two timelines: focusing on a young Irish woman as she struggles to make a life for herself in 90s London and her son, living with and reckoning with his mother’s decisions thirty years later. Moving, witty and tender, it explores questions of community, belonging, trauma and and how to make a happy, fulfilling life in the contemporary world.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
272 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2026
292 kr
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E-bok
Tyska, 2026209 kr
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London in der flirrenden Junihitze, Pubs und Parks sind voller Leben: Oisin McKenna begleitet die Freund*innen Maggie, Ed und Phil, alle Anfang 30, durch ein langes Sommerwochenende. Maggie, pleite und schwanger, furchtet, in die biedere Vorstadt ihrer Kindheit zuruckzumussen. Ed, ihr Partner, jobbt als Fahrradkurier und verheimlicht seine Bisexualitat. Phil, Maggies bester Freund, ist unglucklich in seinen Mitbewohner verliebt. Als Phils Hausgemeinschaft aufgelost wird, feiern sie, als ware es das letzte Mal. Denn nach der Party stehen Entscheidungen an, die ihr Leben fur immer verandern werden. Mit Intensitat und Empathie erzahlt "e;Hitzetage"e; von Freundschaft, Sex und Liebe - und davon, wie unsere Lebenstraume von der Realitat eingeholt werden.
Häftad, Spanska, 2025
304 kr
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