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31 produkter
- E-bokEngelska, 2021
19 kr
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England, 1644. The Civil War is not a distant rumble any more. It is boots in the lane, swords in the yard, and soldiers who killed her friend's brothers just last week. When the King's men ride toward the Carew farm, Ruth's mother gives her one clear task: take the satchel of valuable documents up into the loft and hide them there. There is only one problem. Ruth has not been able to climb a ladder since she hurt her leg falling from one as a child of four, and no amount of love or coaxing has ever changed that. Her brothers are hiding in the tiny calf shed hay loft above her, buried under straw, their lives depending on not being discovered. The soldiers are already moving toward the shed. Ruth stands at the foot of the ladder, shaking, knowing exactly what she must do and completely unable to make herself do it. Time is running out, and the only way through is up. "e;Eggs for Supper"e; is a prize-winning short story that captures an ordinary moment of extraordinary courage in the middle of one of England's most turbulent centuries. Readers who love intimate historical fiction, strong young protagonists, and stories that earn their emotion will find this brief, precise tale impossible to forget. - E-bokEngelska
30 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
30 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2014
10 kr
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He kept his side of the bargain. The village did not.Becan left his marshland home because Laila's father demanded it. Prove your worth, Halwn said. Come back in four years with enough to provide for her. So Becan went. He traded along Roman trade routes, worked and saved and sent Laila a notched feather every harvest to count down the years until he could return. She promised to wait. He promised to come back. He kept his word. She kept hers. The village made a different decision entirely. His homecoming becomes a reckoning.Becan arrived home with loaded ponies, hidden coin, and a love song on his lips. He has the gold for her neck and the silver for her feet, all that the old soldiers' song promises. But the smell of cold ash stops him at the edge of the village street, and the people who come to greet him will not look him in the eye. Laila is gone. Halwn offers careful words. The village hides its shame. Only Clady, a young disfigured woman sitting alone by the water making rope, will speak the full truth. Laila is gone, taken by a community which decided she was no longer worth keeping, and Becan must carry on.Heartache, grief, and the courage to go on. This is the emotional heart of p.d.r. lindsay's prize-winning story. Set in an Iron Age marshland world of peat-dark lakes, a demanding goddess and her rites, and communities where social pressure, majority voices could override a daughter's last wish, When I Come Again asks what a person does when everything they worked for is gone. It is a story about love that ran deeper than beauty, about the quiet, difficult courage of choosing to build something from the ruins, to carry on, and the fierce small courage to do it. Set in the peat marshes and low horizons of an Iron Age northern community, P.D.R. Lindsay's prize-winning story is not only about love and betrayal. It is about what a person does when the life they worked toward is gone, and the grief is still raw, and the only way forward is to build something anyway. Readers who love intimate, lyrical historical fiction with real emotional weight will find this story difficult to set aside and harder still to forget. - E-bokEngelska, 2014
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A haunted starship. A reluctant spiritual healer. A Christmas Eve unlike any other. 'Christmas Spirits' is a quietly powerful science fiction short story by award-recognised New Zealand writer p.d.r. Lindsay, blending Maori cultural tradition with deep-space adventure in a tale that will stay with you long after the final page. The family motto has always been simple: there are no ghosts in space. For generations, the family's tohunga, their Maori spiritual leaders, have built a thriving business solving the problems that technology and science cannot explain. The current tohunga, the ninth in the line, has cultivated a comfortable life firmly rooted in the New Zealand landscape he loves. Space jobs are for his children. Until now. A quarantined deep-space military starship is experiencing communication failures, unexplained static, and persistent disturbances that have defeated every specialist sent aboard. With Christmas Eve counting down and the whole family waiting back on the Northland beach, he boards the isolation bay and begins to investigate. What he discovers changes everything he thought he knew about what it means to be lost, and what it takes to truly come home. Perfect for readers who love: - Thoughtful, character-driven science fiction short stories - Science fiction featuring indigenous culture and mythology - Festive SF and Christmas ghost stories with emotional depth - New Zealand fiction and Pacific voices in speculative fiction - Short reads ideal for the holiday season Rich with cultural authenticity, gentle humour, and genuine heart, 'Christmas Spirits' proves that the most ancient human needs, love, belonging, and the longing for home, travel just as far as any starship ever could. A warm, wise, and wonderfully original science fiction story for the Christmas season and beyond.Published by Writer's Choice, a writers' publishing collective dedicated to quality fiction. - E-bokEngelska
10 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
11 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
45 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2019
224 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
11 kr
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- Nyhet
E-bokEngelska, 202611 kr
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This is the night. Hiroko has prepared everything with loving precision: Wearing her finest silk kimono in lavender and lilac, her hair pinned up with gold and coral combs, the seating cushions placed just so beside the lotus pool, and her news, her special news, held close in her heart for revealing at the perfect moment when the lotus open. She is seventeen years old, she has a house, a husband, and a child on the way, and tonight the white lotus will open for the first time. Captain Martin Langley, her splendid English husband, is due at any moment. Everything is perfect, everything is ready. The Captain arrives, but in full dress uniform, with deeds for the house and a purse he considers generous enough to pay his way out. He has his trunks packed, his passage booked, and an English fiancée waiting. Hiroko must understand she was only his Japanese wife. For Captain Langley, their arrangement was always a comfortable tour-of-duty convenience. For Hiroko, it was a marriage, a future, and now a child. The collision of those two realities, played out in the moonlight against the scent of lotus blossoms and the sound of frogs, produces consequences the Captain never anticipated. Set with beautiful detail in a Meiji-era garden on a summer night, this elegantly told short story examines colonial entitlement, female resilience, and the moment a woman who has been told to kneel finally decides what her own life is worth. Readers who love atmospheric historical fiction with precise, unhurried prose and a twist that arrives as quietly as a lotus opening will not forget this one.- E-bokEngelska
11 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
11 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
22 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
36 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
9 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
9 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
11 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
10 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2026
34 kr
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Darkly funny, crisply written, and told entirely from the demon's gloriously snarky point of view, "e;Gotcha!"e; is a short story that delights in turning the horror genre inside out. It is a story about competence, consequence, and the ancient truth that some people are their own worst supernatural event. Y-tan-Nar has just finished ninety years of service with the genuinely skilled Goody Goodman and has earned a rest on hell's seventh level. Someone has other plans. Yanked without warning into a church pentagram at midnight by a vicar in a Halloween mask and men's working boots, the demon finds itself bound to the most incompetent witch it has ever encountered in several centuries of supernatural employment. She wants a large black cat, an enslaved congregation, a blackmail operation, and a pay rise. She has no idea what she has actually called up. The demon, ancient, subtle, and deeply unimpressed, decides the fastest route home is through the witch's own ignorance. Playing feeble and performing badly, exploiting every gap in her chaotic command of the old spells, it begins quietly steering the situation toward the only possible conclusion. But the vicar-witch is greedy and careless, and her ambition is opening cracks in the fabric of the world that go considerably higher than a demon of y-tan-Nar's level is authorised to handle. - E-bokEngelska, 2020
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Set in a frost-sharpened New Zealand valley, "e;Man of Principle"e; is a short story precise enough to cut. It moves from wry domestic comedy to something rawer and more honest, a portrait of a good man who has lived by his convictions long enough to mistake them for wisdom.On the family farm, divided by a family land trust, a retired farmer called Angus discovers that his lifelong principles, about firewood, about land, about what a man decides on his own property, carry less weight than six family votes. Angus Grant is seventy-eight, retired but not finished, proud but not cruel. Every morning he rises before dawn to light the fire for Nessa, his arthritic wife, and every day he fights a quiet battle to remain master of the land he has farmed his whole life. What begins as a dispute over an oak tree becomes a confrontation with ageing, irrelevance, and the limits of pride. Precise, bittersweet, and quietly funny, this award-winning short story asks how much of ourselves we can give away before we lose what matters most.Winner of a short story contest in an English literary journal, Man of Principle is the kind of story that lingers: quietly funny, quietly devastating, and full of the complicated, inarguable love that holds difficult families together. 41 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
18 kr
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- E-bokEngelska
70 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2026
25 kr
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In this memoir, a deeply personal and carefully documented account, author p.d.r. lindsay reflects on the ways in which her beloved Anglican church is coming up short. The hold of the past over the present in the Anglican faith causes many problems, as does the sense of entitlement many of the clergy own. Finding her courage after discovering the deception and cover-ups in her own diocese she then sought out justice, for both herself and for all the parishioners of her local church. Her narrative and brave fight for justice ended with a shocking struggle to refute accusations of mental instability and violence and remove the Diocese banning and trespassing from her church. - E-bokEngelska, 2026
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One small coin. One big victory. A slice of British childhood so vivid you'll almost smell the aniseed balls.Bully-boy Mike had already taken her threepence, twisting her arm until she dropped it, then spent every penny on himself while she went out in the cold to do the shopping he was supposed to do. He thought that was the end of it. He was wrong. Crouching to rescue a dropped glove from the slushy snow, she sees it: a whole silver sixpence, shining up at her like a secret meant only for her. Now she has enough for two quarter-pound bags of sweets, a plan that involves Floral Gums and a detour to Gran's house, and the exquisite pleasure of knowing that the one person who should have gone to the shop is going to get absolutely nothing. "e;I've Got Sixpence"e; is a brief, bright, perfectly tuned story about childhood, sibling rivalry, and the very specific genius of getting even without ever raising your voice. Readers who grew up in an England of sweet jars and sherbet dust will feel it in their bones. Readers who did not will wish they had. --- - E-bokEngelska, 2026
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"e;Outjockeyed"e; is a small, perfectly formed story about the things we do in the name of protection, and the damage they leave behind. It asks, with warmth and without judgement, whether love that refuses to bend has any right to call itself love at all.Gaffer has tended his chapel's garden for decades, carrying on the tradition of his father and grandfather before him. He is a man of deep roots, firm convictions, and a temper that has been known to clear a room. When his seven-year-old grandson Phil wins a beginning rider award at pony club, a prize that required lying to his grandfather about who owned the pony, Gaffer delivers his verdict swiftly and without appeal: Phil will not see him again until the riding stops, and his daughter-in-law Susie will do without his help on the farm until it does. His minister arrives in the church garden one afternoon with a tray of warm, buttery date scones and no illusions about how difficult this conversation will be. Through the careful, unhurried exchange that follows, a deeper story emerges. Phil's father, Jack, died in a steeplechase. Gaffer's silence then, as now, came too late to protect anyone, and the grief he has never named has curdled into a fury he cannot distinguish from love. The minister knows that Gaffer's family has repeated this same pattern of stubbornness and estrangement across three generations, and that today, in this garden, is the moment to break it. Quietly devastating and ultimately hopeful, this is one old man, one wise minister, one impossible afternoon. - E-bokEngelska, 2026
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Ula was the one they barely forgave. She became the one who saved them. *Seed Time Harvest Time* is a taut, atmospheric story of one sharp-eyed young woman whose instincts are the only thing standing between her people and catastrophe.In an Iron Age village on the edge of famine, the Spring Festival of the earth goddess Nerthus is not a celebration. It is a desperate prayer. Two previous harvests have been destroyed. Winter taught the village what hunger feels like. Now everything depends on the goddess's blessing, on sacred fires lit correctly, on seeds counted and praised and returned to the sacred lake, on the community's faith holding firm through one more season. Ula knows how fragile faith can be. A forbidden love affair with a promised man left her disgraced, struck by her father's hand, and handed over to serve Priest Caradoc and the goddess, Nerthus. She counts herself fortunate. She is still here. Still useful. Slowly, carefully, she is earning her way back. The village is beginning to accept her again. The goddess seems pleased with her service. Then the traders arrive. Dark-eyed and beardless and nothing like the blond men of the village, they bring silver bowls and polished manners and gifts for the goddess. The priests are satisfied. The community feasts. But Ula watches the strangers' eyes moving over the women's gold ear drops, the priests' fine drinking cups, the arm rings and finger rings, always counting, always weighing. She has learned, through hard experience, to trust what she sees rather than what she is told. Late at night when the moon is at its fullest and the frost has silvered the sleeping village, Ula wakes and discovers the truth about the traders. Then she acts to try and save the village and her people.Seed Time, Harvest Time is a gripping, richly atmospheric work of historical fiction rooted in the ancient world of Iron Age Northern Europe. Drawing on the historical traditions of the goddess Nerthus, bog ritual and sacrifice, Iron Age community life, and the social world of tribal Germanic and Celtic peoples, this story brings the ancient past to vivid, immediate life through the eyes of one unforgettable young woman.
