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Conversations with an Executioner
255 Days Imprisoned with the Nazi who Destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto - 'A MASTERPIECE OF 20th-CENTURY LITERATURE' THE TELEGRAPH
AvKazimierz Moczarski
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
305 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
‘Extraordinary, original, gripping, and painfully relevant to our times’ Philippe Sands'This is a fascinating and totally unexpected account of one of the darkest periods of the Second World War' Antony BeevorWarsaw, 1949: freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being held in a maximum security prison, accused of being an enemy of the state by the Polish secret police. A survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, he is horrified to find himself locked up in a cell with the notorious Nazi official responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the death of over 50,000 people: Jürgen Stroop.For 255 days Stroop talks to Moczarski of his life, entirely unrepentant of the crimes for which he would soon be executed himself. Conversations with an Executioner is Moczarski’s first-hand account of these extraordinary exchanges, an insight into the mind of one of history’s most brutal war criminals, and one that unflinchingly examines some of humanity’s darkest moments.Never before published in the United Kingdom, Conversations with an Executioner is a book of enormous historical importance, written in masterful prose by a writer who tragically wouldn’t survive to see his work published.
If Women Rose Rooted
A Life-changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
AvSharon Blackie
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
170 kr
Skickas
A life-changing journey from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection.If Women Rose Rooted has been described as both transformative and essential. Sharon Blackie leads the reader on a quest to find their place in the world, drawing inspiration from the wise and powerful women in native mythology, and guidance from contemporary role models who have re-rooted themselves in land and community and taken responsibility for shaping the future.Beautifully written, honest and moving, If Women Rose Rooted is a passionate song to a different kind of femininity, a rallying, feminist cry for the rewilding of womanhood; reclaiming our role as guardians of the land.
Enchanted Life
Reclaiming the Magic and Wisdom of the Natural World
AvSharon Blackie
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
139 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
'Engaging and inspiring, Sharon Blackie's beautiful book will empower people to find wonder in everyday life' Clover Stroud The enchanted life has nothing to do with fantasy or escapism or magical thinking: it is founded on a vivid sense of belongingness to a rich and many-layered world. It is creative, intuitive, imaginative. It thrives on work that has heart and meaning. It loves wild things, but returns to an enchanted home and garden. It respects the instinctive knowledge and playfulness of children, and relishes story, poetry and art.Taking the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales and folk culture, this book offers a set of practical and grounded tools for enchanting our lives and the places we live in, giving us a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world.An inspiring, beautifully written call to re-engage with the world - giving us the tools for profound and whole-hearted participation in the adventure of life.
Hagitude
Reimagining the Second Half of Life
AvSharon Blackie
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
131 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
'A fascinating book... well researched, packed with stories and bursting with lovely descriptions of the natural world. There's plenty in it to inspire women of every age' Christina Patterson, Sunday TimesWhat is Hagitude? It means being at ease with the unique power women embody in the second half of their life. It means having a strong sense of who we are and what we have to offer the world. And a firm belief in our place in the ever-shifting web of life. For the woman who wishes to flourish without chasing eternal youth comes Hagitude.International bestselling author Sharon Blackie (If Women Rose Rooted) interweaves myth, psychology, landscape and ecofeminism, reclaiming the mid years as an alchemical moment - from which to shift into your chosen, authentic and fulfilling future - and the elder years as a path to dynamic influence.'Hagitude is already becoming a beloved cult classic, as a myth-infused manifesto for the possibilities for life from middle age onwards' Katherine May, author of Wintering
Seek Immediate Shelter
Selected for Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2026 - A brilliantly funny, compelling and award-winning bestseller
AvVincent Yu
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
147 kr
Skickas
Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize 2026BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.One ordinary morning, in an unexceptional town, every mobile phone lights up with the same emergency alert.In this compelling, darkly funny and moving debut novel, each of Vincent Yu’s utterly relatable, flawed characters is given a choice: in the face of mutually assured destruction, do we reach for grace and mercy or do we hold on to hate and fear?Eighteen minutes later the town learns via text that it was a false alarm and the question changes. Can we forgive each other for what’s been said and done when the world didn’t actually end?
World War Z
An Oral History of the Zombie War
AvMax Brooks
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
139 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginning of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse.Faced with a future of mindless man-eating horror, humanity was forced to accept the logic of world government and face events that tested our sanity and our sense of reality. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and key players in the ten-year fight against the horde, World War Z brings the finest traditions of journalism to bear on what is surely the most incredible story in the history of human civilisation.Read the original cult novel that propelled the zombie genre into the mainstream - now a blockbuster film and game.
Fall of Civilizations
Stories of Greatness and Decline
AvPaul Cooper
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
147 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'You need to read this book' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'Cooper is a phenomenon' Max Hastings, Sunday Times**Based on the hit podcast with over 200 million streams**The world is full of ruins. From the Colosseum of Rome to the crumbling suburbs of Detroit, the vine-wreathed temples of the Maya to the shell-pocked buildings of Bakhmut and Gaza. Each of these ruins has a different history, but all of them are places where, one day, the future ended.In Fall of Civilizations, historian Paul Cooper tells the stories behind our greatest civilizations, how they rose to power and what life was like for the people who witnessed their downfall. Based on the critically acclaimed podcast, this extraordinary book turns a clear eye on to humanity’s past mistakes – and whether we are doomed to repeat them.
Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women
AvSharon Blackie
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
163 kr
Skickas
'A book for all the wild women... Foxfire, Wolfskin is simply the most perfect thing. I love each and every placement of each word. Love the wildness, the shapeshifting, the fearsomeness of it' Jackie Morris, co-author of The Lost Words Charged with drama and beauty, this memorable collection by a master storyteller weaves a magical world of possibility and power from female myths of physical renewal, creation and change. It is an extraordinary immersion into the bodies and voices, mindscapes and landscapes, of the shapeshifting women of our native folklore.Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe, from Croatia to Sweden, Ireland to Russia, these stories are about coming to terms with our animal natures, exploring the ways in which we might renegotiate our fractured relationship with the natural world, and uncovering the wildness and wilderness within.Beautifully illustrated by Helen Nicholson, Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women is Blackie's first collection of short stories.
Del 6 - Follet Valley Mystery
Death and Déjà Vu
AvIan Moore
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
169 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Richard Ainsworth moved to rural France to escape, so being voted mayor of the small town of Saint-Sauver comes as a terrible shock. Fortunately bureaucracy has its benefits and he is shipped off to a health spa to recuperate.The Esprit de l'Air is a world-famous venue on an island fort off the west coast of France, and was chosen specifically by his business partner and bounty hunter of international repute, Valérie d'Orçay. Richard should have been prepared then.After a dramatic first night where a bizarre and unfriendly group of guests are pitched against each other, Richard's film-historian mind wanders. Has he seen this all before? And when the first body turns up, he knows he has...
Del 3 - Loire Valley Mystery
Very French Corpse
A slickly plotted murder mystery set in France's Loire Valley
AvIan Moore
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
139 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
AN IMMORTAL FOUND DEADAN ANCIENT LEGACY AT RISKIn the hallowed city of Tours, the death of a sixteen-year-old dressed as an ‘Immortal Knight’ appears to be a tragic overdose. Juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard is called in to investigate.When, weeks later, a provocative author is found brutally murdered, Lombard suspects the two deaths are connected by a sinister, coercive force. As he digs deeper, the case begins to challenge his loyalties and unearth disturbing echoes from his own past. What started as apparent roleplay turns into something far darker — and far deadlier.The third book in the gripping crime series from the The Times-bestselling author.
Mrs Pollifax Pursued (A Mrs Pollifax Mystery)
AvDorothy Gilman
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
137 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The last thing Mrs Pollifax expects to find in her closet is a young woman hiding. Kadi Hopkirk insists that she is being followed by two men in a dirty white van. Under the cover of darkness, Mrs Pollifax tries to drive Kadi back home, only to have a dark green sedan give them a run for their money and, she begins to suspect, their lives.Ever resourceful, Mrs P. puts in a call for help to her CIA colleague, Carstairs, who installs them in a safe house. Before she knows it, a dash to safety expands into an assignment that leads to hair-trigger violence in exotic places ...Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.
Ripening
Why Women Need Fairy Tales Now
AvSharon Blackie
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
166 kr
Skickas
‘Fairy tales matter because at the heart of every one of them is transformation.’In a world in which all the old certainties seem to be crumbling, it's hard not to feel we have lost our way. In Ripening, Sharon Blackie insists that fairy tales are precisely the stories we need for such times.Long before they became bywords for people-pleasing princesses, these old stories – passed down to us through generations by our peasant ancestors – told us everything that women need to learn about the world. They might be set in difficult and dangerous times, but they require their heroines to face the unfaceable and dig deep for previously unimagined inner resources. They teach us to be savvy, inspire us to grow in confidence, show us how to be bold and claim the future we dream of. More than anything, fairy tales are soul-food. They show us how to take hold of our own personal narratives and transform them into stories that might begin with trauma, but end with empowerment. They offer us images of startling resonance and beauty, while showing us how to recognise and make use of the possibilities that rise to the surface when broken systems are cracked open.
Return to the Little Kingdom
Steve Jobs, the creation of Apple, and how one company changed the world
AvMichael Moritz
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
138 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
**The classic story of how Apple became the most valuable company in the world, reissued for Apple's 50th anniversary**Every empire has an origin story. This is Apple’s.Before Apple became the most valuable company in the world, it was just an idea sparked in a garage. Return to the Little Kingdom is Michael Moritz’s vivid, behind-the-scenes account of Apple’s explosive early years – a raw, fast-paced journey through invention, obsession and the birth of a movement. More than a story about Steve Jobs or a scrappy start-up, Return to the Little Kingdom is a rare blueprint of how enduring companies are built from nothing but vision and nerve.Updated with Moritz's reflections on Apple’s extraordinary resurgence, this classic work is essential reading for founders, dreamers, and anyone determined to build the future. If you want to understand how empires are born, start here.
Queen of Spies
Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master
AvPaddy Hayes
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
162 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
The only biography of Britain's celebrated female spy – now fully updated with previously classified materials.From being raised in a Tanzanian shack, to attaining MI6's most senior operational rank, Daphne Park led a highly unusual life. Drawing on first-hand accounts of intelligence workers close to agent Park, Hayes reveals how she rose in a male-dominated world to become Britain's Cold War spy master.With intimate, nail-biting details Queen of Spies captures both the paranoia and on-the-ground realities of intelligence work from the Second World War to the Cold War, and the life of Britain’s celebrated female spy.
Del 1 - Loire Valley Mystery
Man Who Didn't Burn
A thrilling new crime series by the author of Death and Croissants
AvIan Moore
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
139 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
A KILLER. A SAINT. A TOWN FULL OF WHISPERSWhen an English expat is brutally murdered, his charred corpse left on a Loire Valley hillside, the police turn to juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard to find the killer.Instead, Lombard discovers a wealth of secrets, grudges and feuds in the idyllic town of Saint-Genèse-sur-Loire. He begins to suspect that the remaining members of the Comité des Fêtes know more about the death than they are letting on.But rather than towards an arrest, each clue he uncovers seems to point in one, unexpected direction: Joan of Arc. Is the answer to the murder hiding in the barroom gossip of the Lion d’Or? Or in another century altogether?The thrilling new crime series from The Times-bestselling author of Death and Croissants
Mrs Pollifax Unveiled (A Mrs Pollifax Mystery)
AvDorothy Gilman
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
137 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Mrs Pollifax undertakes perhaps her most high-stakes mission of all.After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears. The CIA believes Amanda Pym was kidnapped, possibly murdered.Masquerading as her worried aunt, Mrs Pollifax begins a determined search to find her, slipping through Damascus's crowded souks, and trekking deep into the desert. Yet she is shadowed by deadly enemies, whose sinister agenda threatens not only Mrs P. but the fragile stability of the entire Middle East ...Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.
My War Gone By, I Miss It So
AvAnthony Loyd
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
134 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
'Undoubtedly the most powerful and immediate book to emerge from the Balkan horror of ethnic civil war' Antony Beevor, Daily TelegraphIn 1993, Anthony Loyd hitchhiked to the Balkans hoping to become a journalist. Leaving behind him the legends of a distinguished military family, he wanted to see 'a real war' for himself. In Bosnia he found one.The cruelty and chaos of the conflict both appalled and embraced him; the adrenaline lure of the action perhaps the loudest siren call of all. In the midst of the daily life-and-death struggle among Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims, Loyd was inspired by the extraordinary human fortitude he discovered. But returning home he found the void of peacetime too painful to bear, and so began a longstanding personal battle with drug abuse.
Night in the Lonesome October
AvRoger Zelazny
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
139 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
All is not what it seems...In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowls the midnight streets with his faithful watchdog Snuff – gathering together the grisly ingredients they will need for an ancient and unearthly rite. For soon after the death of the moon, black magic will summon the Elder Gods back into the world. And all manner of Players, both human and undead, are preparing to participate.Some have come to open the gates. Some have come to slam them shut. And now the dread night approaches – so let the Game begin.
Ripening
Why Women Need Fairy Tales Now
AvSharon Blackie
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
219 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
‘Fairy tales matter because at the heart of every one of them is transformation.’In a world in which all the old certainties seem to be crumbling, it's hard not to feel we have lost our way. In Ripening, Sharon Blackie insists that fairy tales are precisely the stories we need for such times.Long before they became bywords for people-pleasing princesses, these old stories – passed down to us through generations by our peasant ancestors – told us everything that women need to learn about the world. They might be set in difficult and dangerous times, but they require their heroines to face the unfaceable and dig deep for previously unimagined inner resources. They teach us to be savvy, inspire us to grow in confidence, show us how to be bold and claim the future we dream of. More than anything, fairy tales are soul-food. They show us how to take hold of our own personal narratives and transform them into stories that might begin with trauma, but end with empowerment. They offer us images of startling resonance and beauty, while showing us how to recognise and make use of the possibilities that rise to the surface when broken systems are cracked open.
Wild Within
What Plants Taught Me about Life, Recovery and Renewal
AvBrigit Anna McNeill
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
163 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
An immersive, enriching and sensory journey of healing, one wild plant at a time.‘The wild is never finished. It insists on returning, on reweaving, on remaking what has been broken. And it was the wild that first taught me I could do the same. I didn’t come to plants as a scholar or a healer. I came as someone who had forgotten how to belong to herself. I came raw, fractured, emptied out by years of surviving. I came because I needed to find away back into my own body.’In a series of viscerally alive chapters, exploring the wildlife, folklore and medicinal properties of common wild flowers and trees, Brigit Anna McNeill tells her own story of recovery and rewilding.Herbalist, trained therapist, and popular Instagram and Substack writer McNeill explains how the natural cycle of dispersal, growth and bloom can inspire our recovery from trauma, stress and illness. By weaving together both the beauty and psychology of reciprocity and non-human connection, she deepens our interaction with the wildness to be found both in the city and the woodlands beyond.The Wild Within illuminates a botanical path of self-care.
Mrs Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish
AvDorothy Gilman
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
139 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Mrs Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing... All she has to do is to masquerade as his aunt while he confirms the identities of seven undercover agents in Morocco - and keep him from making an unpleasant ass of himself. But things quickly go wrong. Their first informant is killed, and Mrs Pollifax begins to get the idea that her colleague is not who he says he is.Still, she forges ahead, checking out suspicious informants, and coming to the conclusion that someone is an impostor and someone wants her dead.Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most unlikely and lovable of international spies.
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
AvJeannie Vanasco
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
126 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Why would a good person commit a terrible act?Fifteen years ago, Jeannie’s relationship with a close friend ended in rape. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, recurring nightmares of the event that plagued her as a girl have returned. To process her conflicted feelings of betrayal and take back control, she resolves to face her trauma head-on by interviewing her rapist.Through their transcribed conversations and discussions with her closest friends, Jeannie's compelling memoir explores how the incident impacted both of their lives, while examining the culture and language surrounding sexual assault and rape. Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl is a necessary contribution to the wider conversation around sexual violence from a brave, new voice.
How Not to be a Doctor
And Other Essays
AvJohn Launer
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
122 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
The essential book on how not to be a doctor - and how to be a better one.Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shares fifty of his best-loved essays, covering topics from essentials skills they don’t teach you in medical school to his poignant account of being a patient himself as he received treatment for a life-threatening illness. Taken together, the stories make the case that being a doctor should mean drawing on every aspect of yourself, your interests and your experiences no matter how remote they seem from the medical task at hand.How Not to Be a Doctor combines humour, candour and the human touch to inform and entertain readers on both ends of the stethoscope.
Memory Book
the classic guide to improving your memory at work, at school and at play
AvHarry Lorayne,Jerry Lucas
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
116 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
The classic guide to improving your memory at work, at school and at play.Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe memory system, and you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful, at work, at school, in sports and play.Discover how easy it is to: file names, passwords, data, figures, and appointments right in your head; learn foreign words and phrases with ease; read with speed – and greater understanding; shine in the classroom – and shorten study hours; dominate social situations, and more.
Beginning and End of Everything: with a foreword by Davina McCall
AvSarah Hiscox
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
146 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
‘An inspiring must-read for anyone who is searching for hope in darkness of loss, grief or addiction’ Gillian AndersonSarah Hiscox’s deep self-esteem and addiction issues began in childhood when she was given powerful sleeping pills for her nightmares. Then, as a young woman, a toxic relationship with food morphed into a full-blown heroin dependency that neither a loving marriage nor a new baby could halt.After years of cycling through relapse and new starts, Sarah’s relationships were wrecked. In rehab she was confronted with herself and all that she’d lost. But it would take repeated attempts for her to understand even her worst day of abstinence was better than the days she relapsed.Just a few threads of hope remained – a desire to see her children grow, a friend called Davina, a sister and an ex-husband who, despite it all, still loved her.A compelling, wonderfully uplifting true story of the redemptive power of self-acceptance, friendship and love.
History of the Occult Tarot
The classic work on secret societies and their mysterious Tarots
AvRonald Decker,Michael Dummett
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
209 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
When the Tarot was invented in Italy during the early fifteenth century, it was simply a pack of cards used for playing games, but today the cards are used throughout the world and not only for fortune telling – for true believers they are the key to secret knowledge and the meaning of life.A History of the Occult Tarot is the classic work on the history of the Tarot deck and its use in occult circles. Decker and Dummett examine how the Tarot became the favoured divination tool of occultists from the late nineteenth century – a bridge to the spirit world, a map of the unconscious.From Theosophical to Aleister Crowley to the Order of the Golden Dawn and P.D. Ouspensky, this compelling survey of the Tarot's history describes the many fascinating decks imagined over time as well as the secret histories of the mystics who devised them.
Black Butterflies
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2023
AvPriscilla Morris
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
137 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS’ CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH PRIZE 2023DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE RUNNER-UP 2025––––––––––––Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside.When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety with her daughter in England. Reluctant to believe that hostilities will last more than a handful of weeks, she stays behind while the city falls under siege. As the assault deepens and everything they love is laid to waste, black ashes floating over the rooftops, Zora and her friends are forced to rebuild themselves, over and over. Theirs is a breathtaking story of disintegration, resilience and hope.
Gravity
Why What Goes up Must Come Down
AvBrian Clegg
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
132 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
How did we come to understand the force that binds the universe together? In Gravity, Brian Clegg offers a succinct history of gravity from the perspectives of great thinkers including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and today’s leading scientists. He explores theories of general relativity, quantum mechanics and our attempts to link the two, as well as time travel, black holes, string theory and why gravity only works at the speed of light.Gravity is anything but simple, but Brian Clegg has written the most accessible book yet on the subject - the perfect introduction to a complicated theory.
Years of the Wizard
The Strange History and Home Life of Renaissance Magicians
AvRachel Morris
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
219 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
All things were believable back then – wizards, alchemy, fairies, angels. This is the story of those magical times.The Years of the Wizard is a lyrical and highly atmospheric exploration of the lives of Tudor and Renaissance magicians, men from John Dee to Giordano Bruno, who were also scientists, astrologers, mathematicians and alchemists. It is also an act of historical imagination, bringing to life the stories of their wives, lovers, servants and daughters. Morris' vivid recreations of the less documented female lives includes the extraordinary story of John and Jane Dee, the jealous apprentice, and the angels who meddled in their marriage...A brilliant, fresh approach to an era of discovery, persecution and magic – one that still feeds modern storytellers today.
Black Girl from Pyongyang
In Search of My Identity
AvMonica Macias
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
138 kr
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The extraordinary true story of a West African girl’s upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung.In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her father, the President of Equatorial Guinea, to be educated under the guardianship of his ally, Kim Il Sung.Within months, her father was executed in a military coup; her mother became unreachable. Effectively orphaned, she and two siblings had to make their life in Pyongyang. At military boarding school, Monica learned to mix with older children, speak fluent Korean and handle weapons on training exercises.Reaching adulthood, she went in search of her roots. Spending time in Madrid, Malabo, New York, Seoul and finally London, at every step she had to reckon with others' perceptions of her adoptive homeland. Optimistic yet unflinching, Monica’s astonishing and unique story challenges us to see the world through different eyes.