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193 produkter
Penelopiad
Häftad, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
139 kr
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Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed …
Living Mountain
A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Av Nan Shepherd
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
147 kr
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'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' GuardianIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette WintersonIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be …
Bird by Bird
Instructions on Writing and Life
Av Anne Lamott
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
143 kr
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Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully …
How to Lose a Country
The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism
Häftad, 2024
143 kr
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How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep.Award-winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to South …
Outrun
Av Amy Liptrot
Häftad, 2018
141 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZEAt the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, …
Writing Life
Häftad, 2026
131 kr
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'One of the most prominent non-fiction writers of her generation' GUARDIANHow do you prepare yourself, all alone, to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning?In The Writing Life, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard offers up her own trials in the pursuit of inspiration: the …
Tale for the Time Being
Av Ruth Ozeki
Häftad, 2022
139 kr
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In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home in British Columbia. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes, heartbreak and dreams of a young girl desperate for someone to understand her. Each turn of the page pulls Ruth …
Ham On Rye
Häftad, 2015
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
139 kr
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INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight …
Trickster Makes This World
How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
Av Lewis Hyde
Häftad, 2017
155 kr
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Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture.Trickster Makes This World revisits the stories of Coyote, Eshu and Hermes and holds …
We
Häftad, 2021
129 kr
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The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets …
Hope In The Dark
Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Häftad, 2016
143 kr
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At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the …
Together
A Manifesto Against a Heartless World
Häftad, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
143 kr
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Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us a new vocabulary for the …
Raw Shark Texts
Av Steven Hall
Häftad, 2021
139 kr
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First things first, stay calm.Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn't recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he begins to piece his memories back together, Eric finds that he is being hunted by a creature that …
Fortunate Man
The Story of a Country Doctor
Av John Berger
Häftad, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
145 kr
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In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.In A Fortunate Man, Berger's …
Weight
Häftad, 2018
139 kr
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Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden . . .Jeanette Winterson's retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles asks difficult and …
Sea Around Us
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
143 kr
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The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of the oceans, through their role in shaping life on Earth, …
Gift
How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
Av Lewis Hyde
Häftad, 2012
155 kr
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The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black
Collected Stories
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
179 kr
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Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller, published in the UK for the first time.Mueller chronicles her high-risk, high-reward life in glorious technicolour, from becoming a part of …
To Tell a Story
Av John Berger, Susan Sontag m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
149 kr
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Despite their status as intellectual giants of the twentieth century, John Berger and Susan Sontag's artistic collaboration - and intense friendship - remains virtually unknown.Published for the first time, To Tell a Story offers a glimpse into their shared history that spanned nearly a …
Life Of Pi
Av Yann Martel
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal …
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
A Journey Through Yugoslavia
Av Rebecca West
Häftad, 2020
277 kr
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'Impossible to put down' Observer'One of the great books of the century' Times Literary SupplementRebecca West's epic masterpiece not only provides deep insight into the former country of Yugoslavia; it is a portrait of Europe on the brink of war. A heady cocktail of personal travelogue and …
Blues People
Av LeRoi Jones
Häftad, 2022
137 kr
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In this essential and impassioned text, LeRoi Jones traces the intertwined development of blues and jazz music with the history of its creators in 'White America'. As important and relevant as at its first publication in 1963, it shows how music and its people are inseparable - expressing and …
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man.An unprecedented debut published to immediate …
Words Are My Matter
Writings on Life and Books
Häftad, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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'One of the literary greats of the twentieth century' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A crafter of fierce, focused, fertile dreams' DAVID MITCHELL 'A literary icon' STEPHEN KING Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our …
Pimp: The Story Of My Life
Av Iceberg Slim
Häftad, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
143 kr
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In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in their lives to becoming a giant of the …
End Of Mr. Y
Häftad, 2021
139 kr
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'Ingenious and original' Philip PullmanIf you knew a book was cursed, would you still read it?When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that …
There Are Little Kingdoms
Av Kevin Barry
Häftad, 2017
139 kr
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This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered …
First Bad Man
Av Miranda July
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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A Guardian literary highlight A Huffington Post 'One to Watch' 'Astounding' LENA DUNHAM, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl'The First Bad Man brings together all of July's talents - it's a book that must be read, a book that must be purchased - in duplicate - one for you, one for …
Death of Bunny Munro
Av Nick Cave
Häftad, 2014
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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Now a brand new Sky Original show starring Matt SmithThe world is a hard place to be good in... Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife's death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man's judgement, The …
Free Play
Improvisation in Life and Art
Häftad, 2024
167 kr
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This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn while doing so. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms.Free Play is directed …
