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196 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 …
Writing Life
Häftad, 2026
129 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 …
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 …
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 …
Ham On Rye
Häftad, 2015
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
149 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 …
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
143 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, …
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 …
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, …
Trickster Makes This World
How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
Av Lewis Hyde
Häftad, 2017
167 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 …
Gift
How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
Av Lewis Hyde
Häftad, 2012
167 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.
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
145 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)
133 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 …
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 …
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 …
To the River
A Journey Beneath the Surface
Av Olivia Laing
Häftad, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
169 kr
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Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore.Lyrical …
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 …
Book of Mercy
Häftad, 2019
149 kr
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The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.Internationally celebrated for his writing and …
Close to the Knives
A Memoir of Disintegration
Häftad, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
143 kr
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I am glad I am alive to witness these things; giving words to this life of sensations is a relief. Smell the flowers while you can.Close to the Knives is the artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz's extraordinary memoir. Filthy, beautiful, and sharp to the point of piercing, it is both an …
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
159 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 …
Field Guide To Getting Lost
Häftad, 2025
136 kr
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With a new afterword by the authorIn her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit's beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds …
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 …
Ham On Rye
Häftad, 2026
139 kr
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RAW ~ REBELLIOUS ~ VULGAR Bukowski's take on the bildungsroman, an anti-coming-of-age story and his finest novel.Lifelong misfit Henry Chinaski grows up downtrodden, stumbling through a world he has only ever known as hostile. Fights, failed romances and humiliations abound; Chinaski toughens up as …
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 …
Suicide Blonde
Häftad, 2026
139 kr
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FEVERISH ~ PROVOCATIVE ~ INTIMATEA neon-lit portrait of danger and desire, unravelling and reinvention.Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She …
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Häftad, 2019
138 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 …
