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Moro Affair
Häftad, 2014
127 kr
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On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on 18 March they said he …
Things We Lost in the Fire
Häftad, 2018
130 kr
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The debut collection from the acclaimed author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night.'An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror... You [will] return home looking pale and haunted' Observer Sleep-deprived fathers conjuring phantoms; sharp-toothed children and stolen …
Yap
A Short History of Small Dogs
Inbunden, 2026
192 kr
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Almost from humanity's very beginning, beloved small dogs have been trotting devotedly by our sides. Yap! follows in the pawprints of the breeds we have grown to love and cherish, from the small dogs touchingly memorialised in Ancient Rome through to Paris Hilton's chihuahua and the pet influencers …
Mountains Of The Mind
A History Of A Fascination
Häftad, 2023
147 kr
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'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to …
Imperium
With an afterword by Margaret Atwood
Av Ryszard Kapuscinski Kapuscinski
Häftad, 2019
147 kr
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A remarkable and moving history of the Soviet Union told through the people who lived through it.'The most passionate, engaging and historically profound account of the Soviet empire that I have read' Michael Ignatieff Imperium is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was …
Visitation
Häftad, 2024
135 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeBy the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within a beautiful …
Number Devil
A Mathematical Adventure
Häftad, 2008
135 kr
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An international bestseller that does for maths what Horrible Histories did to bring humanities to lifeTwelve-year-old Robert hates maths: his teacher sets his class boring problems and won't let them use their calculators. Then in his dreams Robert meets the Number Devil, who brings the subject …
1491
The Americas Before Columbus
Häftad, 2006
171 kr
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Up until very recently it was believed that in 1491, the year before Columbus landed, the Americas, one-third of the earth's surface, were a near-pristine wilderness inhabited by small roaming bands of indigenous people. But recently unexpected discoveries have dramatically changed our …
Silent Woman
Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes
Häftad, 2020
147 kr
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Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide?In The Silent Woman, renowned writer Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame, to discover how Plath became an …
Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4
1931-1935
Inbunden, 2023
344 kr
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With an introduction by Margo JeffersonThursday 28 May 1931. On Whit Monday the sun blazed, making the grass semi-transparent. And space & leisure seemed to lie all about; & I said, not once in an exstasy, but frequently & soberly, This is happiness. Why should I feel now calmer, quieter than ever …
Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 5
1936-1941
Inbunden, 2023
344 kr
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With an introduction by Siri HustvedtFriday 30 October 1936. I do not wish, for reasons I cannot now develop, to analyse that extraordinary summer. It will be more helpful & healthy for me to write scenes; to take up my pen & describe actual events: good practice too for my stumbling & doubting …
Khirbet Khizeh
Av S Yizhar
Häftad, 2011
147 kr
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'Luminous' Ian McEwan'Astonishing' Economist'Mesmerising and prophetic' Arifa Akbar, IndependentIt's 1948 and the villagers of Khirbet Khizeh are about to be violently expelled from their homes. A young Israeli soldier who is on duty that day finds himself battling on two fronts: with the villagers …
Besieged
Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street
Häftad, 2012
161 kr
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For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a city known for its ethnic tolerance and cosmopolitan charm. Muslims, Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, sharing an identity as Bosnians. Then the war tore their lives apart. Often without heat, water, food or …
Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 1
1915-19
Inbunden, 2023
344 kr
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With an introduction by Virginia NicholsonSaturday 2 February 1918. The first walk we've had for ever so long. Damp, mild vaporous day. Funeral bells tolling as we went out, & marriage as we came in. The streets lined with people waiting their meat. Aeroplanes droning invisible. Our usual evening, …
Weather
Av Jenny Offill
Häftad, 2023
130 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION READERS AWARD'Stunning' Maggie O'Farrell'Gorgeous, funny and deadly serious' Max Porter 'This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy' Ocean VuongAn obligatory note of hope, in a world going to hell.'What are …
Perilous Enchantment
The True History of Faeries
Av Sarah Clegg
Inbunden, 2026
204 kr
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We often think of them as tiny, glittering creatures fluttering about in pastel tulle, but fairies haven't always been so benign. Here, historian Sarah Clegg explores the true history of fairies, and the menace and ambiguity that always lurks within the shimmering fantasy.This history takes us from …
Perfecting Sound Forever
The Story Of Recorded Music
Av Greg Milner
Häftad, 2018
149 kr
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From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way we experience music. Perfecting Sound Forever tells the story of recorded music, introducing us to the innovators, musicians and producers who have affected the way we hear our …
Rising Ground
A Search for the Spirit of Place
Häftad, 2015
133 kr
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When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe. …
1493
How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth
Häftad, 2012
161 kr
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Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea, and for millennia the hemispheres were separate, evolving almost entirely different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's arrival in …
Last Children of Tokyo
Av Yoko Tawada
Häftad, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
135 kr
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Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades …
Doom Painting
Inbunden, 2026
251 kr
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The sixteen days of the Peasant's Revolt, when new versions of England were born under the charismatic leader Wat Tyler, brought to life in a dazzlingly inventive novel by the author of The Manningtree Witches.It is 1381. England, reeling from plague and years of conflict abroad, is a tinderbox …
Glutton
Inbunden, 2023
200 kr
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One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches.Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient's …
Stet
An Editor's Life
Av Diana Athill
Häftad, 2021
128 kr
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Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and complexities of a life spent among authors and …
Forty-One False Starts
Essays on Artists and Writers
Häftad, 2014
130 kr
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Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now iconic essay about the painter David Salle.
Dancing In The Streets
A History Of Collective Joy
Häftad, 2008
147 kr
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In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to …
Super Sad True Love Story
Häftad, 2011
132 kr
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In a very near future, a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called 'Post-Human Services', which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich …
Love Supreme
The Creation Of John Coltrane's Classic Album
Av Ashley Kahn
Häftad, 2020
153 kr
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A deeply researched and beautifully illustrated study of saxophone legend John Coltrane's signature album. Written with the full co-operation of the Coltrane family and featuring the voices of musicians, producers and writers of the 1960s, Kahn has also unearthed rare, unpublished interviews with …
Sisters Brothers
Häftad, 2012
130 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother. 'The Sisters Brothers confirms deWitt as one of the most talented young writers around' Sunday TimesHermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his …
City of Thorns
Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Av Ben Rawlence
Häftad, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, …
Killing Rage
Av Eamon Collins, Mick McGovern
Häftad, 1998
147 kr
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This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since 1969, and most of them have died at the hands of …
