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27 produkter
Lovely Bones
Av Alice Sebold
Häftad, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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A haunting and heartbreaking novel narrated from heaven as a young girl watches over her family and killer.My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she wishes for – except what she most …
Man Without Qualities
Picador Classic
Häftad, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
249 kr
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With an introduction by Jonathan LethemIt is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the …
Genius of Shakespeare
Häftad, 2016
148 kr
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With an introduction by Simon CallowJudgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius.Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And …
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Häftad, 2018
136 kr
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With an introduction by author Cynan JonesWhen Mark Brian, a young priest, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in British Columbia, he finds himself in an astonishing place of salmon runs and ancient totems. Yet amidst the beauty, the old culture is under attack, slowly being replaced by …
Dead Girls
Häftad, 2018
137 kr
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Ambition, corruption, and murder in 1960s Mexico: the shocking novel behind Netflix’s hit series.‘A startlingly good book by an author of genuine, exciting originality’ - Salman RushdieWith an introduction by Colm TóibínThe Baladro sisters have built a thriving empire of pleasure as brothel owners …
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Häftad, 2015
126 kr
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With an introduction by author Anne Enright.Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if …
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Häftad, 2019
160 kr
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With an introduction by comedian and novelist David BaddielA novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing …
Emperor's Children
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
127 kr
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With an introduction by Neel Mukherjee.In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's young cousin Bootie - fresh from the provinces and keen, too, to make his mark - forces them to …
Soft City
Picador Classic
Häftad, 2017
119 kr
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Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today’s overcrowded planet than ever.With an introduction by Iain Sinclair.In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and …
Oreo
Av Fran Ross
Häftad, 2018
137 kr
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With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James.Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving …
Woman Warrior
Häftad, 2015
166 kr
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With an introduction by Xiaolu GuoA classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be …
Long View
Häftad, 2016
137 kr
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With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall.Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship.In …
The South
Av Colm Tóibín
Häftad, 2015
130 kr
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With an introduction by Roy Foster A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor …
My Year Off
Rediscovering Life After a Stroke
Häftad, 2015
163 kr
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With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of …
If The Spirit Moves You
Life and Love After Death
Häftad, 2015
139 kr
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With an introduction by Andrew O'HaganWhen I think about her now, which is most of the time, it's like rewinding a silent film in my head: I see the crucial scenes in our lives together. But what I can't hear is her voice in my head, and that silence is driving me crazy.After her sister Ruth's …
King of the World
Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
Häftad, 2015
131 kr
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With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an afterword by the author.It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell.When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the …
Drowned Book
Av Sean O'Brien
Häftad, 2015
121 kr
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With an introduction by Helen DunmoreCome for a walk down the river road,For though you're all a long time deadThe waters part to let us passThe way we'd go on summer nightsIn the times we were childrenAnd thought we were lovers.The Drowned Book is a work of memory, commemoration and loss, …
Psalm Killer
Av Chris Petit
Häftad, 2016
125 kr
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With an introduction by Alan MooreIt was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland - those derelict spaces once described to him by a child as the blank bits where things had been before they'd got blown up.It is 1985 and a killer moves through …
Little Prince
Häftad, 2015, 12-15 år
111 kr
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With an introduction by Kate MosseTranslated by Ros SchwartzAll grown-ups were children once (but most of them have forgotten).A pilot who has crash landed in the desert awakes to see an extraordinary little boy. 'Please,' asks the stranger, 'will you draw me a little lamb!' Baffled by the little …
Master and Margarita
Häftad, 2019
142 kr
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With an introduction by the writer and critic Viv Groskop.In this imaginative extravaganza the devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow, along with a talking cat and an expert assassin. This riotous band succeed in fooling an entire population of people who persistently deny the devil’s …
Idea of Perfection
Picador Classic
Häftad, 2017
125 kr
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With an introduction by Evie WyldThe Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville is a funny and touching romance between two people who've given up on love. Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook, New South Wales, pop. 1374, it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a gawky engineer with …
Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
Häftad, 2016
260 kr
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With an introduction by Jonathan Coe1930s King's Cross, London.When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film studio, Cameron McCabe finds himself at the centre of a police investigation. There are multiple suspects, multiple confessors and, as …
The Master
Av Colm Tóibín
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville , in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are …
In a Free State
Häftad, 2020
130 kr
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With an introduction by publisher and acclaimed author Robert McCrum.Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new …
Border Trilogy
Picador Classic
Häftad, 2018
257 kr
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Beautiful and brutal, two young cowboys come of age in The Border Trilogy – Cormac McCarthy's award-winning requiem for the American frontier.'A landmark in American literature' – GuardianWith an introduction from Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room.During the middle of the twentieth century, …
Boy's Own Story
Av Edmund White
Häftad, 2016
141 kr
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A Boy's Own Story traces an unnamed narrator's coming-of-age during the 1950s. With an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst, author of The Line of Beauty.It was his power that stupefied me and made me regard my knowledge as nothing more than hired cleverness he might choose to show off at a dinner …
Gomorrah
Häftad, 2019
141 kr
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Step into the nightmarish world of Naples' underworld with Gomorrah, a groundbreaking exposé by Roberto Saviano. Saviano, seeking the truth behind organized crime in the city, bravely brings to light the monstrous actvities and far-reaching influence of the notorious Camorra – locally known as ‘the …
