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Lonesome Dove
Häftad, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
159 kr
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Immerse yourself in the gritty American Frontier in Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. A powerful, triumphant tribute to the American West and a masterful epic from the screenwriter of Brokeback Mountain.This is the story of a group of audacious cowboys on a …
Lucy
Häftad, 2022
125 kr
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Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple – handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful …
Annie John
Häftad, 2022
127 kr
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A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic.An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her …
Blood Meridian
Häftad, 2022
4,2 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
136 kr
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Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert border land.It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers – his …
American Psycho
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
140 kr
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One of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho is a multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic – a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of …
No Country for Old Men
Häftad, 2022
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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One of The Guardian's best 100 novels of all timeA gripping tale of set in the American West, Cormac McCarthy's iconic No Country for Old Men follows a Vietnam veteran's dark path after stumbling upon a drug deal gone wrong.'A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchy dialogue' – The Times1980. …
At the Bottom of the River
Häftad, 2022
125 kr
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At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid’s first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal ‘Girl’, these …
Exhalation
A riveting collection of science fiction short stories from a master of the genre.
Av Ted Chiang
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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‘Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.’ – The Daily TelegraphFrom the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking second …
All the Pretty Horses
Häftad, 2022
136 kr
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FEATURED ON A GREAT BOOK WITH BARACK OBAMA‘One of the greatest American novels of this or any time’ GUARDIANA coming-of-age western and a grand love story, All the Pretty Horses is a classic of American literature and the first instalment in Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed Border Trilogy.1949. At …
Comanche Moon
Häftad, 2025
159 kr
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Comanche Moon, the second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, follows Rangers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life from the defiant Comanches.On the wild Texas frontier where barbarism …
Line of Beauty
Häftad, 2022
139 kr
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One of the Guardian 100 Best Novels of All Time.One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.Winner of the Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Britain.In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest …
Stories of Your Life and Others
Av Ted Chiang
Häftad, 2024
136 kr
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‘A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.’ – The GuardianWith Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful debut collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably varied stories.The title novella 'Story …
Station Eleven
Häftad, 2022
127 kr
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One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.An atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven is now an HBO Max original TV series.One snowy night in Toronto, famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the …
City & The City
Häftad, 2025
136 kr
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Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award.Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other.‘There is no one else writing stuff like this’ – DazedWhen the body …
Into the Wild
Av Jon Krakauer
Häftad, 2024
136 kr
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Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.'It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order.' – Entertainment …
Child of God
Häftad, 2024
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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A haunting and disturbing tale of a violent outcast, Child of God is Cormac McCarthy's most shocking and brutally compelling work. From the author of Blood Meridian and The Road.1960s, Tennessee. Lester Ballard is a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman, dispossessed on his ancestral …
Suttree
Häftad, 2024
136 kr
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In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian.'Suttree marks McCarthy's …
Autobiography of My Mother
Häftad, 2022
132 kr
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Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother.Xuela’s vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arrival include that of her distant father, …
King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Häftad, 2024
170 kr
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for …
My Brother
Häftad, 2024
136 kr
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‘Controlled and fearless perfection’ - The Washington PostJamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon died of Aids on 19 January 1996 at the age of 33. This poetic and shockingly candid recounting of her brother’s life and death is also the story of her family in Antigua - centred round her destructive mother …
Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster
Av Jon Krakauer
Häftad, 2024
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
136 kr
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Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's …
Dead Man's Walk
Häftad, 2025
159 kr
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Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Man’s Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove quartet.'McMurtry has crafted a tale of love, fear and sacrifice in the face of Wild West adversity.' – The TimesThese are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call – heroes …
Quartet in Autumn
Av Barbara Pym
Häftad, 2024
127 kr
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Darkly funny and full of stubborn optimism, Quartet in Autumn is a classic. Showing Barbara Pym at her very best, it portrays the strange and wonderful quirks of everyday life.‘Spectacular’ – The Sunday Times‘Quartet in Autumn is immeasurably her finest work of fiction’ – Evening Standard‘Barbara …
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Häftad, 2024
144 kr
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the Guardian First Book award'I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan genocide' – Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm‘Should be compulsory reading’ – The …
Across the Nightingale Floor
Av Lian Hearn
Häftad, 2025
137 kr
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‘Quite simply the best story of magic, love, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman’ – Independent on SundaySet in a mythical feudal land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, secret …
White Noise
Av Don DeLillo
Häftad, 2022
136 kr
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Now a major Netflix film from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.'An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy' – The Daily TelegraphJack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the …
Psychopath Test
A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Av Jon Ronson
Häftad, 2024
120 kr
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Uncover the madness at the heart of society in this Sunday Times bestseller – now with a new introduction'The belly laughs come thick and fast' – The Observer'Chirpy, inquisitive, funny' - Craig BrownWhat if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon …
Cloudstreet
Av Tim Winton
Häftad, 2024
136 kr
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Winner of the Miles Franklin AwardCloudstreet is Tim Winton's epic family drama, a story of love and turmoil spanning decades.‘Magnificent’ – The New York Times‘Winton is just one of the best’ – IndependentNo. 1 Cloudstreet: a broken-down house on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with …
People in the Trees
Häftad, 2024
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
134 kr
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A strikingly original first novel, from the author of A Little Life. A young doctor's search for immortality uncovers a secret that will haunt him forever.‘The world Yanagihara conjures up, full of dark pockets of mystery, is magical.’ – The TimesIn 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an …
Tree of Smoke
Häftad, 2026
159 kr
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Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Tree of Smoke – the name given to a ‘psyop’ that may or may not be hypothetical and may or may not be officially sanctioned – is Denis Johnson’s most gripping, visionary and ambitious work. Set across south-east Asia and the United States, and …
