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Course of the Heart
The cult classic from the extraordinary, genre-bending Booker-nominee
Häftad, 2025
153 kr
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The cult classic novel from the 2026 Booker-shortlisted author of The End of EverythingWith an introduction by bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield'A more grown-up version of The Secret History' LUCY SCHOLES'A groundbreaking work' GUARDIAN 'The best literary fiction out …
Ocean of Sound
Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication
Av David Toop
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
178 kr
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David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard …
Closer
Häftad, 2023
141 kr
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With an introduction by Lynne Tillman'The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction' Bret Easton EllisPhysically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students' attention, like a wallet lying on the street. One after another, his teenage friends rifle through …
Valencia
'An exuberant, hilarious record of an unprecedented and mutinous time in queer history' Maggie Nelson
Av Michelle Tea
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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'A wonderfully disgusting book ... invigorating' DAZED Best Books for Pride MonthThe 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea's classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts'One of the few truly life changing books I've encountered' Torrey …
Her Privates We
Häftad, 2013
141 kr
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First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and shockingly honest portrait of men engaged in war, 'that peculiarly human activity', the original edition was …
Veronica
Häftad, 2016
158 kr
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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYAlison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modelling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye. Over the next twenty years …
White Bicycles
Making Music in the 1960s
Av Joe Boyd
Häftad, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
178 kr
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A memoir from a man present at the birth of modern rock and the author of And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, praised by Robert Plant, Brian Eno and more'From Dylan to Pink Floyd, Boyd was there and can remember it all' Daily ExpressWhen Muddy Waters came to London in the early '60s, Joe Boyd was his …
Piano Teacher
Häftad, 2016
153 kr
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One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Best Books by Women'One of my all time favourites' ELIZA CLARKErika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional …
Pedro Páramo
Now on Netflix
Av Juan Rulfo
E-bok, 2023
131 kr
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A GUARDIAN BEST NOVEL OF ALL TIME''One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature'' Susan SontagWith an Introduction by Gabriel García MárquezFrom one of the most famous and influential Mexican writers, and the father of magical realism, this novel is a stunning masterpiece of the …
As Serious As Your Life
Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977
Av Val Wilmer
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
203 kr
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In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture.Placing the achievements of African-American …
Pedro Páramo
Now on Netflix
Av Juan Rulfo
Häftad, 2023
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
145 kr
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A GUARDIAN BEST NOVEL OF ALL TIME'There is no novel more mesmerizing and paradigm-shifting' Valeria Luiselli'One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature' Susan SontagWith an Introduction by Gabriel García MárquezFrom one of the most famous and influential Mexican writers, and the …
Astragal
Häftad, 2014
142 kr
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'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her …
Man Enough to Be a Woman
Av Jayne County
Häftad, 2021
153 kr
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'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up'Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne moved to New York and became part of the 60s art scene surrounding Andy Warhol's Factory. Jayne's story follows the arc of LGBT liberation in the US - she came of age living hand-to-mouth, faced off …
Notice
Häftad, 2024
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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Her name is not Nina, but that's the name she uses sometimes. At her local bar, in the carpark with her tricks, when she needs to score.She doesn't really need the money. But it lays bare the truth of each loveless transaction. Still living at home, each chance encounter is a route to escape the …
Silent Cry
Av Kenzaburo Oe
Häftad, 2016
142 kr
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In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to …
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Häftad, 2014
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
163 kr
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Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing; written in a conversational, wisecracking, …
Jernigan
Av David Gates
Häftad, 2015
126 kr
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Peter Jernigan's life is slipping out of control. His wife's gone, he's lost his job and he's a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn't work, you up the dose. And when that doesn't work, what …
Seven Madmen
Av Roberto Arlt
Häftad, 2015
144 kr
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Remo Erdosain's Buenos Aires is a dim, seething, paranoid hive of hustlers and whores, scoundrels and madmen, and Erdosain feels his soul is as polluted as anything in this dingy city. Possessed by the directionlessness of the society around him, trapped between spiritual anguish and madness, he …
Assault
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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'Fuelled with energy, drama and emotional weight, combined with a light touch and a fast-moving story. Grab it while you can' TIMES, Best Rediscovered Books'Acknowledged as Holland's finest novelist' GUARDIAN'Mulisch is a rarity ... an instinctively psychological novelist' JOHN UPDIKEIn the bitter …
Red Riding 1974
Now on Netflix
Av David Peace
Häftad, 2018
139 kr
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Part One of the critically acclaimed Red Riding seriesNow a Netflix series that is 'better than The Godfather' (Telegraph) - featuring a star-studded cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Rebecca HallJeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing …
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Häftad, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
156 kr
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDEva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her …
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Häftad, 2016
156 kr
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2005ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDEva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her …
Warriors
Av Sol Yurick
Häftad, 2020
2,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
153 kr
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It's a hot 4th of July night in New York City. In the darkness of the Bronx, thousands of boys have gathered from all across the city. Among them are the warriors of the Coney Island Dominators. Ismael Rivera, leader of the Delancey Thrones, has called an assembly of New York's disparate youth …
Lesson Before Dying
Häftad, 2015
142 kr
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An Oprah Book Club selectionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeIn a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted …
Sexual Life of Catherine M.
Häftad, 2014
141 kr
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A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure.From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she describes her erotic experiences in precise and …
Astragal
E-bok, 2014
137 kr
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''My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.'' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her …
Notice
E-bok, 2024
131 kr
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Her name is not Nina, but that''s the name she uses sometimes. At her local bar, in the carpark with her tricks, when she needs to score.She doesn''t really need the money. But it lays bare the truth of each loveless transaction. Still living at home, each chance encounter is a route to escape the …
Red Riding 1980
Now on Netflix
Av David Peace
Häftad, 2018
142 kr
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Part Three of the critically acclaimed Red Riding seriesNow a Netflix series that is 'better than The Godfather' (Telegraph) - featuring a star-studded cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Rebecca HallRed Riding Nineteen Eighty is set against an evolving backdrop of power, …
Whatever
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague - …
African Psycho
Häftad, 2017
142 kr
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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He's planned the crime for some time, but still, the act of murder requires a bit of psychological and logistical preparation. Luckily, he has a mentor to call on, …
