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Autobiography of Red
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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** WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE **This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic.Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He …
Advent
Inbunden, 2025
169 kr
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'As we come nearer to Christmas this wondrous book becomes ever more poignant and magical. Once read never forgotten' Michael Morpurgo Every winter, in the days leading up to Christmas, Benedikt walks into the snowy mountains of Iceland to rescue sheep lost in the blizzards.With his dog and his ram …
Short Stay in Hell
Häftad, 2026
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
132 kr
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*A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2026*‘A short stay in literary paradise’ Ethan HawkeA man is cast by an unfamiliar God into a vast, incomprehensible Hell - a labyrinth library of books containing the stories of every life ever lived.His only way out is to find the single book that tells his …
Brave New World
Häftad, 2004
4,4 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (19)
126 kr
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Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian classic Brave New World predicts – with eerie clarity – a terrifying vision of the future, which feels ever closer to our own reality.'The best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient…’ Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Homo Deus ‘A masterpiece …
All Passion Spent
Häftad, 2016
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
139 kr
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A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead …
Sun Also Rises
Häftad, 2022
159 kr
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The debut novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author that is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their dreams in postwar Europe. “An absorbingly beautiful and tenderly absurd, heart-breaking narrative ... It is a truly …
Persepolis I & II
Häftad, 2024
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
169 kr
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The brilliant graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.Marjane Satrapi lived through the Iranian Revolution as a little girl. This is her classic memoir-in-comic-strips, the story of a child entangled in the history and politics of her country. It paints an …
Collected Poems
Av Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
189 kr
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A wonderful collection of Robert Frost’s writing.No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. Hailed as ‘the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet’ by T.S. Eliot, he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes. In iconic poems like …
Beloved
Häftad, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. A tale …
Bluest Eye
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of becoming beautiful, of becoming someone – like her …
Brave New World
Häftad, 2007
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
139 kr
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In a future London, governed by genetic engineering , Bernard Marx begins to question a society that has abolished family, privacy, and history in the name of stability.In the World State, citizens are conditioned from birth and kept docile through consumerism and the drug, Soma. But when Bernard …
Disgrace
A BBC Radio 4 Good Read
Av J.M. Coetzee
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student.The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his …
Heart of the Matter
Häftad, 2004
139 kr
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Major Henry Scobie serves as a police officer in a British West African colony during the Second World War, a devout Catholic torn between duty and love.Stationed in a coastal colonial outpost in wartime West Africa, 1940s, Scobie prides himself on his incorruptibility. Yet as merchant ships crowd …
Bonfire of the Vanities
Av Tom Wolfe
Häftad, 2010
179 kr
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An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American proseSherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern …
Master and Margarita
Häftad, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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In Moscow, truth needs a little help from the devil. In Bulgakov’s allegorical masterpiece of Stalin’s regime, the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied by a strange retinue of demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. As they move through the city, order …
Crying of Lot 49
Häftad, 1996
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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Oedipa Maas has been made executrix of her former lover’s estate.The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the …
Stoner
A Novel
Häftad, 2012
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (51)
139 kr
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This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read.'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most …
Butcher's Crossing
Now a Major Film
Häftad, 2013
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
138 kr
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**NOW A MAJOR FILM**BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in …
Gulag Archipelago
(Abridged edition)
Häftad, 2018
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
169 kr
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Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile.This book is his masterwork, based on his own experiences as well as the testimony of some 200 survivors. A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday …
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Häftad, 2025
152 kr
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Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece: a sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together.A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan. Unicorn skulls and voracious librarians. John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, …
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Häftad, 1992
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
139 kr
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A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be …
Doors of Perception
And Heaven and Hell
Häftad, 2004
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
141 kr
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Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades.‘Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece’ Sunday TimesIn 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took …
Quiet American
Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece
Häftad, 2004
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
139 kr
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'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of LessonsInto the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'.As Pyle's naive optimism …
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Av Edward S Herman, Noam Chomsky
Häftad, 2025
154 kr
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The classic political study of how elite forces shape mass media.Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky investigate how an underlying elite consensus structures mainstream media. Here they skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.This …
Sea, The Sea
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 1999
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
152 kr
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Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation.He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast, far from the heady world of the theatre where he made his name, and there he swims in the sea, eats revolting meals and writes his memoirs. But then he meets his …
Old Man and the Sea
Häftad, 1999
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
139 kr
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The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature'It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought'Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the …
Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Häftad, 1999
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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Noboru spies on his widowed mother, Fusako Kuroda, as she begins a relationship with Ryuji Tsukazaki, a merchant sailor he idolises as a hero.Set in post-war Yokohama, Japan, in the late 1950s, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace from the Sea follows thirteen-year-old Noboru and a secret gang of …
Island
Häftad, 2005
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
139 kr
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For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with Eastern philosophy to create a paradise on earth. When cynical journalist, Will Farnaby, arrives to …
End of the Affair
Häftad, 2004
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
129 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendrix hires a private …
Augustus
A Novel
Häftad, 2003
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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Octavian, nineteen and newly orphaned by Julius Caesar’s murder, becomes the heir to Rome and begins the fight to remake the republic into an empire.Set in ancient Rome from 44 B.C. to A.D. 14, Augustus follows Octavian as he becomes Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.After the murder of …
