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Queen's Gambit
Now a Major Netflix Drama
Av Walter Tevis
Häftad, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
144 kr
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THE NOVEL BEHIND THE MAJOR GOLDEN GLOBE-WINNING NETFLIX SERIES STARRING ANYA TAYLOR-JOY'Superb' Time Out'Mesmerizing' Newsweek'Gripping' Financial Times'Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years - for the pure pleasure and skill of it' Michael Ondaatje When she is sent to an …
Hons and Rebels
The Mitford Family Memoir
Häftad, 1999
133 kr
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'This book is just about my favourite book of all time ... I'm not entirely convinced I could like somebody who didn't like this book ... it's funny and moving and gives you an insight into this extraordinary moment as the war is about to begin ... it's so vivid, and what's more, it's incredibly …
Parting
Häftad, 2026
169 kr
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'A new-found classic to rival Waugh and Isherwood' Lucy Hughes-Hallett'Infused with the energy and the zest for life of youth' Philippe Sands'A marvellous novella. Melancholy, hilarious, dramatic and fateful' Catherine Taylor Paris, 1932. Two lovers, Raimund and Teddy, have just one day and one …
Monkey Grip
The sun-soaked modern classic from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
Av Helen Garner
Häftad, 2024
131 kr
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'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' LAUREN GROFF'Languid, beautiful' ANOTHER MAGAZINE'Its pages radiate sex and heat, chlorine and rock'n'roll' MADELAINE LUCASIn 1970s Melbourne, Nora is a happy woman. She is happy moving between the city's communal households, with her little …
O Caledonia
The beloved classic, for fans of I CAPTURE THE CASTLE and Shirley Jackson, with an introduction by Maggie O’Farrell
Häftad, 2021
131 kr
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'I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O Caledonia as her favourite book' Maggie O'Farrell 'A sparky, funny work of genius' Ali Smith'The reader feels unalloyed joy on every page' IndependentAt the bottom of a great stone staircase, dressed in her mother's …
This House of Grief
The true crime classic from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
Av Helen Garner
Häftad, 2024
130 kr
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Dua Lipa's Book Club Pick for August 2025One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'A true-crime classic and literary masterpiece' ANNE ENRIGHT'Bears comparison with In Cold Blood' KATE ATKINSON'It grabbed me by the throat' GILLIAN ANDERSON'Sharp and forensic' DUA LIPAFather's Day, …
Another Marvelous Thing
Häftad, 2024
132 kr
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'Warm, wise, witty, and just plain fun' Maggie ShipsteadAt a perfectly ordinary cocktail party, Francis is introduced to Billy and - although it slips right by him at the time - he falls in love with her at once.Billy is a serious, often glum person. An economic historian, she is indifferent to a …
Family Happiness
Häftad, 2024
144 kr
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'If you've ever been in a relationship with another person, if you've ever had a family, you need to read this book' Ann PatchettPolly Solo-Miller Demarest is the perfect flower of the Solo-Miller family.The Solo-Millers have everything: looks, brains, money, a strong, fortified sense of clan, and …
Troubles
Av J.G. Farrell
Häftad, 2021
152 kr
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WINNER OF THE 1970 BOOKER PRIZE'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as prize cattle lost their glow.' 1919, the Majestic Hotel in Kinalough, Ireland. Haunted war veteran Major Brendan Archer arrives to marry …
Children's Bach
The perfect jewel of a family novel from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
Av Helen Garner
Häftad, 2024
132 kr
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'A jewel of a novel about a perfect family falling apart' DAVID NICHOLLS'A slim, deeply humane work that tingles with life' THE TIMES'One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century' MERVE EMREAthena and Dexter Fox are content. They love each other. They are friends.They live with their two …
Speedboat
With an introduction by Hilton Als
Av Renata Adler
Häftad, 2026
144 kr
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'I can't think of a living stylist I admire more than Renata Adler' ELIF BATUMAN'Luminously exact' NEW YORK TIMES'It was as though the novel had outstretched arms and I fell in' PARIS REVIEWWhen Speedboat burst on the scene in the late '70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before.It …
Hedgehog And The Fox
An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, With an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker'Ingenious. Exactly what good critical writing should be' Max Beloff, GuardianThe fox …
Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object
Häftad, 2025
144 kr
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'Breathtaking, moving and very funny' Brandon TaylorOlly is twenty-one when she first meets Sam Bax. Fearless, goofy and risk-taking, he arrives in her life on the back of a huge motorcycle. By the end of the day, the pair are kissing in an apple orchard. A year later, they are married. Five years …
Meridian
With an introduction by Tayari Jones
Av Alice Walker
Häftad, 2021
132 kr
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'My life suddenly made sense when I encountered Alice Walker's fiction' Tayari Jones'Remarkable' New York TimesMeridian Hill, the brilliant and inquisitive daughter of a working-class Black family in the American south, comes of age against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s civil rights movement. …
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
With an introduction by Bernardine Evaristo
Häftad, 2025
151 kr
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'Inspiring. Emotionally charged. Ground-breaking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'A revelation. I am so thankful to Ntozake Shange for seeing us, reflecting us and showing us how beautiful we can be' JESMYN WARD'Encompassing, it seems, every feeling and experience a woman has ever had' NEW YORKERThe Lady in …
Siege Of Krishnapur
Winner of the Booker Prize
Av J.G. Farrell
Häftad, 2021
144 kr
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WINNER OF THE 1973 BOOKER PRIZE'We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?'Krishnapur, 1857: India is on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny. In this remote town on the vast North Indian plain, life for the British is …
Pitch Dark
With an introduction by Muriel Spark
Av Renata Adler
Häftad, 2026
169 kr
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'Perfect and prescient. A tremendously influential book' CHRIS KRAUS 'Plangent, mournful, brilliant' ARTFORUM'A bright kaleidoscope of a book' ANNE TYLERPitch Dark is a book about love.Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions …
Silent Angel
Häftad, 2026
126 kr
Kommande
May, 1945. Carrying the coat of a comrade who died in his place, German soldier Hans Schnitzler wanders the bombed-out streets of Cologne.In search of the dead man's widow, he meets a woman as lost and grief-stricken as himself. At first, the two strangers envy the dead and struggle to imagine a …
Why I Live in the Country
Av H. E. Bates
Häftad, 2027
139 kr
Kommande
Fresh, lyrical and full of enchantment, the nature writing of H. E. Bates is alive with the joys of his beloved English countryside, from his hometown in Northamptonshire to the orchards of Kent. Bringing together a rich variety of the essays he wrote over half a century from 1924 to 1973, Why I …
Climbers
With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert Macfarlane'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern …
Happy All the Time
With an introduction by Katherine Heiny
Häftad, 2024
142 kr
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'Seriously wise, seriously wonderful, seriously comic - your life will be richer for it' Katherine HeinyGuido and Vicent - third cousins and best friends - spend their time lolling around and wondering who they will marry.Then, one wet Sunday afternoon in a museum, Gudio meets Holly. Precise about …
Pale Fire
With an Introduction by Mary Gaitskill
Häftad, 2024
142 kr
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'One of the greatest books I've ever read. Its heart is strange, but it is huge; let yours beat in response' MARY GAITSKILLPale Fire, a 999-line poem, is the final work of the celebrated - and recently murdered - American author, John Francis Shade.Here that poem is transcribed, introduced and …
Please Look After Mother
The million copy Korean bestseller
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE'An authentic, moving story that brings to vivid life the deep family connections that lie at the core of Korean culture'Gary Shteyngart'Kyung-Sook Shin's tale... has hit a nerve'Guardian'A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood'New York Times'The most …
True Stories
Collected Short Non-Fiction from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
Av Helen Garner
Häftad, 2026
224 kr
Kommande
'Garner is a fascinating companion on the page' THE TIMES'Her piercing intellect, fearlessness and compassion shine through in every word' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD'Helen Garner's work is a thrilling discovery' DUA LIPAHelen Garner is one of Australia's most widely loved and critically acclaimed …
Collected Stories
Häftad, 2021
169 kr
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Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powersIt is the stories upon which Cynthia Ozick's literary reputation rests. She writes about bitterness, cruelty and compulsion with brutal acuity and tenderness. She has created a timeless collection in which Greek …
O Caledonia
Häftad, 2026
144 kr
Kommande
'I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O Caledonia as her favourite book' Maggie O'Farrell 'A sparky, funny work of genius' Ali Smith'The reader feels unalloyed joy on every page' IndependentAt the bottom of a great stone staircase, dressed in her mother's …
Two Serious Ladies
With an introduction by Naoise Dolan
Av Jane Bowles
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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I am going on a trip. Wait until I tell you about it. it's terrible. 'Jane Bowles's literary output, small but perfect, puts her on a stylistic planet all her own' New Yorker 'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic'Tennessee Williams'The book I …
In the Cut
With an introduction by Olivia Sudjic
Häftad, 2021
132 kr
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Living alone in New York, Frannie teaches creative writing to a motley bunch of students, and secretly compiles a dictionary of street slang: virginia, n., vagina; snapper, n., vagina; brasole, n., vagina. One evening at a bar, she stumbles upon a man, his face in shadow, a tattoon on his wrist, a …
Notes from the Henhouse
From the author of O CALEDONIA, a delightful springtime read full of pigs, ponds and fresh air
Inbunden, 2023
242 kr
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'This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else'OLIVIA LAING'Deserves to be permanently on the bedside table - to cheer, reassure and inspire'OBSERVER'Gothic, poetic and exuberantly funny. What a pleasure it was to read'ESTHER FREUD'Joyous, startling, funny, lush, dark and complex'THE …
Notes from the Henhouse
Häftad, 2026
168 kr
Kommande
'This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else' Olivia LaingIn Notes from the Henhouse, you will find a Gothic castle, a draughty Norfolk farmhouse and a malevolent Aga.A pet pig, Portia with a penchant for drama, an obsession with geraniums and an addiction to wine (the Bulgarian …
