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The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job as a professional mourner and under-appreciated by The Husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of break-up. But just when things couldn’t be…
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about with his friends Nik and Darby. He’s been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really, he is not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his…
The bestseller that has captivated Europe,
The Taste of Apple Seeds is both a whitehot
story of first love and a heartbreaking
meditation on memory and loss.
When Iris inherits her grandmothers house, she
fears she has also inherited her familys darkest
secrets. To distract herself, she spends her days
swimming at the…
’A thoroughly modern love story with old-fashioned heart’ Vogue___________________
Meet Ursula
35-year-old Ursula Byrne is successful, witty, smart, and single. She’s tried all the dating apps, and let’s just say: she’s underwhelmed by her options.
Enter The Arc
A mysterious,…
’A vivid cast of characters, endless intrigue and all the fun of a Golden Age mystery await you at Kilfenora House’ Catherine Ryan Howard
’Witty, twisty and featuring my favourite antiheroine in a long time’ Alex Marwood
Murder is easy … when it doesn’t look like murder
Tess Morgan…
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2023
’Not since Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger has the rotten core of modern India been exposed in quite such blackly antic fashion as Parini Shroff manages here in this intermittently absurd, feminist revenge caper about…
When Cass – a thirty something year old queer playwright – receives a prestigious award, it seems as though her career is finally taking off. That is until she finds herself at the centre of a searing public shaming. Fleeing New York, Cass moves to L.A. to start anew.
Once there, she is pulled into the…
Kategorier: Författningsrätt och förvaltningsrätt Juridik Mänskliga och medborgerliga rättigheter Särskilda rättsområden
BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2022, NEW STATESMAN & CITY AM
Chosen as one of the Financial Time’s Best Summer Books of 2022
Longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
’Compelling, powerful and necessary.’ Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS’ CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR_________________________________*** A Top Ten Kindle Bestseller ***’Pure nerve-shredding suspense from the first page to the last’ Erin Kelly’Blair Witch meets Fleabag … pure mastery’ Janice…
What if your soulmate could only ever be the love of your afterlife?
The first time Emery dies, she is only five years old… Emery is born with a heart condition that means her heart could quite literally stop at any moment. The people around her know what to do – if they act quickly enough there will be no…
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we’d like to believe. Based on his ground-breaking research, The Human Network reveals how our relationships in…
Abby Lamb has done it. She’s found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She’s venomous…
SEEN IN ELLE’S BEST SUMMER 2023 READSONE OF GAL-DEM’S UNMISSABLE BOOKS OF 2023
From the high-rises of Canary Wharf to the turquoise pools of Miami, Sugar, Baby is an intoxicating, darkly funny debut novel about beauty and greed, desire and delusion, from an extraordinary new voice in fiction.
Agnes Green is…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love and warmth. From modest beginnings as a local reporter at the Western Journal, where his deadlines were dependent on the bus schedule, Tommie landed at RTE, taking up the post of North-West…
’Powerful’ Financial Times’More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller’ Spectator’A story we all need to hear’ New Statesman’Gripping… Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect’ New York Times’Excellent’ Kirkus Reviews
Deep in the…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN’Excellent and provocative… a passionate, timely book.’ Sunday Times’A fine new book… thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.’ The TimesEmerging from a collection of city…
’Carries distinct shades of Patricia Highsmith and Donna Tartt… Supremely gripping’ Vogue, Best Books of 2022
A struggling author is stuck at the airport, his flight endlessly delayed. As he kills time, he bumps into a former classmate of his, Jeff, who is waiting for the same flight. Jeff invites the…
’Fascinating…. Wonderfully exhilarating.’ Mail on SundayAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that has captured the imagination of…
Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället
No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives, from how we think to who we love.
In this urgent polemic, leading barrister Susie Alegre explores the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights…
’Barack Obama’ reveals the real story of Obama’s beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. At the heart of Obama’s psyche and his political beliefs – and therefore his presidency – is his life-long struggle to understand the extreme duality of…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
’Fascinating’ Sunday Times
’Deeply sourced and rich with anecdotes’ The Times
’Like a nonfiction version of The Devil Wears Prada’ Elizabeth Day
’Odell’s extensive reporting dredges up a wealth of delightful details’ New York Times
This definitive biography of Anna…
A retreat doesn’t always mean safety…
Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais in the French Alps. With no electricity, running water, or access by car, surely this trip will offer her the time and space…
No matter where we live, ’we are all ocean people,’ Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep history, Scales links past to present to show how prehistoric ocean ecology holds lessons for the ocean of today. In elegant,…
This is the captivating story of mathematics’ greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel. But before it gave modern man almost infinite powers, calculus was behind centuries of controversy, competition, and even death. Taking us on a…
An audacious and transformative novel on the past, the present and the power of writing from the award-winning author of Damascus.
A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK’Fast, funny and furious, this book has bags of humour, bags of heart and a proper murder mystery at its core’ Janice HallettClaire and Sophie aren’t your typical murder investigators . . .
When 30-something freelance medium Claire Hendricks is invited to an old university…
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for fifteen years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.
In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years.…
Welcome to Samsara, a world-class spa nestled in the Indian Himalayas where all your wishes are just a gilded notecard away. Ro Krishna has just checked in. With his rakish charm, Oxford education, perfect hair, he has it all – well, until he loses his job at the hands of a white woman with a vendetta. It’s…
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life – having nothing but his own wits to help him…
Everyone knows the story of the girl from widow hills…
When Arden Maynor was six years old, she was swept away in a terrifying storm and went missing for days. Against all odds, she was found alive, clinging to a storm drain. Fame followed, and so did fans, creeps and stalkers.
As soon as she was old enough,…
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as a refuge from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the marine world of her childhood, she excels in postgraduate research on ancient algae. When an unfathomable vent appears in the mid-Atlantic floor, Leigh joins the investigating team; what she…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
’Profound [and] compelling’ Spectator’Thoughtful [and] heartfelt’ Observer’A noble endeavour’ New Statesman’A haunting, intense, enjoyable and memorable book’ Tristan Gooley’Compelling and well-balanced… valuable and poignant’ Times Literary…
’Dazzling…by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking’ Monica Ali
A publisher, who is at war with his industry and himself, embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him; an academic exchanges one story for another after an accident brings a stranger into her…
’Smart, perceptive, elegant, sad, surprising and addictive. And it’s also FUNNY.’ Nick Hornby’What We Run the Tides probes so poignantly is the volatility of female adolescence… Knowing and powerfully enigmatic.’ ObserverTeenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola,…
’I cannot say enough about How to Read Now… Check it out’ Roxane Gay’A red-hot grenade… One of my favourite books of the year’ Jia Tolentino’Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny’ Andrew Sean Greer’I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . .…