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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…
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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…
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Daniel Kelly, a talented young swimmer, has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His astonishing ability in the pool should drive him to fame and fortune, as well as his revenge on the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice…
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’Funny about death, real about anxiety, witty about the things that worry us the most’ Emma Gannon, author of Olive
’So fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days
Meet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death.…
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Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
’There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, Nanette
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us through the defining moments in her life that led to the creation…
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Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman
’A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.’ Simon Heffer, ’Books of the Year’ , Daily Telegraph
’A joyous new book on post-war Britain.’ Daily Mail
When Queen Elizabeth II…
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Former cinematographer Julius Sewell journeys across Europe with his family to his sister’s wedding in Rome. But this will be an unusual road trip. For one thing, Julius has been in an institution and has only just been released to travel. And then there is his family. This is Easter 1934 and Julius’…
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Hans Stichler’s uncomplicated German childhood ends abruptly when his aunt invites him to study at Cambridge, where she teaches. She will ensure his application is accepted, but in return he must help her investigate an elite university society, the Pitt Club, which has existed for centuries, its long legacy of…
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Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls ’one of his generation’s most original writers’.
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Marx and Engels were right when they observed in the Communist Manifesto that free markets had in a short time created greater prosperity and more technological innovation than all previous generations combined. A century and a half later, all the evidence shows that capitalism has lifted millions and millions from…
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ONE OF LIT HUB’S TOP CRIME NOVELS OF 2023’A haunting story . . . will stay with me long after reading’ ELIZABETH LEE, author of Cunning Women’Completely engrossing. I was half-charmed, half-horrified by every peculiar character and every unexpected twist. Unforgettable!’ MARTHA CONWAY,…
First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a ’truth serum’ by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in April 1943 led to a mass exploitation of this promising hallucinogen.
Using archival material, Norman Ohler brings to light the often misguided interaction…
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The definitive edition of Minette Walters’ thrilling tale of courage and defiance during the time of the Black Death, featuring The Last Hours and The Turn of Midnight. England, 1348: A deadly plague is spreading across the land, and people are dying by the thousands. In Dorset, young Lady Anne takes control…
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’Tender, unpredictable, brimming with laugh-out-loud moments’ Tea Obreht, author of THE TIGER’S WIFE’Original, memorable, and endearing’ Charmaine Wilkerson, author of BLACK CAKE’A rollicking mash-up of adventure story, thriller, dark revenge, and comedy’ Cristina Garcia,…
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Three women. Three secrets.Claudia’s life imploded ten years ago when she was convicted of the murder of her child. Now she has done the unthinkable and confessed to manslaughter in order to be granted parole – her only hope of finding out what really happened to Tilly.
Sara is married to Joe,…
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Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
Go behind the scenes with Eddie ’The Beast’ Hall as we follow his incredible journey from World’s Strongest Man to competing in ’The Heaviest Boxing Match in History’ against his nemesis Hafthor ’Thor’ Bjornsson.
’No human can visualise the impossible like this…
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During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father’s house guest, Oliver. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them. What…
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An audacious and transformative novel on the past, the present and the power of writing from the award-winning author of Damascus.
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It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This ’Other Renaissance’ was initially centred on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon…
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Why thinking in pictures? Short answer: because the words seem to need help. If you sample the many big ideas books to hit the shelves recently, they all promise a smarter, more rational you. But if the books are that good, why are there so many?
Using illustrations and photographs, Michael Blastland shows how pictures…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be?Take a minute to answer these questions. No matter how educated you are, this book suggests you are likely to be very wrong indeed.…
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The perfect getaway – to get away with murder… Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead – drowned off the coast of the remote island where her second husband owns a luxury resort.
But could a star open-water swimmer really have…
’An emotional read about love and trust, with an OMG ending’ Jill Mansell
One moment in time can change everything…
The day Scarlett dies should have been one of the most important of her life. It doesn’t feel fair that she’ll never have the chance to fulfil her dreams. And now,…
Kategorier: Föroreningar och miljöhot Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Klimatförändringar Miljön
’Fast paced and energetic’ Financial Times’Punchy, provocative and wonderfully readable’ – David Shukman’Eye–popping and essential’ – Rowan Hooper’A must-read’ – Peter Stott Have you heard that you should plant trees to save the planet? Or buy…
AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB SELECTION’One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!’ Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar…
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From the author of Ayesha At Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of You’ve Got Mail. Hana Khan’s family-run halal restaurant is on its last legs. So when a flashy competitor gets ready to open nearby, bringing their inevitable closure even closer, she turns to her anonymously-hosted podcast, and…
Claire and Sophie aren’t your typical murder investigators . . .
Claire Hendricks is a hapless 30-something true crime fan working as a freelance medium. When she is Invited to an old university friend’s country pile to provide entertainment for a family party, her best friend Sophie tags along. In fact,…
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Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America – from the…
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’What you are about to read is a call to arms. Best to prepare for a confrontation.’ New York Times Book Review
’A hard-hitting masterpiece. I devoured it.’ Kristen Arnett, author of WITH TEETH
’A madcap story you won’t want to put down’ Rachel Yoder, author of NIGHTBITCH…
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A captivating economic history of government all over the world
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Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing ’Fascinating… There is something wondrous in Milman’s revelation of our fragile dependency on insect life as well as its beauty and strangeness.’ Guardian
’Gripping and especially unnerving.’ David Wallace-Wells
When is…
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’Enlightening and fascinating’ John Banville, Wall Street Journal
Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of the northern…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
In this valuable and timely anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence and aggression they face, and where sexual-abuse survivors are ’routinely…
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Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know.
By the age of thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: she had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This…
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Mishaps at work. Misery at the school gate. Mayhem at home.
It’ll get easier when he starts school… That’s what Lucy was told, and she believed it. But now that her autistic son Stanley has joined Reception, his obsession with Africa and daily screaming fits at the school gates haven’t exactly…
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We have entered a new Cold War, even if most people choose not to admit it. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable, and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft: diplomacy, technology, military power, intelligence, trade and investment. It has its tinder box: Taiwan. And both…
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