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From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.
Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as ’the land of…
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An astonishing debut novel of motherhood and loss in the dying days of the Second World War ’Moving, graceful… Violets has a compelling, quiet power all the way to its exquisitely affecting end’ Megan Hunter, author of The Harpy and The End We Start From ’Stunning and original… Written in…
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A powerful investigation into the world of extremism and redemption, from TIME journalist and author of Cast Away. ”Far Out is an excellent mix of investigative journalism, entertaining storytelling and intelligent analysis. Its individual stories are like pieces of a puzzle that McDonald-Gibson assembles to…
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See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas.
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Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
The seas cover over two thirds of our planet and yet most of us live our lives on land, creatures of a different element, at once fascinated and terrified by the beauty and power of these great bodies of water. There are some, though, who go to sea, who get to know its many moods — the tranquil and mirror-like,…
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”Sola pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistible in its jagged glory.” – C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold When Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he…
Pay attention. As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with real world problems? Question everything. Drawing on decades of work in philosophy including a huge range of interviews with contemporary philosophers, Julian Baggini sets out how…
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE ’I loved this book… An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times’ Margaret Atwood ’Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening’ George Orwell In 1936 Orwell planted roses at his cottage in Hertfordshire. Over eighty years later…
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Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
For decades, Janet Malcolm’s books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here, Malcolm turns her gimlet eye on her own life, examining twelve family photographs to construct a memoir from…
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AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2022 I’M A FAN tells the story of an unnamed narrator’s involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, Sheena Patel makes startling connections between power struggles at the heart of human relationships to those in the wider…
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Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 ’This is one of the most imaginative – and therefore moving – memoirs I have ever read’ – Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments Margo Jefferson boldly and brilliantly…
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An astonishing and brave memoir of life, love, and assisted death, from the author of White Houses.
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When X – an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter – dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified.
Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife,…
”A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia” – Olivia Laing ”Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read” – Jeremy Atherton Lin — Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and…
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**Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022**A Book of the Year in the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the White Review, the Evening Standard, the Big Issue, the TLS, the Week and the New Statesman. From the Women’s Prize-Shortlisted author of First LoveHelen Grant has always…
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She is noticed by Elliot as he trains in in the gym. He sees her dedication to building her body and taking up space, and he is drawn to her strength. She is observed by her mother, as she grows from a taciturn, tremulous child into a determined and distant woman, who severs all familial ties. She is watched by her…
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*Selected for 2022 previews by the Observer, the Guardian, the Daily Mail, & the Irish Times* ’Intriguingly strange’ The Bookseller, Editor’s Choice In a single moment, in every part of the world, every person with an Y chromosome vanishes: lovers, children, parents – even foetuses from the…
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This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man’s efforts to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern-day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home in Los Angeles who needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him…
One day in August, Jane wakes to find her husband and five-year-old son have vanished without a trace. In a single moment, all men – everywhere – have mysteriously disappeared. In the wake of this terrible loss, theories abound.
As Jane grapples with her grief and bewilderment, the world around her…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Reportage och samlingar av journalistiska texter
In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he killed two people, and the circumstances of his eventual arrest in the apartment of…
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”Stylish, mordant, and pitch-perfect – I read it in one sitting. If Rachel Cusk or Sally Rooney had been junior doctors they might have come up with something like this” – Gavin Francis, author of Recover — Intravenous lines, catheters, bodies in distress, wounds: three young surgical…
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you’ve read before.
An engaged couple falls out over the husband’s dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply…
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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book PrizeBias affects us all, every day of our lives. It shapes how we see each other, and how we are seen in turn. It fuels discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, race, age, class and appearance.
It robs organizations of talent, science of breakthroughs, politics of…
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Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his body aged ten years overnight, and now in his early thirties, he still has the outward appearance of a twenty-three-year-old. But with his condition dormant, Pol and his wife Caroline manage to live an ordinary life in…
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*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo*
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.
Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as ’the land of…
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’The history of my sexuality is as follows: I have always been looking for someone to close all the doors and windows, someone who would say, okay, that’s enough now. More precisely, first I was into men and later into women, but really always into women…into so many women really-but I kept my eyes…
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From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you’ve read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband’s dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply…
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous…
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Caeros is a love story set in the last years of the GDR. The couple meet by chance on a bus: she is a young student, he is older and married. From the start their relationship is shrouded in the lies they have to tell others in order to meet, but when the girl is found to have betrayed her lover and his ideals it…
Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano’s thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss – or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there working behind the till. Nor are her fellow employees any less…
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A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic.
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Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient’s room. She has heard the stories of his hunger, which defy belief: that he has eaten all manner of creatures and objects. A child even, if the rumours are to be believed. But it is hard to believe that this…
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An electrifying debut novel about a young woman and her desire for sleaze, whose idyllic summer on a remote Alaskan homestead takes a disturbing turn. ”Sexy and dark and strange and absolutely perfect.” Carmen Maria Machado ”Puppy love meets jaded lust to dance their death spiral inside a young…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Bilderböcker, pysselböcker och pedagogiska böcker 0–5 år Pysselböcker, målarböcker och leksaksböcker
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a dazzling and deadpan new novel about hope and despair, fear and comfort as it plays out in these times of environmental and political turbulence
A UK debut from a fresh, prize-winning talent, this quietly surreal novel is perfect for fans of Sayaka Murata and Mieko Kawakami Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In a remote new home in the mountains, they look for a solution…
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Kategorier: Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
Internationally acclaimed graphic artist: Drnaso’s previous title SABRINA was the first ever graphic novel nominated for the Booker Prize and the Orwell Prize—Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception. – John Smith, acting coach From the…
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In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock.
Young musicians from the countryside flocked to the vibrant cosmopolitan capital city of Phnom Penh. Teenagers cycled along the Mekong River, guitars slung across their backs, on their way to…
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An eerie modern tale for fans of Shirley Jackson and Sarah Hall from a young American writer hailed as one of the finest of her generation.
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Fish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man’s journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist.
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