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Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry
In this ’graceful, elegant translation’ (Guardian), Poet Laureate Simon Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the Middle English tale with all the cut and thrust of the original. An unnamed narrator overhears a fiery verbal contest between the two…
In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circewith a touch of Draculaa propulsive, feminist reimagining of the story of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat known as the Blood Countess, who was rumored to have murdered hundreds of peasant girls and bathed in their…
The bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Soon to be a major motion picture, The Nightingale is a multi-million copy bestseller across the world. It is a heart-breakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the endurance of women.
This story is about what it was like to be a…
Språk: Meänkieli och svenska
Dikter om vardagslivet i norr, skrivet på
meänkieli och översatt till svenska. Kan
innehålla roligheter och jäkelskap.
Tornedalen, Lappland, Norrbotten, natur, familj,
kärlek, vardagsliv och jobb.
Runoja arkielämästä pohjosessa, kirjotettu
meänkielelä ja käännetty ruottiksi. Saattaa…
On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries. Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after. Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a…
Bravery, courage, fear and love in a time of war. Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine…
Soon to be a major motion picture, The Nightingale is a multi-million copy bestseller across the world. It has become a phenomenon that has enthralled a generation of readers. This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II when women’s stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked .
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'Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.' In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant tells stories of sorcery, folklore and…
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) blev känd som Damen med lampan, den självuppoffrande sjuksköterskan som räddade tusentals brittiska soldaters liv under Krimkriget 1853-1856. Det finns många föreställningar om Florence Nightingale och alla utgår de från att hon var…
Arman and Zackaria both grow up in Iran during the 50s and 60s. Arman is of Armenian extraction and grows up in Isfahan, the son of a deacon. Zackaria loses his parents in an epidemic and is adopted by a childless couple. He grows up in Gara, near Persepolis in the south-eastern part of the country. Armans youth is…
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind-she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story…