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FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR – WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HISHAM MATAR
After an assassination attempt and in waning health, Naguib Mahfouz became more cautious in his twilight years. At the same time, in nightly dreams, his imagination began to roam his beloved city, Cairo, with a rare freedom.
In this…
A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel’Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.’
There’s nothing like the issue of…
You’d think you would be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world of the Thursday Murder Club.
On Boxing Day, a dangerous package is smuggled across the English coast. When it goes missing, chaos is unleashed. The body count starts to rise – including someone close to the Thursday Murder Club…
’A tour de force of accessible scholarship’ The Guardian
’Impressive … It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority’ New Statesman
The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching…
On Boxing Day, a dangerous package is smuggled across the English coast. When it goes missing, chaos is unleashed. The body count starts to rise – including someone close to the Thursday Murder Club – as our gang face an impossible search and their most deadly opponents yet. With the clock ticking down and…
A heartbreaking and high-stakes story of queer love and survival set against the backdrop of a climate change apocalypse, this book is Station Eleven and The Last of Us meets All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown.
The world is about to end. Again.
It’s been a year since a devastating storm ripped…
A second chance at a summer romance . . .
Pine Lake Camp has always played a central role in Clara Millen’s life, first as a kid and then in her late teens as a counsellor. Now aged thirty, she and her closest friends return every August to help close up the camp for the season. And when burnout and an awful…
A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt, he overthrew the hated Persian overlords and was welcomed as a saviour. He repaid them by showing due reverence to their long-held traditions. After his…
Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by…
A troubled family. A broken home. A suspicious community. No one ever forgets. From the award-winning author of The Silver Road.
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From New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Roux and acclaimed artist Tim Probert comes the thrilling third novel in the original Dungeons & Dragons middle grade series!
Zelli Stormclash and the Danger Club have only one goal: save their friend Bauble from the evil clutches of Elgred Morbide. There’s…
Moving to an abandoned home in a small Italian town is too good to be true for an American couple in this high-concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden. The next high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden.Across Italy there are many…
’CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH’ Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne
Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire North’s Songs of Penelope trilogy – an exquisite, gripping tale…
From the Queen of Crime, all of her spookiest and most macabre stories collected in one volume, including her earliest published story, ’The Wife of the Kenite’, which is exclusive to this collection.
’From behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high long-drawn scream – such a…
’Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.’
Rincewind, inept wizard and reluctant hero, has found himself magically stranded on the Discworld’s…
’A blast’ – Ian Rankin’A lively celebration of 1980s action stars’ – The Times
From the editor of Empire magazine, this is the behind-the-scenes story of the golden age of the action movie, the stars who ruled 80s and 90s Hollywood and the beloved films – from Die Hard to The…
Kategorier: Familjeromaner Modern och samtida skönlitteratur Skönlitterära teman Skönlitterära teman: mognad och utveckling Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur: allmänt
PEN Open Book Award finalist
Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award winner
Stephen Curry Underrated Literati Book Club Pick
Named a Best Book of Summer by Good Housekeeping, Chicago Magazine, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, Veranda, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Publishers Weekly, and…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Children’s / Teenage personal & social topics: first experiences & growing up Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom: familjen Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom: känslor Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: familjen Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: roliga berättelser
Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story.
Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola’s summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk.
(The boat was barely…
Kategorier: Äventyrsromaner Deckare Historiska deckare Krigsromaner Politiska / juridiska thrillers Psykologiska thrillers Skönlitterära teman Skönlitterära teman: psykologi och känsloliv Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur: allmänt Skräck Technothrillers Thrillers
The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive thriller filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal high-society murder.
In a world of wealth and privilege, a killer is hiding . . .
Dr. Kate English has it all. Not only is she the heiress…
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”This is not just a story of the violence of fascism, but of the burning joy of freedom, and the exhilaration of shaping, with sweat and blood, a better world.”**
From critically acclaimed author Kip Wilson comes this gripping coming of age historical fiction novel in verse about Gerda Taro, a vibrant,…
A gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, based on true events, which follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion of Norway.
Cleo Jaffray was an American. A war in Europe had nothing to do with her. She told…
Career campaigner Fraser Neal continually clashed with local businessmen, most recently over the council’s selling publicly-owned social housing in the Docklands to private developers and displacing vulnerable residents. Until he’s found dead in an alley behind Tennessee Fried Chicken’s wheelie bins.…
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ’Cosy crime of a superior order’ Sunday Times
Words can be dangerous. Sometimes they kill…Natalka and Edwin are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for a big juicy investigation to…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
’Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else’ Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo Vice
Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns…
Kategorier: Affärskommunikation Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management
Like so many other projects, chances are it will be thrown in your lap at the last minute and you’ll be expected to complete it–as envisioned, on schedule, and on budget. You won’t have a lot of time to plan, do research, and make comparisons when you’re choosing a meeting facility, making the…
Death is not the end – either for humans or for all creatures. But while Christianity has obsessed over the future of humanity, it has neglected the ends for nonhuman animals, inanimate creatures, and angels. In Decreation, Paul J. Griffiths explores how orthodox Christian theology might be developed to include…
Jan M Lundahl har fotograferat Bruce Springsteens konserter sedan 1999 och Last man standing: Bruce Springsteen Live 1999-2024 innehåller hundratals bilder på den legendariske artisten med sitt E Street Band, men också anekdoter och minnen från oförglömliga möten med bandmedlemmar och fans. Med förord av…
There is much discussion today about how we are to understand the life of Jesus in the Gospels. What was Jesus doing between his birth and death and how does this relate to salvation? This book corrects the Christian tendency to minimize the life of Jesus, explaining why the Gospels include much more than the Passion…
From legendary Blizzard Entertainment artist Samwise Didier, The Last Winter is a lavishly illustrated epic fantasy novel. Upon the death of Sprign, goddess and creator of the Pandyr and all other beasts in Mistgard, the island has come under attack by ruthless frost and fire giants from afar. Long fragmented,…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: action och äventyr
The final adventure in the bestselling bookwandering series for readers aged eight to twelve
The Pages and Co. series comes to a thrilling end in this perfect final instalment.
When Tilly, Oskar, Milo and Alessia venture into King Arthur’s realm in search of the wizard Merlin, they discover that the magic of…
The Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day. Delivering a tantalising glimpse into Almodóvar’s world, this wildly inventive collection reflects his most intimate obsessions, as well as…
This lush, atmospheric novel blends witchcraft, queer love, a vibrant Edinburgh setting, and Scottish folklore for a propulsive and emotional story exploring what it means to resist the patriarchy and find your voice.
In an alternate Edinburgh of 1824, every woman lives in fear that she will be the next one hanged for…
A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes.
When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last ones left – and whatever…
THE REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR MARCH 2024 A NEW YORK TIMES, ELLE AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING HIGHLIGHT FOR 2024 ’Anita De Monte Laughs Last asks some big questions, like who in art or history is remembered, who is left behind or erased and why. I have goosebumps just talking about this story’ Reese…
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death
A Most Anticipated Book of 2024: TIME, The Washington…
Dominic King doesn't want or need anything . . . except his freedom. The key to his cage is tucked in the suit pocket of his overbearing, overprotective, older brother, Tobias – the leader of a secret vigilante group Dominic helps govern. Their mission? Destroy Roman Horner. And what better way to start than…
Plays to Read – The last egg
Hen is sitting on her eggs when suddenly she hears a sound … CRAAACK! Who will hatch out?
Svårighetsgrad: Lätt (Blå)
Plays to Read är en samling originalpjäser skapade för grupper om sex elever att läsa högt tillsammans. Idén är att eleverna ska läsa pjäsen högt och sedan byta…
’CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH’ Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne
Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire North’s Songs of Penelope trilogy – an exquisite, gripping tale…