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Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow – and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling – and how their…
David Rowan travels the globe in search of the most exciting and pioneering startups building the future. He’s got to know the founders of WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, Spotify, Xiaomi, Didi, Nest, Twitter and countless other ambitious entrepreneurs disrupting businesses in almost every sector. And yet too often…
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Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
D-Day and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed have come to be seen as a defining episode in the Second World War. Its story has been endlessly retold, and yet it remains a narrative burdened by both myth and assumed knowledge.
In this reexamined history, James Holland presents a broader overview,…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Imagine living in a world in which you were routinely patronised by women. Imagine having your views ignored or your expertise frequently challenged by them. Imagine trying to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by female colleagues. Imagine subordinates resisting you as a boss, merely because you’re a…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate interrogations on gender,…
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The thrilling opening chapter in an epic new fantasy from the author of The Malazan Book of the Fallen…
Many years have passed since three Teblor warriors brought carnage and chaos to Silver Lake. Now the tribes of the north no longer venture into the southlands. The town has recovered and yet the legacy…
What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are?
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us, as an elected politician arrested simply for speaking his mind. He remembers what it is like to lack…
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Killing Floor is the first book in the phenomenal bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It introduces Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, he is the perfect action hero for when times get tough.
Margrave is a no-account little town in…
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Kategorier: Informationsteknik
An Economist BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAs the data economy grows in power, Carissa Veliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why that matters and what we can do about it. The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your data.
»En av världens ledande deckarförfattare.« | DAGENS NYHETER
»En av de mest spännande författare som kommit fram i Storbritannien på många år.« | IAN RANKIN
Maureen O’ Donnell genomgår en av sitt livs mörkaste perioder. Hon har en skatteskuld som är större än hennes årliga inkomst; mannen som mördade hennes…
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’It’s all here … everything you ever wanted to know. Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon is an amazing read.’GEORGE R. R. MARTINTHE UNTOLD STORY OF A GLOBAL OBSESSION DIRECT FROM THE SHOW’S CAST AND CREATORS… This official, complete history of HBO’s Game of Thrones will draw on the…
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Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent. Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress…
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The price of fame …is death. When Jenny is spotted by a high-profile modelling agency, she goes from ordinary schoolgirl to celebrity overnight. Suddenly her life is a whirlwind of parties and glamour. Agnes used to be a model too – but now she lies in a hospital bed, slowly being destroyed by an eating…
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Welcome to paradise. We hope you survive your stay…
’It really is The Beach for a new generation – a hot contender for best travel thriller of 2023.’ Janice Hallett
’The Dive turns paradise into a nightmare… and I loved every minute of it.’ Amy McCulloch
’Utterly…
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THE BOOK BEHIND THE AMAZON PRIME/BBC SERIES STARRING DAVID TENNANT, MICHAEL SHEEN, JON HAMM AND BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
’Ridiculously inventive and gloriously funny’ Guardian What if, for once, the predictions are right, and the Apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea?
It’s a…
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Prepare to fall in love with this heart-stoppingly romantic TikTok sensation that everyone’s talking about:
’A true timeless masterpiece. A book that will resonate in your soul and be long remembered’’I’m all cried out. Rebecca Yarros shook me with that twist I didn’t see…
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Belinda Bauer till Sverige 13-16 augusti, som ett av de största affischnamnen på den nystartade deckarfestivalen Crimetime på Gotland.
Skulle du veta att det var en mördare du hade framför dig om du såg honom i ögonen?
Shipcott mitt i vintern är ett samhälle med stark sammanhållning, där ingen främling förblir…
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In the brave new Japan of the 1870s, Taka and Nobu meet as children and fall in love; but their relationship will test the limits of society. Unified after a bitter civil war, Japan is rapidly turning into a modern country with rickshaws, railways and schools for girls. Commoners can marry their children into any…
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”Generation Kill” is about the young men sent to fight their nation’s first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media…
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I’ve lost it. 🙁 The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’ family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive!! 🙂 A couple of…
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Garet James and Will Hughes find themselves back in 21st century Paris, each with an unusual romantic quandary. The 400 year-old remorseful vampire that Garet still loves remains trapped in time, in 1602, as is Marguerite, the young Will’s love, who might reconsider her decision to reject him now that he has…
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Jay Macintosh lever i London, är 37 år, och var en gång hyllad och prisbelönt författare. Men på tio år har han inte förmått skriva något av värde. En dag hittar han sex flaskor vin längst bort i källaren, Specialarna, var och en med sin lilla handskrivna etikett och med ett band om halsen: hallonrött,…
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***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018******SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018***’An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel’ RODDY DOYLEFarouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John’s past torments him as he…
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Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands. At Auschwitz, they made it through the brutal selection process and were put to work. Each day, each hour became a battle for survival.
For Eddy,…
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’A wonderfully haunting debut. Small-town intrigue, exquisitely drawn.’ JANE HARPER, author of The Dry and The Lost Man
’Irresistible, a compelling and nuanced psychological thriller suffused with small town prejudice and dark family secrets.’ PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the…
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If you’ve ever wondered whether you love your dog more than your partner…
Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan. Her career as a children’s book author has taken a nose dive. Her teenage son Teddy treats her with a combination of embarrassment and indifference. She has…
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Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
From the bestselling author of Normandy ’44 and Sicily ’43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war
’Seldom is war so vividly described…An assault on the senses…Painful to read, impossible to put down’ Gerard DeGroot, The Times ’Epic and moving…Holland brings…
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One final letter. His last wish. Go and be with her…
Beckett,
If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have.
I need one thing from you: get out of the army and…
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Welcome to paradise. We hope you survive your stay…
’It really is The Beach for a new generation – a hot contender for best travel thriller of 2023.’ Janice Hallett
’The Dive turns paradise into a nightmare… and I loved every minute of it.’ Amy McCulloch
’Utterly…
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’WOW! So full of suspense. The ending was a shocker!’ Reader Review
’Propulsive, sinister, gripping’ – ALEX MICHAELIDES, international bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Fear
’One thing I’ve learned, these last few weeks, is that small acts of kindness are far…
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’Darkness isn’t the opposite of light, it is simply its absence . . . what was radiating from the book was the light that lies on the far side of darkness, the light fantastic.’
The Discworld is in danger, heading towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, its magic fading.…
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Parisian photographer O returns to the place of her sexual initiation – the elegant chateau Roissy. Here, she submits completely to the sexual whims of one man…her lover. This is the sequel to the classic French erotic bestseller, and a darkly seductive story of dominance and submission. Read it if you…
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It’s all change for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, conman, and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office. A steaming, clanging new invention, driven by Dick Simnel, the man with t’flat cap and t’sliding rule, is drawing astonished crowds – including a few particularly keen young men armed…
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