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A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for fifteen years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.
In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years.…
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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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A glorious rollercoaster ride through myth, cyberspace, love and revolution, Alif the Unseen mixes ancient magic with modern adventure to create an extraordinary story.
”I will tell you a story, but it comes with a warning; when you hear it, you will become someone else.” He calls himself Alif, a young man…
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Marc Schlosser is a doctor to the rich and famous. When his most famous patient, the actor Ralph Meier, invites him and his family on holiday, Marc finds that he can’t refuse. But by the time the suntans fade, Ralph Meier is dead. The medical board accuses Marc of negligence. Ralph’s wife, however, accuses…
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Sherman Alexie, född och uppvuxen på Spokane-stammens reservat i delstaten Washington, framstår i dag allt mer som en av USA:s viktigaste yngre författare.
»En språkets mästare som skriver vackert, skoningslöst och rakt in i hjärtat« för att tala med tidskriften The Nation.
Rödskinn är en samling berättelser där…
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Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
Those concerned with the current eco-crisis most often look only to scientists and politicians for solutions. In this important book, Patricia Cori invites another, overlooked group—perhaps the most important one—to join the discussion. Beyond the Matrix collects some of the most provocative,…
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Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Mystik, magi och det ockulta Shamanism, hednisk religion och druidism
In 1980, Michael Harner blazed the trail for the worldwide revival of shamanism with his seminal classic The Way of the Shaman. In this long-awaited sequel, he provides new evidence of the reality of heavens.
Drawing from a lifetime of personal shamanic experiences and more than 2,500 reports of Westerners’…
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’Every essay in this book is magnificent… Mesmerizing.’ New York Times’How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon,…
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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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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Do we have free will? Is the universe compatible with God? Do we live in a computer simulation? Does the universe think?
Physicists are great at complicated research, but they are less good at telling us why it matters. In this entertaining and groundbreaking book, theoretical physicist…
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A gorgeous, large-scale photo book packed with unexpected perspectives of the Atlantic and western European coastal areas, to inspire European visitors and residents as well as armchair tourists and photography buffs around the worldAs the most visited region in the world, Europe offers a tremendous range of…
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With locations in San Francisco, Berkeley, Marin, and Los Angeles, Café Gratitude has become well known for its inspiring environment and distinctive, flavorful organic foods. In I Am Grateful, cofounder Terces Engelhart presents her and her husband Matthew’s view of life and business philosophy. She also presents her…
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Can we resurrect dinosaurs? Is a Martian holiday good for your health? Can we build a time machine? (And more importantly, can it look like the DeLorean?) Answering these questions and more, Rick Edwards and Dr. Michael Brooks delve into the real science behind the greatest sci-fi movies ever made. From Planet of the…
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Kategorier: Modern och samtida skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: allmänt Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
»Sötvatten är ren perfektion: sexig, sensuell, spirituell, klok. En av de mest bländande debutromaner jag någonsin läst.« Taiye Selasi, The Guardian
Ada är ett annorlunda barn. Inom sig hör hon röster som utger sig komma från barn till guden Ala, vars världsliga manifestation var den pytonorm som hennes pappa en dag…
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Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
The most comprehensive how-to/where-to fishing book you’ll find anywhere, covering coastal bay, inlet, inshore, and offshore angling from New York to North Carolina. Whether you fish for flounder off Shinnecock Inlet or yellowfin tuna off Oregon Inlet, Rudow’s Guide will provide you with the know-how you…
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Rich with humour, insight, compassion – and absolute honesty – Tiny Beautiful Things is a balm for everything life throws our way, administered by the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir, Wild.
Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you, you lose a family member, you can’t pay the bills.…
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Dark, disturbing and deliciously twisty, Reptile Memoirs is a biting and brilliant exploration of the cold-bloodedness of humanity – perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Jo Nesbo and Tana French.
What readers are saying about Reptile Memoirs
’Truly unusual and terrifying’ ’Dark, heart-wrenching…
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’Superbly realised. You’ll go a long way before you find a better-written thriller this year’ THE TIMES
Breathtaking . . . filled with twists and turns’ JEFFERY DEAVER
*Featured on The Times’ Best Summer Reading of 2022**Featured on Crimereads’ Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2022!*…
’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: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
Mind-altering substances, according to many of the essays in this book, have played a major part not only in cultural development but also in human brain development. Researchers suggest that we purposely enhanced receptor sites in the brain, especially dopamine and serotonin, through the use of plants and fungi over a…
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Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet’s New York & the Mid Atlantic is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch the world go by in New York’s Central Park, hop between grand…
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Here’s a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life – possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse.
Meet Balram Halwai, the ’White Tiger’: servant, philosopher, entrepreneur… murderer. …
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Celebrated landscape designer Terry Wallace guides you in the creation of the landscape of your dreams in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Discover the joy and satisfaction to be found in creating a garden that complements and enhances your lifestyle. Wallace takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a…
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Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as a refuge from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the marine world of her childhood, she excels in postgraduate research on ancient algae. When an unfathomable vent appears in the mid-Atlantic floor, Leigh joins the investigating team; what she…
’The quintessential holiday rom-com…Three Holidays and a Wedding combines two budding romances, a massive snowstorm, unlikely friends, meddling family members, and one magical small town for the most festive book you’ll read this year’ CARLEY FORTUNEThree times the holiday magic. Three times the…
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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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A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops; it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design…
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Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Kristaller och färgterapi Parapsykologi och psykiska fenomen
Often dubbed the ”crystals bible,” this comprehensive reference guide to the spiritual and healing qualities of 455 sacred stones has become the go-to book for looking up the properties of gems and minerals. Each entry includes vivid color photographs for each stone to aid identification and to showcase its…
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Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in love and he now presents one of the world’s most popular science podcasts. Every year he meets hundreds of the world’s greatest…
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Kategorier: Författningsrätt och förvaltningsrätt Juridik Mänskliga och medborgerliga rättigheter Särskilda rättsområden
BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2022, NEW STATESMAN & CITY AM
Chosen as one of the Financial Time’s Best Summer Books of 2022
Longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
’Compelling, powerful and necessary.’ Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance…
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Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2023
’Not since Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger has the rotten core of modern India been exposed in quite such blackly antic fashion as Parini Shroff manages here in this intermittently absurd, feminist revenge caper about…
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Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
While traveling in the remote Camargue region in the South of France, Padma Aon Prakasha received a life-changing visit. In a series of communions over two months, the thirteen Apostles and masters of Christ shared the thirteen qualities of Christ Consciousness with him.
Now Prakasha shares this Christ Blueprint with…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Mandatory reading’ Steven Pinker 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…
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Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
Här återges handelns historia inte utifrån politiska perspektiv utan snarare som en evolutionär process lika gammal som krig och religion som kommer att fortsätta främja mänskligheten och krympa världen. Längs vägen ger Bernstein, en lysande historieberättare och en framstående ekonom, liv åt en lång rad fascinerande…
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Ocean Country is an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning accident in which she was…
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