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ON DARK NIGHTS, SOMEONE NEEDS TO LIGHT A FEW FIRES . . .
Bodies are piling up with messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for control. New drugs have arrived in Glasgow, and they’ve brought a different kind of violence to the broken city.
The law of the street is changing and demons…
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You may be familiar with the idea of our body’s biome – the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientific understanding: discover your body’s electrome.
Every cell in our bodies – bones, skin, nerves,…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Reportage och samlingar av journalistiska texter
Brexit divided Britain. For many it wasn’t simply about economics, it was about ’taking back control’, about some non-specific idea of sovereignty. But six years later the real effects of Brexit are being clearly seen. And questions need to be asked as to whether it lived up to any of the promises…
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’I am with you always, even unto the end of the world …’. Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible – his…
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2020 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE’My oshi was on fire. Word was he’d punched a fan’High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as one-fifth of Japanese pop group Maza Maza. Akari’s dedication…
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Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that. To understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibilities sit upon their shoulders. To recover the histories that have been…
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When Asha starts work on a revolutionary app together with her new husband Cyrus, she’s thrilled. But while she creates an ingenious algorithm, Cyrus’ charismatic appeal throws him into the spotlight. What happens when the app explodes into the next big thing? Gripping, witty and razor-sharp,
The Startup…
For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book celebrating…
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZE
At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has…
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When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull?
Cora carries secrets her daughter can’t know.Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid.Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground.
One act of violence sets the three women on a…
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WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTION
Hussam and Wassim are teenage boys living in Syria during America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wassim promises Hussam his protection, but ten years into the…
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Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature – vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for nearly a decade, to get to the heart of what our stories about the wolf reveal about our relationships with one…
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Baggage is the story of Alan Cumming’s life in Hollywood, taking us through the highs and lows of his career, from his struggle with mental health and failed relationships to encounters with legends (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!). Cumming shows how every experience – each bad decision or…
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA’S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE – FICTION 2023’A highly enigmatic, affectionate and robustly written portrayal of a mother-son relationship . . . very…
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Could a story save your life?
If Kelsey Newman’s theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But who would want that?
Certainly not Meg, a bright spark trapped in a hopeless relationship. But if she can work out the connection between a wild beast on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle,…
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AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4
The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea. But when she turns sixteen, her father is murdered by men he thought were friends.
In a town where lawlessness prevails, Goody and her brother Francis must…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020’DEVASTATING’ Marlon James, ’A MODERN CLASSIC’ Andrew Sean Greer, ’BRILLIANT’ Salman Rushdie, ’MAGNIFICENT’ Aminatta Forna, ’EPIC’ Mary Morris, ’WONDERFUL’ Laila Lalami, ’UNFORGETTABLE’ The Times,…
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Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
In this endlessly stimulating investigation into ’things coming to an end, artists’ last works, time running out’, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who’ve…
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AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021’Seductive . . .
Gorgeous’ The Times’Gives voice to one of fiction’s most conspicuously absent women’ iWord has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle.
But someone has survived: Lear’s queen. Though her grief and…
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Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun. And how to protect her sister, Peppa. Because Peppa is ten, which is how old Sal was when Robert started on her.
Told in…
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE’Superb’ The Times Crime Book of the Month’A hardboiled gem’ Guardian’I doubt I’ll read a better book this year’ Val McDermid
Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has…
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36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity – and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression and historical trauma.
But it also means the violence of that assumption. Of being always assumed…
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One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.
The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan – and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: action och äventyr
Fourteen-year-old Elle and her friends are going to a not-to-be-missed funfair. But a ride on the Ghost Train takes them further than they ever imagined. They end up in 1880, face-to-face with criminal mastermind, The Grandfather!
To Elle’s surprise, he needs her help. Someone has threatened to reveal The Gift…
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A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven.
Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her…
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Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides a partial refuge from her grief and her volatile relationship with her mother. She spends late nights at the bar where her old friend Declan works, and there Erin meets an American academic who is…
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She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn’t mind leaving this world through an untimely death.
Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. But while on an assassination job for the ’disease control’ company she works for,…
A Guardian literary highlight A Huffington Post ’One to Watch’
’Astounding’ LENA DUNHAM, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl
’The First Bad Man brings together all of July’s talents – it’s a book that must be read, a book that must be purchased –…
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