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’One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time and time again that he is among the best of his generation’ Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets’A small classic of the biographer’s…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
What if being lucky wasn’t just chance but a skill you could master? Learn to identify and act on serendipity to lead a more joyful, purposeful, and successful life! ’A wise, exciting and life-changing book’ Arianna Huffington, author of Thrive
Modern life is full of chance encounters, changing…
***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***
Feel like you’re always drowning in email? How much more would you achieve without them – and how much happier would you be?
Emails are an integral part of work today. But the ’kind regards’, forwards and attachments we check every 5.4 minutes are making us…
’The most compelling biography I have read in years . . .
There has been a host of JFK biographies, but this one excels for its narrative drive, fine judgments and meticulous research . . .
makes the story seem a cliffhanger even though we know what is coming’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times’In his utterly…
’I love it, I love it, I love it. Just reading this makes you more content’ Chris Evans’Comforting and cosy for the heart and soul’ Fearne Cotton’This book will help you make your home somewhere you feel comfortable, safe and calm’ Emma GunsA gorgeous guide to the Danish art of…
Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical…
The complete lyrics from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave, spanning his entire career to date, with a new foreword by Andrew O’Hagan
From Nick Cave’s writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henry’s Dream, DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! and Ghosteen,…
A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: kärlek och relationer
Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost’s last mining ship has revenge on her mind as she and her crew voyage up the Serpentine River in search of gold. But there is something Poe wants even more than gold, however – to annihilate the river raiders who, two years ago, killed the boy she…
In 1906, an American named Isaac Bell stops the groundbreaking Grey Ghost – a legendary prototype Rolls-Royce – from vanishing from Manchester, England forever.
But not even the legendary detective can save the good name of the man accused of stealing the car. More than a hundred years later, it is Jonathon…
Kategorier: Konst
The stunning new novel about the joys and heartbreaks of a family divided and reunited, from the bestselling author of the Richard & Judy selection Love, Iris’I loved this book’ Katie FfordeThe Chamberlain family used to be close. Charlie and Daphne were happily married, and their children Laura,…
Kategorier: Informationsteknik
’Levy portrays a tech company where no one is taking responsibility for what it has unleashed’ Financial Times’This fascinating book reveals the imperial ambitions of Facebook’s founder’ James Marriott, Sunday Times’The inside story of how Facebook went from idealism to…
An indispensable guide and call to action to take control of our economic power and hold corporations to a higher standard’A pragmatic and original roadmap to transform capitalism into a system that’s more inclusive, sustainable, and just’Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller…
Step into Stephen Fry’s richly colourful world of magic, mayhem, monsters and maniacal gods in MYTHOS: THE ILLUSTRATED STORY
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses.
In Stephen Fry’s vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from…
A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics
Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair?
The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in our…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The never-before-told inside story of the Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia investigationIn the autumn of 2015, the founders of the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, were hired by a republican client to look into the records of Donald Trump. What began as a march through…
Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions – and the dangers – of the twentieth-century World.
Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism and…
Kategorier: Informationsteknik
’I couldn’t imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise, impeccably clear and always humane’ Tim Harford
How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What…
THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN
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’An absolute delight from start to finish’ Shari Lapena
’A rattling good story’ Ann Cleeves ’Another witty, charming and hugely entertaining read ……
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY.
With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. The End of…
Kategorier: Föroreningar och miljöhot Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Klimatförändringar Miljön
The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than a half-century warning of our impact on our planet. From her famous encounters with chimpanzees in the forests of Gombe as a young woman to her tireless campaigning for the environment in her late eighties, Jane has become the godmother…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY
The ’conquistadores’, the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian…
From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change
One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar…
The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens”What do you think that is?’ she asked me, again pointing with her stick; ’that, where those cobwebs are?””I can’t guess what it is, ma’am.””It’s a great cake. A bride-cake.…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went…
What if the power to hurt were in women’s hands? Suddenly – tomorrow or the day after – teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonising pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman’s extraordinary, visceral novel are…
Officially, Max McLean doesn’t exist. The British government denies all knowledge of the work he does on their behalf to keep us safe. But Max and his masters are losing faith in each other. And they’ve given him one last chance to prove he’s still their man.
Sent to a military research facility to…
The best-known of Shirley Jackson’s novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear
’Shirley Jackson’s stories are among the most terrifying ever written’ Donna…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER’Brilliant … a historical masterpiece’ The Times Literary SupplementFrom one of Britain’s most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. …
Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for eighteen years.
She thought she needed the feeding tube, the surgeries, the wheelchair . . .
Turns out her mother is a really good liar.
After five years in prison, Patty Watts is finally free. All she wants is to put old grievances behind her, reconcile with the daughter who…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
’One of the great mythic poems of Europe’ The New York TimesSharing its title with the poetic name for Finland – ’the land of heroes’ – Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of its people, a work rich in magic and myth which tells the story of a nation through the ages from the dawn of…
Francis Sancher, a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others, is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au Sel, a small village in Guadeloupe. No one is particularly surprised since Sancher, a secretive and melancholy man, had often predicted an unnatural death for himself. As the…
’All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them,…