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Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community of haenyeo, women who make their living from diving deep into the sea off the southernmost tip of Korea.
One day Hana sees a Japanese soldier heading for where Emi is guarding the day’s catch on the beach. Her mother has told her again and again never…
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The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco’s perennial areas of interest explored in a lively and engaging style, accompanied by…
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’A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love’ GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over – just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build…
Kategorier: Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER ’BOOKS OF 2021’ PICK From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret. The secret to superhuman strength.
She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism,…
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In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time. Here are the myths of Heracles and Theseus, the Trojan war, Thebes and Argos and Athens. They are stories of love and desire, adventure and magic, destructive gods, helpless humans, fantastical creatures…
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Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway’s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway’s well-known interest in – and fascination with – big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this…
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This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen,…
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In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves…
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Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. As always…
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A beautiful hardback edition of a modern classic and winner of ’The Best of the Booker’ – the best novel from Booker Prize history.
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India’s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he…
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’Life-changing’ DAVINA McCALL’A must-read’ DR RUPY AUJLA’Fascinating’ NIGELLA LAWSON’Empowering’ LIZ EARLE
**AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST**
Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat – for our health and the…
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Maureen O’Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. The psychologist who murdered her boyfriend is up for trial, with Maureen as the reluctant star witness, and her abusive father has arrived back in Glasgow. On top of it all, she has become embroiled in someone else’s family feud.
When an elderly…
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDInnocent of guilty. It’s a matter of which lines you cross. It’s mid-winter and a body is discovered in a flat just outside Lafferton.
It’s a drugs overdose but something doesn’t feel right. The place is entirely empty. Damp walls, bare floorboards.
Not even a bed.…
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This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favourite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince’s chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other…
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A Silent Fire is a captivating expert account of inflammation’s hidden role in many of the diseases of modernity and what we can actually do about it.
’Controlling Inflammation is the key to good health and this beautifully written and researched book is the best way to understand it’ TIM SPECTOR, #1…
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She will breathe a new empire into life – but all worlds can escape their creator…
’Full of adventure…a celebration of the power of storytelling’ GUARDIAN
In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change…
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** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 **
A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were
Jamie O’Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar…
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THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE COURTROOM ISN’T THE KILLER…
’I raced through it. Brilliant writing, properly tense and a fascinating perspective on criminal trials with an interpreter protagonist’ Harriet Tyce author of Blood Orange
A GUILTY MAN IS ABOUT TO GO…
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**AS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFAST**
Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos.
’An electrifying new history of the universe’ HANNAH FRY, author of Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to…
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’A hell of a read’ Sunday Times ’Triumphant, and beautifully told…one of the best novelists writing today’ Sara Collins, Guardian All must gamble with their fate. But not all can win…
In the city of Bath, in the year 1865 Jane Adeane, renowned for her restorative skills, is…
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’I’ve been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . .
Each of her novels is just a marvel’ Anne TylerClara’s rebellious older sister is missing. Grief-stricken and bewildered, she yearns to uncover the truth about what happened. Liam, newly divorced and newly unemployed, moves into the…
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’There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other bank with his mother.
He was not here’When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name, the Gravedigger,…
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VINTAGE CLASSICS’ HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIESCelebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. ’She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity’Nella Larsen wrote two novels in her lifetime, both of which are collected…
As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy fire, it’s the perfect time for a dash of the supernatural…embrace the gloom with spine-chillers from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton and many more
Do you believe in ghosts?
Ghosts, spirits, spectres or spooks, we have always felt…
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A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino’s incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork.
You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer’s error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the…
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Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother’s loneliness had been.
A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, from the…
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VINTAGE CLASSICS’ AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their…
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Bulgakov paints an excellent picture of Stalin’s regime in this allegorical masterpiece.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF
The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel PozziIn the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’ shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a…
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For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sheryl Sandberg and Mary Beard, Women and Leadership is a powerful call to arms about the lack of women at the top. ’Who better qualified to delve into this topic?’ Business Life
Women make up less than 10 per cent of national leaders, and behind this lies a…
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The second volume of Robert Crawford’s magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources. In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century’s most important poet, Robert Crawford completes the story he began in Young…
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