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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 replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were…
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Kategorier: Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
This long-awaited new graphic novel from Daniel Clowes (Ghost World and Patience) is a genre-bending thriller from one of the most assured storytellers of all time.Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story ? actually, stories ? of its title character. Clowes calls upon a…
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Through the story of his grandparents and parents, and his brothers’ involvement in the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi deftly etches a tumultuous era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, and the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war.
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Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems — and how we can solve them
’Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD * ’Invigorating, inspiring, often surprising’ DAVID WALLACE-WELLS *…
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Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Through the sweeping, extraordinary story of his own and his father’s lives, Ai Weiwei – one of the world’s most famous artists and activists – tells an epic tale of China over the last 100 years.
Ai Weiwei’s sculptures and installations have been viewed by millions around the globe, and…
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Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls’ shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store and then at a protest. The two women are seemingly at opposite ends…
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THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Murder. Assassination. Revenge.
Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crime. Meet a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a hired assassin facing his greatest adversary; and two passengers meeting by chance on a plane,…
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Japanese fairy tales – enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.
Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa’s stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as ’The Ungrateful Rat’ where a rude rodent…
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Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
’Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had’ Financial Times
How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?
From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new…
’Gripping . . . You won’t put it down’ Sunday Telegraph
A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction.
Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation; another can only find respite from the clinging…
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Kategorier: Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
An intricate reworking of the long-lost crime bestseller that outsold Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
In this stunning reimagining of a nineteenth-century Russian crime thriller, Carol Adlam presents Charlie Fox, stunt journalist, magician, liar and thief, who reluctantly returns to her hometown of Nowheregrad to investigate…
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Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island – the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.
Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri’s carnival, a young female steel pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will…
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’He captures better than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusion of history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive’ Guardian
’Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next everybody seemed to understand…
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Discover the first novel in the addictive Wallander series.’Wallander is among the very best fictional crimebusters’ Daily Telegraph
One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath.
An…
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They start a secret, forbidden affair – but nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined. A DYSTOPIAN MASTERPIECE, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR IS THE POWERFUL AND PROPHETIC NOVEL THAT DEFINED THE 20TH CENTURY.
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Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Karriär och framgång Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Kitamura has made the existential thriller all her own, and she effortlessly negotiates the personal and the geopolitical with a complex moral nuance.’ Brandon Taylor’Intimacies is a novel about the ruthlessness of power, the check of virtue, and the purportedly neutral bureaucracy meant to mediate between…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *AS SEEN ON ITV’S THIS MORNING AND BBC MORNING LIVE**
Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Is there any point in counting calories? Is there any evidence that coffee is bad for us? Through his pioneering research, Professor Tim Spector busts these and many other…
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A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the authorWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student…
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Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it’ Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves
The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they…
Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars – the highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program inside America’s private prison system. Harkening back to the time of gladiators, but watched by millions of live-stream subscribers, prisoners compete for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
Loretta Thurwar and…
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Classic crime, at its very best.
With a new introduction by Gyles Brandreth.
The Red House is a country residence far removed from the world of the Hundred Acre Wood but its story has much of the same charm and wit. There is, of course, a murder, and when the local police fail to solve the crime, an amateur sleuth…
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A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most subversive novels ever written – reading Catch-22 is a rite of passage.
Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His…
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YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.
’Fabulous… Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel’ NEIL GAIMAN, author of Coraline
This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you…
An…
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* Shortlisted for Fiction – 2023 Nero Book Awards *
After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family…
’Gripping… a triumph’SUNDAY TIMES
’Heartbreaking’VOGUE
It’s 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate,…
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Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.
Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer.…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Imagine a world where…
* Your phone is too big for your hand * Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body * In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.
If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you’re a woman. …
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Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro’s career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever writtenThis first-ever selection of Alice Munro’s stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Looking for a summer read with bite?’OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN’ BONNIE GARMUS, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry’BRILLIANT’ Stylist’INCREDIBLE’ Carmen Maria MachadoOne day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else… At…
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The sequel to Bernice L. McFadden’s incredible classic debut and the Richard and Judy 2021 Book Club pick, SugarIn This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she’d come to break with the past. With her worn leopard-print suitcase and her head held high, she walks past the…
’A book of wonders’ Bee Wilson, Sunday Times Books of the Year
Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2022 – Eating to Extinction is an astonishing journey through the past, present and future of food, showing why reclaiming a diverse food culture is vital for our future.
’Saladino inspires us to…
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After years away from her family’s homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers at their family home in Haifa, Sonia hasn’t been back since the second intifada…
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’A subtle and beautiful meditation’ Sunday Times
In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ’Of all tasks, describing the contents of…
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Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Litteraturvetenskap och litteraturkritik Litteraturvetenskap: allmänt
While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are changing at home. He arrives back for his first visit since starting school to find his house razed to the ground and the entire village moved up the road closer to a guard…
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