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’So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know, regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff’ Lucy Mangan, Book of the Year, Stylist *Winner of the British Book Design and Production Award for Graphic…
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else.
How to be Bothis a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending…
Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there for decades, they rely on trade with passing sailors to earn a living. When their relative arrives unannounced from Germany,…
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and…
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac’s Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes…
The secret diary of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman and the real story behind the BBC TV ABSOLUTELY FASHION documentary. ’One of the great social diaries of our time …should become a classic.’ Sunday Times ’Eye-popping, brilliantly candid’ Evening Standard What a year for Vogue!…
Kate Rafter has spent her life running from her past. But when her mother dies, she’s forced to return to Herne Bay – a place her sister Sally never left. But something isn’t right in the old family home. On her first night Kate is woken by terrifying screams. And then she sees a shadowy figure in the…
The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the…
Looking back, it all started on the day of the fair and the terrible accident. When twelve-year-old Eddie first met the Chalk Man.
It was the Chalk Man who gave Eddie the idea for the drawings: a way to leave secret messages between his group of friends.
And it was fun, to start with, until the figures led them to the…
Elizabeth, Zoe and Andrew met at college, had a band, grew up, settled in New York and somehow twenty years passed by. Still living round the corner from one another (and in each other’s pockets) they’re watching as their kids come of age one hot summer. But just as the kids start making those first…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Awarded The Prix Du Jury Des Grands Prix De La Fondation Napoleon 2014. From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from…
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Bloodlines: Silver Shadows is the heart-pounding fifth instalment in the bestselling Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead, set in the world of the international bestseller, Vampire Academy – now a major film. Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of…
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Some loves are curse, others are dangerous…Especially the love between wannabe rocker and quarter Incubus, Wesley ’Link’ Lincoln, and Dark Caster, Siren, and bonafide bad girl, Ridley Duchannes. But now Ridley is missing, and Link was with her right up until she vanished. Determined to find her, Link…
’She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She’d put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.’
Suddenly – tomorrow or the day after…
The relationship between horses and humans is an ancient, profound and complex one. For millennia horses provided the strength and speed that humans lacked. How we travelled, farmed and fought was dictated by the needs of this extraordinary animal. And then, suddenly, in the 20th century the links were broken and the…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The only relief from the sea of logos is within the well-guarded borders of the Burbclaves. Is it any wonder that most sane folks have forsaken the real world and chosen to live in the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? In a major city, the size of a dozen Manhattans, is a domain of pleasures limited…
’THE SWEETEST LOVE STORY…YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE IT!’ MARIAN KEYESPrepare to be swept away by the love story that everyone’s talking about this Autumn… Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist. After all, life isn’t a scene from the movies, is it? But then,…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
On 14th April 2014, 276 girls disappeared from a secondary school in northern Nigeria, kidnapped by the world’s deadliest terror group. A tiny number have escaped back to their families but over 200 remain missing. Reporting from inside the traumatised and blockaded community of Chibok, Helon Habila tracks down…
When psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town in which she grew up, she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, lives and loves but alongside them, painful memories; a past she wouldn’t allow to destroy her.
Then, years later, an old classmate appears in London,…
There’s trouble in paradise . . .
For as long as she can remember, Jemma has been planning the perfect honeymoon. A fortnight’s retreat to a five-star resort in the Maldives, complete with luxury villas, personal butlers and absolute privacy.
It should be paradise. But it’s turned into a…
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Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are heading alone back to Earth following the virus that completely wiped out the rest of their crew, and their family, in its entirety.
Nathan’s ship is heading in the opposite direction. But on the journey it is attacked. Only a few survive.
Their lives unexpectedly collide.…
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This is the second title in this number one, bestselling spin-off series from ”Percy Jackson” creator, Rick Riordan. This crazy messed up world of gods and monsters is ”Percy Jackson’s” reality, which pretty much sucks for him. Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, God of the Sea, has woken from…
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Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things – eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside. But ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren’t stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world – from American ’shooters’ and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our…
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In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, former President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped his nation. From the artistry of Georgia O’Keeffe, to the courage of Jackie Robinson, to the patriotism of George Washington, Barack…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Stylist magazine has asked that question of remarkable women from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sport and fashion. With honesty, wit and a serious no-BS attitude, their lessons address the challenges every woman faces today, from climbing the career ladder and finding inner fulfilment, to forging authentic…
When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users’ personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting…
Deep in the forest near Burma’s border with China, a young woman sees something she wasn’t supposed to see. In Portland, Oregon, a troubled young man crashes his bicycle on his way to work – and then gets fired. In New York, a famous self-help author goes on daytime TV – and suddenly conceives…
”The Girl You Left Behind” is a hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of the ”Richard and Judy” bestseller, ”Me Before You”. What happened to the girl you left behind? France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored…
”The Boy That Never Was is that powerful thing, a beautifully written mystery driven by its exploration of the characters’ innermost hearts”. (Tana French). You were loved and lost – then you came back…Five years ago, three-year-old Dillon disappeared. For his father Harry – who left…
This is a story about falling in love, and of a relationship that’s falling apart.
It’s the story of a young couple, graduating from Yale and moving to New York in search of the shared future they’d always dreamed about. Of crisp morning strolls through Central Park, taxi horns and the bustle of…
Grace, Lia and Sky live in an abandoned hotel, on a sun-bleached island, beside a poisoned sea. Their parents raised them there to keep them safe, to make them good. The world beyond the water is contaminated and men are the contamination. But one day three strangers wash ashore – men who stare at the sisters…
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The final thrilling part of the ”New York Times” bestselling trilogy, ”Reached” is the sequel to ”Matched” and ”Crossed” by Ally Condie. After leaving the Society and desperately searching for each other – and the Rising – Cassia and Ky have found what they…