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A cold-case whodunnit [and] a Shadow of the Wind-style quest” – John Dugdale, Sunday Times”Bestselling writer Luca D’Andrea has concocted a fearsome witches’ brew of myth, memory and mayhem” Sunday Times Crime ClubA haunting thriller drawing on myths,…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Karriär och framgång Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Is it your dream to make it as a creative? Imagine for one moment that there are no employers, no firms to send your CV to, no interviews to be had. How would you forge your own path? The most ingenious and driven designers have found ways of making opportunities for themselves across the creative disciplines –…
How often have you seen a label on a product proclaiming it to be made from ’recycled material’, ’bioplastic’ or similar, without it giving any details of the concrete environmental benefits? What do these terms really mean? A drive for greater transparency and demonstrable environmental…
In an overcrowded Stockholm underground station a father and his two boys are late for their train. Joel, the youngest, is howling in his pushchair and his seven-year-old brother, Kristoffer, refuses to take the lift. A woman approaches and offers to lead Kristoffer up the stairs. Reluctantly his father agrees, but…
Little Walsingham has always been famous for religious visions, so when Ruth’s druid friend Cathbad, now living with police officer Judy, sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, no one is too shocked. But then a woman dressed in a blue cloak is found dead, and people begin to see the apparition in a different light.…
A REPORTER WITH NO FEAR
1979. Jaded Edinburgh journalist Neil Bannerman is sent to Europe, intent on digging up dirt. Yet it is danger he discovers, when two British men are found murdered.
A CHILD WITH NO FATHER
One victim is a journalist, the other a Cabinet Minister: the double-assassination witnessed by the…
From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of THE DARKEST MINDS comes a high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption. A lifetime ago, Lore Perseous left behind the brutal, opulent world of the Agon families – ancient Greek bloodlines that participate in a merciless game every seven years. A game that…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Discover the ancient wisdom of the Chinese zodiac to get lucky in life, work and love.
Are you a charismatic tiger, a lucky rabbit or perhaps a witty monkey? Whatever your zodiac animal, this essential beginner’s guide to Chinese astrology will help you to understand yourself more deeply and make better decisions…
Kategorier: Konst
This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial contexts in which this relationship has developed.In this…
In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war.
’A historical epic that Jessie Burton fans will adore’ GRAZIA’Exquisite, relevant and immersive’ ANNA MAZZOLA’A triumph’ GUARDIAN
Anne is a former patient from a women’s asylum trying to…
A thriller that explores a world where the boundaries between reality and a darker truth are blurred.
If it weren’t for the nightmares, Ben would say he had a good life. He’s happy with his steady job; he loves his wife and kids. But it’s hard to ignore the dark, violent images that are so vivid…
The Four Horsemen – War, Pestilence, Famine and Death – first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago, but they continue to track us in our own time. This original and inspiring study bycelebrated historian Emily Mayhew traces the advances in science, technology and humanitarianism that are…
***********************Lisbeth Salander returns to take her revenge in the most explosive novel of the series – 100 million copies of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series sold worldwide”Complex, satisfying, clever, moral . . . a grown-up novel for grown-up readers . . . Rightly a publishing phenomenon all…
Some people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .
Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow.
Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril…
A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital – by one of Sweden’s most exciting literary talents ”I’ll put my head in the oven so you know where I am,” he whispers, kissing her neck. Jim – charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends…
Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules. After moving in, she discovers that a previous tenant, Emma, met a mysterious death there – and starts to…
Claire Wright likes to play other people.
A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands.
When one of her targets becomes the subject of a murder investigation,…
BOOK ONE IN THE MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A RICHARD & JUDY PICK. WINNER OF THE USA’S BARRY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR.PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES’One of the best regarded crime series of recent years’ Independent
A brutal…
Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when Covid rears its ugly head. But can they find the killer despite lockdown?
Ruth is in London clearing out her mother’s belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Her mother…
Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood-drinkers, is smart and beautiful – and very dangerous. Domingo…
From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of MEXICAN GOTHIC (July 2020) and VELVET WAS THE NIGHT (August 2021), comes UNTAMED SHORE, a dark cocktail mixing a nuanced coming-of-age story with a classical noir.
’Brutality takes on an almost divine quality’ LA Review of Books
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Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs – yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face,…
The Imposters is the first novel in stories that Tom Rachman has written since his international bestseller The Imperfectionists.’An astonishing achievement – brutally funny, humane, dizzying – will win Rachman the readership he deserves’ Patrick Gale’Easily the best thing I have read in…
The best-selling and award-winning journalist Anders Roslund and ex-criminal Brge Hellstrm are Sweden’s most acclaimed fiction duo. Roslund and Hellstrm combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with searing social criticism in complex, intelligent plots, propelling them to the forefront of…
When a mass grave containing eighteen mutilated female corpses is discovered in Shanghai, detective Li Yan is sent from Beijing to establish if the bodies are linked to an unsolved murder in the capital. Here, Li will be working with Mei Ling, deputy head of Shanghai’s serious crime squad. Mei Ling is a…
Private investigator and ex-soldier Lee Arnold and superintendent Paul Venus are by no means friends, but when Venus’ son Harry is kidnapped and ransom demands arrive from an address in Arnold’s patch in east London, the superintendent doesn’t know who else to turn to. Arnold and his partner Mumtaz…
Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out.
So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow…
An early gem from the creator of the Kurt Wallander series, charting the life of a principled man through tragedy, heartbreak, true love and the battle for a nation’s soul.
At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him…