Potiki
Grace, Patricia
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by "Dollarmen" -- property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In Potiki, one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols provides moving affirmation of the relationship between land and the people who live on it.
The Janus Stone
Griffiths, Elly
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
Ruth Galloway's expertise is called upon when builders, demolishing an old house in Norwich, uncover the bones of a child - minus the skull - beneath a doorway. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson investigates. The house was once a children's home.
Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the place. He tells him that two children did go missing forty years before - a boy and a girl. They were never found.
When carbon dating proves that the child's bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is trying hard to put her off the scent by frightening her to death...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds …
Goodbye to Berlin
Isherood, Christopher
Bog
First published in 1939, this novel obliquely evokes the gathering storm of Berlin before and during the rise to power of the Nazis. Events are seen through the eyes of a series of individuals, whose lives are all about to be ruined.
The Turn of the Screw
James, Henry
Bog
Wrong Time, Wrong Place
Kernick, Simon
Bog
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Fiction
Quick Reads
Engelsk
A gripping Quick Read from the master of the race against time thriller. Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time? You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl. She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can't speak English.
She is clearly running away from someone. Do you stop to help her? Even if it means putting your friends' lives - and your own - in terrible danger?
The Beach Wedding
Koomson, Dorothy
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Fiction
Quick Reads
Engelsk
A gripping short read featuring a wedding, family drama, and old secrets. Tessa is thrilled when her daughter arrives in Ghana to get married but memories of the last time she was there haunt her; can she lay the ghosts of the past to rest or will they come back to haunt her daughter's future? Koomson is the bestselling author of 12 novels including "The Ice-Cream Girls", "My Best Friends' Girl" and most recently "The Friend".
The Studhorse Man
Kroetsch, Robert
Bog
TILBUD 20 DKK inkl. moms
Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A trickster, a lusty peddler, and a wayward knight, the antics of this hero are only outmatched by those of the narrator, a maniacal, naked writer who works in his bathtub. Told with the ribald zeal of a Prairie beer parlour tall tale and the mythic magnitude of a Greek odyssey, this book is Robert Kroetsch's recharacterisation of the Canadian West upon his mythological return to Alberta.
My Beautiful Laundrette
Kureishi, Hanif
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
Omar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, as well as other, more intimate surprises.
The Diviners
Laurence, Margaret
Bog
TILBUD 20 DKK inkl. moms
The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.
The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence’s writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.
The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.
Loving Daughters
Masters, Olga
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
Two lively young women keep house for their brothers and widowed father in a tiny farming township south of Sydney. Enid, her father's favourite, takes pride in her domestic skills in her lovingly tended house and garden. Una, artistic and restless, escapes the farm confines whenever she can
Family matters occupy their lives until the arrival of Reverend Colin Edwards. Hungry for love, they are both drawn to him, and he to them, in a rapidly intensifying triangle of desire and disappointment
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
"1915 means Gallipoli, the birth of the Anzac myth - the year when Australians and New Zealanders sailed off in high hopes of adventure, only to find themselves faced with disaster.
"The tragedy and violence of that event provide the climax to this very personal, sensitive, and surprisingly romantic story. With remarkable skill Roger McDonald invites you to follow a typically Australian journey which parallels the nation's progress from its country childhood, through the adolescent exuberance of its young cities, to initiation on one of the world's ancient battlefields. It is a vital journey, haunted by meance and disillusionment.
"The novel is about two boys from the bush, the thoughtful and awkward Walter and his knowing friend Billy Mackenzie, and their girls Frances and Diana. Together they discover a future which seems full of promise, drawing them into the exciting turmoil of passion and war. But theirs is a fateful alliance, in a world too quickly passing, with an outcome they could never have foreseen."
Amongst Women
McGahern, John
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past.
On the Rock
McNab, Andy
Bog
This is the call he is always ready for. They've had word of a planned attack. That's why he's back here, opposite some suit who's trying to tell him what he needs to do.
But he knows exactly what's required. Four men. Plain clothes.
Eyes peeled. Three targets. Two cases.
One car. Gibraltar isn't an ideal location. Too many people.
Too many blind alleys. But then again, he's not the terrorist. Who knows what goes through their minds? Well, he will soon.
If everything goes to plan.
The Ancestor Game
Miller, Alex
Bog
TILBUD 30 DKK inkl. moms
AUSTRALIA
Stephen Muir, Ausgust Spiess and his daughter Gertrude, and Lan Tzu all acknowledge a restless sense of cultural displacement. All have a desire to belong somewhere that is truly their own, and each in their own way comes to see that to be at home in exile may be a defining paradox of the European Australian condition.
Incident at Vichy
Miller, Arthur
Bog
TILBUD 100 DKK inkl. moms
One False Move
Mitchell, Dreda Say
Bog
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Quick Reads
Engelsk
An intense, menacing and gritty story about a young woman's race against time to save her family. Perfect for fans of Mandasue Heller and Kimberley Chambers. 'Dreda Say Mitchell is right up there at the forefront of British crime fiction' Simon Kernick Hayley swore when she got out of prison that she would turn her life around.
But living on the Devil's Estate doesn't make that easy. She spends her days looking after her daughter, and her nights collecting cash from people who can't get loans any other way. But someone has just robbed her.
And she has twenty-four hours to get the money back, or her boss will come for her. Her criminal ex-boyfriend says he can help. Hayley wants nothing to do with him.
But time is running out, and she has to choose - save herself, or save her soul? If she makes one false move, her life will be over...
An Insular Possession
Mo, Timothy
Bog
TILBUD 20 DKK inkl. moms
As realist fiction, An Insular Possession is a successor to nineteenth-century novels set against the broad canvas of European wars such as Vanity Fair or War and Peace, but also intervenes in the tradition with its remembering of Europe’s long neglected Chinese frontier. In the geographical movement away from Europe and its own late twentieth-century moment, the novel, as a project of memory, puts a further postcolonial spin on its venerable realist inheritance. An Insular Possession also explores the crucial issue of individual agency in shaping history.
Paris for One - and other stories
Moyes, Jojo
Bog
ELEVEN ROMANTIC STORIES TO WARM YOUR HEART!
In Paris for One, Nell is deserted by her boyfriend minutes before setting off on what was supposed to be a fantastic romantic weekend away to Paris. Can she forget him and find herself?
Honeymoon in Paris is a tale of the early days of two marriages in both 1912 and 2012
You'll love this unmissable collection of stories about love, family and relationships.
The Women of Brewster Place
Naylor, Gloria
Bog
TILBUD 30 DKK inkl. moms
The stories of seven Black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern Black America.
The Dying Wish - A James and Sinclair Mystery
Newland, Courttia
Bog
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Fiction
Quick Reads
Engelsk
Ervine James is in incredibly good spirits - his Private Investigation business is going well, he has partially restored his tenuous link with his family, and his best friend of old and new partner Carmen Sinclair has proved to be more of an asset, both emotionally and financially, than he ever could have dreamed. But when a beautiful Asian woman appears outside the office next to his, a mysteriously secretive company rents the space for a few months before suddenly disappearing without trace, followed by arrival of police detectives investigating allegations of organized group homicides, Ervine and Carmen are drawn into a mystery so deep, so calculated in its intentions, neither believe that they could find out the truth behind that office door without risking their very lives...
Tay John
O'Hagan, Howard
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his own truths.
This richly populated novel vividly depicts the exotic and rootless people who wound their way to the Canadian Northwest. It is a powerful modern legend that ranges over all aspects of the human heart and mind, incorporating passion and hatred, tragedy and triumph
TILBUD 20 DKK inkl. moms
A new adaptatio created by Robert Icke & Duncan Macmillan
April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be our reality. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical new adaptation exploring why Orwell's vision of the future is as relevant as ever.
The Entertainer
Osborne, John
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
This play about the life and work of a second-rate music hall comic (brilliantly created by Sir Laurence Olivier in the original production) and staged only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger, secured John Osborne's reputation andhas become a classic of 20th century drama
The Homecoming
Pinter, Harold
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in London, he finds his family still living in the house. In the conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy.
The Monkey's Mask
Porter, Dorothy
Bog
TILBUD 10 DKK inkl. moms
Fuelled by murder and a femme fatale, this is an erotic mystery novel written in verse. This is a book of manipulation and the consuming power of sex.
Coonardoo
Prichard, Katherine Susannah
Bog
TILBUD 20 DKK inkl. moms
When Coonardoo was published in 1929 it was greeted with considerable controversy. It tells the story of Coonardoo, a yound Aboriginal woman, who is trained from childhood to be housekeeper at Wytaliba station, and, as such, is destined to look adter its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo and Hugh, which so shocked the audience of 1929, is never acknowledged and so, degraded and twisted in on itself, destroys not only Coonardoo, but also a community which was once peaceful.
Intimate Strangers
Prichard, Katherine Susannah
Bog
TILBUD 20 DKK inkl. moms
Greg and Elodie have reached that point in a marriage when passion gives way to habit and the pleasures of a shared life become monotonous.
For Greg diversion is possible in discret liaisons, but when temptation comes to Elodie, it threatens to overwhelm them both.
Set against the political turmoil of the Depression, Intimate Stragers is a frank account of marital breakdown, and explores the choices a woman can make, and should make: as wife, mother and lover.
A Cool Head
Rankin, Ian
Bog
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Fiction
Quick Reads
Engelsk
"My dad used to say to me, 'Try to keep a cool head and a warm heart'. At least I think it was my dad. I don't really remember him."
Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn't recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long enough to ask Gravy to hide him and look after his gun. Gravy had looked after things for Benjy before, but never a gun. When Gravy looked in the car he found blood, a balaclava and a bag stuffed with money. Gravy's not too bright but he wants to help his friend.
So Gravy finds himself caught up in the middle of a robbery gone wrong, a woman who witnessed a murder, and some very unpleasant men who will do anything to get back the money Benjy stole...
Call It Sleep
Roth, Henry
Bog
TILBUD 20 DKK inkl. moms
David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the Golden Land. David is hated by his father - an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in the New World - but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. An innovative, multi-lingual novel, "Call It Sleep" subtly interweaves the overwhelming love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity amidst the cultural disarray of early twentieth-century America.