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  • af Karen Jennings
    96,95 kr.

    A refugee washes up on the beach of an island inhabited only by Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his country suffering under colonisers, then fight for independence, only to fall under a dictator's rule. Now he wonders, to what lengths will a person go to ensure what is theirs will not be taken from them?

  • af Anna Blasiak
    122,95 kr.

  • af Karen Jennings
    173,95 kr.

    Deidre is a victim, of her family, her society, her history. That is how she sees herself, and so she feels free of all obligations, moral and practical. Until the police take her back to her family home...

  • af Hamza Koudri
    106,95 kr.

    SAND ROSES is a tale of resistance, sisterhood and the shameful past of two colliding nations. This extraordinarily immersive narrative thrusts its reader into the Algerian city of Bousaada during the 1930s and the story of the Nailiya dancers.

  • af Sarah Isaacs
    96,95 kr.

    It's 1997, three years after the end of Apartheid. Two girls, Leilah, who is mixed race, and Frankie, who is white, are drawn together when they start at a new school, one that remains racially divided despite the country's new laws. Their friendship deepens and intensifies before suddenly falling apart when each tells the other secrets.

  • af Eva Aldea
    146,95 kr.

    Tropical sun, walks on the beach, time for exercise and relaxation: life as an expat wife seems like a holiday. Reality proves disappointing and as boredom turns to despair, her fascination with the way her greyhounds hunt and kill develops into daydreams. She pushes herself ever closer to acts unthinkable at home. Is there a killer in us all?

  • af Yashaswini Chandra
    126,95 kr.

    Without the horse, India would not be this India ... The history of the horse in India is an epic tale of life and war, of migration and intermingling, and points towards a greater history throughout the world, the history of humans and animals in symbiosis.

  • af Maciej Hen
    96,95 kr.

  • af Margot Kinberg
    173,95 kr.

    A man is dead in his car, slumped over the steering wheel. But who killed him? Ron Clemons is the last person you'd think would be murdered. His wife and son love him. His employees respect him. His business is doing well. His clients seek him out. But someone wanted him dead.The Clemons case is a golden opportunity for newly minted police detective Patricia Stanley to prove herself. It's her first murder investigation and she wants to do well. But it's not going to be easy. For one thing, she has plenty to learn about handling a murder. And nearly everyone involved in this one is hiding something. Patricia faces her own challenges, too, as the investigation brings back the murder of an old love.

  • af Margot Kinberg
    178,95 kr.

    Is anyone really safe? At nineteen years old, violin virtuosa Serena Brinkman seems to have it all. A student at Tilton University, she's got good looks, money, people who love her, and rare musical talent. She's also got a valuable Amati violin, a musical rival, friends whose secrets she knows, and an obsessed fan. Serena's dreams are shattered when she dies on the night of a major music competition. Serena's partner is convinced that her death wasn't an accident, and asks for help from Dr. Joel Williams of Tilton's Department of Criminal Justice. Williams, a former detective, soon finds that, far from keeping her safe, Serena's privilege and talent made her vulnerable.

  • af Margot Kinberg
    178,95 kr.

    They Said It Was a Tragedy. They Said It Was an Accident. They Lied. Second Chance is a Philadelphia alternative school designed for at-risk students. They live on campus, they take classes, and everyone hopes they'll stay out of prison. And then one of them dies. When Curtis Templeton falls from a piece of scaffolding near the school, it's called a tragic accident. A damned shame. A terrible loss. And everyone moves on.Two years later, former police detective-turned-professor Joel Williams and two of his colleagues do a study of Second Chance for a research paper. When they find out about Curtis' death, they start asking questions. And no-one wants to answer them. The search for the truth takes Williams and his research partners behind the scenes of for-profit alternative education - and straight into the path of someone who thought everything would stay buried. In the meantime, changes are coming to Tilton University. The School of Social Sciences is going to be the new home of a center for research on juvenile offenders. But not everyone is happy about it. YouthPromises, the company that's underwriting the center, is a for-profit alternative program that has a stake in the outcome of any research the center does. What will that mean for the faculty? Williams finds himself caught in the controversy over the center, just as he's finding out the truth about Second Chance.

  • af Peter Robinson
    168,95 kr.

  • af Ashutosh Bhardwaj
    96,95 kr.

    A haunting ode to those who paid the ultimate price-through the prism of the Maoist insurgency, Ashutosh Bhardwaj meditates on larger questions of violence and betrayal, love and obsession, and what it means to live with and write about death.

  • af Helen E. Mundler
    146,95 kr.

  • af Saleh Addonia
    96,95 kr.

    Tinged with alienation and frustration, each tale strikes the imagination as Addonia weaves humour and the surreal into unashamedly human stories.

  • af Cass J McMain
    108,95 kr.

  • af John Harvey
    96,95 kr.

    Selected by Chris Patten in the Sunday Telegraph as 'the novel which shows the best grasp of political life'. 'Tolstoyan . . . a wide-ranging, detailed and sympathetic portrayal of a whole society.' ANTHONY THWAITE, Observer; 'What a treat . . . stylish, politically interesting and immensely readable.' NINA BAWDEN, Daily Telegraph

  • af John Harvey
    118,95 kr.

  • af John Harvey
    98,95 kr.

  • af Martin Harrington
    133,95 kr.

    A vision, a peculiar international movement flooding the city, an Empress, and a strange artefact called the Chimaera... Petty Veniz will never be the same again, for it seems the Apocalypse is at hand.

  • af Marlene Lee
    148,95 kr.

  • af Lynn Farley-Rose
    98,95 kr.

    Each interviewee was asked to nominate someone they admire as the next link. A theatre director, a rabbi, a sculptor, a pioneering documentary maker, a man who rescues giant trees; in Kabul, a Romanian orphanage, immigration detention centres, Indian villages, the Rwandan genocide, the Ferguson uprising, and UN Climate Change Negotiations.

  • af Duncan White
    96,95 kr.

    A unique and beautiful book, profusely illustrated, A Certain Slant of Light was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize. Duncan White's moving novel reverberates with unspoken grief. A beautifully written meditation on impermanence, in which art and human life are seen as signal flares into the darkness.

  • af Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein
    96,95 kr.

    When Daphne becomes pregnant, it isn't only her life that changes... For her husband Amir, for their parents, and for their friends Guy and Abigail, the pregnancy and birth force them all to look at their own lives, at what they want, at their pasts and their futures. Lives are changed.

  • af Sarah Gonnet
    77,95 kr.

    Matilda was always happy to live vicariously through her collection of classic films- but that was before Thomas brought his manic energy into her life. Can she find her way back to herself?A strange, poetic story of what it is to be a young woman fractured by life.

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    af Anna Blasiak
    148,95 kr.

    51 Polish poems, 51 English poems and 51 photographs making this collection. They raise themes such as cultural identity and migration, queerness, racism, isolation and family memories.

  • - Lili Stern-Pohlmann in conversation with Anna Blasiak
    af Anna Blasiak
    96,95 - 128,95 kr.

    This is the story of Lili Pohlmann's incredible childhood and survival. During the Second World War she was helped by many people, sometimes by simply 'looking the other way; but of especial significance were two remarkable non-Jews: a German woman working for the Nazi occupying forces in Lviv, and a Greek Catholic bishop.

  • af Devjani Bodepudi
    88,95 kr.

    A letter from a mother to her daughter reveals a life changing secret... Thousands of miles away, a woman is trapped in a loveless marriage... Mirrors is a story of identity, truth, and uncovering who we truly are.

  • af Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
    108,95 kr.

    The summer of 2006, and nineteen-year-old Layla returns to Lebanon. When she arrives she finds that her troubled younger brother is missing. She heads to Beirut to search for him, but her quest is cut short when Beirut comes under fire. A new war has begun, and she is trapped in the middle of it.

  • af John Harvey
    96,95 - 166,95 kr.

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