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Perfect Love - Elizabeth Buchan - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''Modern marriage and its compromises ... a terrific, compassionate, compelling novel'' Daily Mail Over twenty years of marriage to Max, Prue has remained a busy, contented mother and stepmother. Now, Prue''s stepdaughter, Violet, has returned with her new husband from New York and, suddenly, Prue is precipitated into a secret life. As she moves between a sleepy village in Hampshire and buzzing London, Prue finds herself crossing the boundary between innocence and knowledge, exploring the line between the gluttony and surrender of desire and facing the stark realities that result. Because while marriage can be a battleground, extraordinary bargains and accommodations are often struck between people who love one another.

DKK 120.00

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Equal Power - Jo Swinson - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Shortlisted for the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards (Best Memoir by a Parliamentarian) Why does power remain concentrated in the hands of men? And why do the problems of sexism sometimes feel just too big to solve? In this passionate call to arms, leader of the Liberal Democrats and former Government Minister for Women Jo Swinson outlines the steps we can all take, large and small, to make our businesses, politics and culture truly gender equal. With clear and uncompromising analysis, Swinson shows the stark extent of the inequality around us, arguing that everyone - from students to CEOs - can work together to create a world of Equal Power.

DKK 113.00

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How Death Becomes Life - Joshua (author) Mezrich - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the stories of his own patients.Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liver? The human story behind the most exceptional medicine of our time, Mezrich''s riveting book is a poignant reminder that a life lost can also offer the hope of a new beginning.

DKK 127.00

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Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

A tour de force of investigative journalism, K illing Pablo tells the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar''s criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before revealed about the covert sixteen-month manhunt that was led by US Special Forces and intelligence services. With unprecedented access to important players - including Colombian president Cisar Gaviria and the incorruptible head of the special police unit that pursued Escobar, Colonel Hugo Martinez - as well as top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar''s intercepted phone conversations, Bowden has produced a gripping narrative that is a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world.

DKK 127.00

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Hemispheres - Stephen Baker - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Yan is a compulsive gambler whose wanderlust leads him on a chain of adventures across the South Atlantic and beyond, in the wake of the Falklands War. But this personal voyage takes a heavy toll on his relationships with wife Kate and teenage son Danny, left abandoned in a run-down pub on the North-East coast of England. Twenty-five years later Yan re-appears, terminally ill and determined to make amends before his death. Despite Danny''s reticence, the two men begin to reconnect through the unlikely medium of birdwatching, as Danny tries to piece together the truth about Yan''s desertion and protracted homecoming.Set against the stark industrial landscapes of the Tees estuary and the wilder shores of the South Atlantic, Hemispheres is an Odyssey for the twenty-first century, a story about fathers and sons, about isolation and human connection, and - ultimately - about the healing power of the natural world.

DKK 113.00

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Mortality - Christopher Hitchens - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

A Sunday Times Book of The Year A Mail on Sunday Book of The Year An Independent Book of The Year A The Times Book of The Year During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22 , Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported ''from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.'' Over the next year he underwent the brutal gamut of modern cancer treatment, enduring catastrophic levels of suffering and eventually losing the ability to speak. Mortality is the most meditative collection of writing Hitchens has ever produced; at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer etiquette, and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation with mortality, Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering.

DKK 113.00

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The Cry of the Silkworm - Shi Naseer - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

1994, rural China: Twelve-year-old Chen Di loves and protects her long-awaited little brother, but when she witnesses an unforgettable scene with her aunties and the authorities, everything she thought she knew about her community is ripped away from her. 2002, Shanghai: A gutsy young aikido-practising Chen Di is utterly transformed from her naïve younger self. Now hardened by experience, her determination to avenge her mother''s killer is stronger than ever - and she has steeled herself against affection of any kind. Alone in the big city, and with the unwanted attentions of a cocky, wise-cracking teenage boy and a martial arts teacher intent on peace over violence, her toughness starts being chipped away - planting a seed of doubt about going through with her plan for revenge. Spanning a decade at the turn of the twenty-first century, The Cry of the Silkworm is an emotional and thought-provoking tale of one young woman''s coming of age - and a stark look at the impact of China''s one-child policy, from a strikingly fresh new voice.

DKK 168.00

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The Cry of the Silkworm - Shi Naseer - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

1994, rural China: Twelve-year-old Chen Di loves and protects her long-awaited little brother, but when she witnesses an unforgettable scene with her aunties and the authorities, everything she thought she knew about her community is ripped away from her. 2002, Shanghai: A gutsy young aikido-practising Chen Di is utterly transformed from her naïve younger self. Now hardened by experience, her determination to avenge her mother''s killer is stronger than ever - and she has steeled herself against affection of any kind. Alone in the big city, and with the unwanted attentions of a cocky, wise-cracking teenage boy and a martial arts teacher intent on peace over violence, her toughness starts being chipped away - planting a seed of doubt about going through with her plan for revenge. Spanning a decade at the turn of the twenty-first century, The Cry of the Silkworm is an emotional and thought-provoking tale of one young woman''s coming of age - and a stark look at the impact of China''s one-child policy, from a strikingly fresh new voice.

DKK 120.00

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The Glass House - Rachel Donohue - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''Lyrical prose with ominous secrets saturating its deepest core'' ALEX MARWOOD THE WINDOW TO THE PAST CAN NEVER BE CLOSED... 1963: At the stark and isolated modernist mansion of controversial political philosopher Richard Acklehurst, the glittering annual New Year''s Eve party has not gone quite as planned. Considered a genius by some, and something far darker by others, by the end of the evening Acklehurst will be dead in mysterious circumstances, casting a long shadow over the lives of his teenage daughters, Aisling and Stella. 1999: Richard Acklehurst''s remains are defiled in the country graveyard where they have lain undisturbed for over thirty years, forcing his daughters to return to their childhood home where they must finally confront the complex and dark dynamic at the heart of their family. Moving from the West of Ireland to Dublin, London, Florence and back, The Glass House is a captivating and compelling tale of two sisters and their secrets, of love, regret and vengeance. ''Gorgeously atmospheric and darkly brooding'' CAROLE HAILEY

DKK 155.00

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The Cry of the Silkworm - Shi Naseer - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

1994, rural China: Twelve-year-old Chen Di loves and protects her long-awaited little brother, but when she witnesses an unforgettable scene with her aunties and the authorities, everything she thought she knew about her community is ripped away from her. 2002, Shanghai: A gutsy young aikido-practising Chen Di is utterly transformed from her naïve younger self. Now hardened by experience, her determination to avenge her mother''s killer is stronger than ever - and she has steeled herself against affection of any kind. Alone in the big city, and with the unwanted attentions of a cocky, wise-cracking teenage boy and a martial arts teacher intent on peace over violence, her toughness starts being chipped away - planting a seed of doubt about going through with her plan for revenge. Spanning a decade at the turn of the twenty-first century, The Cry of the Silkworm is an emotional and thought-provoking tale of one young woman''s coming of age - and a stark look at the impact of China''s one-child policy, from a strikingly fresh new voice.

DKK 155.00

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Painted Horses - Malcolm Brooks - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild.Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her - a canyon ''as deep as the devil''s own appetites.'' Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar - the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artefact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there''s John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the U.S. Army''s last mounted cavalry campaign, living a fugitive life in the canyon. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past. Painted Horses sends a dauntless young woman on a heroic quest, sings a love song to the horseman''s vanishing way of life, and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and the future often make strange bedfellows.

DKK 110.00

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The Regency Revolution - Robert Morrison - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Shortlisted for the HWA Non- fiction Crown Award 2020 ''Superb'' The Economist ''Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising'' New York Times The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world. The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced his violently insane father George III as the sovereign de facto. It ended on 29 January 1820, when George III died and the Prince Regent became King as George IV. At the centre of the era is of course the Regent himself, who was vilified by the masses for his selfishness and corpulence. Around him surged a society defined by brilliant characters, momentous events, and stark contrasts; a society forced to confront a whole range of pressing new issues that signalled a decisive break from the past and that for the first time brought our modern world clearly into view. The Regency Revolution is the most thorough and vivid exploration of the period ever published, and it reveals the remarkably diverse ways in which the cultural, social, technological and political revolutions of this decade continue both to inspire and haunt our world.

DKK 139.00

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This Divided Island - Samanth (author) Subramanian - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016 In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war''s fingers had reached everywhere: into the bustle of Colombo, the Buddhist monasteries scattered across the island, the soft hills of central Sri Lanka, the curves of the eastern coast near Batticaloa and Trincomalee, and the stark, hot north. With its genius for brutality, the war left few places, and fewer people, untouched. What happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country''s soul? Samanth Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past, and to other battles from other times, he draws out the story of Sri Lanka today - an exhausted, disturbed society, still hot from the embers of the war. Through travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how religion and state conspire, how the powerful become cruel, and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories. This Divided Island is a harrowing and humane investigation of a country still inflamed.

DKK 141.00

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Mozart in the Jungle - Blair Tindall - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain''s Kitchen Confidential comes an insider''s look into the cloistered world of classical music. Now a major Amazon.com TV series starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal. From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to performing with the orchestras of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon , oboist Blair Tindall has been playing classical music professionally for over twenty-five years. She''s also lived the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth, trading sex and drugs for low-paying gigs and the promise of winning a rare symphony position or a lucrative solo recording contract. In Mozart in the Jungle, Tindall describes her graduation from the North Carolina School of the Arts to the backbiting New York classical music scene, a world where Tindall and her fellow classical musicians often play drunk, high, or hopelessly hung-over, live in decrepit apartments, and perform in hazardous conditions. (In the cramped confines of a Broadway pit, the decibel level of one instrument is equal to the sound of a chain saw.) Mozart in the Jungle offers a stark contrast between the rarefied experiences of overpaid classical musician superstars and those of the working-class musicians. For lovers of classical music, Mozart in the Jungle is the first true, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on backstage and in the Broadway pit.

DKK 127.00

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A Child of the East End - Jean Fullerton - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''Funny, stark, fascinating'' THE INDEPENDENT ''An extraordinary celebration of a bygone era'' KATE THOMPSON, author of The Stepney Doorstep Society ''A vivid portrait of the post-war years, but also a unique community spirit that is in danger of being lost forever'' Choice Magazine *** Featured on BBC RADIO, WOMAN & HOME, PEOPLE''S FRIEND , INSIDE SOAP & LONDON LIVE!***Life in Cockney London was tough in the post-war years. The government''s broken promises had led to a chronic housing shortage, rampant crime and families living in squalor. But one thing prevailed: the unbeatable spirit of the East End, a tight-knit community who pulled through the dark times with humour and heart.Drawing on both family history and her own memories of growing up in the 1950s and ''60s, as well as her working life as a district nurse and local police officer, Jean Fullerton vividly depicts this fascinating part of London - from tin baths, to jellied eels, to tigers in a Wapping warehouse.***Includes a bonus 8-page photo plate section!***- FIND OUT WHY READERS ARE FALLING IN LOVE WITH JEAN FULLERTON: ''Food for the soul, it''s simply deliciously readable and enjoyable'' LoveReading ''Charming and full of detail... You will ride emotional highs and lows... Beautifully written'' The Lady on A Ration Book Daughter ''A delightful, well researched story'' bestselling author Lesley Pearse''A real page-turner with larger-than-life characters and convincing period detail'' Daily Express

DKK 113.00

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The Year of Chaos - Malachi O'doherty - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''Frank and incisive - an insightful look at the most tumultuous period of the Troubles.'' Ian Cobain ''This is the Belfast I grew up in. Malachi writes from first-hand experience and brings back memories that will always resonate with those who lived in those times.'' Eamonn Holmes In the eleven months between August 1971 and July 1972, Northern Ireland experienced its worst year of violence. No future year of the Troubles experienced such death and destruction. The ''year of chaos'' began with the introduction of internment of IRA suspects without trial, which created huge disaffection in the Catholic communities and provoked an escalation of violence. This led to the British government taking full control of Northern Ireland and negotiating directly with the IRA leadership. Operation Motorman, the invasion of barricaded no-go areas in Belfast and Derry, then dampened down the violence a year later. During this whole period, Malachi O''Doherty was a young reporter in Belfast, working in the city and returning home at night to a no-go area behind the barricades where the streets were patrolled by armed IRA men. Drawing on interviews, personal recollections and archival research, O''Doherty takes readers on a journey through the events of that terrible year - from the devastation of Bloody Sunday and Bloody Friday to the talks between leaders that failed to break the deadlock - which, he argues, should serve as a stark reminder of how political and military miscalculation can lead a country to the brink of civil war.

DKK 162.00

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The Year of Chaos - Malachi O'doherty - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

''Frank and incisive - an insightful look at the most tumultuous period of the Troubles.'' Ian Cobain ''This is the Belfast I grew up in. Malachi writes from first-hand experience and brings back memories that will always resonate with those who lived in those times.'' Eamonn Holmes In the eleven months between August 1971 and July 1972, Northern Ireland experienced its worst year of violence. No future year of the Troubles experienced such death and destruction. The ''year of chaos'' began with the introduction of internment of IRA suspects without trial, which created huge disaffection in the Catholic communities and provoked an escalation of violence. This led to the British government taking full control of Northern Ireland and negotiating directly with the IRA leadership. Operation Motorman, the invasion of barricaded no-go areas in Belfast and Derry, then dampened down the violence a year later. During this whole period, Malachi O''Doherty was a young reporter in Belfast, working in the city and returning home at night to a no-go area behind the barricades where the streets were patrolled by armed IRA men. Drawing on interviews, personal recollections and archival research, O''Doherty takes readers on a journey through the events of that terrible year - from the devastation of Bloody Sunday and Bloody Friday to the talks between leaders that failed to break the deadlock - which, he argues, should serve as a stark reminder of how political and military miscalculation can lead a country to the brink of civil war.

DKK 126.00

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Perfect Love - Elizabeth Buchan - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Equal Power - Jo Swinson - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

How Death Becomes Life - Joshua (author) Mezrich - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Hemispheres - Stephen Baker - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Mortality - Christopher Hitchens - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Cry of the Silkworm - Shi Naseer - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Cry of the Silkworm - Shi Naseer - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Glass House - Rachel Donohue - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Cry of the Silkworm - Shi Naseer - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Painted Horses - Malcolm Brooks - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Regency Revolution - Robert Morrison - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

This Divided Island - Samanth (author) Subramanian - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

Mozart in the Jungle - Blair Tindall - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

A Child of the East End - Jean Fullerton - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Year of Chaos - Malachi O'doherty - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

The Year of Chaos - Malachi O'doherty - Bog - Atlantic Books - Plusbog.dk

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