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Hundred Days - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hundred Days - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

An unmissable book that explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent.The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in modern European and World history. Yet the story of how the war ended remains little-known. In this compelling and ground-breaking new study, Nick Lloyd examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, Hundred Days traces the epic story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war.Using unpublished archive material from five countries, this new account reveals how the Allies - British, French, American and Commonwealth - managed to beat the German Army, by now crippled by indiscipline and ravaged by influenza, and force her leaders to seek peace. THE WESTERN FRONT BY NICK LLOYD IS AVAILABLE NOW ''This is a powerful and moving book by a rising military historian. Lloyd''s depiction of the great battles of July-November provides compelling evidence of the scale of the Allies'' victories and the bitter reality of German defeat'' Gary Sheffield (Professor of War Studies) ''Lloyd enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war''s final campaign'' Publishers Weekly

DKK 141.00
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The Western Front - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Western Front - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

** The latest volume in the World War One trilogy, The Eastern Front, is out now **A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ''A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War'' Lawrence James, The Times ''This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard account of this vital theatre of the conflict'' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny _________________ In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war. However, as bestselling military historian Nick Lloyd reveals in this highly-praised history - the first of an epic trilogy -- the story is not one of pointlessness and stupidity, but rather a heroic triumph against the odds. With a cast of hundreds and a huge canvas of places and events, Lloyd tells the whole tale, revealing what happened in France and Belgium between August 1914 and November 1918 from the perspective of all the main combatants - including French, British, Belgian, US and, most importantly, German forces.Lloyd examines the most decisive campaigns of the Great War and explains the unprecedented innovation, adaptation and tactical development that have been too long obscured by legends of mud, blood and futility, drawing upon the latest scholarship on the war, wrongly overlooked first-person accounts, and archival material from every angle. Conveying the visceral assault of the battlefield with vivid detail, Lloyd ultimately redefines our understanding of a crucial theatre in this monumental tragedy._________________ ''Excellent on detail . . . Lloyd''s book will be cherished by military history buffs'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times ''It is the best modern single-volume history of war on the Western Front and is likely to remain the standard account for some time'' Jonathan Boff, The Spectator

DKK 155.00
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Bass Culture - Lloyd Bradley - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bass Culture - Lloyd Bradley - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster, King Tubby and Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the story of reggae to the whole history of Jamaica, from colonial island to troubled independence, and Jamaicans, from Kingston to London.

DKK 166.00
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The Eastern Front - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Eastern Front - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly'' Dominic Sandbrook , Sunday Times ''Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading'' Margaret Macmillan, Financial Times ‘A masterwork . . . This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read’ Simon Sebag Montefiore The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front ***********In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the ''unknown war'': the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires.Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium, yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody. Between 1914 and 1917, huge numbers of people - perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians - were killed, wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length.Through intimate eyewitness reports, diary entries and memoirs - many of which have never been translated into English before - Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balkans as a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and which sucked in Russia, Germany and Italy, right through to the final collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918. The Eastern Front paints a vivid and authoritative picture of a conflict that shook the world, and that remains central to understanding the tragic, blood-soaked trajectory of the twentieth century, and the current war in Ukraine.

DKK 247.00
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The Eastern Front - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Eastern Front - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly'' Dominic Sandbrook , Sunday Times ''Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading'' Margaret Macmillan, Financial Times ‘A masterwork . . . This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read’ Simon Sebag Montefiore The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front ***********In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the ''unknown war'': the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires.Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium, yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody. Between 1914 and 1917, huge numbers of people - perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians - were killed, wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length. Through intimate eyewitness reports, diary entries and memoirs - many of which have never been translated into English before - Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balkans as a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and which sucked in Russia, Germany and Italy, right through to the final collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918. The Eastern Front paints a vivid and authoritative picture of a conflict that shook the world, and that remains central to understanding the tragic, blood-soaked trajectory of the twentieth century, and the current war in Ukraine.

DKK 141.00
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Passchendaele - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Passchendaele - Nick Lloyd - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ''A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece'' General Lord Richard Dannatt The Third Battle of Ypres was a ''lost victory'' for the British Army in 1917. Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never found. The Ypres offensive represents the modern impression of the First World War: splintered trees, water-filled craters, muddy shell-holes. The climax was one of the worst battles of both world wars: Passchendaele . The village fell eventually, only for the whole offensive to be called off. But, as Nick Lloyd shows, notably through previously overlooked German archive material, it is striking how close the British came to forcing the German Army to make a major retreat in Belgium in October 1917. Far from being a pointless and futile waste of men, the battle was a startling illustration of how effective British tactics and operations had become by 1917 and put the Allies nearer to a major turning point in the war than we have ever imagined.Published for the 100th anniversary of this major conflict, Passchendaele is the most compelling and comprehensive account ever written of the climax of trench warfare on the Western Front.

DKK 141.00
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When We Were Birds - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When We Were Birds - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the BOCAS Prize for Fiction 2023Winner of for the Authors'' Club Best First Novel Award 2023 Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023 Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2023Shortlisted for the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award 2023Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2023 ''BELIEVE THE HYPE'' Stella ''A searing symphony of magic and loss, love and hope'' Marlon James''A mesmerising love story, achingly tender'' Bolu Babalola Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets.Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide''s mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the dead. The women of Yejide''s family are human but also not - descended from corbeau, the black birds that fly east at sunset, taking with them the souls of the dead.Darwin and Yejide both have something that the other needs. Their destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the sprawling, ancient cemetery at the heart of the island, where trouble is brewing... Rich with magic and wisdom, When We Were Birds is an exuberant masterpiece that conjures and mesmerises on every line. Ayanna Lloyd Banwo weaves an unforgettable story of loss and renewal, darkness and light; a triumphant reckoning with a grief that runs back generations and a defiant, joyful affirmation of hope. ''Exceptional'' Jacob Ross''Exquisite'' Avni Doshi ''It''s a knockout, and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a star'' Niven Govinden '' When We Were Birds marks the emergence of a distinctive and powerful voice'' Pat Barker, author of The Silence of the Girls

DKK 119.00
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In My Sister's Shoes - Sinead Moriarty - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In My Sister's Shoes - Sinead Moriarty - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In one of the many fantastic reviews for Sinéad Moriarty''s fourth novel, In My Sister''s Shoes, the reviewer praised Sinéad''s ability to apply ''the light tender touch to dark, painful subjects''. It''s a perfect description of how Sinéad tells the story of a younger sister stepping in to help out when her older sister is diagnosed with cancer. In a similar way to Marian Keyes, Sinéad manages to balance light and dark with wonderful finesse, warmth and humour.Kate O''Brien is thirty and has very little to think about except trying to keep her balance as she totters up London''s media-land ladder.Fiona O''Brien is Kate''s responsible older sister - with a husband, twin boys, a dog and now ... a life-changing problem.It''s a problem that means Kate going back to Dublin. Pronto. There she finds herself stepping into Fiona''s shoes - and discovering that she''s definitely not cut out to be a domestic goddess. On top of that, the ex she thought she''d got over years ago turns up to haunt her.Will either of the O''Brien sisters survive? And even if they do, can either of them slip back into their old shoes ever again?

DKK 161.00
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Someone Else’s Shoes - Jojo Moyes - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Someone Else’s Shoes - Jojo Moyes - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE NEW NOVEL FROM JOJO MOYES, AUTHOR OF THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ME BEFORE YOU ''Giddily joyful . Moyes writes . . . with warmth and a wonderfully wicked sense of humour'' THE TIMES ''BOOK OF THE MONTH'' ''Delightful . Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does - recognizably real and complex and funny and flawed'' JODI PICOULT''So much fun. Beautiful about female friendship'' MARIAN KEYES---- Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else''s shoes? Meet Sam. Meet Nisha. Two women living very different lives.But when their paths cross, causing each a world of trouble - and finding some missing shoes is the only way to solve it - they’re left with a choice every woman must face: to walk alone, or stand together . . .----''A book we all need in our lives right now. A fabulous and funny romp'' WOMAN & HOME ''[A] captivating new blockbuster. Relatable , memorable and engaging'' DAILY EXPRESS ''A paean to women''s solidarity wrapped up in a very funny revenge-fuelled caper'' THE TIMES ''A warm, witty and uplifting novel … It''s a joy to spend time with Jojo Moyes'' flawed, likeable characters’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ''A love letter to the strength of female friendship and how women can really be there for each other'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ''Empathy and an extravagant plot collide in Moyes''s big hug of a novel'' MAIL ON SUNDAY ''Riotously fun and an ode to strong female friendships'' PRIMA ''Full of fun, unlikely friendships . . . and female empowerment , it''s a welcome escape'' WOMAN ''Compelling . Will make you wonder what it''s really like to walk in someone else''s shoes'' GLAMOUR UK '' Somehow heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time'' YOURS Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, February 2023Jojo Moyes'' books have sold over 4.5 million copies [Nielsen BookScan, April 2024]

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In My Shoes - Tamara Mellon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In My Shoes - Tamara Mellon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In My Shoes by Tamara Mellon, tells the Jimmy Choo founder''s jaw-dropping account of her life in the fashion business. ''Wonderfully bling'' Sunday Times ''Part memoir, part MBA masterclass... an impressively erudite and candid autobiography'' Glamour ''From her troubled childhood and her time as a young editor, to her partnership with Jimmy Choo and her very public relationships, Mellon offers a gripping account of the episodes that have made her. A book Jackie Collins would be proud of, with the added bonus that it is all true. A voyeuristic joy from start to finish'' Harpers Bazaar ''Brilliant'' Mail on Sunday ''Pure Danielle Steel, with added MBA, that jets from Vogue shoots in Nepal and dates with Christian Slater, to trade fairs, boardroom takeovers and a family showdown over missing millions. Perfect for grown-up fashionistas and wannabe entrepreneurs'' Sunday Times ''A juicy and honest memoir from one of the most successful and self-made British businesswomen of her generation'' Financial Times Tamara Mellon , OBE, is Founder and Creative Director of Tamara Mellon, a luxury lifestyle brand. She is the cofounder and the former CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Jimmy Choo, which she led for fifteen years until selling her share of the company. She divides her time between London and New York. William Patrick has co-written numerous memoirs, including Sidney Poitier''s number-one bestseller The Measure of a Man.

DKK 159.00
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Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile - Francoise Sagan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile - Francoise Sagan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan''s tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. However, this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain, and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication. Now this fresh and accurate new translation presents the uncensored text in full for the first time. Bonjour Tristesse tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry - with devastating consequences. In A Certain Smile , which is also included in this volume, Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways.Both novellas have been freshly translated by Heather Lloyd and include an introduction by Rachel Cusk. Heather Lloyd has also written a new afterword for this edition. Françoise Sagan was born in France in 1935. Bonjour tristesse (1954), published when she was just 19, became a succès de scandale and even earned its author a papal denunciation. Sagan went on to write many other novels, plays and screenplays, and died in 2004.Heather Lloyd was previously Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow, and has published work on both Bonjour tristesse and Françoise Sagan.Rachel Cusk is the author of Saving Agnes (1993), which won the Whitbread First Novel Award; A Life''s Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001); and Arlington Park (2006), shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her most recent book is Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012).''Funny, thoroughly immoral and thoroughly French'' The Times

DKK 112.00
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Shoes Were For Sunday - Molly Weir - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Shoes Were For Sunday - Molly Weir - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Poverty is a very exacting teacher and I had been taught well'' The post-war urban jungle of the Glasgow tenements was the setting for Molly Weir''s childhood. From sharing a pull-out bed in her mother''s tiny kitchen to running in terror from the fever van, it was an upbringing that was cemented in hardship. Hunger, cold and sickness was an everyday reality and complaining was not an option. Despite the crippling poverty, there was a vivacity to the tenements that kept spirits high. Whether Molly was brushing the hair of her wizened neighbour Mrs MacKay, running to Jimmy''s chip shop for a ha''penny of crimps or dancing at the annual fair, there wasn''t a moment to spare for self-pity. Molly never let it get her down as she and the other urchins knew how to make do with nothing.And at the centre of her world was her fearsome but loving Grannie, whose tough, independent spirit taught Molly to rise above her pitiful surroundings and achieve her dreams.

DKK 127.00
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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs - Julia Bishop - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs - Julia Bishop - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning. Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A. L. Lloyd''s original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs .

DKK 141.00
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After Beth - Elizabeth Enfield - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

After Beth - Elizabeth Enfield - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The compelling, heart-wrenching and uplifting story of one mother''s love and loss ''Life-affirming, tender and wise. Wonderful'' Josie Lloyd ''Filled with hope and humanity'' Araminta Hall ''Truly moving. I''ve just finished wiping away the tears'' Joanna Nadin_______ The hardest thing about love is saying goodbye . . . On a beautiful late-summer''s morning, Cate Challoner''s daughter, Beth, heads to the beach with her best friend. The girls will spend the day flirting with boys and enjoying the thrill of being young. Beth is eighteen and soon leaving home for college. Her mother is already missing her.That afternoon, the doorbell rings. Cate immediately knows something is wrong. CPR. Resuscitation. What do these words have to do with two teenagers enjoying an afternoon at the beach?Cate''s daughter is her everything. Beth''s presence at home is inescapable. How can a child stop existing? How can a mother survive such loss? Can a shattered world be put back together? _______ ''A vivid, often heart-wrenching exploration of grief and how we learn to carry on after the worst has happened. Get your tissues at the ready - this book is wonderful'' Josie Lloyd, author of The Cancer Ladies'' Running Club

DKK 166.00
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Maigret and the Man on the Bench - Georges Simenon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Maigret and the Man on the Bench - Georges Simenon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''His artistry is supreme'' John Banville ''He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes, which seemed out of keeping with a day as colourless as this.Apart from his shoes he looked so ordinary that he would have passed completely unnoticed on the street or on one of the numerous café terraces on the boulevard.'' ''One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories'' Guardian ''A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness'' Independent

DKK 113.00
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The Partnership - Charles D. Ellis - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Partnership - Charles D. Ellis - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Despite financial turmoil, Goldman Sachs remain the leading investment bank in their field. They are notorious for their unique management culture, unorthodox recruiting techniques - and for their secrecy. In The Partnership Charles Ellis reveals their story. With unparalleled access to the leadership of this famously close-knit firm, Ellis investigates the brilliant individuals who turned a marginal family business into a global powerhouse, weathering recession, scandal and disaster on the way. Among them are high school dropout and financial genius Sidney Weinberg, maverick reinventor John Whitehead, former US treasury secretary Hank Paulson and working-class New Yorker turned current CEO, Lloyd Blankfein. The Partnership reveals the shared values of intensive recruitment, discipline and talent that have tied Goldman Sachs''s people together - and made it a survivor.

DKK 182.00
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Thoughtful Gardening - Robin Lane Fox - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Thoughtful Gardening - Robin Lane Fox - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Thoughtful Gardening is based on Robin Lane Fox''s own selection from his widely admired FT column, which he has rewritten and amplified with new chapters to take readers on a highly enjoyable journey through each season of the gardening year. It draws on his lifetime of practical gardening, including his years as Garden Master of New College, Oxford, and contains many memories of fellow gardeners, from Christopher Lloyd to Nancy Lancaster.The book is essential reading for anyone setting out on a new garden or taking stock of one. It takes a critical look at fashions of the moment and is full of advice, ranging from problems with badgers to how to take root-cuttings or choose flowering trees, as well as examples of gardens at home and abroad which Robin Lane Fox has visited over many years. Thoughtful Gardening combines a principled view of the craft of gardening with dozens of new ideas for planting and visiting, and touching reminders of the power of literature and art to deepen what we see and realize in gardens of our own.

DKK 126.00
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The Beach Party - Nikki Smith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Beach Party - Nikki Smith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Bound to be the hit thriller of the summer!'' T. M. Logan, The Holiday ----- Six friends.The holiday of their dreams. One night that changed it all . . . 1989: The tunes are loud and the clothes are louder when a group of friends arrives in Mallorca for a post-graduation holiday of decadence and debauchery at a luxury villa.A beach party marks the pinnacle of their fun, until it isn''t fun any longer. Because amidst the wild partying - sand flying from dancing feet and revellers leaping from yachts - an accident happens. Suddenly, the night of a lifetime becomes a living nightmare.Now: The truth about that summer has been collectively buried. But someone knows what happened that night.And they want the friends to pay for what they did.-----'' Thrilling, twisting and gloriously ''80s '' Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End '' Sun - soaked and fast - paced, the perfect holiday page turner '' Ellery Lloyd, The Club '' Deliciously gripping and twisty '' Shalini Boland, The Secret Mother '' Sizzling with suspense , the perfect summer read '' B. A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors

DKK 113.00
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The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMany years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money on dressing elegantly... Jewels in storytelling, these magical fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen were inspired by his own life as an outsider. From ‘The Little Mermaid’ to ‘The Red Shoes’, his fables show the ugliest of humanity – its power, greed, vanity – but also how suffering can lead to beauty.

DKK 92.00
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The Chinese Gold Murders - Robert Van Gulik - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Chinese Gold Murders - Robert Van Gulik - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead man… Most people would refuse the job of Magistrate at the lonely port town of Peng-lai – especially as the last occupant of the post has been found poisoned in his library, his papers missing. But Judge Dee is not most men. He arrives ready to get to the truth, only to find his life complicated even further by a missing bride, a vanished artisan, a man-eating tiger and an evil conspiracy.

DKK 120.00
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Drone Theory - Gregoire Chamayou - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Drone Theory - Gregoire Chamayou - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Drone Theory is Gre goire Chamayou''s poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare. In 2011 alone, the US deployed one drone strike every four days in Pakistan. Drone Theory is a rigorous polemic against the increasing use of robot warfare around the world. Drawing on philosophical debate, moral lessons from Greek mythology and transcripts of conversations between drone operators, Drone Theory re-evaluates the socio-political impact of drone warfare on the world - and its people. Chamayou takes us through Nevada, Pakistan and arresting philosophical terrain to reveal how drones are changing the landscape of war theory and to highlight the profound moral implications of our own silence in the face of drone warfare.Born in 1976, Grégoire Chamayou is a philosopher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the author of Les corps vils and Manhunts: A Philosophical History . Chamayou also lectures at Université de Paris Ouest, and has written for Le Monde Diplomatique among other publications. Janet Lloyd has translated over seventy books from French to English and has twice been awarded the Scott Moncrieff prize.

DKK 120.00
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The Political Animal - Jeremy Paxman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Political Animal - Jeremy Paxman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but in The Political Animal he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers: that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhoodwhy Trollope is the politician''s novelist of choicethat Lloyd George once hunted Jack the Ripperhow an Admiral''s speech in parliament helped win WWII Where do politicians come from? How do they get elected? What do they do all day? And why do they seek power? All these questions and many more are addressed in Paxman''s thrilling dissection of that strange and elusive breed - the political animal.''Lively, persuasive, excellent. Boisterous and funny, provocative and punchily written... an intelligent romp'' Matthew Parris, Spectator ''Entertaining, informative, incisive and insightful'' Andrew Rawnsley Observer ''One of the best primers on the vicissitudes of political life I have read Christopher Silvester, Sunday Times Jeremy Paxman is a journalist, best known for his work presenting Newsnight and University Challenge. His books include Empire , On Royalty , The English and The Political Animal . He lives in Oxfordshire.

DKK 161.00
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The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Olga TokarczukWitty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential exploration of Polish literature. Its thirty-nine superb stories run the length of the literal and imaginative creation of Poland, from 1918 (when Poland regained its independence after 123 years of colonization by the neighbouring empires) to the present. The stories include ‘Miss Winczewska’, by the acclaimed twentieth-century writer Maria Dabrowska (1889—1965), based on her experience of helping to establish a library for soldiers at the Citadel military base in Warsaw in the interwar period; and 'In the Shadow of Brooklyn' by Stanislaw Dygat (1914—1978), the comical tale of a young man's envy of what he imagines to be his father's success with women. At the contemporary end, it includes a story by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk (1962), 'The Green Children', a historical story set in 1656, narrated by a Scottish doctor who, as the Polish king's physician, travels about the wilds of Poland and encounters two feral children. Curated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, this anthology is a refreshing and glorious new collection of the best in Polish literature.

DKK 291.00
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Triflers Need Not Apply - Camilla Bruce - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Triflers Need Not Apply - Camilla Bruce - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

You''ve never met a woman as dangerous as Bella Sorensen . . . THE FASCINATING REIMAGINING OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HISTORY''S ORIGINAL FEMALE SERIAL KILLER ''Extraordinary. Bruce does a marvellous job of reimagining this real-life murderer, without excusing her crimes'' THE TIMES ''Dark, twisted and dangerously addictive'' SAM LLOYD, bestselling author of THE MEMORY WOOD ________ 1900, Chicago. Bella Sorenson knows that the world is made for men.They control everything: jobs, property, money. Marriage makes women like her their slaves. But now Bella is fighting back. Because she''s angry. She''s bloodthirsty. She''s willing to kill to get what she wants - starting with her husband. And then her next husband. And the next one . . . ________ ''Explosive . . . If you like true crime, you''ll devour this chilling story of revenge'' WOMAN''S WEEKLY ''Dark glee, tragedy . . . Fans of my story The Corset will gobble this up'' LAURA PURCELL ''Come for the fabulous premise, stay for the razor-sharp portrait of a marvelously complex (and often totally terrifying) mind . . . Camilla Bruce has absolutely outdone herself'' LAIRD HUNT ''Starts as a revenge story but quickly becomes so much more. Clever, shocking and horrific in places, it''s the sort of book for which the phrase ''page-turner'' was invented'' LUCIE MCKNIGHT HARDY

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Multitudinous Heart - Carlos Drummond De Andrade - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Multitudinous Heart - Carlos Drummond De Andrade - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Brazil''s foremost twentieth-century poet, in Penguin Classics for the first timeIn 1962 de Andrade published Antologia Poética , a personal anthology of poems from his first ten books. This selection draws on de Andrade''s anthology to encompass his finest works within his chosen areas of interest: The Individual, Minas Gerais, Family, Friends, Social Confrontation, Experience of Love, Poetry Itself, and An Attempt to Understand ExistenceFeted as the most important - and premiere modernist - Brazilian poet of the twentieth century, Carlos Drummond de Andrade appears in Penguin Classics for the first time. His fans and translators have included Mark Strand, Lloyd Schwartz and Elizabeth Bishop. The work of Drummond reaches ... a coefficient of loneliness that detached from the soil of history, leading the reader to an attitude free of references, trademarks or ideological or prospective - Alfredo Bosi, author and historian Carlos Drummond de Andrade was born in a Brazilian mining village in 1902. He worked in government for most of his life. He has received widespread recognition for his modernist style of poetry which broke from more traditional rules of verse and meter. He has been embraced as a national poet with a statue placed on the sea front in Rio and his poem ''Friendly Song'' printed on Brazilian currency. He died in 1987.

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