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The Lady in the Van - Alan Bennett - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home, The Madness of George III, Talking Heads, The Clothes They Stood Up In and much else besides. Miss Shepherd lived in a Robin Reliant opposite Bennett''s house in Camden Town. After a series of attacks on her van, he suggested she move, with her van, to his front drive. Initially reluctant, she agreed - and Bennett landed himself a tenancy that went on for fifteen years. The Lady in the Van is probably Alan Bennett''s best-known work of non-fiction, and follows his other little blockbuster The Clothes They Stood Up In.

DKK 93.00

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A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France - Ned Palmer - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Longlisted for the 2024 André Simon AwardsIn A Cheesemonger''s Tour de France, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country''s regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who carry the torch for France''s oldest and most treasured traditions. Every French cheese carries an essence of the place where it''s made - its history, identity and landscape. Sometimes that''s a physical thing, as the hard texture of Comté echoes its mountainous home in the Jura. Other times it''s about power and politics - Brie swelling to royal dimensions due to its proximity to the French court, or Camembert gaining national status after being supplied in patriotic boxes to First World War soldiers.Witty, fascinating and endlessly moreish, A Cheesemonger''s Tour de France is the perfect guide to a French cheeseboard - and a terrific insight into la Belle République.

DKK 134.00

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The Economist Numbers Guide 6th Edition - Richard Stutely - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Designed as a companion to The Economist Style Guide, the best-selling guide to writing style, The Economist Numbers Guide is invaluable for everyone who has to work with numbers, which in today''s commercially focussed world means most managers. In addition to general advice on basic numeracy, the guide points out common errors and explains the recognised techniques for solving financial problems, analysing information of any kind, forecasting and effective decision making. Over 100 charts, graphs, tables and feature boxes highlight key points, and great emphasis is put on the all-important aspect of how you present and communicate numerical information effectively and honestly. At the back of the book is an extensive A-Z dictionary of terms covering everything from amortisation to zero-sum game. Whatever your business, whatever your management role, for anyone who needs a good head for figures The Economist Numbers Guide will prove invaluable.

DKK 155.00

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A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France - Ned Palmer - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Shortlisted for the 2024 André Simon AwardsCharles de Gaulle famously said it was impossible to govern a country with 246 different cheeses. And perhaps he was right. Every French cheese carries an essence of the place where it''s made - its history, identity and landscape. Sometimes that''s a physical thing, as the hard texture of Comté echoes its mountainous home in the Jura. Other times it''s about power and politics - Brie swelling to royal dimensions due to its proximity to the French court, or Camembert gaining national status after being supplied in patriotic boxes to First World War soldiers. In A Cheesemonger''s Tour de France, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country''s regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who carry the torch for France''s oldest and most treasured traditions. As he explains the mysteries of terroir and why each of those different fromages taste as they do, he shows that a French cheeseboard offers genuine insights into la Belle République.

DKK 182.00

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The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else would he do? Because he would have to do something. And what suit would he wear? Because he would have to wear another suit. A self-deprecating reflection on the sheer distance between the loftiness of his feelings and the humdrum reality of his life, The Book of Disquiet is a classic of existentialist literature.

DKK 126.00

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The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tilly Dunnage left her hometown of Dungatar in rural Australia under a black cloud of accusation. Years later Tilly, now a couturier for the Paris fashion houses, returns home to make amends with her mentally unstable mother. Mid-century Dungatar is a small town, and small towns have long memories. At first she wins over the suspicious locals with her extraordinary dressmaking skills. But when the eccentric townsfolk turn on Tilly for a second time, she decides to teach them a lesson and exact long-overdue revenge... Packed with memorable characters, acid humour and luscious clothes, The Dressmaker is an irresistible gothic tale of small-town revenge.

DKK 113.00

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Riddle of the Labyrinth - Margalit Fox - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The decoding of Linear B is one of the world''s greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the imagination. But this captivating story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery. Drawing on Kober''s own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.

DKK 141.00

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LRB Diary for 2024 - Lrb Diary - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''It was a comfort to read him in a year when everyone again had the same disease. She thought she could work through him, if she could not work through herself; she thought she could use his hands, if she could not use her own.'' - Patricia Lockwood Mark the centenary of Kafka''s death with the London Review of Books. From Kafka''s attention-seeking to Kafka''s clothes, Kafka and gay literature to Kafka and The Lord of the Rings, Kafka at the football to Kafka on BookTok, by writers including Elif Batuman, Alan Bennett, Judith Butler, Anne Carson, Amit Chaudhuri, Jenny Diski, Penelope Fitzgerald, Rivka Galchen, Jonatham Lethem, Adam Phillips, Philip Roth, Colm Tóibín, Marina Warner and many more - including Kafka himself.

DKK 136.00

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Warning - Jenny Joseph - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Utterly charming and uplifting'' The Good Book GuideVoted Britain''s favourite poem, ''Warning'', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun.In the poem''s respectable middle-aged woman, as she imagines herself in old age as a cheeky rebel with outrageous clothes and dotty behaviour, poet Jenny Joseph has created a character whose thoughts have been quoted at conferences and funerals, used to cheer up sick friends and remembered with pleasure by children and adults alike around the world.Here, ''Warning'' appears as a beautiful updated edition with new illustrations; the perfect gift for a friend or relative who wants to grow older free from expectations, with a joyful and rebellious spirit.

DKK 107.00

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Four Stories - Alan Bennett - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people''s foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics.The Laying on of HandsThe painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up InThe comic tale of an elderly couple''s trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning BrightThe savage satire on the family of a dying man who rules over them from his hospital bed. The Lady in the VanThe true story of the eccentric old woman who is invited to live in a homeowner''s front garden. She stays there, in her van, for fifteen years. The home is Alan Bennett''s. It became a West End hit and a major film, starring Maggie Smith.

DKK 120.00

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Possible - Chris Goodall - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''As Chris Goodall explains, removing fossil fuels from our energy system is technologically feasible ... and we should take heart that these steps to fight climate change will also lead to large and immediate gains in our day-to-day health'' Tim HarfordA carbon neutral future is possible - we have the technology to transform the global economy and guard against the worst effects of climate change. So how do we get to net zero?In Possible, entrepreneur and climate tech consultant Chris Goodall tackles sixteen challenges that we must overcome in making a just transition to carbon neutrality. He explores the technologies that will solve these challenges - from changing how steel, cement and fuel are made, to locking carbon in healthy soils, and from green hydrogen storage to building climate-resilient homes. With case studies and success stories from entrepreneurs across the globe, Goodall illustrates the incredible potential of a Net Zero future, as well as the determination we will need to overcome these problems.New tech featured includes Sweden''s H2 Green Steel, California''s Fortera cement substitute, Hong Kong garment-to-garment recycling, Finnish turbine company Coolbrook, Norwegian e-fuels, and Captura''s innovative ocean CO2 capture.

DKK 127.00

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Mountain Tales - Saumya Roy - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''If you read one book about India, read this one.'' Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure''Mountain Tales is a remarkable feat of immersive reporting and story-telling, a deeply-felt exploration of ideas, and a gripping chronicle of the fates of the garbage-pickers of Mumbai ... I loved this book.'' Suzy Hansen, author of Notes on a Foreign CountryAll of Mumbai''s memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things - medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal - a small, forgotten community lives and works. Scouring the dump for whatever can be resold or recycled, waste pickers also mark the familiar milestones of babies born, love found, illnesses suffered and recovered from. Like a mirror image, their stories are shaped by the influx of unwanted things from the world outside.But now, as Deonar''s toxic halo becomes undeniable, a change is coming. And as officials try to close it, the lives that the pickers have built on the Mountain seem more fragile than ever.

DKK 120.00

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Teddy Boys - Max Decharne - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Enormously enjoyable'' Sunday Times''Genial and entertaining'' Daily Telegraph''A joyous celebration of the founding fathers of British youth culture'' Alwyn Turner, author of All in it Together and Little EnglandersWith their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab clothes, Blitz playgrounds and tinned dinners. From the Edwardian origins of their fashion to the tabloid fears of delinquency, drunkenness and disorder, the story of the Teds throws a fascinating light on a British society that was still reeling from the Second World War. In the 1950s, working-class teenagers found a way of asserting themselves in how they dressed, spoke and socialised on the street. When people saw Teds, they stepped aside.Musician and author Max Décharné traces the rise of the Teds and the shockwave they sent through post-war Britain, from the rise of rock ''n'' roll to the Notting Hill race riots. Full of fascinating insight, deftly sketching the milieu of Elvis Presley and Derek Bentley, Billy Fury and Oswald Mosley, Teddy Boys is the story of Britain''s first youth counterculture.

DKK 239.00

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Teddy Boys - Max D?charn? - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Enormously enjoyable'' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesExcellent ... illuminates a fascinating and still under-explored period in British youth culture and social history'' Jon Savage, New StatesmanWith their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab clothes, Blitz playgrounds and tinned dinners. From the Edwardian origins of their fashion to the tabloid fears of delinquency, drunkenness and disorder, the story of the Teds throws a fascinating light on a British society that was still reeling from the Second World War. In the 1950s, working-class teenagers found a way of asserting themselves in how they dressed, spoke and socialised on the street. When people saw Teds, they stepped aside.Musician and author Max Décharné traces the rise of the Teds and the shockwave they sent through post-war Britain, from the rise of rock ''n'' roll to the Notting Hill race riots. Full of fascinating insight, deftly sketching the milieu of Elvis Presley and Derek Bentley, Billy Fury and Oswald Mosley, Teddy Boys is the story of Britain''s first youth counterculture.

DKK 141.00

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The Secret Life of John le Carre - Adam Sisman - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award''Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful study into the biographical process itself'' Nicholas Shakespeare''Now that he is dead, we can know him better.'' Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over four decades. To keep these relationships secret, he made use of tradecraft that he had learned as a spy: code names and cover stories, cut outs, safe houses and dead letter boxes. Such affairs introduced both jeopardy and excitement into what was otherwise a quiet, ordered life. Le Carré seemed to require the stimulus they provided in order to write, though this meant deceiving those closest to him. It is no coincidence that betrayal became a recurrent theme in his work. Adam Sisman''s definitive biography, published in 2015, revealed much about the elusive spy-turned-novelist; yet le Carré was adamant that some subjects should remain hidden, at least during his lifetime. The Secret Life of John le Carré is the story of what was left out, and offers reflections on the difficult relationship between biographer and subject. More than that, it adds a necessary coda to the life and work of this complex, driven, restless man. The Secret Life of John le Carré reveals a hitherto-hidden perspective on the life and work of the spy-turned-author and a fascinating meditation on the complex relationship between biographer and subject. ''Now that he is dead,'' Sisman writes, ''we can know him better.''

DKK 127.00

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World of the Castrati - Patrick Barbier - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Patrick Barbier''s entertaining and authoritative book is the first full study of the subject in the context of the baroque period. Covering the lives of more than sixty singers from the end of the sixteenth century to the nineteenth, he blends history and anecdote as he examines their social origins and backgrounds, their training and debuts, their brilliant careers their relationship with society and the Church, and their decline and death.The castrati became a legend that still fascinates us today. Thousands flocked to hear and see these singing hybrids - part man, part woman, part child - who portrayed virile heroes on the operatic stage, their soprano or contralto voices weirdly at variance with their clothes and bearing. The sole surviving scratchy recording tells us little of the extraordinary effect of those voices on their audiences - thrilling, unlike any sound produced by the normal human voice.Illustrated with photographs and engravings, the book ranges from the glories of patronage and adulation to the darker side of a fashion that exploited the sons of poor families, denied them their manhood and left them, when they were old, to decline into poverty and loneliness. It is a story that will intrigue opera-lovers and general readers alike, superbly told by a writer who has researched his subject with the thoroughness of a true enthusiast.

DKK 213.00

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The Switch - Chris Goodall - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How will the world be powered in ten years'' time? Not by fossil fuels. Energy experts are all saying the same thing: solar photovoltaics (PV) is our future. Reports from universities, investment banks, international institutions and large investors agree. It''s not about whether the switch from fossil fuels to solar power will happen, but when.Solar panels are being made that will last longer than ever hoped; investors are seeing the benefits of the long-term rewards provided by investing in solar; in the Middle East, a contractor can now offer solar-powered electricity far cheaper than that of a coal-fired power station. The Switch tracks the transition away from coal, oil and gas to a world in which the limitless energy of the sun provides much of the energy the 10 billion people of this planet will need. It examines both the solar future and how we will get there, and the ways in which we will provide stored power when the sun isn''t shining. We learn about artificial photosynthesis from a start-up in the US that is making petrol from just CO2 and sunlight; ideas on energy storage are drawn from a company in Germany that makes batteries for homes; in the UK, a small company in Swindon has the story of wind turbines; and in Switzerland, a developer shows how we can use hydrogen to make ''renewable'' natural gas for heating.Told through the stories of entrepreneurs, inventors and scientists from around the world, and using the latest research and studies, The Switch provides a positive solution to the climate change crisis, and looks to a brighter future ahead.

DKK 120.00

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The Secret Life of John le Carre - Adam Sisman - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

WINNER OF THE CRIMEFEST HRF KEATING AWARDA Times Best Literature Book of the Year 2023A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023A Spectator Book of the Year 2023A Daily Express Best Book of 2023''A fascinating, revelatory appendix ... providing new insights into the inner workings of the man who created George Smiley'' ''Best Books of the Year 2023'', Financial Times''Sisman can set the record straight'' ''Books of the Year 2023'', The Sunday Times''Complex and consequential ... casts le Carré''s life and writing in a fresh light ... a fascinating examination of the biographer''s art'' Washington Post''Now that he is dead, we can know him better.'' Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over four decades. To keep these relationships secret, he made use of tradecraft that he had learned as a spy: code names and cover stories, cut outs, safe houses and dead letter boxes. Such affairs introduced both jeopardy and excitement into what was otherwise a quiet, ordered life. Le Carré seemed to require the stimulus they provided in order to write, though this meant deceiving those closest to him. It is no coincidence that betrayal became a recurrent theme in his work. Adam Sisman''s definitive biography, published in 2015, revealed much about the elusive spy-turned-novelist; yet le Carré was adamant that some subjects should remain hidden, at least during his lifetime. The Secret Life of John le Carré is the story of what was left out, and offers reflections on the difficult relationship between biographer and subject. More than that, it adds a necessary coda to the life and work of this complex, driven, restless man. The Secret Life of John le Carré reveals a hitherto-hidden perspective on the life and work of the spy-turned-author and a fascinating meditation on the complex relationship between biographer and subject. ''Now that he is dead,'' Sisman writes, ''we can know him better.''

DKK 166.00

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Queen K - Sarah Thomas - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A superb debut novel... Anyone who enjoyed The White Lotus will love Thomas''s scalpel-sharp skewering of the mores and idiocies of the idle rich'' Observer''''A classy thriller that will appeal to fans of Leila Slimani''s Lullaby . . . A hot holiday read to brighten up the last few weeks of winter'' Sunday TimesQueen K is as compulsive as a Netflix binge, but it also asks timely questions about status and what constitutes a dignified life'' Sheena Patel, Guardian''Balzac in Balenciaga... Queen K lures you in with escapist, beach-read vibes, then bares its teeth with a devastating portrait of the emotional cost of greed'' Times''Patricia Highsmith-esque ... an untrustworthy narrator judging her employer''s life of excess and desperate attempts to infiltrate a glittering world'' Evening Standard, ''The Debuts You''ll Love in 2023''''A dark and brilliant read . . . our bet is that this is going to be on the small or big screen'' GlamourOn a balmy evening in late March, an oligarch''s wife hosts a party on a superyacht moored in the Maldives. Tables cover the massive deck, adorned with orchids, champagne bottles, name cards of celebrities. Uniformed staff flank a red carpet on the landing dock. This is what Kata has wanted for a long time: acceptance into the glittering world of high society. But there are those who aim to come between Kata and her goal, and they are closer to home than she could have imagined.Witness to the corruption and violence underneath the shiny surfaces is Mel, a young English woman employed to tutor Kata''s precocious daughter and navigate her through the class codes of English privilege. Now the closest Mel gets to such privilege is as hired help to the wealthy, and she is deeply resentful.Exquisitely written and deliciously unreliable, Queen K takes the reader to some of the most luxurious places in the world. But a dark refrain sounds from the very beginning of the story and grows towards its operatic finale: a novel about insatiable material desire can only ever be a tragedy.''A world of butter-cream-beige luxury, brimming with toxicity and darkness, that pulls you in, and under'' Calla Henkel, author of Other People''s Clothes

DKK 155.00

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The Lady in the Van - Alan Bennett - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France - Ned Palmer - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Economist Numbers Guide 6th Edition - Richard Stutely - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France - Ned Palmer - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Riddle of the Labyrinth - Margalit Fox - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

LRB Diary for 2024 - Lrb Diary - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Warning - Jenny Joseph - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Four Stories - Alan Bennett - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Possible - Chris Goodall - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Mountain Tales - Saumya Roy - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Teddy Boys - Max Decharne - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Teddy Boys - Max D?charn? - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Secret Life of John le Carre - Adam Sisman - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

World of the Castrati - Patrick Barbier - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Switch - Chris Goodall - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Secret Life of John le Carre - Adam Sisman - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Queen K - Sarah Thomas - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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