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In Plain Sight - Dan Davies - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In Plain Sight - Dan Davies - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A major source for the BBC drama The Reckoning Winner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction Dagger Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black Prize ''An astonishing account'' Observer ''A compulsive, colourful and chilling read'' Sunday Times ''An extraordinary book'' Mail on Sunday Dan Davies spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of six years before his death. Dan also interviewed scores of people, many of them unobtainable while Savile was alive.Jimmy Savile was cynical, calculating and predatory. He revelled in his status as a Pied Piper of youth and used his power to abuse the vulnerable and underage, all the while covering his tracks by moving into the innermost circles of the establishment. IN PLAIN SIGHT is a devastating and definitive account of a national figure turned national disgrace.

DKK 141.00
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Circle of Days - Ken Follett - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Circle of Days - Ken Follett - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world''s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Rite, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offers Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers, within their herder community. A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE Joia, Neen''s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain. A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILISATION Joia''s vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life''s work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders - and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare . . . Truly ambitious in scope, Circle of Days invites you to join master storyteller Ken Follett in exploring one of the greatest mysteries of our age: Stonehenge.

DKK 232.00
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The Maths Handbook - Dr. Richard Elwes - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Maths Handbook - Dr. Richard Elwes - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

This is the perfect introduction for those who have a lingering fear of maths. If you think that maths is difficult, confusing, dull or just plain scary, then The Maths Handbook is your ideal companion. Covering all the basics including fractions, equations, primes, squares and square roots, geometry and fractals, Dr Richard Elwes will lead you gently towards a greater understanding of this fascinating subject. Even apparently daunting concepts are explained simply, with the assistance of useful diagrams, and with a refreshing lack of jargon. So whether you''re an adult or a student, whether you like Sudoku but hate doing sums, or whether you''ve always been daunted by numbers at work, school or in everyday life, you won''t find a better way of overcoming your nervousness about numbers and learning to enjoy making the most of mathematics.

DKK 126.00
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Standing Heavy - Gauz - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Standing Heavy - Gauz - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

"One of those rare, transformative novels" KARIM MISKE "Funny and poignant" TIFFANY TSAO, author of The Majesties Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard''s smile.The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift.Babies adore the security guard. Perhaps because he does not drag babies to the sales. The 1960s - Ferdinand arrives in Paris from Côte d''Ivoire, ready to take on the world and become a big somebody.The 1990s - It is the Golden Age of immigration, and Ossiri and Kassoum navigate a Paris on the brink of momentous change.The 2010s - In a Sephora on the Champs-Élysées, the all-seeing eyes of a security guard observes the habits of those who come to worship at this church to consumerism.Amidst the political bickering of the inhabitants of the Residence for Students from Côte d''Ivoire and the ever-changing landscape of French immigration policy, Ferdinand, Ossiri and Kassoum, two generations of Ivoirians, attempt to make their way as undocumented workers, taking shifts as security at a flour mill.Sharply satirical, political and poignant, Standing Heavy is a searingly witty deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption, an unprecedented and unforgettable account of everything that passes under a security guard''s gaze. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne "Inventive and very funny" Guardian "A compact, humane satire" Financial Times

DKK 132.00
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The Broken Afternoon - Simon Mason - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Broken Afternoon - Simon Mason - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''Move over Morse. Simon Mason Oxford crime novel breathes fresh life into the police procedural'' Val McDermid ''There is no one else like him'' Mark Sanderson The Times/Sunday Times Crime Club A DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area,her mother only a stones-throw away. A TRIGGERING RESPONSE Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three months ago, watches his former partner DI Ray Wilkins deliver a press conference, confirming a lead. A DARK WEB Ray begins to delve deeper, unearthing an underground network of criminal forces in the local area. But while Ray''s investigation stalls Ryan brings his unique talents to unofficial and quite illegal inquiries which will bring him into a confrontation with the very officials who have thrown him out of the force. Praise for the DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries ''Mason has reformulated Inspector Morse for the 2020s'' The Times ''Start now and avoid the rush'' Guardian

DKK 160.00
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The Night in Question - Laurie Graham - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Night in Question - Laurie Graham - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

London, the 1880s, and Jack the Ripper is at large. Two childhood friends meet again having found very different fortunes in the fog-bound, Ripper-stalked streets of Victorian London. Plain but witty Dot is a music hall star; pretty Kate (Eddowes, a true-life Ripper victim) has fallen on hard times. ''Poignant and unsentimental, Dot''s whipllash humour had me cheering'' DAILY MAIL When star of London''s Victorian music hall, Dot Allbones, bumps into her childhood friend Kate Eddowes outside the Griffin theatre in Shoreditch, it''s a blast from the past. The two grew up together in the Midlands, but life has treated them very differently since then.Told through the eyes of the irreverent Dot, this is the story of a London populated by chancers, some rich, some destitute. During one hot summer in the 1880s Whitechapel famously became the scene of unspeakable horror, and Kate Eddowes found a grisly fame that would far outshine Dot''s.Because out there, in the stews of East London, Saucy Jack is sharpening his knife . . .

DKK 120.00
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The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A gruesome discovery at an old children''s home lays bare terrible secret''s from Norwich''s past in the second gripping mystery for Dr Ruth Galloway. ''The setting is enticingly atmospheric . . . a really intelligent murder story'' Independent Dr Ruth Galloway''s forensic skills are called upon when builders, demolishing an old house in Norwich, uncover the bones of a child - minus the skull - beneath a doorway. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? Ruth links up with DCI Harry Nelson to investigate. The house was once a children''s home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the place. He tells him that two children did go missing forty years before - a boy and a girl. They were never found. When carbon dating proves that the child''s bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is desperate to put her off the scent by frightening her to death...

DKK 126.00
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The Broken Afternoon - Simon Mason - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Broken Afternoon - Simon Mason - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''Move over Morse. Simon Mason Oxford crime novel breathes fresh life into the police procedural'' Val McDermid ''As great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades'' Stephen Fry A DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area,her mother only a stones-throw away. A TRIGGERING RESPONSE Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three months ago, watches his former partner DI Ray Wilkins deliver a press conference, confirming a lead. A DARK WEB Ray begins to delve deeper, unearthing an underground network of criminal forces in the local area. But while Ray''s investigation stalls Ryan brings his unique talents to unofficial and quite illegal inquiries which will bring him into a confrontation with the very officials who have thrown him out of the force. Praise for the DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries ''Mason has reformulated Inspector Morse for the 2020s'' The Times ''Start now and avoid the rush'' Guardian

DKK 127.00
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Look Up London - Katie Wignall - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Look Up London - Katie Wignall - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A refreshing guide to discovering the hidden details of London with 10 fully guided walking routes from London''s leading tour guide Look Up London. Have you ever noticed London''s tiniest public sculpture? Or wondered why there are strange cone-shaped structures on the fanciest historic homes? Did you know that the Tower of London used to be a zoo, or about the now defunct London railway that transported over 200,000 people to their final resting place? These are just some of the fascinating details that Blue Badge Tourist guide Katie Wignall reveals in this absorbing guide to the secrets of London hidden in plain sight. Take a journey through London''s rich past with these 10 fully guided walking routes and discover a whole world of incredible history hiding above your eye-line, just waiting to be spotted. From the saucy scandals of Covent Garden to stories of power and intrigue from the City, atmospheric pubs to hidden Roman remains, London is a city bursting with captivating stories which are etched into its very architecture. So, Look Up and discover a London you have never seen before.

DKK 141.00
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A rediscovered mountaineering classic and t he extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life is broken by the beginnings of a sudden idea - an outrageous, dangerous, brilliant idea.There are not many people who would break out of a P.O.W. camp, trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meagre rations, and with a picture of the mountain on a tin of beef among their more accurate guides. There are probably fewer still who would break back in to the camp on their return.But this is the remarkable story of three such men. No Picnic on Mount Kenya is a powerful testament to the human spirit of revolt and adventure in even the darkest of places."The history of mountaineering can hardly present a parallel to this mad but thrilling escapade" - Saturday Review "A most extraordinary prisoner-of-war and escape story" - New Yorker "A mad venture and a gallant tribute to man''s deep yearning for freedom" - Kirkus Reviews "The book crackles with the same dry humour as its title . It contains the prison-yard bartering and candlelight stitching that mark a classic jailbreak yarn ; the encounters with wild beasts in Mount Kenya''s forest belt are as gripping , and the descriptions of sparkling glaciers as awe-inspiring, as any passage in the great exploration diaries of the early 20th century" - The Economist

DKK 139.00
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Bleeding Heart Yard - Elly Griffiths - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Bleeding Heart Yard - Elly Griffiths - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DR RUTH GALLOWAY MYSTERIES A propulsive new thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur. A murderer hides in plain sight - in the police. DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret. When she was at school, she and her friends were responsible for the death of a fellow pupil. Decades later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer.Her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil, Garfield Rice, is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent MP and the investigation is high profile, it''s headed by Cassie''s new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur. Trouble is, Cassie can''t shake the feeling that one of her old friends is behind it.Is Cassie right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It''s in Cassie''s interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like the latter and she seems to be succeeding. Until someone else is killed... PRAISE FOR ELLY GRIFFITHS: ''Elly Griffiths writes with a sharp, smart eye and great elegance'' PETER JAMES ''Great on character and suspense'' VAL MCDERMID ''One of my flat-out favourite contemporary suspense writers'' AJ FINN

DKK 192.00
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Bleeding Heart Yard - Elly Griffiths - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Bleeding Heart Yard - Elly Griffiths - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DR RUTH GALLOWAY MYSTERIES A propulsive new thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur. A murderer hides in plain sight - in the police. DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret. When she was at school, she and her friends were responsible for the death of a fellow pupil. Decades later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer.Her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil, Garfield Rice, is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent MP and the investigation is high profile, it''s headed by Cassie''s new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur. Trouble is, Cassie can''t shake the feeling that one of her old friends is behind it.Is Cassie right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It''s in Cassie''s interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like the latter and she seems to be succeeding. Until someone else is killed... PRAISE FOR ELLY GRIFFITHS: ''Elly Griffiths writes with a sharp, smart eye and great elegance'' PETER JAMES ''Great on character and suspense'' VAL MCDERMID ''One of my flat-out favourite contemporary suspense writers'' AJ FINN

DKK 155.00
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Of Men and Angels - Michael Arditti - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Of Men and Angels - Michael Arditti - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''Arditti is a master storyteller who uses his theological literacy sparingly to deliver a challenging but enthralling read'' Guardian Award-winning, bestselling author Michael Arditti''s tenth novel, documenting the history of homophobia and religion. God''s vengeance on the wicked city of Sodom is a perennial source of fascination and horror. Michael Arditti''s passionate and enthralling new novel explores the enduring power of the myth in five momentous epochs. A young Judean exile transcribes the Acts of Abraham and Lot in ancient Babylon; the Guild of Salters presents a mystery play of Lot''s Wife in medieval York; Botticelli paints the Destruction of Sodom for a court in Renaissance Florence; a bereaved rector searches for the Cities of the Plain in nineteenth century Palestine; a closeted gay movie star portrays Lot in a controversial biblical epic in 1980s Hollywood. With its interrelated narratives and interwoven documents, Of Men and Angels is both formally inventive and imaginatively rich. Abounding in characters as vivid as they are varied, from temple prostitutes and palace eunuchs, through fanatical friars and humanist poets, to Bedouin tribesmen, Russian exiles and, of course, angels, this is a novel of breathtaking scope, penetrating insight and profound human sympathy.

DKK 120.00
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Murder in a Mill Town - Helen Cox - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Murder in a Mill Town - Helen Cox - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''Cosy, unique, atmospheric'' Woman ''Brilliantly funny and charming'' Northern Life When a violent murder shatters the otherwise peaceful idyll of Andaby near Hebden Bridge, DS Charlotte Banks can''t help but suspect that her brother Ewan - recently released from prison and now living in Calderdale - is behind it. Ewan claims he''s innocent, and even has an alibi to prove it, but DS Banks isn''t convinced. So much so that she turns to the only people who can help her in an investigation this personal: Kitt Hartley and Grace Edwards, of Hartley and Edwards Investigations.On the hunt for the killer, Kitt and Grace discover the victim was choked to death on her old school sash. From this lead, Kitt, Grace and DS Banks are drawn down a dark trail littered with decade-old grudges, schoolyard secrets, broken hearts and bullies, and struggle to get closer to the truth. When a second victim goes missing however, the clock starts ticking. Can Kitt recover the missing woman before it''s too late? And how do you catch a killer hiding in plain sight? ''Another well written page-turner'' 5* reader review ''One of my favourite series'' 5* reader review ''I couldn''t put this book down'' 5* reader review

DKK 120.00
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Murder in a Mill Town - Helen Cox - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Murder in a Mill Town - Helen Cox - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Everyone''s favourite librarian-turned-sleuth is back! ''Cosy, unique, atmospheric'' Woman ''Brilliantly funny and charming'' Northern Life When a violent murder shatters the otherwise peaceful idyll of Andaby near Hebden Bridge, DS Charlotte Banks can''t help but suspect that her brother Ewan - recently released from prison and now living in Calderdale - is behind it. Ewan claims he''s innocent, and even has an alibi to prove it, but DS Banks isn''t convinced. So much so that she turns to the only people who can help her in an investigation this personal: Kitt Hartley and Grace Edwards, of Hartley and Edwards Investigations.On the hunt for the killer, Kitt and Grace discover the victim was choked to death on her old school sash. From this lead, Kitt, Grace and DS Banks are drawn down a dark trail littered with decade-old grudges, schoolyard secrets, broken hearts and bullies, and struggle to get closer to the truth. When a second victim goes missing however, the clock starts ticking. Can Kitt recover the missing woman before it''s too late? And how do you catch a killer hiding in plain sight? ''Another well written page-turner'' 5* reader review ''One of my favourite series'' 5* reader review ''I couldn''t put this book down'' 5* reader review

DKK 192.00
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Bleeding Heart Yard - Elly Griffiths - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Bleeding Heart Yard - Elly Griffiths - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

THE WINNER OF THE 2022 FINGERPRINT AWARDS'' CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DR RUTH GALLOWAY MYSTERIES A propulsive new thriller set in London featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur. A murderer hides in plain sight - in the police. DS Cassie Fitzherbert has a secret. When she was at school, she and her friends were responsible for the death of a fellow pupil. Decades later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer.Her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion and another ex-pupil, Garfield Rice, is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent MP and the investigation is high profile, it''s headed by Cassie''s new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur. Trouble is, Cassie can''t shake the feeling that one of her old friends is behind it.Is Cassie right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It''s in Cassie''s interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like the latter and she seems to be succeeding. Until someone else is killed... PRAISE FOR ELLY GRIFFITHS: ''Elly Griffiths writes with a sharp, smart eye and great elegance'' PETER JAMES ''Great on character and suspense'' VAL MCDERMID ''One of my flat-out favourite contemporary suspense writers'' AJ FINN

DKK 120.00
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Treblinka - Chil Rajchman - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Treblinka - Chil Rajchman - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months under incessant threats and beatings as a barber, a clothes-sorter, a corpse-carrier, a puller of teeth from those same bodies. In August 1943, there was an uprising at the camp, and Rajchman was among the handful of men who managed to escape. In 1945, he set down this account, a plain, unembellished and exact record of the raw horror he endured every day. This unique testimony, which has remained in the sole possession of his family ever since, has never before been published in English. For its description of unspeakably cruelty, Treblinka is a memoir that will not be superseded. In addition to Rajchman''s account, this volume includes the complete text of Vasily Grossman''s ''The Hell of Treblinka'', one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination camp; a powerful and harrowing piece of journalism written only weeks after the camp was dissolved. Introduction by Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Columbia University and author of A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France.

DKK 126.00
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Laying Out the Bones - Kate Webb - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Laying Out the Bones - Kate Webb - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A TERRIBLE CRIME WAITS TO BE UNEARTHED. The second twisty and atmospheric Wiltshire-set crime novel in the DI Lockyer Series. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid. A long, hot summer in Wiltshire is broken by a sudden downpour. Flash floods bring something sinister to the surface - a human skeleton. When forensic testing matches the bones to a man named Lee Geary, reported missing nine years earlier, the case is passed to DI Matt Lockyer.Geary was a known drug user, so it could be a simple case of misadventure, but Lockyer isn''t so sure. Geary was a townie, and had learning disabilities, so what was he doing out on the Plain all alone? Lockyer soon learns that the year he disappeared, Geary was questioned in relation to another crime - the murder of a young woman named Holly Gilbert.With the help of DC Gemma Broad, Lockyer begins to dig deeper, and discovers that two other persons of interest in the Holly Gilbert case have also either died or disappeared in the intervening years. A coincidence? Or a string of murders that has gone undetected for nearly a decade...? ****************************** Praise for Laying Out The Bones ''Compassionate, transporting and intricately plotted . . . I''m a huge fan'' Emylia Hall, author of The Shell House Detectives ''Unputdownable . . . I didn''t want it to end'' Jenny Ashcroft, author of The Echoes of Love ''Twisty and satisfying'' Kate Riordan, author of Summer Fever

DKK 192.00
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Laying Out the Bones - Kate Webb - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Laying Out the Bones - Kate Webb - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A TERRIBLE CRIME WAITS TO BE UNEARTHED. The second twisty and atmospheric Wiltshire-set crime novel in the DI Lockyer Series. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid. A long, hot summer in Wiltshire is broken by a sudden downpour. Flash floods bring something sinister to the surface - a human skeleton. When forensic testing matches the bones to a man named Lee Geary, reported missing nine years earlier, the case is passed to DI Matt Lockyer.Geary was a known drug user, so it could be a simple case of misadventure, but Lockyer isn''t so sure. Geary was a townie, and had learning disabilities, so what was he doing out on the Plain all alone? Lockyer soon learns that the year he disappeared, Geary was questioned in relation to another crime - the murder of a young woman named Holly Gilbert.With the help of DC Gemma Broad, Lockyer begins to dig deeper, and discovers that two other persons of interest in the Holly Gilbert case have also either died or disappeared in the intervening years. A coincidence? Or a string of murders that has gone undetected for nearly a decade...? ****************************** Praise for Laying Out The Bones ''Compassionate, transporting and intricately plotted . . . I''m a huge fan'' Emylia Hall, author of The Shell House Detectives ''Unputdownable . . . I didn''t want it to end'' Jenny Ashcroft, author of The Echoes of Love ''Twisty and satisfying'' Kate Riordan, author of Summer Fever

DKK 126.00
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The Wandering Pine - Per Olov Enquist - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Wandering Pine - Per Olov Enquist - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A blisteringly frank autobiographical novel by Sweden''s great man of letters - for readers of K. O. Knausgaard''s My Struggle. "Some life. Some novel . . . Wonderful, brave, evocative . . . It is a remarkable story, and Enquist is remarkably frank in narrating every last detail" Herald When everything began so well, how could it turn out so badly? What was it about Hjoggböle, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots - and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing in his family - honest, hardworking people. Not a trace of poetry. And yet he worked his way, via journalism, novels and plays, to the centre of Swedish politics and cultural life. His books garnered prize after prize. His plays ran for decades and premiered on Broadway. Why then, living with a new wife in Paris, does he hole up in their palatial Champes-Élysées apartment, talking only to his cat? How is it that he wakes to find himself in an uncoupled carriage on a railway siding in Hamburg, two - or was it three? - days after the first-night party finished? And what is it that drives him to run shoeless through the deep January snow of an Icelandic plain, leaving the lights of the drying out clinic far behind? Narrating in the third person, as if he were merely a character in the eventful, perplexing and ultimately triumphantly redemptive drama of his own life, P.O. Enquist is as elliptical as Karl Ove Knausgaard is exhaustive. Clear-eyed, rueful, written with elegance and humour, this is the singular story of a remarkable man.

DKK 190.00
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The Wandering Pine - Per Olov Enquist - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Wandering Pine - Per Olov Enquist - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A blisteringly frank autobiographical novel by Sweden''s great man of letters - for readers of K. O. Knausgaard''s My Struggle. "Some life. Some novel . . . Wonderful, brave, evocative . . . It is a remarkable story, and Enquist is remarkably frank in narrating every last detail" Herald When everything began so well, how could it turn out so badly? What was it about Hjoggböle, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots - and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing in his family - honest, hardworking people. Not a trace of poetry. And yet he worked his way, via journalism, novels and plays, to the centre of Swedish politics and cultural life. His books garnered prize after prize. His plays ran for decades and premiered on Broadway. Why then, living with a new wife in Paris, does he hole up in their palatial Champes-Élysées apartment, talking only to his cat? How is it that he wakes to find himself in an uncoupled carriage on a railway siding in Hamburg, two - or was it three? - days after the first-night party finished? And what is it that drives him to run shoeless through the deep January snow of an Icelandic plain, leaving the lights of the drying out clinic far behind? Narrating in the third person, as if he were merely a character in the eventful, perplexing and ultimately triumphantly redemptive drama of his own life, P.O. Enquist is as elliptical as Karl Ove Knausgaard is exhaustive. Clear-eyed, rueful, written with elegance and humour, this is the singular story of a remarkable man.

DKK 120.00
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The Little Girl on the Ice Floe - Adelaide Bon - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Little Girl on the Ice Floe - Adelaide Bon - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

"Life itself is in these pages: in this candid, poetic style there is storytelling of real quality" - LEILA SLIMANI, author of Lullab y A powerful and personal account of the devastating consequences of childhood rape: a valuable voice for the #MeToo conversation. Adélaïde Bon grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in Paris, a privileged child with a loving family, lots of friends and seemingly limitless opportunity lying ahead of her. But one sunny afternoon, when she was nine years old, a strange man followed her home and raped her in the stairwell of her building. She told her parents, they took her to the police, the fact of the crime was registered ... and then a veil was quietly drawn over that part of her childhood, and life was supposed to go on.Except, of course, it didn''t.Throughout her adolescence and young adulthood, Adélaïde struggles with the aftermath of the horror of that afternoon in 1990. The lingering trauma pervades all aspects of her life: family education, friendships, relationships, even her ability to eat normally. And then one day, many years later, when she is married and has a small son, she receives a call from the police saying that they think they have finally caught the man who raped her, a man who has hidden in plain sight for decades, with many other victims ready to testify against him. The subsequent court case reveals Giovanni Costa, the stuff of nightmares and bogeymen, finally vanquished by the weight of dozens and dozens of emotional and horrifying testimonies from all the women whose lives and childhoods he stole .

DKK 112.00
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