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The Red Hotel - Graham Masterton - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Sissy Saywer, an unredeemed hippy, has an uncanny ability to read the future and the lives of those she hold dear may soon depend on it... One afternoon, shadows stared to flicker along the corridors of The Red Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and both guests and staff heard persistent grinding noises that gave them ''the freesons'' or goosebumps. Months later, Sissy Sawyer''s step-nephew Billy drops by with his new girlfriend, T-Yon. Sissy has an uncanny ability to read the future using her special Tarot cards, and T-Yon wants her help. She''s been having terrible dreams about her old brother, Everett, ever since he started restoring an old hotel in Baton Rouge...

DKK 182.00

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The Graybar Hotel - Curtis Dawkins - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A man sits collect-calling strangers every day just to hear the sounds of the outside world; an inmate recalls his descent into addiction as his prison softball team gears up for an annual tournament; a prisoner is released and finds freedom more complex and baffling than he expected.In this stunning debut story collection, Curtis Dawkins, who is currently serving a life sentence without parole, offers a glimpse into the reality of prison life through the eyes of the people who spend their days and years behind bars.

DKK 117.00

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Weekend - William Mcilvanney - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

In a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students from Glasgow gather for a residential weekend. The weekend proves to be a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people - just not quite in the way any of them expected.

DKK 120.00

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Death in Disguise - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

When the body of an American woman is found in the Prince Alfred suite at the Royal Victoria Hotel, DCI Monika Paniatowski is faced with one of the most baffling cases of her career. The woman who called herself Mary Edwards had been a guest at the hotel for the past two weeks, having paid cash in advance. But who was she really - and what was she doing in a small town like Whitebridge? If Monika could discover why the dead woman had come to Lancashire, she would be one step closer to catching her killer.The investigation takes an intriguing twist when Monika learns of a possible link to a fifty-year-old murder - but the only person who could tell her why it''s relevant is lying in a coma.

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Death in Disguise - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

DCI Monika Paniatowski investigates the killing of an American guest - and uncovers a link to a 50-year-old murder. When the body of an American woman is found in the Prince Alfred suite at the Royal Victoria Hotel, DCI Monika Paniatowski is faced with one of the most baffling cases of her career. The woman who called herself Mary Edwards had been a guest at the hotel for the past two weeks, having paid cash in advance. But who was she really - and what was she doing in a small town like Whitebridge? If Monika could discover why the dead woman had come to Lancashire, she would be one step closer to catching her killer.The investigation takes an intriguing twist when Monika learns of a possible link to a fifty-year-old murder - but the only person who could tell her why it''s relevant is lying in a coma.

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Gone Bamboo - Anthony Bourdain - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Welcome to the retirement home of Henry and Frances, ex-New Yorkers and professional assassins: a luxury hotel suite in an idyllic, tequila-drenched Caribbean hideaway.It''s supposed to be all cocktails and sex on the beach. But when a job icing a Mafioso godfather goes awry, trouble hits paradise . . . in the form of a cross-dressing capo, a debauched Irish hard man and a slew of incompetent but vicious US marshals.

DKK 119.00

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From This Day - Nora Roberts - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

When B. J. Clark, the young and pretty manager of the Lakeside Inn, met the new owner, Taylor Reynolds, she was fully prepared to dislike him. For she feared - with good reason - that he planned to transform her sleepy old hotel into a resort for jet-setters. That sparks should fly between them was inevitable. But that these should be fanned by a mutual passion was no in her plans. Against all reason B.J. found herself torn between her professional antagonism and her growing attraction to the man she had sworn to despise.

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But Beautiful - Geoff Dyer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician''s style.

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1982, Janine - Alasdair Gray - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasising about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his lonely, alcohol-fuelled fantasies are interrupted by a flood of memories, reminding him of his own shortcomings.An unforgettably imaginative book, deeply experimental in its form and charged with a dark humour, 1982, Janine is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy. Gray''s exploration of politics, religion, powerlessness and pornography has lost none of its power to shock and entertain.

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Barcelona - Mary Costello - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER A marriage unravels in a Spanish hotel room as a young wife is haunted by a past love.A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son''s true nature.A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern life and the sometimes brutal nature of humanity. Whether on city streets, long car journeys or in suburban rooms, we glimpse characters as they approach those moments of desperation - or revelation - that change or reshape fate.

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Call After Midnight - Tess Gerritsen - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Thrilling romantic suspense from a best-selling author A ringing phone in the middle of the night shakes newly-wed Sarah Fontaine awake. Expecting her husband''s call from London, she hears instead an unfamiliar voice. Nick O''Hara from the US State Department is calling with devastating news: Geoffrey Fontaine, Sarah''s husband of two months, died in a hotel fire . . . in Berlin. Convinced her husband is still alive, Sarah forces a confrontation with Nick that finds them criss-crossing Europe on a desperate search for Geoffrey that puts both their lives in terrible danger. This is a first time regular print hardcover previously available in a mass market edition.

DKK 261.00

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A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali - Gil Courtemanche - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hôtel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates and prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists a chaotic society in which millions live in poverty, surrounded by violence and disease. In this troubled world, Valcourt, a Canadian journalist, falls for Gentille, a beautiful Hutu waitress. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a poignant love story, a stirring hymn to humanity and a modern classic of spellbinding power, confronting the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in the 1990s.

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Night Watch - David C. Taylor - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

New York, 1956. A couple walking through Central Park on a fall evening are confronted by a hansom cab driver, only to kill him and casually walk away. Who are the couple and did they know the man?A man commits suicide by throwing himself through a hotel window. His colleagues claim he was depressed - but is there more to it than that?Before Detective Michael Cassidy even begins investigating these cases, he is threatened by an unknown man - the reasons for which are unclear.Are all three incidents connected? If so, how, and will Cassidy live long enough to find out before his would-be assassin claims his life?

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Lolito - Ben Brooks - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 WINNER She''s online.''I booked a hotel,'' I say. ''Near Marble Arch.''''That sounds great, hon. I can''t wait to see you.''''Yeah. Me too.''''I''m vaguely nervous.''''Don''t be.''Do be. I''m a child. Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet. When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong . . . ?Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story .

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Antiques Foe - Barbara Allan - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Eccentric antiques dealer and amateur sleuth Vivian Borne finds herself in jail - again! - when a podcast star is found dead in her hotel room in this new Trash ''n'' Treasures cozy mystery - "one of the funniest cozy series going" (Ellery Queen Magazine) When popular podcaster Nicole Chatterton wants an interview for Killers Caught, true-crime author Vivian Borne is overjoyed . Finally, some recognition for the sleuthing skills the septuagenarian antiques dealer and her daughter Brandy have demonstrated, solving countless crimes in their small hometown of Serenity, Iowa!Dolled up and dressed to the nines, Vivian figures the interview is going swimmingly . . . until Nicole turns the tables, accusing the mother/daughter duo of committing the very crimes they solved. Shocked and affronted - and with a spiteful tirade captured by the cameras - Vivian breaks off the interview, ejecting the rude podcaster from the premises of the Trash ''n'' Treasures shop. How dare the woman?Later, when Vivian pays the podcaster a follow-up visit at the woman''s hotel - hoping to smooth things out and set the record straight - a very dead Nicole is waiting. Caught as the killer (true to the podcast''s title) by producer Clare Shields, Vivian finds herself behind bars. Now it''s up to Brandy to determine who really did the dire deed before their fiendish foe can strike again! Antiques Foe is a light-hearted, laugh-out-loud cozy mystery which also features mother-daughter sleuths Brandy and Vivian''s witty tips for buying and selling antiques, along with a selection of tasty recipes.

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Antiques Foe - Barbara Allan - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Eccentric antiques dealer and amateur sleuth Vivian Borne finds herself in jail - again! - when a podcast star is found dead in her hotel room in this new Trash ''n'' Treasures cozy mystery - "one of the funniest cozy series going" (Ellery Queen Magazine) When popular podcaster Nicole Chatterton wants an interview for Killers Caught, true-crime author Vivian Borne is overjoyed . Finally, some recognition for the sleuthing skills the septuagenarian antiques dealer and her daughter Brandy have demonstrated, solving countless crimes in their small hometown of Serenity, Iowa!Dolled up and dressed to the nines, Vivian figures the interview is going swimmingly . . . until Nicole turns the tables, accusing the mother/daughter duo of committing the very crimes they solved. Shocked and affronted - and with a spiteful tirade captured by the cameras - Vivian breaks off the interview, ejecting the rude podcaster from the premises of the Trash ''n'' Treasures shop. How dare the woman?Later, when Vivian pays the podcaster a follow-up visit at the woman''s hotel - hoping to smooth things out and set the record straight - a very dead Nicole is waiting. Caught as the killer (true to the podcast''s title) by producer Clare Shields, Vivian finds herself behind bars. Now it''s up to Brandy to determine who really did the dire deed before their fiendish foe can strike again! Antiques Foe is a light-hearted, laugh-out-loud cozy mystery which also features mother-daughter sleuths Brandy and Vivian''s witty tips for buying and selling antiques, along with a selection of tasty recipes.

DKK 167.00

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Mr Campion's War - Mike Ripley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Campions young and old, extended family members and loyal friends are gathered at the Dorchester Hotel to celebrate Albert Campion''s seventieth birthday - along with some intriguing, unrecognizable guests. Who exactly are the mysterious, aristocratic, scar-faced German, Freiherr Robert von Ringer, and the elegantly chic Madame Thibus - and what is their connection to Mr Campion?Campion has decided the time has come to enthral his guests with his account of his wartime experiences in Vichy France more than twenty-five years before, but in doing so he unveils a series of extraordinary events. Why here, and why now? Not least as Campion''s shocking revelations have repercussions which reverberate to the present day, putting one of his guests in deadly danger . . .

DKK 182.00

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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg - Dubravka Ugresic - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keeps her legs tucked into a huge furry boot; as a trio of mischievous elderly women who embark on the trip of a lifetime to a hotel spa; and as a villainous flock of ravens, black hens and magpies infected with the H5N1 virus. But what story does Baba Yaga have to tell us today? This is a quizzical tale about one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology, and an extraordinary yarn of identity, secrets, storytelling and love.

DKK 126.00

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Barcelona - Mary Costello - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN SUMMER READ In Barcelona , we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son''s true nature. A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern life and the sometimes brutal nature of humanity. Whether on city streets, long car journeys or in suburban rooms, we glimpse characters as they approach those moments of desperation - or revelation - that change or reshape fate.

DKK 155.00

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Barcelona - Mary Costello - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 In Barcelona , we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son''s true nature. A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern life and the sometimes brutal nature of humanity. Whether on city streets, long car journeys or in suburban rooms, we glimpse characters as they approach those moments of desperation - or revelation - that change or reshape fate.

DKK 155.00

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Lace - Shirley Conran - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

WHICH ONE OF YOU BITCHES IS MY MOTHER?1980. In Manhattan''s most exclusive hotel, four friends come face to face with a young, mega-watt film star. She has a question for them that has brought her from the streets of Paris to the playgrounds of the rich and famous - and it has almost destroyed her. . . Kate, Maxine, Judy and Pagan have soared to the top in fashion, PR and interior design. Now they are forced to look back at their lives: their wicked behaviour at school, the building of careers and the breaking of hearts. These women have never questioned their friendship, but now they must answer to Lili. Lace is the book that every mother kept hidden from her daughter. Originally published in 1982, it is the debut novel from the million-copy bestselling author of Superwoman .

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Murder with Mercy - Veronica Heley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Ellie''s friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths in the community which might or might not be suicide, and various relatives of the deceased confirm their suspicions. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady moving in and out of dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery.At the same time, the project to turn the quirky, turreted Pryce House into a hotel is dogged by problems and suspicion falls on the difficult twelve-year-old boy Mikey who Ellie has taken in. Social Services threaten to remove him into care. And Ellie''s pregnant daughter Diana has been juggling problems caused by the slow convalescence of her estate agent husband.Can Ellie track down whoever it is who is killing for mercy, keep Mikey at home, and steer Diana into calmer waters?

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Mr Campion's War - Mike Ripley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

"Pop has never talked about what he did in the war . Whatever he did, it was pretty secret stuff": the intriguing new Albert Campion mystery. Campions young and old, extended family members and loyal friends are gathered at the Dorchester Hotel to celebrate Albert Campion''s seventieth birthday - along with some intriguing, unrecognizable guests. Who exactly are the mysterious, aristocratic, scar-faced German, Freiherr Robert von Ringer, and the elegantly chic Madame Thibus - and what is their connection to Mr Campion?Campion has decided the time has come to enthral his guests with his account of his wartime experiences in Vichy France more than twenty-five years before, but in doing so he unveils a series of extraordinary events. Why here, and why now? Not least as Campion''s shocking revelations have repercussions which reverberate to the present day, putting one of his guests in deadly danger . . .

DKK 272.00

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The Caretaker - Ron Rash - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

''One of the great American authors at work today'' New York Times ONE OF THE NEW YORKER ''S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR It is 1951. The close-knit community of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, does not welcome those who are different.Jacob Hampton''s wealthy parents disinherited him when he married Naomi, an uneducated hotel maid. Now Jacob has been called up to fight in Korea, leaving a pregnant Naomi behind. The only person he can trust to take care of her is his lifelong friend, Blackburn Gant. Blackburn, who tends the local cemetery, is an outsider too, his appearance irrevocably altered by childhood disease.Slowly the two outcasts grow closer and as they await news of Jacob''s return, a terrible, shattering act of deception derails all their lives. But no secret can stay hidden for ever.Tender and luminous with truth, The Caretaker is a riveting story about the bonds of friendship, the contradictions of family and what it really means to love.

DKK 120.00

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A Lurking Primrose - Suzette A. Hill - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The peculiar death of an assistant matron at a distinguished boys'' school draws amateur sleuth Primrose Oughterard into another delightfully quirky mystery. Erasmus House, a prestigious prep school for boys in Lewes, is in uncharacteristic disarray over a looming visit from Her Majesty''s inspectors. Convinced that inspectors dislike old-established schools, headmaster Mr Winchbrooke devises a cunning plan to drag Erasmus House into modernity - by replacing the rustic paintings of eccentric local artist and amateur sleuth, Primrose Oughterard, with more ''challenging'' abstract works.But Primrose''s paintings are the least of Winchbrooke''s worries when the school''s assistant matron, Miss Memling, is found dead in a Brighton hotel room, clutching an empty gin bottle. Was there more to dull Aida Memling than met the eye? As one of the school''s trustees, Primrose springs into action. With her late brother Francis''s pets Maurice and Bouncer by her side, can Primrose solve the Memling mystery?

DKK 233.00

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The Red Hotel - Graham Masterton - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Graybar Hotel - Curtis Dawkins - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Weekend - William Mcilvanney - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Death in Disguise - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Death in Disguise - Sally Spencer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Gone Bamboo - Anthony Bourdain - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

From This Day - Nora Roberts - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

But Beautiful - Geoff Dyer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

1982, Janine - Alasdair Gray - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Barcelona - Mary Costello - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Call After Midnight - Tess Gerritsen - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali - Gil Courtemanche - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Night Watch - David C. Taylor - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Lolito - Ben Brooks - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Antiques Foe - Barbara Allan - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Antiques Foe - Barbara Allan - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Mr Campion's War - Mike Ripley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg - Dubravka Ugresic - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Barcelona - Mary Costello - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Barcelona - Mary Costello - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Lace - Shirley Conran - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Murder with Mercy - Veronica Heley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Mr Campion's War - Mike Ripley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Caretaker - Ron Rash - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Lurking Primrose - Suzette A. Hill - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk