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Al Dente - William Black - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Al Dente - William Black - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In Al Dente, William Black travels the length and breadth of Italy in order to get to the roots of Italian food. Our intrepid gastronome eats whatever gets in his way which often isn''t quite what it seems. If it''s cheese then it may be considered ripe only when it has been predigested by maggots or perhaps made solely from the milk of tired cows. A bowl of pasta might come with donkey sauce. A dish of wind dried tuna apparently includes its testicles. A lovely risotto has been made with seagull broth...William''s dedication to his task knows alarmingly few bounds. His quest for the most delicious and authentic cooking and the very finest ingredients takes him to some wonderfully familiar places as well as others far off the beaten track: he drinks great coffee in Turin, chases rabbits in Ischia and views the mattanza, the annual tuna catch, off the coast of Sardinia. One minute he''s scoffing eel brodetto, the next waxing lyrical about the joys of frog risotto. And as he eats his way to the country''s culinary heart, he unearths the fascinating story of his own family''s role in Italian history.A joy from cover to cover and 100 per cent mierda di bufala-free, Al Dente is a must for anyone with an interest in Italy or its food. It will probably make you want to book a holiday and it will certainly make you laugh.

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Their Kingdom Come - Robert Hutchison - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Their Kingdom Come - Robert Hutchison - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

To the outside world, Opus Dei''s stated intention is ''to remind all people that they are called to holiness, especially through work and ordinary life''. But with an elite membership of 80,000 and tentacles reaching around the globe, this secretive sect within the Catholic Church has far greater potential influence.In recent years it has come under criticism from within the Catholic Church and from authorities in the countries where it operates, revealing a more sinister intention: to confront Islam on the world''s spiritual battlefields, by whatever means necessary. Their Kingdom Come demonstrates how Opus Dei has forged an unholy alliance with the Mafia, secular powerbrokers and highly placed prelates, with the result that Christian values are being threatened by the malign influences of power politics and big money.Opus Dei''s command council runs an immense intelligence network and a vast multinational conglomerate, preparing for what the organisation regards as Christendom''s inevitable showdown with radical Islam...

DKK 175.00
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Arnhem: Black Tuesday - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Arnhem: Black Tuesday - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The incredible true story behind the most catastrophic 24-hours the British military faced in World War II from the bestselling author. ‘Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem’ James Holland, bestselling author of The Savage Storm ’Superb... A military historian of originality and insight to compare with the best’ Saul David, historian and bestselling author of Sky Warriors _________ The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but doomed attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas 1944. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being destined to fail, but the men who fought there, men of military legend, didn''t know that that was to be their fate.Now, in Arnhem: Black Tuesday , Al Murray focuses on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants, without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear, offering a very different perspective on a familiar narrative.Some things went right and a great many more went wrong, but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered. Al Murray has always been obsessed by this legendary battle, and in Arnhem: Black Tuesday he showcases all of his knowledge, interpretation and enthusiasm to bear to tell the story of one of history’s great heroic failures differently for the first time._________ ‘Original and insightful’ Telegraph ''A revelation.. This is Arnhem unplugged. By confining himself to men in and around Arnhem on that Tuesday, Murray achieves something special'' The Times

DKK 239.00
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Sunfall - Jim Al Khalili - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sunfall - Jim Al Khalili - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From renowned theoretical physicist, broadcaster and author Jim Al-Khalili, comes this thrilling debut novel drawing on cutting-edge science and set in a near-future full of dazzling technologies. 2041 and the world as we know it grinds to a halt. Our planet seems to be turning against itself - it would appear that the magnetic field, that protects life on Earth from deadly radiation from space, is failing . . . Desperate to quell the mass hysteria that would surely follow, world governments have concealed this rapidly emerging Armageddon. But a young Iranian hacktivist stumbles across the truth, and it becomes a race against time to reactivate the earth''s core using beams of dark matter. As a small team of brave and brilliant scientists battle to find a way of transforming theory into practice, they face a fanatical group intent on pursuing their own endgame agenda: for they believe mankind to be a plague upon this earth and will do anything, commit any crime, to ensure that the project fails . . . And so bring about humanity''s end.

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Arnhem: Black Tuesday - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Arnhem: Black Tuesday - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘Utterly brilliant... this book really is the last word on the Battle of Arnhem’ James Holland ’Superb... A military historian of originality and insight to compare with the best’ Saul David ''This book is a revelation, not in facts delivered, but in the mood evoked. This is Arnhem unplugged By confining himself to men in and around Arnhem on that Tuesday, Murray achieves something special'' The Times ___________ Al Murray has always been obsessed by this legendary battle, and in Arnhem: Black Tuesday he showcases all of his knowledge, interpretation and enthusiasm to bear to tell the story of one of history’s great heroic failures differently for the first time. The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but doomed attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas 1944. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being destined to fail, but the men who fought there, men of military legend, didn''t know that that was to be their fate. By focusing on the events of one day as they happened through the eyes of the British participants and without bringing any knowledge of what would happen tomorrow to bear, Al Murray offers a very different perspective on a familiar narrative. Some things went right and a great many more went wrong, but recounting them in this way allows the reader to understand for the first time how certain decisions were taken in the moment and how opportunities were squandered.Tuesday 19 September 1944 was the terrible day which became known as Black Tuesday. From just after 12:00 hours while plans were being made to seize the initiative and optimism reigned, to the following midnight, when Arnhem was burning and the Allied fortunes looked very different, a mere twenty-four hours changed the course of the war.

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Come Rain Or Shine - Susan Sallis - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Come Rain Or Shine - Susan Sallis - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From the pen of multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a magnificent and sweeping novel that asks whether friendships really can endure through thick and thin. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed. READERS ARE LOVING COME RAIN OR SHINE ! "Brilliant, I couldn''t put it down." - 5 STARS "Great storyline. Took me a while to place everyone, so many wonderful characters. But so worth it. Susan Sallis puts you right there, in the thick of it." - 5 STARS "Wonderful" - 5 STARS "It was exciting and intriguing and nicely slow at the same time" - 5 STARS *********************************************************************************************************** SOME FRIENDSHIPS REALLY DO STAND THE TEST OF TIME. WILL THEIRS? The four of them were close when they worked together in the 1960s: Natasha, Prudence, Rachel and Maisie .Now, twenty years later, Natasha, newly divorced and back from America with a fifteen-year-old daughter, decides there must be a reunion . Pru, always the mysterious one, deeply involved with her commune in Cornwall , unexpectedly offers to host at Prospect House , a property she has inherited in the Malvern Hills . Rachel, married to her former boss, a Liberal MP, gladly leaves a tangled domestic situation to join the friends she hasn''t seen for so long.And Maisie ... Maisie, perhaps the most vulnerable of the four, mother of five children, married to the unpredictable Edward , fails to arrive at Prospect House. The drama of her disappearance has a far-reaching effect on the lives and destinies of them all...

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Paradox - Jim Al Khalili - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Paradox - Jim Al Khalili - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world''s greatest science conundrums... ___________ How does the fact that it gets dark at night prove the Universe must have started with a big bang? Where are all the aliens? Why does the length of a piece of string vary depending on how fast it is moving?Our subject is ''perceived paradoxes'' - questions or thought-experiments that on first encounter seem impossible to answer, but which science has been able to solve. Our tour of these mind-expanding puzzles will take us through some of the greatest hits of science - from Einstein''s theories about space and time, to the latest ideas of how the quantum world works. Some of our paradoxes may be familiar, such as Schrödinger''s famous cat, which is seemingly alive and dead at the same time; or the Grandfather Paradox - if you travelled back in time and killed your grandfather you would not have been born and would not therefore have killed your grandfather. Other paradoxes will be new to you, but no less bizarre and fascinating.In resolving our paradoxes we will have to travel to the furthest reaches of the Universe and explore the very essence of space and time. Hold on tight.

DKK 127.00
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come - Jessica Pan - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come - Jessica Pan - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘Funny, emotional and deeply inspiring, this is perfect for anyone wanting to break out of their comfort zone’ Heat What would happen if a shy introvert lived as an out-and-out extrovert for one year? Jessica Pan is about to find out… *When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in the familiar Jess-shaped crease on her sofa, she couldn''t help but wonder what life might have looked like if she had been a little more open to new experiences and new people, a little less attached to going home instead of going to the pub.So, she made a vow: to push herself to live the life of an extrovert for a year. She wrote a list: improv, a solo holiday and... talking to strangers on the tube. She regretted it instantly. Sorry I''m Late, I Didn''t Want to Come follows Jess''s hilarious and painful year of misadventures in extroverting, reporting back from the frontlines for all the introverts out there. But is life actually better or easier for the extroverts? Or is it the nightmare Jess always thought it would be?*‘In a world of self-care and nights in, this book will inspire and remind you to do some things that scare you every so often.’ Emma Gannon ‘Tender, courageous and extremely funny, this book will make us all braver.’ Daisy Buchanan ‘A chronicle of Pan’s hilarious and painful year of being an extrovert.’ Stylist

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Come This Way Home - Liz Lyons - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Come This Way Home - Liz Lyons - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

One wet and stormy Irish summer, the three Miller sisters gather at their grand but shabby old family home, Tobar Lodge. Gina , middle sister and mum to a troubled teenage girl, is doing her best to keep the old country house afloat by playing host to summer visitors who rent converted cottages on the land.Eldest, Lottie , is home to lick her wounds after her latest romantic adventure has ended in disaster once again. Rachel , the youngest, has led a more charmed life but this time is coming home accompanied by a family struggling after the collapse of her husband''s business.As family and strangers meet and collide, and a long hidden secret is exposed, they begin to discover that love and life is all about losing, yearning for and ultimately finding a place called home. By the time the holiday season draws to a close, all will realise that complications of past lives simmer just beneath the surface, a rich layer of secrets concealed from the eyes of others but keenly felt in the hearts of those to whom they belong.

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Victory '45 - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Victory '45 - Al Murray - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Murray breaks the story into its constituent parts and, demonstrating a deep understanding of events... an original and insightful account'' Telegraph ''Reinforces Holland’s reputation as certainly the busiest and probably the most popular military historian of the second world war working today’ Spectator _______ From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York, Washington and Tokyo, Victory ’45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders that heralded the Allied victory.Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the victory celebrations which followed, it will be rich in character and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end of the war not yet told before. Each chapter will follow the viewpoints of a number of key characters as they traverse these world-changing events – from ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals and political leaders.What took place during the negotiations of those surrenders and the terms that were agreed there would determine the directions the participating countries would take in the years that followed and ultimately the shape of our current world.

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Please Don't Come Back from the Moon - Dean Bakopoulos - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Please Don't Come Back from the Moon - Dean Bakopoulos - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When I was sixteen, my father went to the moon. When Michael was sixteen his father left home. He wasn''t the first to go. One by one other men in the blue-collar neighbourhood outside Detroit where Michael lives vanish. One props open the door to his shoe store and leaves a note. ''I''m going to the moon,'' it reads, ''I took all the cash''.The wives are left behind, and with few jobs and fewer opportunities they drink, brawl, sleep around, and gradually make new lives knowing their husbands are never coming back. Michael and his friends grow up. They try to get an education, start their first jobs, fall in love and begin to build families of their own. Until one night the restlessness of their fathers blooms in them, threatening to carry them away.This is a haunting, unforgettable début novel of fathers and sons, and of growing up the hard way. Shot through with magic and brimming with humanity, it is a novel for anyone who has even been left longing.

DKK 161.00
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This is the Night They Come For You - Robert Goddard - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This is the Night They Come For You - Robert Goddard - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A pulse-pounding, breathless crime thriller, perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz''s Hawthorne series, Robert Galbraith''s Cormoran Strike series and LJ Ross''s Alexander Gregory thrillers ''Truly ingenious'' The Tablet Goddard sprinkles head-turning double-crossing with delightful by-play between his two leads'' Times ''Fast-paced, beautifully crafted with some excellently drawn characters... engages from start to finish'' Choice Magazine ''Goddard writes amazing novels of mystery/suspense. His new one is magical and the title is simply the best'' Stephen King __________________ On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria''s troubled past and its fraught relationship with France.To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country''s feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal. But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery, surrounding a murder that took place in Paris more than fifty years ago.Uncovering the truth may be his responsibility, but Taleb is well aware that no-one in Algeria wants to be reminded of the dark deeds carried out in the struggle for independence - or in the violence that has racked the nation since. Before long, he will face a choice he has long sought to avoid, between self-preservation and doing the right thing.And, ultimately, the choice may not even be his to make. The new novel from Robert Goddard, THIS IS THE DAY THEY DREAM OF, is available for pre-order now. ________________________________ Praise for Robert Goddard''The world''s greatest storyteller'' Guardian ''One of the finest crime writer of any generation'' Daily Mail ''Our finest practitioner of double-crossing plotting'' Mick Herron

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The World's Most Dangerous Place - James Fergusson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The World's Most Dangerous Place - James Fergusson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2014 AND THE PADDY POWER POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEAR. Award-winning journalist James Fergusson is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia.This corner of the world has long been seen as the rotting and charred heart of Africa: a melting pot of crime, corruption, poverty, famine and civil war. And in recent years, whilst Somalia’s lucrative piracy industry has grabbed the headlines, a darker, much deeper threat has come of age: the Al Qaida-linked militants Al Shabaab, and the dawn of a new phase in the global war on terror.Yet, paradoxically, Somalia’s star is brightening, as forms of business, law enforcement and local politics begin to establish themselves, and members of the vast Somali diaspora return to their homeland.Fergusson takes us to the heart of the struggle, meeting everyone from politicians, pirates, extremists and mercenaries to aid workers, civilians and refugees. He gives a unique account of a country ravaged by war, considers what the future might hold for a generation who have grown up knowing little else and exposes the reality of life in this hard, often forgotten land.

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The Watchers - Jon Steele - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Watchers - Jon Steele - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Lausanne, Switzerland. In the cathedral tower lives a strange boy with a limp who talks to the bells. In a luxury penthouse lives a high-class prostitute who''s in mortal danger. And in a low-rent hotel lives a private investigator who has no idea how he got there. Jay Harper finds himself in Switzerland on the trail of a missing Olympic athlete. A hard drinker, he can barely remember how he got home last night, let alone why he accepted this job. When he meets the stunning but aloof Katherine in a hotel bar, he quickly realises that he''s not the only one in town who''s for hire. She''s a high-class hooker who can''t believe her luck. Which is about to change. For the worse.In the meantime, Marc Rochat spends his time in the belfry talking to the statues, his cat and the occasional ghost. His job is to watch over Lausanne at night and to wait for the angel his mother told him he''d one day have to save. When he sees Katherine, he thinks his moment has come. Which indeed it has. But not in a good way...

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The Killing Place - Tess Gerritsen - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Killing Place - Tess Gerritsen - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Gerritsen plays on our fears . . . exploring what can happen when ordinary people unwittingly trigger extraordinary events.'' Daily Mail Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles and a group of friends find themselves trapped in a terrifying snowstorm in Wyoming. They stumble into the snowbound village of Kingdom Come to take shelter. Here they find twelve eerily identical houses standing dark and abandoned . . .It soon becomes clear that Maura''s nightmare has only just begun.Days later Detective Jane Rizzoli flies out to search for her missing friend. Her hunt forthe truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where someone lies waiting for her . . .

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The Other Woman - Iris Gower - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Other Woman - Iris Gower - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gwenllyn Lyons has been raised by her grandmother, in an elegant cottage set in the hills above the Wye Valley. One afternoon, as she and her grandmother return from town, they come across a man lying injured and unconscious by the river bank. They take him home and nurse him until he recovers but nothing seems to help him regain his lost memories - he has no idea who he is, or where he has come from. Over the long hot summer they spend together, Gwenllyn realises that she can''t imagine what it would be like without this handsome young man in her life. As her love for the mysterious stranger grows, she cannot help rejoicing when she realises he feels the same way about her. Gwenllyn''s only fear is that some day his past may come to haunt them - a different life, where another woman might be waiting for him. Will she ever have the happiness of being a bride, or will she always be the other woman?

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The Brentford Triangle - Robert Rankin - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Brentford Triangle - Robert Rankin - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Omally groaned. "It is the end of mankind as we know it. I should never have got up so early today" and all over Brentford electrical appliances were beginning to fail...''Could it be that Pooley and Omally, whilst engaged on a round of allotment golf, mistook laser-operated gravitational landing beams for the malignant work of Brentford Council?Does the Captain Laser Alien Attack machine in the bar of the Swan possess more sinister force than its magnetic appeal for youths with green hair?Is Brentford the first base in an alien onslaught on planet Earth?

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Cocktails For Three - Madeleine Wickham - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Cocktails For Three - Madeleine Wickham - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month.Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover - and hoping that one day he will leave his wife and marry her.Maggie:capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can''t cope with - motherhood.Candice:honest, decent, or so she believes - until a ghost from her past turns up, and almost ruins her life.A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets in train an extraordinary set of events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys their friendship...

DKK 120.00
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The Devil - Ken Bruen - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Devil - Ken Bruen - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

America - the land of opportunity, a place where economic prosperity beckons: - but not for PI Jack Taylor, who''s just been refused entry.Jack resumes his old life in Galway. But when he''s called to investigate the frenzied murder of a student, he remembers an encounter with an over-friendly stranger in the airport bar. A stranger who seemed to know rather more than he should about Jack.After several more murders and too many encounters to be coincidental, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis. But why has he been chosen? And could he really be dealing with the Devil himself?

DKK 161.00
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This is the Day They Dream Of - Robert Goddard - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This is the Day They Dream Of - Robert Goddard - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The sequel to the Times Thriller of the Year bestseller, This is the Night They Come for You. The past is coming for Chief Inspector Taleb. He may not know it but he will soon enough. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentlessful, designed to consume the unwary traveller. He will soon find himself looking down the barrel of a thirty-year-old mystery, which, if he’s not careful, will be aimed squarely at him. This Is the Day They Dream Of is the scintillating sequel to the critically acclaimed This Is The Night They Come For You, which introduced the world-weary Inspector Taleb and his infinitely more competent colleague Agent Hidouchi of the Algerian Secret Service. Together they must navigate the country’s treacherous history to save themselves from its dangerous present. _________Praise for This is the Night They Come For You'Truly ingenious' The Tablet'Goddard sprinkles head-turning double-crossing with delightful by-play between his two leads' The Times'Fast-paced, beautifully crafted with some excellently drawn characters... engages from start to finish' Choice Magazine'Goddard writes amazing novels of mystery/suspense. His new one is magical and the title is simply the best' Stephen King

DKK 119.00
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Sweet Gum - Jo Ann Goodwin - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sweet Gum - Jo Ann Goodwin - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Eugene Burnside joined the Firm before he left school, running drugs. Clever and ambitious, he''s now twenty-eight and going places: he''s come to the attention of the Faron Brothers and, as everyone knows, the brothers are the Firm. Promotion couldn''t come too soon for Eugene - it means he no longer has to deal with middleman Mal Shifter and his two old aunts. Or those dogs. The lot of them give him the creeps. But if Eugene''s gangland career is going well, things are not so sweet on the domestic front. He still lives at home with his mum, Gladys, and his sister Simone, the star of SweetHearts lap-dancing club. He''s devoted to them both but wished he felt the same about Simone''s son, Nero. He''s not a nice child - ''disturbed'' isn''t the half of it. Then a SweetHearts girl goes missing. Evil has come to haunt the alleys and archways of North London - a killer the press have dubbed ''the Meatman'' begins his grisly work and Eugene''s world is turned on its head...

DKK 168.00
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The Most - Jessica Anthony - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Most - Jessica Anthony - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From ''one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page'' (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife, for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-AknerLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024A Barnes & Noble BEST BOOK of 2024 ''Clever, moving and unexpected. A brilliantly deft and subtle story .'' - Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing---A warm Sunday in November 1957. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day.Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn’t particularly happy in his job but he fulfils the role, playing golf with the partners, drinking in the bar, chasing the women. Kathleen Beckett, once a promising tennis champion, with a key shot up her sleeve called ‘The Most’, is now a mother and homemaker.Somehow these two, who have been together since college, have fallen into the roles expected of them – the prescribed suburban dream they have been sold as something to covet, something that will fulfil their lives. But on this unseasonably warm, early November Sunday, Kathleen wakes up and decides that she will not be accompanying her family to church.No, she feels like a swim.She unearths her old, red bathing suit and descends into the apartment complex pool no other resident uses. And she doesn’t want to come out…___ Praise for Jessica Anthony''s ENTER THE AARDVARK ''A truly fresh piece of art'' Percival Everett''Fresh, witty, smart'' Kate Atkinson''Highly inventive'' Joshua Ferris''A writer possessed of mind-bending talents'' Heidi Julavits

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The Orientalist And The Ghost - Susan Barker - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Orientalist And The Ghost - Susan Barker - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE INCARNATIONS AND SAYONARA BAR Malaya 1951, a jungle resettlement camp: young colonial adventurer Christopher Milnar falls passionately in love with a Chinese nurse Evangeline - a fierce flame that ends in tragedy when their camp is attacked by Communist guerrillas and Christopher is violently beaten up.London: half a century later the ghosts of that time return to haunt Christopher, triggering vivid memories of colonial misconduct and lost love. Forced to confront his past, Christopher agonises over the fate of his beloved Evangeline and the disappearance of their daughter. Moving from present day London to the heart of the Malayan jungle in colonial times, THE ORIENTALIST AND THE GHOST is a stunning portrayal of human frailty and lost love.

DKK 168.00
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Toll The Hounds - Steven Erikson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Toll The Hounds - Steven Erikson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The eighth book in Erikson''s acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy sequence It is said that Hood waits at the end of every plot, every scheme, each grandiose ambition. But this time it is different: this time the Lord of Death is there at the beginning...Darujhistan swelters in the summer heat and seethes with portents, rumours and whispers. Strangers have arrived, a murderer is abroad, past-tyrannies are stirring and assassins seem to be targeting the owners of K''rul''s Bar. For the rotund, waistcoat-clad man knows such events will be dwarfed by what is about to happen: for in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds.Far away, in Black Coral, the ruling Tiste Andii appear oblivious to the threat posed by the fast-growing cult of the Redeemer - an honourable, one-mortal man who seems powerless against the twisted vision of his followers. So Hood waits at the beginning of a conspiracy that will shake the cosmos, but at its end there is another: Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, has come to right an ancient and terrible wrong...Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson ''s debut fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon , was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and introduced fantasy readers to his epic ''The Malazan Book of the Fallen'' sequence, which has been hailed ''a masterwork of the imagination''. This River Awakens was his first novel, and originally published under the name Steve Lundin. Having lived in Cornwall for a number of years, Steve will be returning to Canada in late summer 2012. To find out more, visit www.malazanempire.com and www.stevenerikson.com

DKK 155.00
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The Most - Jessica Anthony - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Most - Jessica Anthony - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From ''one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page'' (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife, for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-AknerLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024A Barnes & Noble BEST BOOK of 2024COSMOPOLITAN Novella of the Year 2024 ''Clever, moving and unexpected. A brilliantly deft and subtle story .'' - Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing---A warm Sunday in November 1957. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day.Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn’t particularly happy in his job but he fulfils the role, playing golf with the partners, drinking in the bar, chasing the women. Kathleen Beckett, once a promising tennis champion, with a key shot up her sleeve called ‘The Most’, is now a mother and homemaker.Somehow these two, who have been together since college, have fallen into the roles expected of them – the prescribed suburban dream they have been sold as something to covet, something that will fulfil their lives. But on this unseasonably warm, early November Sunday, Kathleen wakes up and decides that she will not be accompanying her family to church.No, she feels like a swim.She unearths her old, red bathing suit and descends into the apartment complex pool no other resident uses. And she doesn’t want to come out…___ Praise for Jessica Anthony''s ENTER THE AARDVARK ''A truly fresh piece of art'' Percival Everett''Fresh, witty, smart'' Kate Atkinson''Highly inventive'' Joshua Ferris''A writer possessed of mind-bending talents'' Heidi Julavits

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