Sluts: The truth about sex shame and what we can do to fight it
3.490 kr.You might have thought the era of slutshaming was behind us. But it’s far from over.
In this powerful and timely investigation, Beth uncovers the persistent reality of slutshaming in today’s world. She examines how these harmful attitudes have changed over time, why they are so dangerous, what we can do to challenge them, and how we can all have better conversations about sex.
The fight starts now.
Wandering Stars
3.490 kr.Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America’s war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of several generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement and pain, towards home and hope: a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.
Butter
3.490 kr.Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back.
Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body. Might she and Kaji have more in common than she once thought?
Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer, ‘The Konkatsu Killer’, Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, gripping exploration of misogyny, obsession and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.
Gliff
3.490 kr.Once upon a time, not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint round the outside of their house . . .
So begins the freewheeling and urgent new novel from Ali Smith – the story of two young people and a horse called Gliff, on the run from history as it takes a turn for the worse.
Stúlka með höfuð: Sjálfsævisaga
1.290 kr.Hann kenndi mér að halda mig á mottunni um leið og hann gerði mig reiða svo mig langaði að slíta af mér hlekki. Þar er spennan. Það sem gerir lífið spennandi. Að syndga og slíta af sér hlekki og taka út refsinguna. Þessi línudans á línunni voðalegu, að vilja vera á mörkunum og teygja þau út svo heimurinn skáni. Að bögglast við að vera hamingjusamur í heimi þar sem næstum ekkert má.
Þórunn Jarla Valdimarsdóttir segir hér frá uppvexti sínum í Reykjavík rokksins og hippaáranna, þar sem erfiður skilnaður foreldranna varpaði skugga á gleðina, frá frjálsu stúdentalífi í Lundi og Mexíkó, kommúnum, ástmönnum og litríkum samferðamönnum. Opinská frásögnin er ofin trega og hamingju, léttleika og djúpum söknuði. Bókin er sjálfstætt framhald hinna marglofuðu Stúlku með fingur og Stúlku með maga, þar sem Þórunn notaði heimildir og skáldlega túlkun til að segja sögu móður sinnar og formæðra.
Feluleikur: Tunglið
3.690 kr.Góða nótt, sofðu rótt … Falleg bók fyrir yngstu börnin sem þroskar og örvar skilning þeirra. Þau skoða bókina aftur og aftur!
Hefnd Diddu Morthens
4.690 kr.„Stundum læt ég mér detta í hug að prófa eitthvað nýtt. Ég hef verið í bókaklúbbi, stundað Zumba, gengið á fjöll og farið í sjósund. Ekkert af þessu höfðar sérstaklega til mín en það hefur verið skárra að hafa eitthvað við að vera. Eitthvað til að dreifa huganum.“
Starfsferill Diddu Morthens er að engu orðinn, börnin löngu farin að heiman og eiginmaðurinn er úrvinda öll kvöld. Hún hangir í tölvunni til að drepa tímann og dag einn býr hún til gervimenni á netinu til að hefna sín á gamalli bekkjarsystur. Atlagan heppnast svo vel að Didda ræðst í flóknari aðgerðir sem krefjast einbeitts brotavilja.
Sprenghlægileg saga sem bar sigur úr býtum í Nýjum röddum, handritasamkeppni Forlagsins.
Sigríður Pétursdóttir er kvikmyndafræðingur og vann lengst af hjá RÚV við dagskrárgerð í útvarpi og sjónvarpi. Hefnd Diddu Morthens er fyrsta skáldsaga hennar.
Strange Pictures
4.390 kr.A series of drawings made by a young woman before her death. A child’s disturbing picture of his home. A desperate sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments.
Each contains a chilling warning. Each reveals a terrible secret, hidden in plain sight.
Uketsu’s eerie mysteries have captivated millions of readers. Can you find the clues in these strange pictures and uncover the sinister truth that connects them all?
The Wrath of Achilles
2.490 kr.On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate begins to spin . . . From frenzied rampages to intimate moments of grief, this selection from Homer’s Iliad traces the tale of a warrior whose name echoes through the ages, and whose story remains as powerful as ever.
The Time Machine
2.490 kr.The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely new genre and did it better than any of his imitators.
An immediate bestseller, it has delighted and unnerved generations of readers, and will no doubt keep on doing so until some of the events predicted in the book make readers extinct.
The Story of an Hour
2.490 kr.There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name.
Nuns, maidens, adventurers – with electricity, The Story of an Hour brings together stories of female freedom, as Kate Chopin asks the question: what will emancipation feel like for women, looking at the horizon and the future, to the frontier?
A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
2.490 kr.Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here are some of his finest personal essays about Algeria and its environs, including the luminous ‘Nuptials at Tipasa’, one of his earliest works where he developed the themes that would inform his later philosophy: to thrive now, without hope for paradise, as mortal life alone can be worthwhile.
The Shadow out of Time
2.490 kr.Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before.
After five years of ‘strange amnesia’, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and memories that cannot be real. Desperate for answers he travels to Western Australia, joining an archaeological excavation into Earth’s deep past.
Journey with Peaslee to discover his fate in the story described by author Lin Carter as ‘Lovecraft’s single greatest achievement in fiction’.
Paris France
2.490 kr.All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.
Gertrude Stein’s Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein’s life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work.
A Hunger-Artist
2.490 kr.The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people’s participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later days there were season-ticket holders who sat for days on end in front of his little cage.
Reading these stories by the master of the absurd is like entering a dreamworld in which nothing, and yet somehow everything, makes sense.
The Driver’s Seat
2.490 kr.Muriel Spark claimed The Driver’s Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise – heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress and with violence on her mind – you will understand why.
