Moldin heit (notuð)
2.990 kr.Ástin í lífi Karenar deyr. Hún mætir í jarðarförina óboðin, situr aftast og segir engum hver hún er. En eftir að hafa borið eina fortíð til grafar skýtur önnur upp kollinum. Hún sér Ými, kollega sinn, út um gluggann í erfidrykkjunni þar sem hann virðist ætla að fara sér að voða.
Í kjölfarið er þeim hrundið af stað í ferð þar sem þau þurfa að horfast í augu við hvaða hlutverk þau leiki hvort í annars lífi og í flóknu dansverki, og hvaða nýju hlutverk standa þeim til boða. Moldin heit allar um ástina, listina, sorg og missi. Hér er á ferðinni feikisterk skáldsaga frá nýrri og spennandi rödd í íslenskum bókmenntaheimi.
Sextíu kíló af kjaftshöggum
990 kr.Annað bindið í Sextíu kílóa sögu Hallgríms Helgasonar um síldarævintýrið á Segulfirði og fylgifiska þess.
Sagan hefst í Segulfirði, árið 1906. Áfram vindur furðuríku ferðalagi Íslendinga út úr myrkum torfgöngum inn í raflýstar stofur. Lesandinn er hrifinn með í dans á síldarpalli, í ólgandi takti sem dunar í huganum að lestri loknum því enn á ný hefur Hallgrími tekist að kveða dýran óð úr örlögum fátæks fólks við ysta haf.
Death at the Sanatorium
3.490 kr.High up in the mountains stands a sanatorium. Once a hospital dedicated to treating tuberculosis, it now sits haunted by the ghosts of its past.
One wing of the hospital remains open and houses six employees: the caretaker, two doctors, two nurses and a young research assistant. Despite the wards closing decades ago, they remain at the hospital to conduct research. But the cold corridors, draughty windows and echoey halls are constant reminders of the building’s dark history.
When one of the nurses, Yrsa, is found brutally murdered, they discover that death has never left this place – and neither did its secrets. None can escape this terrifying legacy. Despite just four suspects the case is never solved and remains open for two decades.
Until a young criminologist named Helgi Reykdal attempts to finally lay the ghosts of the hospital’s past to rest . . .
Slags
4.390 kr.Once a slag, always a slag?
It’s the 1990s. Sarah is 15, obsessed with boy bands, sex and getting drunk on Malibu. Most of all, she’s hung up on her teacher, Mr Keaveney.
Fast forward 26 years. Sarah is 41, the last of the party girls. But the mad nights out are losing their shine. And her teenage dreams are now distant, queasy memories.
There’s only one thing for it: an adventure. So, Sarah sets off with her sister Juliette on a whisky-fuelled campervan trip across Scotland.
The sisters have never been alike, but they know all the dark corners of each other’s history – and it’s time to dig up some demons, kicking and screaming.
Because the things that once defined us shouldn’t define us forever, should they?
Your Absence is Darkness
3.690 kr.When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realises he’s lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn’t recognise either woman, and as their stories unfold, he is plunged into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a farmer’s wife whose essay on the humble earthworm changes the course of lives; a pastor who writes to dead poets and falls in love with a stranger; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness, who discovers that his life has been a lie; and an alcoholic transfixed by the night sky.
Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. An incandescent, audacious novel about the misfortune of mortality and the strange salve of time, Your Absence is Darkness is a spellbinding story of death, desire and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.
Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
Happiness Forever
4.390 kr.A hilarious and utterly original debut novel following a woman trying to make sense of her life and herself as she falls in love with her therapist. Sylvie is only happy when she is at therapy. This is because Sylvie is in love with her therapist.
She wants to kiss her and roll around on the floor with her. She thinks about her every second they’re not together (roughly 167 hours and 10 minutes per week). She’s aware she has an obsession, but whether it is – as her therapist suggests – a case of extreme ‘erotic transference’, or a lost person’s need to connect, Sylvie isn’t sure.
Beyond therapy, Sylvie has what she considers to be a small life: a job as a veterinary nurse, her little brain-damaged dog, Curtains, and a new friend Chloe who she met on the beach. When the therapist delivers some devastating news, Sylvie has to imagine new and lasting ways of coping (that don’t include being adopted by the therapist). Her world has begun to open up, inching beyond the fear that has confined her until now, and she must decide whether she’s ready for a bravery of feeling.
In this stunning debut novel, Adelaide Faith encapsulates the great vulnerability, difficulty and joy of being alive.
hum it on the phone
3.490 kr.The poems in hum it on the phone are made up of fragments from interdisciplinary artist Audrey Roger’s diary entries, notebooks, descriptions of dreams she has had, as well as from a range of found material clipped from exhibition reviews and press releases, national park guidelines, tarot and palmistry readings, walking guides, song lyrics, lifestyle/relationship web articles, fortune teller machine cards, film scripts, breathing techniques from a yoga manual, occult books, and immigration guidelines.
Saklaust blóð í snjó
3.690 kr.Þessi bók er byggð á sannsögulegum atburðum er gerðust á Reyðarfirði veturinn 1726.
Á fjallveginum milli Reyðarfjarðar og Norðfjarðar, norðan megin við Oddskarðið stendur Höllusteinn. Undir þessum steini fæddi bláfátæk kornung stúlka barn, alein og útskúfuð í blindhríð um hánótt. Henni hafði verið úthýst í Helgustaðahreppi þetta sama kvöld. Enginn vildi láta óskilgetið barn fæðast á sínum bæ. Eftir þetta hefur þessi brekka verið kölluð Blóðbrekka.
Í raun fjallar þessi bók um það hvernig karlmenn á Íslandi fyrr á öldum misnotuðu vald sitt til misnotkunnar á konum og komust upp með það, því þeir einir skráðu söguna.