Brandarabíllinn
5.390 kr.Lífið gengur sinn vanagang í Bjarkarey í Norðanhafi. Matti er í pössun hjá Hagbarði vitaverði og allt er með kyrrum kjörum þar til að uppfinningakonan Katarína Kristrós kemur í heimsókn á undarlegum bíl sem gengur ekki fyrir eldsneyti, heldur bröndurum. Brandarabíllinn er fyrsta bókin í sprenghlægilegum bókaflokki eftir Sváfni Sigurðarson.
Lífið gengur sinn vanagang í Bjarkarey í Norðanhafi. Matti er í pössun hjá Hagbarði vitaverði á meðan foreldrar hans ferðast um með sirkusnum. Allt er með kyrrum kjörum þar til að uppfinningakonan Katarína Kristrós kemur í heimsókn á undarlegum bíl sem gengur ekki fyrir eldsneyti, heldur bröndurum. Matti og hundurinn Hringur leggja óvænt, og alveg óvart, upp í ævintýraferð um eyjuna þvera og endilanga og lenda í alls konar hremmingum. Á leiðinni kynnast þeir Hönnu Stínu sem er bæði drepfyndin og hugrökk sem er ekki endilega góð uppskrift þegar kemur að brandarabílum. Amma Lena bætist svo í hópinn og ferðalagið tekur heldur betur óvænta stefnu.
Brandarabíllinn er fyrsta bókin í sprenghlægilegum bókaflokki eftir Sváfni Sigurðarson.
Rhythm of labor / Taktur í verki
5.990 kr.Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir (b. Reykjavík, Iceland, 1973; lives and works in Berlin) creates work across video, photography, performance, installation art, and others. Central to her practice is a conceptual approach that fluidly transitions between various artistic mediums. Her work is deeply influenced by anthropological research methods as well as her own personal experiences. She employs strategies of dislocation and defamiliarization to interrogate narratives about labor, class, and urban development and their entanglements with art.
Guðnadóttir’s first monograph Rhythm of Labor is dedicated to her artistic research project Keep Frozen. The project, which has been ongoing for over fifteen years, analyzes the operation of the global economy in the specific local example of the dynamics of industrialized fishing in Iceland. An extensive essay section sheds light on Guðnadóttir’s exploratory performances and films. Heiða Björk Árnadóttir charts the historical and social contexts of the Keep Frozen series. Elisabeth Brun shows how the artist challenges clichéd visualizations of the Arctic and Subarctic, while Anamaría Garzón Mantilla underscores the need to integrate the Arctic north into a critique of coloniality. Katla Kjartansdóttir discusses Guðnadóttir’s series of works that focus on the puffin, a seabird native to the North Atlantic, which has been co-opted by the booming tourism industry as an Icelandic symbol. With a foreword by Julia Gwendolyn Schneider.
Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us
3.690 kr.Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh.
All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what’s wrong with you? Implying, of course, that there is something not quite right about the people who make and consume it.
In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.
In Writing
3.690 kr.In these intimate and frank conversations with some of our best-loved writers, Hattie Crisell uncovers the mysteries of the creative process, asking: Where do ideas come from? How do stories find their shape? What happens when confidence falters or the work fails – and what does success look like?
The answers range from the thought-provoking to the hilarious. Here we meet the novelist who makes a playlist for each manuscript; the screenwriter who considers swearing an art form; the author who prefers to work in near-darkness, and the confessional writer at risk of revealing too much. Taken as a whole, these inspiring interviews amount to an insider’s guide to the writing process: its disciplines and demands; its ecstasies and agonies; its coffees, word counts and publishing hurdles. Most of all, they reveal how it really feels to write and be read.
With contributions from James Acaster, André Aciman, Ayobami Adebayo, Rumaan Alam, Amer Anwar, Mona Arshi, Andrew Billen, Holly Bourne, Charlie Brooker, Wendy Cope, Cressida Cowell, John Crace, Elizabeth Day, Grace Dent, Kit de Waal, Geoff Dyer, Wendy Erskine, Tor Freeman, Will Harris, Anna Hope, John Lanchester, Sophie Mackintosh, Emily St. John Mandel, Meg Mason, Mhairi McFarlane, Liane Moriarty, David Nicholls, Mary Norris, Graham Norton, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruben Östlund, Robert Popper, Lucy Prebble, Georgia Pritchett, Kiley Reid, John Rentoul, Hugo Rifkind, Jon Ronson, Michael Rosen, Sathnam Sanghera, George Saunders, David Sedaris, Elif Shafak, Alexandra Shulman, Curtis Sittenfeld, Raven Smith, Will Storr, Brandon Taylor, Craig Taylor, Barbara Trapido, Emma Jane Unsworth, Robert Webb, Zoe Williams, Meg Wolitzer.
The Christmas cat
4.990 kr.All know well the dreadful Christmas Cat, who finds it nice to hunt poor children rather than mice.Here the cat truly comes to life, cheeky and voracious as he’s always been.THE CHRISTMAS CAT is the classic Christmas poem by Jóhannes úr Kötlum – now with illustrations by Þórarinn Leifsson that put the dreadful Christmas Cat in a fresh and entertaining light.
Hjartslátturinn hennar Lóu
4.690 kr.Í dag fær Lóa að gera öll sín uppáhalds prakkarastrik – og fyrir því er alveg sérstök ástæða.
Dýralæknirinn sagði nefnilega að nú væri lítið eftir í tímaglasinu hennar. Því fær Lóa heilan dag til að skapa minningar með bestu vinkonu sinni, minningar sem munu lifa eftir að Lóa er farin.
Jólabókaormurinn
4.890 kr.Þið kannist við jólaköttinn en hafið þið heyrt um jólabókaorminn? Hann er nefnilega alveg jafnslæmur nema hann étur þá sem ekki hafa fengið bók í jólagjöf!
Systkinin Hafdís og Tómas þekkja söguna en hafa ekkert að óttast, því í þorpinu þeirra gefa allir bækur um jólin.
En hefur einhver séð jólabókaorminn?
Er hann til í alvörunni?
Er þetta ekki örugglega bara þjóðsaga?
Refur og Björn: Í feluleik
4.390 kr.Ref og Birni finnst gaman í feluleik en Björn er bara alls ekki góður í að fela sig þó að hann haldi annað. Refur vinnur því alltaf. Eins og gefur að skilja langar Björn mikið til að hafa betur í leiknum og í þetta skiptið er hann sannfærður um að þaðmuni takast.
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Original price was: 8.290 kr..4.145 kr.Current price is: 4.145 kr..Raised by scientifically minded parents, Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. It was an unfettered and nomadic childhood, sometimes isolated but also thrilling and beautiful.
From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel school year that would become Cat’s Eye to the unease of 1980s Berlin, where she began The Handmaid’s Tale. In pages alive with the natural world, reading and books, major political turning points and her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.
As she explores her past, Atwood reveals more and more about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our boldest imaginations.
Lolita
4.990 kr.Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, ‘to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets’. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert’s seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov’s dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.
On the Calculation of Volume III
3.990 kr.Tara Selter is no longer alone. Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the pattern: a man has changed his shirt. The man is Henry Dale, and he remembers all the days that have come before.He knows that time has fallen out of joint. Now they are two of a kind – trapped in the eighteenth of November, but no longer alone.
Together they learn to share their present; their voices grow hoarse recounting their small battles against it and their bewilderment at the disintegrating world. Henry sees things differently to Tara: he does not think that time will put itself back together and he does not think that the future will come around. But he makes her realise that she is no longer the same person she was before this fault in time. And he makes her believe that there may be others to find within it.
Bread of Angels
4.390 kr.God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.
The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as Horses and Easter, ‘Dancing Barefoot’ and ‘Because the Night’.
She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.
As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again – the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.
Vineland
3.690 kr.The inspiration for One Battle After Another
Thomas Pynchon’s wretchedly funny dystopian thriller, sending up the end days of the American dream
Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie’s long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc.
Full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs, movie spoofs, and illicit sex, Vineland is vintage Pynchon.
‘That rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years’ Salman Rushdie
Ragnarök undir jökli
8.290 kr.Ragnarrök undir jökli er saga um dramb og firringu, vanmátt, von og miskunnarleysi örlaganna.
Þegar Magnea Ísaksdóttir, blaðamaður Kroníkunnar, heimsækir höfuðvígi umdeilds ásatrúarsafnaðar undir Tindfjallajökli flækist hún í háleitar fyrirætlanir allsherjargoðans, Óðins Jónssonar.
Óðinn trúir því að söfnuðurinn sæti ofsóknum yfirvalda og að kominn sé tími til að spyrna við fótum. Hann og fylgjendur hans eru reiðubúnir að berjast fyrir frelsi sínu. Reiðubúnir að láta sverfa til stáls.
Áður en Magnea veit af er hún í auga storms sem eirir engu.
Ragnarök undir jökli er sjálfstætt framhald af Stóra bróður og önnur bókin í Kroníkuseríunni.
Dóttir drápunnar: ljóð úr djúpinu
3.590 kr.Dóttir drápunnar er sjötta ljóðabók höfundar. Ljóðin eru hugleiðingar allt árið um kring um viðburði, persónur og náttúruna. Þetta eru rómantískar lýsingar á landslagi, manneskjunni, menningu og hlutum en einnig kemur við sögu feminsmi, loftslagsumræða og jafnrétti.
Vetrarmyrkur: dimmuljóðin
4.590 kr.Hér er ort um æskuna, sárin, móðurhlutverkið, minnisverðar persónur og náttúruna. Sum ljóðin eru rómantískar lýsingar á landslagi, manneskjunni, menningu og hlutum, en einnig koma við sögu málefni sem brenna á öllum: jafnrétti, hnattræn hlýnun og femínismi.
SkuldaDagur
5.890 kr.Blóðþyrstu unglingarnir Dagur og Ylfa snúa aftur í æsispennandi, bráðfyndinni og sjóðheitri sögu. Hver er dr. Argus og hvað hafa dularfull samtök lækna og vísindamanna í hyggju fyrir Norðurlöndin? Getur Dagur hamið hungrið nógu lengi til þess að bjarga Ylfu? og af hverju þarf hann alltaf að fá standpínu á verstu mögulegu stundu?
Bókin er framhald hrollvekjuástarsagnanna VeikindaDags og NammiDags.
Vinsamlegast hafið í huga að bókin er fyrir unglinga og eldri lesendur en hvorki ætluð börnum né viðkvæmum sálum.
Höfundarnir hafa hlotið verðskuldað lof lesenda og gagnrýnenda og hafa fengið bæði verðlaun og viðurkenningar fyrir verk sín.
Dreim: Dýr móðurinnar
5.990 kr.Dýrin beruðu tennurnar gegn þeim sem sóttu að barninu við trjástofninn. Hreint, tært og hjalandi saug það fræ hennar á meðan laufkrónurnar vögguðu því í svefn. Hún sendi það mönnum. Barnið sitt. Enn falla tár hennar yfir regnskóginn – síðla hvern dag.
– Sagan af Mtoto Ngala.Draupnir, máttugasta vera Dreim, er fallinn. Myrkrið vex beggja vegna skilanna og dreimfarar úr Fósturdal hafa örlög heimanna í höndum sér. Skömmu eftir komuna til Ngala, berst spádómur Draupnis. Von er á hinum mikla mætti og von ljóssins: Mtoto Ngala.
Á meðan heift Alex hrekur hópinn í ógöngur er Daríus hvergi óhultur fyrir myrkrinu sem teygir sig á milli heima og þegar Bella slítur sig úr fjötrum reynist ást hennar á Staurian ógn við líf þeirra beggja. Þá er ónefnt litla dýrið sem enginn gefur gætur í allri óreiðunni. Það sem síst skyldi gleymast.