Hinn ótrúlegi Spider-Man – Bók 1
3.990 kr.Peter Parker er ósköp venjulegur táningur í menntaskóla – þar til hann er bitinn af geislavirkni könguló. Við að öðlast hann ofurkrafta köngulóar og líf hans gjörbreytist. Hann verður… SPIDER-MAN!
Hulk – Bók 1
3.490 kr.Bruce Banner er vísindamaður sem er að vinna á Gamma herstöð þar sem hann hefur verið beðinn um að hanna nýja sprengju sem á að koma í stað kjarnorkuvopna. Þegar tilraunasprengja er sprengd þarf Banner að leggja líf sitt í hættu til að bjarga vandræðaunglingnum Rick Jones sem hefur flækst út á tilraunasprengjusvæðið í óleyfi.
Bruce Banner lifir sprenginguna af – en á næturnar breytist á óskiljanlegan og ótrúlegan hátt í skrímsli – hann breytist í Hulk! Það sem gerist eftir það er hluti af einni stærstu sögu myndasöguheimsins en Hulk mun síðar ganga til liðs við ofurhetjurnar hjá Marvel sem stofna Avengers.
Í bókinni tekst Bruce Banner á við afleiðingar sprengjunnar og hið nýja hlutverk sem Hulk, á meðan hann berst við herinn, hin illræmdu ‘þau’, Da Halperin og Gargoyle! Bókin er kærkomin lesning fyrir gamla Hulk aðdáendur og spennandi saga fyrir þá sem hefja ný kynni við hann.
squat
6.990 kr.Byggingin sjálf var óvenjuleg. Um var að ræða fyrrum heilsugæslustöð sem stóð við gatnamót í Saint-Gilles hverfinu í Brussel, mynduð úr tveimur samliggjandi húsum sem stóð til að breyta í íbúðaeiningar […] Uppsetning sýningarinnar tók hins vegar aðeins einn dag. Eins og venjulega var framkvæmdin einföld og unnin í þögn, án þess að aukatekið orð væri sagt, samkvæmt því óskráða verklagi sem við höfum margoft fylgt og felur í sér endurteknar og nánast ósjálfráðar hreyfingar sem við kunnum utanbókar og kenna má við innsæi. Í þessu tilviki voru staðsetningar þegar ákveðnar. Eftir að hafa dvalið fimmtán daga í byggingunni þar sem við höfðum hreiðrað um okkur í huganum í hverju skoti, má segja að teikningarnar, málverkin og ljósmyndirnar hafi nánast fundið sinn stað sjálfkrafa. Um leið og við skröpuðum hvern flöt, grannskoðuðum við hann og þá má segja að hann hafi kallað á tiltekið verk. Veggirnir tóku ákvörðun fyrir okkur, við þurftum einungis að leggja við hlustir.
The Walk
3.690 kr.Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century”s greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in his own lifetime, Robert Walser has nonetheless been recognised by such writers as W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse and J.M. Coetzee.
Like Kafka and Sebald, Walser wrote about the solitude and unease of human existence. Honest, wry and idiosyncratic, his stories are snapshots of the lives great artists, poor young men, beautiful women and talking animals alike. Ranging from the realist to the allegorical, the short fiction collected in this volume demonstrates Walser”s uncanny ability to capture both life”s strangeness and its small joys.
The Third Policeman
3.490 kr.A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien.
A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, The Third Policeman is comparable only to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ as an allegory of the absurd.
Distinguished by endless comic invention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, The Third Policeman is unique in the English language.
The Morning Star
3.990 kr.One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes.
Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky. It brings with it a mysterious sense of foreboding.
Strange things start to happen as nine lives come together under the star. Hundreds of crabs amass on the road as Arne drives at night; Jostein receives a call about a death metal band found brutally murdered in a Satanic ritual; Kathrine conducts a funeral service for a man she met at the airport – but is he actually dead?
The Morning Star is about life in all its mundanity and drama, the strangeness that permeates our world, and the darkness in us all. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s astonishing new novel goes to the utmost limits of freedom and chaos, to what happens when forces beyond our comprehension are unleashed, and the realms of the living and the dead collide.
The Wolves of Eternity
3.690 kr.The future is no more, and eternity has begun.
It’s 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts of a town in Southern Norway. One night, he dreams of his late father, and can’t shake him from his mind. Searching through his father’s belongings for clues and connections, he finds a cache of letters that lead to the Soviet Union.
In present-day Russia, Alevtina is trying to balance work and family. She has always sought the answers to life’s big questions, but is preoccupied with care of her young son. Her friend Vasilisa offers some nourishment: she is writing a book about an ancient feature of Russian culture, the belief in eternal life. Meantime, Alevtina is heading towards a meeting that will redraw the contours of her world.
A searching and humane novel, The Wolves of Eternity is an intimate journey into the experiences of a half-brother and half-sister in their two different – yet deeply connected – lives. The second novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s extraordinary new series, it expands the universe of The Morning Star in the decades before the blazing and mysterious star descends.
The Third Realm
3.990 kr.If no one ever died, what would happen then?
For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named Valdemar and is lured to a secret black metal gig in a remote forest. Geir, a policeman, is investigating a ritual murder but chances upon something more horrifying even than the bodies in the trees – the last bodies he sees, because, as undertaker Syvert is the first to realise, people have stopped dying since the star appeared.
What is haunting the world – and why?
Art Of Asking Your Boss For A Raise
3.490 kr.The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise—neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic, and never less than entertaining—is a penetrating vision of the world of office work. As translator David Bellos writes, it shows us what ‘computers, perhaps even those powered today by AI, simply cannot do: make us laugh and make us cry’.
This playful novel originated with a 1968 invitation from IBM, then searching for a writer to explore the use of computers in literature. Georges Perec took up the invite and programmed an early computer to follow the steps an employee of a large corporation would take to submit a successful request for a raise. Perec himself was such a lowly employee at the time, his prospects of getting a raise as dim as those of the narrator of this tale. From that algorithmic experiment grew this pioneering and enduring fiction.
Stowaways
3.990 kr.This contemporary twist on Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been.
‘Maybe we love people because they won’t let us know them.’A summer’s evening in Manhattan. Nothing – not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore – can undo the heat’s hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. That’s when it arrives. An email with the subject line: ‘From Paul Axel’. An email about a dead man from Carol – a woman Julian has never met. Paul has left a message he’d like her to relay.
Emails are exchanged. Morning coffee at the Bryant Park Grill is agreed. Carol, fulfilling Paul’s final request, wonders how she will tell Julian of a life – and a love – he has no idea existed. A life, encased in a flash drive, containing multitude
Engagement
5.490 kr.A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time.
‘I want to have him, I really do. I just don’t want him to have me.’
Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A declaration of co-dependency? A new dimension of commitment and responsibility? A sexual confrontation? Or is it a habit that an intelligent person must consider breaking? Martina and Gustav discuss their relationship endlessly, between themselves and with others, as they try to make it work.
Engagement, set during a time of social change and political upheaval, sees Martina trying to engage with the world on her own terms. Unwilling to marry, she finds herself in a state of permanent engagement while her friends settle down to marriage and children; uncertain of the world’s future, she engages with demos, sit-ins and philosophy seminars in her quest for a new blueprint for joy. First published in 1976, when it was heralded as an instant classic, Engagement remains as relevant, hilarious and heartbreaking today.
Ficciones
4.690 kr.Ficciones is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry logical puzzles in to enchanting fables. The Pieces in this volume represent his most accomplished work.
Feeling At Home
3.690 kr.The home where our hopes and dreams play out is at the heart many vital political questions
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing – domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to imagine success without home ownership? Alva Gotby shows that solving the housing crisis is about much more than housing stock. It means revolutionising our everyday lives and labours.
Discord
4.390 kr.Jeremy Cooper, the author of Brian, returns with Discord, a subjective journey through the world of classical music. On a night in August, an audience at the Royal Albert Hall attends the first ever concert of Distant Voices. The Proms performance is the culmination of a year’s work between the middle-aged composer Rebekah Rosen and the young star-saxophonist Evie Bennet. Alternating between both perspectives, Discord charts the course of their intense and at times fractious relationship, the resonances and dissonances both women find within one another, as well as the struggles and satisfactions that accompany an artistic life. At the heart of the novel is an inquiry into the generative force behind creative collaboration. In what ways does the inexpressible – that amorphous space of friction and unity between musicians – become indelible? And by what process do flawed individuals create works of transcendence? Deeply insightful, at turns poignant and wry, Discord affirms Jeremy Cooper’s status as one of the most interesting fiction writers at work today.
It Came From The Closet
4.390 kr.“Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival … I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine.”
The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It’s complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who’ve been marginalised. But the genre’s murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer-coded villains and sometimes blatant homophobia, is impossible to overlook. There is tension here, and there are as many queer readings of horror films as there are queer people.
Edited by Joe Vallese, and with contributions by writers including Kirsty Logan and Carmen Maria Machado, the essays in It Came from the Closet bring the particulars of the writers’ own experiences, whether in relation to gender, sexuality, or both, to their unique interpretations of horror films from Jaws to Jennifer’s Body.
Exploring a multitude of queer experiences from first kisses and coming out to transition and parenthood, this is a varied and accessible collection that leans into the fun of horror while taking its cultural impact and reciprocal relationship to the LGBTQ+ community seriously.
T. S. Eliot – Selected Poems
3.990 kr.This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber Paperbacks. The selection includes the whole of The Waste Land.
The Wild Places
3.690 kr.Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? From forest to moor, mountain to saltmarsh, Robert Macfarlane explores the wild places of Britain to see the wonders we still possess.
In his beautiful, bewitching, inspiring modern classic of nature writing, the acclaimed author of Underland and The Lost Words presents a portrait of a vanishing but still miraculous British landscape.
The Bell Jar
3.490 kr.Sylvia Plath is a major cultural icon who continues to inspire new generations of female readers. The Bell Jar is one of the defining novels of the 20th century.
I was supposed to be having the time of my life . . .Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. Esther’s vision of the world shimmers and shifts: day-to-day living in the sultry city, her crazed men-friends, the hot dinner dances . . .
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s only novel, is partially based on Plath’s own life. It has been celebrated for its darkly funny and razor sharp portrait of 1950s society, and has sold millions of copies worldwide.
Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya
3.990 kr.The captivating story of building a home and a garden on the edge of the Himalayan wilds, illuminated by the author’s own watercolours.
When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. Leaving behind the freneticism of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains. Before long, however, she is won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to the heart of her sometimes recalcitrant neighbours and adopted by four mountain dogs and counting.
Over twenty-five years, as Roy becomes accustomed to living among forests where leopards roam freely, she will come to encounter nature at its most fierce, beautiful and vulnerable – and bear witness to the destructive impact of global warming on the alpine ecosystem.
Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya is a tender and intimate portrait of a home, a community and a rugged, extraordinary landscape. Written with unsentimental clarity, humour and poignancy, this is an account of profound transformations.
Lord of the Flies
3.490 kr.A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches, gorging fruit, seeking shelter, and ripping off their uniforms to swim in the lagoon. At night, in the darkness of the jungle, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast.
Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn’t long before their innocent games devolve into something far more dangerous . . .