Victorian Psycho
3.490 kr.Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan.
Whether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past until her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning. Wielding her signature sardonic wit and a penchant for the gorgeously macabre, Virginia Feito returns with a vengeance in Victorian Psycho.
The South
3.490 kr.When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought.
Still, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except for one.
Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members confront their own regrets, and begin to drift apart. Like the land around them, they are powerless to resist the global forces that threaten to render their lives obsolete.
At once sweeping and intimate, The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide. It is the first in a quartet of novels that form Tash Aw’s masterful portrait of a family navigating a period of great change – a reimagined epic for our times.
Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun
5.690 kr.From the instant classics to the hidden gems, Nintendo’s video games occupy a special place in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Every player has forged a unique connection with a beloved game, feeling that rush of awe and wonder as they immersed themselves in a virtual world in pursuit of that most human of impulses: the desire to have fun.
Super Nintendo finds lifelong gamer Keza MacDonald exploring Nintendo’s legendary roster of games – as well as consoles such as the SNES, Gameboy, Wii and Switch, and a host of other quirky inventions from the Power Glove to Nintendo Labo – drawing from decades’ worth of exclusive interviews with their creators and the people whose lives have been changed by them.
Along the way, she tells the story of how this unassuming playing card company, founded in Kyoto in 1889, became one of the dominant cultural forces of the twenty-first century.
Offering unparalleled access to the company and its fun-filled world, and written with warmth and wit, Super Nintendo captures the love that so many of us feel for video games – and reveals just what that love tells us about being human.
Júlíana Jónsdóttir – Ljóðmæli: Stúlka & Hagalagðar
7.990 kr.Júlíana Jónsdóttir í Akureyjum var fyrst íslenskra kvenna til þess að fá gefna út bók eftir sig. Það var ljóðabók sem nefndist Stúlka og kom út árið 1876. Löngu síðar kom út önnur ljóðabók eftir Júlíönu, sem þá var orðin roskin og flutt til Vesturheims; sú nefndist Hagalagðar.
Á afmælisári beggja bókanna koma þær nú út saman í einu bindi, önnur 150 ára gömul og hin 110 ára. Ljóðin bera aldurinn vel og vitna um leiftrandi gáfur, seiglu og skopskyn Júlíönu sem var vinnukona frá ungaaldri og hlaut enga formlega skólagöngu.
Silja Aðalsteinsdóttir og Sólveig Ásta Sigurðardóttir rita for- og eftirmála.
Norma Jean Baker Of Troy
3.690 kr.Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy―iconic beauties who lived millennia apart. A thrilling and thoughtful meditation on the destabilising and destructive power of beauty, this had its world premiere at The Shed in New York City, starring Ben Whishaw and Renée Fleming.
plastic
3.990 kr.Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet.
Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, Bplastic is based on Matthew Rice’s experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a ‘post-industrial’, ‘post-Troubles’ society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film and the visual arts.
Time-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the worker’s experience, this is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labour – making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day, uniting what Jacques Rancière calls the ‘labourers in love with the intellectual nights’ and those ‘intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people.’ plastic’s evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and hopeful imaginings.
Goatsong
4.390 kr.The ancient Greek word for tragedy (τραγωδία) is a compound of goat (τράγος) and song (ᾠδή). In Phoebe Giannisi’s Goatsong, the seam that connects human and animal, myths and history, is the body.
In Giannisi’s language, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in his mouth, reminding us of a scene from Plato’s Phaedrus, where Socrates claims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention of singing, and didn’t stop to eat or drink. When the goddess Thetis dips her newborn son, Achilles, into the River Styx to protect all but his famous heel where her hand grips, we’re told ‘the place of the mother’s grip / is the mark of death.’ Adjacent to the mythical setting is the material, where the rumination of goats, their digestive cycle – chewing, swallowing, then recalling food back into the mouth to be reconsidered – begins after weaning, and is lain alongside how we think: ‘from the moment of separation / from the mother / they ruminate.’ In these lyric enactments, all is transformative and transformed; territories of land, the body and history are blurred, and nothing is still.
From Homer to Donna Haraway, Derrida to state archives, klephtic ballads and rebetiko, to Parmenides and Giannisi’s dog, Ivan, the many human and animal voices of Goatsong form an incantatory lyricism and layered engagement unique in literature.
How Music Works
5.490 kr.How Music Works is David Byrne’s bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators – along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists – Byrne shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity. It is his magnum opus, and an impassioned argument about music’s liberating, life-affirming power.
Chromorama
4.690 kr.Have you ever wondered why so many pencils are yellow? Why black is the colour of mourning? Or why carrots are orange?
In Chromorama, acclaimed graphic designer Riccardo Falcinelli delves deep into the history of colour to show how it has shaped the modern gaze. With over four hundred illustrations throughout and with examples ranging widely across art and culture – from Flaubert’s novels to The Simpsons, from Byzantine jewellery to misshapen fruit, from the black lines of Mondrian to the thrillers of Hitchcock – Falcinelli traces the evolution of our long relationship with colour, and how first the industrial revolution, and then the dawn of the internet age, changed it forever.
Beautiful, warm and wise, taking in the lives of philosophers, entrepreneurs, designers, astrologists, shop assistants and pastry chefs, Chromoroma is an engrossing account of shade and light, of tone and hue, of dyes, pigments, and pixels. It is the story of why we now see the world the way we do.
Ætíð minnast – Strákurinn, moldvarpan, refurinn, hesturinn og stormurinn
6.390 kr.„Dag nokkurn munt þú líta til baka og gera þér grein fyrir hversu erfitt þetta var, og hversu vel þú stóðst þig.“
Love In Exile
3.990 kr.Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It was a fear that would erupt in destructive, counterfeit versions of the real love she craved: addictions and short-lived romances that were either euphoric and fantastical, or excruciatingly painful and unhinged, often both. Faye’s experience of the world as a trans woman, who grew up visibly queer, exacerbated her fears. But, as she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness, she came to realize that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture.
Love, she argues, is as much a collective question as a personal one. Yet our collective ideals of love have developed in a society which is itself profoundly sick and loveless; in which consumer capitalism sells us ever new, engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable. In this highly politicized terrain, boundaries are purposefully drawn to keep some in and to keep others out. Those who exist outside them are ignored, denigrated, exiled.
In Love in Exile, Shon Faye shows love is much greater than the narrow ideals we have been taught to crave so desperately that we are willing to bend and break ourselves to fit them. Wise, funny, unsparing, and suffused with a radical clarity, this is a book of and for our times: for seeing and knowing love, in whatever form it takes, is the meaning of life itself.
Zone
3.490 kr.Francis Mirkovic, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggage rack above him is a briefcase containing a wealth of information about the war criminals, terrorists and arms dealers of the Zone – the Mediterranean region, from Barcelona to Beirut, from Algiers to Trieste, which has become his speciality – to sell to the Vatican. Exhausted by alcohol and amphetamines, he revisits the violent history of the Zone and his own participation in that violence, beginning as a mercenary fighting for a far-right Croatian militia in the 1990s. One of the truly original books of the decade, and written as a single, hypnotic, propulsive, physically irresistible sentence, Mathias Enard’s Zone is an Iliad for our time, an extraordinary and panoramic view of violent conflict and its consequences in the twentieth century and beyond
Compass
4.690 kr.As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the centre of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East. An immersive, nocturnal, musical novel, full of generous erudition and bittersweet humour, Compass is a journey and a declaration of admiration, a quest for the otherness inside us all and a hand reaching out like a bridge between West and East, yesterday and tomorrow.
Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, this is Mathias Enard’s most ambitious novel since Zone.
Mið-Austurlönd – fortíð, nútíð og framtíð
6.990 kr.Mið-Austurlönd – sem afmarkast af Egyptalandi í vestri, Íran í austri, Tyrklandi í norðri og Jemen í suðri – eru einhver mesti suðupottur okkar tíma og hafa raunar verið um áratugaskeið. Nær daglega flytja fjölmiðlar þaðan fréttir af stríðshörmungum, kvennakúgun, misskiptingu og neyð. Um leið hafa víglínurnar færst óþægilega nærri Vesturlöndum – hryðjuverk í nágrannalöndum okkar og straumur flóttafólks meinar okkur að loka augunum fyrir ástandinu.Ýmis vandamál Mið-Austurlanda eiga rætur í tíðum og víðtækum afskiptum Vesturlanda af þessum heimshluta í fortíð og nútíð. Fleira kemur þó til því íbúar svæðisins hafa á síðastliðnum hundrað árum beitt ýmsum aðferðum til að finna hinn gullna meðalveg hefðar og nútíma, sjálfstæðis og jafnréttis, ofbeldis og framfara, trúfrelsis og einstaklingsfrelsis.Þessi þýðingarmikla bók kom fyrst út árið 2018, hlaut þá einstakar viðtökur og hefur ítrekað verið endurprentuð. Hér er um nýja útgáfu að ræða þar sem síðustu vendingum sögunnar eru gerð skil, meðal annars atburðum á Gaza, þróun mála í Sýrlandi og borgarastríði í Jemen.Magnús Þorkell Bernharðsson, prófessor í nútímasögu Mið-Austurlanda við Williams College í Massachusetts og gistikennari við guðfræði- og trúarbragðafræðideild Háskóla Íslands, er helsti sérfræðingur okkar í sögu þessa svæðis. Hér fjallar hann um öll meginstefin í sögu Mið-Austurlanda á yfirvegaðan og aðgengilegan hátt.
Irpa
4.990 kr.Eftir ítrekuð fósturlát þráir Edda tilbreytingu. Hún er orðin þreytt á vinnunni, íbúðinni, matarboðunum með vinkonunum og eilífum óléttutilkynningum þeirra … öllu. Þegar hún sér litla eyju á Austfjörðum auglýsta til sölu sannfærir hún Atla um að þar geti þau byrjað nýtt líf.
Á Varpey vex allt og dafnar, björgin eru full af fugli, brekkurnar þaktar berjalyngi og hafið í kring krökkt af fiski. Edda og Atli koma sér fyrir í litla íbúðarhúsinu og hefjast handa við að breyta hlöðunni í gistiheimili. Þegar Edda tekur að sjá hvítklæddri konu bregða fyrir telur hún fyrst að sér hljóti að hafa missýnst. Smám saman verður hún þó sannfærð um að þau séu ekki ein á eyjunni heldur deili henni með einhverjum sem vilji þeim illt, einhverjum sem hefur bæði líf og dauða í hendi sér.
Hildur Knútsdóttir er einn virtasti ungmennabókahöfundur landsins en hún hefur einnig slegið í gegn með nóvellum sínum fyrir fullorðna, ekki síst í hinum enskumælandi heimi. The New York Times útnefndi Myrkrið milli stjarnanna eina af tíu bestu hrollvekjum ársins 2024 og bókin hefur jafnframt verið tilnefnd til bæði Dublin-bókmenntaverðlaunanna og World Fantasy-verðlaunanna. Kvikmyndarétturinn að bæði þeirri bók og Irpu hefur auk þess verið seldur til erlendra framleiðslufyrirtækja.
Dagar mínir í Morisaki-bókabúðinni
4.790 kr.Þegar Takako missir í einu vetfangi kærastann, vinnuna og trúna á sjálfa sig, býðst henni óvænt skjól hjá sérvitringnum frænda sínum í lítilli fornbókabúð í Tókýó. Jimbocho-hverfið iðar af lífi, ágeng kryddangan er í loftinu og neonljós borgarinnar flökta stöðugt en í Morisaki-bókabúðinni opnast annar heimur – kyrrlátur, hlýr og fullur af sögum. Þar hefst heillandi ferðalag sem á eftir að umbreyta lífi Takako.
Dagar mínir í Morisaki-bókabúðinni er seiðandi saga um vináttu sem sprettur á ólíklegustu stöðum, sérkennilega fastagesti og ómótstæðilega japanska menningu.
Satoshi Yagisawa hlaut verðskuldaða athygli fyrir þessa hrífandi sögu sem hefur komið út víða um heim og var kvikmynduð í Japan.
The Oresteia
3.990 kr.In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In Agamemnon, a king’s decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra’s regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father’s death; and in The Eumenides, Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased. Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a society.
The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B. Stanford in Penguin Classics.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Strange Buildings
4.390 kr.The addictive mystery taking the world by storm, from the author of The Times Bestseller Strange Pictures
Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret.
A lonely hut in the woods.
A hidden chamber.
A mysterious shrine.
A home in flames.
A nightmarish prison…
Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle.
Look closely… and you’ll see that everything is connected.
All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won’t want to believe it.
Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsu’s dark mysteries.
Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, so far.
Wuthering Heights
4.690 kr.Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere …
As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge – and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death.
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The Sisters
Original price was: 5.690 kr..2.845 kr.Current price is: 2.845 kr..Meet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Ina is tall, serious, a compulsive organizer. Evelyn is dreamy, magnetic, a smooth talker. And Anastasia is moody, chaotic, quick to anger. Following them from afar is Jonas. Like the sisters, he’s Swedish Tunisian, raised in Stockholm but yearning for so much more. His life intersects with theirs across decades and continents, from Tunis to Berlin and New York. And when Evelyn goes missing, it’s Jonas who tracks her down – and helps break the curse that has loomed over the Mikkolas for years.