Stoner
3.490 kr.A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father’s farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value – of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history – and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.
Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile
3.190 kr.Bonjour Tristesse tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry – with devastating consequences. In A Certain Smile, which is also included in this volume, Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways.
The Poetic Edda
3.490 kr.‘She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,over the mountain hunting fish.’
After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress’s Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of gods and humans are related.
The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor, Loki the trickster, the lovely goddesses and the giants who are their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi, Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer, Brynhild the shield-maiden, and the implacable Gudrun. New in this revised translation are the quest-poem The Lay of Svipdag and The Waking of Angantyr, in which a girl faces down her dead father to retrieve his sword. Comic, tragic, instructive, grandiose, witty and profound, the poems of the Edda have influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien and a new generation of video-game and film makers.
The Mighty Red
3.490 kr.In the Red River Valley of North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place.
Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to his problems. Kismet can’t imagine her future, but she will settle for fulfilling his. During a clumsy proposal, Kismet misses her chance to say ‘no’, and so the die is cast.
Meanwhile Crystal, Kismet’s mother, hauls sugar beets for Gary’s wealthy family. On her nightly truck drives from the farm, Crystal frets over what the future might hold – both for herself, and her daughter.
Starkly beautiful and vividly written, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendour, from one of our greatest living writers.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Original price was: 3.490 kr..2.792 kr.Current price is: 2.792 kr..On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.
Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?
The Quiet Mother
4.390 kr.A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad’s phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the truth – for her and for himself.
As Konrad digs into the woman’s past, he is drawn into a web of secrets, lies and betrayal. Each revelation points to a hidden life that connects her death to a decades-old murder – and to shadows from Konrad’s own family history.
The Quiet Mother is a masterful blend of human tragedy and relentless suspense, where every discovery comes at a cost. Arnaldur Indridason once again proves why he is the voice of Nordic Noir, delivering a harrowing tale of guilt and redemption.
Oasis: Trying to find a way out of nowhere
12.990 kr.Dramatic, iconic, tumultuous: this is the story of Oasis, as seen through the lens of legendary photographer Jill Furmanovsky and edited by Noel Gallagher.
Jill has been documenting the phenomenon that is Oasis since 1994 and the Definitely Maybe tour, through the tense and difficult shows for Dig Out Your Soul in 2009 and, following a hiatus, to a new beginning in 2025.
Featuring more than 500 exceptional photographs from her archive, this book includes acclaimed and classic shots alongside swathes of candid, behind-the-scenes images, many of which are published here for the very first time.
With unprecedented access, Jill was able to capture strikingly emotive images, recording the band’s raw energy, humour and – at times – their vulnerability. ‘Oasis permitted closeness,’ she commented, ‘and that was a great gift to me as a photographer.’ Weaving sequences together to craft stories and stitch montages, the book brings you right into the room with the musicians.
Noel’s foreword is followed by an introduction by Jill, while three expansive pieces by acclaimed author Simon Spence, publicist and writer Johnny Hopkins and music columnist and novelist Laura Barton chart Oasis’s early, mid and late eras.
Jill and Noel’s reflections, alongside the photos, give the inside track on key moments, revealing the intimate friendship between band and photographer and reminding us of a remarkable era in music history, right to the edge of their 2025 reunion tour. This is a book to treasure long after the final encore.
Emilía
7.790 kr.Ég sé fyrir mér hvern krók og kima, litirnir hafa ekkert dofnað, ég finn meira að segja lyktina, heyri hljóðin í húsinu … Eftir að ég flutti út steig ég aldrei fæti þangað inn aftur og ætla mér ekki að gera það.
Ung kona, Emilía, flytur með foreldrum sínum og ömmu inn í timburhús í miðbæ Reykjavíkur. Ekki líður á löngu þar til hún uppgötvar að þau eru ekki ein á nýja heimilinu.
Ragnar Jónasson sem er einn vinsælasti glæpasagnahöfundur heims sýnir hér á sér óvænta hlið í snarpri draugasögu. Bækur hans hafa selst í meira en fimm milljónum eintaka og eru margverðlaunaðar.
Bók vikunnar
8.490 kr.Húni er nýkominn til borgarinnar þegar honum býðst starf á litlu skóverkstæði í Reykjavík meðfram námi í háskólanum. Gamli skósmiðurinn lést fyrir skömmu og Húni fær það hlutverk að afgreiða ósótta skó til viðskiptavina.
Húni kemur úr afskekktri sveit, fullur efasemda um nútímann og á því nokkuð erfitt með að fóta sig í bænum. Til að flækja tilfinningalíf hans enn frekar kynnist hann Júlíu sem honum þykir bæði óútreiknanleg og heillandi. Dag einn þegar hann situr á skóverkstæðinu fær hann hugmynd sem gæti bæði unnið hjarta Júlíu en um leið uppfyllt draum hans um að setja mark sitt á menningarlífið í borginni.
Snæbjörn Arngrímsson hefur áður vakið athygli fyrir óvenjulegar glæpasögur, en nú hefur hann skrifað annars konar bók – Bók vikunnar. Hér spretta fram sérstæðar persónur í kunnuglegu umhverfi – og seiðmögnuð stemmning ljær sögunni leyndardómsfullan blæ.
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Piparmeyjar: Fröken Thora og saga einhleypra kvenna á Íslandi
Original price was: 9.390 kr..4.990 kr.Current price is: 4.990 kr..Hvaða augum leit fólk piparmeyjar og hvaða augum litu þær sig sjálfar? Höfðu þær eitthvert raunverulegt val í lífinu? Og hvað með ástina?
Þetta fróðlega og aðgengilega skrifaða sagnfræðirit byggir á metnaðarfullri rannsókn á ævi og kjörum einhleypra, íslenskra kvenna á umbrotatímum í kvennasögunni þar sem sjónum er bæði beint að einstökum konum og samfélaginu öllu. Í aðalhlutverki er einstætt safn einkabréfa Reykjavíkurstúlkunnar Thoru Friðriksson.
Bréf Thoru veita einstæða og heillandi innsýn í líf skarpgreindrar konu með stóra drauma sem hún fékk ekki tækifæri til að láta rætast fyrr en á miðjum aldri, eftir að hún var búin að rækja skyldur sínar við stórfjölskylduna. Einnig bregða skrif hennar upp ljóslifandi mynd af hálfdanska smábænum Reykjavík skömmu fyrir aldamótin 1900, þar sem betri borgararnir drukku chocolade og champagne, brugðu sér á skauta á Tjörninni og tipluðu á spariskónum yfir moldarflagið fyrir framan nýbyggt Alþingishúsið.