Steering the Craft
4.390 kr.Revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Steering the Craft is Ursula K. Le Guin’s carrier bag of the essentials of a writer’s craft, a generous gift from one of the great thinkers about how – and why – to write. This handbook is an accessible and profound guide to the craft of writing and editing.
Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Drawing on the global canon, Le Guin offers her inimitably witty commentary and incisive dissection, developing into an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. No other writing guide offers such a comprehensive, experienced and kind approach to “steering the craft” as a writing crew.
Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writer’s shelf.
Death of a Diplomat
4.690 kr.A remote Icelandic island. A diplomatic dinner party. And a murderer in the midst.
When the deputy Canadian ambassador dies suddenly at a dinner party, attended by the great and the good from business, culture and politics, suspicion falls on everybody present, but particularly on the victim’s boss, the Canadian ambassador. Jane, the ambassador’s wife, knows that she has to solve the murder if she is to save her husband, and her marriage. But Jane knows better than anyone that, when it comes to protecting scandalous secrets, there are no lengths to which people won’t go. So soon the question becomes: can she track down the killer before they strike again?
The Iliad
5.490 kr.A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer’s great epic, in E. V. Rieu’s classic translation.
The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization – an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus’ killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. But Homer’s theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background..
Seven Greek cities claim the honour of being the birthplace of Homer (c. 8th-7th century BC), the poet to whom the composition of The Iliad and The Odyssey was attributed. The Iliad is the oldest surviving work of Western literature, but the identity – or even the existence – of Homer himself is a complete mystery, with no reliable biographical information having survived.
E. V. Rieu initiated Penguin Classics with Allen Lane and his famous translation of The Odyssey was the first book published in the series in 1947. The Iliad followed in 1950.
Froid comme l’enfer
3.490 kr.Deux sœurs. Un thriller original et captivant où tout se joue dans l’atmosphère et les détails.
Aurora vit en Angleterre et sa sœur Isafold en Islande, elles sont très différentes et ont des relations compliquées. Isafold disparaît et leur mère, ne faisant pas la différence entre enquêtrice financière et enquêtrice policière, supplie Aurora d’aller chercher sa sœur.
Aurora ne peut pas s’empêcher de pratiquer ce qu’elle fait de mieux, démasquer les fraudeurs et les faire payer. Elle va donc profiter de ce voyage pour examiner de près certains investissements financiers douteux, et analyser la corruption islandaise tout en testant ses capacités de séduction sur deux hommes.
Elle découvrira surtout la violence domestique à laquelle était soumise Isafold et qu’elle niait farouchement subir ; au cours des témoignages qu’elle reçoit, elle voit évoluer les nuances de ses sentiments pour sa sœur. En même temps, des personnages inquiétants émergent peu à peu.
Nous suivons son enquête au fil des détails qu’elle nous donne sur les façons de vivre et de se parler, et par ce travail de dentellière elle nous fait entrer dans un monde plus complexe que ce dont il a l’air.
Rouge comme la mer
3.490 kr.Lorsque l’entrepreneur Flosi arrive chez lui pour dîner, il découvre que sa maison a été mise à sac et que sa femme Gudrún a disparu. Une lettre posée sur la table de la cuisine confirme qu’elle a été enlevée. Si Flosi n’accepte pas de payer une énorme rançon, Gudrún sera tuée. Effrayé, il prend contact avec Aurora, qui gagne sa vie en faisant des enquêtes financières et qui est spécia-liste de la discrétion. Alors que le brouillard s’installe, dans un automne islandais froid et pluvieux, les suspects se multiplient, les cheminements de l’argent créent des surprises, comme toujours, les mafias se rapprochent et tout prend un tour de plus en plus trouble. Dans le même temps, Aurora poursuit la recherche déroutante et dévastatrice de sa sœur, Ísafold, qui a disparu sans laisser de traces.
Un roman d’atmosphère prenant, des personnages attachants, un vrai suspense et un humour délectable, bref, un bon livre à la fois exotique et familier.
Iceland: A Literary Guide for Travellers
4.990 kr.A guide to Iceland’s rich literary heritage – from Norse witches to contemporary crime fiction. Iceland is an island of multiple identities in constant flux, just like its unruly, volcanic ground. Shaped as much by storytelling as it is by tectonic activity, Iceland’s literary heritage is one of Europe’s richest – and most ancient.
Iceland: A Literary Guide for Travellers takes the literary-minded traveller (either in person or in an armchair) on a vivid and illuminating journey. It follows Iceland’s many stories that have been passed down through the generations: told and retold by sheep farmers, psalm-writers, travelling reverends, independence fighters, scholars and hedonists. From the captivating Norse myths, which continue to inspire contemporary authors such as A. S. Byatt, to gripping Scandinavian crime fiction and Game of Thrones, via Jules Verne and J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden and Seamus Heaney, Iceland’s influence has spread far beyond its frozen shores. Peopled by Norse maidens and witches, elves and outlaws, and taking the reader and traveller from Reykjavik and the Bay of Smokes to the remote Westfjords and desolate highlands, this is an enthralling portrait of the Land of Ice and Fire.
Envelope Poems
3.990 kr.Although a very prolific poet—and arguably America’s greatest—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great deal, and at her death she left behind many poems, drafts, and letters.
It is among the makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinson’s later writings that we find the envelope poems gathered here. These manuscripts on envelopes (recycled by the poet with marked New England thrift) were written with the full powers of her late, most radical period. Intensely alive, these envelope poems are charged with a special poignancy—addressed to no one and everyone at once.
Full-color facsimiles are accompanied by Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervin’s pioneering transcriptions of Dickinson’s handwriting. Their transcriptions allow us to read the texts, while the facsimiles let us see exactly what Dickinson wrote (the variant words, crossings-out, dashes, directional fields, spaces, columns, and overlapping planes).
Seiglazine
1.800 kr.Seiglazine er árlegt tímarit gefið út í tengslum við tónlistarhátíðina Seiglu, sem fer fram í Hörpu aðra helgina í ágúst á hverju ári. Þetta er fyrsta tölublað ritsins en það kemur út í ágúst á hverju ári.
Í ritinu má finna aðsendar greinar, smásögur, ljóð, myndir og teikningar, hugleiðingar, slúður, verkalista og ýmislegt fleira sem barst ritinu í opnu kalli fyrr á árinu, og auk þess er þar að finna hátíðardagskrá Seiglu og upplýsingar um viðburði og flytjendur hátíðarinnar.
Höfundar efnis eru Ásta Kristín Pjetursdóttir, Edda Oskars, Erna Vala Arnardóttir, Guja Sandholt, Hlín Pétursdóttir Behrens, Kristín Einarsdóttir Mäntylä, Lee Marable, Þórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir, Zygmund de Somogyi.
Meet the Elves
3.690 kr.Those who travel around Iceland with an open mind will have a colourful and enjoyable journey ahead of them. With a bit of luck (and GPS navigation) travelers might even encounter an elf – almost no Icelandic farm is without stories of elfdwellings located somewhere on the property.
This book contains a collection of stories and sources that shed light on the relationship between humans and elves in Iceland, from ancient to relatively recent times.
Parade
3.490 kr.Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.
In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.
A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.
The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story – about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.
The Latehomecomer: Essential Stories
3.990 kr.In stories of astonishing compression and insight, Mavis Gallant wrote of characters severed from their home, exiles disconnected from each other and from themselves. Tracing the fault lines of the post-war world in the intimate lives of her characters, she could conjure an entire worldview in a telling gesture or passing comment. This new volume, selected and introduced by Tessa Hadley, collects the finest work from across Gallant’s career.
mavisHere are stories of young men returning from wartime internment to changed families, snobbish social climbers haunted by the words of their downtrodden colleagues, and children peering through glass at the secrets and infidelities of their parents. Complex, moving and painfully true, they secure her position among the world’s great short story writers.
