Stag Dance
3.490 kr.Deep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other times and places, the gender apocalypse is brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend; an illicit boarding-school romance surfaces intrigue and cruelty; and a Las Vegas party weekend turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between a thrilling mystery man or a veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.
FNÆS
11.990 kr.Í Fnæs birtast á mjög mörgum blaðsíðum fimm ár af fnæsi yfir öllu frá hversdeginum til heimsmála. Stundum er fnæst af gleði, stundum af reiði og stundum af uppgjöf. Myndasögurnar í bókinni spegla sameiginlega reynslu samfélags sem er oft flókin en oft svo fyndin. Ófullkomleiki manneskjunnar, uppeldi, heimur á vonarvöl, hópefli, menningararfurinn, rútína, sérviska og jólin – ekkert er Lóu Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttur óviðkomandi. Og við megum alltaf leyfa okkur að hlæja smá, meira að segja að hlutum sem eru óþolandi.
„Með síkvikum huga rannsakar Lóa bæði stóru og litlu brestina í samfélaginu okkar og í tilverunni allri. Hún sér hið óbærilega og gerir svo úr því eitthvað óbærilega fyndið.“ – Haukur Þorgeirsson, rannsóknarprófessor við Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum
A Place Both Wonderful and Strange
5.690 kr.In A Place Both Wonderful and Strange, film and TV critic Scott Meslow takes us behind the (red) curtain of Twin Peaks and into the unique and immersive world created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. Meslow has conducted dozens of original interviews with cast and crew – including Mark Frost, Sherilyn Fenn, James Marshall and Ray Wise – which shed new light on this extraordinary work that often raised as many questions as it answered.
With David Lynch’s passing in 2025, there may never be another return to the unforgettable town of Twin Peaks, yet A Place Both Wonderful and Strange draws readers back once again to the inimitable experience of the show and offers fascinating new insights and perspectives.
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
3.690 kr.The highly anticipated memoir from Gucci Mane, “one of hip-hop’s most prolific and admired artists” (The New York Times).
For the first time Gucci Mane tells his story in his own words. It is the captivating life of an artist who forged an unlikely path to stardom and personal rebirth. Gucci Mane began writing his memoir in a maximum-security federal prison. Released in 2016, he emerged radically transformed. He was sober, smiling, focused, and positive—a far cry from the Gucci Mane of years past.
Born in rural Bessemer, Alabama, Radric Delantic Davis became Gucci Mane in East Atlanta, where the rap scene is as vibrant as the dope game. His name was made as a drug dealer first, rapper second. His influential mixtapes and street anthems pioneered the sound of trap music. He inspired and mentored a new generation of artists and producers: Migos, Young Thug, Nicki Minaj, Zaytoven, Mike Will Made-It, Metro Boomin.
Yet every success was followed by setback. Too often, his erratic behavior threatened to end it all. Incarceration, violence, rap beefs, drug addiction. But Gucci Mane has changed, and he’s decided to tell his story.
In his extraordinary autobiography, the legend takes us to his roots in Alabama, the streets of East Atlanta, the trap house, and the studio where he found his voice as a peerless rapper. He reflects on his inimitable career and in the process confronts his dark past—years behind bars, the murder charge, drug addiction, career highs and lows—the making of a trap god. It is one of the greatest comeback stories in the history of music.
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane is a blunt and candid account—an instant classic.
Hooked
4.390 kr.Eriko really wouldn’t mind being savaged, if it was her best friend doing the savaging …
Eriko’s life appears perfect – devoted parents, pristine apartment and a high-flying job in the seafood division of one of Japan’s largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness.
Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by a housewife, Shōko. Shōko’s posts about convenience-store food and her messy home are the opposite of the typical manicured housewife. When Eriko tracks Shōko down at her favourite restaurant, Shōko is at first charmed by her new companion. But soon Eriko’s obsession with Shōko begins to spiral out of control. How far will she go to hold on to the best friend she’s ever had?
Beautifully translated by Polly Barton, Hooked is a delicious exploration of food, loneliness and womanhood in contemporary Japan.
Sisters in Yellow
4.990 kr.Hana has nothing – she’s fifteen years old and living in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears.
Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana’s dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible.
But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana’s hope, her optimism, and her drive will be pushed to the limit . . .
A story of enduring friendship and deep betrayal, Sisters in Yellow is a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties that confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great writers of her generation.
On Earth As It Is Beneath
3.990 kr.On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down. But in the prison’s waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full-moon night, the inmates are released, the warden is armed with rifles, and the hunt begins. Every man plans his escape, not knowing if his end will come at the hands of a familiar face, or from the unknown dangers beyond the prison walls. Ana Paula Maia has once again delivered a bracing vision of our potential for violence, and our collective failure to account for the consequences of our social and political action, or inaction. No crime is committed out of view for this novelist, and her raw, brutal power enlists us all as witness.
Nova Scotia House
3.690 kr.He said he would understand if it was too much for me, that I could leave him, that I was young, I should be living, I said to him, I am living.
Johnny Grant faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers, he looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field. When they met, nearly thirty years ago, Johnny was 19, Jerry was 45. They fell in love and made a life on their own terms in Jerry’s flat: 1, Nova Scotia House. Johnny is still there today – but Jerry is gone, and so is the world they knew.
As Johnny’s mind travels between then and now, he begins to remember stories of Jerry’s youth: of experiments in living; of radical philosophies; of the many possibilities of love, sex and friendship before the AIDS crisis devastated the queer community. Slowly, he realizes what he must do next—and attempts to restore ways of being that could be lost forever.
Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era. It is both a love story and a lament; bearing witness to the enduring pain of the AIDS pandemic and honouring the joys and creativity of queer life. Intimate, visionary, and profoundly original, it marks the debut of a vibrant new voice in contemporary fiction, and a writer with a liberating new story to tell.
On the Calculation of Volume IV
3.990 kr.It feels as though we have each been walking along our own path in the same forest. And now, we have found our way to a clearing and suddenly we see that we share not only the clearing but the forest too. You think it begins when you meet, but in fact, our stories were already entwined.
We Do Not Part
3.490 kr.Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird, who will otherwise die.
Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of white. Beset by icy wind and snow squalls, she wonders if she will arrive in time to save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold which envelops her with every step. As night falls, she struggles her way to Inseon’s house, unaware as yet of the descent into darkness which awaits her.
There, the long-buried story of Inseon’s family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in a painstakingly assembled archive documenting a terrible massacre on the island seventy years before.
We Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination and above all an indictment against forgetting.
The Warrior’s Princess
1.290 kr.The powerful timeslip novel from the worldwide bestselling author of Lady of Hay
When Jess is attacked by someone she once trusted, she flees to her sister’s house in the Welsh borders to recuperate. There, she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child.
Two thousand years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caratacus, king of the Brtitish tribes, and the invading Romans. The proud king is captured and taken as a prisoner to Rome with his wife and daughter, the princess Eigon.
Jess is inexorably drawn to investigate Eigon’s story, and as the Welsh cottage is no longer a peaceful sanctuary she decides to visit Rome. There lie the connections that will reveal Eigon’s astonishing life – and which threaten to reawaken Jess’s own tormentor…
Vegur allrar veraldar (kilja)
4.690 kr.Haustið 1479 kemur kona norður yfir Kjöl og teymir hest undir gömlum manni. Skáldið Sveinn döggskór Þórðarson er kominn í Reynistaðarklaustur til að deyja. Þó ekki fyrr en hann hefur skrásett sannleikann um atburðina í Rifi, þegar Englendingar drápu Björn Þorleifsson, hirðstjóra konungs á Íslandi. Vígið kveikti ófriðarbál innanlands og utan, og kona Björns, Ólöf ríka Loftsdóttir, hefndi bónda síns svo grimmilega að sögur hafa gengið um það allar götur síðan.
En hvað af því er satt og hvað er logið, og hverjum leyfist að segja söguna?
Löngu síðar, á tímum samfélagsmiðla og örbylgjupizza, reynir sagnfræðingurinn Eyjólfur Úlfsson að endurheimta akademískan orðstír sinn eftir að hafa óvart eyðilagt ómetanlegt fornrit. Þær hrakfarir leiða hann til Kaupmannahafnar, þar sem hann rekur sig eftir ólíkindalegri slóð handrita og miðaldaklæða í átt að sannleikanum um atburðina í Rifi.
Fimmtánda öldin er öldin sem týndist í Íslandssögunni, þegar þjóðin lenti skyndilega í hringiðu evrópskra stjórnmála og viðskiptahagsmuna. Hér stíga helstu persónur hennar ljóslifandi fram: riddarar og sjóræningjar, konungar, hirðstjórar og höfðingjar, en líka fólkið sem þjónaði þeim og reyndi að ávinna sér frelsi og frið á vægðarlausum upplausnartímum.
Vegur allrar veraldar skálkasaga er sjálfstætt framhald Hamingju þessa heims riddarasögu, sem kom út 2022 og hlaut tilnefningu til Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna.
Huldukonan (kilja)
4.690 kr.Konurnar í Lohr fjölskyldunni skilja ekki að Sigvaldi þeirra, með alla sína augljósu mannkosti, hafi aldrei gengið út. Ennfremur fá þær ekki skilið þá fráleitu ákvörðun hans að gerast einsetumaður í eyðivík. Þær eru raunar hættar að hnýsast í hagi Sigvalda, því í hvert skipti verður augnaráð hans átakanlega tregafullt.
Dag einn birtist Sigvaldi á dyraþrepi móður sinnar með mánaðargamla stúlku í fanginu og neitar að svara því hver sé móðir barnsins. Konurnar í fjölskyldunni hefja sína eigin rannsókn á málinu og smám saman hrannast sönnunargögnin upp: saga Lohr ættarinnar, þjóðsögurnar í Dýrleifarvík, leyndardómur um týnt barn og móður sem hvarf, undarlegir draumar, óvenjuleg hegðun Sigvalda og dulmagn hamranna í hlíðinni.
Nýtt nafn – Sjöleikurinn VI-VII
4.890 kr.Nýtt nafn er þriðja og síðasta bindið í stórvirki norska Nóbelshöfundarins Jons Fosse, hinum svonefnda Sjöleik. Hér er á ferðinni seiðmagnað verk þar sem lífsbarátta og hugsjónir mætast. Undir sléttu yfirborði ólga heitar tilfinningar og glíma við drykkjuskap tekur sinn toll. Í samspili gleði og sorgar er samt óbilandi trúin á náð Guðs alltumlykjandi.
Pensilskrift
4.890 kr.Tímamótaverk með hátt í 200 smáprósum sem rúma ótal persónur, þankabrot og atburði með fjölþættum spunaþráðum. Upphaflega gefin út ásamt systurbókinni, Þöglu myndunum, haustið 2022 og hlaut frábærar viðtökur en seldist fljótlega upp. Þessi nýja útgáfa er hluti af ritsafni Gyrðis Elíassonar.