Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders
4.390 kr.Forty years after it was first published, Ted Hughes’s Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders is presented in a beautifully redesigned edition with a new introduction by the nature writer Tim Dee.
The sixteen poems gathered here brim and bristle with the life Hughes generates from the absolute attention he commits to whatever it is he is looking at. His knack for finding a language to animate its subject, without a trace of sentiment or nostalgia, singles out Hughes as one of the truly great poet-interpreters of the natural world.
This edition gives full justice to the subtlety of the original watercolour illustrations, produced by Hughes’s long-term collaborator and friend, the American artist, Leonard Baskin.
The Silver Book
3.490 kr.It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini’s Casanova. A young – and beautiful – apprentice is just what he needs.
He sweeps Nicholas to Rome, into the looking-glass world of Cinecittà, the studio where Casanova’s Venice will be ingeniously assembled. Then in the spring, the lovers move together to the set of Salò, Pasolini’s horrifying fable of fascism.
But Nicholas has a secret and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen. Amidst the rising tensions of Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’, he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he didn’t intend . . .
Confessions
3.490 kr.It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is adrift and alone. Soon, a letter will arrive with the offer of a new life: far out on the ragged edge of Ireland, in the town where her parents were young, an estranged aunt can provide a home and fulfil a long-forgotten promise. There the story of Cora’s family is hidden, and in her presence will begin to unspool…
An essential, immersive debut from an astonishing new voice, Confessions traces the arc of three generations of women as they experience in their own time the irresistible gravity of the past: its love and tragedy, its mystery and redemption, and, in all things intended and accidental, the beauty and terrible shade of the things we do.
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction
5.490 kr.Who was Gertrude Stein?
Avant-garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self-declared genius — a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century.
And why does she matter?
The narrator of Deborah Levy’s latest, dazzling fiction has gone to Paris to find out. There she meets Eva with the blinding gaze, an artist in a long-distance marriage, and Fanny, a sexually adventurous financier; together they cook, walk, read and argue late into the nights.
As Paris sweeps her along in its ceaseless flow, she thinks – about what we have to lose to become modern, navigating anxiety, living with uncertainty, angry fathers, making a new life in another country, art and language – how all these things looked to Gertrude Stein in the early days of the twentieth century, and how they look to her and her friends in the early twenty-first.
This is a book about how we put ourselves together— an exhilarating, witty, cosmopolitan meditation on the pleasures and challenges of friendship, desire and living with other people. But it is also crashes through genre to create an inspired portrait of Stein herself: a writer who experimented fearlessly with a new way of living and who wrestled herself free from the nineteenth century to invent a brand-new way of looking at the world.
Fimmta barnið
4.690 kr.Fjögur yndisleg börn, fallegt gamalt hús, ástríkir ættingjar og vinir – líf Harriet og Davids Lovatt er hamingjusamt og gleðiríkt. En þegar fimmta barnið fæðist leggst dimmur skuggi yfir heimilislífið. Hinn ungi Ben er stór og ófrýnilegur, ofbeldisfullur og stjórnlaus. Harriet berst við að annast nýfætt barnið en stendur frammi fyrir myrkum og undarlegum mótþróa. Óttaslegin spyr hún sjálfa sig hvað það eiginlega sé sem hún hefur fætt í þennan heim …
Áhrifarík skáldsaga eftir Nóbelsverðlaunahafann Doris Lessing.
Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir íslenskaði.
„Það fer hrollur um mann við lesturinn en það er ómögulegt að leggja bókina frá sér … áhrifum hins undarlega og framandi barns á fjölskylduna er lýst af yfirvegun sem gerir vaxandi hryllinginn enn áhrifameiri.“ Sunday Times
„Lesið og skjálfið!“ Independent
Breski rithöfundurinn Doris Lessing (1919–2013) hlaut margskonar viðurkenningar fyrir verk sín, þar á meðal Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum árið 2007. Sjö bóka hennar hafa verið þýddar á íslensku, þar á meðal Grasið syngur (The Grass is Singing) í þýðingu Birgis Sigurðssonar, Minningar einnar sem eftir lifði (The Memoirs of a Survivor) í þýðingu Hjartar Pálssonar og Í góðu hjónabandi (A Proper Marriage) í þýðingu Fríðu Á. Sigurðardóttur. Af öðrum rómuðum skáldsögum hennar, auk Fimmta barnsins, má nefna The Golden Notebook og The Good Terrorist. Hún gaf einnig út sjálfsævisögu sína í tveimur bindum, Under My Skin og Walking in the Shade. Doris Lessing lést 17. nóvember 2013, 94 ára að aldri.
Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir hefur lokið BS-prófi í sálfræði. Hún hefur starfað við þýðingar frá því hún útskrifaðist úr meistaranámi í þýðingafræði frá Háskóla Íslands vorið 2024.
Seascraper
3.490 kr.Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach to scrape for shrimp; spending the rest of the day selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and scum, pining for Joan Wyeth down the street and rehearsing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but it remains a private dream. When a striking visitor turns up, bringing the promise of Hollywood glamour, Thomas is shaken from the drudgery of his days and begins to see a different future. But how much of what the American claims is true, and how far can his inspiration carry Thomas?
Haunting and timeless, this is the story of a young man hemmed in by his circumstances, striving to achieve fulfilment far beyond the world he knows.
What Am I, A Deer?
4.390 kr.What does it mean to lose yourself – and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession – not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace. With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Barton’s formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny.
Echoing with the sounds of Whitney Houston and The Cure, reaching for the sublime in dark, sweaty boxes, What Am I, A Deer? is an exhilarating exploration of authenticity, fantasy, romance and intoxication.
They
3.490 kr.For fans of I Who Have Never Known Men, a ‘creepily prescient’ (Margaret Atwood) lost dystopian ‘masterpiece’ (Emily St. John Mandel): in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer…
‘Ceepy, tense and strange.’ Ian Rankin ‘Delicious and sexy and downright chilling … Read it!’ Rumaan Alam ‘The signature of an enchantress.’ Edna O’Brien ‘I’m pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.’ Lauren Groff ‘Completely got under my skin.’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave ‘Lush, hypnotic, compulsive.’ Eimear McBride ‘A masterwork of English pastoral horror.’ Claire-Louise Bennett ‘A short shocker.’ Andrew Hunter Murray
This is Britain: but not as we know it.
THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks – and those who resist.
THEY capture dissidents – writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless – in military sweeps, ‘curing’ these subversives of individual identity.
Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget …Lost for half a century, newly introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, Kay Dick’s They (1977) is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack: a cry from the soul against censorship, a radical celebration of non-conformity – and a warning.
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.
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…
A Clockwork Orange (Restored Edition)
3.490 kr.Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis
Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?
A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang ‘Nadsat’, explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel’s ‘sweet and juicy criminality’.
Wuthering Heights
3.490 kr.Emily Brontë’s only novel and a gothic classic – a gripping story of obsession, revenge, and tragedy – now the feature film “Wuthering Heights” from Emerald Fennell, which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff.
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrenders to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal are visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.
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.
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.
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 . . .
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.
Wuthering Heights
3.490 kr.May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him.
As Heathcliff’s bitterness and vengeance is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. The Penguin English Library – 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Orðabók Lemprières
1.290 kr.Það er árið 1788. John Lemprière kemur til Lundúna frá Jersey, sjóndapur sláni, ofviti sem fáir standast snúning í fornum fræðum, klaufabárður
og upprennandi hetja í æsilegri atburðarás. Faðir hans hefur nýlega látist á voveiflegan hátt og eftirlátin gögn hans leiða piltinn á furðulega slóð þar sem Austur-Indíafélagið kemur mikið við sögu, landráð, franska byltingin, vélar af ótrúlegasta tagi, ástir og orðabókargerð, og ekki upplýsist fyrr en í lokin hver teymir hvern á asnaeyrunum.Höfundurinn Lawrence Norfolk er fæddur árið 1963 í Lundúnum og hefur fengið gríðarlegt lof fyrir þessa bók sem er engri annarri lík – ástarsaga, gleðisaga, harmsaga, pólitísk spennusaga, söguleg skáldsaga, goðsöguleg alfræðibók…
Ingunn Ásdísardóttir þýddi.
