John of John
5.690 kr.Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.
While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.
John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.
John of John
4.990 kr.Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.
While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.
John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.
Glyph
5.690 kr.It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.
Is it imaginary? Is it real?Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom.
What to do? She phones her sister.In a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making. A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness.
This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.
A standalone novel, it’s family to Gliff (2024).
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The Two Roberts
Original price was: 4.690 kr..2.345 kr.Current price is: 2.345 kr..Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is on his way. After years grafting at Lees Boot Factory, he’s off to the Glasgow School of Art, to his future. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with loose dark curls – and never leave his side.
Together they will spend every penny and every minute devouring Glasgow – its botanical gardens, the Barras market, a whole hidden city – all the while loving each other behind closed doors. With the world on the brink of war, their unrivalled talent will take them to Paris, Rome, London. They will become stars as the bombs fall, hosting wild parties with the likes of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Elizabeth Smart. But the brightest stars burn fastest.
Stunningly reimagined, The Two Roberts is a profoundly moving story of devotion and obsession, art and class. It is a love letter to MacBryde and Colquhoun, the almost-forgotten artists who tried to change the way the world sees – and paid a devastating price.
Sjö manngerðir sem finna má í bókabúðum
4.390 kr.Bækur Shauns Bythell um lífið í fornbókabúðinni hans í Wigton á Skotlandi hafa slegið í gegn víða um heim. Þar er brugðið upp lifandi myndum af daglegum gestum í bókabúðinni, skrýtna fólkinu sem vinnur þar, kettinum Kafteini og öllu amstrinu sem fylgir lífi fornbókasalans.
Í þessari bók reynir Shaun að átta sig á fólkinu sem ratað hefur í búðina hans á langri bóksalaævi. Heilt yfir finnst honum að viðskiptavinina megi flokka í sjö ólíkar manngerðir. Hnyttnar og snjallar mannlýsingar fornbókasalans gera þessa litlu bók að einstökum skemmtilestri.
Snjólaug Bragadóttir íslenskaði.
„Grátbroslegar lýsingar … engum er hlíft.“ – Washington Post
„Fornbókasalinn lætur allt flakka með snilldarlegum hætti … mannfyrlitning í bland við elskulegheit.“ – Guardian“
Gliff
3.490 kr.Once upon a time, not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint round the outside of their house . . .
So begins the freewheeling and urgent new novel from Ali Smith – the story of two young people and a horse called Gliff, on the run from history as it takes a turn for the worse.
Óseldar bækur bóksala
4.390 kr.Bærinn Wigtown í Skotlandi er paradís bókaunnenda. Shaun Bythell er einn af bóksölunum í Wigtown. Búðin hans, The Bookshop, er stærsta fornbókabúð Skotlands í gömlu húsi með níu stórum herbergjum stúfullum af bókum.
Bækur Shauns um bókalífið í fornbókabúðinni hans hafa slegið í gegn víða um heim. Óseldar bækur bóksala er þriðja bókin eftir hann sem kemur út á íslensku en hinar tvær, Dagbók bóksala og Játningar bóksala, hafa fengið hinar bestu viðtökur.
Í þessum skemmtilegu bókum er brugðið upp lifandi myndum af mannlegum samskiptum í bókabúðinni, furðufuglunum sem þar reka inn nefið, skrýtna fólkinu sem vinnur þar, kettinum Kafteini og öllu amstrinu sem fylgir lífi fornbókasalans.
Snjólaug Bragadóttir íslenskaði.
Allt í himnalagi hjá Eleanor Oliphant
990 kr.Eleanor Oliphant lifir einföldu lífi: Hún fer í vinnuna, alltaf eins klædd, borðar alltaf sama hádegismatinn, kaupir tvær vodkaflöskur fyrir hverja helgi og drekkur þær. Samstarfsfólkið telur hana stórskrítna en það er allt í himnalagi hjá henni, hún er ánægð með lífið og saknar einskis. Eða alls.
Eitthvað hefur komið fyrir hana, eitthvað sem skýrir hegðun hennar, örin í andliti hennar, múrana sem hún hefur reist í kringum sig. En hvað er það? Og svo gerist atvik sem brýtur upp hversdagsleikann, neyðir hana til að horfast í augu við allt sem hún hefur afneitað og færir henni ný tengsl við lífið.
Gail Honeyman er skoskur rithöfundur sem stundaði háskólanám í Glasgow og Oxford. Allt í himnalagi hjá Eleanor Oliphant er fyrsta skáldsaga hennar og var tilnefnd til virtra bókmenntaverðlauna og seld til fjölmargra landa áður en hún kom út.