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Anglo-English Attitudes - Geoff Dyer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Anglo-English Attitudes - Geoff Dyer - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer''s best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson), painters (Bonnard, Gauguin), musicians (Coltrane, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), and close critical engagements with writers including Camus, Michael Ondaatje and Martin Amis. Also here are idiosyncratic reflections on boxing, comics, Airfix models and Action Man, and often hilarious accounts of his ''misadventures''.

DKK 127.00
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The Iron Water - Chris Nickson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Iron Water - Chris Nickson - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Leeds, England. July, 1893. D.I. Tom Harper is witnessing the demonstration of a devastating new naval weapon, the torpedo, at Roundhay Park. The explosion brings up a body in the lake, a rope lashed tightly around its waist.At the same time, dredging operations in the River Aire are disrupted when a woman''s severed leg floats to the water''s surface, still clad in its stocking and boot. Could the two macabre discoveries be connected?Harper''s investigations will lead him right to the heart of the criminal underworld that underpins the city - and into the path of a merciless killer.

DKK 190.00
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Amateur - Thomas Page Mcbee - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Amateur - Thomas Page Mcbee - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence.Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.A graceful and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting and healing, in Amateur we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.

DKK 155.00
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Mr Campion's Christmas - Mike Ripley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Mr Campion's Christmas - Mike Ripley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Campions are snowed in at Christmas, but j ust when they think it can''t get any colder, their holidays take an even chillier turn. 1962, Norfolk . Boxing Day looks set to be a quiet affair for the Campions when they are snowed in at their remote farmhouse, Carterers - until a charabanc full of ''pilgrims'' travelling from London to the Shrine of Our Lady in nearby Walsingham crashes into their imposing granite gateposts and the family unexpectedly find themselves playing host to the eccentric passengers.But any lingering festive cheer is in short supply when a shocking discovery is made the following day, while a terrifying twist reveals that some of the guests are not who they seem. Which - if any - can they trust? Suddenly hostage to events, the Campions are drawn into a fiendish web of espionage as the Cold War comes chillingly close to home.

DKK 233.00
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Till Sudden Death Do Us Part - Simon R. Green - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Till Sudden Death Do Us Part - Simon R. Green - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Although he hasn''t seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls for help. Robert''s daughter Gillian is about to be married, and he is afraid she''ll fall prey to the ancient family curse. Arriving in rural Yorkshire, Ishmael and his partner Penny learn that the vicar who was to perform the ceremony has been found dead in the church, hanging from his own bell rope. With no clues, no evidence and no known motive, many locals believe the curse is responsible. Or is someone just using it as a smokescreen for murder? With the wedding due to take place the following day, Ishmael has just a few hours to uncover the truth.But his investigations are hampered by sudden flashes of memory: memories of the time before he was human. What is it Ishmael''s former self is trying to tell him . ?

DKK 280.00
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Amateur - Thomas Page Mcbee - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Amateur - Thomas Page Mcbee - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence.Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.A graceful and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting and healing, in Amateur we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.

DKK 123.00
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A Fatal Inheritance - Cora Harrison - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Fatal Inheritance - Cora Harrison - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Mara, Brehon of the Burren, must battle superstitious beliefs and fears as she sets out to solve a brutal murder. When a woman''s body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Fár Breige, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the haunted caves and ancient fortifications of the Atlantic cliffs, the locals believe it was the god who killed her.In life, Clodagh O''Lochlainn had been a disgrace to her clan, tormenting her former priestly lover, jeering at her husband, robbing her relatives: but could she really have been slaughtered by a vengeful god, as the local population believes? Abandoning preparations for the celebration of her fiftieth birthday, Mara, Brehon of the Burren, with the assistance of Fachtnan and her scholars, takes up the task of solving the murder. Ignoring the ancient legends, she concentrates instead on bringing a mortal killer to justice. But it''s only when Fachtnan''s small daughter is lost in the labyrinth of passages among the caves that the horrifying truth begins to emerge.

DKK 185.00
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Till Sudden Death Do Us Part - Simon R. Green - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Till Sudden Death Do Us Part - Simon R. Green - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A wedding. A murder. A 200-year-old curse: Ishmael Jones is plunged into a baffling investigation when he answers an old friend''s call for help. Although he hasn''t seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls for help. Robert''s daughter Gillian is about to be married, and he is afraid she''ll fall prey to the ancient family curse. Arriving in rural Yorkshire, Ishmael and his partner Penny learn that the vicar who was to perform the ceremony has been found dead in the church, hanging from his own bell rope. With no clues, no evidence and no known motive, many locals believe the curse is responsible. Or is someone just using it as a smokescreen for murder? With the wedding due to take place the following day, Ishmael has just a few hours to uncover the truth.But his investigations are hampered by sudden flashes of memory: memories of the time before he was human. What is it Ishmael''s former self is trying to tell him . ?

DKK 225.00
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Till Sudden Death Do Us Part - Simon R. Green - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Till Sudden Death Do Us Part - Simon R. Green - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A wedding. A murder. A 200-year-old curse: Ishmael Jones is plunged into a baffling investigation when he answers an old friend''s call for help. Although he hasn''t seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls for help. Robert''s daughter Gillian is about to be married, and he is afraid she''ll fall prey to the ancient family curse. Arriving in rural Yorkshire, Ishmael and his partner Penny learn that the vicar who was to perform the ceremony has been found dead in the church, hanging from his own bell rope. With no clues, no evidence and no known motive, many locals believe the curse is responsible. Or is someone just using it as a smokescreen for murder? With the wedding due to take place the following day, Ishmael has just a few hours to uncover the truth. But his investigations are hampered by sudden flashes of memory: memories of the time before he was human. What is it Ishmael''s former self is trying to tell him . ?

DKK 192.00
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