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Heaven on Earth - - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Heaven on Earth - - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In this gloriously exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope sets out to prove that misery doesn''t have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which are unashamedly happy: poems about love, places, the beauty of the natural world, about company and solitude, music, food and drink, books, and the unadulterated pleasure of taking a shower.Among the more surprising items are the Chinese Po Chu-I on the advantages of baldness, the eighteenth-century John Dyer on the kindly behaviour of his ox, and an unusually cheerful Thomas Hardy enjoying the sight of seven women laughing as they stagger, arm in arm, down an icy hill. Catullus, Chaucer, Clare, Dickinson, Betjeman and Larkin are among the contributors who help to demonstrate that people who believe that ''happiness writes white'' have got it wrong.

DKK 127.00
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The World and its Double - Chris Fujiwara - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The World and its Double - Chris Fujiwara - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood''s first truly independent producer/directors. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction ( The Man with the Golden Arm ) and homosexuality ( Advise and Consent ), Preminger broke the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code and the blacklist, while creating some of Hollywood''s most enduring film noir classics. Chris Fujiwara''s critical biography - the first in more than thirty years - follows Preminger throughout his varied career, penetrating his carefully constructed public persona and revealing the many layers of his work.

DKK 190.00
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Target: Italy - Roderick Bailey - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Target: Italy - Roderick Bailey - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The cloak-and-dagger war fought by British secret agents against Mussolini''s Italy has been little known - until now. Target: Italy is the official history of the efforts of Britain''s Special Operations Executive to strike at Fascist Italy in the Second World War and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany. Drawing on declassified documents, it reveals missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia, and brings home the risks that secret agencies run when trying to undermine well-entrenched regimes. A powerful tale of desperate daring, tragic sacrifice and long-held wartime secrets.

DKK 136.00
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Nova Scotia - John Byrne - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Nova Scotia - John Byrne - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Thirty years since we last met him and Lucille in the Garden of Remembrance, Phil McCann faces the New Millennium with fortitude and good humour. The leading arts correspondent of the day is on her way to the far north to record a radio profile, which Paul is confident will relaunch his career as a painter and establish him once and for all as a colossus of contemporary Caledonian culture.There are, however, a number of stumbling blocks on the road to Phil''s rediscovery and the recognition of his genius, not least of which is his rocky marriage to much younger Didi, a video artist of some renown, who has just been nominated for the Turner Prize.Then there''s the old pal, Spanky, who turns up out of the blue with new bride, Lucille, on his arm... Nova Scotia premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in April 2008.

DKK 110.00
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Mosquito - Andrew Spielman - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Mosquito - Andrew Spielman - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''Consider the most common mosquito on Earth. This soft, little, dusty-brown insect is Culex Pipiens. You''ve seen her land on your arm. You have caught her just at the end of her feeding, her translucent belly swelling red with your very own blood. At such a moment, you can be forgiven for failing to notice what an elegant and hardy thing she is. But she is . . . '' No creature has touched directly the lives of more human beings than the mosquito. She has been a nuisance, a pollinator of plants and an angel of death all over the globe. And throughout history, much of our trouble with the mosquito has been caused by man himself. Professor Andrew Spielman has dedicated his life to understanding this insect. In Mosquito he tells the story of man''s struggle to live with the mosquito, from the defeat of Sir Francis Drake''s fleet, to the death of thousands of Frenchmen working on the Panama Canal and to the recent panic over the West Nile Virus in New York. And he shows us how we have accelerated the spread of disease, describing the catastrophic failures of mosquito control which have ensured that - even now - one person dies of malaria every twelve seconds.

DKK 122.00
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Hugh Kingsmill - Michael Holroyd - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Hugh Kingsmill - Michael Holroyd - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Hugh Kingsmill should be better known. Here is a striking passage from Richard Ingrams'' God''s Apology . ''In Malcolm''s (Muggeridge) study there was a row of books more thumbed and battered than the rest and a rather blurred photograph showing a man striding through a park, his arm swung forward, his air confident and jaunty. Malcolm called him Hughie. In his conversation he referred to him constantly, with great affection and in a manner quite unlike his usual rather disparaging one when talking of his friends. He seemed to be almost the only man in Malcolm''s life of whom he had not a harsh word to say.'' Hugh Kingsmill was a novelist, a biographer of note and a talker of outstanding verve and brilliance. He died in 1949 and to mark the sixtieth anniversary Faber Finds is reissuing Michael Holroyd''s biography. It was Michael Holroyd''s first book, originally published in 1964. ''A remarkably good book .'' John Davenport, The Observer ''It is a positive pleasure to recommend Michael Holroyd''s splendid biography of this exceptional personality.'' Kay Dick, BBC ''The World of Books''''A well-written study of a laughing, witty, clearly lovable man behind whose wreathed smiles despair lurked.'' Anthony Hern, Evening Standard ''An admirably balanced and complete portrait, the criticism fair, the likeness true . . . I congratulate the author on a remarkably good book.'' Hesketh Pearson, in a letter'' . . . impressively authoritative . . . entrancing and singularly profound.'' William Gerhardie, The Spectator

DKK 192.00
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Britain - Mass Observation - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Britain - Mass Observation - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Britain, although not the first Mass Observation title, was the one that made its name. Britain was published as Penguin Special and is reported as selling over 100, 000 in ten days. It was published in January 1939, and seventy years on Faber Finds are reissuing it. The aim of Mass Observation was to create ''an anthropology of ourselves'', to provide a study of everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. In this book, arranged and written by Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge (two of the founders of Mass Observation) the notorious year of 1938 is anatomized. It was the year of Munich. The first half of the book deals with the unfolding crisis, culminating with Neville Chamberlain waving his scrap of paper, the agreement with Hitler, from No. 10 Downing Street. A Mass Observation observer was there. The Press gave wildly misleading impressions of the turn-out. In fact the crowd was under 5000. As the commentary tartly observes, ''No second division football club could survive on a Chamberlain gate.'' A bleakly comic moment is recorded, ''P. M. stretches out his arm for silence. Several in crowd appear to take this as a Fascist salute and stretch forth their arms likewise.''Other chapters deal with the dance craze ''The Lambeth Walk'', all-in wrestling, the cow''s-head cult of Westhoughton (the chapter is aptly entitled A Slight Case of Totemism ) and the Two Minutes'' Silence on Armistice Day. As the Times said then, '' . . . With these anthropological spies among us one wonders how statesmen and journalists will ever again dare to speak and write on behalf of ''''the people''''. For here are ''''the people''''.

DKK 183.00
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