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The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Clay Machine-Gun - Victor Pelevin - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Clay Machine-Gun is a novel rich in hilarious paradox. Pelevin himself has described it as ''the first novel in world literature which takes place in an absolute void''. Controversially denied the Russian Booker Prize - the Jury President branded it as a kind of ''computer virus designed to destroy the cultural memory'' - the book became a huge cult success in Russia. The Clay Machine-Gun is a nightmarish fantasy about identity, crime and Russian history. The action cuts deliriously between present-day Moscow and 1919, the era of the Civil War, in which the narrator finds himself serving as a commissar in the division of the legendary commander Vasily Chapaev, and his formidable machine-gunner sidekick, Anna. Hailed as the greatest Russian novel of the post-Soviet era, The Clay Machine-Gun confirmed Victor Pelevin''s status as one of the brightest stars in the Russian literary firmament.

DKK 141.00
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Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! - Daljit Nagra - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! - Daljit Nagra - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Look We Have Coming to Dover! , the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection along the way. In this, his second volume, his writing shows every bit the same verve and excitement that made his first book an unmissable event. Tippoo Sultan''s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! takes its cue from the eighteenth-century automaton (a tiger savaging a British soldier) in a series of poems that begin at the throat of the old British Empire. In these vivid, real and sometimes surreal pieces, Daljit Nagra creates his own inimitable linguistic bhaji: where Shakespeare meets the Subcontinent in a range of forms from English sonnets to spectacular displays of ''bollyverse'' or the tender love songs of the monsoon. The poems take their bearings from cornershops and classrooms, the strange, part-arcadian, part-hellish streets of ''Londonstan'' and the places where the north of England collides with the Punjab: from Larkin to the ladoos in Raja t''Wonder Dog. Little escapes Nagra''s tigerish gaze: race relations, family feuds, cultural inheritance, religious bigotry, the British honours system, Rudyard Kipling, the blurring of Kevin Keegan with Kabbadi. Comic, hard-hitting, passionate, satirical, Daljit Nagra has written a book that is as powerfully thought-provoking as it is delightful.

DKK 120.00
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Conflicted Copy - Sam Riviere - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Conflicted Copy - Sam Riviere - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Sam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting ‘found’ content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary ends. In this case, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2), an open source neural network , is used to produce poems that, stripped of the usual authorial clutter, find themselves nonetheless cohering around a voice that speaks of the uncertainties, fears and desires of a world that is desperately, poignantly and recognisably human.''Riviere’s machine language, often delightfully clunky, also has its magical aspects, unplugging and rebooting our perceptual apparatus as we look over the shoulder of machines clumsily figuring us out. . . In turning poetry towards machine language, Riviere quietly kicks off a poetic revolution for our time.'' Guardian

DKK 141.00
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Mouthpieces - Eimear Mcbride - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Mouthpieces - Eimear Mcbride - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride''s three short, characteristically brilliant texts – collected in one work, Mouthpieces .Each text depicts a fragment of female experience, all of them told in in Eimear''s vivid, original and sharp-witted style. In ''The Adminicle Exists'', we hear the inner voice of a woman who saves her troubled, dangerous partner; in ''An Act of Violence'', a woman is quizzed about her reaction to a man’s death; in ''The Eye Machine'', the character ‘Eye’ tells of her imprisonment, flickering through a slideshow of female stereotypes.

DKK 79.00
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Retromania - Simon Reynolds - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Retromania - Simon Reynolds - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, Retromania explores rock''s nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together parallel threads from music, fashion, art, and new media, Simon Reynolds confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to YouTube, we''re empowered by mind-blowing technology, but too often it''s used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle and rearrange music from yesterday.We live in the digital future but we''re mesmerized by our analogue past.

DKK 168.00
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How to Win an Information War - Peter Pomerantsev - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

How to Win an Information War - Peter Pomerantsev - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

BY THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE ''Both history and a rallying cry . . . an illuminating guide to the nature and possibilities of propaganda.'' TLS From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. In the summer of 1941, Hitler and his allies ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat the powerful Nazi propaganda machine, which crowed victory and smeared its enemies.However, inside Germany, there was one notable voice of dissent from the very heart of the military machine – Der Chef, a German whose radio broadcasts skilfully questioned Nazi doctrine. He had access to high-ranking military secrets and spoke of internal rebellion. His listeners included German soldiers and citizens. But what these audiences didn’t know was that Der Chef was a fiction, a character created by the British propagandist Sefton Delmer, just one player in his vast counter-propaganda cabaret, a unique weapon in the war.As author Peter Pomerantsev uncovers Delmer''s story, he is called into a wartime propaganda effort of his own: the global response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. This book is the story of Delmer and his modern-day investigator, as they each embark on their own quest to seduce and inspire the passions of supporters and enemies, and to turn the tide of information wars.

DKK 182.00
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How to Win an Information War - Peter Pomerantsev - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

How to Win an Information War - Peter Pomerantsev - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Pomerantsev is emerging as the pre-eminent war reporter of our time. ObserverFrom one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat the powerful Nazi propaganda machine, which crowed victory and smeared its enemies. But inside Germany, there was one notable voice of dissent from the very heart of the military machine, Der Chef, a German whose radio broadcasts skilfully questioned Nazi doctrine. He had access to high-ranking German military secrets and spoke of internal rebellion. His listeners included German soldiers and citizens. American officials and even the President tried to to decipher what it meant for the future of the war. But what these audiences didn't know was that Der Chef was a fiction, a character created by the British propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer, just one player in Delmer's vast counter-propaganda cabaret, a unique weapon in the war. As author Peter Pomerantsev uncovers Delmer's story, he is called into a wartime propaganda effort of his own: the global response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. This book is the story of Delmer and his modern-day investigator, as they each embark on their own quest to seduce and inspire the passions of supporters and enemies, and to turn the tide of information wars.

DKK 155.00
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Splendid's - M. Jean Genet - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Splendid's - M. Jean Genet - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Splendid''s , a two-act police thriller written in 1948, was never staged in Jean Genet''s lifetime. In 1952 he announced that he had destroyed the manuscript, and the play was assumed lost. Only in 1993 did a surviving copy reappear.Exhausted, unshaven and wearing evening dress, Genet''s gangsters never let go of their machine-guns - not even when they dance together. Their conversations contain some of Genet''s finest dialogue; an insane mixture of melodramatic speech-making and low-camp bickering, all wrapped up in a sexy pastiche of forties American film noir, lurching stylishly from tough realism into wicked black humour.Translated by writer, performer and director Neil Bartlett, this volume also contains an introduction by Genet''s biographer, Edmund White.

DKK 157.00
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OK, Mr Field - Katharine Kilalea - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

OK, Mr Field - Katharine Kilalea - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Mr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, fractures his left wrist in a train crash. On a whim, he uses his compensation cheque to buy a house he has seen only in a newspaper, a replica of Le Corbusier''s Villa Savoye built on a stretch of coast outside Cape Town. When he moves there with his wife Mim, the house – which Le Corbusier designed as ''a machine for living'' – has a disturbing effect. Mim disappears without apology or explanation and Mr Field can barely summon the strength to search for her. OK, Mr Field is funny and beguiling and like nothing you''ve ever read. It dwells in the silences between words, in the gaps in conversations, and in the distances between people. It confidently guides us into new fictional territory.

DKK 141.00
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Alexandria - Paul Kingsnorth - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Alexandria - Paul Kingsnorth - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

‘Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.’ Telegraph ‘Beckett doing Beowulf .’ London Review of Books One thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island – a group no larger than an extended family – are living in a post-civilised world. They are perhaps the Earth''s only human survivors.But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security, of escape from the dangers of a newly wild world. The visitor calls it Alexandria. A work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorth’s new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future.Set on the far side of the climate apocalypse, Alexandria completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth’s prize-winning The Wake .

DKK 113.00
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God's Eyes A-Twinkle - T. F. Powys - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

God's Eyes A-Twinkle - T. F. Powys - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

God''s Eyes A-Twinkle offers a conspectus of thirty eight short stories by T. F. Powys drawn from the following collections: Bottle''s Path ; No Painted Plumage ; Captain Patch ; The House with the Echo ; The White Paternoster ; The Left Leg . The stories included are: A Loud Lie ; Darkness and Nathaniel ; Only the Devil ; The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock ; Jesus'' Walk ; The Key of the Field ; I Came as a Bride ; The Gong ; The White Weathercock ; When Thou wast Naked ; Charlotte Bennett ; John Pardy and the Waves ; Mr Pim and the Holy Crumb ; King Duck ; The Bucket and the Rope ; The Devil ; The Only Penitent ; The White Paternoster ; The Stone and Mr Thomas ; My Money ; Christ in the Cupboard ; Archdeacon Truggin ; The Left Leg ; A Christmas Gift ; The Candle and the Slow-Worm ; The Lonely Lady ; The Rival Pastors ; The Golden Gates ; The Dog and the Lantern ; Captain Patch ; No Room ; The Dewpond ; Bottle''s Path ; Gold ; In Dull Devonshire ; Lie The Down, Oddity! ; John Told and the Worm ; The Corpse and the Flea .Charles Prentice, who had been T. F. Powys'' editor, concludes his preface in a way that would be difficult to better, ''They (the stories) should all be read slowly. Powys is not a literalist; his words convey more than their face value. These stories treat of the general and unalterable, with subtlety of thought and feeling, and with simplicity of presentation. Wisdom and humour are embedded in them. They reveal the infinite mystery, the fluid inconsistencies of life. They are delicate, wiry and human. ''God''s eyes'' are ''a-twinkle''. But the main business is the incalculable doings of that oddity Man.'' In addition to God''s Eyes A-Twinkle , Faber Finds are reissuing the following T. F. Powys books: Mr Tasker''s Gods ; Mark Only ; Fables ; Mockery Gap ; Innocent Birds .

DKK 183.00
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Seizing the Enigma - David Kahn - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Seizing the Enigma - David Kahn - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Seizing the Enigma tells the story of one of the great dramas of World War II. A multinational corps of cryptologists struggled to break the German U-boat codes that were helping Nazi submarine wolfpacks tear at the lifeline between America and Britain. But these codebreakers realised that German messages could not be read without obtaining the encryption keys from the ships that held them. Several daring captures at sea of critical documents and encryption machines by the Royal Navy finally led to mastering the U-boat codes. Kahn begins his narrative with the creation of the Enigma machine in 1918 and its refinement during the two decades leading up to World War II. He introduces key figures on both sides of the battle including: Arthur Scherbius, who gave the Germans a boost in the race between codemaker and codebreaker and Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski, who reconstructed the Enigma keys. Since its original publication in 1961, Seizing the Enigma has remained a vital source of information about Enigma and the art of codebreaking.''Fascinating.'' Daily Telegraph

DKK 192.00
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After Fame - Sam Riviere - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

After Fame - Sam Riviere - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Welcome to After Fame – an ambitious and resonant engagement with the epigrams of the Roman poet Martial, which completes the loose trilogy of Sam Riviere’s process-derived works.It was Martial who first used the term ‘plagiarism’ in its modern sense as a kind of literary theft. Here, the notion is tested even further through the figure of a distracted scribe who, by means of various methods of transcription, including the use of machine translation and creative embellishment, presents a copy of Martial’s famous Book I unlike any other. These 118 poems cover timeless themes such as work, friendship, public life and sexual mores, and, as they unfold, are increasingly interrupted by reflections on authorship, technology, cultural complicity and the privileged, mediating role of the poet: all fixations of Martial’s work that still resonate today.Not strict translation, bona fide reproduction nor wholly original writing, After Fame challenges the integrity of such categories. So liberated, it dramatises the obscurity of its source, refraining from easy equivalences, while insisting on its contemporary relevance.

DKK 127.00
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The Imagination Box: A Mind of its Own - Martyn Ford - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Imagination Box: A Mind of its Own - Martyn Ford - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

There was a sabre-toothed tiger in the playground. Wandering thoughts, Tim had come to realise, were extremely dangerous things. Nearly a year has passed since Tim, Dee and Phil the finger monkey (with the help of some fire-breathing bear-sharks) defeated Wilde Tech Inc and destroyed the imagination space. But since then, it’s become increasingly clear that there’s something wrong with Tim. His imagination seems limitless - anything he imagines immediately appears in front of him, with no need for the imagination box. Which has both good and bad consequences…Then, in the blink of an eye, everything changes. Tim wakes up and discovers he''s in his old orphanage. No one, not even Dee, knows who he is. He''s completely alone – his worst nightmare. But soon he realises who is to blame. His old enemy, Clarice Crowfield, has hijacked a new, all-powerful machine and created a reality where she is in charge! Tim must find Professor Eisenstone, convince Dee that they really are best friends (and, of course, recreate Phil) – then literally put their world to rights.

DKK 99.00
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All the Time in the World - Hugo Williams - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

All the Time in the World - Hugo Williams - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''I believe I shall be writing home about this trip for the rest of my life... years from now, still recollecting, like an old white hunter, shadowy images to an empty fireplace, far into the night...'' All the Time in the World , a first work of prose by the poet Hugo Williams, was originally published in 1966 and commemorates Williams'' effort at age 21 to ''travel the world'': the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, Japan and Australia. Rich with striking and vivid perceptions of people and places and perilous forms of transport, the account also finds Williams acquiring precious life-experience, even as the setting moves from the self-evident ''poem'' of India''s landscape to barren, petrified Northern Australia. In Calcutta Williams looks up the great Satyajit Ray through the telephone book. In Thailand he meets a girl at a dance-hall, moves into her sunny flat, contemplates staying. But to England he will return, albeit by the most unexpectedly arduous leg of his amazing journey.

DKK 183.00
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Labour People - Kenneth O. Morgan - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Labour People - Kenneth O. Morgan - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The author himself provides the best description. ''In this book I examine about thirty key personalities in the the history of the British Labour movement between 1900 and 1987. I also try to explore what kind of typology of leadership emerges. This is, inevitably, a highly personal selection, in part reflecting my own interests, outlook and background. . . I hope, nevertheless, that the main kinds of Labour leaders, parliamentary politicians, trade unionists, machine apparatchiks, intellectuals, journalists, prophets and others are truly represented. . .''Kenneth O. Morgan succeeds magnificently in his aim whether he is writing about Keir Hardie, The Webbs, Ellen Wilkinson, Herbert Morrison or Denis Healey: these portraits and all the others are illuminated with a sympathetic scholarship. ''Morgan can bring to the study of the Labour Party a knowledge that is second to none'' Ben Pimlott, New Society ''It combines surveying the abundant recently published material on twentieth century British labour history with the integrating perspective of a sympathetic and very knowledgeable historian'' Brian Harrison, London Review of Books ''matchless authority . . . both attractive and unique'' J. M. Winter, History ''These Labour People are full of fascinating contradictions'' John Mortimer, Sunday Times ''polished, yet sharp, moving easily through complexities yet often with a provocative comment'' David Howell, Welsh History Review

DKK 201.00
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Side by Side - Robert Wyatt - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Side by Side - Robert Wyatt - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The life’s work of two of British music’s most unique and timeless artists, with an introduction by Jarvis Cocker. Whenever an aspiring musician asks me about songwriting I point them towards Robert and Alfie. Their work is so unusual, so perceptive, so playful and so grown-up. I don’t think there''s anyone to compare. If you want songs that touch your mind as well as your heart, these are the best. Wide distribution of this book could improve the state of music dramatically. - Brian Eno *** Selected and arranged by the authors themselves, and featuring an introduction by Jarvis Cocker, Side by Side presents the lyrics, poems, writings and drawings of innovative musician Robert Wyatt and his creative partner, English painter and songwriter Alfie Benge.As a founding member of influential English rock bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole, and with a solo career which has lasted for over forty years and seen him collaborate with a diverse range of artists including Bjork, Brian Eno, Carla Bley, Paul Weller and David Gilmour, his own music remains unclassifiably personal.Alfie Benge is a visual artist, songwriter and pioneering music manager, having managed Robert’s career for fifty years. She is also married to Robert. Since 1982 they have collaborated on many of Robert’s most well-known songs.This unique volume celebrates one of the most enduring creative partnerships of the last half-century.

DKK 225.00
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers - David Hare - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Behind the Beautiful Forevers - David Hare - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

It''s not just that rich people don''t know what they''ve got. They don''t even know what they throw away. India is beginning to prosper. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport is an obstacle, amakeshift slum. It''s home to foul mouthed Zehrunisa and her garbage sorting son Abdul, entrepreneurs both. Sunil, twelve, picks plastic. Manju, schoolteacher, hopes to be the settlement''s first woman to gain a degree. Asha, go-to woman, exploits every scam to become a first-class person. And Fatima, One Leg, is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood. Katherine Boo spent three years under the flight-path, recording the lives of Annawadi''s diverse inhabitants. Now from Boo''s book, which won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2012, David Hare has fashioned an epic play for the stage which details the ingenious and sometimes violent ways in which the poor and disadvantaged negotiate with corruption to seek a handhold on capitalism''s lowest rungs.David Hare''s stage adaptation of Behind the Beautiful Forevers premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2014.

DKK 117.00
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Shadowlands - Matthew Green - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Shadowlands - Matthew Green - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.This is the forgotten history of Britain''s lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands . ''Brilliant.'' TOM HOLLAND ''A beautiful book, truly original . . . It is a marvellous achievement.'' IAN MORTIMER , author of The Time Traveller''s Guide to Medieval England ''Well researched, beautifully written and packed with interesting detail.'' CLAIRE TOMALIN ''An exquisitely written, moving and elegiac exploration.'' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB ''Consistently interesting . . . Green’s passion and historical vision bursts from the page, summoning up the past in surround sound and sensual prose.'' CAL FLYN, THE TIMES , author of Islands of Abandonment Historian Matthew Green travels across Britain to tell the forgotten history of our lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages. Revealing the extraordinary stories of how these places met their fate – and exploring how they have left their mark on our landscape and our imagination – Shadowlands is a deeply evocative and dazzlingly original account of Britain’s past.''An eloquent tour of lost communities.'' PD SMITH, GUARDIAN ''A haunting, lyrical tour around the lost places of Britain.'' CHARLOTTE HIGGINS , author of Under Another Sky ''A miraculous work of resurrection, stinging in a perpetual present''. IAIN SINCLAIR , author of The Gold Machine ''Beautifully written.'' SUNDAY TIMES ''Startling.'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''Splendid.'' THE HERALD ''Compelling.'' HISTORY TODAY ''Excellent.'' THE SPECTATOR ''Fascinating.'' DAILY MAIL ''Accomplished.'' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER ''Outstanding.'' MIRROR

DKK 127.00
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What Happened to You? - James Catchpole - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

What Happened to You? - James Catchpole - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The first ever picture book addressing how a disabled child might want to be spoken to. What happened to you? Was it a shark? A burglar? A lion? Did it fall off? Every time Joe goes out the questions are the same . . . what happened to his leg? But is this even a question Joe has to answer?A ground-breaking, funny story that helps children understand what it might feel like to be seen as different. ''A revolutionary book on disability.'' Inclusive Storytime ‘Catchpole’s beautifully judged, child-friendly words ably evoke the fatigue and wariness of repeatedly being asked the same question rather than simply being accepted and allowed to play, while George’s warm images amplify the delight of shared imagination. ’ The Guardian ‘Wonderful, delightful and important. [...] Not only will it help nondisabled adults and children understand what it is like to be singled out for being different, but it will empower disabled children and help them realise they don''t have to justify themselves to people they don''t know.’ Jen Campbell, bestselling author of Franklin''s Flying Bookshop ‘With beautifully characterful illustrations and plenty of calming white space, it exudes gentle energy and humour to appeal to every child. This is a stunningly clever book.’ BookTrust ‘The beauty of What Happened to You? is its focus on empathy... a brilliant book to open up the conversation with pre-school kids.’ Disability Arts Online ‘A groundbreaking picture book reflecting the world of a visibly disabled child... a funny and very enjoyable read that will nevertheless perform an urgently needed task and generate very useful discussion at home and school.’ LoveReading4Kids

DKK 107.00
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Great Hatred - Ronan Mcgreevy - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Great Hatred - Ronan Mcgreevy - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLER A gripping investigation into one of Irish history’s greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil. ''Heart-stopping . . . The book is both forensic and a page-turner, and ultimately deeply tragic, for Ireland as much as for the murder victim.'' MICHAEL PORTILLO ''Gripping from start to finish. McGreevy turns a forensic mind to a political assassination that changed the course of history, uncovering a trove of unseen evidence in the process.'' ANITA ANAND , author of The Patient Assassin ''Invaluable.'' IRISH TIMES ''Intelligent and insightful.'' IRISH INDEPENDENT On 22 June 1922, Sir Henry Wilson – the former head of the British army and one of those credited with winning the First World War – was shot and killed by two veterans of that war turned IRA members in what was the most significant political murder to have taken place on British soil for more than a century. His assassins were well-educated and pious men. One had lost a leg during the Battle of Passchendaele. Shocking British society to the core, the shooting caused consternation in the government and almost restarted the conflict between Britain and Ireland that had ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty just five months earlier. Wilson’s assassination triggered the Irish Civil War, which cast the darkest of shadows over the new Irish State. Who ordered the killing? Why did two English-born Irish nationalists kill an Irish-born British imperialist? What was Wilson’s role in the Northern Ireland government and the violence which matched the intensity of the Troubles fifty years later? Why would Michael Collins, who risked his life to sign a peace treaty with Great Britain, want one of its most famous soldiers dead, and how did the Wilson assassination lead to Collins’ tragic death in an ambush two months later?Drawing upon newly released archival material and never-before-seen documentation, Great Hatred is a revelatory work that sheds light on a moment that changed the course of Irish and British history for ever.''McGreevy provides more than the anatomy of a political murder; in reconstructing this era of blood, poverty and wartime trauma, he also gives full expression to the terrible forces that WB Yeats once called the “fanatic heart” and the “great hatred”.'' THE TIMES ''Thoughtful and well-researched . . . an important and valuable addition to the library of the Irish Revolution.'' PROFESSOR DIARMAID FERRITER , University College Dublin

DKK 126.00
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