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Leopard at the Door - Jennifer Mcveigh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Leopard at the Door - Jennifer Mcveigh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A simply stunning novel that will stay with me: a magnificent book'' Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of The Tea Planter''s Wife Stepping off the boat in Mombasa, eighteen-year-old Rachel Fullsmith stands on Kenyan soil for the first time in six years. She has come home.But when Rachel reaches the family farm at the end of the dusty Rift Valley road, she finds so much has changed. Her beloved father has moved his new partner and her son into the family home. She hears menacing rumours of Mau Mau violence, and witnesses cruel reprisals by British soldiers. Even Michael, the handsome Kikuyu boy from her childhood, has started to look at her differently. Isolated and conflicted, Rachel fears for her future. But when home is no longer a place of safety and belonging, where do you go, and who do you turn to?

DKK 161.00
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The Separation - Dinah Jefferies - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Separation - Dinah Jefferies - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

FROM THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER''S WIFE The Separation, Dinah Jefferies'' stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother''s love reaching across the distance of years and continents. A country at war with itself, a family divided and betrayed, a bond that can never be broken... Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where is her husband Alec? Her young daughters, Emma and Fleur? Fearful and desperate, she contacts the British District Officer and learns that Alec has been posted up country. But why didn''t he wait? Why did he leave no message? Lydia''s search takes her on a hazardous journey through war-torn jungle. Forced to turn to Jack Harding, a man she''d vowed to leave in her past, she sacrifices everything to be reunited with her family.And while carrying her own secrets, Lydia will soon face a devastating betrayal which may be more than she can bear . . .

DKK 120.00
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The Silk Merchant's Daughter - Dinah Jefferies - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Silk Merchant's Daughter - Dinah Jefferies - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER''S WIFE Dinah Jefferies'' stunning new novel is a gripping, unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two worlds... 1952, French Indochina. Since her mother''s death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi. But the area is teeming with militant rebels who want to end French rule, by any means possible. For the first time, Nicole is awakened to the corruption of colonial rule - and her own family''s involvement shocks her to the core...Tran, a notorious Vietnamese insurgent, seems to offer the perfect escape from her troubles, while Mark, a charming American trader, is the man she''s always dreamed of. But who can she trust in this world where no one is what they seem? The Silk Merchant''s Daughter is a captivating tale of dark secrets, sisterly rivalry and love against the odds, enchantingly set in colonial era Vietnam.

DKK 119.00
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The Sapphire Widow - Dinah Jefferies - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Sapphire Widow - Dinah Jefferies - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''This is Dinah Jefferies at her best'' Lucinda Riley ------------- Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child.While Louisa struggles with miscarriages, Elliot is increasingly absent, spending much of his time at a nearby cinnamon plantation, overlooking the Indian ocean. After his sudden death, Louisa is left alone to solve the mystery he left behind. Revisiting the plantation at Cinnamon Hills, she finds herself unexpectedly drawn towards the owner Leo, a rugged outdoors man with a chequered past. The plantation casts a spell, but all is not as it seems. And when Elliot''s shocking betrayal is revealed, Louisa has only Leo to turn to... A sweeping, breath-taking story of love and betrayal from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of The Tea Planter''s Wife TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK ------------- ''A sweeping tale, beautifully written in a wonderful setting, heartrending yet ultimately uplifting. Gorgeous.'' Katie Fforde, A Wedding in Provence ''Dinah Jefferies has a remarkable gift for conjuring up another time and place with lush descriptions, full of power and intensity'' Kate Furnivall, The Betrayal

DKK 120.00
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Familiar Stranger - Stuart Hall - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Familiar Stranger - Stuart Hall - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''This is a miracle of a book'' George Lamming''Compelling. Stuart Hall''s story is the story of an age'' Owen Jones ''Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'' This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and one of the leading intellectual lights of his age. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Jamaica, then still a British colony, Hall found himself caught between two worlds: the stiflingly respectable middle class in Kingston, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white planter elite; and working-class and peasant Jamaica, neglected and grindingly poor, though rich in culture, music and history. But as colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Jamaica and across the world.When, in 1951, a scholarship took him across the Atlantic to Oxford University, Hall encountered other Caribbean writers and thinkers, from Sam Selvon and George Lamming to V. S. Naipaul. He also forged friendships with the likes of Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson, with whom he worked in the formidable political movement, the New Left, and developed his groundbreaking ideas on cultural theory. Familiar Stranger takes us to the heart of Hall''s struggle in post-war England: that of building a home and a life in a country where, rapidly, radically, the social landscape was transforming, and urgent new questions of race, class and identity were coming to light.Told with passion and wisdom, this is a story of how the forces of history shape who we are.

DKK 126.00
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams''s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is published in Penguin Modern Classics.''Big Daddy'' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels , and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972).If you enjoyed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , you might like Williams''s The Glass Menagerie , also published in Penguin Modern Classics.''Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself ... he is, quite simply, indispensable''Peter Shaffer, author of Equus

DKK 120.00
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Captains of the Sands - Jorge Amado - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Captains of the Sands - Jorge Amado - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies , about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.They call themselves ''Captains of the Sands'', a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old ''Bullet'', the band - including a crafty liar named ''Legless'', the intellectual ''Professor'', and the sexually precocious ''Cat'' - pulls off heists and escapades against the privileged of Brazil. But when a public outcry demands the capture of the ''little criminals'', the fate of these children becomes a poignant, intensely moving drama of love and freedom in a shackled land. Captains of the Sands captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of Bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of Brazil''s most acclaimed author.JORGE AMADO (1912-2001), the son of a cocoa planter, was born in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which he would portray in more than twenty-five novels. His first novels, published when he was still a teenager, dramatize the class struggles of workers on Bahian cocoa plantations. Amado was later exiled for his leftist politics, but his novels would always have a strong political perspective. Not until Amado returned to Brazil in the 1950s did he write his acclaimed novels Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (the basis for the successful film and Broadway musical of the same name), which display a lighter, more comic approach than his overtly political novels. One of the most renowned writers of the Latin American boom of the 1960s, Amado has had his work translated into more than forty-five languages.GREGORY RABASSA is a National Book Award-winning translator whose English-language versions of works by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Amado have become classics in their own right.COLM TÓIBÍN, who worked as a journalist in Latin America in the 1980s, is the author of the bestselling novels The Master , which was shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize, and Brooklyn .

DKK 119.00
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The Shadow Hour - Kate Riordan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Shadow Hour - Kate Riordan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

It was in the shadow hours of deepest night that this tapestry of lies fell to rags . . . Harriet Jenner is just twenty-one when she walks through the gates of Fenix House. Reeling from a personal tragedy, she doesn''t expect her new life as a governess to be easy. But she certainly does not foresee the spell Fenix House will cast.Almost fifty years later, Harriet''s granddaughter Grace follows in her footsteps. For Grace, raised on Harriet''s spellbinding stories, Fenix House is a fairy tale; a magical place suspended in time.But the now-faded grandeur of the mansion soon begins to reveal the holes in Harriet''s story and Grace finds herself in a place of secrets and shadows. For Fenix House hides truths about her family, and everything that she once knew is about to change. The Author Kate Riordan is a writer and journalist. She started out as an editorial assistant at the Guardian , followed by a stint as deputy editor for the lifestyle section of Time Out . Kate''s first novel, The Girl in the Photograph published in January 2015. Kate is now a freelance writer and lives in the Cotswolds where she is currently working on her third novel. Praise for The Shadow Hour ''I was immediately drawn in by this beautifully written tale. I loved the sense of intrigue and the air of mystery at Fenix House, and was itching for answers as the two narratives unfolded'' Dinah Jefferies author of The Tea Planter''s Wife ''A perfect gothic, big-house mystery that kept me turning the pages. Very well written - I really enjoyed it'' Katherine Webb ''I''m a sucker for unreliable narrators, crumbling country houses stuffed full of secrets and a story that veers between the present and the past, so it was a delight to curl up with The Shadow Hour over the course of a rainy weekend'' Red Online ''It''s wonderful - the dark suspense and evocative descriptions are perfect'' Liz Fenwick, author of Under a Cornish Sky ''We loved last years The Girl in the Photograph and this latest atmospheric saga is just as thrilling'' Essentials ''The parallel stories of Fenix House governess Harriet Jenner and her granddaughter Grace had me absolutely gripped. Intelligent, poignant, unexpected: highly recommended'' Louise Candlish, author of The Sudden Departure of the Frasers ''Beautifully written and utterly compelling, I loved this'' Katie Fforde''Gorgeously written - I was instantly drawn in to the mysteries of Fenix House and Kate''s evocative storytelling held me rapt until the very end'' Lucy Diamond''Full of dark intrigue, rich description and haunting secrets, this kept me reading and reading! Beautifully written and compelling until the end. I adored it'' Ella Harper, author of The Years of Loving You ''Headily atmospheric Victorian gothic detail brings to life the house which holds secrets and memories in its dim rooms, and conjures up a world of hot house flowers and stifled passions. Certain images stay with you - Riordan richly juxtaposes a measured, scientific world of steam trains, comets and clocks with the wild: flooded quarries, ice storms, and the irresistible desire for love and revenge which defies rationality. It''s all in the detail - jewelled Indian daggers, sunlight on red gold hair, claustrophobic mazes and ice houses, and mysterious sounds in the night. From the utterly gripping prologue, The Shadow Hour transports you back in time, and shows how a few minutes here or there can catastrophically change a life'' Kate Lord Brown, author of The Christmas We Met ''What a beautiful and evocative writer she is! I adored the richness of her descriptions, the faint sense of menace just below the surface, and the huge skill with which she wove in clues, questions and little fragments of information. It was a thoroughly absorbing read'' Iona Grey''The language is lyrical and yet accessible, the plot intricate but satisfying. There is romance, period detail, and dark secrets. This book has TV adaptation written all over it! A great book-club read with loads to discuss'' The Cheltonian ''I would recommend it to anyone who wants an intriguing mystery that will keep them reading all night!'' YA Under My Skin ''A wonderful novel. I loved the atmospheric setting and the way the mystery is built up, switching back and forth through time'' The Owl on the Bookshelf ''I loved The Girl in the Photograph but I adore The Shadow Hour more, it has the perfect balance of tragedy and intrigue and all the storylines are woven together expertly. You don''t want to miss this'' Belle About Town

DKK 166.00
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