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The North Light - Hideo Yokoyama - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The North Light - Hideo Yokoyama - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the Year Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a single chair, stood facing the north light of nearby Mount Asama.How can he live with the rejection of the work he had put his heart and soul into, the dream house he would have loved to own himself? Aose determines that he must discover the truth behind this cruel and inexplicable dismissal of the Yoshino house and in doing so will find out a truth that goes back to the core of who he is. Plotted with the subtlety of his bestselling masterpiece Six Four , The North Light is Yokoyama at his elusive, tantalising and surprising best.

DKK 155.00
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The North Light - Hideo Yokoyama - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The North Light - Hideo Yokoyama - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a single chair, stood facing the north light of nearby Mount Asama. How can he live with the rejection of the work he had put his heart and soul into, the dream house he would have loved to own himself? Aose determines that he must discover the truth behind this cruel and inexplicable dismissal of the Yoshino house and in doing so will find out a truth that goes back to the core of who he is. Plotted with the subtlety of his bestselling masterpiece Six Four , The North Light is Yokoyama at his elusive, tantalising and surprising best.

DKK 211.00
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The North Light - Hideo Yokoyama - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The North Light - Hideo Yokoyama - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the Year Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a single chair, stood facing the north light of nearby Mount Asama.How can he live with the rejection of the work he had put his heart and soul into, the dream house he would have loved to own himself? Aose determines that he must discover the truth behind this cruel and inexplicable dismissal of the Yoshino house and in doing so will find out a truth that goes back to the core of who he is. Plotted with the subtlety of his bestselling masterpiece Six Four , The North Light is Yokoyama at his elusive, tantalising and surprising best.

DKK 127.00
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The Devil's Light - Richard North Patterson - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Devil's Light - Richard North Patterson - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''On September 11, we will destroy one of your cities with a nuclear weapon.'' A nuclear warhead disappears. A chilling broadcast follows. A country waits in fear. Yet the broadcast deceives. And, with the world''s eyes fixed on America, the true target is dangerously exposed. Agent Brooke Chandler senses the decoy and raises his concern. His superiors are not prepared to listen. Unless he can convince them, one cataclysmic flash of light will signal a dark new dawn of civilization.

DKK 120.00
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Claire of the Sea Light - Edwidge Danticat - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Claire of the Sea Light - Edwidge Danticat - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father are not the only ones to have experienced loss. As the poor townspeople search by moonlight for the seven-year-old girl, each remembers what death has stolen from their own lives: a forbidden love cut down by slum gangsters; a mother whose rare affluence could not save her child. In prose that shimmers with folkloric imagery, Danticat intertwines their stories to reveal a deep connection between locals of distinct classes and creeds. Her vision of modern Haiti makes the unknowable familiar; like the townspeople, the reader shares a common humanity - always caught between the darkness and the light.

DKK 119.00
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Agents of Light and Darkness - Simon Green - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Agents of Light and Darkness - Simon Green - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In the Nightside, that nightmarish realm hidden deep beneath London, it is forever 3 a.m. Here inhuman creatures walk beside mythic gods. And John Taylor, private detective with a difference, is back, working this secret supernatural heart of London to find an item of inestimable value. The Unholy Grail is missing . . . and everyone wants its corrosive power. This time he must use his unique gifts to locate the cup from which Judas drank at the Last Supper; before it falls into the wrong hands. Anyone who touches the cup will gain tremendous power - but they will also be corrupted.Angels, demons, sinners and saints are all determined to find the Unholy Grail, no matter what the cost. And it isn''t long before they realise exactly who can lead them to it . . . Agents of Light and Darkness is the sequel to Something From the Nightside and the second title in Simon R. Green''s New York Times bestselling Nightside series.

DKK 120.00
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Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night - Jon Kalman Stefansson - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night - Jon Kalman Stefansson - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE "The Icelandic Dickens" Irish Examiner "Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, T.L.S. Supplement "A wonderful, exceptional writer . . . A timeless storyteller" CARSTEN JENSEN "Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger" Sometimes a distance from the world''s tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the imagination. With humour, with poetry, and with a tenderness for human weaknesses, Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

DKK 127.00
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Stained Light - Naomi Foyle - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Stained Light - Naomi Foyle - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Astra Ordott tried - and failed - to deny her destiny. The final installment in the critically-acclaimed SF quartet ''for Hunger Games fans of all ages'' ( Library Journal ). Perfect for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin, Joan Slonczewski and Joyce Carol Oates. For ten years Astra Ordott has lived as a traitor, hated by most of her fellow prisoners and abused by the guards. She made the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loved, voluntarily giving up her freedom when she handed herself over to the Is-Land authorities. Now long-simmering conflicts are beginning to boil over again as the wider world faces devastating threats both old and new. Non-Land and Is-Land are further from reunification than ever.Outside Astra''s fortified Gaian homeland, an infertility crisis is threatening the survival of the human race, while the world''s reliance on rare earth metals is infuriating the ancient spirits of the planet. Astra may have found her voice as a messenger of cosmic harmony - but is anyone listening?

DKK 139.00
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Breaking Light - Karin Altenberg - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Breaking Light - Karin Altenberg - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with what he lost as a boy so long ago. Slowly the mysteries hidden in this small community on the edge of the moors begin to unravel. But one of Gabriel''s memories remains sharper than all the others: that of his boyhood friend Michael, the tenderness of their first summers and the violent betrayal that destroyed it. And, intruding on his self-enforced isolation, the beautiful Mrs Sarobi, meddling Doris Ludgate and the frightful spectre of Jim of Blackaton will become bound in with Gabriel''s search for acceptance and the possibility of love. In her striking, lyrical prose, Karin Altenberg imagines what it is to be incomplete. Set in this haunted landscape, a mesmerising tale is told of the ways in which something once broken in two may, finally, be made whole.

DKK 120.00
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Perfect Light - Marcello Fois - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Perfect Light - Marcello Fois - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Cristian is enterprising and determined. Maddalena is tenacious and quite able to imagine - and defend - her own future. Cristian and Maddalena have always known each other, and if fate had not gone awry they might already be married. But between them, exactly in the middle, there is Domenico: Cristian''s childhood friend who has grown up alongside him like a brother. And when Cristian succumbs to the fate of the Chironis - that curse of illnesses, murders and suicides that has blighted his family over the years - it is Domenico that Maddalena marries. Taking his trilogy of the Chironi family up to the present day, Marcello Fois has woven a delicately detailed story, full of dormant passions, plot twists, betrayals and reconciliations. The epic scope and the dramatic tension of his writing means that while his trilogy might be the story of one family on a tiny island, it has a universality, a humanity and a power to speak to anyone of us.

DKK 112.00
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The Dying Light - Henry Porter - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Dying Light - Henry Porter - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A chilling police surveillance thriller from ''one of the masters of the genre'' Sunday Telegraph At the funeral the bells of the church were rung open rather than half-muffled, as is usual for the dead. Kate Lockhart has come, along with corporate leaders, ministers and intelligence chiefs, to a beautiful town in the Welsh Marches to mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the brightest government servant of his generation. All that remains of Eyam are the burnt fragments of a man killed far from home in a horrific explosion.Eyam has left a devastating legacy which certain people at the funeral are desperate to suppress - but Kate Lockhart is equal to Eyam''s legacy. She becomes the focus of the state''s paranoiac power and leads the local resistance to it, directed from beyond the grave by Eyam.And the state is no match for the genius of the dead...An incredibly prescient thriller set in the aftermath of the Snowden news story from the bestselling author of Brandenburg .

DKK 126.00
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50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know - Joanne Baker - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know - Joanne Baker - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Joanne Baker introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inner workings of our universe.From Schrodinger''s cat to Einstein''s theory of relativity; energy conservation to the speed of light, 50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important quantum physics concepts in history.

DKK 119.00
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A Strange and Brilliant Light: Winner of the Writers’ Guild Best First Novel Award - Eli Lee - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A Strange and Brilliant Light: Winner of the Writers’ Guild Best First Novel Award - Eli Lee - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

WINNER of the WRITERS'' GUILD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD: A riveting, thought-provoking speculative literary novel exploring the impact of the AI revolution through the eyes of three very different young women. Lal, Janetta and Rose are living in a time of flux. Technological advance has brought huge financial rewards to those with power, but large swathes of the population are losing their jobs to artificial intelligence, or auts, as they''re called. Unemployment is high, discontent is rife and rumours are swirling. Many feel robbed - not just of their livelihoods, but of their hopes for the future. Lal is languishing in her role at a coffee shop and feeling overshadowed by her quietly brilliant sister, Janetta, whose Ph.D. is focused on making auts empathetic. Even Rose, Lal''s best friend, has found a sense of purpose in charismatic up-and-coming politician Alek.When vigilantes break in to the coffee shop and destroy their new coffee-making aut, it sets in motion a chain of events that will pull the three young women in very different directions.Change is coming - change that will launch humankind into a new era. If Rose, Lal and Janetta can find a way to combine their burgeoning talents, they might just end up setting the course of history.

DKK 113.00
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Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel - Thomas Cook - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel - Thomas Cook - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.'' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward. With his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a shrine to dead infants in Kamukura, Japan. Along the way he reflects on what these sites may teach us, not only about human history, but about our own personal histories.During the course of a lifetime of traveling to some of earth''s most tragic shores, from the leper colony on Molokai to ground zero at Hiroshima, he finds not darkness alone, but a light that can illuminate the darkness within each of us. Written in vivid prose, this is at once a personal memoir of exploration (both external and internal), and a strangely heartening look at the radiance that may be found at the very heart of darkness.

DKK 141.00
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50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know - Joanne Baker - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know - Joanne Baker - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

We encounter physics before we''ve even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held in their orbit by gravity. Where would we be without the Bernoulli equation to explain how planes fly, electromagnetic waves enabling us to communicate around the world or the discovery of X-rays? In 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know Joanne Baker will uncover the physics all around us, from basic concepts like gravity, light and energy through to the complexities of quantum theory, chaos and dark energy. Featuring short biographies of iconic physicists, explanatory diagrams and timelines showing discoveries within their historical context, this book is the perfect guide to the fundamental concepts of physics, making even the most challenging theories easy to understand. Contents include: Newton''s law of gravitation, Brownian motion, Chaos theory, Fleming''s right hand rule, Planck''s law, Heisenberg''s uncertainty principle, Schrodinger''s cat, Superconductivity, Rutherford''s atom, Nuclear fission and fusion, The God particle, String theory, Special and general relativity, The big bang and the Anthropic principle.

DKK 141.00
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Moving The Goalposts - Anthony Clavane - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Moving The Goalposts - Anthony Clavane - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

''As good an explanation as you will ever read of how the deindustrialisation of the 70s and 80s fuelled Brexit'' The Times ''Magnificent . . . A fascinating insight into a decade that changed the nature of sport and changed the face of the country'' Rory Smith, Chief Soccer Correspondent, New York Times Featuring many interviews with sportsmen, managers, miners, musicians, fans and local politicians, this deeply researched and moving investigation casts a new light on an era that read the last rites for the country''s collective culture.

DKK 141.00
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The Unworthy - Roy Jacobsen - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Unworthy - Roy Jacobsen - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway''s greatest writers on the working class" Times Literary Supplement They''re a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying documents and stealing like magpies. And they don''t shy away from targeting the Enemy, either.But everything changes when Carl''s father hands him a secret map and a German password, just hours before he''s taken away by the Quisling police - only to return in a coffin. And when Olav''s father also disappears, the gang come to see that they are caught up in something far more serious than their usual petty crimes.Taking in love, death, betrayal and tragedy, The Unworthy is the latest masterpiece from Roy Jacobsen, author of the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen . It shines a light on a brutal aspect of the war rarely explored in fiction, and every sentence is imbued with decades of accumulated wisdom from a writer who had his own brushes with the law in his youth. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw

DKK 211.00
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Memory of Bones - Alex Connor - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Memory of Bones - Alex Connor - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The head of Francisco Goya was stolen from his tomb in the wake of his death. No one has ever known what happened to it. Until now. Leon Golding has always been ignored by the art world he loves, but he''s finally going to make his name as the man who found the skull of Goya. But he''s asked the wrong people to help him prove he''s right. Now everyone wants to own the most prized piece of art history ever to come to light ... And they''re ready to kill for it.

DKK 113.00
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The Ferry Girls - Rosie Archer - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Ferry Girls - Rosie Archer - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A heartwarming saga of secrets, friendships and wartime spirit at the height of World War 2. For fans of Daisy Styles, Sheila Newberry and Lyn Andrews A young German girl finds friendship, camaraderie and even love while working on Hampshire''s south coast ferries - but will her new friends desert her if her nationality comes to light? ''A gripping story packed with darkness and light, love and friendship, greed and betrayal'' Lancashire Evening Post on The Factory Girls Vee Smith is 22 when she starts work on Gosport''s ferries, taking a job left vacant by the men gone off to war. She soon makes friends with the other women workers, and together they enjoy nights out dancing in Gosport - keeping their spirits up despite the hard work, rationing and heavy bombing. Vee even feels herself falling for Sam, the skipper of the ferry and her unhappily married boss. But Vee has a secret: her real name is Violetta Schmidt, and she is half-German. If her true nationality is discovered, she and her mother could find themselves interned as enemy aliens - if their German-hating neighbours, or worse, Eddie, the man Vee ran away from after he got her false papers, don''t hurt them first.Will Vee be able to keep her secret safe, and find some peace with Sam and her friends even in the midst of war?

DKK 112.00
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Bees and Their Keepers - Lotte Moeller - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Bees and Their Keepers - Lotte Moeller - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift. "A charming look at the history of beekeeping, from myth and folklore to our practical relationship with bees" Gardens Illustrated "An entertaining collation of bee trivia across the millennia" Daily Telegraph * Sweden''s Gardening Book of the Year 2019 * Shortlisted for the August Prize 2019 * Winner of the Swedish Book Design Award for 2019 Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Möller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees'' natural order and habits. With a light touch she uses her encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject to shed light on humanity''s understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present. A humorous debunking of the myths that have held for centuries is matched by a wry exploration of how and when they were replaced by fact. In her travels Möller encounters a trigger-happy Californian beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, warring beekeepers on the Danish island of Læso, and Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular throughout Europe and beyond, as well a host of others as passionate as she about the complex world of apiculture both past and present. Translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry

DKK 211.00
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