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Killing Floor - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Killing Floor - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

**NOW A MAJOR PRIME VIDEO SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** ''All [Reacher thrillers] are ripping yarns, but since this is the first, it seems the logical place to start'' STEPHEN KING Killing Floor is the first book in the phenomenal bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It introduces Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, he is the perfect action hero for when times get tough. Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher steps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain to reach it, in search of a dead guitar player.But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. He seems the obvious fall guy. As the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: they picked the wrong guy to frame for murder.''Races along, spattering blood and body parts on the way'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ''These books are absolutely addictive. When you pick them up you can''t put them down'' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN _________ Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series. And be sure not to miss Reacher''s newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep ! ***OUT NOW**

DKK 119.00
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Killing Floor - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Killing Floor - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series about Jack Reacher, hero of the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he''s about to regret.Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

DKK 104.00
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Killing Floor - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Killing Floor - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** "This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose it has one of the most intriguing heroes of our times and displays a gift for explosive drama." ( Daily Express ) Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he''s about to regret.Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. _________ Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero. And be sure not to miss Reacher''s newest adventure, no.28, The Secret ! ***OUT NOW***

DKK 126.00
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Between Two Rivers - Nicholas Rinaldi - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Between Two Rivers - Nicholas Rinaldi - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Within the walls of Echo Terrace, the world...Farro Fescu is the concierge of Echo Terrace, an apartment block in New York City. Passing through his lobby at all hours of the night and day is an exotic cross-section of the world''s population: An Egyptian born plastic surgeon who lives on the fifth floor and specialises in gender reassignment; a fighter pilot, on the eighth floor, who flew for Nazi Germany during WWII; an Iraqi spice merchant and the world-famous crazy-patch quilter with whom he''s having an affair; and the young widow whose apartment is a jungle Eden filled with a menagerie of specimens - finches, canaries, a defanged cobra, and a monkey named Joe - that had been the subject of her dead husband''s research.Fescu knows them all, knows all their secrets. He is keenly attuned to the building and the people in it, yet he does not know what is in his own heart - why, after a long, hard life, he is still alive, and still alone. Nor does he know of what he will be capable in the face of sudden, overwhelming tragedy...

DKK 168.00
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When I Find You - Emma Curtis - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When I Find You - Emma Curtis - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''An excellent read! So original and clever that I was completely absorbed in the story. Gripping, tense and twisty with an unexpected ending. Phenomenal.'' Claire Douglas, bestselling author of Local Girl Missing and Last Seen Alive When Laura wakes up after her office drinks party and sees a man’s shirt on her bedroom floor, she is horrified. But this is no ordinary one-night-stand regret.Laura suffers from severe face-blindness, a condition that means she is completely unable to identify and remember faces. So the man she spent all night dancing with and kissing – the man she thought she’d brought home – was ‘Pink Shirt’.But the shirt on her floor is blue.And now Laura must go to work every day, and face the man who took advantage of her condition. The man she has no way of recognising. She doesn’t know who he is . . . but when she finds him she’ll make him pay. ***** ''A clever ''who dunnit'' with a twist that almost made me miss my flight. '' Jane Corry, bestselling author of My Husband''s Wife and The Dead Ex ''A terrifying and disorienting thriller that will leave you questioning everyone and everything right to the very last page. It''s so good that I had to put everything on hold just to finish it .'' Nuala Ellwood, acclaimed author of My Sister''s Bones '' When I Find You is a winner . It leads you down blind alleys and in to disorienting situations - I absolutely raced to the end. '' T. A. Cotterell, acclaimed author of What Alice Knew

DKK 120.00
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A Moth At The Glass - Mogue Doyle - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Moth At The Glass - Mogue Doyle - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In Springmount, County Wexford, Will hides away to watch Kate Kelly through her cottage window - a moth at the glass. As the strains of the St Anne''s Reel fill the air, Kate and her brother Philly begin to dance on the newly laid floor of their living room, while old Mrs Kelly looks on from beside the fire. Desperate to understand how the terrible tragedy in his past can haunt his present, Will thinks back to the 1920s: a halcyon time. Romantic expectation dominates this period of change and tension when traditional order gives way to the new political awareness, and the ties of family and friends no longer hold so much sway. Mountain lads roam country lanes, loaded pistols in their pockets, and innocence and romance are corrupted by a physical passion that runs all too deep.

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The Landgrabbers - Fred Pearce - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Landgrabbers - Fred Pearce - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of Wales are being snapped up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of the Amazon and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Why? The money men will tell you that their investments will bring an end to world famine. But is this more about fat profits and food security for the few?The race is on to grab the world’s most precious and irreplaceable resource. In this brilliant piece of investigative journalism Fred Pearce moves from boardroom and trading floor to goat-herder’s hut and flooded forest. The result is an eye-opening, extraordinarily important examination of the most profound ethical and economic issue in the world today.

DKK 120.00
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The Affair - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Affair - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''There''s only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.'' Mick Herron March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or is she trying not to find the killer?Set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor , The Affair marks a turning point in Reacher''s career. If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn''t, will the army be able to live with him? _________ Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Affair is 16th in the series. And be sure not to miss Reacher''s newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep ! ***OUT NOW***

DKK 113.00
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Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood - Christopher Fowler - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood - Christopher Fowler - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The defenestration of a ruthless theatre impresario''s young son was definitely not the best way to end the play''s first night party. And the crime scene itself was most unusual: a locked bedroom, with no sign of forced entry, no prints or traces of blood, just a sinister, life-size puppet of Mr Punch lying on the floor...Everyone at the party - from the dodgy producer and rakish male lead to the dour set designer and the assistant stage manager (the wild daughter of a prominent civil servant) - is a suspect. It''s a perfect case for Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit but the Home Office, wary of the PCU''s eccentric methods and intensely aware of the potential political embarrassment, wants them off the investigation. The elderly detectives are not so easily deterred, however. Delving into the history of London theatre and the gruesome origins of ''Punch and Judy'', they uncover a maniacal killer is at work - one who must be caught before it''s curtains for everyone!

DKK 126.00
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The Scent of Death - Simon Beckett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Scent of Death - Simon Beckett - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

* Don''t miss ''THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH'' TV SERIES - now streaming on Paramount+ * Adapted from The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David Hunter ''A superbly strong read'' The Times What began as a straightforward case is about to become a twisted nightmare . . . Once a busy hospital, St Jude''s now stands derelict, awaiting demolition.When a partially mummified corpse is found in the building''s cavernous loft, forensics expert Dr David Hunter is called in to take a look. He can''t say how long the body''s been there, but he is certain it''s that of a young woman. And that she was pregnant.Then part of the attic floor collapses, revealing another of the hospital''s secrets: a bricked-up chamber with beds inside. And some of them are still occupied.And it soon becomes clear that St Jude''s hasn''t claimed its last victim . . . Chilling, visceral and masterfully paced, Simon Beckett''s new crime thriller will leave you gasping.

DKK 113.00
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The Affair - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Affair - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''There''s only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.'' Mick Herron March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or is she trying not to find the killer?Set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor , The Affair marks a turning point in Reacher''s career. If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn''t, will the army be able to live with him? _________ Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Affair is 16th in the series. And be sure not to miss Reacher''s newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep ! ***OUT NOW***

DKK 119.00
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The Smiling Man - Joseph Knox - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Smiling Man - Joseph Knox - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

________ ‘Gritty as hell. I loved it. A great urban cop thriller ’ Ian Rankin As heard on BBC Radio 5 Live Phil Williams Show From the bestselling author of Sirens , Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man. ________ A body has been found on the fourth floor of Manchester’s vast and empty Palace Hotel. The man is dead. And he is smiling. The tags have been removed from his clothes. His teeth have been replaced. Even his fingertips are not his own. Only a patch sewn into his trousers offers any information about him. Detective Aidan Waits and his unwilling partner, DI Sutcliffe , must piece together the scant clues to identify the stranger. But as they do, Aidan realises that a ghost from his past haunts the investigation. He soon recognises that to discover who the smiling man really is, he must first confront the scattered debris of his own life . . . ________ ''Talents such as Knox rarely emerge more than once in a generation. A crime fiction masterpiece'' ***** Metro ''Packing a punch from the very first page. You will love The Smiling Man'' Jane Harper, author of The Dry

DKK 126.00
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The Secret - Andrew Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Secret - Andrew Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy. Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners. Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?PRAISE FOR THE JACK REACHER SERIES'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' MICK HERRON'Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' KEN FOLLETT'Everyone needs to kick some butt sometimes, even if it's just imaginary.' JOJO MOYESAlthough the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Secret is the 28th book in the internationally bestselling series. And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.29, In Too Deep! ***OUT NOW***

DKK 195.00
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Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories - Lee Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

On Monday September 5 th , 1994, at home, at the dining room table, I sat down to write. An hour later, I gave the first chapter to my wife. I asked, “Should I continue?” “Yes,” she said. “I like it.” From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child’s first-ever autobiographical collection. From urgently scribbling out his debut Killing Floor in pencil (the stub of which he still owns), to facing his retirement, and everything in between, here are 25 fascinating personal reflections on his life and work, crafted across decades.Whether it is through Lee’s moving account of meeting a fan years after her mother brought her to a book signing, to facing his first computer and the coming of the internet, to writing about New York just before – and just after – 9/11, to later seeing his novels adapted for the big screen . . . each riveting piece deftly evokes where he was, psychologically and physically, when he wrote each novel.Lee has clearly felt unwavering gratitude for his readers since 1997. And these honest, witty and wise reflections were originally designed for fans of Reacher who may be interested in a ‘behind-the-scenes’ – or, in Lee’s words: ‘why the books turned out the way they did’.But this collection is also so much more. It is the story of a man who once put pencil to paper in an attempt to turn his luck around . . . and who made every word count.

DKK 168.00
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The Grenadillo Box - Janet Gleeson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Grenadillo Box - Janet Gleeson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

It is New Year''s Day 1755 and Nathaniel Hopson, journeyman to the famous cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, finds himself drawn into a chilling affair. While working at the country home of Lord Montfort, Nathaniel discovers his patron shot dead in his magnificent new library. The conclusion seems obvious: burdened with gambling debts and recently possessed of a melancholic nature, Montfort must have taken his own life, but Nathaniel is not convinced. While the gun near Montfort''s hand suggests suicide, what of the blood on the windowsill and the confusion of footprints on the library floor? And there is another strange detail: the small, elaborately carved box of rare grenadillo wood clutched in the aristocrat''s lifeless hand. No sooner has Nathaniel been set up as a most unlikely investigator than another body is found, frozen and cruelly mutilated. Nathaniel''s detachment is shattered. He knows the victim well - but what was he doing on Montfort''s country estate? Nathaniel''s investigation will take him from palatial drawing rooms to the slums of Fleet Street and London''s Foundling Hospital, where the identity of a child abandoned twenty years ago may hold the key to the mystery. But someone has already killed to keep this secret and each step Nathaniel takes on his journey is a step further into danger. As intricately crafted as a Chippendale cabinet, THE GRENADILLO BOX is both an utterly irresistible detective story and a vibrant recreation of eighteenth-century England, and marks the fiction debut of this supremely accomplished writer.

DKK 166.00
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Bryant & May - London Bridge is Falling Down - Christopher Fowler - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bryant & May - London Bridge is Falling Down - Christopher Fowler - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''If you have never entered the curious world of Bryant and May, you''re in for a treat.'' THE TIMES It was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Amelia Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it''s considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system.But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts. Mrs Hoffman was once a government security expert, even though no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed.Mrs Hoffman wasn''t the only one at risk. Bryant is convinced that other forgotten women with hidden talents are also in danger. And, curiously, they all own models of London Bridge.With the help of some of their more certifiable informants, the detectives follow the strangest of clues in an investigation that will lead them through forgotten alleyways to the city''s oldest bridge in search of a desperate killer.But just when the case appears to be solved, they discover that Mrs Hoffman was smarter than anyone imagined. There''s a bigger game afoot that could have terrible consequences. It''s time to celebrate Bryant and May''s twentieth anniversary as their most lunatic case yet brings death and rebirth to London''s most peculiar crimes unit.

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The Secret - Andrew Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Secret - Andrew Child - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention.That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army''s representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he''s a convenient fall guy.Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren''t what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners. Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?PRAISE FOR THE JACK REACHER SERIES'' There''s only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.'' MICK HERRON'' Jack Reacher is today''s James Bond, a thriller hero we can''t get enough of.'' KEN FOLLETT'' Everyone needs to kick some butt sometimes, even if it''s just imaginary.'' JOJO MOYES Includes a first look of IN TOO DEEP, Jack Reacher''s newest adventure *** OUT NOW*** Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Secret is the 28th book in the internationally bestselling series. The Secret was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller in October and November 2023.

DKK 119.00
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We'll Prescribe You a Cat - Syou Ishida - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

We'll Prescribe You a Cat - Syou Ishida - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT!Contains five exquisite line-drawings.For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, discover the award-winning heartwarming sensation.Readers adore it: ‘The most wonderful book I''ve ever read’ ***** ‘A terrific idea, a powerful ending, brilliant storytelling’ ***** ‘The story drew me in instantly, and I laughed so much’ ***** ‘I definitely want everyone to read this book’ ***** ‘There are so many wonderful lines to underscore, but if I write them here, there will be spoilers!’ *****____________ A cat a day keeps the doctor away ... On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Only a select few - those who feel genuine emotional pain - can find it.The mysterious centre offers a unique treatment for its troubled patients: it prescribes cats as medication. Get ready to fall in love:- Bee, an eight-year-old female, mixed breed helps a disheartened businessman as he finds unexpected joy in physical labour;- Margot, muscly like a lightweight boxer, helps a middle-aged callcentre worker stay relevant at work and at home;- Koyuki, an exquisite white cat brings closure to a young mother troubled by the memory of the rescue kitten she was forced to abandon;- Tank and Tangerine bring peace to a hardened handbag designer, as she learns to be kinder to herself;- Mimita, the Scottish Fold kitten helps a broken-hearted Geisha to stop blaming herself for the cat she lost years ago; As the clinic''s patients navigate their inner turmoil and seek resolution, their feline companions lead them towards healing, self-discovery and newfound hope. **Contains five exquisite cat line-drawings** Japanese bestseller, October 2023

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We'll Prescribe You a Cat - Syou Ishida - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

We'll Prescribe You a Cat - Syou Ishida - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS and SHE AND HER CAT, discover the award-winning bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming celebration of the healing power of cats. A cat a day keeps the doctor away ... On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Only a select few - those who feel genuine emotional pain - can find it.The mysterious centre offers a unique treatment for its troubled patients: it prescribes cats as medication. Get ready to fall in love:- Bee, an eight-year-old female, mixed breed helps a disheartened businessman as he finds unexpected joy in physical labour;- Margot, muscly like a lightweight boxer, helps a middle-aged callcentre worker stay relevant at work and at home;- Koyuki, an exquisite white cat brings closure to a young mother troubled by the memory of the rescue kitten she was forced to abandon;- Tank and Tangerine bring peace to a hardened handbag designer, as she learns to be kinder to herself;- Mimita, the Scottish Fold kitten helps a broken-hearted Geisha to stop blaming herself for the cat she lost years ago; As the clinic''s patients navigate their inner turmoil and seek resolution, their feline companions lead them towards healing, self-discovery and newfound hope. Contains five exquisite cat line-drawings. Japanese bestseller, October 2023 Japanese readers adore WE''LL PRESCRIBE YOU A CAT: ‘The most wonderful book I''ve ever read’ ***** ‘A terrific idea, a powerful ending, brilliant storytelling’ ***** ‘The story drew me in instantly, and I laughed so much’ ***** ‘I definitely want everyone to read this book’ ***** ‘There are so many wonderful lines to underscore, but if I write them here, there will be spoilers!’ *****

DKK 120.00
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In The Kingdom Of Mists - Jane Jakeman - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In The Kingdom Of Mists - Jane Jakeman - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

London, 1900: while Monet paints the wintry mists over the Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its murky depths arousing fears of a return of Jack the Ripper By now a celebrated and successful artist - despite the controversy stirred up by the Impressionist movement - in the early months of the new century, Monet returned to London to paint his famous Thames series. Prompted by memories of an earlier visit in 1870, the old man recalls his youthful struggles, his beloved first wife Camille and his scandalous relationship with Alice Hoschedé. And now, in a frenzy of creative activity he paints the haunting canvasses that act as a backdrop to a series of grizzly, psychopathic killings. Oliver Craston, a fledgling diplomat, by chance is present when a horribly mutilated body is pulled from the Thames. Mindful of the need to steer clear of controversy, he is unwillingly drawn into the police investigation. Furthermore, with the Foreign Office nervous over French sympathies with the Boers, Oliver''s new acquaintance with M. Monet and his son, who are staying in the luxury of the Savoy Hotel, is likely to raise an eyebrow or two. But on the floor above the Monets'' suite, given over as a hospital for wounded officers, stalks a far greater danger. . . and across the river in the backstreet slums of Lambeth are visions of horror beyond even the intuition of the artist. As the naïve young diplomat becomes entangled with bohemian society and the seamier side of London that the investigation exposes him to, a disturbing and unfamiliar world opens up to him.This compelling and mutlilayered novel is an atmospheric exploration of the life of an artist, a murder thriller and, like Tulip Fever and Girl With a Pearl Earring , a triumphant example of ''art fiction''. It is illustrated with 12 reproductions of the paintings themselves

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Ark Royal - Mike Rossiter - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ark Royal - Mike Rossiter - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In June 1941 the Ark Royal won one of Britain''s most famous naval victories. The German destroyer, Bismarck , had been ravaging the British fleet in the Atlantic. Sailing through a ferocious storm the Ark Royal tracked the Bismarck . A dozen swordfish bombers took off from her deck and pounded shell after shell into the German battleship, sending her to the ocean floor. It was a signal victory that resonated around the world. Hitler, furious at the loss of the German fleet''s flagship, demanded that the Ark Royal be destroyed at whatever cost.HMS Ark Royal is one of the Royal Navy''s most iconic ships. When she was launched in 1938 she was one of the most sophisticated weapons at the disposal of British military command. The aircraft carrier was the latest, and soon to be one of the most feared, developments in naval warfare. In her first two years of operation the Ark Royal survived countless attacks, and was considered one of the luckiest ships in the Navy.But her air of invincibility was to prove wishful thinking. Within one month of sinking the Bismarck , the Ark Royal too was destroyed while sailing off the coast of Gibraltar. And there she has rested, one kilometre below the surface of the Mediterranean, until her wreck was discovered by Mike Rossiter in 2004.In gripping detail, and using the testimony of survivors of the sinking and men who lived, flew and fought on the Ark Royal , Mike Rossiter tells the remarkable story of the life and legend of this most iconic of ships. Also, and for the first time, he reveals the story of the quest to discover the wreck of this naval legend.

DKK 159.00
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The Jukebox Queen Of Malta - Nicholas Rinaldi - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Jukebox Queen Of Malta - Nicholas Rinaldi - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

It is 1942 and the island of Malta is under siege by the dominant German air force. Out of the smoke and magnesium glare of bomb blast steps Rocco Raven, native of Brooklyn, New York, apprentice radioman and expert secondhand car dealer. His only contact is an American secret serviceman, Fingerley, whose rank upgrades with their every meeting and whose purpose is known to no-one but himself. Far from finding a role for Rocco, Fingerley leaves him to face the chaos alone. On only his second day there, his billet, on the top floor of a brothel, is blown to pieces. Without contacts or belongings, Rocco is left to wander the devastated streets of Valetta in a bewildered daze until he sees an apparition, a beautiful, ethereal woman. She is Melita, the Jukebox Queen of Malta, who spends her time delivering the jukeboxes wrought by her cousin from old automobile and gramophone parts to the bars and restaurants which must accommodate the beleagured civilian and military populations. It is the beginning of an extraordinary relationship that is at once passionate and guarded, which flourishes as the island''s fortunes decline. Under the threat of starvation and in a world populated by the eccentrics of war, Rocco''s seems to be the lone voice of sanity, until he too is affected by the madness around him and succumbs to the voluntary thrill of danger...The Jukebox Queen of Malta is an extraordinary novel of passion and intrigue set in a world which seems perilously balanced between what is real and what is not. It is a magnificently evocative piece of storytelling, where the bizarre and heady atmosphere of a society under siege masks the uneasy truce between the Allied occupiers and the Maltese natives, and where the physical beauty is only tainted by the sense of mystery desecrated.

DKK 168.00
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Rose and the Burma Sky - Rosanna Amaka - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Rose and the Burma Sky - Rosanna Amaka - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

An Independent Best Books for Summer Pick''Powerful, lyrical, and with a central character so wracked with love, he goes to war, deeply relatable'' ANN NAPOLITANO, author of Hello Beautiful ''Wholly beguiling and spirited'' THE TIMES ''Emotionally resonant and lyrical story of one young man''s heartbreak, set against the trauma of a world falling apart'' IRISH TIMES ''Stunning. Both an unrequited love story and a mystery. It will live with me for a long time. JENDELLA BENSON Most Anticipated Books 2023 : COSMOPOLITAN, GLAMOUR, THE FLOOR, HUFFINGTON POST, THE BLACK BRITISH LIST and BRITTLE PAPER For readers of Toni Morrison, Richard Flanagan and BURMA BOY - gripping and intimate historical novel of a black soldier''s experience in the Second World War - a rare and moving tale of love and sacrifice by the acclaimed author of THE BOOK OF ECHOES.------------------------------------- One war, one soldier, one enduring love 1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria on the brink of the Second World War, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep speeds by, filled with soldiers laughing and shouting, their buttons shining in the sun. To Obi, their promise of a smart uniform and regular wages is hard to resist, especially as he has his sweetheart Rose to impress and a family to support.Years later, when Rose falls pregnant to another man, his heart is shattered. As the Burma Campaign mounts, and Obi is shipped out to fight, he is haunted by the mystery of Rose''s lover. When his identity comes to light, Obi''s devastation leads to a tragic chain of unexpected events. In ROSE AND THE BURMA SKY, Rosanna Amaka weaves together the realities of war, the pain of first love and how following your heart might not always be the best course of action. Its gritty boy''s-eye view brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power.___________ '' Refreshing. Vividly conveys how the historical injustice of colonialism continues to reverberate'' GUARDIAN

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Maelstrom - Anne Mccaffrey - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Maelstrom - Anne Mccaffrey - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Shongili twins, Ronan and Murel, accompany their friend Marmie on her luxury space craft Piaf to rescue their friend Ke-ola''s family from an uninhabitable planet. They arrive to find the planet in the midst of a terrible meteor storm and when they go down to the surface find that the survivors have taken refuge under ground. Ronan and Murel change into seal form and find the survivors and their totem animals or aumakua, the giant turtles, or Honu, and the sharks. Back on Petaybee the twins, in their seal form, escort the Honus to their new home in the middle of the ocean. They also want to warn the otters and seals about the sharks. It is a long journey and Murel falls asleep and gets separated from the rest. She is surrounded by a pod of Orcas who, thinking she is a normal seal, try to eat her. Before they can do so she is caught up in a whirlpool caused by the volcanic activity in the area, as is Ronan, who had swum back to try to rescue her.They are rescued from the whirlpool by the mysterious deep sea otters and taken into their shielded city on the ocean floor. While their leader, Kushtaka, is talking to them her son Jeel sees the sharks and goes to inspect them, Murel races after him but is too late and Jeel is killed. Meanwhile Marmie and her crew are arrested on trumped up charges of kidnapping Ke-ola''s family and taken to Gwinnett Incarceration Colony, along with most of the survivors they rescued.When Murel and Ronan return to their family and discover that Marmie has been arrested and the Piaf impounded they realize they need to get off the planet and go to her rescue. While staying with Kushtaka they were told that the deep sea otters were not just otters but beings from outer space who had hidden in the depths of Petaybee''s oceans for years. Now that they have been discovered they plan to leave, the twins persuade Kushtaka to take them with her and to help them rescue Marmie.

DKK 161.00
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