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Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Fantastic'' Nick Hornby ''Beautifully written'' Sunday Times ''Truly remarkable'' Rolling Stone Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll''s most iconic stars. Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and had taken the popular music world by storm before he was twenty-four.Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of the day. His performances have taken him from a cardboard guitar in his front room to fronting a rock and roll band on your television screen and performing in the world''s greatest concert halls in a wild variety of company. Unfaithful Music describes how Costello''s career has somehow endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, even managing the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom.This memoir, written with the same inimitable touch as his lyrics, and including dozens of images from his personal archive, offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best known songs and the hits of tomorrow. The book contains many stories and observations about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators, though Costello also pauses along the way for considerations on the less appealing side of infamy. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic, idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man.

DKK 155.00
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Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink - Jonathan L. S. Byrnes - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ink Ribbon Red - Alex Pavesi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ink Ribbon Red - Alex Pavesi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The problem with telling tales is that you might get caught out by the twist: read the most original literary thriller of 2024, from the author of the sensational Eight Detectives ''A spectacularly crafty puzzle with characters who come more and more to life as the stakes get higher'' Mail on Sunday ''More fun than Eight Detectives'' The Times ‘Today''s greatest exponent of playful detective fiction’ Guardian -----Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday weekend. They decide to play a game. All six names go in a hat. Choose two, and imagine one murdering the other. Write it down. Type it up. Read it out.Points are given for making the murders sound convincing.Of course, when given such a task, it’s only natural to use what you know.Secrets. Grudges. Affairs.But once you’ve put it in a story, that secret is out.So with each fictional murder, someone gets a motive for a real one.Which leads to the most important question: When a real murder comes, will you be able to spot it in time? ----‘The master puppeteer of literary crime’ Janice Hallett Praise for the sensational bestseller Eight Detectives ‘One of the year''s most entertaining crime novels’ Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month‘So, so clever . . . Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this one - bravo!’ Sarah Pinborough‘A wonderfully tricksy debut and a loving tribute to the golden age of crime fiction’ Mail on Sunday ‘A box of delights . . . Pavesi''s revelations are completely unexpected, right up to the end’ New York Times

DKK 155.00
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Ink Ribbon Red - Alex Pavesi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ink Ribbon Red - Alex Pavesi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The problem with telling tales is that you might get caught out by the twist: read the most original literary thriller of 2024, from the author of the sensational Eight Detectives ''A spectacularly crafty puzzle with characters who come more and more to life as the stakes get higher'' Mail on Sunday ''More fun than Eight Detectives'' The Times ‘Today''s greatest exponent of playful detective fiction’ Guardian -----Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday weekend. They decide to play a game. All six names go in a hat. Choose two, and imagine one murdering the other. Write it down. Type it up. Read it out.Points are given for making the murders sound convincing.Of course, when given such a task, it’s only natural to use what you know.Secrets. Grudges. Affairs.But once you’ve put it in a story, that secret is out.So with each fictional murder, someone gets a motive for a real one.Which leads to the most important question: When a real murder comes, will you be able to spot it in time? ----‘The master puppeteer of literary crime’ Janice Hallett Praise for the sensational bestseller Eight Detectives ‘One of the year''s most entertaining crime novels’ Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month‘So, so clever . . . Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this one - bravo!’ Sarah Pinborough‘A wonderfully tricksy debut and a loving tribute to the golden age of crime fiction’ Mail on Sunday ‘A box of delights . . . Pavesi''s revelations are completely unexpected, right up to the end’ New York Times

DKK 182.00
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Ink Ribbon Red - Alex Pavesi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Mess - Keri Smith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady Colouring Book - Edith Holden - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien - Georges Simenon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Garnet Flats - Devney Perry - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Grand Banks Cafe - Georges Simenon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Yalta - Serhii Plokhy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Venice - Matthew Rice - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Mr Hire's Engagement - Georges Simenon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Rome - Matthew Rice - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Watchers - Stephen Alford - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Watchers - Stephen Alford - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The acclaimed and enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabethan rule, from Stephen Alford Elizabeth I''s reign is known as a golden age, yet to much of Europe she was a ''Jezebel'' and heretic who had to be destroyed. The Watchers is a thrilling portrayal of the secret state that sought to protect the Queen; a shadow world of spies, codebreakers, agent provocateurs and confidence-men who would stop at nothing to defend the realm. Reviews: ''Forget Le Carré, Deighton and the rest - this is more enthralling than any modern spy fiction'' Daily Telegraph ''Absorbing and closely documented ... Alford vividly evokes this murky world of codes, ciphers, invisible ink, intercepted letters, aliases, disguises, forgeries and instructions to burn after reading ... flowing narrative [and] crisp judments ... engrossing'' Guardian ''[Alford] has brought a dash of le Carré to the 16th century'' The Times (Book of the Week) ''A vivid and staggeringly well-researched portrait of the sinister side of Elizabethan England ... This is a spectacular book. It sheds new light on plots that most historians have ceased to explore and brings less famous conspiracies to the attention of the general reading public'' Herald ''Fascinating ... If you want to know the inside story of this struggle, the dark heart of calculation and the fight for survival, then this is the book to read. I know no better'' Spectator About the author: Stephen Alford is the author of the acclaimed biography Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He taught for fifteen years at Cambridge University, where he was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of History and a Fellow of King''s College. He is now Professor of Early Modern British History in the University of Leeds.

DKK 126.00
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Love, Sex & Frankenstein - Caroline Lea - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Love, Sex & Frankenstein - Caroline Lea - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In the shadowed halls of Villa Diodati, Mary Shelley’s fury took shape – and birthed a monster…The thrilling retelling from the author of PRIZE WOMEN, THE METAL HEART and THE GLASS WOMAN. Perfect for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Manningtree Witches. ‘Hauntingly beautiful, dangerous and magnificent’ Anya Bergman, author of The Witches of Vardo‘A deliciously dark reimagining of the birth of literature's greatest monster’ Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters‘Richly woven, gorgeously addictive, this is a true Gothic novel about life, death, desire, fury and passion’ Joanne Burn, author of The Bone Hunters--Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The dark summer that birthed a monster . . . Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of her sister’s intentions, Mary seeks sanctuary. But Lord Byron’s villa, lying under ominous, ash-shrouded skies, feels more like a trap. When Byron suggests each guest write a supernatural tale, Mary is as drawn to the challenge as she is, unexpectedly, to Byron himself. And so an idea begins to form in her mind . . . It spills out of her in thick, black ink. A thing given life is before her. Day and night, she is possessed. Heart and mind. Body and soul. But is she in control, or is it?In this hauntingly evocative feminist retelling, Caroline Lea delves into the female rage, creative madness and steamy scandal that bore the world's most famous work of gothic fiction. –PRAISE FOR LOVE, SEX & FRANKENSTEIN‘Fury and passion, obsession and revenge sizzle beneath the surface as out-of-this-world prose spins the book to a powerful, sensual grand finale. What a firecracker of a story - it completely swept me off my feet!’ Fiza Saeed McLynn, author of The Midnight Carousel‘You cannot help but fall in love with Mary, whose journey as an artist and as a woman is both absolutely heartbreaking and truly inspiring. This is a deeply moving, magical book from a consummate storyteller’ Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den'Beautifully written and wonderfully intense, this is no glamorous story of the rock star poets and their female muses but a rendition of absolute powerlessness turned around through sheer force of will’ Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Disobedient

DKK 182.00
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The House Without Windows - Barbara Newhall Follett - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The House Without Windows - Barbara Newhall Follett - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''An enchanting book. These pages simply quiver with the beauty, happiness and vigour of forests, seas and mountains . . . I can safely promise joy to any reader of it. Perfection'' Eleanor Farjeon, Winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Hans Christian Andersen Award Discover this extraordinary lost classic of nature writing - a fable about wildness and the desire to escape - beautifully illustrated by beloved artist and The Lost Words creator Jackie Morris ''Miraculous - a fearless odyssey into a dreamtime of wildness and enchantment. Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris''s moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times'' Nick Drake Little Eepersip doesn''t want to live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so she runs away to live in the wild - first in the Meadow, then by the Sea, and finally in the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow her at first, bringing her back home to ''safety'' and locking her up in the stifling square of the house. But she slips away once more, following her wild heart out of the door and far away...Barbara Newhall Follett was just thirteen years old when she published The House Without Windows in 1927. The book went on to become a million-copy bestseller. Years later, as an adult herself, Barbara followed in the footsteps of her radical heroine - dissatisfied with the limitations of life as a respectable married woman, she walked out of her house one day and simply disappeared.Penguin are delighted to republish Barbara Newhall Follett''s extraordinary feminist fable for the next generation of nature lovers and escapees to discover and cherish. Newly introduced by Jackie Morris, and filled with her beautifully inked artwork, The House Without Windows is an irresistible paean to the natural world and its transcendent effect on the human heart. ''A classic, as miraculous and awe-inspiring as the nine-year-old author. Jackie Morris portrays the artistic elegance of the eastern ink with the wisdom of the West'' Xinran, author of The Good Women of China Praise for The Lost Words ''Breathtaking . . . Jackie Morris has created something that you could spend all day looking at'' New Statesman '' Luminous'' Sunday Times '' Sumptuous . . . A book combining meticulous wordcraft with exquisite illustrations deftly restores language describing the natural world to the children''s lexicon...The Lost Words is a beautiful book and an important one'' Observer

DKK 106.00
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Dresden - Sinclair Mckay - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dresden - Sinclair Mckay - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year ''Powerful . . . there is rage in his ink. McKay''s book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city. I have never seen it better described'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the ''Florence of the Elbe''. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won?From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction, bestselling author Sinclair McKay creates a vast canvas and brings it alive with touching human detail.Along the way we encounter, among many others across the city, a Jewish woman who thought the English bombs had been sent from heaven, novelist Kurt Vonnegut who wrote that the smouldering landscape was like walking on the surface of the moon, and 15-year-old Winfried Bielss, who, having spent the evening ushering refugees, wanted to get home to his stamp collection. He was not to know that there was not enough time.Impeccably researched and deeply moving, McKay uses never-before-seen sources to relate the untold stories of civilians and vividly conveys the texture of contemporary life. Dresden is invoked as a byword for the illimitable cruelties of war, but with the distance of time, it is now possible to approach this subject with a much clearer gaze, and with a keener interest in the sorts of lives that ordinary people lived and lost, or tried to rebuild.Writing with warmth and colour about morality in war, the instinct for survival, the gravity of mass destruction and the manipulation of memory, this is a master historian at work. ''Churchill said that if bombing cities was justified, it was always repugnant. Sinclair McKay has written a shrewd, humane and balanced account of this most controversial target of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign, the ferocious consequence of the scourge of Nazism'' Allan Mallinson, author of Fight to the Finish ''Beautifully-crafted, elegiac, compelling - Dresden delivers with a dark intensity and incisive compassion rarely equalled. Authentic and authoritative, a masterpiece of its genre'' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo ''Compelling . . . Sinclair McKay brings a dark subject vividly to life'' Keith Lowe, author of Savage Continent ''This is a brilliantly clear, and fair, account of one of the most notorious and destructive raids in the history aerial warfare. From planning to execution, the story is told by crucial participants - and the victims who suffered so cruelly on the ground from the attack itself and its aftermath'' Robert Fox, author of We Were There

DKK 139.00
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