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This Earth, My Brother - Bok av Kofi Awoonor - Häftad

This Earth, My Brother - Bok av Kofi Awoonor - Häftad

In this debut novel, Kofi Awoonor brilliantly interweaves poetry and allegory into a profound tale of social corruption in post-colonial Ghana. This Earth, My Brother explores how a man can become a stranger to his tribe, his traditions, and to himself.'The ancestors - revered now for their infinite sagacity - decreed long ago that this land, this earth, my brother, shall witness a crashing collapse.'Rooted in the African oral tradition, This Earth, My Brother paints an account of post-independent..

SEK 267.00
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Channel 4 - A History: from Big Brother to The Great British Bake Off - Bok av Maggie Brown - Häftad

Channel 4 - A History: from Big Brother to The Great British Bake Off - Bok av Maggie Brown - Häftad

This book covers a dramatic decade in the fortunes of Britain's quirkiest broadcaster. It opens in 2009, with the realisation that Channel 4's biggest money spinner, Big Brother, had become a toxic asset and would have to be discarded, at the same time as advertising revenues were shrinking in the wake of the 2008 financial crash. Maggie Brown's compelling narrative, which draws on interviews with key players in Channel 4's story and unique access to the broadcaster's archives, takes us inside the..

SEK 341.00
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My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles - Bok av Alec Waugh - Häftad

My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles - Bok av Alec Waugh - Häftad

Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of friends around the world. He is a warm person who knows a good friend when he sees one and is revered by all those with whom there has been mutual acceptance. This book contains his memories of many famous writers and some figures no longer so well remembered in the period between the wars. The section which will, no doubt, command the most attention is that..

SEK 320.00
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A Period of Adjustment - Bok av Dirk Bogarde - Häftad

A Period of Adjustment - Bok av Dirk Bogarde - Häftad

First published in 1994, this is Dirk Bogarde''s fifth novel.Following on from his previous novel, Jericho, evoking the manifold themes and compelling rural French atmosphere of its predecessor, A Period of Adjustment tells the story of William Caldicott. His ruined marriage spurred him on to obey his estranged brother''s letter, which asked him take a house in the south of France. Upon discovering the tragic fate of his brother James, William, accompanied by his son, attempts to rebuild his life..

SEK 316.00
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Among the Wolves of Court - The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn - Bok av Lauren (Independent Historian Mackay - Häftad

Among the Wolves of Court - The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn - Bok av Lauren (Independent Historian Mackay - Häftad

The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- are often relegated to the margins of the history of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation in 1533, Thomas was regarded as one of Henry's most skilled and experienced ambassadors, and George was a talented young courtier on the rise. But Anne's downfall was to have a devastating effect on her family - ultimately costing her and her brother..

SEK 256.00
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Euripides: Electra - Bok av Professor Rush (Stanford University Rehm - Häftad

Euripides: Electra - Bok av Professor Rush (Stanford University Rehm - Häftad

This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes its theatricality, showing how captivating the play remains to this day. Electra poses many challenges for those drawn to Greek tragedy - students, scholars, actors, directors, stage designers, readers and audiences. Rush Rehm addresses the most important questions about the play: its shift in tone between tragedy and humour; why Euripides arranged the plot as he did; issues of..

SEK 476.00
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Wittgenstein's Family Letters - Corresponding with Ludwig - Bok - Häftad

Wittgenstein's Family Letters - Corresponding with Ludwig - Bok - Häftad

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein.In letters written over forty years, we see how his ideas and relationships developed during his time as a prisoner of war, a school teacher, an architect and throughout his years at Cambridge. Always frank and often brutally honest, these letters between Wittgenstein, his brother Paul and his three sisters, Hermine, Margaret and Helene are..

SEK 387.00
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Dangerous Corner - Bok av J. B. Priestley - Häftad

Dangerous Corner - Bok av J. B. Priestley - Häftad

At their stylish country retreat, Freda and Robert Caplan host a dinner party for their colleagues and friends, all executives at a transatlantic publishing company. Young, beautiful and successful they have the world at their feet.Then a cigarette box and and an ill-considered remark spark off a relentless series of revelations and other, more dangerous secrets are painfully exposed. As the truth spills out about the suicide of Robert's clever, reckless brother, and the group's perfect lives begin..

SEK 247.00
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Cabaret Macabre - Bok av Tom Mead - Inbunden

Cabaret Macabre - Bok av Tom Mead - Inbunden

Sleuth and illusionist Joseph Spector investigates his most complex case yet in this gripping new locked-room murder mystery from Tom Mead, set in an English country house just before the Second World War. Hampshire, 1938. Victor Silvius is confined in a private sanatorium after attacking prominent judge Sir Giles Drury. When Sir Giles starts receiving sinister threatening letters, his wife suspects Silvius. Meanwhile, Silvius' sister Caroline is convinced her brother is about to be murdered... by..

SEK 271.00
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