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The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr Punch - Neil Gaiman - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr Punch - Neil Gaiman - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Written by New York Times bestselling novelist Neil Gaiman, with otherworldly illustrations by artist Dave McKean, MR PUNCH – 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION is the new deluxe cut of this landmark graphic novel. A young boy stumbles across a Punch and Judy show at the pier and enters a world of extraordinary magic.With disturbing mysteries and half-truths uncontrollably unravelling, this boy is forced to deal with his family''s secrets of violence, betrayal and guilt in this dark fable of childhood and growing up.By the bestselling author and illustrator pairing behind the Sandman series and children’s classics The Graveyard Book and Coraline , The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr Punch is woven together with Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s trademark eerie elegance and supernatural thrills. In addition to its new cover, each page of this unmissable 20th anniversary edition has been remastered and a gallery of uncanny, sensational original artwork by Dave McKean has been included for the first time.

DKK 168.00
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Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister - Martin Bartelt - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister - Martin Bartelt - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

....a little show about death and other taboos..... Since her big sister, BBC journalist Kate Peyton, was murdered in Somalia, Rebecca has had rather a strange time. She welcomes us to her world in a passionately political, sharply comical and painfully personal account of life after Kate.Crafting a moving and often comic tapestry of private moments from a public tragedy, Rebecca tells her own story of a courageous journalist and a loving big sister, whom she misses.

DKK 147.00
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The Royal Leap-Frog - Peter Bently - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Royal Leap-Frog - Peter Bently - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

**A triumph - Daily Mail** **Laughter, action, colour, rhyme, silliness, chaos, a king, a feast and a fairytale setting — The Royal Leap-Frog has all these - Sunday Times** ----------------- When a flea, a grasshopper and a frog compete to show the King who can jump the highest, it causes CHAOS in the royal dining hall. Who can jump the highest? Can the clever leap-frog use his wits to win?And will the Emperor''s dog EVER get rid of the flea?This funny and irresistible retelling of Hans Christian Andersen''s classic fable, ''The Leap Frog'', will make children laugh - AND show them that brains are sometimes better than brawn. With a pitch-perfect rhyming text by bestselling Peter Bently, and gloriously detailed illustrations by award-winning Claire Powell, this is an unmissable treat for all ages!

DKK 100.00
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertolt Brecht - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertolt Brecht - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Brecht''s pioneering theatrical techniques. This version by Frank McGuinness was published to coincide with the National Theatre''s production which toured the UK in 2007. A servant girl sacrifices everything to protect a child abandoned in the heat of civil war. Order restored, she is made to confront the boy''s biological mother in a legal contest over who deserves to keep him. The comical judge calls on an ancient tradition - the chalk circle - to resolve the dispute. Who wins? This version by Frank McGuinness was first presented by the National Theatre in 1997 and revived in 2007, opening at the Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury, on 8 January.

DKK 163.00
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The Wonderful World of Dissocia - Anthony Neilson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Wonderful World of Dissocia - Anthony Neilson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Life’s full of clatter, but none of it matters, only who’ll hold your paw when you die. What would you do if you lost an hour from your day? How far would you go to rescue what you’ve lost?In search of a lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life, Lisa Jones is on a quest through a surreal world, filled with insecurity guards, flying cars, singing polar bears and wild-goose chases. The inhabitants of Dissocia are a curious blend of the funny, the friendly and the downright brutal.Anthony Neilson’s cult play is a poignant and comical delve into the nature of mental illness. This edition was published to coincide with the major London revival at Theatre Royal Stratford East in September 2022.

DKK 162.00
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One Thing and Another - Jonathan Miller - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

One Thing and Another - Jonathan Miller - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

‘Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?’‘I’m rather glad I’m not. I’m quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.’Over the course of seven decades, Jonathan Miller has been at the forefront of developments in theatre, opera, comedy, philosophy and scientific debate. This new collection brings together the very best of his acerbic writing. In keeping with Miller’s grasshopper mind, One Thing and Another leaps from discussions of human behaviour, atheism, satire, cinema and television, to analysis of the work of M. R. James, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and Truman Capote, by way of reflections on directing Shakespeare, Chekhov, Olivier and opera. A celebrated conversationalist, the book also features a selection of key interviews focusing on his working method. Jonathan Miller is internationally celebrated as one of the last great public intellectuals. Read One Thing and Another to find out why.

DKK 272.00
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The Cut that Wouldn't Heal - William Leith - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Cut that Wouldn't Heal - William Leith - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

''Deeply moving ... A triumph'' Justin Webb ''What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising'' Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday Ten seconds before my father’s death, I have a premonition - that the breath he is taking will be his last. William Leith’s childhood was marked by his father’s absences and as a consequence their relationship has always been a troubled one. Now, as his father lies dying, William reflects on the connections and ruptures that have marked their shared history. Can he ever really understand his father? Is there an explanation for the physical distance and emotional chasm that his father has maintained between them? And what was he running away from?Darkly comical and told with searing honesty, The Cut that Wouldn’t Heal is a moving memoir about the pain of abandonment, grief and regret.

DKK 159.00
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The Cut that Wouldn't Heal - William Leith - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Cut that Wouldn't Heal - William Leith - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

''Deeply moving ... A triumph'' Justin Webb ''What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising'' Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday Ten seconds before my father’s death, I have a premonition - that the breath he is taking will be his last. William Leith’s childhood was marked by his father’s absences and as a consequence their relationship has always been a troubled one. Now, as his father lies dying, William reflects on the connections and ruptures that have marked their shared history. Can he ever really understand his father? Is there an explanation for the physical distance and emotional chasm that his father has maintained between them? And what was he running away from?Darkly comical and told with searing honesty, The Cut that Wouldn’t Heal is a moving memoir about the pain of abandonment, grief and regret.

DKK 126.00
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The Ministry of Bodies - Seamus O'mahony - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Ministry of Bodies - Seamus O'mahony - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Life and death in a modern hospital, from Seamus O''Mahony, the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now and Can Medicine Be Cured? Seamus O''Mahony charts the realities of work in the ''ministry of bodies'', that huge complex where people come to be cured and to die. From unexpected deaths to moral quandaries and bureaucratic disasters, O''Mahony documents life in the halls and wards that all of us will visit at some point in our lives with his characteristic wit and dry and unsentimental intelligence.Absurd general emails, vain and self-promoting specialists, the relentless parade of self-destructive drinkers and drug users, the comical expectations of baffled patients: this is not a conventional medical memoir, but the collective biography of one of our great modern institutions – the general hospital – through the eyes of a brilliant writer, who happens to be a doctor.

DKK 119.00
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RSPB Everyday Guide to British Wildlife - Charlie Elder - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

RSPB Everyday Guide to British Wildlife - Charlie Elder - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

This informative and engaging guide for beginner wildlife-watchers and nature enthusiasts describes the mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects commonly seen in the British Isles. Do you know the difference between a hare and a rabbit? And could you tell a grasshopper from a cricket or a porpoise from a dolphin? A companion to our popular photographic bird guide, The RSPB Everyday Guide to British Wildlife will help you identify more than 100 of our most common and widespread species, from the back garden and town centre to the countryside and coast.Species accounts include friendly text written by Charlie Elder, beautiful colour photos, fun facts and top tips to help you identify crucial species characteristics while you''re out and about. The easy-to-use layout helps beginners quickly find what they are looking for, and the book also includes practical advice and information on a range of fascinating topics, including wildlife ponds, gardening for pollinators and rockpool residents.Richly detailed and accessible, this helpful guide is a perfect introduction for anyone keen to get outside and learn more about the extraordinary range of wildlife we can see in Britain.

DKK 156.00
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Do You Love Bugs? - Matt Robertson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Do You Love Bugs? - Matt Robertson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Crawly! Hairy! Maybe a bit scary? Snails slime upside down. Eeek! Worms can somersault and butterflies smell like cake. YUM. Wait, don''t eat them... Because bugs are truly BRILLIANT! Matt Robertson’s quirky text and sweet yet hilarious illustrations show exactly why minibeasts can be truly awesome in their own unique way. The book includes 14 hilarious globally inclusive, bug-tastic spreads, featuring worms, bees, beetles, dragonflies, butterflies, moths, grasshoppers, spiders, ants, snails and stick insects. Find out how honey bees make their honey, why moths always fly around lamps and how bombardier beetles protect themselves from hungry predators. There''s something new to learn about each bug. Did you know that stick insects can dance? Or that butterflies can smell like cake? And guess what? A grasshopper will spit on you if it gets angry! So always be good to grasshoppers, give spiders a smile not a screech and never get angry at ants! There are so many more fun facts to uncover about our tiny furry and slimy friends. Winner of the Sainsbury''s Children''s Book Award for Learning & Development 2020.

DKK 101.00
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Yoga with Your Child - Beatrice Raphalen - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Yoga with Your Child - Beatrice Raphalen - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

''The perfect way to introduce the power of yoga to children at a young age'' - Nicola Jane Hobbs, yoga teacher and celebrated author of Thrive Through Yoga and Yoga Gym''A magical little book sure to capture the minds of children and provide golden parent/child time through yoga'' - Lexie Williamson, author of The Stretching Bible and Move''A delightful book'' – Greenville News Yoga has never been so fun – discover 150 yoga activities for both parent and child to enjoy together. Are you ready to try the cat, koala, monkey, elephant or even the grasshopper? Written by two respected yoga professionals and featuring more than 150 moves, Yoga With Your Child provides everything you need to introduce your offspring to yoga. As well as the physical and relaxation benefit of learning and enjoying yoga together, this book, for children four and up, will help any parent show and pass on qualities such as humility, perseverance and patience.Whether you are looking to wake up your body, strengthen your concentration or relax before going to sleep, Yoga With Your Child has the practices and techniques that the whole family can enjoy.Engaging in yoga with your child is a wonderful way of spending time with them and it joyfully enriches and strengthens the parent-child bond.

DKK 166.00
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Dead At Last, At Last No More Air - Werner Schwab - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Dead At Last, At Last No More Air - Werner Schwab - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Foreword by Diana Damian Martin Werner Schwab’s final work, also known as a theatre-extinction comedy, is a brutal, irreverent and bizarrely comical piece about what happens when an emerging stage production is sabotaged by outsiders. Following a dispute with the cast, the director replaces all the actors with pensioners from a nearby home for the elderly. At first compliant and polite, the ‘forgotten and dispossessed’ gradually start to question the director’s authority, leading to a ‘coup d’état’ where the theatre’s cleaning lady is selected as the group’s leader. Not everybody survives the new order.Werner Schwab was only thirty-five years old when he was found dead in his room following a New Year’s Eve drinking spree in 1994. He was, at the time, the undisputed star of German speaking theatre who effortlessly rose to fame for his unique talent with language and his darkly humorous, confrontational narratives. In only four years, he completed fifteen plays with Dead at Last, At Last No More Air (Endlich tot, endlich keine luftmehr) being his last.

DKK 159.00
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There’s Nothing Wrong With Her - Kate Weinberg - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

There’s Nothing Wrong With Her - Kate Weinberg - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

‘The best thing you''ll read this year’ KILEY REID‘So beautiful’ SARAH JESSICA PARKER‘One of those books I will read again and again’ JOJO MOYES ‘Very funny, very touching ’ DAVID NICHOLLS ‘Moving, absorbing, evocative’ SARA COLLINS ‘Wonderful ... Compelling ... Very funny’ MARINA HYDE ‘I devoured it…. Exquisitely written, poignant and funny ’ FEARNE COTTON ‘This book will be your friend ’ MIRANDA HART A crackling, comical, tender, and highly original novel about mental health, the certainties of medicine, buried trauma, love, death and time lost in the crushing – and comical – hopes of modern life _______________________________________________________ Vita Woods is on the brink. She has a good job and a successful doctor boyfriend, Max, with whom the sex is great and the chat sufficient; a vivacious and charming sister Gracie, her verbal sparring partner and best friend for life; and she’s even got a goldfish called Whitney Houston, who brightens her days by showing her she''s not the only one going round in circles. Because it’s the days that are Vita’s problem. Vita is not leaving the house. In fact, Vita rarely exits the basement apartment where she lives, since Vita is in “The Pit” – a place of deep exhaustion and semi-consciousness where she spends much of her time, dead to the world and to herself. She has been sick for months, with an illness that no doctor, not even Max, can medically diagnose. One day an unexpected courier delivery forces Vita upstairs, into the light - and into a chance encounter with her neighbours upstairs. Suddenly, Vita finds herself faced with an even trickier dilemma. She likes her new friends; she’ll even sneak upstairs to see them while Max is out, against all medical advice but something about her “condition” is nagging at the borders of her mind. After all, what is a house-bound girl to do when she can’t keep the light, her new friendships, or - worst of all - her memories out? The problem might be Vita herself but as far as anyone can prove... there’s nothing wrong with her. ‘Encompasses so many things: a whole life - sorrows, damage, hopes'' RICHARD CURTIS ''Surreal, magical, totally original'' SATHNAM SANGHERA ''Deep and dark and beautiful'' ESTHER FREUD PRAISE FOR KATE WEINBERG AND THE TRUANTS ''One of the standout books of the summer'' Stylist ''Magical in every way . . . One of the best novels I''ve ever read'' Fearne Cotton ''As much a coming-of-age tale as a murder mystery . . . An impressive debut'' The Times

DKK 119.00
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There’s Nothing Wrong With Her - Kate Weinberg - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

There’s Nothing Wrong With Her - Kate Weinberg - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

‘The best thing you''ll read this year’ KILEY REID‘So beautiful’ SARAH JESSICA PARKER‘One of those books I will read again and again’ JOJO MOYES ‘Very funny, very touching ’ DAVID NICHOLLS ‘Moving, absorbing, evocative’ SARA COLLINS ‘Wonderful ... Compelling ... Very funny’ MARINA HYDE ‘I devoured it…. Exquisitely written, poignant and funny ’ FEARNE COTTON ‘This book will be your friend ’ MIRANDA HART A crackling, comical, tender, and highly original novel about mental health, the certainties of medicine, buried trauma, love, death and time lost in the crushing – and comical – hopes of modern life _______________________________________________________ Vita Woods is on the brink. She has a good job and a successful doctor boyfriend, Max, with whom the sex is great and the chat sufficient; a vivacious and charming sister Gracie, her verbal sparring partner and best friend for life; and she’s even got a goldfish called Whitney Houston, who brightens her days by showing her she''s not the only one going round in circles. Because it’s the days that are Vita’s problem. Vita is not leaving the house. In fact, Vita rarely exits the basement apartment where she lives, since Vita is in “The Pit” – a place of deep exhaustion and semi-consciousness where she spends much of her time, dead to the world and to herself. She has been sick for months, with an illness that no doctor, not even Max, can medically diagnose. One day an unexpected courier delivery forces Vita upstairs, into the light - and into a chance encounter with her neighbours upstairs. Suddenly, Vita finds herself faced with an even trickier dilemma. She likes her new friends; she’ll even sneak upstairs to see them while Max is out, against all medical advice but something about her “condition” is nagging at the borders of her mind. After all, what is a house-bound girl to do when she can’t keep the light, her new friendships, or - worst of all - her memories out? The problem might be Vita herself but as far as anyone can prove... there’s nothing wrong with her. ‘Encompasses so many things: a whole life - sorrows, damage, hopes'' RICHARD CURTIS ''Surreal, magical, totally original'' SATHNAM SANGHERA ''Deep and dark and beautiful'' ESTHER FREUD PRAISE FOR KATE WEINBERG AND THE TRUANTS ''One of the standout books of the summer'' Stylist ''Magical in every way . . . One of the best novels I''ve ever read'' Fearne Cotton ''As much a coming-of-age tale as a murder mystery . . . An impressive debut'' The Times

DKK 168.00
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Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology - F.c. Burnand - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology - F.c. Burnand - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

From long-haired ‘Fleshly Poets’ to intense, ‘ultra pre-Raphaelite’ artists, few stylistic movements in the history of art and literature have provoked the imagination and indignation of British playwrights as much as the Aesthetic Movement. During an intense and short-lived period from 1877 to 1881, the London stage saw fierce competition as playwrights and theatre managers raced to capture the zeitgeist, capitalizing on the unorthodox, eccentric and highly theatrical proponents of the Aesthetic Movement. The ‘quite too utterly utter’ Apostles of this new school were satirized to such an extent that the Illustrated London News (1881) complained that the London stage was ‘thickly sown over with a crop of lilies and sunflowers’, with ‘aesthetes in every burlesque and comic opera produced’. This edited volume brings the four key plays satirizing the Aesthetic Movement together for the first time in an easily accessible format, allowing scholars and students to discover their secrets: The Grasshopper by John Hollingshead (Gaiety Theatre, 1877) Where’s The Cat? by James Albery (Criterion, 1880) The Colonel by F.C. Burnand (Prince of Wales’s Theatre, 1881) Patience by W.S. Gilbert (Opera Comique/Savoy, 1881)Including a brief introduction by Dr. Devon Cox, providing background and context to the dynamic, symbiotic relationship between the Aesthetic Movement and the British stage, and complete with biographical notes and an introduction to each play, Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology shines a light on this explosive flashpoint in British Theatre

DKK 849.00
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Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology - F.c. Burnand - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology - F.c. Burnand - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

From long-haired ‘Fleshly Poets’ to intense, ‘ultra pre-Raphaelite’ artists, few stylistic movements in the history of art and literature have provoked the imagination and indignation of British playwrights as much as the Aesthetic Movement. During an intense and short-lived period from 1877 to 1881, the London stage saw fierce competition as playwrights and theatre managers raced to capture the zeitgeist, capitalizing on the unorthodox, eccentric and highly theatrical proponents of the Aesthetic Movement. The ‘quite too utterly utter’ Apostles of this new school were satirized to such an extent that the Illustrated London News (1881) complained that the London stage was ‘thickly sown over with a crop of lilies and sunflowers’, with ‘aesthetes in every burlesque and comic opera produced’. This edited volume brings the four key plays satirizing the Aesthetic Movement together for the first time in an easily accessible format, allowing scholars and students to discover their secrets: The Grasshopper by John Hollingshead (Gaiety Theatre, 1877) Where’s The Cat? by James Albery (Criterion, 1880) The Colonel by F.C. Burnand (Prince of Wales’s Theatre, 1881) Patience by W.S. Gilbert (Opera Comique/Savoy, 1881)Including a brief introduction by Dr. Devon Cox, providing background and context to the dynamic, symbiotic relationship between the Aesthetic Movement and the British stage, and complete with biographical notes and an introduction to each play, Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology shines a light on this explosive flashpoint in British Theatre

DKK 264.00
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Mess and You're Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy - Caroline Horton - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Mess and You're Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy - Caroline Horton - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Mess : Josephine is putting on a play - Boris and Sistahl help. It''s about anorexia; but don''t let that put you off - they are used to the big issues - and today they will tackle a particularly thin elephant in the room. Obsessed with obsession, addiction, and not wanting to get out of bed, Mess is a play with songs from The Stage ''s 2010 Best Solo Performer Award winner Caroline Horton. You''re Not Like the Other Girls, Chrissy: January 1945. Paris has been liberated. Christiane, an eccentric and acutely myopic Parisian waits at Gare Du Nord for a ticket to England to be reunited with her fiancé. Whilst she waits, this gloriously irrepressible mademoiselle recounts the story of her love affair with Cyril, a tongue-tied English teacher from Staffordshire. You''re Not Like Other Girl''s Chrissy is a fond, comical and ultimately poignant portrait of one woman''s experience of love and war. This programme text coincides with China Plate Theatre''s production of Mess , which is at the Traverse in Edinburgh for August 2012 and then tours the UK until the end of September. You''re Not Like Other Girls, Chrissy will play at the Bristol Old Vic for a week with another week on tour to come after.

DKK 170.00
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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job - Kikuko Tsumura - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job - Kikuko Tsumura - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

_______________ ''Surreal and unsettling'' - Observer Cultural Highlight ‘Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable’ - Zeba Talkhani ‘Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind’ - Sharlene Teo _______________ A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little thinking.She is sent to an office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end isn''t so easy. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly – how did she find herself in this situation in the first place?As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she’s not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful... _______________ ‘An irreverent but thoughtful voice, with light echoes of Haruki Murakami ... the book is uncannily timely ... a novel as smart as is quietly funny'' - Financial Times ''Polly Barton’s translation skilfully captures the protagonist’s dejected, anxious voice and her deadpan humour ... imaginative and unusual'' - Times Literary Supplement

DKK 119.00
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The Barber's Clever Wife: A Bloomsbury Reader - Narinder Dhami - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Barber's Clever Wife: A Bloomsbury Reader - Narinder Dhami - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Book Band: Brown - Ideal for ages 8+ A funny retelling of an Indian folk tale from best-selling author Narinder Dhami. Bulbul would much rather sit at home under the mango tree than go to work. And anyway everyone in the village agrees that he is the worst barber in the whole world. Luckily his wife Ruby has a cunning plan to earn money – but first they must outwit a notorious band of thieves!This comical version of a traditional Indian story from best-selling author Narinder Dhami has entertaining black-and-white illustrations by Amberin Huq and is perfect for children who are developing as readers. The Bloomsbury Readers series is packed with book-banded stories to get children reading independently in Key Stage 2 by award-winning authors like double Carnegie Medal winner Geraldine McCaughrean and Waterstones Prize winner Patrice Lawrence. With engaging illustrations and online guided reading notes written by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), this series is ideal for home and school. For more information visit www.bloomsburyreaders.com. ''Any list that brings together such a quality line up of authors is going to be welcomed … Bloomsbury Readers are aimed squarely at children in Key Stage 2 and designed to support them as they start reading independently and while they continue to gain confidence and understanding.'' Books for Keeps

DKK 100.00
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The World Doesn't Require You - Rion Amilcar Scott - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The World Doesn't Require You - Rion Amilcar Scott - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Welcome to Cross River, Maryland. Established by the leaders of the country''s only successful slave revolt, history casts a long shadow over its residents. Among them are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be the last son of God; Jim, a Robot Personal Helper desperate to escape the master who enslaves him; and James-my-man, who travels the path of the Underground Railroad year after year.Not to forget the water women who lure men to their watery graves and the screecher birds who cry out for sacrificial flesh...PRAISE FOR THE WORLD DOESN''T REQUIRE YOU :''I wandered into Cross River, not knowing a damn thing. Now I''m shuddering, gasping in wonder, reading stories over and over, and doing just about anything so that I never leave'' MARLON JAMES ''A musical and visceral explosion. The book makes you laugh even as it stabs. The truth told in a completely new way'' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH ''Flat-out unputdownable'' LAURA VAN DEN BERG ''Rion Amilcar Scott doesn''t hold back or tiptoe around issues about race. He''s the most courageous writer I know; and this collection is an excellent example and significant achievement. He''s now made his mark as a force to reckon with'' NICOLE DENNIS-BENN ''Surreal, intertextual, and darkly comical... With breathtaking cruelty and devastating humor, Scott adduces the whole world in one community'' NAFISSA THOMPSON-SPIRES

DKK 119.00
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Point Blank - Eric G. Wilson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Point Blank - Eric G. Wilson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

John Boorman''s Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento (2000). Eric Wilson''s compelling study of the film examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema. He argues that Boorman revises traditional Hollywood crime films by probing a second connotation of ''point blank''. On the one hand, it is a neo-noir that aptly depicts close range violence, but, it also points toward blankness, a nothingness that is the consequence of corporate America unchecked, where humans are reduced to commodities and stripped of agency and playfulness. He goes on to reimagine the film''s experimental style as a representation of and possible remedy for trauma. Examining Boorman’s formal innovations, including his favouring of gesture over language and blurring of boundaries between dream and reality, he also positions the film as a grimly comical exploration of toxic masculinity and gender fluidity. Wilson''s close reading of Point Blank reveals it to be a film that innovatively inflects its own generation and speaks powerfully to our own, arguing that it is this amplitude, which encompasses the many major films it has influenced, that qualifies the film as a classic.

DKK 167.00
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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the earth-shattering cultural changes and political events that mark the decades between 1800 and 1920—shifting borders, socioeconomic upheaval, scientific and technological innovation, the rise of consumerism and mass culture, unprecedented overseas expansion by European and American imperial powers—it is no wonder that people in the Age of Empire turned to comedy in order to make sense of the contradictions that structure modern identity and navigate the sociocultural fault lines within modern life. Comical, humorous, and satirical cultural artifacts from the period capture the anxieties and aspirations, the petty resentments and lofty ideals, of a world buffeted by change. This volume explores the aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions of comedy in the context of blackface minstrelsy, nonsense poetry, music hall and pantomime, comic almanacs and joke books, journalism, silent film, popular novels, and hygiene magazines, among other phenomena. It also provides a detailed account of contentious debates among social Darwinists, psychoanalysts, and political philosophers about the meaning and significance of comedy and laughter to human life. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identity, the body, politics and power, laughter, and ethics. These eight divergent approaches to comedy in the Age of Empire add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.

DKK 322.00
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Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Two centuries after Napoleon Bonaparte’s death, this edited volume brings together a diverse group of historians, art historians, and museum professionals to critically examine the enduring power of visual and material culture in the making of Napoleonic memory. While most discussions surrounding the legendary figure explore his impact on legislative, political, or military reform, this innovative volume explores the global dimensions of the trade in Napoleonic collectibles, art, and relics over time.Representing new avenues of research and scholarship, Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives investigates the material objects and cultural forms that Napoleon inspired through a range of themes. These include art collecting, the circulation and display of objects, political and imperial symbolism, and the flexibility and ambiguity of Napoleon’s enduring legacy. The essays examine how and why, despite his contentious role in contemporary memory, Napoleon continues to escape much historical and popular censure. They explore the ways people have connected with the idea of him: on stage and screen; in museums and galleries; and most intimately of all, by gathering items said to have belonged to him, right down to his toothbrush and locks of his hair.Napoleonic items can be official or personal, serious or comical, luxury or disposable, yet little work has been done to bring together these diverse cultural histories into conversation with one another. With its broad, multi-disciplinary approach, including perspectives from art history, film studies, cultural history, and museum curation, the book provides a deep critical insight into the cult of personality surrounding Napoleon and its effect on our understanding of celebrity culture today and in the future.Includes an additional foreword by Napoleon’s biographer, Ruth Scurr, author of In Gardens and Shadows (2021).

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