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Swimming with the Dead - Peter Guttridge - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Swimming with the Dead - Peter Guttridge - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A body found stabbed repeatedly outside the local lido leads DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap into an intriguing new case. With the local lido under threat of closure by ruthless businesswoman Alison Sutherland, the Save the Salthaven Lido campaigners are fighting a desperate battle to keep it open. When the lead campaigner is discovered dead, partially drowned and stabbed repeatedly, suspicion falls upon Alison. No sooner have DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap spoken to Alison, one of her colleagues suffers a heart attack - despite being in good health - during a long-distance, open-water swim. Hot on the heels of this, another swimmer turns up drowned.Are all the deaths connected to the Salthaven development? Is someone targeting open-water swimmers? Gilchrist and Heap race to uncover the truth before more victims come to the surface

DKK 159.00
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Swimming with the Dead - Peter Guttridge - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Swimming with the Dead - Peter Guttridge - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A body found stabbed repeatedly outside the local lido leads DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap into an intriguing new case. With an art deco lido under threat of closure by a ruthless property developer, the Save Salthaven Lido campaigners are fighting a desperate battle to keep it open. When the lead campaigner is discovered dead, suspicion falls on the developers. No sooner have DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap begun to investigate that there is a second death during a pre-qualifying event in Brighton Bay for potential Cross-Channel swimmers. This time it''s a local millionaire businesswoman with radical plans to reorganise the family business.When another endurance swimmer dies during an event with links to the property developer, Gilchrist and Heap flounder. Are all the deaths connected to the Salthaven development? Is someone targeting open-water swimmers? Gilchrist and Heap race to uncover the truth before more victims come to the surface.

DKK 225.00
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The Corner - Edward Burns - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Corner - Edward Burns - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The notorious corner of West Fayette and Monroe Streets in Baltimore is a 24-hour open-air drug market that provides the economic fuel for a dying neighbourhood. Through the eyes of one broken family - two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable fifteen-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough - Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the USA and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades and the welfare system have accomplished so little.

DKK 141.00
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The Complete Peanuts 1993-1994 - Charles M. Schulz - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Complete Peanuts 1993-1994 - Charles M. Schulz - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

In the 22nd volume of The Complete Peanuts , you''ll see the whole gang waiting . . . and waiting . . . and waiting for a bus that never comes. Charlie Brown finally hits a game-winning home run - off Roy Hobbes'' great-granddaughter no less! Linus lobbies the White House to nominate Snoopy for an open Supreme Court seat (alas, it goes to Ruth Bader Ginsburg instead). Woodstock discovers his long-lost grandfather''s diary, detailing a hard life in captivity (i.e. a birdcage).

DKK 192.00
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The Abundance - Annie Dillard - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Abundance - Annie Dillard - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking flight, Dillard''s awe at the fragility of the natural world rejuvenates and inspires pleasure and heartache. Precise in language and deeply meditative in spirit, this is a landmark collection from one of America''s masters.

DKK 127.00
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Fully Coherent Plan - David Shrigley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Fully Coherent Plan - David Shrigley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

CLOSE YOUR EYES I invite you to imagine a plan for a new and better society where everything is very coherent and makes a lot of sense and nothing is confusing or awful OPEN YOUR EYES No need to imagine. Here is the plan. The plan is illustrated. The plan is quite complicated. But not too complicated. I think you will be thrilled by it. I am certain you will be thrilled by it.No need to read massive volumes or use the internet JUST READ THIS ONLY THIS

DKK 168.00
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Love And Zen In The Outer Hebrides - Kevin Macneil - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Love And Zen In The Outer Hebrides - Kevin Macneil - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

This collection marks the arrival of a major new talent in Scottish poetry. Kevin MacNeil''s voice and vision, while rooted in the Hebridean islands, is open to a wide range of cultures, not only those of Scotland - from Gaeldom to urban Scotland - but to the wider European and American mind and, through his interest in Zen Buddhism, to Japanese and Chinese culture.With astonishing freshness and versatility, MacNeil''s poetry creates powerful connections and new combinations -he has wit as well as feeling, a powerful sense of the past and the local while being resolutely turned towards the future and the cross-cultural.

DKK 117.00
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Learwife - J.r. Thorp - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Learwife - J.r. Thorp - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021 ''Seductive . . . Gorgeous'' The Times ''Gives voice to one of fiction''s most conspicuously absent women'' i Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear''s queen.Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend? And what will become of her now? To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice - one upon which her destiny rests.

DKK 120.00
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Under the Knife - Tess Gerritsen - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Under the Knife - Tess Gerritsen - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

For David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice. As attorney for a grieving family, he''s determined to hang a negligent doctor. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, dating him to seek out the truth -- that she''s being framed.First, it was Kate''s career that was in jeopardy. Then, when another body is discovered, David begins to believe her. Suddenly, it''s much more. Somewhere in the Honolulu hospital, a killer walks freely among patients and staff. And now David finds himself asking the same questions Kate is desperate to have answered. Who is next? And why?

DKK 276.00
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Missing - Karin Alvtegen - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Missing - Karin Alvtegen - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The murderer had sliced open the dead man''s torso and removed unspecified internal organs. The police admitted that some kind of religious symbol had been left at the scene of the crime, suggesting a ritual act of slaughter . . . When a serial killer strikes, a homeless woman finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, framed for horrifying murders that she didn''t commit. On the run and living by her wits, can she avoid capture long enough to prove her innocence? Missing is a gripping race against the clock, and an examination of the hidden lives of those who choose to live on the outskirts of society.

DKK 120.00
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The Memory Keeper - Jackie Kohnstamm - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

The Memory Keeper - Jackie Kohnstamm - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported in 1942 from Berlin to Theresienstadt - where they will starve to death.Decades later, in London and on a whim, their granddaughter, Jackie googles their names to find two commemorative stones recently placed outside their old home. The discovery compels her to open a long-closed cupboard of haunting family papers, piece together the story of the family she never knew and find her place in it.With searing prose and meticulous detective work, Jackie Kohnstamm offers a gripping and poignant portrait of an ordinary family and reveals a remarkable story of loss, discovery and memory.

DKK 127.00
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High Jinx - Shannon Esposito - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

High Jinx - Shannon Esposito - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

When doggie-yoga instructor Elle Pressley''s eccentric Greek client tells her she''s been cursed by the evil eye, Elle shrugs it off - until she discovers a body hanging from the kitchen rafters at a Halloween party. Finding herself dragged into the ensuing investigation, Elle turns to her new boyfriend, Devon Burke, the hunky local P.I. But while she''s learning to trust again and open her heart, she''s also discovering that trusting the wrong person can be a deadly mistake. With Devon distracted by new evidence in his parents'' murder case and Elle''s streak of bad luck continuing, is fate about to deliver them both into the hands of a determined killer?

DKK 91.00
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Buried in Beignets - J. R. Ripley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Buried in Beignets - J. R. Ripley - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Welcome to Table Rock, Arizona, the place where folks who aren''t too keen on the ''mainstream'' move to. Maggie Miller has come here to forget about her dead husband. OK, so he isn''t really dead. That''s just what she tells everybody. Recently divorced, Maggie flees Phoenix and the sight of her husband and his new wife and moves to Table Rock to be closer to her own family. She''s also planning on opening her own beignet and coffee business, Maggie''s Beignet Café.But that dead guy in her storeroom might just put a kink in her plans. Unless she can figure out who killed him, and why, she might never open for business . . .

DKK 185.00
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High Jinx - Shannon Esposito - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

High Jinx - Shannon Esposito - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

When doggie-yoga instructor Elle Pressley''s eccentric Greek client tells her she''s been cursed by the evil eye, Elle shrugs it off - until she discovers a body hanging from the kitchen rafters at a Halloween party. Finding herself dragged into the ensuing investigation, Elle turns to her new boyfriend, Devon Burke, the hunky local P.I. But while she''s learning to trust again and open her heart, she''s also discovering that trusting the wrong person can be a deadly mistake. With Devon distracted by new evidence in his parents'' murder case and Elle''s streak of bad luck continuing, is fate about to deliver them both into the hands of a determined killer?

DKK 301.00
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Person Unlimited - Dean Atta - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Person Unlimited - Dean Atta - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

You''ve fought and you''ve run away. You''ve danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise. Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes you wanted to be held. With all that you''ve endured, you are nothing less than miraculous. From choirboy to drag act, grandson to mentor, poet to lover, Dean Atta has played many roles in his life. In this formally inventive, candid and courageous book, he explores what he has carried in his body: wins and losses, shame and pride, pain and joy. Dean also investigates how radical self-acceptance and a willingness to abide with discomfort open up the possibility of a life lived beyond definition: a person unlimited.

DKK 126.00
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Murder on the Books - Toni Lotempio - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Murder on the Books - Toni Lotempio - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Newly retired mystery writer Charley James returns to her small hometown only to find herself amidst a real-life murder mystery in this first book in the brand new Cozy Bookshop mystery series by award-winning and national bestselling author T.C. LoTempio. "I was hooked from start to finish!" Laura Childs, New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop mysteries, on Eat, Drink and Drop Dead Thirty-year-old Charlotte James, better known to her mystery fans as C.J. Barrett, decides to take a break from writing her popular Steve Sheppard mystery series. Leaving New York City, she moves back to her hometown of Austin to wind down, recuperate, and maybe come up with some new ideas for her books. Settling into her new life, Charley reunites with her long-term friend and baker Zane who is about to open a charming double store front. But while Zane is ready to open her café, her business partner Sheila unexpectedly departs town, bailing on her bookshop and leaving nothing but a note behind. Charley is more than happy to take over, but when she finds Sheila''s body in a chest in the store''s basement, things take a dramatic turn. Now Charley has to juggle the opening of her bookshop, a stoic but attractive Philadelphia detective, and a stray cat, all while solving Sheila''s murder Sheppard-style before the killer can strike again! Fans of Jenn McKinlay, Ellery Adams, Lucy Connelly, Lauren Elliott, and Ellie Alexander will love this cozy mystery "featuring a plucky, likable heroine, plenty of suspense [and] unexpected twists" ( Booklist ).

DKK 233.00
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At Death's Window - Jim Kelly - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

At Death's Window - Jim Kelly - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

A Shaw & Valentine mystery When a body is discovered beneath the waves off Scolt Head Island, the contents of the dead man''s pockets lead Detective Inspector Peter Shaw to suspect an outbreak of ''samphire wars'': a turf battle for control of the prized sea asparagus which sells for a small fortune along the affluent North Norfolk coast. Or does the killer merely want it to look that way? Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant George Valentine is investigating a series of break-ins targeted at wealthy second-home owners. And a lethal strain of adulterated cocaine is flooding the streets of nearby Lynn, leaving devastation in its wake. Then the second body is found - and the simmering tensions underpinning this remote coastal community come bursting into the open . with devastating consequences.

DKK 185.00
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Death and the Chevalier - Robin Blake - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Death and the Chevalier - Robin Blake - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

As the Young Pretender and his Jacobite army approach, Coroner Titus Cragg must solve a brutal murder - and prevent himself being executed for the crime. November, 1745. Preston, Lancashire. Rumours abound that Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, has landed in Scotland, intent on marching south to claim the English throne. Meanwhile Coroner Titus Cragg must investigate a headless body discovered in an icy pond. There is evidence to suggest a connection with the approaching rebel army - unless someone is deliberately using the Highlanders'' invasion as a cover for murder. As simmering tensions, conflicting loyalties and open hostilities engulf the town, Cragg finds himself arrested for murder. In order to clear his name and escape execution by firing squad, Titus must team up with his old friend, Dr Luke Fidelis, to expose the real killer.

DKK 77.00
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Poetry Unbound - Padraig O Tuama - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Poetry Unbound - Padraig O Tuama - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry Unbound This inspiring collection, edited by Pádraig Ó Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Pádraig''s illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem.Engaging, accessible and inviting, Poetry Unbound is the perfect companion for everyone who loves poetry and for anyone who wants to go deeper into poetry but doesn''t necessarily know how to do so. Poetry Unbound contains expanded reflections on poems as heard on the podcast, as well as exclusive new selections. Contributors include Hanif Abdurraqib, Patience Agbabi, Raymond Antrobus, Margaret Atwood, Ada Limón, Kei Miller, Roger Robinson, Lemn Sissay, Layli Long Soldier and more.

DKK 190.00
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Death and the Chevalier - Robin Blake - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

Death and the Chevalier - Robin Blake - Bog - Canongate Books - Plusbog.dk

As the Young Pretender and his Jacobite army approach, Coroner Titus Cragg must solve a brutal murder - and prevent himself being executed for the crime. November, 1745. Preston, Lancashire. Rumours abound that Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, has landed in Scotland, intent on marching south to claim the English throne. Meanwhile Coroner Titus Cragg must investigate a headless body discovered in an icy pond. There is evidence to suggest a connection with the approaching rebel army - unless someone is deliberately using the Highlanders'' invasion as a cover for murder. As simmering tensions, conflicting loyalties and open hostilities engulf the town, Cragg finds himself arrested for murder. In order to clear his name and escape execution by firing squad, Titus must team up with his old friend, Dr Luke Fidelis, to expose the real killer.

DKK 167.00
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