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The Push - Tommy Caldwell - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Push - Tommy Caldwell - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE STORY BEHIND THE HARDEST CLIMB IN HISTORY & ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY ''DAWN WALL'' ''Heart-stopping, absorbing'' Daily Mail ''The most daring free climber on the planet'' The Times __________ In 2015, climber Tommy Caldwell took on the hardest challenge of his life, spending 19 days freeclimbing Yosemite''s vertical, 3000-foot Dawn Wall - regarded as the most difficult climb in history and a route nobody had ever done before. This odds-defying feat was the culmination of seven years planning and a lifetime of determination. Here, he recounts how he got there, the falls and setbacks - being held hostage, losing his index finger, the break-up of his marriage - the summits conquered and the fears overcome. Fans of Free Solo and Dawn Wall , and climbers and non-climbers alike, will be gripped by this story of drive, focus and achieving the impossible. __________ '' The Push is not simply a book about rock climbing'' Guardian ''Probably the greatest living athlete most people have never heard of'' Telegraph ''Arguably the best all-round rock climber on the planet'' National Geographic ''A real page-turner . . . captivating and deeply moving'' Climb magazine ''Captivating and unfailingly honest'' Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air

DKK 155.00
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City of Tiny Lights - Patrick Neate - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

City of Tiny Lights - Patrick Neate - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

***Now a film starring Riz Ahmed , Billie Piper , James Floyd, Cush Jumbo , Roshan Seth and Antonio Aakeel *** Meet Tommy Akhtar, Ugandan Asian cricket fan, devoted son, and not very successful private investigator with offices over his brother Gundappa''s mini-cab firm in deepest West London.He''s just woken up from his hangover (combing the parting on his tongue) when his next case comes through the door. It looks like just another investigation when hooker Melody comes into his office asking him to find her co-worker, Natasha, last seen meeting new client at a bar in Shepherd''s Market.But as the search for Natasha intensifies, Tommy''s world becomes increasingly sinister. He is drawn into a murder investigation, the criminal underworld, the world of fundamentalist religion and maybe even terrorist activities. Neate brilliantly explores the oddball underbelly and wierd cultural mix of London - The City of Tiny Lights - today and questions just what it really means to be British now. . .

DKK 161.00
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City of Tiny Lights - Patrick Neate - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

City of Tiny Lights - Patrick Neate - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

***Now a film starring Riz Ahmed , Billie Piper , James Floyd, Cush Jumbo , Roshan Seth and Antonio Aakeel *** Meet Tommy Akhtar, Ugandan Asian cricket fan, devoted son, and not very successful private investigator with offices over his brother Gundappa''s mini-cab firm in deepest West London.He''s just woken up from his hangover (combing the parting on his tongue) when his next case comes through the door. It looks like just another investigation when hooker Melody comes into his office asking him to find her co-worker, Natasha, last seen meeting new client at a bar in Shepherd''s Market.But as the search for Natasha intensifies, Tommy''s world becomes increasingly sinister. He is drawn into a murder investigation, the criminal underworld, the world of fundamentalist religion and maybe even terrorist activities. Neate brilliantly explores the oddball underbelly and wierd cultural mix of London - The City of Tiny Lights - today and questions just what it really means to be British now. . .

DKK 161.00
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Seize the Day - Saul Bellow - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Seize the Day - Saul Bellow - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as ''the type that loses the girl'') and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding, and offers him one last hope ...

DKK 113.00
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Nemesis - Gregg Hurwitz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Nemesis - Gregg Hurwitz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

PRE-ORDER THE INCREDIBLE TENTH BOOK IN THE ORPHAN-X SERIES - GUARANTEED TO THRILL YOU FROM PAGE ONE . . .--- NO GREATER FRIEND Evan Smoak is the guy you want on your side. A former government black ops assassin, he''ll be there for you in your darkest hour - and he''ll rain hell and thunder on those who caused your pain. NO WORSE ENEMY A lone wolf operator, Evan can''t afford to lose any of the few people he likes and trusts. But when Tommy Stojack, Evan''s loyal, long-time gunsmith and armourer, betrays him, it''s war.Because a good assassin keeps his friends close, but his weapons closer . . . --- Praise for the Orphan X series ''Feels like a missile launch'' DAVID BALDACCI ''Outstanding in every way'' LEE CHILD ''Weapons-grade thriller writing'' GUARDIAN ''An immensely entertaining adventure'' THE TIMES

DKK 120.00
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Nemesis - Gregg Hurwitz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Nemesis - Gregg Hurwitz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE INCREDIBLE TENTH BOOK IN THE ORPHAN-X SERIES - GUARANTEED TO THRILL YOU FROM PAGE ONE . . . ''Outstanding in every way'' LEE CHILD ''Laughs as well as action. A thriller that makes the Jack Reacher books look quaint'' Sun -- NO GREATER FRIEND Evan Smoak is the guy you want on your side. A former government black ops assassin, he''ll be there for you in your darkest hour - and he''ll rain hell and thunder on those who caused your pain. NO WORSE ENEMY A lone wolf operator, Evan can''t afford to lose any of the few people he likes and trusts. But when Tommy Stojack, Evan''s loyal, long-time gunsmith and armourer, betrays him, it''s war. Because a good assassin keeps his friends close, but his weapons closer . . . -- ''He is a weapon of mass entertainment and the action never stops'' Daily Express '' First-rate, deftly varied combat scenes'' The Times Praise for the Orphan X series ''Feels like a missile launch'' DAVID BALDACCI ''Outstanding in every way'' LEE CHILD ''Weapons-grade thriller writing'' GUARDIAN ''An immensely entertaining adventure'' THE TIMES

DKK 161.00
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Nemesis - Gregg Hurwitz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Nemesis - Gregg Hurwitz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE INCREDIBLE TENTH BOOK IN THE ORPHAN-X SERIES - GUARANTEED TO THRILL YOU FROM PAGE ONE . . . ''Outstanding in every way'' LEE CHILD ''Laughs as well as action. A thriller that makes the Jack Reacher books look quaint'' Sun -- NO GREATER FRIEND Evan Smoak is the guy you want on your side. A former government black ops assassin, he''ll be there for you in your darkest hour - and he''ll rain hell and thunder on those who caused your pain. NO WORSE ENEMY A lone wolf operator, Evan can''t afford to lose any of the few people he likes and trusts. But when Tommy Stojack, Evan''s loyal, long-time gunsmith and armourer, betrays him, it''s war. Because a good assassin keeps his friends close, but his weapons closer . . . -- ''He is a weapon of mass entertainment and the action never stops'' Daily Express '' First-rate, deftly varied combat scenes'' The Times Praise for the Orphan X series ''Feels like a missile launch'' DAVID BALDACCI ''Outstanding in every way'' LEE CHILD ''Weapons-grade thriller writing'' GUARDIAN ''An immensely entertaining adventure'' THE TIMES

DKK 168.00
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The Zoo - Isobel Charman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Zoo - Isobel Charman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How one man''s mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the world The creation of London Zoo - when only one other existed across the world - is a story of jaw-dropping audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival keepers and aristocratic naturalists collecting amazing animals from all around the world - and sending them to what was dubbed "the ark" by the mocking press.Telling this almost unbelievable true story, Isobel Charman depicts a highly colourful but often forgotten moment in cultural history, through the eyes of incredible characters both famous and unfamiliar - from Stamford Raffles, Lord Stanley and a young Charles Darwin, to the chief competitor, the medical attendant and the head keeper.And then there are the animals! Based on unprecedented research, Charman describes Tommy the Chimpanzee who lived, homesick, in his keeper''s house; the giraffes that walked through the city and scared the cows; and Obaysch the celebrity hippo, the first that anyone in Britain had ever seen.Against a background of domestic reform and industrialisation, this is the thoroughly refreshing story of the weird and wonderful oasis at the heart of an global empire. It''s a new history of a new world.

DKK 161.00
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Trouble is My Business - Raymond Chandler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Trouble is My Business - Raymond Chandler - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he''s got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel.'' In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business , Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who''s ''got her hooks into a rich man''s pup''. Before too long Marlowe''s up to his neck in corpses and cops and he''s taken pity on the girl. There''s nothing like making trouble out of your business . . .The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler: slick, crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat and won''t let go until the last page is turned.''Age does not wither Chandler''s prose'' Literary Review''Chandler''s prose flies off the pages like a burst from a Tommy gun. Chandler was perhaps the finest exponent of the fledgling genre now known as pulp fiction'' Scottish Field ''One of the greatest crime writers, who set the standards others still try to attain'' Sunday Times ''Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner . . . An original . . . A great artist'' Boston Review ''Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since'' Paul Auster Discover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.

DKK 120.00
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The Kidnapping - Ronan Mcgreevy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Kidnapping - Ronan Mcgreevy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The No. 1 Bestseller in True Crime on Kindle ‘A major page-turner . . . fascinating’ Nicola Tallant, Crime World podcast --- November 1983. Early morning in suburban south Dublin. Businessman Don Tidey is snatched from his car and the IRA has its latest kidnap victim. Weeks later he is tracked down to an isolated Leitrim wood, but in saving Tidey’s life a recruit garda and a soldier lose theirs. The Kidnapping is a brilliantly reported account of this landmark event by two accomplished journalists and Leitrim natives. Delving deep, they provide a chilling account of the lead-up to Tidey’s abduction, the massive manhunt that followed, his bloody rescue, the botched attempts to capture his abductors and the devastating fall-out – personal and national – that followed.At the heart of The Kidnapping revealing interviews with Don Tidey – speaking about his experience in detail for the first time – and with the families of Garda Gary Sheehan and Private Patrick Kelly, provide a startling and moving testimony of the lasting impact of these traumatic events. It is both a gripping read and one that raises profound questions for today’s Ireland.---‘Riveting . . . a triumph . . . intertwining personal narratives with wider themes of remembrance, loss, courage and blame’ Gary Murphy, Irish Examiner ‘Vividly written, deeply insightful, extremely timely’ Business Post ‘A fascinating read . . . beyond that, it’s an important document’ Mick Clifford, The Mick Clifford Podcast ‘A harrowing story . . . [but] an enjoyable book’ Irish Mail on Sunday ‘An important reminder of our imperfect, contentious past’ Tommy Gorman, Irish Times ‘Vivid . . . [shows] a deep understanding . . . insightful and emotional’ Sunday Independent

DKK 120.00
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As Young as This - Roxy Dunn - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

As Young as This - Roxy Dunn - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''This debut novel about womanhood and expectations will be one of the most exciting of the year'' INDEPENDENT, the best fiction books to read in 2024''A young woman''s life, told through the men she has dated. With glorious attention to detail and emotional fluency, Dunn charts the ways in which we are built and broken by love'' PANDORA SYKES*** An irresistible and achingly relatable debut novel for anyone who has ever had to let go of what they thought their life would look like and open themselves up to the dizzying possibilities of chance. Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men Margot has loved, liked, lusted over.Since she was seventeen, she’s pictured them like stepping stones – each one bringing her closer to finding someone to share her life with and, eventually, father the children she’s always imagined in her future.From her first sexual encounter, to her first love, from grown-up dilemmas to spontaneous thrills, she’s soaked up every experience available to her, discovering friendship, joy and despair. Through all of this she’s refined her search until she believes she’s arrived at ‘the ending’ to her story.So how did she find herself here, single at thirty-four, and about to make the biggest decision of her life? ''Raw, funny and beautiful . . . A really gorgeously observed novel about youth and womanhood'' DAISY BUCHANAN, author of Careering ''Relatable, poignant and gripping ... I read it in a single day'' LIBBY PAGE, author of The Lido ''Warm, witty, wise . . . A thoughtful and moving portrait that made me laugh and cry'' CHLOË ASHBY, author of Wet Paint

DKK 162.00
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As Young as This - Roxy Dunn - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

As Young as This - Roxy Dunn - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''This debut novel about womanhood and expectations will be one of the most exciting of the year'' INDEPENDENT, the best fiction books to read in 2024''A young woman''s life, told through the men she has dated. With glorious attention to detail and emotional fluency, Dunn charts the ways in which we are built and broken by love'' PANDORA SYKES*** An irresistible and achingly relatable debut novel for anyone who has ever had to let go of what they thought their life would look like and open themselves up to the dizzying possibilities of chance. Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men Margot has loved, liked, lusted over.Since she was seventeen, she’s pictured them like stepping stones – each one bringing her closer to finding someone to share her life with and, eventually, father the children she’s always imagined in her future.From her first sexual encounter, to her first love, from grown-up dilemmas to spontaneous thrills, she’s soaked up every experience available to her, discovering friendship, joy and despair. Through all of this she’s refined her search until she believes she’s arrived at ‘the ending’ to her story.So how did she find herself here, single at thirty-four, and about to make the biggest decision of her life? ''Raw, funny and beautiful . . . A really gorgeously observed novel about youth and womanhood'' DAISY BUCHANAN, author of Careering ''Relatable, poignant and gripping ... I read it in a single day'' LIBBY PAGE, author of The Lido ''Warm, witty, wise . . . A thoughtful and moving portrait that made me laugh and cry'' CHLOË ASHBY, author of Wet Paint

DKK 148.00
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Survivor on the River Kwai - Reg Twigg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Survivor on the River Kwai - Reg Twigg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of one of the last survivors of the Burma Railway. February 1942. A young British soldier is caught up in the worst defeat in the history of the British Army, the fall of Singapore. Reg Twigg spends the next three years in hell, moving from jungle camp to jungle camp and building the Burma Railway for the all-conquering Japanese. Beaten, tortured, starving and forced to watch his comrades die, Reg fights for his survival, stealing from his captors, trapping animals and even making his own tobacco. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius. As moving and harrowing as The Last Fighting Tommy, with the drama of David Lean''s The Bridge Over the River Kwai and the heart of The Forgotten Highlander, Survivor on the River Kwai is Reg''s story - his pain, his triumphs and even his forgiveness.Reg Twigg was born at Wigston (Leicester) barracks on 16 December 1913. He was called up to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1940 but instead of fighting Hitler he was sent to the Far East, stationed at Singapore. When captured by the Japanese, he decided he would do everything to survive.After his repatriation from the Far East, Reg returned to Leicester. With his family he returned to Thailand in 2006, and revisited the sites of the POW camps. Reg died in 2013, at the age of ninety-nine, two weeks before the publication of this book.

DKK 120.00
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Champagne Football - Paul Rowan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Champagne Football - Paul Rowan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE NO.1 BESTSELLER!''I read it in one sitting, it''s a superb book'' Eamon Dunphy, The Stand ''An astonishing exposé'' Martin Ziegler, The Times Over the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own personal fiefdom. He had his critics, but his power was never seriously challenged until last year, when Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan published a sequence of stories in the Sunday Times containing damaging revelations about his personal compensation and the parlous financial situation of the FAI. Delaney''s reputation as a great financial manager was left in tatters. He resigned under pressure, and the FAI was left hoping for a massive bail-out from the Irish taxpayer.In Champagne Football , Tighe and Rowan dig deep into the story of Delaney''s career and of the FAI''s slide into ruin. They show how he surrounded himself with people whose personal loyalty he could count on, and a board that failed to notice that the association''s finances were shot. They detail Delaney''s skilful cultivation of opinion-formers outside the FAI. And they document the culture of excess that Delaney presided over and benefited from, to the detriment of the organization he led. Champagne Football is a gripping, sometimes darkly hilarious and often enraging piece of reporting by the award-winning journalists who finally pulled back the curtain on the FAI''s mismanagement.____________ ''Excellent'' Irish Sun ''A jaw-dropping story ... brilliant'' Irish Times ''Essential reading'' Irish Daily Star ''Astonishing ... Side-splittingly hilarious'' Guardian ''A damning account'' Sunday Independent ''An instant classic, one of the all-time great Irish sports books'' Alan English ''Excellent ... includes staggering detail'' Daily Mail ''A cracking read ... [An] incredible amount of jaw-dropping detail'' Matt Cooper ''One of the most hotly-anticipated sport books of the year'' Brendan O''Connor ''A masterpiece'' Tommy Martin ''At last, the truth of his ruinous reign has been rigorously and painstakingly exposed'' Irish Daily Mail '' An absolutely extraordinary book'' Eoin McDevitt, Second Captains ''Remarkable. The desperate story of Irish football but also a book about how Ireland works. Outstanding'' Dion Fanning

DKK 127.00
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