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Strandings - Peter Riley - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Strandings - Peter Riley - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Now the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary''Wild and wonderful ... I doubt anyone will ever match Strandings for its sheer bravura, its wry insight, and its absolute, engulfing, and brilliantly enlivening whaleheadedness''PHILIP HOARE, ALBERT AND THE WHALE''Addictive and scandalously fascinating'' Caught by the RiverWhen Peter Riley was thirteen, a woman with blue hair and a comet tattoo asked him to help load the jaw of a sperm whale into the back of a Volvo 245. The encounter set Riley on a decades-long quest to make sense of what had happened.Enter the secretive world of whale scavengers. When a whale washes up on one of Britain''s coasts, a fugitive community descends to claim trophies from the carcass. Some are driven by magical beliefs. Some are motivated by profit: there is a black market for everything from ambergris to whaletooth sex toys. But for others, the need goes much deeper.Join Riley on a tour of a stranded kingdom''s weird outer reaches, where nothing is as it seems. Meet witches, pedlars, fetishists, conspiracy theorists and fallen aristocrats. And prepare for a final revelation, as the mystery of the comet woman tangles with the enigmatic symbol of Leviathan itself, beached on Britain''s fatal shore.

DKK 155.00
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Is This Love? - C. E. Riley - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Is This Love? - C. E. Riley - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''This is a book about the untidy, complicated underbelly of love and love''s end. Funny and true, wise and utterly authentic, you will recognise yourself over and over. I loved it'' Kit de Waal ''A deeply unsettling, but unputdownable account of a marriage unravelling. This book held me captivated with its wit, ambiguity and complexity'' Abi Morgan, creator of The SplitDid you mean to marry me?Did you understand the vows that we took? J''s wife has left, and J is trying to understand why. How could someone you loved so much, who claimed to love you once, just walk away? How could they send divorce papers accusing you of terrible things, when all you''ve ever done is tried to make them happy? Narrated by J in the days, weeks and months after the marriage collapses, and interspersed with the departed wife''s diary entries, Is This Love? is an addictive, deeply unsettling, and provocative novel of deception and betrayal, and passion turned to pain. As the story unfolds, and each character''s version of events undermines the other, all our assumptions about victimhood, agency, love and control are challenged - for we never know J''s gender. If we did, would it change our minds about who was telling the truth?

DKK 149.00
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Is This Love? - C. E. Riley - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Is This Love? - C. E. Riley - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''This is a book about the untidy, complicated underbelly of love and love''s end. Funny and true, wise and utterly authentic, you will recognise yourself over and over. I loved it.'' Kit de WaalDid you mean to marry me?Did you understand the vows that we took?J''s wife has left, and J is trying to understand why. How could someone you loved so much, who claimed to love you once, just walk away? How could they send divorce papers accusing you of terrible things, when all you''ve ever done is tried to make them happy? Narrated by J in the days, weeks and months after the marriage collapses, and interspersed with the departed wife''s diary entries, Is This Love? is an addictive, deeply unsettling, and provocative novel of deception and betrayal, and passion turned to pain. As the story unfolds, and each character''s version of events undermines the other, all our assumptions about victimhood, agency, love and control are challenged - for we never know J''s gender. If we did, would it change our minds about who was telling the truth?

DKK 113.00
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Nowhere Burning - Catriona Ward - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Nowhere Burning - Catriona Ward - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A refuge for lost children may also be their prison... High in the mountains sits Nowhere, a verdant valley surrounded by walls of rock. People have lived at Nowhere for centuries, though never for long, and rarely happily. Its last owner was its most famous; Leaf Winham, legendary movie star, who built Nowhere House as his refuge. A place to hide from his fame, and a place to hide his crimes. Only when Nowhere House went up in flames were the thirteen graves discovered in the grounds, the last resting places of thirteen young men who would never go home. Years later, fourteen-year-old Riley pulls her younger brother Oliver from his bed in the middle of the night, drawn by the promise of Nowhere. It is rumoured that the valley is now home to abandoned and runaway children, a place where adults cannot enter, and Riley hopes to find a new family there. Beyond the barred gates, Marc has travelled a thousand miles to make a documentary about the Nowhere Children and the legacy of Leaf Winham. But the children are fierce in defending their valley and their secrets. For something dark lives in the burned shell of Nowhere House, something which asks a terrible price for sanctuary...

DKK 168.00
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Nowhere Burning - Catriona Ward - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Nowhere Burning - Catriona Ward - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A refuge for lost children may also be their prison... High in the mountains sits Nowhere, a verdant valley surrounded by walls of rock. People have lived at Nowhere for centuries, though never for long, and rarely happily. Its last owner was its most famous; Leaf Winham, legendary movie star, who built Nowhere House as his refuge. A place to hide from his fame, and a place to hide his crimes. Only when Nowhere House went up in flames were the thirteen graves discovered in the grounds, the last resting places of thirteen young men who would never go home. Years later, fourteen-year-old Riley pulls her younger brother Oliver from his bed in the middle of the night, drawn by the promise of Nowhere. It is rumoured that the valley is now home to abandoned and runaway children, a place where adults cannot enter, and Riley hopes to find a new family there. Beyond the barred gates, Marc has travelled a thousand miles to make a documentary about the Nowhere Children and the legacy of Leaf Winham. But the children are fierce in defending their valley and their secrets. For something dark lives in the burned shell of Nowhere House, something which asks a terrible price for sanctuary...

DKK 155.00
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