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Young Romantics - Daisy Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Young Romantics - Daisy Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

‘A most impressive achievement'' Michael Holroyd ''Enthralling'' Sunday Times ''Masterly'' Telegraph _______________________ ''The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn''- John KeatsIn Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist and editor of The Examiner , took centre stage. He bound together the restless Shelley and his brilliant wife Mary, author of Frankenstein ; Mary''s feisty step-sister Claire Clairmont, who became Byron''s lover and the mother of his child; and Hunt''s charismatic sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent. With authority, sparkling prose and constant insight Daisy Hay describes their travels in France, Switzerland and Italy, their artistic triumphs, their headstrong ways, their grievous losses and their devastating tragedies. Young Romantics explores the history of the group, from its inception in Leigh Hunt''s prison cell in 1813 to its ultimate disintegration in the years following 1822. It encompasses tales of love, betrayal, sacrifice and friendship, all of which were played out against a background of political turbulence and intense literary creativity. This smouldering turmoil of strained relationships and insular friendships would ferment to inspire the drama of Frankenstein , the heady idealism of Shelley''s poetry, and Byron''s own self-loathing, self-loving public persona.Above all the characters are rendered on the page with marvellous vitality, and this is a gloriously entrancing and revelatory read, the debut of a young biographer of the highest calibre and enormous promise.

DKK 168.00
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Hay Fever - Noel Coward - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Hay Fever - Noel Coward - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

"This 1925 comedy of manners that''s funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself." - Evening Standard When four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they''re expecting a idyllic retreat. But this peaceful promise is quickly trounced when the self-absorbed eccentricities of the Blisses are trained on the guests, who leave the country mansion humiliated and embarrassed.First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is a technical masterpiece, seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners, and delivering Coward his first major commercial success.This new edition is published in Methuen Drama''s iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 125th anniversary of Coward’s birth and features a new introduction by Michael Billington.

DKK 144.00
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Ethiopia, the Unknown Land - Stuart Munro Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Ethiopia, the Unknown Land - Stuart Munro Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Ethiopia, legendary home of the Queen of Sheba who travelled to Jerusalem to meet Solomon, resting-place of the Ark of the Covenant and battleground of the great emperors from Ezana in the 4th century AD to Haile Selassie in modern times, has inspired many travellers and writers since time immemorial. Recently few have journeyed there or, indeed, have any conception of the extraordinary cultural treasures that await visitors. Stuart Munro-Hay knows Ethiopia intimately, having lived and researched there over many years. He has produced the first truly comprehensive guide to the monuments of this beautiful, culture-steeped country, as well as offering a literary companion. Here is a guide to Ethiopia''s architecture, geography, peoples, art and history, embracing all the major sites of the land over the ages. It will become the classic reference guide.

DKK 338.00
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Political Analysis - Colin Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Political Analysis - Colin Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis.

DKK 484.00
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Islam - Stuart C. Munro Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Islam - Stuart C. Munro Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

This lavishly illustrated work by two renowned scholars narrates the history of the spread of Islam all over the world, from its birth in Arabia in the seventh century to the present day. Islam remains an active and stillspreading phenomenon whose influence in different parts of the world is profound, and, to many non-Muslims, mysterious and little understood. With its 180 maps, 200 illustrations and carefully prepared text, the book brings clarity and under-standing to a religious and cultural force of great contemporary significance.

DKK 339.00
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Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene - Dr Jonathan Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene - Dr Jonathan Hay - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species’ place within our own world, this book is a deep dive into the similarities between science fiction studies and critical posthumanism and how they can be read together . Both fields fantasise about future technologies, envisage alienness through conversation with everyday life and both anticipate the Anthropocene as a dire source of rupture from the present. Drawing inspiration from these and other consonances, this book establishes a common theoretical ground between the two fields, upon which the two currents of future-oriented thought can meet and begin to share a common language. An investigation that draws critical currency from the everyday condition of our species in relation to technology and our perilous situation in the Anthropocene, the book observes posthumanism not just as a theoretical framework that may be applied to science fictional ideas, but also as an integral part of how it is that science fiction is generated. Featuring case studies of the work of prominent authors Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin and Kim Stanley Robinson, alongside the BBC television series Doctor Who and the cult videogame Outer Wilds , Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene formulates a new critical paradigm which recognises the value of such works to posthumanist thought. Addressing those with an interest in either academic discipline, it demonstrates that urgent discourses around our shared future are more imperative now than ever before.

DKK 909.00
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San Juan Hill 1898 - Angus Konstam - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

San Juan Hill 1898 - Angus Konstam - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Labelled a ''splendid little war'' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War (1898) was a peculiar event in America''s history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals with the clashes at Las Guasimas and El Caney, the capture of San Juan Hill, and the naval battle and siege of Santiago. The war was to mark the end of Spanish sovereignty in her ''New World'', and the establishment of the United States of America as a world power.

DKK 176.00
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Once Upon A Silent Night - Dawn Casey - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Once Upon A Silent Night - Dawn Casey - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Once upon a silent night, a stable stood. A star shone bright. It is midnight on Christmas Eve, and a child is about to be born in a stable. How can the creatures help? First, the cow offers up his manger, and the donkey gives his hay. The doves will sing the babe to sleep, the trees will watch over him, and the moon will fill his dreams with silver light. It''s a moment of magic, as a little child enters the world and brings with him the most precious gift of all: love.A beautiful and timeless retelling of the nativity story, with a lyrical rhyming text and luminous illustrations, this book is the perfect Christmas gift.

DKK 134.00
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Once Upon A Silent Night - Dawn Casey - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Once Upon A Silent Night - Dawn Casey - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Once upon a silent night, a stable stood. A star shone bright. It is midnight on Christmas Eve, and a child is about to be born in a stable. How can the creatures help? First, the cow offers up his manger, and the donkey gives his hay. The doves will sing the babe to sleep, the trees will watch over him, and the moon will fill his dreams with silver light. It''s a moment of magic, as a little child enters the world and brings with him the most precious gift of all: love.A beautiful and timeless retelling of the nativity story, with a lyrical rhyming text and luminous illustrations, this book is the perfect Christmas gift.

DKK 107.00
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Meadows - George Peterken - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Meadows - George Peterken - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The second volume of a major new series of books on British natural history. Meadows provide one of the most wide-ranging and eloquent treatments of this most quintessential British habitat. Yet the flower-rich hay meadows that have inspired writers and artists for hundreds of years have almost disappeared from our countryside. In this exceptional work, George Peterken, one of our most respected ecologists, brings together years of research and discovery from his travels across Britain and Europe, as well as an understanding borne out of caring for his own meadows, to produce a book that will put this often misunderstood habitat back in the public’s eye. Filled with beautiful images of meadows and their denizens, this is a book everyone with an interest in this iconic habitat will want to own.

DKK 406.00
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10 Marchfield Square - Nicola Whyte - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

10 Marchfield Square - Nicola Whyte - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

‘Cosy and classy in equal measure’ JANICE HALLETT‘Beautifully unguessable ... bursting with life ... brilliant!’ ALEX HAY The Maid meets Only Murders in the Building in this twist-packed cosy mystery set in the smallest residential square in London. Marchfield Square was meant to be a haven from the outside world. A place for those who need somewhere safe from their pasts, or who could otherwise not afford to stay in the city they call home. That was Celeste Van Duren''s plan. One of her tenants being murdered in his own kitchen, and the police trying to pin it on his long-suffering wife, was not.So Celeste does what anyone with a lot of money, a strong sense of justice and a bad hip would do: she recruits some help to track down the real murderer. Her cleaner, Audrey, knows everyone in the square and is liked by all, while failed crime writer, Lewis, is known by no one. He hates his job, hates his life, and he’s not that fond of Audrey either, but Celeste is persuasive. In theory his knowledge of police procedure and her way with people should help them find the killer - if they don''t kill each other first...Despite their differences the two soon discover the victim’s dodgy art deals may hold the key to the mystery – but have they missed something closer to home? After all, how well do you really know your neighbours? The perfect summer read for fans of Tom Hindle, Janice Hallett and Kristen Perrin. ‘A hugely impressive debut that’s cosy and classy in equal measure. A super-smart and delightful mystery that teases out the secrets of an entire neighbourhood’ JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of THE APPEAL ‘I just loved 10 Marchfield Square . Clever, funny , ingeniously constructed – and what a cast ! The mystery is gripping and beautifully unguessable, the characters are bursting with life, and the square itself is drawn with such subtlety and love . Brilliant !’ ALEX HAY, bestselling author of THE HOUSEKEEPERS ‘Whyte crafts a brand new kind of cosy mystery that leaps off the page and keeps you thinking throughout ... A proper cosy whodunnit that oozes charm, wit and bloody murder ’ JONATHAN WHITELAW, author of THE BINGO HALL DETECTIVES ‘ Utterly delightful . Whyte writes with both cool wit and warm charm , and combines a charismatic cast of eccentric characters with a properly knotty murder mystery. This book is a real winner for anyone who wants a crime novel with a Golden Age feel but modern sensibilities. More please ’ ALICE BELL, author of GRAVE EXPECTATIONS

DKK 168.00
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10 Marchfield Square - Nicola Whyte - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

10 Marchfield Square - Nicola Whyte - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

‘Cosy and classy in equal measure’ JANICE HALLETT‘Beautifully unguessable ... bursting with life ... brilliant!’ ALEX HAY The Maid meets Only Murders in the Building in this twist-packed cosy mystery set in the smallest residential square in London. Marchfield Square was meant to be a haven from the outside world. A place for those who need somewhere safe from their pasts, or who could otherwise not afford to stay in the city they call home. That was Celeste Van Duren''s plan. One of her tenants being murdered in his own kitchen, and the police trying to pin it on his long-suffering wife, was not.So Celeste does what anyone with a lot of money, a strong sense of justice and a bad hip would do: she recruits some help to track down the real murderer. Her cleaner, Audrey, knows everyone in the square and is liked by all, while failed crime writer, Lewis, is known by no one. He hates his job, hates his life, and he’s not that fond of Audrey either, but Celeste is persuasive. In theory his knowledge of police procedure and her way with people should help them find the killer - if they don''t kill each other first...Despite their differences the two soon discover the victim’s dodgy art deals may hold the key to the mystery – but have they missed something closer to home? After all, how well do you really know your neighbours? The perfect summer read for fans of Tom Hindle, Janice Hallett and Kristen Perrin. ‘A hugely impressive debut that’s cosy and classy in equal measure. A super-smart and delightful mystery that teases out the secrets of an entire neighbourhood’ JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of THE APPEAL ‘I just loved 10 Marchfield Square . Clever, funny , ingeniously constructed – and what a cast ! The mystery is gripping and beautifully unguessable, the characters are bursting with life, and the square itself is drawn with such subtlety and love . Brilliant !’ ALEX HAY, bestselling author of THE HOUSEKEEPERS ‘Whyte crafts a brand new kind of cosy mystery that leaps off the page and keeps you thinking throughout ... A proper cosy whodunnit that oozes charm, wit and bloody murder ’ JONATHAN WHITELAW, author of THE BINGO HALL DETECTIVES ‘ Utterly delightful . Whyte writes with both cool wit and warm charm , and combines a charismatic cast of eccentric characters with a properly knotty murder mystery. This book is a real winner for anyone who wants a crime novel with a Golden Age feel but modern sensibilities. More please ’ ALICE BELL, author of GRAVE EXPECTATIONS

DKK 148.00
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Life at Walnut Tree Farm - Titus Rowlandson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Life at Walnut Tree Farm - Titus Rowlandson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

In 1970 Roger Deakin acquired Walnut Tree Farm, a semi-ruined Elizabethan farmhouse deep in the countryside of northern Suffolk, on the edge of Mellis Green, the largest area of common grazing land in England. The house''s thatch and roof beams were rotting; pigs and hens had been its last occupants and the floors were ankle deep in shit. Leaving swinging London behind, Deakin bought the farm in a spirit of ''back to the land'' fervour; and, in the coming decades, lovingly restored it. Deakin lived here until his death in 2006, dredging the moat (in which he swam daily), planting woods and buying more of the surrounding fields, where he grew hay and wild flowers. Walnut Tree Farm became a place of pilgrimage and inspiration for nature-lovers, writers, intellectuals and artists, while Deakin''s Waterlog has become a much-loved classic of nature writing and gave impetus to the wild swimming movement. Rufus Deakin and Titus Rowlandson offer a beautifully illustrated and designed record of the development of Deakin''s rural paradise, centred on a series of photographs taken by Roger Deakin himself, which record both the rebuilding of Walnut Tree Farm, the unique character of a remarkable building, and the seasonal cycle of nature in the land and countryside that surround it.

DKK 190.00
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Noel Coward - Professor Russell Jackson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Noel Coward - Professor Russell Jackson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of Noël Coward''s most significant plays. It examines his working practices as a playwright, from manuscript to performance. This study argues that, while he did not embrace any of the more radical theatrical ‘isms’ of his time, Coward experimented with both form and content. He adapted the familiar ‘well-made’ formulas, while also emphasizing theatrical self-consciousness and an exploration of radical social and sexual relationships. After an overview of Coward’s career and the reception of his plays, the work discusses selected texts from successive phases of Coward’s career, including some unproduced or uncompleted work and perennially popular plays such as The Vortex , Hay Fever , Private Lives , Design for Living, Blithe Spirit and Present Laughter . This study also explores how, in the aftermaths of two world wars, as major changes in social and political circumstances suggested new approaches to dramaturgy, Coward''s post-1945 work failed to achieve the same success he had enjoyed in earlier periods. The final chapter examines Coward’s approach to his craft in response to the new theatrical and cultural environment, and the new freedom in the treatment of homosexuality represented by Suite in Three Keys and his final, uncompleted play, Age Cannot Wither .

DKK 959.00
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Look! We Have Come Through! - Lara Feigel - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Look! We Have Come Through! - Lara Feigel - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

‘Her intensity and intimacy are engaging’ Blake Morrison, Guardian ‘A lovely, urgent, serious book'' Tessa Hadley ‘Refreshing and unexpected’ Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving literary criticism, biography and memoir, Look! We Have Come Through! is a captivating exhumation of an author and a compelling manifesto for exposing ourselves to difficult and dangerous views. Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window – their circling, strident calls – and thinks of D. H. Lawrence. It is the spring of 2020 and, as the pandemic takes hold, she locks down in rural Oxfordshire with her partner, her two children, and that most explosive of writers.Proceeding month by month through the year, she sets out to start again with Lawrence: to find vital literary companionship; to use him as a guide to rural living and even, unexpectedly, to child-rearing; to find a way through his writing to excavate the modern world she feels he helped bring into being. Tracing the arc of Lawrence’s life and delving deep into his writings, she confronts his anger, his passion, his tumultuous vitality. In the process, she faces some of today’s most urgent dilemmas, from secular religion to the climate crisis, from sex and sexuality to feminism’s ideas about motherhood. And, as she watches the seasons change alongside Lawrence, Feigel finds the rhythms of her own life shifting in unexpected ways.

DKK 127.00
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The Morning They Came for Us - Janine Di Giovanni - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

The Morning They Came for Us - Janine Di Giovanni - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the Hay Festival Award for Prose Winner of the 2016 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award Shortlisted for the New York Public Library''s Helen Bernstein Excellence in Journalism Award Shortlisted for the 2017 Moore Prize for Non-Fiction Literature In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria, marking the beginning of a long relationship with the country, as she began reporting from both sides of the conflict, witnessing its descent into one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught up in the fighting, Syria came to consume her every moment, her every emotion.Speaking to those directly involved in the war, di Giovanni relays the personal stories of rebel fighters thrown in jail at the least provocation; of children and families forced to watch loved ones taken and killed by regime forces with dubious justifications; and the stories of the elite, holding pool parties in Damascus hotels, trying to deny the human consequences of the nearby shelling.Delivered with passion, fearlessness and sensitivity, The Morning They Came for Us is an unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration, charting an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a jihadist war – and an unforgettable testament to human resilience in the face of devastating, unimaginable horrors.

DKK 127.00
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Africa39 - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Africa39 - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong''o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin Farah, Ben Okri, Aminatta Forna and Brian Chikwava. Who will be the next generation?Following the successful launch of Bogotá39 , which identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American talents, including Daniel Alarcon, Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize), Santiago Roncagliolo (Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and Juan Gabriel Vásquez (short-listed for the IFFP), and Beirut39 which published Randa Jarrar, Rabee Jaber, Joumana Haddad, Abdellah Taia and Samar Yazbek, Africa39 will bring to worldwide attention the best work from Africa and its diaspora. From the dazzling list of 39 writers chosen by the judges, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has selected richly rewarding short stories, extracts from novels, fables and other work by writers from Africa south of the Sahara, or its diaspora, and created a collection of some of the most varied and exciting new work in world literature today. Africa39 is a Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young African writers from south of the Sahara. It will be launched at the PH Book Festival in UNESCO''s World Book Capital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in October 2014. The three judges are: Margaret Busby, Elechi Amadi, Osonye Tess Onwueme

DKK 141.00
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