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The Strangers' Gallery - Jonathan Keates - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In 1847, Italy is on the brink of revolution. In Jonathan Keates'' highly acclaimed first novel, a young Englishman, Edward Rivers, arrives in the small town of Villafranca and an intriguing tale of passion, jealousy and betrayal unfolds. ''An unusual historical novel of love and death in nineteenth century Italy ... Jonathan Keates'' analysis of conflicting passions is so graciously wrought, and with so careful an attention to psychology, that it is hard to believe The Strangers'' Gallery is a first novel; a comparison with Stendhal''s Scarlet and Black would not go amiss.'' Independent This is a rich novel ... an extraordinary feat of imaginative transference into another age and culture.'' Financial Times ''It is surely close to another nineteenth century novel written in the twentieth century - Giuseppe di Lampedusa''s The Leopard .'' Spectator ''Italy before a revolution is described in exquisite miniature with every detail of place and mannerism picked out and placed under glass... perfect and faultless'' Sunday Times

DKK 157.00

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Detroit - Lisa D'amour - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

When Sharon and Kenny move into a long-empty house in the suburbs of an American city, they are welcomed by neighbours Ben and Mary. But, fuelled by alcohol and backyard barbecues, their new friendship veers rapidly out of control as inhibitions are obliterated, laying bare the fragility of Ben and Mary''s off-the-shelf lifestyle.Originally produced by Chicago''s Steppenwolf Theatre, Lisa D''Amour''s Detroit made its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in May 2012.''Convincing and compelling and tartly funny... This may well be the most effective play yet produced about our current economic doldrums.'' Variety

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The French Dispatch - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of a fictional American magazine published in a twentieth-century French city. The film is inspired, in part, by the histories and personalities - the editors and writers - of publications such as the Paris Review , the New York Review of Books and, especially, the New Yorker . In addition to the screenplay, this volume also contains a gallery of images from the film.

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The Boy Who Hit Play - Chloe Daykin - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''It''s time,'' I say. ''For ... It. Me. You. Us. The bench. The zoo. The question. Why? ''The only thing that Elvis Crampton Lucas knows about where he''s from is that he was found on the bench at a zoo. And that his now father took him home in a Stetson hat, and named him after the first three vinyl he picked off his shelf. But now, on his twelfth ''discovery day'', it''s time for Elvis to find out who left him at the zoo, and why?On an epic adventure that takes Elvis to an island off the coast of Norway, he will finally discover the truth about his past...

DKK 107.00

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Ducdame - John Cowper Powys - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Ducdame was John Cowper Powys'' fourth novel published in 1925. It is set in Dorset. The protagonist, Rook Ashover (a wonderfully Powysian name) is an introverted young squire with a dilemma: to go on loving his mistress, Netta Page, or, make a respectable marriage and produce an heir.Of his early novels (pre- Wolf Solent ) this one is often considered to be the most carefully constructed and best organized. Like them all it contains a gallery of rich, complex characters and glorious writing.

DKK 183.00

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Free Fall - William Golding - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''Marvellous.'' A.S. Byatt ''Astonishing.'' John Gray ''Luminous.'' Rose Tremain I could take whichever I would of these paths. Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness. He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices have made him the author of his life, interrogating religion and rationality, early loves and formative beliefs – and questioning freedom itself.

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What the Butler Saw - E. S. Turner - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''A book which goes on a special shelf in my library.'' P.G. Wodehouse What the Butler Saw (1962) is one of E.S. Turner''s most pertinent and illuminating ''social histories'', an exploration of the ''upstairs/downstairs'' relationship across three centuries of English life. Drawing on literature, contemporary accounts and household manuals, Turner describes in fascinating detail how it came to be that the upper classes felt a need for an ever larger household staff, engaged in every imaginable form of drudgery; and, accordingly, how those in service - from high to low, butler to footman, housemaid to au pair - had to give satisfaction to their masters and mistresses while also, on occasions, contending with physical blows, tantrums, and (in the cases of some unfortunate servant girls) threats to their virtue.

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The Storyteller - Mario Vargas Llosa - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the Amazon jungle. As he stares at the photograph, it dawns on him that he knows this man. The storyteller is not an Indian at all but his university classmate, Saul Zuratas, who was thought to have disappeared in Israel. As recollections of Zuratas flow through his mind, the writer begins to imagine Zuratas'' transformation into a member of the Machiguenga tribe.In The Storyteller , Mario Vargas Llosa has created a spellbinding tale of one man''s journey from the modern world to our origins.

DKK 126.00

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People of the Book - David Stacton - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

'' People of the Book is set in the Thirty Years'' War, which began and still shapes our present system of world order. David Stacton''s incomparable prose reveals how the treatises of scholars and the tactics of commanders so rarely comprehend the vagaries of the human condition. A book to put on the shelf with Thucydides'' Peloponnesian War and Tolstoy''s War and Peace .''Professor Charles Hill ( author of Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order) ''A troubling and fantastic book... Stacton sets up a duel plot. One follows the fortunes of the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus, the other recounts the fate of an orphaned boy and his little sister who try to make their way across Germany from their ruined home to refuge with an imagined uncle.'' Life ''[An] extraordinary evocation of the whole spiritual climate of the time; the very vapours of Teutonic mists seem to rise from its pages.'' Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times

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Asteroid City - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

ASTEROID CITY (adapted from a "hypothetical" play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. Synopsis: the itinerary of the annual Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. A theatrical ensemble character piece; a poetic meditation on the meaning of life.The film stars Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Margot Robbie, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, and Jake Ryan, among others.In addition to the screenplay, the book contains a gallery of colour images, and a conversation about the film with Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Jake Ryan.

DKK 155.00

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The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H., a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the two World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, a raging battle for an enormous family fortune, and the sweetest confection of a love affair – all against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.With sparkling dialogue, arresting visuals, vibrant charm, and a slowly building melancholy, The Grand Budapest Hotel is both sophisticated comedy and historical pastiche, the portrait of a hero (of sorts) in a dazzling but vanishing world.In addition to the screenplay, this volume also contains a gallery of images from the film.

DKK 139.00

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Ciara - David Harrower - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''I''m taking your eyes'', he''d say, ''and keeping them safe.'' ''I''m taking your ears and keeping them safe.'' Ciara''s father Mick kept her as his hidden treasure, making sure his only daughter was shielded from what he did and the men and women with whom he associated. Now Mick is dead and his legacy, so bound up in the landscape of Glasgow, that infamous no mean city, must be faced. As Ciara seeks to further the reputation of her art gallery, her world starts to fragment. Marked by the deep contradictions of her father, the art world and the place that made them all, she stands on a threshold. By confronting the past, her future blows wide open. Ciara by David Harrower premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2013.

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Moira Buffini: Plays 2 - Moira Buffini - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Dinner ''A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next . . . For those with strong stomachs, Dinner offers a delicious feast of comedy and the macabre.'' Daily Telegraph Dying for It ''A subversive Russian classic: one that addresses the ultimate question of "why live?"'' Guardian ''The play, freely adapted by Moira Buffini, presents a glorious gallery of comic types.'' Independent Welcome to Thebes ''It''s thrilling. Moira Buffini''s strange and daring play is moving, wise, funny, horrifying . . . Full of resonances you weren''t expecting, jokes you didn''t see coming . . . It raises huge questions with wit.'' The Times Handbagged Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre ''A phenomenon.'' Sunday Telegraph ''Perfectly pitched between the comic and the serious.'' Guardian

DKK 192.00

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Sylvia Plath: Drawings - Frieda Hughes - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

In 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: ''I feel I''m developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of. Wait til you see. The Cambridge sketch was nothing compared to these.'' Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration but, while her poetry is celebrated around the world, her drawings are little known. This volume brings together drawings from 1955 to 1957, the period she spent on a Fulbright scholarship from the US at Newnham College, Cambridge. During this time she married Ted Hughes and travelled with him to Paris and Spain.First published as a catalogue for an exhibition at the Mayor Gallery, the tiny drawings in pen and ink are exquisitely observed. They include Parisian rooftops, trees and churches.

DKK 152.00

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Isle of Dogs - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari, twelve-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by executive decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage dump, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior Turbo-Prop and flies to Trash Island in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and the future of the entire Prefecture. Isle of Dogs uniquely combines bittersweet comedy and tense action with a stunning visual palette. The screenplay displays the subtle wit that has become Wes Anderson''s trademark and has endeared his work to filmgoers around the world.In addition to the screenplay, this volume also contains a gallery of artwork created for the film.

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Cushing's Crusade - Tim Jeal - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Derek Cushing - thirtyish, balding, unassuming archivist/researcher into European expansion in East Africa - is also the son of Gilbert, father of Giles, and husband of Diana. On the last count, though, he has begun to fear that he is wearing cuckold''s horns. His plan for addressing the crisis leads him to take his wife, son and ageing father to stay at the Cornish mansion of the smooth-talking gallery owner he believes to be his wife''s lover. But this, at least, is a place where disputes may be brought to a head.First published in 1974, Cushing''s Crusade was Tim Jeal''s third novel, for which he won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.''Mr Jeal is a writer very much out of the ordinary, trenchant, elegant, subtle.'' Sunday Telegraph ''A charming, highly enjoyable and most accomplished novel.'' Nina Bawden, Telegraph ''Extremely funny, perceptive and moving.'' Guardian

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Farmer's Glory - A. G. Street - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Farmer''s Glory was first published in 1932. It was A. G. Street''s first book and remains his most famous. In his own modest words ''This book is simply an attempt to give a pen picture of farming life in Southern England and Western Canada.'' It succeeds memorably.Compton Mackenzie, reviewing it in the Daily Mail , wrote, ''Let me recommend it to the general public as a model of unpretentious English, an enthralling picture of rural life on both sides of the Atlantic, a manual of deadly common sense, and a thing of beauty. It will go on the shelf of my library with Cobbett''s Rural Rides and White''s Natural History of Selborne '' . The comment about ''unpretentious English'' is interesting. So exemplary was it considered to be in that respect, Cambridge University selected it as one of its set books for what was then School Certificate. His daughter, Pamela Street, marvelled at that, remembering he left school at the age of fifteen.''A classic within that special genre of country-writing ... a wealth of fine detail and anecdote ... the author''s voice and personality come through with an undimmed vividness - shrewd, dogged, humorous and charged with the warmth of humanity.'' Desmond Hawkins, Country Life

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Pax Britannica - Jan Morris - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of its vigour and self-satisfaction, imposing on the rest of the world its traditions and tastes, its idealists and rascals. The Pax Britannica Trilogy also includes Heaven''s Command: An Imperial Progress and Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat. Together these three works of history trace the dramatic rise and fall of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. Jan Morris is world-renowned for her collection of travel writing and reportage, spanning over five decades and including such titles as Venice , Coronation Everest , Hong Kong , Spain, A Writer''s World and most recently, Contact! ''In scholarship and humour this portrait of the British Empire before its decline and fall might, without undue optimism, be placed upon the same shelf as Edward Gibbon''s history. As a survey of its subject, I doubt that Pax Britannica can ever, in this generation be surpassed.'' Financial Times

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Women in Print - Alison Adburgham - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

''This book should be regarded as rescue work. It salvages from pre-Victorian periodicals from the limbo of forgotten publications, and exhumes from long undisturbed sources a curious collection of women who, at a time when it was considered humiliating for a gentlewoman to earn money, contrived to support themselves by writing, editing, or publishing... sometimes even supporting husbands and children as well... The women who emerge make a motley gallery; but over the years that I have been getting to know them, they have won my respectful affection. More, indeed. To me they are all heroines...'' Alison Adburgham, from her ForewordMagazines addressed to women have a long history in English, and have been subject to condescension for just as long. Alison Adburgham''s groundbreaking volume, first published in 1972, rescues the so-called ''scribbling female'' from such scorn, not least by documenting just how hard was the struggle for women writers to live by the pen.

DKK 201.00

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All Summer - Claire Kilroy - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

** SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW** ‘Compelling.’ The Times ‘Written with such verve and confidence . . . impossible not to enjoy.’ 5* reader review‘This is my favourite book.’ 5* reader review Anna Hunt has lost her memory and is on the run. From who and what she is unsure, but trapped in the present she seems certain of only one thing - she is somehow linked to the stolen painting currently being restored in the National Gallery. In a wonderfully unsettling first novel, Claire Kilroy manages to combine beautiful, poetic prose with the menacing atmosphere of a thriller as she explores themes of memory, violence, art and escape. PRAISE FOR SOLDIER SAILOR :''Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.'' DAVID NICHOLLS‘Astonishing.’ Observer ‘So powerful.’ MONICA ALI‘Exceptionally good [it] sizzles and crackles with life.’ The Times ‘A huge, small book.’ ANNE ENRIGHT‘I lived and breathed beside her narrator. A furious, muffled shout of a book.’ DAISY JOHNSON

DKK 120.00

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The Wrong Set and Other Stories - Angus Wilson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Angus Wilson''s first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim. The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism. There is the wallowing in self-adulation on the part of the ''crazy Cockshott family'', as they delight to dub themselves. There is the search for really nice standards on the part of Vi, singer at the ''Passion Fruit'' nightclub - as hopelessly bemused a spirit as ever lived in sin at Earl''s Court and attempted to lecture a young Communist nephew with untidy hair and spectacles. There is the humbug of the bullying new curator at the provincial Art Gallery. And the staff dance at the South Kensington hotel, where lives the lady who spends her life trying to achieve ''a Knightsbridge appearance on a Kensington purse'', and where, as the evening progresses and the drinks begin to tell, the lady-like façades and gentlemanly courtesy of the clientele crack up with a vengeance.

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Loyalists and Loners - Michael Foot - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Loyalists and Loners is a collection of Michael Foot''s essays. Adept at the longer distance though he was, one only has to remember The Pen and the Sword and his Aneurin Bevan biography, the essay very often saw his writing at its sharpest and most eloquent. He has been compared to Arnold Bennett and J. B. Priestley, but there is no exaggeration in extending that to A. J. P. Taylor. This volume, one of his very best, is split into four categories: A Labour Party Gallery, Four Prime Ministers, A Miscellany of Cross-breeds and Some True Prophets. Figures, sometimes unexpected ones, such as Hugh Gaitskell, Winston Churchill, Enoch Powell, Harold Nicolson and Alexander Herzen, are all written about with flair, sympathy and an infectious enthusiasm. There is nothing of the makeshift here, try his essay on Heinrich Heine, imbued with a deep knowledge and written in a sort of way as to make one immediately want to read the subject. That is a rare gift, time and time again Michael Foot demonstrated it.

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Girlhood - Julia Copus - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

WINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYJulia Copus’s new collection, Girlhood , is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers. Restlessly inquisitive, it exposes the shifting power balance between things on the verge of becoming and the forces that threaten to destroy them.Reading these poems, we have the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery. Lost, censored or disparaged voices speak out from secluded spaces and moments of hidden history: from within a professor’s office and a deserted department store; from kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and upstairs windows; through changing weathers, fidgety shadows and the witching hour. Girlhood concludes with a sequence set in a psychiatric hospital that reimagines Jacques Lacan’s treatment of his most famous case study, Marguerite Pantaine. This dramatic meeting of minds has us questioning who is the more delusional – doctor or patient: like other victims in this exhilarating new collection, Marguerite may initially appear vanquished, but a closer look reveals how little of herself she has really surrendered.

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Asteroid City - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Asteroid City (adapted from a "hypothetical" play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. Synopsis: the itinerary of the annual Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. A theatrical ensemble character piece; a poetic meditation on the meaning of life.In addition to the screenplay, this volume also contains a gallery of images and a conversation about the film with Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Jake Ryan.One source of artistic inspiration describes the phenomena the movie attempts to illustrate:"For me, the American West is the place where things fall apart. Civilization simply passed through: first a century ago by rail, then in our own century by car... Only a few people stayed, leaving the gas stations and the unneeded cars rusting away everywhere. The decay goes rapidly in the heat, sun, and rain. You have the feeling that in another hundred years there will be nothing of all this left at all." — Wim Wenders (1987)

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The Ghost of Memory - Wilson Harris - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

I had been shot. A bullet in my back. I fell. Where did I fall? I fell from a great height, it seemed, into a painting in a gallery in a great City. I found myself returning across centuries and generations to the end of my age. I had been caught by the Artist in what seemed the womb of unexpected being in which one becomes sensitive to the end one has reached and to a new beginning. It was an end, it was a new beginning one was called upon to probe and discover. We may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious. We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying?The Ghost of Memory is a novel about life and death or rather - to put it somewhat differently - about the close, almost indefinable cross-culturalities between moments of life and death. This is played out through a man who is mistakenly shot as a terrorist - he sees himself

DKK 149.00

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The Strangers' Gallery - Jonathan Keates - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Detroit - Lisa D'amour - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The French Dispatch - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Boy Who Hit Play - Chloe Daykin - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Ducdame - John Cowper Powys - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Free Fall - William Golding - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

What the Butler Saw - E. S. Turner - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Storyteller - Mario Vargas Llosa - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

People of the Book - David Stacton - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Asteroid City - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Ciara - David Harrower - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Moira Buffini: Plays 2 - Moira Buffini - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Sylvia Plath: Drawings - Frieda Hughes - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Isle of Dogs - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Cushing's Crusade - Tim Jeal - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Farmer's Glory - A. G. Street - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Pax Britannica - Jan Morris - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Women in Print - Alison Adburgham - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

All Summer - Claire Kilroy - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Wrong Set and Other Stories - Angus Wilson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Loyalists and Loners - Michael Foot - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Girlhood - Julia Copus - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

Asteroid City - Wes Anderson - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

The Ghost of Memory - Wilson Harris - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk

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