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Fly By Wire - William Langewiesche - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane''s pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, managed to glide to a safe landing in the Hudson River. It was an instant media sensation, the "The Miracle on the Hudson", and Captain Sully was the hero. But, how much of the success of this dramatic landing can actually be credited to the genius of the pilot? To what extent is the "Miracle on the Hudson" the result of extraordinary - but not widely known, and in some cases quite controversial - advances in aviation and computer technology over the last twenty years?From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces that have sought to minimize the impact of the revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, William Langewiesche assembles the untold stories necessary to truly understand "The Miracle on the Hudson", and makes us question our assumptions about human beings in modern aviation.

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War Trash - Ha Jin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

War Trash is the unforgettable story of Yu Yuan, a young Chinese army officer sent by Mao with a corps of ''volunteers'' to help shore up the Communist side in Korea. When the Americans capture Yu, his command of English propels him into the role of unofficial interpreter in the psychological warfare that defines the POW camp. Desperate to return to his beloved fiancée and widowed mother, Yu is trapped by both barbed wire and politics...

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Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure solve the crime and captivated by the victim''s beautiful girlfriend. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets crammed full of people. The planet''s population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, loot and trample for lentil ''steaks'' and are controlled by sinister barbed wire dropped from the sky.Written in 1966 and set in 1999, Make Room! Make Room! is a witty and unnerving story about stretching the earth''s resources, and the human spirit, to breaking point.

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Dead Cert - Dick Francis - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time ''A classic. If you like a rattling good yarn, then Dick Francis is your man!'' 5***** Reader Review ''Brilliant, the pace keeps on racing through the whole book'' 5***** Reader Review ''Gallops along and keeps you enthralled throughout. Riveting'' 5***** Reader Review______ ''Admiral met the fence perfectly. He rose to it as if flight were not only for birds. And he fell . . .'' Alan York''s friend, jockey Bill Davidson, was killed in Admiral''s fall. After the race, York visits the fence and discovers a coil of wire lying beside the fence post and signs of where the wire had been attached.The fall was no accident - but murder. Unable to convince the police of this, York is forced to turn amateur sleuth and is soon on the trail of a ruthless gang of race-fixers operating out of Brighton.Now Alan''s caught in a new race: find the gang''s leaders before the gang catches up with him . . . Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Dead Cert is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis. Praise for Dick Francis: ''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror ''The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish'' Scotsman ''Dick Francis''s fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader''s attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end'' Sunday Telegraph ''A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever'' Sunday Express ''The master of suspense and intrigue'' Country Life ''Francis writing at his best'' Evening Standard ''Still the master'' Racing Post

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The Complete Lyrics - Nick Cave - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The perfect gift for Nick Cave fans! Discover the complete lyrics, spanning his entire career to date, with a new foreword by Andrew O''Hagan From Nick Cave''s writing for The Birthday Party , through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads , Henry''s Dream , DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! and Ghosteen , this is a must-have book for all fans of the dark, the beautiful and the defiant - for all fans of the songs of Nick Cave. ''The greatest living songwriter'' NME ''A glowing wire, a mainline to meaning ad feeling and art'' New Yorker ''Nick Cave is a true lyrical master. He can conjure empathy and hope out of thin air, light out of darkness'' Cillian Murphy''His lyrics - so rich in the toils of love, so committed to memory and everlasting presence - are the best-made of his generation'' Andrew O''Hagan''A poetic craftsman'' Will Self''Alternative rock legend'' Billboard ''Cave''s genius rings loud and clear'' Evening Standard Cover art by Aleksandra Waliszewska

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Transcendence - Gaia Vince - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene , the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful spe cies on Earth ''A wondrous, visionary work'' Tim Flannery , author of The Weather Makers Humans are a planet-altering force. Gaia Vince argues that our unique ability - compared with other species - to determine the course of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. Vince shows how four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a transcendent superorganism: a hyper-cooperative mass of humanity that she calls Homo omnis. Drawing on leading-edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology and neuroscience, Transcendence compels us to reimagine ourselves, showing us to be on the brink of something grander - and potentially more destructive.''Richly informed by the latest research, Gaia Vince''s colourful survey fizzes like a zip-wire as it tours our species'' story from the Big Bang to the coming age of hypercooperation'' Richard Wrangham , author of The Goodness Paradox ''Wonderful ... enlightening'' Robin Ince , The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Hitmen - Stephen Breen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The No 1 Bestseller!''A triumph'' Nicola Tallant, Sunday World Crime World podcast ''An incredible catalogue of mayhem ... amazing'' Pat Kenny, Newstalk ''Riveting'' Irish Times Meet the Wilsons - the deadliest family in crime Brothers Eric, Keith and John Wilson, their cousin Alan, and nephew Luke shared a trade - assassination. Working for Ireland''s criminal gangs they brought bloodshed and chaos to the streets.The Wilsons were not choosy about their targets. Hutches, Real IRA chiefs or random opponents from pub rows - they were all the same to them. Nor were they picky about motives - as long as the price was right, they asked no questions. The Hitmen is the shocking story of how a family cornered the market in intimidation and vengeance. It details the terrible cost in human suffering, particularly the death of an innocent teenage girl, Mariaora Rostas, when she randomly crossed their path. And it reveals how, one by one, each of the Wilsons was put out of business. The Hitmen draws on exclusive access to wire taps, case files and interviews with sources close to the gang who have never spoken before. No 1 bestselling authors Stephen Breen and Owen Conlon have written an extraordinary account of a family business like no other.

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Heroes and Villains - Angela Carter - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter''s genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains includes an introduction by Robert Coover in Penguin Modern Classics.Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. There, beyond the wire fences, she will discover a decaying paradise, encounter the tattooed Barbarian boy Jewel and go beyond the darkest limits of her imagination. Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, Heroes and Villains is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance.Angela Carter (1940-92) was born in Eastbourne and later evacuated to live with her grandmother in Yorkshire. She read English at Bristol University, and after escaping an early marriage went to live in Japan for a number of years. She wrote nine novels, which blend fantasy, science fiction and gothic, and is often referred to as a writer of magical realism. If you enjoyed Heroes and Villains, you might like Carter''s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman , also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''Angela Carter is a genius''Victoria Glendinning''An unashamed fantasist, a fabulist of daemonic energy''The Times

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Built on a Lie - Owen Walker - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''This is a must read!'' Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats ''Reads like a rip roaring tale of a corporate high wire act'' John McDonnell, former Shadow Chancellor ''Should be sold with a bottle of blood-pressure pills'' Edward Lucas, The Times The proud owner of a sprawling £14m estate in the Cotswolds, boasting a stable of eventing horses, a fleet of supercars and neighbouring the royal family, Neil Woodford was the most celebrated and successful British investor of his generation. He spent years beating the market; betting against the dot com bubble in the 1990s and the banks before the financial crash in 2008, making blockbuster returns for his investors and earning himself a reputation of ''the man who made Middle England rich''.But, in 2019, after a stream of poorly-judged investments, Woodford''s asset management company collapsed, trapping hundreds of thousands of rainy-day savers in his flagship fund and hanging £3.6 billion in the balance. In Built on a Lie, Financial Times reporter Owen Walker reveals the disastrous failings of Woodford, the greed at the heart of his operation, the flaws of an industry in thrall to its star performers and the dangers of limited regulation. With exclusive access to Woodford''s inner circle, Walker will reveal the full, jaw-dropping story of Europe''s biggest investment scandal in a decade.'' Vital financial journalism with heart'' Emma Barnett, broadcaster

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The Darkness and the Thunder - Stewart Binns - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The second in Stewart Binns'' acclaimed Great War Series, The Darkness and the Thunde r is a sweeping story of war following five families through the terrifying conditions of the Western Front, the slaughter of Gallipoli and the heartbreak of those left at home. ''T he book on the conflict remembered 100 years on'' Jon Wise, Sunday Sport - 1915- The Western Front is a wasteland of barbed wire, shell craters and mud-filled trenches. Winston Churchill, searching for a solution to the stalemate, commits the Allies to a disastrous Gallipoli campaign. As men on both sides die in droves, miners and mill-workers work tirelessly for the war effort while families confront the broken bodies of returning soldiers. Nurses, soldiers, politicians, factory-workers and children - all are torn apart by war, and for husbands and sons, mothers and wives, the old way of life is vanishing.*** Praise for Stewart Binns: ''Anyone with even a vague interest in Britain and the Great War should read The Shadow of War'' Celia Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill ''Stewart Binns has produced a real page-turner, a truly stunning adventure story'' Alastair Campbell ''A fascinating mix of fact, legend and fiction . . . this is storytelling at its best'' Daily Mail ''Unique, entertaining and eye-opening'' Robin Carter, Parmenion Books ''A tour de force of writing brilliance'' Books Monthly ''Unarguably heart-warming... will leave any reader with a sense of British pride'' Goodreads ''Truly a book that educates while entertaining, a talent of this best-selling author'' Historical Novel Review

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The Penguin Jazz Guide - Brian Morton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Richard Cook and Brian Morton''s Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that every fan should know. Richard Cook and Brian Morton''s Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world''s leading guide to the music. In this book, Brian Morton has picked out 1001 essential recordings from their acclaimed guide, adding new information, revising and reassessing each entry, and showing how these key pieces tell the history of the music - and with it the history of the twentieth century. These are the essential albums that that all true jazz fans should own, or - at the very least - have listened to, from Kind of Blue to lesser-known classics and more surprising choices. Full of fascinating updated biographical information, new quotes and interviews and, of course, highly opinionated and wittily trenchant critical reviews, the result is an endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices alike. ''One of the great books of recorded jazz; the other guides don''t come close'' Irish Times ''It''s the kind of book that you''ll yank off the shelf to look up a quick fact and still be reading two hours later'' Fortune ''The leader in its field ... If you own only one book on jazz, it really should be this one'' International Record Review ''Indispensable and incomparable'' NME Brian Morton is a freelance writer and broadcaster who for many years presented Radio 3''s jazz magazine Impressions and In Tune . Richard Cook (1957-2007) was formerly editor of The Wire and edited Jazz Review . He contributed to many other publications, including the New Statesman and his books included Richard Cook''s Jazz Encyclopaedia and It''s About That Time: Miles Davis on Record .

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Owls of the Eastern Ice - Jonathan C. Slaght - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award ''Remarkable. If only every endangered species had a guardian angel as impassioned, courageous and pragmatic as Jonathan Slaght'' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding '' Gripping '' Dave Goulson , author of A Sting in the Tale Primorye, a remote forested region near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire , is the only place where brown bears, tigers and leopards co-exist. It is also home to one of nature''s rarest birds, the Blakiston''s fish owl. A chance encounter with this huge, strange bird was to change wildlife researcher Jonathan C. Slaght''s life beyond measure.This is the story of Slaght''s quest to safeguard the elusive owl from extinction. During months-long journeys covering thousands of miles, he has pursued it through its forbidding territory. He has spent time with the Russians who struggle on in the harsh conditions of the taiga forest. And he has observed how Russia''s logging interests and evolving fortunes present new threats to the owl''s survival. Preserving its habitats will secure the forest for future generations, both animal and human - but can this battle be won? Exhilarating and clear-sighted, Owls of the Eastern Ice is an impassioned reflection on our relationship with the natural world and on what it means to devote one''s career to a single pursuit. '' Slaght makes the people, wildlife and landscape of the Russian Far East come alive . I haven''t enjoyed a book on remote Russia as much as this since Ian Frazier''s Travels in Siberia'' Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia '' True epic . Powerful, passionate'' Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast

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Beyond the Wall - Katja Hoyer - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT ''Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand post-World War II Europe'' Julia Boyd ''One of the best young historians writing in English today. . . Well-researched, well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany'' Andrew Roberts In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics.In Beyond the Wall , acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West.Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall. LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2023: THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * FINANCIAL TIMES * INDEPENDENT * TELEGRAPH * NEW STATESMAN

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High Price - Carl Hart - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

High Price by Carl Hart is a groundbreaking work on neuroscience and addiction As a youth, Carl Hart didn''t see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life, dealing drugs and committing petty larceny. Today, he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction. In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, he recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided becoming one of the crack addicts he now studies. Interweaving past and present, Hart goes beyond the hype as he examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing. But while Hart escaped the ghetto, he has not turned his back on it. Determined to make a difference, he tirelessly applies his science to help save real lives. But balancing his former street life with his achievements today has not been easy-a struggle he reflects on publicly for the first time. Homocide (the inspiration for The Wire ) meets Oliver Sacks'' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat , this book applies neuroscience to crime, addiction and the most urgent and destructive issues of our times. Carl Hart is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a Research Scientist in the Division of Substance Abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He and his work are featured in Eugene Jarecki''s acclaimed documentary The House I Live In. The film examines the war on drugs and highlights some of the research that Hart includes in High Price . He lives in New York City.

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Dub Sub Confidential - John Leonard - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dub Sub Confidential by John Leonard: a GAA memoir like no other. WINNER OF THE SETANTA SPORTS IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD. John Leonard was a gifted Gaelic football goalkeeper who had the misfortune to reach his prime at the same time, and in the same county, as one of the all-time greats: Stephen Cluxton. Unless something happened to Clucko, Leonard was always going to be number 2. Of course, it didn''t help that he had a problem with drink and drugs ... Dub Sub Confidential is John Leonard''s vivid, witty and searingly honest account of his life in and out of sport. He was both a committed Dub and a sceptical observer of the goings on in the dressing-room and on the training pitch. He writes about the players and the mentors, and about the oddity of being part of the GAA''s biggest circus while never expecting to get on the pitch. And he writes brilliantly about the demons that led him to addiction, his efforts for many years to party hard and train hard, and his eventual breakthrough to sobriety. Dub Sub Confidential is a GAA memoir like no other yet published - a book about how Gaelic games collide with real life. It is also a brilliant read from a remarkable personality.''Four decades after Eamon Dunphy published Only a Game? , his seminal book on football, John Leonard has produced the Gaelic football equivalent - only it''s better '' Sunday Times Sports Books of the Year '' Reads like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... a great read'' Ray D''Arcy, RTE Radio 1''As fascinating as its insights into the Dublin dressing room and the big matchdays are, to reduce Dub Sub Confidential to being just a sports or GAA book is to do it an injustice; it is an astonishing, exceptional, visceral account of a confused young man'' Irish Examiner ''Engaging, honest, sad and frightening in places - ultimately raw and real. Couldn''t put it down'' Ryle Nugent, RTÉ''The overall feeling of Leonard''s sporting life is of a high-wire act. He somehow managed to have a part-time romance with Dublin football while full-bloodedly chasing whatever and whoever was on offer in Dublin after dark ... There is an antic and often jubilant energy to Leonard''s writing'' Keith Duggan, Irish Times '' Remarkable ... a stark and searingly honest memoir'' the42.ie ''Students of Gaelic football will be intrigued by his account of the rivalry with Cluxton, arguably the most important player of modern times'' Sunday Times

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Brexit and Ireland - Tony Connelly - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Brexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area of Irish life that won''t be affected.More than any other journalist, RTE''s long-time Brussels correspondent Tony Connelly has been helping the public make sense of the implications of Brexit for Ireland. Now, he tells the dramatic inside story of the Irish response to this political and economic earthquake and lays out the agenda for the uncertain years ahead.Based on extensive interviews with insiders in Dublin, London, Belfast and Brussels, Brexit and Ireland is full of insights about how the EU actually works, and of colourful and revealing stories from the corridors of power. It is a must-read for anyone who cares about Ireland''s future. ''Required reading ... As Ireland navigates its way through Britain''s withdrawal and the new Europe taking shape, this fine book offers an indispensable guide to the hazards and the opportunities along the way'' Denis Staunton, Irish Times '' Excellent ... It ought to be read in every European capital ... Connelly examines how Brexit will affect every part of the Irish economy'' John Bruton, Sunday Times Definitive ... Connelly covers the politics very well, but he also writes vividly, with colour and pace and detail, about the businesses and communities that will be affected. It''s a superb work of reporting, and a much needed one - Andrew Sparrow, Guardian '' One of the most enticing aspects of Connelly''s book is his promise to tell you the inside story of the Irish response. This is delivered on ... He has an eye for human details that enrich the book: not only does he bring you into the room at Number 10 when Theresa May and Enda Kenny were engaged in the high-wire dance of working out the post-Brexit reality, but he tells you what they had for dessert ... The first-hand account of the mass mobilisation of Official Ireland''s soft and hard power after the result, as negotiations got into gear, is engrossing'' Jack Horgan-Jones, Sunday Business Post '' Magisterial ... Connelly has encyclopaedic knowledge of European diplomatic processes and the political realities of the border, and is able to use them to great effect'' Donal O''Donovan, Irish Independent ''I was completely absorbed by Tony Connelly''s Brexit and Ireland ... Connelly shows that the implications for the Irish Republic extend to the entire economy and its relationship with the EU'' Brendan Simms, New Statesman Books of the Year''A valuable guide through the Brexit labyrinth'' Sunday Business Post Books of the Year

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My Sunshine Away - M. O. Walsh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

My Sunshine Away is an extraordinary debut novel from M. O. Walsh, a dazzling new literary voice. Welcome to Woodland Hills, Louisiana: a place of lush, sweltering summers, neighbourhood cookouts in every backyard and vats of chilled beer under the crepe myrtles. A terrible crime is just about to take place... One day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts blocking the path. She is raped just yards from her front door. No one sees a thing and the perpetrator is not caught.Her fourteen year old neighbour has cherished a crush on Lindy, the ultimate girl next door, since they were kids. After her assault he becomes determined to solve the crime, investigating each suspect in the neighbourhood. But before this long, hot summer is out, it will become clear that the friendly community of Woodland Hills has much to hide.Behind every white picket fence in suburbia lies a tangled web of darkness. In his zeal to solve the mystery, the teenage detective stumbles across a sinister world he doesn''t recognise, drawing ever closer to a terrifying denouement. My Sunshine Away is an extraordinary debut novel from a unique new literary voice. Childhood in small-town America is filled with dreamy, technicolour days of innocence, but beneath the homely comforts and familiarity, this world is rotten to its very core. For every fan of The Lovely Bones and The Virgin Suicides comes a new and haunting tale of disturbance in suburbia." Try and restrain yourself from flying through the pages of this wonderful novel . Instead savour this lush Louisiana mystery that takes you back to what life tasted like when you were still somewhat naïve to the ways of the world. Not just Southern but American in its vivid Baton Rouge colours and scents, treetops and grasses... The last page is as satisfying as the first. A mystery you cannot wait to solve. " -Kathryn Stockett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Help " This is literature of the highest order. Although the book snaps with the tautness of a thriller, My Sunshine Away also asks essential questions, like how much responsibility we have to each other, and whether we can we ever fully reassemble the pieces of broken lives. We need more novelists with the guts and clarity of M.O. Walsh. " --Matthew Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselves " If you start this novel, you will not put it down. My Sunshine Away is a riveting, suspenseful, page-turning mystery. It is also a wise, insightful, and beautifully written novel. This is an extraordinary debut." --Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling author of Life After Life "I can''t praise it enough... I am swept up in the quiet beauty of the prose, and in the wisdom and compassion of the narrator. My Sunshine Away is not a thriller; it is a page turner and it''s realism at its finest. It''s about love, obsession, and pain. A beautiful, remarkable book. I hope M.O. Walsh writes many more. " -Anne Rice, #1 bestselling author of Prince Lestat "Walsh''s word-perfect rendering of the doubts, insecurities, bravado, and idealism of teens deserves to be placed in the hands of readers of Tom Franklin, Hannah Pittard, and Jeffrey Eugenides ..." Booklist " My Sunshine Away is that rarest find, a page-turner you want to read slowly and a literary novel you can''t look away from. At times funny, at times spine-tinglingly suspenseful, and at times wise... It''s a book to read and reread. I''m already excited about M. O. Walsh''s next book." -Tom Franklin, bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter "M.O. Walsh has written one of the best books I''ve read in a long while . An outstanding examination of the way that the past and the weight of our memories shape us... My Sunshine Away feels utterly original ." -Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang " My Sunshine Away is so much more than a mystery; it''s [a] love letter to youth and to possibility. This is an awe-inspiring debut, magic. " -Hannah Pittard, author of Reunion and The Fates Will Find Their Way "M. O. Walsh''s My Sunshine Away reminds us that art can be wrenching and a delight, that pain - if examined through wit, intimacy, and wisdom - can be a salve. This novel is great ." --Darin Strauss, internationally bestselling author of Half a Life

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Fly By Wire - William Langewiesche - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

War Trash - Ha Jin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dead Cert - Dick Francis - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Complete Lyrics - Nick Cave - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Transcendence - Gaia Vince - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Hitmen - Stephen Breen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Heroes and Villains - Angela Carter - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Built on a Lie - Owen Walker - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Darkness and the Thunder - Stewart Binns - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin Jazz Guide - Brian Morton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Owls of the Eastern Ice - Jonathan C. Slaght - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Beyond the Wall - Katja Hoyer - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

High Price - Carl Hart - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dub Sub Confidential - John Leonard - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Brexit and Ireland - Tony Connelly - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

My Sunshine Away - M. O. Walsh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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