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The Smell of Hay - Giorgio Bassani - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A new translation of Giorgio Bassani''s haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man''s unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life''s brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis , and featuring people and places from these novels, The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful. This new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in English before.''Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick''s redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity'' Ali Smith''Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists'' Guardian Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was an Italian poet, novelist and editor. The Smell of Hay is the last in a series of six works collected together as Il romanzo di Ferrara . Other works in the cycle include The Garden of the Finzi-Continis , which received the Viareggio Prize and inspired an Academy Award-winning film adaptation by Vittorio de Sica, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles , and Within the Walls (originally published as Five Stories of Ferrara ), which won the Strega Prize. Jamie McKendrick is a poet and translator. His translations of Bassani''s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles are already available as Penguin Modern Classics, and he is in the process of translating the rest of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle anew.

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Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection ''Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father''s eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love.'' The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cécile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. But then, one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and Cécile and her lover Cyril feel compelled to take a hand in his amours, with tragic consequences. Bonjour Tristesse scandalized 1950s France with its portrayal of teenager terrible Cécile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and responsibility to choose her own sexual freedom.

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Our Billie - Ian Clayton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''An astonishing work'' - Joanne HarrisEvery parent''s worst nightmare became a reality for Ian Clayton. On a short holiday break in Hay-on-Wye he took his nine-year-old twins canoeing, and in a freak accident his daughter Billie was drowned. In a remarkably frank and vivid way Clayton describes what happened on that spring day, his desperate attempts to save his two children, and then what it felt like two years later to come face to face with the men who hired out the canoe.But Our Billie is not a story of bitterness and recrimination. Instead it''s the story of how a family attempts to come to terms with something which makes no sense at all. Through his memories of Billie and his wonderfully affectionate portrait of the small town in Yorkshire where the family has lived for generations, he weaves a story of loss and remembering, of gratitude and forgiveness.

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Understanding Allergy - Dr Sophie Farooque - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

One in three of us experiences allergies at some point in our lives and we are more allergic than ever before, so why are allergies still so misunderstood? In Understanding Allergy , Dr Sophie Farooque, a leading expert and consultant in allergy, will provide allergy sufferers and their families with the knowledge they need to help them navigate this minefield. The book will offer practical advice to reduce unnecessary suffering, debunk common allergy myths and address key topics including:· The allergy epidemic· Understanding and treating hay fever and rhinitis · Living with food allergies, delayed food allergies and anaphylaxis · Drug allergies· What to do if you think you have an allergy· Eczema and allergy preventionMany people who are allergic often struggle to access help, whilst many think they have an allergy when they do not - Understanding Allergy is the essential and concise guide to diagnosis, treatment and lifestyle changes, to help you manage and alleviate your allergies.________________________________ ''A fascinating, insightful guide that is extremely clear'' Professor Adam Fox ''A source of sound information and practical advice'' Professor Roy Taylor ''A must read'' David Stukus, M.D

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The Shepherd's Life - James Rebanks - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ''Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book'' Nigel Slater''Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century'' Helen Davies, Sunday Times, Books of the Year''The nature publishing sensation of the year, unsentimental yet luminous'' Melissa Harrison, The Times, Books of the Year Some people''s lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks'' isn''t. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand, and has been for hundreds of years. A Viking would understand the work they do: sending the sheep to the fells in the summer and making the hay; the autumn fairs where the flocks are replenished; the gruelling toil of winter when the sheep must be kept alive, and the light-headedness that comes with spring, as the lambs are born and the sheep get ready to return to the fells.

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Allergic - Theresa Macphail - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decades Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to seriously endanger their health. And over the past decade, the number of people diagnosed with allergy has been steadily increasing, an ever-growing medical burden on individuals, families, and our health care system.Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail, herself an allergy sufferer whose father died of a bee sting, set out to understand why. The result is a holistic and deeply researched examination of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the mind-bending new treatments that are giving patients hope. MacPhail spent years interviewing hundreds of experts, patients and activists, in an effort to understand how recent changes in our environment and lifestyle are contributing to the dramatic rise in cases globally. Pollution, chemicals, antibiotics and, increasingly, climate change are all making our immune systems become more and more irritated. But, as she shows us in Allergic , understanding what is irritating us and why will help us to craft better environments in the future-so we can all breathe easier.

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Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize, Zoë Heller''s Notes on a Scandal is a darkly compelling novel that explores the taboo subject of pupil/teacher relationships, obsession and betrayal. From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George''s history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara''s loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered having an illicit affair with one of her pupils, Barbara quickly elects herself as Sheba''s chief defender. But all is not as it first seems in this dark story and, as Sheba will soon discover, a friend can be just as treacherous as any lover.''Brilliant, nasty, gripping'' Zadie Smith''Compelling, dark, sexy'' Observer ''Superbly gripping. One of the most compelling books I''ve read in ages'' Daily Telegraph ''Deliciously sinister'' Daily Mail Zoë Heller is the author of three novels, Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and The Believers . The 2006 film adaptation of Notes on a Scandal , starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, received four Oscar nominations. She lives in New York.

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Helgoland - Carlo Rovelli - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and science ''A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical'' Financial Times In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrestled with an idea that would transform the whole of science and our very conception of the world.In Helgoland Carlo Rovelli tells the story of the birth of quantum physics and its bright young founders who were to become some of the most famous Nobel winners in science. It is a celebration of youthful rebellion and intellectual revolution. An invitation to a magical place.Here Rovelli illuminates competing interpretations of this science and offers his own original view, describing the world we touch as a fabric woven by relations. Where we, as every other thing around us, exist in our interactions with one another, in a never-ending game of mirrors.A dazzling work from a celebrated scientist and master storyteller, Helgoland transports us to dizzying heights, reminding us of the many pleasures of the life of the mind.Translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and Prospect Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

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Prayer for the Dead - James Oswald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sunday Times bestseller Prayer for the Dead is the fifth novel in the bestselling Inspector McLean series by author James Oswald. ''The hallmarks of Val McDermid or Ian Rankin: it''s dark, violent, noirish'' The Herald *** ''Are you ready to be reborn?'' The search for a missing journalist is called off as a body is found at the scene of a carefully staged murder. In a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath Edinburgh, the victim has undergone a macabre ritual of purification. Inspector Tony McLean knew the dead man, and can''t shake off the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eye. The baffling lack of forensics at the crime scene seems impossible. But it is not the only thing about this case that McLean will find beyond belief. Teamed with the most unlikely and unwelcome of allies, he must track down a killer driven by the darkest compulsions, who will answer only to a higher power... ''Are you ready for the mysteries to be revealed?'' Praise for James Oswald: ''A star of Scotland''s burgeoning crime fiction scene'' Daily Record ''Crime fiction''s next big thing'' The Sunday Telegraph ''Literary sensation . . .James'' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of E L James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series'' Daily Mail ''Fifty Shades of Hay'' The Times ''Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers'' Daily Mail ''The new Ian Rankin'' Daily Record ''An excellent start to what promises to be a fine series'' Guardian ''Classy, occasionally brutal, and with the odd suggestion of the supernatural, this will doubtless be another deserved hit. Oswald''s writing is in a class above most in this genre'' Daily Express

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels that Shaped the World'' A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection Muriel Spark''s classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you''ll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition. ''Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of ''special girls'' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extracurricular activities they will never forget. But the price they pay is their undivided loyalty . . .The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a brilliantly comic novel featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in all literature.''Muriel Spark''s novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards'' John Updike''Spark''s most celebrated novel'' Independent ''There is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing, with its quirky concern with human nature, and its comedy'' William Boyd''A brilliant psychological figure'' Observer Muriel Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950, when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer, and her many subsequent novels include Memento Mori (1959), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Girls of Slender Means (1963) and Aiding and Abetting (2000). She also wrote plays, poems, children''s books and biographies. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993, and died in 2006.

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The Book of Souls - James Oswald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

DISCOVER THE GRIPPING AND ELECTRIFYING THRILLER IN THE DETECTIVE INSPECTOR MCLEAN SERIES ''A gripping tale of mystery and intrigue'' 5***** Reader Review ''Holds your attention and builds towards an excellent climax'' 5***** Reader Review ''Enthralling . . . you won''t be disappointed'' 5***** Reader Review________ Every year for ten years, a young woman''s body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. Ten years, ten women. The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean''s fiancée. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a shop, McLean found a torture chamber and put an end to the brutal killing spree. Twelve years later, and a fellow prisoner has just murdered the incarcerated Christmas Killer. But with the arrival of the festive season comes a body. A young woman: naked, washed, her throat cut. Is this a copycat killer? Was the wrong man behind bars all this time? Or is there a more sinister, frightening explanation? McLean must revisit the most disturbing case of his life and discover what he missed before the killer strikes again . . . ________ Praise for James Oswald: ''A star of Scotland''s burgeoning crime fiction scene'' Daily Record ''Crime fiction''s next big thing'' The Sunday Telegraph ''Literary sensation...James'' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of EL James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series'' Daily Mail ''Fifty Shades of Hay'' The Times ''Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers'' Daily Mail ''The new Ian Rankin'' Daily Record ''The hallmarks of Val McDermid or Ian Rankin: it''s dark, violent, noirish'' The Herald ''A good read'' The Times ''An excellent start to what promises to be a fine series'' Guardian

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Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels that Shaped the World'' A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. ''We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm...'' Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm.There is Judith in a scarlet shawl, heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; lustful Seth and despairing Reuben, Judith''s two sons; and there is Amos, preaching fire and damnation to one and all. As the sukebind flowers, Flora takes each of the family in hand and brings order to their chaos. Cold Comfort Farm is a sharp and clever parody of the melodramatic and rural novel.''Very probably the funniest book ever written'' Sunday Times ''Screamingly funny and wildly subversive'' Marian Keyes, Guardian ''Delicious ... Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh''s Scoop'' Independent ''One of the finest parodies written in English...a wickedly brilliant skit'' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930), and her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

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Circus of Mirrors - Julie Owen Moylan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Discover the dazzling new historical novel from the author of That Green Eyed Girl and 73 Dove Street Perfect for fans of City of Girls, Cabaret and Sunday Times bestseller, The Whalebone Theatre - available to pre-order in paperback! '' Sexy, electrically stylish, and beautiful - a gorgeous story about sisterhood, and a glamorous, evocative passport to a period we all long to get lost in'' Daisy Buchanan, award-winning author of Insatiable ''Julie''s best novel yet '' Georgina Moore, bestselling author of The Garnett Girls ‘Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Babylon Circus . . .’ Berlin, 1926: young Leni finds work as a cigarette girl – wide-eyed, dodging stray hands – as the painted dancers and revellers party the nights away. It’s all for her little sister Annette – to put a roof over their heads, food in their bellies. Because the two sisters have no one but each other.Then Leni meets pianist Paul, and embarks on a passionate, all-consuming love affair. But for Paul, Berlin is a dangerous place to be. If he and Leni are to have a future together, they must flee the city.For Leni, it’s an impossible choice: her sister or the love of her life?The consequences of her decision will ripple through the next four decades . . .***‘Immersive, tender, simmering with secrets ’ Alex Hay ''A tale of two sisters and a city, all three of them so vividly drawn , I felt I knew them. Superbly atmospheric, with convincingly flawed characters that just leap off the page'' Frances Quinn, author of The Bonesetter Woman ''An all-singing, all-dancing, moving and masterful book about two complex sisters living in incredibly complex times. Brilliant.'' Anna Mazzola, author of The Clockwork Girl ''Bold, brave and absorbing'' Elizabeth Buchan, author of Bonjour, Sophie '' With hints of Atonement , this is an epic novel’ Louise Fein, author of Daughter of the Reich Praise for Julie Owen Moylan ''Touching, entertaining and hopeful'' Sunday Times ''Dazzling'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING '' I was gripped from the first page'' SARA COX ''Psychologically astute and emotionally absorbing,'' DAILY MAIL ''A wonderfully evocative, immersive novel that brings 50s London to life, from the smog and the nightlife to attitudes towards women'' SUNDAY EXPRESS ''Emotional, immersive and utterly absorbing'' JENNIFER SAINT

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The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive edition released to mark the 70th anniversary of the day the diary begins. ''12 June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support'' The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most celebrated and enduring books of the last century. Tens of millions have read it since it was first published in 1947 and it remains a deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit.This definitive edition restores thirty per cent if the original manuscript, which was deleted from the original edition. It reveals Anne as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also veered between being a carefree child and an aware adult.Anne Frank and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two years with another family and a German dentist. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary. She movingly revealed how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with hunger, the daily threat of discovery and death and being cut off from the outside world, as well as petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners. The Diary of a Young Girl is a timeless true story to be rediscovered by each new generation. For young readers and adults it continues to bring to life Anne''s extraordinary courage and struggle throughout her ordeal. This is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was born on the 12 June 1929. She died while imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen, three months short of her sixteenth birthday. This seventieth anniversary, definitive edition of The Diary of a Young Girl is poignant, heartbreaking and a book that everyone should read.

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The Smell of Hay - Giorgio Bassani - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Our Billie - Ian Clayton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Understanding Allergy - Dr Sophie Farooque - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Shepherd's Life - James Rebanks - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Allergic - Theresa Macphail - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Helgoland - Carlo Rovelli - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Prayer for the Dead - James Oswald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Book of Souls - James Oswald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Circus of Mirrors - Julie Owen Moylan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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