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A Kim Jong-Il Production - Paul Fischer - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Great Japanese Stories - Various - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Emma - Jane Austen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Junior Officers' Reading Club - Patrick Hennessey - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Junior Officers' Reading Club - Patrick Hennessey - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Patrick Hennessey''s The Junior Officers'' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties reading books at university, going out, listening to house music and watching war films. He also, as an officer in the Grenadier guards, fought in some of the most violent combat the British army has seen in decades. Telling the story of how a modern soldier is made, from the testosterone-heavy breeding ground of Sandhurst to the nightmare of Iraq and Afghanistan, The Junior Officers'' Reading Club is already being hailed as a modern classic. ''Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in 40 seconds'' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times ''An extraordinary memoir ... Hennessey has a reporter''s eye for detail and a soldier''s nose for bullshit'' John Shirley, Guardian ''High tempo, full-on, honest and revealing'' Patrick Bishop, Evening Standard ''The most accomplished work of military witness to emerge from British war-fighting since 1945'' Boyd Tonkin, Independent ''Remarkable ... conveys vividly what it''s like to experience combat'' Jeremy Paxman, Daily Telegraph , Books of the Year Patrick Hennessey (b. 1982) joined the Army in January 2004, undertaking officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he was awarded the Queen''s Medal and commissioned into The Grenadier Guards. He served as a Platoon Commander and later Company Operations Officer from the end of 2004 to early 2009 in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia and the Falkland Islands and on operational tours to Iraq in 2006 and Afghanistan in 2007, where he became the youngest Captain in the Army and was commended for gallantry.

DKK 127.00
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Claimed! - Gertrude Barrows Bennett - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Win or Learn - John Kavanagh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Win or Learn - John Kavanagh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Conor McGregor''s trainer tells the amazing story of his long road to success in the world''s fastest-growing sport Growing up in Dublin, John Kavanagh was a skinny lad who was frequently bullied. As a young man, after suffering a bad beating when he intervened to help a man who was being attacked, he decided he had to learn to defend himself. Before long, he was training fighters in a tiny shed, and promoting the earliest mixed-martial arts events in Ireland. And then, a cocky kid called Conor McGregor walked into his gym ...In Win or Learn , John Kavanagh tells his own remarkable life story - which is at the heart of the story of the extraordinary explosion of MMA in Ireland and globally. Employing the motto ''win or learn'', Kavanagh has become a guru to young men and women seeking to master the arts of combat. And as the trainer of the world''s most charismatic champion, his gym has become a magnet for talented fighters from all over the globe. Kavanagh''s portrait of Conor McGregor - who he has seen in his lowest moments, as well as in his greatest triumphs - is a revelation. What emerges from Win or Learn is a remarkable portrait of ambition, discipline, and persistence in the face of years and years of disappointment. It is a must read for every MMA fan - but also for anyone who wants to understand how to follow a dream and realize a vision.''For anyone interested in following their dream to the end of the line'' Tony Parsons''It kept me up well past my bedtime'' Sean O''Rourke, RTE Radio One''Remarkable'' Irish Times ''Kavanagh is open and honest about his upbringing ... The journey hasn''t been easy, but Kavanagh''s inbuilt determination has carried him all the way'' Irish Examiner

DKK 120.00
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The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Yesterday Will Make You Cry - Chester Himes - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The English Prisoner - Tig Hague - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tosh - Tosh Lavery - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Kinahan Assassins - John Hand - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Kinahan Assassins - John Hand - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Between Shades Of Gray - Ruta Sepetys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Between Shades Of Gray - Ruta Sepetys - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The New York Times bestseller Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is a harrowing story of a Lithuanian family who suffer unimaginable hardship and deportation during World War II, pitched perfectly for children and adults alike. That morning, my brother''s life was worth a pocket watch . . . One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn''t know if she''ll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope.Lina hopes for her family.For her country.For her future.For love - first love, with the boy she barely knows but knows she does not want to lose . . .Will hope keep Lina alive?Set in 1941, Between Shades of Gray is an extraordinary and haunting story based on first-hand family accounts and memories from survivors.''This superlative first novel by Ruta Sepetys demonstrates the strength of its unembellished language. A hefty emotional punch'' New York Times ''Her prose is restrained and powerful, as unadorned as the landscape in which her characters struggle to survive... Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both'' The Washington Post Born and raised in Michigan, Ruta Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. Ruta lives with her family in Tennessee. Between Shades of Grey is her first novel.http://www.betweenshadesofgray.com/

DKK 120.00
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Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh''s stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh''s novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder''s infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them.Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall , which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, serving in the Middle East and in Yugoslavia. In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited . Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of ''The Sword of Honour'' trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender , followed in 1955 and 1961.If you enjoyed Brideshead Revisited , you might like Waugh''s Vile Bodies , also available in Penguin Classics.''Lush and evocative ... Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit'' The Times

DKK 113.00
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Survivor on the River Kwai - Reg Twigg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Survivor on the River Kwai - Reg Twigg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of one of the last survivors of the Burma Railway. February 1942. A young British soldier is caught up in the worst defeat in the history of the British Army, the fall of Singapore. Reg Twigg spends the next three years in hell, moving from jungle camp to jungle camp and building the Burma Railway for the all-conquering Japanese. Beaten, tortured, starving and forced to watch his comrades die, Reg fights for his survival, stealing from his captors, trapping animals and even making his own tobacco. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius. As moving and harrowing as The Last Fighting Tommy, with the drama of David Lean''s The Bridge Over the River Kwai and the heart of The Forgotten Highlander, Survivor on the River Kwai is Reg''s story - his pain, his triumphs and even his forgiveness.Reg Twigg was born at Wigston (Leicester) barracks on 16 December 1913. He was called up to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1940 but instead of fighting Hitler he was sent to the Far East, stationed at Singapore. When captured by the Japanese, he decided he would do everything to survive.After his repatriation from the Far East, Reg returned to Leicester. With his family he returned to Thailand in 2006, and revisited the sites of the POW camps. Reg died in 2013, at the age of ninety-nine, two weeks before the publication of this book.

DKK 126.00
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KANDAK - Patrick Hennessey - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

KANDAK - Patrick Hennessey - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

KANDAK , from Patrick Hennessey, author of the TV Book Club pick, The Junior Officers'' Reading Club, is ''a rich depiction of life and death, love and sorrow ... read this brilliant book'' Evening Standard When Patrick Hennessey returned home from Afghanistan, he left behind him the surreal intensity and exhilaration of battle. He also left behind lasting bonds of friendship formed with his Afghan comrades Qiam, Syed and Majhib. Kandak is the story of how, in the heat of the moment between living and dying, unlikely alliances can be forged. Patrick Hennessey tells of their awkward first meetings, mutual suspicion and incomprehension, and how this eventually turned into brotherhood. ''A passionate tribute to the Afghan soldiers he fought alongside in Helmand ... excellent'' Sunday Times ''This beautifully-written sequel to his first book tells us much about the bonds forged by combat in the dust and heat and danger, when there was no "them and us"'' Mail on Sunday ''His prose is lean and muscular, characterised by dry wit and acute intelligence. He also has a novelist''s eye for the vivid image and the telling detail'' Daily Mail ''An erudite account ... this topical book, beautifully written, gives important insights at a crucial time in Afghanistan''s transition'' Daily Telegraph Patrick Hennessey was born in 1982 and educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. He joined the Army and served from 2004 to 2009 as an officer in The Grenadier Guards. In between guarding towers, castles and palaces he worked in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia, the Falkland Islands and deployed on operational tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. On leaving the Army he wrote his first book The Junior Officers'' Reading Club . He is now a barrister.

DKK 168.00
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Five by Five - Claire Wilson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Five by Five - Claire Wilson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What if the killer she''s hunting turns out to be the woman she''s falling for? ''Tense, chilling and distinctive, this is a one-sitting read'' Guardian ''A bloody good read'' Val McDermid ---- Just because the most dangerous criminals in society are caught and locked up, doesn’t mean they stop committing crime. That’s where Kennedy Allardyce comes in – working in one of Scotland’s toughest prisons, monitoring not just the prisoners, but also the staff.And she’s just stumbled across her most dangerous foe yet – rumours of a corrupt guard, nicknamed Scout, with lethal influence. And what’s worst, it seems they’ve already realised Kennedy is on their tail.Despite her growing fear, there is one thing going right for Kennedy. The enigmatic new prison officer Molly is beautiful and ready to sweep her off her feet.But Kennedy can’t afford to let her guard down. Because with Scout hiding very close by, her next mistake might just be her last . . .----''A significant crime debut. Authoritatively authentic, irresistibly pacey and nerve-shreddingly tense'' Chris Brookmyre ‘ An assured debut by former prison officer , taking us inside the claustrophobic and ofttimes gladiatorial setting of a modern prison. With the dodgy guards and vicious cons, this is a topical dive into the darker aspects of our penal system. Terrifyingly authentic’ Vaseem Khan‘Raw, brutal, claustrophobic, fast and impossible to put down. Written by someone who''s walked the walk and seen the prison system close up’ Neil Lancaster, bestselling author of Dead Man’s Grave ‘Grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go’ Professor David Wilson, leading criminologist and author of My Life with Murderers ‘Brilliantly plotted, and so tense I forgot to breathe in places’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me ‘Gritty and unflinching, unbearably tense and claustrophobic, it gripped me throughout. Claire’s professional expertise shines through and gives such authenticity to the story’ Natalie Chandler, author of What We Did Readers are loving Five by Five ''I was hooked right from the first page of this book and I did not want to put it down'' ***** Reader Review''A cracking debut thriller'' ***** Reader Review''Fast pace, vivid characters and dramatic plot, Five by Five is gritty, compelling and surprisingly affecting'' ***** Reader Review''Such an exciting read'' ***** Reader Review''An incredible book. The characters are believable and relatable. I loved the setting, I haven’t read many set in a prison'' ***** Reader Review

DKK 182.00
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