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

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

A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates some of the very best Japanese literature from the past hundred years. Each story appears in the original Japanese alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and literary inspiration for language learners. Ranging from a witty send-up of modern social graces to a powerful evocation of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this remarkable collection includes works from beloved authors Abe Akira, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Betsuyaku Minoru, Hoshi Shin''ichi, Kawakami Mieko, Kono Taeko, Murakami Haruki, Oba Minako, Ota Yoko and Uchida Hyakken.

DKK 126.00
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The Junior Officers' Reading Club - Patrick Hennessey - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

The Junior Officers' Reading Club - Patrick Hennessey - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.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 126.00
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Claimed! - Gertrude Barrows Bennett - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

Claimed! - Gertrude Barrows Bennett - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson’s most prized possession, an item he obsessively guards: a mysterious green box, etched with a single line from an unknown language. Soon, Vanaman and Robinson's courageous neice, Leilah, are drawn into an odyssey, a voyage toward the box’s ancient, terrifying origin…The greatest novel by one of the pioneering female voices in horror writing, Gertrude Barrows Bennett’s Claimed! is a masterful intertwining fantasy, philosophy, and terror. ‘The most important female writer of speculative fiction that you’ve probably never heard of’ Worlds Without End

DKK 119.00
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In the Heat of the Night - John Ball - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

In the Heat of the Night - John Ball - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

A 50th anniversary edition of the classic crime novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Sidney Poitier. ''They call me Mr Tibbs!'' A small southern town in the 1960s. A musician found dead on the highway. It''s no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder. What is a surprise is that the black man - Virgil Tibbs - is himself a skilled homicide detective from California, whom inexperienced Chief Gillespie reluctantly recruits to help with the case. Faced with mounting local hostility and a police force that seems determined to see him fail, it isn''t long before Tibbs - trained in karate and aikido - will have to fight not just for justice, but also for his own safety.The inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film starring Sidney Poitier, this iconic crime novel is a psychologically astute examination of racial prejudice, an atmospheric depiction of the American South in the sixties, and a brilliant, suspense-filled read set in the sultry heat of the night.

DKK 119.00
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Yesterday Will Make You Cry - Chester Himes - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

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

'A stark depiction of the “alligator pond” of prison life … Rage tempered with compassion … [its] emotional core continues to smoulder’ The New York Times Book ReviewThrill-seeking teenager Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery in the state penitentiary, where terror and chaos reign, corrupt guards inflict casual violence, and men try to preserve their dignity amid isolation and inhumanity. When a fire breaks out, setting hell and mayhem loose, it seems Jimmy’s entire world is unravelling. But as he develops a tender relationship with fellow convict Rico, hope begins to glimmer, and, through his eventual foray into writing, something resembling redemption. Originally published in 1952, in an expurgated version, as Cast the First Stone, Yesterday Will Make You Cry draws on Chester Himes’s own youthful experiences of imprisonment to face down the scouring truths of harm and love. ‘Himes at the top of his game … what an amazing book it is’ Melvin Van Peebles

DKK 126.00
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The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

Young D''Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King''s elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers. Soon part of their close band, D''Artagnan''s loyalty to his new allies puts him in the deadly path of Cardinal Richlieu''s machinations. And when the young hero falls in love with the beautiful but inaccessible Constance, he finds himself in a world of murder, conspiracy and lies, with only the Musketeers to depend on. A stirring nineteenth-century tale of friendship and adventure, The Three Musketeers continues to be one of the most influential and popular pieces of French literature. Richard Pevear''s introduction investigates the controversy of Dumas'' literary collaborators, and how important serialisation was to the book''s success. This edition also includes notes on the text.

DKK 119.00
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Me and a Guy Named Elvis - Jerry Schilling - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

Me and a Guy Named Elvis - Jerry Schilling - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, "That’s All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the world’s biggest star. In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his "Memphis Mafia," and Jerry soon found himself living with Elvis full-time in a Bel Air mansion and, later, in his own room at Graceland. Over the next thirteen years Jerry would work for Elvis in various capacities — from bodyguard to photo double to co-executive producer on a karate film. But more than anything else he was Elvis’s close friend and confidant: Elvis trusted Jerry with protecting his life when he received death threats, he asked Jerry to drive him and Priscilla to the hospital the day Lisa Marie was born and to accompany him during the famous "lost weekend" when he traveled to meet President Nixon at the White House. Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend’s perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon — including insights into the creative frustrations that lead to Elvis’s abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death. Jerry offers never-before-told stories about life inside Elvis’s inner circle and an emotional recounting of the great times, hard times, and unique times he and Elvis shared. These vivid memories will be priceless to Elvis’s millions of fans, and the compelling story will fascinate an even wider audience.

DKK 179.00
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Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.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 112.00
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Survivor on the River Kwai - Reg Twigg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

Survivor on the River Kwai - Reg Twigg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.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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Five by Five - Claire Wilson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

Five by Five - Claire Wilson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.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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