Engelska

The Wickedest [Bok / Häftad]

<b>An invitation to change our lives and imagine the world anew through reading stories, in the new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of <i>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit</i><br/><br/><i>I can change the story because I am the story.</i><br/><br/>'Makes you think and makes you laugh' Nigella</b><br/><br/>With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. <i>One Aladdin Two Lamps</i> cracks open the legendary story of <i>One Thousand and One Nights</i> to show how its questions are still relevant to our lives today. Is love the most important thing in the world? What makes us happy?<br/><br/>In her guise as Aladdin, Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know and look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realised through the power of books that she could read herself as fiction as well as fact.<br/><br/>Weaving together fiction, magic and memoir, this remarkable book is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future - an invitation to look more closely at our own stories, and to imagine the world anew.<br/><br/><b>'Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp' Kamila Shamsie<br/><br/>'One of the most gifted writers working today' <i>New York Times</i><br/><br/>In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' <i>Evening Standard</i></b>

Stranger Music [Bok / Pocket]

The Divine Comedy Inferno [Bok / Inbunden]

The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe [Bok / Inbunden]

The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for <i>New Cemetery</i>. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems - composed in short-lined tercets - reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine upland.<br/><br/>As phases of lockdown come and go and the cemetery fills up with new 'residents', Armitage charts personal losses of his own, often retreating to his garden shed to navigate blank paper with pen and ink. Encompassing lyrical revelations and everyday vignettes alongside apocalyptic visions and imagined conversations with the deceased, these pages draw us into a parallel neighbourhood of remembrance and celebration.

From her late-80s beginnings, capturing our hearts as Charlene in Neighbours and singing 'I Should Be So Lucky' in a bubble bath, to her gold-plated hits like 'Spinning Around' and 'Padam Padam' soundtracking the euphoria of dancefloors the world over, there is only one Kylie Minogue. <br/><br/>She has sold over eighty-million records internationally, is the best-selling Australian pop star of all time and has collaborated with some of the biggest names in music, fashion and photography across her various shape-shifting eras. She is, undoubtedly, a modern-day icon. But who is the 'real' Kylie? And how has she remained a mystery while also navigating a forty-year career in the fickle world of pop? <br/><br/>Award-winning writer Michael Cragg takes us on a journey into the psyche of one of the world's most enigmatic pop stars. Via a mix of brand new interviews, a dash of oral history and some playful music writing, <i>Can't Get You Out of My Head</i> aims to put the pop puzzle pieces together.