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Under the Hornbeams - Emma Tarlo - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

''Reading it feels like slowing down to take a breath'' - EVENING STANDARD * ''To sit here with my new companions, observing the sun climbing in the morning sky until the point where it illuminates us on the dewy grass, feels like an extraordinary privilege – a taste of enchantment before the beginning of the working day.'' Emma Tarlo first meets Nick and Pascal when out walking in Regent’s Park, where they are living without shelter under the trees. Gradually, through the sharing of food and life stories, Emma develops a friendship with the pair. Their conversations under the open sky prompt Emma to question many things in her own life, transforming her understanding of what freedom might look like. Under the Hornbeams is a life-affirming story about the power of human connection which upturns our preconceptions about home, work and community.* What readers are saying: ‘Like entering another world where quiet reflection, humour and openness are possible.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘If you''re feeling rather exhausted by work or by life, [it’s] a real escape’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Reading it is like being given time out to have a rethink.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘It cannot fail to change anyone profoundly’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Leaves you feeling at peace with our world’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Under the Night - Alan Glynn - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

''A masterpiece.'' Stav Sherez, author of The Intrusions ''A thrilling ride.'' Irish Times 1950s Manhattan : the CIA carries out a covert study of psychoactive drugs. Ad man Ned Sweeney is dosed with MDT-48, and finds his horizons dramatically expand. . . Sixty years later, all that Ray Sweeney knows of his grandfather’s life is that he committed suicide. But then Ray meets a retired government official, who claims he can illuminate the truth behind Ned’s death. Both a sequel and a prequel to The Dark Fields , which was adapted into the hit movie Limitless , Under the Night explores the seductive power and dangers of unlocking the human mind.

Under the Tump - Oliver Balch - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Hay-on-Wye is world famous as the Town of Books. But when travel writer Oliver Balch moved there, it was not just the books he was keen to read, but the people too.After living in London and Buenos Aires, what will he make of this tiny, quirky town on the Welsh-English border? To help guide him, he turns to Francis Kilvert, a Victorian diarist who captured the bucolic rural life of his day. Does anything of Kilvert''s world still exists? And could a newcomer ever feel they truly belong?With empathy and humour, Balch joins in the daily routines and lives of his fellow residents. What emerges is a captivating, personal picture of country life in the 21st century. Some things haven''t altered for centuries, while others are changing at an alarming pace.Written with his trademark vivid, reportage style, Balch''s journey sees him meet with a king and his courtiers, publicans, hippies, mayors, old widows and young farmers. In an increasingly mobile, urban world, Under the Tump is a timely, honest account of Balch''s attempt to put down roots in a community not yet his own.

Under the Hornbeams - Emma Tarlo - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Trampled Under Foot - Barney Hoskyns - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

A unique look at the history, adventures, myths and realities of this most legendary and powerful of bands, it is a labour of love based on hours of first-hand and original interviews. What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians themselves, as well as a fresh insight into the close-knit entourage that protected them, from Peter Grant to Richard Cole to Ahmet Ertegun, giant figures from the long-vanished world of 1970s rock.Featuring many rare and never before seen photographs, it is also the first book on Led Zeppelin to cover such recent events as their triumphant 2007 O2 Arena gig and Robert Plant''s Grammy-winning resurgence of recent years.

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Big Brother is watching you . . . Under the all-seeing eye of Big Brother, Winston Smith spends his days in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting the past for the Party. Despite constant surveillance and the ever-present threat of repression, he starts to inwardly question the regime. A note from a colleague – ‘I love you’ – marks the beginning of a secret affair that breaks all the rules. But what will happen when they are found out?This classic dystopian novel is a vision of life under a totalitarian regime, where every thought or action could bring the Thought Police to the door . . .Now with a stunningly sinister cover by Nathan Burton.

The Funny Side - Wendy Cope - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

In The Funny Side Wendy Cope, herself one of the funniest poets now writing in English, has collected 101 of the poems that have most amused her. Acknowledged classics of the genre are to be found alongside newer pieces, and the collection as a whole illustrates the great range to be found under the heading of ''humorous poetry''.

Jellicle Cats - T. S. Eliot - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Jellicle Cats come one and all. Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball. Join the Jellicle Cats under the Jellicle Moon in the forth picture-book pairing from Arthur Robins and T. S. Eliot''s Old Possum''s cats, as they dance the night away.To sit alongside other classics such as The Gruffalo , The Tiger Who Came to Tea , and Spot .

The Sun on My Head - Geovani Martins - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

THE BESTSELLING LITERARY SENSATION FROM BRAZIL ‘A blaze of heat, love and risk that will leave you reeling.’ DBC Pierre‘An extraordinary writer.’ Misha Glenny LONGLISTED FOR THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FIRST BOOK AWARD A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Capturing the texture of life growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the stories in The Sun on My Head tell us of days lived under incredible heat – and under the shadow of a ubiquitous drug culture, the constant threat of the police, and the confines of poverty, violence and racism. They are also hauntingly beautiful portrayals of friendship, romance and momentary release from the oppressions of everyday life. The Sun on My Head is a debut work of great talent and sensitivity, a daring evocation of life in the favelas by a rising star rooted in the very community he portrays.

In Times of Fading Light - Eugen Ruge - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

''Already hailed as a Cold War classic.'' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year ''Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.'' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland International bestseller and Winner of the German Book Prize A sweeping story of one family over four generations in East Germany: the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime.

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Toad has always been a silly sort of fellow. But when his latest obsession with motor cars - the faster the better - threatens to lead him to disaster, it is up to Toad''s good friends Mole, Ratty and Badger to get him under control. Can they save Toad from prison, and his home Toad Hall from the wicked Weasels and Stoats?

The Treekeepers - Kieran Larwood - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

An epic tale of trees of power and a world under threat, from the author of the bestselling Five Realms series. Here come the roots of the Shadow Tree. Whatever they touch will never get free. Liska lives in Arborven, a city surrounding an extraordinary tree that gives all those living there special powers. As a shapeshifter, Liska is training as a warrior. When she discovers that the Tree is under threat, it is her duty to act – but she can’t convince anyone to listen to her. So with Lug, whose power over earthworms is dismissed as useless, and a ghost-girl, Elowen, she goes on an epic journey to defeat the worst threat their world has ever known.Illustrated by Chris Wormell this is a richly woven and thrilling fantasy with a wonderful affinity between humankind and nature – a current and vital message for young readers everywhere.''An epic, exciting feat of imagination.'' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars ''Utterly compelling; brilliant.'' - BookTrust ''A vivid world full of wonder, magic and fantastical creatures.'' - The Scotsman

Follow Her Home - Steph Cha - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

‘Compelling from first to last page.’ DENISE MINA Meet Juniper Song, an under employed, twenty-something, Raymond-Chandler-loving, Korean American woman from downtown LA.When a friend asks Song to carry out surveillance on his father, she figures she doesn’t have anything better to do – plus she gets to indulge her Philip Marlowe fantasies. But barely half a day into playing private eye someone has knocked her unconscious and left a dead body in the trunk of her car…

Trapped in History - Nicholas Rankin - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Trapped in History tells how the British colonised Kenya and how African nationalism arose under Jomo Kenyatta. It describes the terrifying first attacks by the guerrilla freedom fighters known as Mau Mau. Though defeated, the Mau Mau hastened the end of British rule in Kenya. Trapped in History explores the effect the uprising on the author, who grew up as a child in the Kenya colony.The book is both a history, as well as a memoir, of the end of Empire.

The Republic of Trees - Sam Taylor - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

One of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republic of Trees tells the story of Michael, Louis, Alex and Isobel, four children on the edge of adolescence, who run away to the forest to establish their own utopian community. All seems well in the Republic of Trees - until the sudden arrival of Joy. Under her influence, their relationships grow more erotic and obsessive, and the shadows of a nightmarish dystopia start to encroach on reality . . .

Trieste - Jan Morris - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Here, her thoughts on a host of subjects - ships, cities, cats, sex, nationalism, Jewishness, civility and kindness - are inspired by the presence of Trieste, and recorded in or between the lines of this book.Evoking the whole of its modern history, from its explosive growth to wealth and fame under the Habsburgs, through the years of Fascist rule to the miserable years of the Cold War, when rivalries among the great powers prevented its creation as a free city under United Nations auspices, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is neither a history nor a travel book; like the place, it is one of a kind. Jan Morris''s collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Venice , Coronation Everest , Hong Kong , Spain , Manhattan ''45, A Writer''s World and the Pax Britannica Trilogy. Hav , her novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

When I Arrived At The Castle - - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Was it revulsion I felt? Perhaps some sort of sick fascination? No, not that. But something compelled me to follow. . . Rain-drenched and chilled to the bone, she arrives at the Countess’ castle. Like many before her – none of whom have returned – she’s determined to snuff out the horrors within. But could she ever be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering flags. . .Emily Carroll’s hair-raising tale, charged with eroticism, won’t just make your skin crawl – it will crawl underneath it.

Collected Poems for Children - Ted Hughes - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in Under the North Star and What is the Truth? and ending with Season Songs, which Hughes remarked was written ''within hearing'' of children. Raymond Briggs brings to the collection two hundred original drawings that capture the wit, gentleness and humanity of these poems and make this a book any reader - child and adult - will return to again and again.

The Wilding - Maria Mccann - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

A novel of secrets and revenge within a seventeenth-century English family. Longlisted for the Orange Prize 1672. A generation after the Civil War, Jonathan Dymond, a cider maker, has so far enjoyed a quiet life. But when he discovers a letter from his dying uncle, hinting an inheritance and revenge, he is determined to unravel the mystery in his family. Under the pretence of his cider business, Jonathan visits his newly widowed aunt and there meets her unruly servant girl, Tamar, who soon reveals that she has secrets of her own...

Sisters of the Moon - Marie Louise Fitzpatrick - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

A wonderfully atmospheric, ethereal story, where the mystical comes to Earth and the power of female friendship triumphs above all. From Carnegie-shortlisted author of On Midnight Beach. *SHORTLISTED AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024* *LONGLISTED CARNEGIE MEDAL 2025* Suzy Button is grieving. Grieving for her dead mother, but also for the friends she''s left behind, the father who no longer laughs and the life that she once had. In desperation she finds herself in the garden in the middle of the night, under the light of a supermoon, wishing everything would change.And suddenly, it does.Into school walks Rhiannon, a fearless new girl who makes Suzy her instant best friend. And Rhiannon seems to make things . . . happen. If Suzy wants something, somehow Rhiannon can make it so: friends, beach parties, midnight photoshoots under a moonlit sky . . . Suzy''s life is finally moving forward again.But where did Rhiannon come from? She doesn''t seem to live in Sallycove. Why can''t Suzy go to her house? And why does she never have any stuff? Suzy might be her best friend, but does she really know who Rhiannon is?Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick''s book On Midnight Beach was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2021.

That Neutral Island - Clair Wills - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media. Whereas previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island brings to life the atmosphere of a country forced to live under rationing, heavy censorship and the threat of invasion. It unearths the motivations of those thousands who left Ireland to fight in the British forces and shows how ordinary people tried to make sense of the Nazi threat through the lens of antagonism towards Britain.

The Oresteia - Ted Hughes - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon , The Cheophori and The Eumenides . Concerned with the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War as it affects the accursed royal house of Atreus, it follows a singularly harrowing course, from the bloodiest domestic discord to divine intervention and reconciliation. Ted Hughes''s translation was written in his most pared-down and powerfully driven verse, at once equal to Aeschylus''s tragic vision and speaking directly to modern audiences and readers. The plays were first performed at the National Theatre in 1999 under the direction of Katie Mitchell.

Good Will Hunting - Matt Damon And Ben Affleck - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Wildly charismatic, impossibly brilliant, totally rebellious - Will Hunting is a mathematical genius who lives on the fringes of society, refusing to accept the talent that he has for maths and taking, instead, a job as a cleaner in a university. A psychologist takes him under his wing and tries to help Hunting resolve the traumas that beset him.Matt Damon and Ben Affleck - lifelong friends and two of the best actors of their generation - have written a film that is funny, ironic and profoundly moving; one that is filled with empathy for society''s outsiders and their struggle to fight their way through life.

Insane Mode - Hamish Mckenzie - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Insane Mode is the astounding story of the most revolutionary car company since Ford, revealing how, under Elon Musk’s leadership, it is bringing to an end the era of gasoline-powered transportation. Hamish McKenzie, journalist and former writer for Tesla, explores how an unlikely West Coast start-up with an audacious dream to create a new successful US car company, went up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit companies, but also the massive power of Big Oil. Insane Mode is a story of ingenuity and revolution – of how a new world of transportation could change people’s lives globally.

Dunsinane - David Greig - Bog - Faber & Faber - Booktok.dk

Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken rules of this alien country. He seeks to restore peace to a country ravaged by war. This is Scotland in the eleventh century at the height of the fight for succession of the Scottish throne. David Greig''s Dunsinane premiered in February 2010 at Hampstead Theatre, London, in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.