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Utvald till Reese Witherspoon's Book Club. »En vacker roman full av förbjuden passion, familjehemligheter, mod och uppoffringar.« Reese Witherspoon Havanna, 1958. Nittonåriga Eli ...

»En viktig, rörande roman som stannar kvar hos en långt efter att man läst klart.« The Independent Franskfödde Noah är en pensionerad kemiprofessor som bor på Upper West Side i Ne ...

”Bokskåpets hemlighet lyckas med konsten att kombinera eskapism med det jordnära och väjer inte för att skildra såväl förtvivlan som himlastormande kärlek förlagd under både andra ...

Återsken är en samling efterlämnade texter utgivna postumt 1932. I den ingår bland annat romanen Sönder. Henry Parland [1908-1930] var en finlandssvensk poet, författare och journ ...

Freelance-toimittaja Viola Glas on asettunut nauttimaan seesteisestä syksystä hurmaavan nuoren poikaystävänsä Armas Kettusen kanssa, kun menneisyyden varjot nousevatkin yllättäen p ...

Edellinen henkirikos on tuskin poistunut otsikoista, kun freelance-toimittaja Viola Glas on jälleen uuden murhamysteerin pauloissa. Hän on sopinut haastattelun suuren lehtitalon, L ...

Freelance-toimittaja Viola Glas on vetäytynyt ystäviensä luksustaloon Westendiin hoitamaan haavoittunutta sydäntään ja järkkynyttä mieltään: hänen suhteensa charmikkaaseen ex-minis ...

Östgöten Ansgarius Borén deltog i präriens blodigaste drabbning mellan röda och vita, slaget vid Little Big Horn 1876. General Custer och hans sjunde kavalleri skulle spöa skiten u ...

Arthur Jermyn was a noble man whose family was full of strange people such as adventurers, sailors and people who joined the circus. But the family members were not only strange – ...

H.P. Lovecraft is a master of horror – and in this compilation of stories the reader gets a chance to meet some of Lovecraft's most memorable characters. In ‘The Alchemist’ we meet ...

Dante Alighieri’s journey continues in the third part of “The Divine Comedy”. Opposite to the main subject in the previous two parts, “Paradiso” depicts virtues and not sins as it ...

Frightened and helpless, Dante is desperate to join his Beloved Beatrice at the gates of Heaven. But fate and fear have other plans. He’s sins have landed him at the beginning of a ...

“Inferno” tells the story “of those who have rejected spiritual values”, of those who are lost and are unable to find the right way to salvation. It describes each sin and the corr ...

Charles Darnaway decides to leave the University of Edinburgh, so that he can travel to the remote island of Aros. He pays a visit to his uncle, Gordon Darnaway, and beautiful cous ...

A large ship carrying slaves has ended up in distress. Sailor Ben Brace has managed to build a small raft – and together with a young boy called William they are trying to survive ...

After "Little Women's" immediate commercial and critical success readers demanded to know more about Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. In "Good Wives", Louisa May Alcott follows the dinamic l ...

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which hel ...

Joseph and Masterson Finsbury are two brothers, who entered a tontine with 37 other boys, when they were still children. In this tontine, subscribers share a common fund. Shares ar ...

Who is the man that wrote the famous "Heart of Darkness"?No one can tell you that better than Joseph Conrad himself. "A Personal Record" dwells deep into the time, places and peopl ...

"...her singularity took the form of a charm which—once circumstances had made them so intimate—it was impossible to resist or conjure away." The beautiful New Yorker, Georgina Gre ...

MOSKVA ÅR 2035. Efter atomkriget som ödelade jorden har en människo­spillra tjugo år senare skapat en ny civilisation i Moskvas vidsträckta tunnelbana. I underjorden jäser konflik­ ...

Embarking upon a journey to discover the limits of one’s sanity and guilty conscience, “The Black Cat” is a perfect example of how no bad deed goes unpunished. Obsessively dark and ...

Inspired by the developments in cryptography and the gradually emerging detective fiction, “The Gold-Bug” surely got mixed critical reception from the public.  Hailed as both “inge ...

Joukkueen tärkein pelaaja katoaa kuin tuhka tuuleen ja apuun kutsutaan maailman kuuluisin etsivä. Sherlock Holmes ratkaisee visaista arvoitusta tässä Arthur Conan Doylen klassisess ...

Charles Milverton on panettelijoiden ja kiristäjien kuningas. Voiko maailman kuuluisin etsivä auttaa hänen uhrejaan? Sherlock Holmes ratkaisee visaista arvoitusta tässä Arthur Cona ...