2016

Longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize<br/><br/>In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India's most prestigious literary awards.<br/><br/>'A significant presence in Kannada literature, Banu Mushtaq reveals the varied realities of contemporary women with rare talent and art. Deepa Bhasthi's rich translation captures the original's nuances of voice, context and experience, bringing this important work into English for new readers in India and internationally.' PEN Presents Selection Panel

En kärnfull och lättläst bok om bindväven (fascia). I sin femte bok dyker fysioterapeuten Linus Johansson åter in i den mänskliga kroppens komplexitet. Denna gång är det bindväven (fascia) som ska utforskas. Vad säger den senaste forskningen om bindväven? Vilka är dess unika egenskaper? Hur gör man för att träna och behandla den? Och är förståelsen om bindväven vägen till att skapa en mer energieffektiv och följsam kropp? Detta är frågor som Linus utforskar tillsammans med dig som läsare. Det här är en kärnfull och rikt illustrerad bok som tar dig med på en resa från bindvävens innersta kvalitéer hela vägen till principerna för hur man kan behandla och "träna" den. Boken utgår från ett vetenskapligt perspektiv med över 50 referenser till artiklar och litteratur.

The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel increasingly detached from the real world. She has been on a top-secret mission, and her next job will lead her to encounter the apparently superhuman founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange affair surrounding a literary prize to which a mysterious seventeen-year-old girl has submitted her remarkable first novel. It seems to be based on her own experiences and moves readers in unusual ways. Can her story really be true? Aomame and Tengo's stories influence one another, at times by accident and at times intentionally, as the two come closer and closer to intertwining. As "1Q84" accelerates towards its conclusion, both are pursued by persons and forces they do not know and cannot understand. As they begin to decipher more about the strange world into which they have slipped, so they sense their destinies converging. What they cannot know is whether they will find one another before they are themselves found. "1Q84" is a magnificent and fully-imagined work of fiction - a thriller, a love-story and a mind-bending ode to George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". It is a world from which the reader emerges stunned and altered.

<b>The ultimate guide to exploring the roads less travelled, in Tokyo and beyond.</b><br/><br/> Chiara Terzuolo takes us on a journey through Tokyo and its surrounding cities, uncovering the hidden treasures that lie beneath the well-trodden hustle and bustle of one of the world's most-travelled destinations.<br/><br/> From tucked-away bars to quirky vending machines, themed walks to secret tea houses, Hidden Japan is your guide to the art of wandering off the beaten path. With chapters on the Nature, Food, History, Art and Late-Night destinations that you'll find only in Tokyo, Hidden Japan has detailed recommendations for every kind of traveller.<br/><br/> Complete with stunning illustrations by Justine Wong, this is a must-read for anyone looking to explore Japan's many hidden marvels.

Four royals. Two thrones. One deadly curse. In the heart of Emberfall, Prince Rhen is trapped by a curse, haunted by the beast inside, while outside his kingdom falls to ruin. Far away, in modern day Washington DC, Harper plays lookout for her brother. Despite being underestimated for her cerebral palsy, when she sees a woman in danger, she rushes to help - only to be sucked into Rhen's cursed world. What begins as a twist on a fairy tale unfurls into an epic tale of magic, danger, love and betrayal in Brigid Kemmerer's New York Times bestselling Cursebreaker series. This box set includes paperback editions of: A Curse So Dark and Lonely, A Heart So Fierce and Broken and A Vow So Bold and Deadly.

This handsome box set of 100 postcards features original watercolor illustrations from David Sibley, America's leading ornithologist.<br/><br/>Culled from The Sibley Field Guide to Birds, each bird is lovingly rendered in watercolors by David Sibley and chosen with their individual beauty and prominence in the country (with special focus on backyard birds) in mind. Housed in an elegant keepsake box, these postcards are ideal for mailing to friends and family, framed and used as décor, or attached to presents as unique gift tags.

The graphic novel that inspired the hit Warner Bros. motion picture and DVD from the Wachowski Bros., the directors of THE MATRIX films and SPEED RACER.