Engelska

In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker (the manager of the number-one country music star of the day) heard that an unknown teenager from Memphis had just drawn a crowd of more than 800 people to a Texas schoolhouse and headed south to investigate. Within a matter of days, Parker was sending out telegrams and letters to promoters and booking agents: 'We have a new boy that is absolutely going to be one of the biggest things in the business in a very short time. His name is ELVIS PRESLEY.' <br/><br/>The close personal bond between Elvis and the Colonel is something that has never been fully portrayed before. It was a relationship founded on mutual admiration and support. From the outset, the Colonel defended Elvis fiercely and indefatigably against RCA executives, Elvis' own booking agents and movie moguls. But in their final years together, the story grew darker, as the Colonel found himself unable to protect Elvis from himself - or to control growing problems of his own. <br/><br/>Featuring troves of previously unpublished correspondence from the Colonel's own archives, revelatory for both their insights and their emotional depth, <i>The Colonel and the King</i> provides a groundbreaking dual portrait of the relationship between the iconic artist and his legendary manager and a unique perspective on not one but two American originals. A tale of the birth of the modern-day superstar (an invention almost entirely of Parker's making) by the most acclaimed music writer of his generation, it presents these two misunderstood icons as they've never been seen before: with all of their brilliance, humour and flaws on full display.

<b>The timeless, genre-defying classics <i>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories</i>,<i> Dracula</i>, <i>Frankenstein</i>, <i>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories</i>, <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i>, and <i>The Raven & Other Writings</i> are now available together in this bone-chilling paperback boxed set.</b><br/><br/>In <i>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories</i>, the relationship between a well-respected doctor and a violent criminal is more shocking than anyone could guess in this unholy tale of a repressed man giving himself over wholly to the worst of his vices and shame. Also, two medical students turn to grave robbing in "The Body Snatcher" and a man wishes on a cursed bottle in "The Bottle Imp."<br/><br/>In <i>Dracula</i>, young English lawyer Jonathan Harker's trip to Romania to meet with Count Dracula sets off a chain of events that threaten the lives of his friends, including his fiancee, Mina. With the help of vampire expert Professor Van Helsing, can Jonathan, Mina, and their friends defeat their sinister foe?<br/><br/>In <i>Frankenstein</i>, Victor Frankenstein is an aspiring scientist whose obsession with the idea of creating life leads him to animate a humanoid figure he crafted from corpses. Confronted with the horror of what he's created, Frankenstein abandons his monster-who in turn vows revenge.<br/><br/>In <i>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories</i>, schoolteacher Ichabod Crane flees from the Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane sleeps for twenty years to wake to a changed world, and more.<br/><br/>The titular Phantom of the Opera hides from the world while terrorizing the Paris Opera House and its star, beautiful soprano Christine Daae, in <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i>.<br/><br/>In <i>The Raven & Other Writings</i>, murder and grief dominate the eerie stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.<br/><br/>This deliciously eerie paperback boxed set includes:<br/> <i>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories</i><br/> <i>Dracula</i><br/> <i>Frankenstein</i><br/> <i>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories</i><br/> <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i><br/> <i>The Raven & Other Writings</i>

World of Howl Boxed Set [Bok / Häftad]

A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend - the father of her newborn baby - who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. The more Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott delve into the case, the more labyrinthine it gets. The silver shop is no ordinary one: it's located beside Freemasons' Hall and specialises in Masonic silverware. And in addition to the armed robber and Decima's boyfriend, it becomes clear that there are other missing men who could fit the profile of the body in the vault. As the case becomes ever more complicated and dangerous, Strike faces another quandary. Robin seems increasingly committed to her boyfriend, policeman Ryan Murphy, but the impulse to declare his own feelings for her is becoming stronger than ever.

<b>SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES </b> <b> THE AWARD-WINNING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, MILLION-COPY-SELLING SCI-FI PHENOMENON</b> Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY. Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity's struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum. Available now in one boxed set, including: 1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM 2 THE DARK FOREST 3 DEATH'S END 'Extraordinary' <i><b>NEW YORKER</b></i> 'SF in the grand style' <b><i>GUARDIAN</i></b> 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' <b><i>WIRED</i></b> 'Wildly imaginative... immense' <b>BARACK OBAMA</b> '<i>War of the Worlds</i> for the 21st century' <i><b>WALL STREET JOURNAL</b></i> 'A breakthrough book' <b>GEORGE R.R. MARTIN</b> 'The best kind of science fiction' <b>KIM STANLEY ROBINSON</b> 'Concludes with sweep and scope and majesty' <b>DAVID BRIN</b> 'Even what doesn't happen is epic' <b><i>LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS</i></b>

An omnibus edition of books 1-3 in China's best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy, comprising The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Death's End. The trilogy weaves a web of physics, philosophy and history, taking the reader from the Cultural Revolution to the heat death of the universe.

Pursuing his investigations of high financial fraud, international banking, hidden systems of finance, black budgets and breakaway civilisations, author and researcher, Joseph P. Farrell, continues his examination of the post-war Nazi International, an "extra-territorial state" without borders or capitals, a network of terrorists, drug runners and people in the very heights of financial power willing to commit financial fraud in amounts totalling trillions of dollars. Breakaway civilisations, black budgets, secret technology, occult rituals, international terrorism, giant corporate cartels, patent law and the hijacking of nature: it's all in this book where Farrell explores what he calls 'the business model' of the post-war Axis elite. It is Farrell at his best - uncovering the gargantuan financial fraud and hidden technology of the breakaway civilisation.