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Invisible Hands (Paperback): Stig Sæterbakken Invisible Hands (Paperback)
Stig Sæterbakken; Translated by Sean Kinsella
R437 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R73 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Inspector Kristian Wold is assigned to a year-old missing person’s case. His superiors’ instructions are clear: one last review before they shelve it. Neverthe- less, when the mother of the 14-year-old missing girl asks to see him, his conscience gets the better of him and he agrees to a meeting; a meeting that has unfore- seen consequences for both of them.

Killing Moon - A Harry Hole Novel (13) (Hardcover): Jo Nesbo Killing Moon - A Harry Hole Novel (13) (Hardcover)
Jo Nesbo; Translated by Sean Kinsella
R855 R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Save R181 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Man Who Loved Siberia (Hardcover): Roy Jacobsen, Anneliese Pitz The Man Who Loved Siberia (Hardcover)
Roy Jacobsen, Anneliese Pitz; Translated by Sean Kinsella
R742 R594 Discovery Miles 5 940 Save R148 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers, explored remote islands and crossed treacherous lakes of ice, always with one purpose: to augment man's knowledge of the natural world. Bears, tigers, vipers, bandits, stormy seas, frostbite, ice chasms fathoms deep - every danger was faced head on and overcome. And yet he remained defenceless against the charms of the landscape, and the animals, birds and butterflies he found there. Through his twenty-two years in Siberia, Dörries collected a wealth of essential material for scientific institutions, fundamental to our understanding of fauna and flora. This account of his adventures, set down for his daughters in his ninetieth year, and adapted for publication by Roy Jacobsen and Anneliese Pitz, is his second great legacy. Translated from the Norwegian by Seán Kinsella

Don't Leave Me (Paperback): Stig Sæterbakken Don't Leave Me (Paperback)
Stig Sæterbakken; Translated by Sean Kinsella
R443 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R72 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When seventeen-year-old Aksel Morander encounters Amalie, it proves a turning point in his life. Not only does he fall in love for the first time, but he is introduced to a world unfamiliar and unconventional, which places everything around him in a new light. Finding himself raised up from the loneliness and darkness of what has gone before, he is forced to reassess all he holds dear as he is initiated into what makes life worth living. But jealousy and fear of abandonment lurk in the shadow of this first love. An intense novel about loneliness and agonizing passion, employing a reverse chronology that moves toward a fateful beginning.

Through the Night (Paperback): Stig Saeterbakken Through the Night (Paperback)
Stig Saeterbakken; Translated by Sean Kinsella
R453 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R71 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dentist Karl Meyer's worst nightmare comes true when his son, Ole-Jakob, takes his own life. This tragedy is the springboard for a complex novel posing essential questions about human experience: What does sorrow do to a person? How can one live with the pain of unbearable loss? How far can a man be driven by the grief and despair surrounding the death of his child? A dark and harrowing story, drawing on elements from dreams, fairy tales, and horror stories, the better to explore the mysterious depths of sorrow and love, "Through the Night" is Stig S?terbakken at his best.

Home and Away - Writing the Beautiful Game (Paperback): Karl Ove Knausgaard Home and Away - Writing the Beautiful Game (Paperback)
Karl Ove Knausgaard; Translated by Don Bartlett; Fredrik Ekelund; Translated by Sean Kinsella 1
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Karl Ove Knausgaard and fellow writer Fredrik Ekelund kick around thoughts and ideas on football, life, art and politics. Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skane with his wife, four small children and a dog. He is watching football on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee and Argentina. Fredrik Ekelund is away in Brazil, where he plays football on the beach and watches matches with friends. Fredrik loves games that end up 4-3 and teams that play beautiful football. He likes caipirinhas and Brazil. In Home and Away, two writers use football and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil to reflect on life and death, art and politics, class and literature and the most important question: was this the best football championship ever?

Everything Like Before - Stories (Paperback): Kjell Askildsen Everything Like Before - Stories (Paperback)
Kjell Askildsen; Translated by Sean Kinsella
R308 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R58 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Askildsen's dry, absurd humour is not unlike that of Beckett... His short stories are packed with irony, and the dialogue is sharp and expressive' TLS Spare, taut and told with flashes of pitch-black humour, the short stories of Norwegian master Kjell Askildsen capture all the strangeness of modern existence. In this selection of tales, spanning the whole of his brilliant career, unnerving encounters occur, lonely individuals try to connect, families and relationships are fractured, and we are confronted by the fragility and absurdity of life. 'Full of compelling strangeness. Lives surge through a few brittle pages, suppressed loves and resentments threaten to erupt' Independent

Making Things Right - A Master Carpenter at Work (Paperback): Ole Thorstensen Making Things Right - A Master Carpenter at Work (Paperback)
Ole Thorstensen; Translated by Sean Kinsella 1
R308 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R58 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A celebration of good craftsmanship by a Norwegian master carpenter - the anatomy of a job well done.

"An enriching and poetic tribute to manual labour" Karl Ove Knausgĺrd

"In Thorstensen's skilled hands, the everyday story of a suburban loft conversion is turned into an urgent study on the value of doing good work. It should be widely read." Robert Penn - author of The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

This is, quite simply, the story of a loft conversion. It is also a book about work and identity, about collaboration and pride in skilled craftsmanship, and about what it means to make things with your hands in a consumerism-driven world.

A master carpenter and builder with thirty years' experience, Thorstensen gives a matter-of-fact, reflective voice to the workers who construct our living spaces and our urban environment. He looks upon his tools as an important part of himself and as a reflection of his respect for his trade, and he addresses the gulf in understanding and communication between skilled craftsmen and "academic" workers.

From the moment of a client's phone call to their occupation of a newly constructed living space, Making Things Right tracks the project as it takes shape: the delicate negotiation to establish an optimum plan; the collaboration with a trusted team of specialist painters, plasterers, plumbers, electricians; the handling of materials; the blood, sweat and frustration involved in doing a job well.

Why is it that manual skills are underestimated? After all, working with your hands gives you time to think. With all its practical detail, Making Things Right is the simple philosophy of a working life.

Will interest readers of The Craftsman by Richard Sennett: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain; The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees by Robert Penn; Do No Harm by James Marsh and A Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks

Translated from the Norwegian by Sean Kinsella

Two Sisters - A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey Into the Syrian Jihad (Paperback): Asne Seierstad Two Sisters - A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey Into the Syrian Jihad (Paperback)
Asne Seierstad; Translated by Sean Kinsella 1
R549 R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Save R83 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rafeiros de Salonica (Portuguese, Paperback): Kjell Askildsen Rafeiros de Salonica (Portuguese, Paperback)
Kjell Askildsen; Translated by Sean Kinsella, Sandra Tamele
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
See You Tomorrow (Paperback): Tore Renberg See You Tomorrow (Paperback)
Tore Renberg; Translated by Sean Kinsella 1
R358 R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Save R91 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Intense, riotous, funny, sexy and thrilling . . . Renberg is a great writer" MATT HAIG "An exceptional novel . . . majestic page-turner" KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD Pal has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much more than he can ever hope to pay back on his modest salary as a civil servant. He's desperate that nobody finds out especially not his teenage daughters or his ex-wife. It's time to get creative. Sixteen-year-old Sandra also has a secret. She's in love with the impossibly charming delinquent Daniel William, a love so strong and pure that nothing can get in its way. Not her concerned parents, not Jesus, and certainly not some other girl. Cecilie has the biggest secret of them all, a baby growing inside her. She can only hope that her boyfriend Rudi is the child's father. But although she loves him intensely, she feels trapped in their small-time criminal existence, and dreams of an escape from it all. Over three fateful September days, these lives cross in a whirlwind of brutality, laughter, tragedy and love that will change them forever. A fast-paced, moving and darkly funny page-turner about people who are trying to fill the holes in their lives, See You Tomorrow combines horror and hope, heavy metal music and literary marvels to become a startlingly original, eerie and hilarious novel about friendship, crime, loneliness and tragic death. Translated from the Norwegian by Sean Kinsella WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD

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