John Burnside Forfatter
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The Devil's Footprints (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Once, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the sleeping town.
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A Summer of Drowning (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A young girl, Liv, lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle. Then two boys drown within weeks of each other under mysterious circumstances, in the still,... Læs mere
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Something Like Happy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men – lonely, unfaithful, dying – driving empty roads at night.
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The Dumb House (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language.
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Still Life with Feeding Snake (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand, and new discoveries, terrible dangers, and everyday miracles on the other.
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A Lie About My Father (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tells the story of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by... Læs mere
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Black Cat Bone (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the... Læs mere
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I Put a Spell on You (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Beginning with memories of a brutal murder, this book takes you through a series of uncanny encounters with 'lost girls', with brilliant digressions on murder ballads, voodoo, acid and insomnia.
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Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, the author resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. This title tells is an account of a troubled childhood.
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Ashland & Vine (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Gradually, Jean offers a heart-breaking account, not only of her own history – a lost lover, a family scarred by war – but of the American century itself;
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Glister (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or dead, and without evidence the authorities claim they are simply runaways. He was involved in the cover-up of one boy's murder, and he believes all the boys have been killed.
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Gift Songs (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents a collection of poems. This work contains gift song, treating matters of faith and connection, the community of living creatures and the idea of a free church, explorations of time... Læs mere
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