Studies of Northern Ireland's ex-combatants ignore religion, while advocates of religious interventions in transitional justice exaggerate its influence. Using interview data with ex-combatants, this book explores religious influences upon violence and peace, and develops a model for evaluating the[...]
By the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Cloud Atlas "- Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child [...]
Imagine a nation?banishing the outside world for two centuries, crushing all vestiges of Christianity, forbidding its subjects to leave its shores on pain of death, and harbouring a deep mistrust of European ideas. The narrow window onto this nation-fortress is a walled, artificial island attached t[...]
By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell's bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade, CLOUD ATLAS has now been adapted for film. The major motion picture, directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, stars Tom Hanks, H[...]
The film tie-in edition of David Mitchell's prize-winning novel. The film, released internationally in 2012, stars Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant and Jim Broadbent.
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a young Pacific islander witnessing the n[...]
The "Tangram" calendar provides a year's worth of stimulating magnetic puzzles to create hundreds of finished designsa "from animals and people to a robot and baby carriage. Simply slide the provided magnetic board behind calendar pages to work puzzles by arranging and rearranging seven magnetic pie[...]
Each of these slipcased limited editions is signed and numbered, and has a ribbon marker and specially illustrated endpapers. With a print run of just 500, this is a treat for collectors. One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindn[...]
The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya - Tea, Love and War tells the unique true story of the child of an exploited village woman gaining recognition and acceptance in suburban England. It is split into three parts: St[...]
What's wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? Why is every film and TV programme a sequel o[...]
Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? These and many other questions tro[...]
It's clever, it's creative, and most of all, it's fun: super origami made with those stick-it desk notes found on every desk. These projects make work just a little more entertaining.
Everyone has them in the office and even at home: ordinary pads of sticky notes in a range of colors and sizes. [...]
?Mitchell kartographiert Seelen und schreibt Weltliteratur? (NZZ) Sechs Lebenswege, die sich unmöglich kreuzen können: darunter ein amerikanischer Anwalt, der um 1850 Ozeanien erforscht, ein britischer Komponist, der 1931 vor seinen Gläubigern nach Belgien flieht, und ein koreani[...]
Skyatlas består av seks ulike historier der hver enkelt har gjenklang i den neste. Her finner vi sjøreisen, brevromanen, miljøthrilleren, dagboksromanen, science-fiction og apokalypsebeskrivelsen vevd sammen til et tankevekkende hele. Det er en bok som inneholder alt! Det er på én gang en overd[...]
Fra David Mitchell, den Booker-prisnominerte, prisvinnende forfatteren og en av de utvalgte forfatterne i Grantas Beste unge britiske romanforfattere 2003-utgave, kommer nå en lenge etterlengtet tredje roman, et verk med en forbløffende bredde og forestillingskraft.En motvillig sjøreisende som kr[...]
Skyatlas er et virtuost romanværk. En enestående rig læseoplevelse og det foreløbige hovedværk fra David Mitchell, et af de mest lysende navne på den litterære scene i England.
Skyatlas er en ambitiøs og medrivende roman, der består af seks forskellige historier[...]
Pilvikartasto on kiehtova romaani läpi vuosisatojen kestävästä vapauden etsinnästä, joka kietoo yhteen kuusi elämää eri aikakausilta ja maailmankolkista. Eri tyylilajeja nerokkaasti hyödyntävä tarina avautuu kerros kerrokselta huikaisevaksi kirjalliseksi seikkailuksi."Erinomainen kirja,[...]
David Mitchellin uusin romaani kuvaa 13-vuotiaan Jason Taylorin elämää Englannin maaseudulla 1980-luvun alussa. Jason yrittää epätoivoisesti piilotella änkytystään kaikilta ja erityisesti koulukavereiltaan. Jasonin tarinaan on helppo samaistua, hänen näkemyksiinsä vanhemmista, opettajist[...]
Pilvikartasto on brittikirjailija David Mitchellin (s. 1969) kolmas romaani. Kirjan kerrontatekniikkaa on verrattu venäläiseen maatuska-nukkeen, jossa jokaisen nuken sisältä paljastuu uusi nukke. Mitchellin luoma jännite, ihmisyyden olemuksen luotaaminen ja monikerroksinen sanataide pitävät l[...]