After a period following the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks has hit an all-time low, John le Carre's intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow secret intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le Carre revealed shor[...]
Investigator, interrogator, intellectual hero: the perfect inspiration for the perfect spy. This first full-length biography traces the life of the remarkable and engaging John Bingham, the man behind John le Carre's George Smiley. The heir to an Irish barony and a spirited young journalist, John Bi[...]
Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage,cobb, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it[...]
Extra lätta faktaböcker på engelska, framtagna för de allra mest läsovana eleverna. Med lite text men mycket bilder uppmuntrar böckerna till läsning. Tack vare den lättillgängliga formen, det enkla språket och de intressanta ämnena väcker böckerna läslust hos såväl yngre som äldre l[...]
This volume of C'est Bon Anthology explores the Good, the Bad, and the Putrid. An Expiration Date is the point dividing a period of time in "before" and "after". And the after rarely smells very good.
The graphic short stories in C'est Bon Anthology vol. 12 ? Expiration Date, all deal with th[...]
There are many kinds of levels out there: Physical, psychological, spiritual and digital. Every story in C´est Bon Anthology vol. 13 is on a level of its own.
In "Giving Ground", Lars Krantz shows the passing of time as a mechanism in body and clockwork alike. In Chad Verrill's stories, med[...]