50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Noveller

He'll show her exactly what's under his kilt. Molly The first time I saw Mr. McGowan, he was walking into our class wearing a kilt. Our substitute professor, he was big and brooding, masculine, and had a sexy Scottish brogue going on. Maybe I didn't need that extra tutoring, but I sure as hell wanted it. Alastair I noticed Molly the moment I stepped into the classroom. She was the wee lass with the fire-colored hair, the intense green eyes, and a body that had me burning alive. I didn't want to ...

Releasedatum: 2022-07-08 Genre:Skönlitteratur 35,00 kr

THE CHOSEN ONE I vow. You vow. We vow. Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one. People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you, it’s not. My entire life has been planned out for me. I never got the chance to do what I wanted until Ryat Alexander...

Releasedatum: 2023-03-19 105,00 kr

Ivan Iljitjs död är en kortroman från 1886 av den ryske författaren Lev Tolstoj. Den handlar om en döende man som är skräckslagen inför sin egen död. Boken gavs ut på svenska första gången 1928. Boken handlar om hur Ivan Iljitj, en 45-årig domare i 1800-talets Ryssland, möter döden. Ivan som lever ett till synes välordnat liv, trots sin katastrofala relation till hustrun, råkar ramla när han skall hänga upp nya gardiner. Efter ett par veckor börjar han uppleva en konstig smak...

Releasedatum: 2017-05-23 Genre:Skönlitteratur 35,00 kr

Franz Kafkas berättelse Förvandlingen har kallats världslitteraturens bästa novell. Utförligt efterord. Hans Blomqvist och Erik Ågren har belönats med Stiftelsen Natur och Kulturs översättarpris och Samfundet De Nios översättarpris för sitt arbete med Kafkas skrifter. Inledningsraderna till Förvandlingen är kanske de mest kända öppningsrader som någonsin skrivits: "När Gregor Samsa vaknade en morgon ur sina oroliga drömmar fann han sig liggande i sängen förvandlad ...

Releasedatum: 2017-05-19 Genre:Skönlitteratur 69,00 kr

FREEING SULLY is the short prequel to the novel FOR THE LOVE OF WHISKEY, detailing Sullivan “Sully” Tate’s escape from the Free Rebellion compound.  FREEING SULLY and FOR THE LOVE OF WHISKEY are part of The Whiskeys: Dark Knights at Redemption Ranch series, a small-town, big-family collection of standalone romance novels featuring fiercely loyal, insanely sexy bikers who give horses—and people—a second chance. All Whiskey novels are written to stand alone, so dive right in an...

Releasedatum: 2023-04-05 9,00 kr

A dark and disturbing ebook original from the master of the crime genre. A famous writer asks a boxman to open an old safe that comes with the mansion he's just bought. It's not as easy a job as he's used to, but with money being tight and a child on the way, it'll pay to persevere - unless, of course, this is actually the job that will change things and haunt him for ever. Also including an exclusive extract from The Black Box , this collection is a must read for all Connelly fans.

Releasedatum: 2012-11-01 9,00 kr

**WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE** **WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant collection of short stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. ' Another dazzling collection of short stories' Observer 'Alice Munro is one of our ...

Releasedatum: 2012-11-15 115,00 kr

Three stories, brought together in one ebook, from 'crime-writing genius' Michael Connelly In the title story, a fatal accident on Mulholland Drive turns out to be part of an ingenious plot - but is it too ingenious? In Two Bagger , a dedicated cop working for the Gang Intelligence Unit finally gets the payoff he's worked so hard for - but it's not what he's expecting. In Cahoots , a team of scam artists meet for a high-stakes poker game but who is scamming who? Also including an exclusive extra...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-04 25,00 kr

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Horror Tales by H. P. Lovecraft is a collection of 15 chilling tales from one of the masters of macabre storytelling.

Releasedatum: 2012-06-03 5,00 kr

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Alice Munro's stories surprise and delight, turning lives into art, expanding our world and shedding light on the strange workings of the human heart.

Releasedatum: 2010-08-17 115,00 kr

1995 skrev Jan Guillou denna korta avslutning på Hamiltonserien – en skiss till en möjlig fortsättning. Boken gavs ursprungligen ut som julskrift från Norstedts och i en begränsad upplaga för försäljning utgiven av Skandinaviska Kriminalsällskapet.

Releasedatum: 2017-05-19 25,00 kr

When two teenage girls fabricate one end of a correspondence, they leave a lonely, unprepossessing housemaid with some sadly misguided ideas. The prank upsets several lives, even if all the pieces don't tip over in the expected directions. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

Releasedatum: 2011-11-17 Genre:Skönlitteratur 35,00 kr

På vägen mellan Jokkmokk och Kåbdalis, i skuggan av den största sorgen man kan bära, börjar en sång växa fram. Inget märkvärdigt, fem strofer bara, men kvinnan som sjunger dem känner hur stegen går lättare för varje rad. Hon går söderut. I sin skönlitterära debut, uppläst av Olof Wretling, berättar Annika Norlin om en samling människor i rörelse, på skav mot tillvaron. Det är noveller om begär och bekräftelse, om kultfilmen Aliens vid Piteälven, om att spela i det gans...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-13 Genre:Skönlitteratur 69,00 kr

Den lilla sjöjungfrun [Den lille Havfrue] är H.C. Andersens saga om en sjöjungfru som räddar livet på och förälskar sig i en prins när hans skepp förliser. Med hjälp av en häxa blir hon människa. Men det är bråttom att vinna prinsens hjärta, annars förvandlas hon till skum på havet. Och hennes röst har häxan tagit som betalt för tjänsten. Walt Disney gjorde en animera film på sagan 1989, med ett annat slut än originalets. Hans Christian Andersen [1805–1875] föddes i Ode...

Releasedatum: 2015-03-19 99,00 kr

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory. Te...

Releasedatum: 2019-05-07 105,00 kr

THE BRAND NEW JACK REACHER STAND-ALONE SHORT STORY THAT SEES REACHER GOING DOWN UNDER FOR THE FIRST TIME - BUT POSSIBLY NOT THE LAST. It's a short read, but perfect for a coffee break. Jack Reacher, ex-military drifter of no fixed abode, is stalked and tracked down by an FBI agent. She tells him that in a house raid in Sydney, Australian law enforcement found a list. There were four people on it, including him. The other three are dead. Hours later, Reacher is in the air, on his way to Sydney. W...

Releasedatum: 2019-03-07 19,00 kr

A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke. Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and 15-year-old stepson Miles. They live in a Victorian house called Carterhook Manor. Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home. The young woman doesn't believe in exorcism or the supe...

Releasedatum: 2015-11-03 Genre:Skönlitteratur 25,00 kr

“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati Enquirer The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a short story originally published in the collection The W...

Releasedatum: 2017-02-14 115,00 kr

Genom hela sin karriär har Haruki Murakami skrivit noveller, och det var också som novellist han slog igenom i USA när The New Yorker började publicera honom regelbundet. Hans nya samling koncentrerar sig på kvinnor och män i olika konstellationer. En skådespelare anställer en chaufför och anförtror henne sina innersta hemligheter. En man har blivit lämnad av sin hustru och öppnar en bar som blir hemsökt av något okänt. Maken till en tidigare kärlek ringer efter midnatt och låte...

Releasedatum: 2015-04-29 Genre:Skönlitteratur 59,00 kr

Hur många måste vara överens för att man ska vara säker på att någonting verkligen finns? Två eller tre? Kanske räcker det med en, om man är säker på sin sak? När det blir för mycket på jobbet brukar Björn smita in i ett litet rum, bredvid hissen, precis innan toaletterna. Det måste man ju få göra, eller? Tommy ligger i mammas storblommiga fällstol och låtsassover. Marcus ligger under en säng och funderar på det inte snart är dags att krypa fram. Henrik sorterar sina vän...

Releasedatum: 2009-10-29 79,00 kr

Möt Stefano - den vackra gigolon på italienska rivieran, Lydia som aldrig lyckats få orgasm men möter sin sexualitet på ett oväntat ställe, kompisarna Bianca och Rebecka som släpper alla hämningar och vågar sig på både trekant och fyrkant - men mest av allt tänder på varandra. Schh ... är samlingen för dig som vill vara ifred med din lust. Tio ångande heta erotiska berättelser om sexuell extas - och den njutningsfyllda vägen dit: "Fingrarna glider långsamt upp läng...

Releasedatum: 2015-02-12 89,00 kr

Svenska noveller från Almqvist till Stoor vänder sig till både den nyfikna och experten och kan ses som en systerbok till Svensk poesi som gavs ut 2016. Mer än nittio noveller, såväl kanoniserade klassiker som bortglömda pärlor, av kända och okända författare, har samlats av redaktörerna Ingrid Elam och Jerker Virdborg. En bok att läsa och behålla för alla tider.

Releasedatum: 2018-04-24 159,00 kr

Är en otrohet alltid en otrohet? Eller är det upp till var och en att bestämma sig för om de blivit svikna eller inte? I denna samling noveller utforskar Anders Mathlein hur olika människor påverkas av att bli bedragna, att se andra bedra, eller rent av själva vara den bedragande parten. Vi får bl.a. möta hustrun som får ett förlamande telefonsamtal, servitören som ser sin chans till utpressning, och den nyförlovade kvinnan som får ett överraskande första möte med svärföräldr...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-01 25,00 kr

Emmy Doyle has had one heck of an emotional year. She's lost her mother, a cheating exboyfriend, and most of the money in her bank account. But she also fell in love with Blake Carter, her college sweetheart, all over again, so life isn't all bad. Except her best friend is moving across the country the week before Christmas. And Blake has been acting suspicious. With Christmas right around the corner, Emmy isn't sure whether he's hiding gifts or something ...

Releasedatum: 2019-12-22 Genre:Skönlitteratur 15,00 kr

Unfettered is an anthology of original fantasy fiction by some of the very biggest names in fantasy fiction, and it also features deleted scenes from A MEMORY OF LIGHT, the final book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. This collection is not only a fantastic anthology in its own right, but it's a testament to the generosity found in the science fiction and fantasy community. When author Shawn Speakman fell seriously ill and was unable to pay his medical bills, that's when New York Times be...

Releasedatum: 2014-02-20 19,00 kr

The Hill Bachelors - a remarkable collection of stories from the master storyteller William Trevor 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' The Wall Street Journal The Hill Bachelors is a stunning meditation on men and women and the heartbreak of missed opportunities: three people are frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love's consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a movie part will heal her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge a new life...

Releasedatum: 2001-07-05 99,00 kr

Novell i nordisk noir! Pojken kryper ihop intill henne, precis som han gjort varje dag hela veckan. Hon lägger armen om honom och erbjuder honom en bit av sin smörgås. Han sluter ögonen, vill inte äta. Kommer inte att ta emot något hon vill ge honom. Förutom närheten. I det lätta snöfallet slår emellanåt andedräkten ut i ett flyktigt moln framför pojkens ansikte. Ett tydligt bevis för att han trots allt finns. Plastpärlor är kuslig och krypande spänning av Carin Gerhardsen i no...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-26 99,00 kr

Första gången Maarten träffar David Perowne är på Harrys krog en regnig torsdagskväll i november. Efter ett par drinkar börjar Perowne berätta en högst märklig historia om hans hustru, Marlene. Perowne påstår sig känna henne mycket väl och kan avslöja en svart hemlighet i hennes liv, ur hennes mörka förflutna. Hennes riktiga namn är inte Marlene, utan Clara Maxwell. Perowne kände henne för många år sedan, hon har i själva verket varit gift med hans bäste vän. Han avsluta...

Releasedatum: 2015-12-01 Genre:Skönlitteratur 19,00 kr

A Christmas short story from bestselling author Lucy Diamond, revisiting her Beach Cafe characters. After a hectic summer running her beach cafe in Cornwall, Evie Flynn is looking forward to her first Christmas with new boyfriend Ed - she's determined that it's going to be the most perfectly romantic one ever. Cosy nights in front of the fire, spicy mulled wine, mince pies . . . what's not to love? But the peace is shattered when Ed's ex suddenly gets in touch again, and then some unexpected gue...

Releasedatum: 2013-11-07 Genre:Skönlitteratur 5,00 kr

Vad är det för brev som ligger innanför vindrutan på den där bilen? Varför kommer inte kompisen? Vem är det som ska komma? När ska hon komma hem? Vad gör man med en alldeles tom vecka? Varför har han börjat prata så konstigt den senaste tiden? Varför kan han inte släppa det där med korgstolen?Jonas Karlsson debuterar med en samling noveller om några människor som lever sina liv i staden, människor som vid närmare granskning ter sig allt mer underliga och hamnar i allt märklig...

Releasedatum: 2009-10-29 89,00 kr

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the façade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable. This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 throug...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-31 115,00 kr

A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story ‘Barn Burning’, the inspiration behind the Palme d’Or nominated film Burning * When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her fron...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-10 115,00 kr

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four “disturbing, fascinating” ( The Washington Post ) novellas—including the story “1922,” a Netflix original film—that explore the dark side of human nature. “The pages practically turn themselves” ( USA TODAY ) in Full Dark, No Stars , an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution. In “1922,” a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in ...

Releasedatum: 2010-11-09 149,00 kr

A New York Times Bestseller A sparkling anthology starring Lady Whistledown—the elusive Regency-era gossip columnist popularized in # 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. Lady Whistledown Tells All! Society is abuzz when the Season’s most promising debutante is jilted by her intended—only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue’s dashing older brother—in New York Times bestseller Julia Quinn’s witty, ch...

Releasedatum: 2009-10-13 55,00 kr

Jonas Karlssons novellsamlingar Det andra målet (2007) och Den perfekte vännen (2009) blev båda snabbt stora framgångar hos såväl läsare som kritiker. Och nu utkommer han med en efterlängtad tredje samling: Spelreglerna. Somligt kommer att kännas bekant, här återfinns nämligen samma pricksäkra tonträffar, på-kornet-detaljer och karakteristiska underfundigheter som han sedan tidigare har gjort till Karlssonska signum. Här avtäcks glidningar i vardagens skevheter och tillvarons ib...

Releasedatum: 2011-09-22 89,00 kr

Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth.   We follow Thomas Builds-the-...

Releasedatum: 2013-10-15 89,00 kr

The Murders in the Rue Morgue was written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1841. The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Auguste Dupin, who could see furthe...

Releasedatum: 2011-01-24 5,00 kr

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. Wit...

Releasedatum: 2019-01-03 9,00 kr

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those ...

Releasedatum: 2019-03-21 5,00 kr

In this delicious short collection to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the international phenomenon The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith's wise, generous heroine finds that dieting is not for everyone and sometimes it is simply better to be traditionally built, especially when there is cake to be had. And when the Ladies' Club of Gaborone invites Mma Ramotswe as their keynote speaker, she reaches some thought-provoking conclusions about the problems - or otherwise - of...

Releasedatum: 2013-09-05 25,00 kr

The complete, authoritative collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, including classic stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," along with seven previously unpublished stories. In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway’s most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted P...

Releasedatum: 2007-11-01 209,00 kr

***This short fiction collection includes 'Chivalry', this year's Radio 4 Neil Gaiman Christmas Day special, starring Glenda Jackson and Kit Harington. This is the story of Mrs Whitaker, who finds the Holy Grail in a charity shop.*** Open your mind to one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation... 'Gaiman is god in the universe of story' - Stephen Fry 'There's no one quite like Neil Gaiman' - George R. R. Martin An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat. A ...

Releasedatum: 2010-09-30 Genre:Skönlitteratur 69,00 kr

Bli som folk består av nio noveller som alla utspelar sig i gränstrakterna mellan samtid och dåtid, barndom och vuxenlandskap. Flickor försöker bli fulländade, pojkar måste bli män. Och så beskaffenhetens alla gåtor. Där är Sandra som säger sig också ha gömt ett lik. Där är a Gun med sin älskare, och sedan barnbarnet hans, som tar över Zündappen och kanske mer än så. Och där är Fresias pappa som har vitt pannband och gärna jämför fingrar och tår. Och vad gör en blå ...

Releasedatum: 2015-08-04 Genre:Skönlitteratur 179,00 kr

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author who specialized in tales of macabre and mystery. His frighteningly bizarre short stories include murders and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead.  This collection of 25 essential Poe tales includes The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, and many more classics.

Releasedatum: 2011-12-05 5,00 kr

For years, readers wrote asking if Richard Bachman was really world-bestselling Stephen King writing under another name. Now the secret is out - and so, brought together in one volume, are these three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense. The Long Walk : A chilling look at the ultra-conservative America of the future where a grueling 450-mile marathon is the ultimate sports competition. Roadwork : An immovable man refuses to surrender to the irresistible force of progress. The Runni...

Releasedatum: 2007-06-14 Genre:Skönlitteratur 69,00 kr

'A gripping and satisfyingly scary' ( Sunday Telegraph ) bumper collection of RIVETING, DARK STORIES from the No. 1 bestselling master of the form, now with a stunning new cover look. Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers. A blind intruder visits a dying man - and saves his life, with a kiss. A woman receives a phone call from...

Releasedatum: 2009-09-03 69,00 kr

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013 'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read' Metro 'I loved these stories. They are so well-written, with such clarity of thought and precision of language. Excellent' William Leith, Evening Standard 'Remarkable. Some of the most moving fiction - on death, marriage, childre...

Releasedatum: 2010-08-05 115,00 kr

Klas Östergren har som författare mest kommit att förknippas med sina romaner. Både de brett upplagda Gentlemen, Gangsters och nu senast Twist, och de som är mer reducerade, som berättelserna i Österlentrilogin och Plåster. Men han har hela tiden också skrivit prosa i det korta formatet, stycken som på många sätt är centrala i hans författarskap: barndomsminnet Med stövlarna på, den briljanta tids-och självbetraktelsen Vardagskväll vid sekelskiftet och den tragikomiska passions...

Releasedatum: 2015-11-04 129,00 kr

The New York Times bestseller. 'This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' - Independent Introduced by Lydia Davis, Lucia Berlin's stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction. With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of sur...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-08 59,00 kr

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about l...

Releasedatum: 2010-08-31 115,00 kr