Bibliotek i Västmanland

A young women is kidnapped and made Empress of The Blazing World. Taking root in this new community, she adapts to the culture and ways of the alien population, exploring the vast ...

Can a lowly shoeshine boy called Dick make his way up the ladder to bigger and better things or is he destined to be poor for his whole life? This classic rags-to-riches story foll ...

Everyone knows the story of Cinderella and her evil stepmother and sisters. Poor Elsie unfortunately finds herself in a similar situation. Only time will tell if she manages to sur ...

One of Anatole France’s most mysterious and overlooked works, ‘Clio’ (1900) is a fascinating collection of historical tales that represents a huge digression from the author's bett ...

For fans of American history and the abolition of slavery, 'Clotel' follows two sisters who are the fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. After Thomas Jefferson's death, C ...

Sylvestre Bonnard, an esteemed ageing scholar of history and philology, finds himself on a trans-European adventure to track down an important manuscript. Whilst on his travels he ...

Set during the First World War, ‘A Day with von Tirpitz’ sees Billy Best and Tam returning from a bombing raid, where the German naval commander is staying. When engine trouble and ...

All that Jim Steele remembers of the disappearance of Lady Mary Danton and her young daughter was the commotion surrounding their large fortune. Vanished without a trace, the two w ...

‘A Lost Lady’ is Willa Cather’s brilliant depiction of the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the bleakness of frontier life. In it, socialite Marrian Forrester lives with ...

In this dazzling collection, Nemerov plays with other forms of poetry, including gnomic verse, sonnets, and lyrics. ‘Sentences’ reverberates with imaginative approaches to poetry, ...

Shot through with his trademark humour, ‘Trying Conclusions’ is the fourteenth collection of poems from the lauded writer. Containing twenty-three poems, the topics vary wildly, fr ...

John Sands desperately needs a bribe. Fast. When an escaped convict turns up on his sofa one morning, John thinks he has found his luck. But will one criminal mind to another be ab ...

Originally published as ‘La Belle et la Bête’, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve's 'Beauty and the Beast' was published in 1740 and is the oldest known version of this fairytale. "A ...

The aristocratic Phil Meredith chooses to marry Violet, a working-class girl from London, which raises more than a few eyebrows. However, when Violet decides to throw a party for h ...

‘Sultana’s Dream’ is an extraordinarily prescient story set in fictional Ladyland. The narrator, Sultana, falls asleep and is greeted by Sister Sara, who introduces her to the futu ...

The first novel in the ‘Parade’s End’ series, ‘Some Do Not’ is widely considered to be a landmark novel surrounding the events that led to World War I. We are introduced to mathema ...

The second book in the ‘Parade’s End’ series, ‘No More Parades’ follows the story of Christopher Tietjens. An Edwardian Englishman through and through, Tietjens is forced to leave ...

The third novel in the ‘Parade’s End’ series, ‘A Man Could Stand Up’ follows the further trials of Christopher Tietjens. Set on Armistice Day 1918, the story sees Tietjens back in ...

‘A Summer Evening's Dream’ (1898), a romantic, sentimental tale about second chances and first love, is a classic short story by the American author, Edward Bellamy, most famous fo ...

Dags för uppbrott.Jag stänger och låser lagårdsdörrn –det blev aldrig av att laga den.Och rosorna får vintern ta hand om.Jag kastar en samlande blick genom rummen,detta djup av vit ...

Silje, del 1.Silje är en serie fullmatad med dramatik, romantik och starka kvinnor. Berättelsen utspelar sig i Dalarna och tar sin början vid mitten av 1800-talet. Silje Gustavsdot ...

Den starka fristående uppföljaren till Pojken i randig pyjamas.Paris 1946. Femtonåriga Gretel har flytt med sin mamma från Tyskland och de försöker tillsammans bygga ett nytt liv i ...

Året är 1644 och den överhängande oron ligger som ett lock över det skånska landskapet. Ryktet om att kriget kommer har nått invånarna. Men stämmer det, eller är det inte mer än ju ...

Året är 1901 och den finländska befolkningen skakas av att den ryska kejsaren skärper politiken ytterligare. När den nya värnpliktslagen stiftas hamnar den lilla människan i kläm o ...

Under en olidlig värmebölja går en seriemördare lös i en liten ort utanför Köpenhamn. Två pojkar har förts bort från sina hem och mördats på deras nionde födelsedag. När kropparna ...