Martin Aitken Knihy

V zapadlém koutě Skotska, na policejní stanici ve Wicku, leží už dlouhý čas na okenním parapetu zapomenutá láhev. Uvnitř láhve je sotva čitelný lístek. Jisté je jen to, že první slovo je dánský výraz pro POMOC a je to napsáno krví. Když se tahle hrůzná zpráva konečně dostane na stůl Carla Morcka z Oddělení Q, dánského oddělení pro "případy hodné zvláštní pozornosti", začnou se dít děsivé události. Carl Morck a jeho asistent Assad se ponoří do hrůzného případu sekt a zmizelých dvojčat, jejichž rodiče nikdy nenahlásili jejich zmizení. Náhle zjistí, že čas se krátí... Vzkaz v láhvi získal Harald Mogensen Prize, která se uděluje za nejlepší současný dánský kriminální román. V roce 2010 mu bylo uděleno význačné literární ocenění Glass Key 2010 za nejlepší severský detektivní román (laureáty této ceny jsou Jo Nesb?, Stieg Larsson a Henning Mankell). Vzkaz v láhvi se také stal vítězem Ceny čtenářů 2010, kterou každoročně vyhlašuje dánský deník Berlingske Tidende a Národní organizace knihoven.

The spellbinding story of a young woman’s dangerous passion as it plays out over the course of an eerie summer In their remote Viking settlement, Folkví and her brother, Áslakr, have always been close—unnaturally close. They’ve grown more intimate still as Folkví learns her shaman mother’s craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carries off their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. Áslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkví to the dark of an endless winter. When he returns, he’s done the unthinkable: He’s found someone else to love. Sick with grief, Folkví rages to the gods where they sit at the foot of an ancient tree, contemplating the twisted passions of humans that play out in the face of an ever-approaching end of days. Will none of them save her now? Very well, Folkví will save herself. The wedding date is set. But first comes a fateful summer. . . Deeply unsettling and brilliantly imagined, First Comes Summer captures the terror of losing the world you’ve always known—and the uncanny extremes to which you might go to hold on to it.

Alex has searched the whole house, but still can't find their favourite pants. Maybe Granny and Patch will be able to help Alex track down the missing underwear! From the writer of Mikey's Mum's Birthday, this hilarious adventure will have you in fits of giggles.

"It's Mikey's mum's birthday and Mikey's got a planto make his mum feel as special as he can.To celebrate her birthday she's heading to the shops,so Mikey's throwing her a party and he's pulled out all the stops"Come and join Mikey on a heart-warming journey as he plans a surprise party for his mum's birthday. There's so much to do - he'll need to find a gift, organise party food, bake a cake, make a card and decorate the house all before his mum gets home! Will he manage to get all his tasks done in time?In his debut children's book Martin Aitken's rhyme pairs seamlessly with the stunning and imaginative illustrations of Barry Davian to offer a story time experience enjoyed by children and adults alike.

Cleo the emu is everyone’s favourite animal on the farm. Why?Because she’s brave, clever and fast. She looks after all her animal friends and keeps the naughty Bandit Badger at bay!Come and join Cleo on her adventures around the farm, inspired by the real-life Cleo at Waulkmill Menagerie in Aberdeenshire.

Unlike anything you've read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet - it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the candlelight, she gazes with love at her friends, and hears the things they say in the shadows. It knows pine forest, misty fjord and the crackle of the burning pyre. It observes the violence in men's eyes and the cruelty of their laws. In time, it begins to understand that once a suspicion of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove impossible to shake... Based on an infamous seventeenth century Danish witch trial, The Wax Child is the extraordinary new novel from Olga Ravn, one of the most acclaimed and original writers at work today: a mesmerising, frightening vision of a time when witches and magic were as real to the human mind as soil and seawater.