Bicycle

Detta är en fotobok fylld med gömda och glömda platser i Sverige och några andra delar av världen. Under ett decennium har urbexaren Sara Starkström rest från Skåne till nordligaste Norrland för att dokumentera det som blivit bortglömt och lämnats att förfalla.  Subkulturen urban exploring (urbex) går ut på att utforska platser som de flesta andra […]

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story,

‘I saw Johnny Marr live in person, with The Smiths. He was light on his feet; like quicksilver. He caused the band to swing like crazy. And he smoked his cigarette like a star. I’ve been influenced ever since.’ Iggy Pop Johnny Marr was born in 1960s Manchester to Irish emigrant parents and knew from […]

‘Wonderfully poetic … extraordinary freshness … a Virginia Woolf quality’ Margaret Drabble At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real […]

In this exquisite book, the watercolors and collages of Mats Gustafson replace the camera to capture the spirit and beauty of Dior. While illustration was an essential element in promoting fashion in the first half of the twentieth century, photography has been the medium of choice since the 1970s. So when Dior approached Swedish illustrator […]

Sophie, a twenty-something Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A., and Lola, a German immigrant who has settled in Hollywood, know that while Los Angeles is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal. The two women dazzle – one with the promises of youth, the other with the fulfilment of nostalgia – as […]

The Italians are the masters of speaking with their hands: think of a taxi driver in Rome stuck in traffic or a village gossip spreading the tale of a cuckolded husband. Bruno Munari’s little handbook will help you decipher this language of gestures, an unspoken language you won’t find in any dictionary.

Alma längtar hem redan innan hon har farit. Hemma i Umeå finns mamma Johanna och bästa vännen, i Bohuslän finns pappa och en överväldigande hemlängtan. Samtidigt, fast nästan 30 år tidigare, går Johanna runt i Malmberget.