Darktown

Bakboken för dig som är lycklig, ledsen, arg, avundsjuk och allt däremellan. För vi äter när vi firar, vi äter när vi sörjer och vi äter när vi har tråkigt. Och våra starkaste minnen är ofta kopplade till något ätbart. Det här är lika mycket en bok om hur det är att vara människa som […]

The memoir of international music icon Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention. ‘Thompson could be said to be an English Dylan – only in some ways he’s even better than that.’ GUARDIAN ‘This quiet joy of a memoir is just what you’d expect from one of the finest British musicians […]

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black […]

An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

From the lens of Magnum’s Abbas – the mystical world of the Hindu revealed, from ancient rites to contemporary beliefs. This latest in Abbas’s transcendent series of books on major world religions, featuring ritualistic elements – wind, water, earth, and fire, magic, the spiritualism of animals – to explore the mysteries of the Hindu faith. […]

In the last decades Western architecture has largely dominated the discourse and the built environment worldwide. Recently architecture firms from non-Western countries have been establishing local and global recognition for themselves. Practices all over the world face challenges against a backdrop of rapidly growing cities, ecological demands, changing societies and climate, and emerging economies. Local […]

Standing at the crossroads – the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil’s infamous meeting – Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal crunch point. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be handed a diagnosis of mouth and throat cancer. This momentous time in his life, […]

I trettiotalets Paris, där det ena billiga hotellrummet liknar det andra, undervisar en ung kvinna sig själv i likgiltighet. Hon har undkommit en personlig tragedi och flyttat till Paris för att finna mod och självständighet. Hon intalar sig att aldrig förvänta sig något, i synnerhet inte vänlighet – och i synnerhet inte från männen. I […]