Darth Vader and Friends

Den lilla flickan Susanna hamnar mitt i ett äventyr tillsammans med bekanta figurer från Mumindalen. Efter oväder, vulkanutbrott och hotfulla trakter väntar värmen och tryggheten hos Vifslan, Sniff och Hemulen och hans lilla hund Ynk von Jämmerlund. Tillsammans beger de sig för att hitta Mumindalen. Den farliga resan från 1977 blev Tove Janssons sista bok […]

‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’ Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and […]

Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith’s evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023. This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you’ll find objects that have been highly […]

In the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. Photographer Niels Ackermann and Journalist Sébastien Gobert have hunted down and photographed these banned Soviet statues, revealing their inglorious fate. As Russia celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Ukraine struggles to achieve complete decommunization. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of this […]

A personal chef monograph, and the first book, from globally-acclaimed chef Ana Roš of Hiša Franko in Slovenia Set near the Italian border in Slovenia’s remote Soča valley, in the foothills of mountains and beside a turquoise river full of trout, Ana Roš tells the story of her life. Through essays, recollections, recipes, and photos, […]

Delve into the dark and dangerous side of humanity with this intriguing collection of artifacts and ephemera relating to some of the world’s most infamous criminals and criminal acts. From an 18th Century hangman’s noose to Charles Manson’s cremation ashes, a document signed by Lizzie Borden and the circular saw confiscated from the home of […]

A modernist take on Mediterranean aesthetics, this new movement in interior design embraces sumptuous minimalism through warm, earthy tones, and natural materials. A welcoming, new, down-to-earth minimalism is gaining momentum in home interiors, from California to Morocco, Portugal to Mexico. This trend combines folkloric influences with a rustic aesthetic, taking cues from arid landscapes to […]