De sista flickorna

Få författare gör historiska händelser sådan rättvisa som Robert Harris, vars spionroman München har höjts till skyarna av en enad kritikerkår. September 1938: Hitler är fast besluten att starta krig i Europa. Chamberlain vill desperat bevara freden. Europas framtid beslutas i en stad som kommer att bli berömd för det möte som äger rum där. Samtidigt som […]

A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics – told through the voices and stories of those who were there. For sixteen days in the summer of 1936, the world’s attention turned to the German capital as it hosted the Olympic Games. Seen through the eyes of a cast of characters – Nazi leaders and foreign […]

What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don’t we have a lunar colony yet? In this witty and entertaining book, Zach and Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of the transformative technologies that are coming next – from robot swarms to nuclear fusion powered-toasters – and explain how […]

Knife is a love-letter to this essential culinary tool – its form, history and creation. The knife can be the most functional utensil or the most exquisite piece of design – avid collectors pay jaw-dropping sums for a piece of Japanese hand-crafted steel, made according to traditions that date back thousands of years. Through interviews […]

A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel Basquiat One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings, notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself […]

On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys […]

National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer’s point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a ‘self-portrait’ of his or her native country, […]

När det kommer till kritan är en infallsrik text pendlande mellan prosaberättelse och poesi där Niklas Rådström med humor och lekfullt allvar tar sig an denna livets enda riktigt avgörande fråga: vad är meningen med alltihopa?  Vad är meningen med livet om dess enda mål är att vi en gång ska dö?  Och var […]