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Bake your way around the world with the ultimate collection of 300 irresistible, authentic, and delicious cookie recipes from nearly 100 countries. Whether enjoyed at breakfast, with afternoon tea, on holidays, or as a late-night snack, cookies are a universally beloved treat. In Crumbs, food writer, recipe developer, and self-confessed baking obsessive Ben Mims takes home […]

It’s the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen – music loving romantic – has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease that has robbed him of any prospects of work, a social life or independent living. Meeting fellow strugglers, who the world seems to care less and less […]

Zeina Mourtada driver den mycket uppskattade och välbesökta Zeinas kitchen – en flerfaldigt prisbelönad blogg med matrecept från större delen av världen. I den här boken koncentrerar sig dock Zeina på mat från Mellanöstern och länderna där omkring. Hennes mat har de autentiska dofterna och smakerna – det får hon ofta höra av sina följare. […]

A post-apocalyptic classic set in a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The Road is a masterpiece of American fiction from Cormac McCarthy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The landscape is […]

Året är 1959. Den amerikanske baptistpastorn Nathan Price – karg, självgod och gudfruktig – går i spetsen när han med sin hustru och deras fyra döttrar ger sig iväg ut i den afrikanska obygden för att sprida Guds ord till infödingarna i Belgiska Kongo. Kongo står på tröskeln till självständighet och landet sjuder av poltisk […]

On the last morning of his life, Karl Lagerfeld’s only companion was Sébastien, his bodyguard and right-hand man. The king of fashion insisted on being cremated, along with his universally recognisable ‘gear’ – the dark glasses and high starched collar that served as a bastion for his secrets. It is only now that witnesses have […]

Med sitt rika persongalleri och en handling som spänner över vardagligheter och stora kosmiska sammanhang är Morgonstjärnan ett storverk av en av Europas riktigt stora berättare. Det är sent i augusti, sommarledighetens sista skälvande dagar. Litteraturprofessor Arne och konstnären Tove befinner sig på Sørlandet tillsammans med sina barn. Vännen Egil bor i ett hus alldeles […]

“Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this generation is restlessness, distraction, dissipation of intellectual and moral power. Its consequence is exhaustion and nervous collapse. And its symptom is Hurry” Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth is part of ‘Found on the Shelves’, published with The London […]