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The Cocktail Book, first published in 1900, is the earliest book devoted purely to the art of the cocktail. For thirty years including the prohibition, it was a staple of well-stocked bars, although originals are now extremely rare. This collection, in a beautiful new edition, allows a modern audience to rediscover the joy of classic […]

Det är en kamp. Varje uppdrag en tävling. Femtio år av uppgivenhet och gudomlig lycka. Känslan av att hitta idén. Tanken som bär. Stafettpinnen som tidigare generationer överlämnar och som till varje pris skall föras vidare. Hinderbanan som måste besegras. Gert Wingårdh beskriver femtio år som arkitekt. Att vilja fram byggnader, att skapa livets ram, […]

“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 […]

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people.

Ett drömspel gavs ut 1902 och uruppfördes på Svenska teatern 1907 med Strindbergs hustru Harriet Bosse i rollen som Dottern. Pjäsen bröt ny mark inom scenkonsten och föregrep 1900-talets expressionistiska teater.

Betraktelse över själens passioner är den fristående första delen i António Lobo Antunes hyllade »Benfica-trilogi «. Lika mycket en suggestiv thriller om terrorism som en uppgörelse på prosa med både Portugals fascistisk

A story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality, from the prize winning author of Story of a Brief Marriage

Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen’s central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country’s rugged mountains. He collects samples and organizes farmers and is on […]