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‘We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm…’ Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives – the doomed Starkadders at the aptly […]

They’re often behind the scenes, letting their work take center stage. But now Nathan Williams, founder and creative director of Kinfolk magazine and author of The Kinfolk Table, The Kinfolk Home, and The Kinfolk Entrepreneur—with over 250,000 copies in print combined—brings more than 90 of the most iconic and influential creative directors into the spotlight. In The Eye, we meet fashion […]

From the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of The Water Cure – discover this chilling new novel about motherhood, free will and fate, human longing and animal instinct ‘The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder – be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes’ Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk […]

Professor Kalkyl har gått till historien som en lysande vetenskapsman och upptäckare, lika genial som han är tankspridd. Ändå lyser han med sin frånvaro i lexikon och uppslagsverk, något som denna bok

A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. ‘Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, […]

Det här är berättelsen om mammor som dör alldeles för tidigt, men framför allt om barnen som blir kvar och växer upp. Vad händer med oss när vi blir moderlösa, och hur påverkar det oss genom livets alla skeenden? I skolan ska klassen rita Mors dag-kort och fröken viskar medlidsamt till Bodil att hon kan […]

Since its completion in 1937, Tegelslagaren 12 has held a modest yet striking presence in Stockholm’s Södermalm district. This brick-and-teak ‘rental palace’ offers a unique take on functionalism, balancing whimsy with rationality, tradition with surprise. It also marks the beginning of the productive partnership between architects Sven Backström and Leif Reinius and the builder Olle Engkvist, […]

A manuscript is found. Filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home – and it’s even stranger, jade-green double, seen by that old man on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters roam. Soon his earthly abode is no less terrible […]