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A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A bed that hasn’t been slept in is crumpled and distressed come the morning. A skeletal figure […]

In Two-Dimensional Man, Paul Sahre shares deeply revealing stories that serve as the unlikely inspiration behind his extraordinary thirty-year design career. Sahre explores his mostly vain attempts to escape his “suburban Addams Family” upbringing and the death of his elephant-trainer brother. He also wrestles with the cosmic implications involved in operating a scanner, explains the […]

Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano’s thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss – or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there working behind the till. Nor are her fellow employees any less […]

500 av Nordens främsta fotografer samlas i en gigantisk fotodokumentation för att gemensamt skildra denna del av världen. Under en och samma vecka vänder de sina kameror mot det som normalt sett inte skildras i media – det vanliga livet med vardagsslit och vardagslycka. Bilderna visar tydligt att det är så mycket mer som förenar […]

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith’s essential Seasonal Quartet — from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both. Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer’s leaves? […]

David Frenkiel och Luise Vindahl står för nydanande och spännande vegetarisk mat. Deras blogg www.greenkitchenstories.com har många läsare och inspirerar människor över hela världen att…..

Is there no escape from an economy that devours nature in the name of endless growth? John Thackara’s answer is a rousing ‘yes, there is!’ Drawing on a lifetime of travel in search of real-world alternatives that work, he describes in this book how communities the world over are creating a replacement economy from the […]

»Originell, modig, mästerlig.« | The Guardian Det är inte mycket med julen som gör Eileen Dunlop särskilt glad. Hon är en försynt men djupt bekymrad ung kvinna fångad mellan rollen som sin alkoholiserade pappas vårdare – i ett hem vars eländighet folk pratar om i grannskapet – och ett dagjobb som sekreterare på Moorehead, ett […]