Girl in a Band

‘The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler’ Sunday Times Jackson’s woman has found him a foolproof way to make money – a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his […]

I Ai Weiweis memoarbok skildras hundra år av Kinas historia – genom berättelsen om hans eget, extraordinära liv, och genom arvet efter hans far, landets mest hyllade poet. Lika ambitiös som personlig belyser Tusen år av glädje och sorg den myriad av krafter som format det moderna Kina, den fungerar också som en ständigt aktuell […]

As lead singer of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, Shaun Ryder was the Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of his generation. A true rebel, who formed and led not one but two seminal bands, he’s had number-one albums, headlined Glastonbury, toured the world numerous times, taken every drug under the sun, been through rehab – […]

Have you ever dreamt you were naked on stage, or woken having failed an exam? In these fascinating, pioneering essays, Sigmund Freud plunges into the recesses of our minds, and awakens the hidden meanings behind our most typical and surprising night-time fantasies. From dreams of violence and death, to the more prosaic moments in our […]

Mimi explores the beautiful coasts and countrysides of Italy in this lavishly photographed cookbook featuring simple, authentic recipes inspired by the country’s devoted producers and rich food heritage. Beloved for her gorgeous cookbooks A Kitchen in France and French Country Cooking, Mimi Thorisson, along with her lively family and smooth fox terriers in tow, immersed […]

For the first time, a comprehensive, definitive collection of lyrics of music legend and poet Bob Dylan. A major publishing event – a beautiful, comprehensive collection of the lyrics of Bob Dylan with artwork from thirty-three albums. As it was well put by Al Kooper (the man behind the organ on ‘Like a Rolling Stone’), […]

NOBELPRISET I LITTERATUR 2015 »Hur många gånger apokalypsen än har upprepats i konsten och hur många olika teknologiska varianter av världsundergången som än har prövats är det först nu som vi har blivit varse att livet är betydligt mer fantastiskt.« Svetlana Aleksijevitj Tjernobyl. Ordet är synonymt med den stora kärnkraftsolyckan år 1986. Men vad vet […]

George Orwell’s masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Shaped the World’ ‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’ Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith […]