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“Att skriva om sig själv är märkligt … Men i ett sådant här projekt har författaren avgett ett enda löfte, och det är att visa läsaren sitt inre. På sidorna som följer har jag försökt göra just det.” – Bruce Springsteen, ur Born to Run Under sju års tid har Bruce Springsteen i hemlighet skrivit […]

The Crown Jewel of Comics The DC universe as never seen before In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1-the first comic book with all-new, original material-at a time when comic books were mere repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper strips. What was initially considered to be disposable media […]

När Greta Thunberg hör idén lyssnar hon noga, hon gillar den. En skolstrejk, tänker hon. Det skulle kunna fungera.   Hon hade överlevt sitt livs första kris, en depression med svåra ätstörningar. Nu är Greta Thunberg uppslukad av en annan. Hennes förvandling till global klimatikon går via sittstrejken utanför Sveriges riksdag, till talarstolar i europeiska […]

Maps have the power to transport us, filled as they are with wonder and possibility. Here a team of internationally acclaimed writers and illustrators share their personal insights, encompassing not only the maps that appear in their books, but also the maps that have inspired them and the sketches they create in writing. Philip Pullman […]

Det här är en pastabibel med 45 recept från 12 regioner och 20 pastasorter, för hemmaköket. Den här boken handlar om pasta. Riktig, italiensk pasta. Om gnocchi lagad av en helgalen kock i Milano, om hemligheten bakom krämig carbonara och om den genovesiska trofien, som nästan ingen längre vet hur man tillverkar för hand. Det […]

Back in the days when the information age was a distant dream and the world a more mysterious place, National Geographic began its mission to reveal the wonders of history, popular science, and culture to eager audiences around the globe. Since that 1888 launch, the world has changed; empires have risen and crumbled and a […]

For decades, home cooks and pasta lovers have yearned for a complete English translation of Vincenzo Buonassisi’s 1974 Italian masterwork, Il Codice della Pasta. At last, that wait is over. Never before available in its complete form in English, Buonassisi’s landmark work in John Alcorn’s famed design represents a lost gem of classical Italian gastronomy […]

Kate’s husband Luke – the man she loved from the moment she met him twenty-eight years ago – died suddenly. Since then she has pushed away her friends, lost her job and everything is starting to fall apart. One day, she wakes up in the wrong room and in the wrong body. She is eighteen […]