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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka’s hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. ‘Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into […]

In 2008, with help from Jay-Z and Puff, Obama got the hip-hop vote, and became the first African American to be elected president. For a brief moment the “Audacity of Hope” seemed attainable. Yet only months ago the Ferguson riots brought an abrupt end to that hope, making emerging hip-hop artists, such as J Cole […]

En aprilkväll 2004 sker ett brutalt rånmord på en enslig gård i den lilla byn Kalamark i Norrbotten. Polisens misstankar riktas snabbt mot 41-årige Kaj Linna, en försäljare som tidigare gjort affärer med offren. Efter att Kaj Linna gripits på flykt i Wales döms han mot sitt nekande till livstids fängelse. Ett drygt år efter […]

The capital of Denmark nestled in northern Europe, Copenhagen is a city on a human scale, facing the sea and crisscrossed by canals. Between colorful facades, reinvented industrial wastelands, and sleekly designed neighborhoods, the Scandinavian capital offers a harmonious blend of nature, architecture, and creativity. In this edition, we invite you to discover Copenhagen and […]

Get off the beaten track and explore the authentic side of Mexico City, with a richly photographed, intoxicating mix of history and the cosmopolitan present day. Perfect for a hip, younger traveler where The Rough Guide crowd meets the Wallpaper audience this book is for anyone yearning to be inspired and excited by travel, to […]

From rural Japan to international icon – Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art. Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual return home […]

White Arkitekter, Scandinavia’s leading interdisciplinary architecture practice, create environments that inspire sustainable ways of living. An employee-owned company, White is a collective of people interested in people. They are architects, anthropologists, planners, engineers, artists, sustainability experts, researchers and more. In their new book, White showcase over 80 international projects. By integrating research and practice, their […]

Mister Good Times is the enthralling story of a black kid growing up in a (largely white) working class world; of vivid, often violent experiences on the football terraces; of the emerging club scene growing out of