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Women Don’t Owe You Pretty is the ultimate book for anyone who wants to challenge the out-dated narratives supplied to us by the patriarchy. Through Florence’s story you will learn how to protect your energy, discover that you are the love of your own life, and realise that today is a wonderful day to dump […]

Get inside the mind of football’s most enigmatic icon. ‘Zidane is the master’ –Pele One of modern football’s most brilliant players – and one of its most iconic and mysterious figures – Zinedine Zidane’s football career is the stuff of legend. A World Cup-winner with France, he became the world’s most expensive player in 2001 […]

I Atwoods klassiska dystopi från 1985 ges en bild av ett framtida USA, som förvandlats till den kristet fundamentalistiska republiken Gilead. I kampen mot sjunkande födelsetal rekryteras kvinnor i fruktsam ålder och utnyttjas hämningslöst som Tjänarinnor när de befruktas mot sin vilja av härskarklassens män, Anförarna. ­Offred är en Tjänarinna som lever under strikt övervakning, […]

No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as John Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and controversial music pioneer. As well as an elegant narrative of Coltrane’s life Ratliff does something incredibly valuable – he writes […]

Opposition och optimism. 1960-talet har beskrivits som Rebellernas era. Plast, neon, betong – tre visuella och taktilt utmanande material som på olika sätt har blivit symboler för en tidsepok. Med receptet former och färger kunde nya grepp etableras. Naivt? – men inte utan möjligheter.

”Det var en fest som varat för länge; trött på rösterna, en aning för upp rymda, och på spriten, en aning för tillgänglig, och med en plötslig lust att vara ensam, att för en kort stund fly undan leendena som trängde upp en mot pianot eller frågorna som fick en att skruva sig i stolen, […]

“I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody has been talking and talking about for a long time. Also? The best sentences and, what do you call them, paragraphs. My previous books were great and sold extremely, unbelievably well–even the ones by dishonest, disgusting so-called journalists. But those writers didn’t understand Trump, because quite […]

What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they’d been looking for all along? These are the questions asked by Simon Critchley in this keen-eyed, moving and textured tribute to Bowie. Each […]