The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an essential voice on music and culture, Kelefa Sanneh makes a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us. Distilling a career’s worth of knowledge, he explores the tribes music forms, and how its genres, shape-shifting across the years, give us a […]

In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads, Rip […]

The new looks, updated traditions, and influential designers defining men’s fashion today, from the world’s capital of gentlemen’s style. Combining the unique heritage of gentlemen’s tailoring with a progressive approach to street style, London is fast becoming the world’s capital of men’s fashion. For this book, Dylan Jones presents a discerning sartorialist’s guide to the […]

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then […]

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew […]

Vad kan vi lära av naturen? Biomimikry kallas det när biologer samarbetar med arkitekter, ingenjörer och designers för att hitta och efterlikna naturens bästa lösningar. Runt om i världen inspireras allt fler av vår uppfinningsrika natur för att utveckla tekniska innovationer och på andra sätt tackla de utmaningar vi står inför i dag. Några härmar […]

This book contains 52 very good salad recipes, brought to you by Shuki Rosenboim and Louisa Allan, owners of Very Good Falafel, a small falafel bar in Melbourne, Australia. With a focus on vegan salads, exceptional dips, soft pita and, of course, very good falafel, all made from local in-season ingredients – you’ll find all […]

There’s nothing better than coming home on a wintry evening to the welcoming aroma of a bubbling stew or comforting soup. Lisa Lemke, author of The Summer Table, changes seasons and brings her prodigious gifts to more than 75 recipes showcasing wintertime ingredients. Her soul-satisfying dishes range from a savory rye risotto with oyster mushrooms […]