The Liars’ Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions)

For thousands of years, mending was a deep craft that has for too long been a secret history. But now it’s back, bigger and better than ever. In this book Kate Sekules introduces the art of visible mending as part of an important movement to give fashion back its soul. Part manifesto, part how-to, MEND! […]

Minoo Shams debuterar med en varm och rolig bok om vänskap, svek, saknad, och om att komma alldeles ny till ett land där det talas ett språk man inte förstår. Katarina Strömgårds känsliga färgillustrationer sätter stämningen perfekt. “Aldrig, tänker Maryam. Det var inte Maryam som bestämde att de skulle flytta hit. Hon tänker inte prata […]

Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what’s going on in an animal’s head? More and more researchers are realising that animals in fact experience […]

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid’s thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland. ‘Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I […]

‘A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eventually follows’ Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path ‘A peaceful rebuff to life in fast-forward’ Guardian Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for […]

Skavank är en blandning av teori, inspiration och praktisk handbok som vill hjälpa oss att se på våra saker med nya ögon och lära oss hur vi bäst kan laga och vårda dem. Isabelle McAllister, som arbetat med nytänkande byggprojekt och DIY i hela sitt vuxna liv, berättar här om slit- och slängsamhällets utveckling och […]

Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist – inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories: fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she

You can’t put your arms around a memory, heter det i Queens-sonen Johnny Thunders mest klassiska singel.
Men när New York under våren 2020 drabbas av coronaviruset är det exakt vad korrespondenten Per Bjurman