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The fifth edition in Monocle’s best-selling travel handbook series, with everything you need to plan a short trip, or a longer stay, in Switzerland. This practical and inspirational guide takes you on a tour of Monocle’s most cherished Swiss spots. We have traversed the cities, hiked to remote mountain villages, swum in the lakes and […]

‘One night a swallow arrived in the city. He was on his way to Egypt to meet his friends, but he decided to rest on the feet of the statue. The swallow was very happy with his golden perch. But as he drifted off to sleep, a large drop of water fell on him. This […]

Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. ‘All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.’ Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left […]

Jag Mumintrollets pappa, sitter ikväll vid mitt fönster och ser lysmaskarna brodera hemliga tecken därute i trädgårdens sammetsmörker. Förgängliga krumelurer av ett kort men lyckligt liv! När Muminpappan råkar ut för en kraftig förkylning övertalar Muminmamman honom att börja skrivprojektet om sin stormiga ungdom. I memoarerna minns pappan ögonblicket då han blir upphittad på trappan […]

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. Nearly eighty years later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. […]

Paper Cuts is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it’s also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man’s life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his seventeenth birthday

Upplev den prisbelönta och efterfrågade kokboken Simple i nytt och exklusivt format. Ottolenghis recept är en otrolig kombination av överflöd, smak och överraskningar. I Simple får du färgsprakande och inspirerande bilder på maträtter som kan lagas utifrån dagsformen oavsett om du vill laga något snabbt eller mer förberett. Boken innehåller 140 recept där enkelheten inte […]

This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-acclaimed singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a […]