Japanese Comfort Food

Saori Ichihara combines personal anecdotes with recipes to help you recreate delicious classic Japanese dishes in the comfort of your home.

Do you want to know how you can make perfect ramen? Yakisoba and donburi that’s both easy and impressive? Katsu sandos for work from home lunches?

Recreate delicious classic Japanese dishes in the comfort of your home.

From crispy katsusando and moreish yakisoba, to snackable onigiri and reviving shoyu ramen, learn how to cook the comforting flavours of Japan from scratch.

Lund: The Town

New photographs of Lund by Jonas Lindström, together with older pictures, maps and information about Lund past and present.

The book contains recently taken photographs from walks in Lund, as well as older pictures of the town, old and new maps, and information about Lund – both past and present.
Text in Swedish and English.

Hermann Talvik: Art Life Art

The first in a series of books about Hermann Talvik, this biography fascinating insights into the artist, his work and his life.

Hermann Talvik was born in Estonia and came to Sweden as a refugee in 1944. He studied
fine art at the Ateneum in Helsinki and in Paris, developing great skill both in painting and in
various printmaking techniques. His whole life revolved around art – a life that he lived in the
spirit, distant from the clamour of society, and in symbiosis with nature. It has been written about Talvik that he is the landscape painter’s poet, an artist who, with his spiritual sensitivity, can hear the heart of a flower beating. His visionary prints have been described as modern icons. In its combination of highly personal artistic expression and virtuoso technique, Talvik’s art remains timeless.

The biography was written by his daughter Liina Talvik, who has previously published a number of books for children and young people. Through the author’s intimate relationship with her father, and the large number of letters he wrote home from his travels, the reader gains an insight into Talvik’s innermost thoughts and reflections on life and art.

This is a unique opportunity to discover Hermann Talvik – both as a man and an artist.

A Journey of Love

A stunning photographic exploration of landscape and love through Erik Malm’s uniquely painterly photography technique.

When love for a woman also led to love for a new country, with new nature and new experiences. An emotional journey in many dimensions, captured with the unique photographic style that has given Erik Malm worldwide fame, with results he is almost alone in achieving in the world today.

Using the camera as a brush, he paints his images into something beyond the immediately obvious, artistically strongly influenced by his background as a professional “symphonic” musician. Where pictures become music.

In English, with translations to Catalan/Catalá, Spanish/Espanol, French/Français, German/Deutch and Swedish/Svenska in the end of the book.

“MASTERPIECE”
“This is not just a book, it is a piece of Art in book form”
“Honorable Mention” by IPA, International Photography Award
“Unique photography”
“Fabulous book”
“Exceptionally beautiful”

Dark skies over Budapest

Raoul Wallenberg, Resistance and Rescue of the Hungarian Jews, 1944–1945.

Budapest in the autumn of 1944 was a city full of terror, tension and conspiracies. Members of the SS and the Hungarian Arrow Cross movement roamed the streets looking for Jews and other opponents. The German and Hungarian Nazis planned to exterminate the last surviving large Jewish population in Nazi-occupied Europe. Ranged against them was a loosely knit network of neutral diplomats, lower-level church activists and a fragile but growing resistance movement. In an inferno of intrigue, a low-key civil war was taking shape between pro- and anti-Nazi Hungarians. Meanwhile, the Soviet army was approaching the city and the biggest urban battle since Stalingrad was imminent.
That summer, a young Swedish diplomat named Raoul Wallenberg had arrived in the Hungarian capital, throwing himself into the dramas and intrigues raging in Hungary under the German occupation. Wallenberg soon became an important part of the networks desperately scrambling to save the Jewish population in Budapest. Through Wallenberg’s story, the reader follows the dramatic events that took place between the summer of 1944 and the beginning of 1945 and meets the many individuals and groups that were crucial to this unique and ultimately largely successful action.
Dark Skies over Budapest is a true story of resistance and rescue and of one of the greatest humanitarian efforts of the Second World War. Casting new light on Raoul Wallenberg’s work, the book also tells the story of hitherto unknown but important people – who in many cases never received any recognition for their endeavours – and of actions that have remained undiscovered for many years. This book offers a comprehensive account of what really happened in Budapest in 1944–1945.

Chili + Umami: Supercharged Shortcuts to Transform Your Home Cooking

Chili + Umami is pure flavour adrenaline. Hot, savoury, thrilling – and deeply comforting all at once.

Chili + Umami is pure flavour adrenaline. Hot, savoury, thrilling – and deeply comforting all at once.

This unbeatable pairing hits every pleasure point, firing up your taste buds and lighting up your brain so powerfully that everything else on the plate suddenly feels a bit boring. It’s no wonder chilli-obsessed cultures around the world have their own signature dishes: Thai pad kra pao, Portuguese piri-piri, Italian-American spicy rigatoni vodka, Korean buldak chicken – and so many more.

In Chili + Umami, you’ll cook your way through 85 quick and easy recipes, from bold classics to exciting fusion dishes, and learn how to make flavour-packed condiments that turn everyday food into instant cravings. This is fast, addictive cooking for anyone who wants maximum impact with minimum fuss.

Post Mortem

The third novel in a gripping Scandi Rekke and Vargas series inspired by Sherlock Holmes.

Professor Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas have earned a reputation for solving the unsolvable. But they’ve never been confronted by a serial killer.

That changes when Rekke receives a visit from Spanish chief inspector Rafael Corales, who is unable to forget the unsolved murder of a young woman in Santander in 1988. Now other bodies have come to light, marked with signs that seem to be some kind of numerical order.

Still recovering from his latest hypomanic episode – his relationship with Vargas strained by a secret she’s keeping – Rekke agrees to help track down the killer.

Clues from a posthumously published short story by the victim draw him undercover into the murky world of Sweden’s literary scene – authors, agents and producers who are past masters at selling a lie. To unmask the killer, Rekke must relearn the difference between fact and fiction, and discover what really happened that night in Santander in 1988.

Bloody Awful in Different Ways

“Great credit must go to Giles’s translation. The key to humour is timing and that’s easily lost in another language. Not so here. There’s a real snap to the sentences; the punchlines fall just where they need to; and the comic possibilities afforded by punctuation and paragraphing are well exploited.” George Cochrane in The Telegraph THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF …

“Great credit must go to Giles’s translation. The key to humour is timing and that’s easily lost in another language. Not so here. There’s a real snap to the sentences; the punchlines fall just where they need to; and the comic possibilities afforded by punctuation and paragraphing are well exploited.” George Cochrane in The Telegraph

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2023 – now in paperback from Penguin Books.

Christmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev’s mother lets him in on a secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. And so begins a new kind of childhood, in which fathers come and go, arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet. Fathers can be magicians or murderers, artists or canoe enthusiasts, and, like growing pains, or the weather, they appear uninvited and leave without warning. Fathers are drawn to his mother like moths to a flame – but even she can’t control how they behave.

Vivid and joyful, raw and tender, Bloody Awful in Different Ways is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins and ends; and above all, about men. Because after all, you learn an awful lot about this strange species when you have seven fathers in seven years.

‘Bloody awful? Bloody brilliant, more like’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Pure joyous storytelling on every page … A little treasure of a book’ FREDRIK BACKMAN
‘A delight from start to finish’ JENNIE GODFREY
‘Flawless … So sharp, so beguiling, so acutely observed’ 
GUARDIAN

Dreams of Bronze

The third gripping thriller in this daring suspense series about a woman with a thirst for vengeance – a charged revenge drama of betrayal, redemption and sisterhood. ‘Drama, seduction, revenge, and a powerful woman refusing to be broken’ Reader Review Faye’s ex-husband is dead, but she is threatened by her father who is still on the run from prison. The …

The third gripping thriller in this daring suspense series about a woman with a thirst for vengeance – a charged revenge drama of betrayal, redemption and sisterhood.

‘Drama, seduction, revenge, and a powerful woman refusing to be broken’ Reader Review

Faye’s ex-husband is dead, but she is threatened by her father who is still on the run from prison. The man who should be her safety net is her greatest fear.

The Fire Child

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