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

A Treasury of Moomin Tales

A Treasury of Moomin Tales is a beautifully illustrated collection of three classic Moomin stories, based on Tove Jansson’s original works.

Join Moomintroll, his charming family and his eclectic band of friends on a series of adventures in a picturesque land where anything can happen: a snow horse comes to life in the depths of a freezing winter, a stolen ruby leads to a trial set in the Moominhouse garden, and seeds planted on Midsummer’s Eve sprout a crowd of electrical Hattifatteners!

Moomin fans of all ages will delight at the stunning artwork that accompanies the lively, witty writing, and become fully immersed in the beautiful Moominvalley.

Beneath the Mists

The Whispering Sea Mysteries Book 2

On a fog-shrouded Swedish archipelago, a young girl confronts an ancient supernatural threat in this breathtaking fantasy thriller from the eerie imaginations of Camilla Sten and Viveca Sten.

An unnatural fog, lingering for weeks, has settled over the Stockholm archipelago, home to twelve-year-old Tuva. No one can explain it. Tuva, attuned to the mysteries of the sea, has her suspicions.

When her classmate and his mother nearly drown in the damp, choking fog, Tuva seeks answers about its supernatural nature. And the truth she uncovers is more wondrous—and sinister—than she could have imagined.

All the while, a hauntingly familiar voice calls for Tuva, pulling at the ties that bind her to the supernatural world, trying to draw her in. But are the powers that Tuva possesses enough to save the world from this true evil lingering in its midst?

The Badger

It is a dark, menacing psychological thriller. Two women’s lives are thrown into turmoil as they try to solve the mystery of The Badger, a Gothenburg serial killer who strikes on the same November night each year.

It is a dark, menacing psychological thriller.
Two women’s lives are thrown into turmoil as they try to solve the mystery of The Badger, a Gothenburg serial killer who strikes on the same November night each year.

Sunset at Zero Point

From the renowned creator of The Electric State and Tales from the Loop, Stålenhag returns with his long-awaited new work of retro-futuristic dystopia within the mysterious zone of an abandoned Swedish military facility.

Beginning in 2024, yet set largely during the early 2000s, Sunset at Zero Point unfolds on a secluded Swedish island, home to a secret weapon lab that has been off-limits for years, evoking the bestselling works of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.

Stålenhag’s masterful storytelling and hyper-realistic art transports you to an alternate history revealing his most intimate work to date, delving into themes of masculinity, friendship, and sexuality through the lens of a queer science fiction tale. The story spans decades following two young men, stuck in the past and each other’s orbit, as fleeting moments become defining memories as they set out to explore the forbidden zone together.

Set against the backdrop of Stålenhag’s native Sweden and based on the alternate version of Mälaröarna outside of Stockholm, Sunset at Zero Point juxtaposes giant futuristic machines with the inner turmoil of its characters facing a social dystopia, crafting a narrative that is both visually stunning and emotionally resonant.

Opt Out

“Everything will be fine.” That is what Mary and John promise when they tell their two children that they are getting a divorce. But while the end of their marriage offers them both freedom, it brings to the fore the pain and resentments that have always percolated through their relationship and throws into stark relief their shortcomings as partners and as parents.

A calmly devastating portrayal of a couple’s separation and the lives that continue beyond it.

The Glass Man

The Leo Asker series, which will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Times bestselling author), continues with this second installment following wayward detective Leonore Asker on a chilling new murder case.

Detective Leonore Asker has just settled in as head of the Department of Lost Souls, a unit for odd cases, when her father contacts her after years of silence. A body has been found on his farm and, as the main suspect, he is desperate for Leo’s help. But is her father as innocent as he claims or is he trying to reel Leo into his grip once again?

Meanwhile, Martin Hill moves to a secluded estate to write a biography about the business leader Gunnar Irving, intrigued by the fact that the legendary property contains an abandoned astronomical observatory. Soon, Hill discovers that the area has more stories to offer…about mysterious lights and mutilated bodies. While Asker and Hill try to find answers, the Glass Man rises from the depths of darkness from which no one ever returns. Nobody but him.

Comet in Moominland

Comet in Moominland reminds us to be brave, welcoming to outsiders, and nurture hope, even when calamity threatens.

Comet in Moominland, the first full-length Moomin novel, was published 80 years ago. Tove Jansson revised the text a decade later and again in 1968, reorganising the story and adding new characters. This version became definitive and has been translated into over 60 languages. Now for the first time this edition can be read in English, in a brand-new translation.

Tove Jansson’s story of a mysterious, threatening comet, and the journey of discovery by Moomin and his friend Sniff across the Lonely Mountains, has captivated generations of readers across the world. The story introduced much-loved Moomin characters, including the free-spirited Snufkin, the philosophical Muskrat, the intuitive Snorkmaiden, obsessional Hemulens and strange Hattifatteners.

 

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