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Kokbok: GI-noll!

Cookbook: GI-zero!

Sten Sture Skaldeman

In this revolutionary cookbook, Sten Sture Skaldeman proves that it can be a delightful experience to eat to become healthy, slim and strong. He has done so himself – eaten so that he has cured himself of serious illnesses and lost 65 kilos too. Now ...

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The Pocket Guide to Wild Mushrooms

Pelle Holmberg

This is an abridged version of the author’s New Book of Wild Mushrooms in a convenient pocket format, presenting 52 edible fungi and the ‘look-alike’ fungi they are sometimes confused with. It contains the same superb photos of the fungi in nature an ...

Handbok för hemmafixaren

Home repairs & renovation

Leif Qvist

There is something special about being able to fix things yourself. In Handbok for hemmafixare, Leif Qvist presents simple solutions for many of our most common problems. They are about how to look after things, repairs and maintenance – from floor t ...

Döda poeter skriver inte kriminalromaner

Dead Poets Don’t Write Crime Novels

Björn Larsson

In his new novel, which he calls “a sort of crime novel”, an irreverent and mischievous Björn Larsson makes fun of himself, the publishing world in general and the crime fiction genre in particular. Late one rainy and stormy November evening, the re ...

Rosendals Trädgård

A Year at Rosendal – the café, the bakery, the garden

Malou von Sivers

The Rosendal Garden is a beloved oasis in the centre of the city of Stockholm, open to anyone who wants to visit it. Follow along on a walk in the rose garden and orchard, delight in the rich variety of flowers and learn about bio-dynamic cultivation ...

Allt om Mat - stora kokboken

The Essential Cookbook

This inspiring basic cookbook is the only cookbook you need in your kitchen today, all-year-round and for occasions big and small.Here are about 600 recipes taken from the popular Swedish food magazine Allt om Mat. All the recipes have been tried and ...

De dömdas ö

The Island of the Condemned

Stig Dagerman

Using nightmarish imagery, this is an allegory centered on seven shipwrecked people, doomed to die, each seeking a form of salvation.The central theme is fear. The language is inspired by Faulkner, and the symbolism by Kafka. Dagerman wrote the nov ...

Om Strindberg

On Strindberg

“And yet I am one of those people who got stuck in Strindberg’s net,” writes Lena Einhorn in her introductory chapter to this book. “He has entered my sphere, without my inviting him in.” “Getting to grips with August Strindberg – this hyperproduct ...

Ormen

The Snake

Stig Dagerman

The Snake is an anti-militaristic story with fear as its main theme, channeling the war-time zeitgeist. Set in neutral Sweden during raging World War II, Dagerman examines the effects of powerlessness and fear among a group of young people. He writ ...

Toner och passioner

Tones and passions – Ludus Tonalis

Käbi Laretei

In the mid-1960s, Käbi Laretei gives a concert in Carnegie Hall. After her arrival back home, she receives a letter in which an American publisher, Clay Coss, offers to sponsor a number of concerts for her in the USA. This marks the beginning of a lo ...

Underbara dagar framför oss

Olof Palme - a Biography

Henrik Berggren

This is the big, definitive book about Olof Palme and his life, written with an international readership in mind. Palme’s life stretches over the epoch that is sometimes called ‘the short 20th century’. He was born eight years after the end of the Fi ...

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Running

Maria Sveland

In 2007, Maria Sveland made a successful literary debut with the controversial novel entitled Bitterfittan (Bitter Cunt), a book that created a new term and which has been called a modern classic as well as a novel symbolizing a generation. Now she i ...

Tagga ner!

Take it easy!

Malin Alfvén

When you are at work, you feel as if you ought to be with the children. When you are at home, you feel you really ought to work a bit more. Many parents have a bad conscience about things great and small; they don’t think they are good enough as pare ...

Västerbottensost

Swedish Västerbottensost Cheese

Susanne Jonsson

Susanne Jonsson’s new book contains 50 tasty recipes with Västerbottensost, the famous strong cheese from the province of Västerbotten in the north of Sweden. The recipes range from classic cheese dishes to newly created delicacies . Prepared, baked, ...

Vår ekonomi

Our Economy. An Introduction to the Economic Workings of Society

Klas Eklund

Our Economy has been the dominating text book about national economy for more than ten years. It has sold more than 500,000 copies. Now it has been thoroughly revised and modernized. Several chapters have been added, there are new portraits of econ ...

Det fördolda

Dark Secrets

Michael Hjorth

Det fördolda is the first in a series of crime novels featuring psychologist Sebastian Bergman, a criminal profiler, in the main role. This is Hjorth & Rosenfeldt’s first crime novel and marks this year’s most sensational Swedish debut. It begin ...