Blogg

  • Helen Czerski: Blue Machine. How the Ocean Shapes Our World

    Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told – that of our ocean. Not the fish or…

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  • Mary Beard: Emperor of Rome. Ruling the Ancient Roman World

    In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age…

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  • Lisa Stein Haven: The Early Years of Charlie Chaplin

    Charlie Chaplin’s career has been described, critiqued, and scrutinized. There are book-length studies on Chaplin’s music hall career, his career…

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  • Deborah E. Lipstadt: Golda Meir, Israel’s Matriarch

    Golda Meir (1898–1978) was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister of Israel. She was born in…

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  • Reasången är här!

    Som traditionen bjuder så kommer här reasången för hösten 2023  

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  • Olga Tokarczuk: Empusion

    I september 1913 anländer Mieczysław Wojnicz, student från polska Lwów (numera Lviv i Ukraina), till det berömda sanatoriet Görbersdorf vid…

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  • Andreas Karlsson: Vatten : en historia om människor och civilisationer

    I Vatten: en historia om människor och civilisationer berättar författaren och journalisten Andreas Karlsson om hur vi första gången lyckades…

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  • 10 i topp/Romaner på svenska (ej i pocket), i juli/Här på Hedengrens

                     

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  • George Orwell: Essays (selected and introduced by John Carey)

    Although George Orwell is celebrated as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, posterity may regard his other writing…

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  • Karl Schlögel: The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World

    The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its…

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