Samhälle & kultur

Trodde du att Julius Caesars sista ord var: Även du min Brutus? Att Erik XIV dog av förgiftad ärtsoppa? Att järnkorset uppfanns av nazisterna? Att Egyptens pyramider byggdes av …

Take a deep dive into preppy culture with this stunning lookbook and history of the iconic style.Preppy is a look, a vibe, and a lifestyle. From its inception as the fashion of Ivy …

'Eleanor is annoyingly clever & maddeningly funny as this book proves. She may have to be destroyed' - Dawn French Take a tour of the past and uncover stories of the women whose …

In The Pleasures of Exile, as in his other works, George Lamming embraces the intricate issues of colonization and decolonization with a canny combination of playfulness and …

Have you ever kept a diary? This is the diary of a young girl growing up in sixties America â?? an honest account of teenage life. This book was first published several decades ago …

A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century   From the twentieth century onward, women …

An account of Woolf's life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. "Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose...make this a most valuable and …

Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political …

"Jag överdriver inte när jag säger att jag varit feminist ända sedan lekskolan". Så inleder Isabel Allende sin memoar. Som liten flicka växte hon upp med sin mamma, som övergivits …

In the 1970s, John Seymour's book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to "down-shift" to a new way of life. The …