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"För att ha blottlagt ett sjukt underjordiskt rotsystem där storföretag, myndigheter och politiker flätas samman i en hänsynslös rovdrift på den svenska skogen. " Guldspaden 2023 för årets bok "Lisa Röstlunds reportage är ett yxhugg rätt in i den ...

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Förr kunde det hända att kyparen liksom räknade fel. Lustigt nog alltid till gästens nackdel. I branschen talade man om att salta notan. Att den mätta och belåtna kunden gärna kunde luras att betala några tior för mycket. Idag är krogfusket satt i...

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I Den hemlige kocken avslöjar Mats-Eric Nilsson det utbredda matfusket. Denna bästsäljande bok har öppnat hundratusentals svenskars ögon och fått oss att börja läsa det finstilta på förpackningarna. Varje dag kommer det ut mer än en ny kokbok i Sv...

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?Just read it.? Elon MuskThe dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX?and Elon Musk?from a shaky startup into the world''s leading edge rocket company.SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years ...

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Gunnar Wetterberg skildrar hur träden vandrat in, markens mysterier, samspelet mellan människan och skogen, skogens kluriga gubbar, de stormrika träpatronerna och skogsägarnas sammanslutningar. Han gräver i medeltidens sågkvarnar, massaindustrins ...

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Ture Evans lär barnen den viktiga konsten att läsa kartor. För att träna på detta delar han in barnen i två grupper som ska tävla om att komma först till Pontypandyudden. Det ena laget består av James och Sara och det andra av Malin och Herman. Nä...

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Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater's multi-award-winning food memoir 'Toast', this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are The British at Table.The British have a relationship with their fo...

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This is the story of Alex James?s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five.All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex James''s first book, B...

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Ben Law has lived as a woodsman in Prickly Nut Wood for over 20 years. His authentic, incredible sense of the land and the wildlife, and his respect for age old traditions and how to sustain them offers a wonderful, inviting insight into the life ...

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Sunday Times Bestseller'Passionate and well-researched' Tatler'A must-read' IndependentA social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world's most beloved dogs, by writer, presenter and long-time dog lover Ben Fogle.Labradors are the ...

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How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work?Over the past 50 years we have deciphered the inner workings of the human genome. From...

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Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller?Engaging, ambitious and creative? GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understan...

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Sunday Times BestsellerAs quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British Bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British.It is said that for more than half the world's po...

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The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who playe...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs...

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?Hugely readable and entertaining? JIM AL-KHALILI?An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline?s breadth, largely told through its history? PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLDEinstein?s Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the le...

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'A fascinating hybrid. Part freewheeling history of the rise of the modern autonomous vehicle, part intimate memoir from an insider who was on the front lines for much of that history, Autonomy will more than bring readers up to speed on one of to...

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Urban expert John Rossant and business journalist Stephen Baker look beyond the false promises of the past to examine the real future of transportation and the repercussions for the world?s cities, the global economy, the environment, and our indi...

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The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover.'Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Age of Cats is a readable and informed exploration of the wildcat that lurks wit...

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?Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will never stop looking up.? Apollo 11 astronaut Michael CollinsMost of us have never been to space. To date, of the more than 100 billion humans that have eve...

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The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin. The story of the Merlin is one of British ingenuity at its height, of ...

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'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of...

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?People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does? This is a splendid book ? and highly recommended.? Daily Mail¿¿A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive a...

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A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW REPUBLIC BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NONFICTION BOOK OF 2013From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to ...

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A Brief History of Time for the 21st CenturyAt the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It?s time to explore our universe?s most mysterious inhabitantsBlack Ho...

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A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021?Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ? like Educated¿and¿Hillbilly Elegy?DAVID LIPSKY?After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day?s work in your life ? This lyr...

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The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13.They were out of their depth, out of breath, and out of time. It was 1973. Two men were trapped in a crippled submarine 1,700 feet below sea. They onl...

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WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL?I am absurdly excited for this book? Caroline Criado PerezBestselling author Katrine¿Marçal¿reveals the shocking ways our deeply ingrained ideas about gen...

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Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023?A wonderful book? - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorHenry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife?s blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthle...

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What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys? The eel.Beginning life in the Sargasso Sea, the eel travels across the ocean, lives for twenty or so years, and then is driven by some instinc...

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