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All of us must have ‘impossible’ places in our garden where it is either too dark, too dry or full of tree roots. Torsten Wallin, a landscape architect with 30 years experience, knows how to get round the difficulties and in this book he tells you wh ...

The parks are littered with trash; the streets are covered with cigarette butts. The litterbins outside the school are on fire, and so is the rage inside Miira.  Asphalt court yards, concrete buildings and faces hard as stone. The place is calle ...

The LCHF regime I want to inspire you to follow, means fresh natural proteins and good fat, both saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. We find those in meat, fish, shellfish, butter, coconut fat, nuts, seeds, olives and avocado. A nice ...

New updated edition!In May 2011, Norstedts released Jesper Bengtsson’s biography on Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Since then, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November 2010 and in February 2011 Jesper Bengtsson managed t ...

And there they are; four persons showing up for group therapy, waiting for a therapist who never shows up. Perhaps they might as well start talking to each other, to break the ice and not feel as alone?Four persons are attending group therapy: Ove, w ...

2,100 kilometres north-west of Honolulu lie the Midway Islands, in themselves one of the miracles of nature. Two small islands, barely three and four kilometres long, that are home to a fantastic bird life. Today we find more than one million albatro ...

To eat nourishing and different sorts of food is important all your life, not least when you get older. Illnesses and aging make us more vulnerable, and then it is important that we eat food we like and which gives us energy. The elderly can sometim ...

The Vasa – this ship is a national treasure about which there is still a great deal to tell. Here we are taken back to Stockholm in the 1620s. King Gustav II Adolf already had a lot of power, but wanted even more. He ordered the construction of the b ...

Here are recipes for all the various building blocks that can be combined into delightful cakes and gateaux. Jan Hedh doesn’t just give us the recipes, but also shares his enormous knowledge with us: What happens if you increase the amount of sugar i ...

100 indispensible traditional Scandinavian recipes!Let more people know about Scandinavian culinary culture! Scandinavian cuisine has the last decade established itself as one of the best in the world.Master chef Niklas Ekstedt serves us a wide selec ...

“Welcome to my world of chocolate!I know nothing better than working with my hands and I am proud of being a pastry cook and a master baker; a real craftsman.It is my hands that have made the desserts for eight Nobel Prize banquets and for the 60th b ...

Last year Sweden’s queen of chick lit, Denise Rudberg, reinvented herself with a completely new genre – elegant crime. The first novel about Marianne Jidhoff, Ett litet snedsprång / Stepping Out of Line, marked the start of a new phase in her authors ...

You just can’t have too many small winter warmers! As early as September, you might need to pull out a pair of mittens or wrist-warmers and when it gets really cold you will need warm socks, hats and scarves all at once. In Johanna Wallin’s new book ...

What happens when somebody is diagnozed with diabetes? The protagonist in Diabetikern/The Diabetic – Motturi’s debut as a novelist – is, strange though it may seem, not at all despondent. Rather, he feels newly in love, and in some weird way as if he ...

The midnight sun from a mountain top in Kebnekaise, the blue tone of a winter’s night of Lapporten – the Lapponian Gate – and the boundless expanses of Padjelanta. The mountains are Lapland’s signature and a dream for all lovers of nature, walkers an ...

Amanda Svensson is back after her much-praised debut Hey Dolly, this time with a triangle drama set in Malmoe and Copenhagen. Välkommen till den här världen: / Welcome to this World: takes place in a limited area where three people move as a triangl ...