The Helsingør Crossing
Conny Palmkvist
The first-ever full account of one of Europe’s most daring wartime humanitarian operations.A plucky group of unassuming Danes and Swedish security police risked their lives to orchestrate the safe passage of as many endangered Danish Jews as possible…
Rogue Wave
Lars Berge
Acclaimed journalist Lars Berge embarks on a personal odyssey in the footsteps of a seafaring ancestor at the heart of an onboard miracle, from Scandinavia to the ports of Wales and the United States.The full-rigged SS Alcides sailed the world at the…
What If
Roland Paulsen
This is not a self-help book. This is a societal-help book.What if we are doing too little about the Covid-19 pandemic; What if I left my stove on and my house burns down; What if I’ve chosen the wrong partner? Asking “what if?” is our mind’s way of…
Smart
Maria Gunther
In the style of David Epstein’s Range, SMART is an authoritative and engrossing big think book about what science has to say about intelligence.The question ‘What is intelligence?’ may seem simple to answer, but the study and measurement of human int…
Every Other Pine, Every Other Fir
Axel Lindén
By the internationally bestselling author of Counting Sheep: My 1021 Days in the FieldHow should you manage a forest, when what you really want to do is let it return to its natural state, not view it as an investment to be maximised?Axel Lindén is a…
Dancing with Distractions
Johan Bergstad
How to become the pilot of your life and creativity by Sweden’s foremost expert on focus-training and long-time collaborative partner of Jon Kabat-Zinn.Are you juggling a hundred things at once, at work and in your personal life, and need help to foc…
The New Age of Disorder
Carl Bildt
“In two or three decades, we will have more of an answer to what “The Great Time of Troubles” will have meant for our world. Were we able to maintain peace? Is there still hope for the great global challenges? Do nations see each other as partners in…
The Gospel of Eels
Patrik Svensson
Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, THE GOSPEL OF EELS is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little,…
