Ég lifi lífi sem líkist ykkar
1.290 kr.Öðru hverju hitti ég fólk sem þekkti mig sem barn en bjóst ekki við að hitta mig sem fullorðinn mann. Af almennri kurteisi leynir það yfirleitt furðu sinni yfir því að sjá mig á lífi. Um stund ríkir þá þögn áður en samtalið hefst og fólk getur sagt það upphátt sem það hugsaði fyrst þegar það sá mig: Ert þú enn á lífi? Höfundur þessarar bókar hefur notað hjólastól frá barnæsku vegna vöðvarýrnunarsjúkdóms. Í bókinni lýsir hann lífi sínu og hugleiðir ýmsar áskoranir sem hann hefur mætt, bæði hversdagslegar og þungvægar. Hann greinir frá uppvextinum, baráttu sinni við kerfið, vonbrigðum og árangri, biturleika en einnig gleði. Jan Grue (f. 1981) er doktor í málvísindum og prófessor og rithöfundur í Osló. Hann hefur skrifað smásögur og skáldsögur auk fræðilegra greina. Ég lifi lífi sem líkist ykkar kom fyrst út 2018. Bókin fékk afar lofsamlega dóma, hlaut norsku gagnrýnendaverðlaunin og var síðan tilnefnd til bókmenntaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs 2019.
Vanished Vikings
5.390 kr.The Vikings founded a society in Greenland which would last for almost 500 years. Then, quite suddenly, it disappeared.
What happened? Icelandic historian Valur Gunnarsson travels through southern Greenland as he attempts to solve the greatest mystery in Nordic history. He navigates icebergs on an open boat, meets the locals, stays with a modern-day Norse settler on a reindeer farm and examines the church where the last Viking wedding was held before everything went dark.
as it climate change, plague, class-struggle, trade wars or foreign invasion that did them in? Did they try to leave before it was too late? And if so, where did they go? The answer to the riddle of the lost Vikings might just tell us something about how to navigate our own perilous times.
“The narrative alternates seamlessly between a diary, a travelogue, a discussion of historical mystery and a commentary on current events, creating a stimulating mosaic of the situation of Greenland in the past and in the present.“
Sverrir Jakobsson, professor of history, University of Iceland
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
7.990 kr.A great thinning of the skies is underway. Around 50% of bird species are in decline worldwide. Our dawns and springs are quieter each year than the last. An almost unimaginable abundance has been lost. It does not have to be this way – but we will not save what we do not love.
The Book of Birds is a compendium of forty-nine bird species, from Avocet to Yellowhammer, all of which are declining or endangered in Britain. Inspired by the classic bird-books with which the authors grew up, this is a field guide with a difference. It asks not ‘What is that bird?’, but ‘Who is that bird?’ It shows its readers how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them.
With lyrical precision and playfulness, Robert Macfarlane evokes each bird’s habits and habitats – their patterns of flight and of song, how they hunt and gather, how they nest and raise their young, the stories and myths which attend them, the threats which shadow them, and how their wild lives intersect with our own. And on every page we encounter Jackie Morris’s exhilarating artwork, painted in watercolour and gold and animated by an extraordinary attention to detail and sense of life. Set among this dazzling flock of species are seven sections celebrating the ‘Seven Wonders’ that together make up the everyday miracle of ‘Bird’: Nest, Egg, Beak, Song, Feather, Flight and Migration.
Seven years in the making, The Book of Birds is a love letter to the splendours and mysteries of birdlife, and a clarion call to halt the loss of birds from land, sea and sky. From Dipper to Dunnock and Kestrel to Kingfisher, from mountain to ocean and city to river, Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane conjure the unique spirit and lifeway of each species. This is a book to be treasured by bird-lovers of all ages, and a future classic work of reference.
London Falling (kilja)
4.990 kr.In 2019, a London teenager, Zac Brettler, mysteriously fell to his death from a luxury apartment building on the banks of the Thames. When his grieving parents began their desperate quest to understand how their son had died, they made a terrible discovery: Zac had been leading a fantasy life, posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch.
In his inimitably gripping and forensic prose, Baillie Gifford Prize winner and New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe follows Zac’s parents on a dark journey to find out what brought Zac to the balcony that night – and how a teenager’s world of make-believe drew him into the city’s terrifying underworld.
London Falling is at once a devastating family tragedy, a riveting story of greed, power and deception, and an indictment of the culture that has transformed London into a haven for the malignant forces that have come to influence us all.’
Syngjandi steinn
4.690 kr.Í þessari bók rýnir skáldið, rithöfundurinn og bókmenntaprófessorinn Njörður P. Njarðvík í 39 ljóð eftir 38 af okkar fremstu skáldum. Njörður greinir uppbyggingu ljóðanna, merkingu þeirra og tilætluð áhrif í samspili orða, hljóms og menningar.
Ljóðrýni þessi á uppruna sinn í kennslu Njarðar í íslenskum bókmenntum við Háskóla Íslands og birtist í blöðum á sínum tíma en er hér safnað í eina heild í tímaröð bókmenntasögunnar.
Njörður P. Njarðvík (1936–), prófessor emeritus, hefur sent frá sér fjölda bóka – ljóð, skáldsögur, barnabækur, ævisögur, kennslubækur og fræðirit auk þýðinga. Hann hefur hlotið margvíslegar viðurkenningar fyrir bækur sínar og störf.
Í framlínu: lögreglumenn segja frá
5.490 kr.Í bókinni birtist lesandanum reynsla lögreglumanna og viðhorf þeirra til starfsins í gegnum þeirra eigin frásagnir, sem fela um leið í sér sögulegt yfirlit löggæslu síðustu 40 ára. Viðmælendur skipta tugum, eru af báðum kynjum og á öllum aldri, víðs vegar af landinu og búa að fjölbreyttum bakgrunni. Viðlíka innsýn hefur ekki áður verið gefin í lögreglustarfið hérlendi
Mjölnir – Hammer of Thor
3.990 kr.Historically, Viking Age pagan Scandinavians often wore amulets depicting the hammer of the beloved god Thor. This beautiful, art-filled, and scholarship-grounded book examines this phenomenon, highlighting and discussing a variety of examples from the historical record. It additionally contains discussion of the contemporary revitalization of this ancient practice far beyond Viking Age Scandinavia. Authored by folklorist Joseph S. Hopkins, thoroughly illustrated by artist Jacqui Alberts Lund, and introduced by scholar Katherine Beard, this book serves as a solid introduction to the topic that encourages readers to dig deeper.
Sólmyrkvar
5.390 kr.Sólmyrkvar eru magnaðasta sýning sem náttúran bíður upp á. Alger sirkus! En þeir eru ekki bara einstaklega fallegir, heldur hafa þeir hjálpað okkur að afhjúpa leyndardóma sólar, staðfest eina merkilegustu vísindakenningu sögunnar og leitt í ljós að sólarhringurinn á Jörðinni er að lengjast. Í bókinni eru merkilegar sögur af fólki sem lagði mikið á sig til að sjá tunglið hylja sólina og einnig útskýrt hvernig á að fylgjast með sólmyrkvum á öruggan hátt.
SÓLMYRKVAR er skemmtileg bók og skorinort, stútfull af frábærum fróðleik og fjörugum staðreyndum úr heimi vísindanna. Litmyndir Elíasar Rúna eru stórsniðugar og útskýra flókna hluti á skýran hátt. Hamfarir og Kúkur, piss og prump, úr sama bókaflokki, voru báðar tilnefndar til Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna.Sólmyrkvagleraugu til að fylgjast með sólmyrkvanum 2026 fylgja með hverju eintaki en hér má líka kaupa þau stök! Þeim sem kaupa bókina býðst að kaupa auka gleraugu með 50% afslætti með því að nota kóðann solmyrkvi26.
Í fylgd norðanpósts í 150 ár
5.190 kr.Var póstur kominn?
Nú ætlar honum að seinka!Magnús Pétursson fór á árunum 2021 til 2023 gangandi og á hestum milli Reykjavíkur og Skagafjarðar og fylgdi á ferðalaginu slóð norðanpósta fyrri tíðar sem fóru vegleysur og yfir heiðar og ár í öllum veðrum. Hann fer yfir póstsöguna, rifjar upp frásagnir um hetjudáðir landpósta og hrakninga og segir frá þætti þeirra í því að færa fólki nauðsynlega upplýsingu og fróðleik til að efla vitund þess um eigin getu í framfarasókn þjóðarinnar. Þetta er alvöruþrungin frásögn en oft í gamansömum tón.
Writing Creativity and Soul
4.690 kr.Writing is more than language and story. It also involves the creation of self. Writing is about who we are and who we are becoming.
After taking up writing at the age of thirty, Sue Monk Kidd has created some of the world’s most treasured stories. In Writing Creativity and Soul she shares exactly how she did it – from plunging her innermost depths, to voyaging to sacred spaces, to studying the precise methods of the greats and refining her own. Laying her creative journey bare, Sue explores the moments in which she lost her voice and when she found it again, as well as the profound insights she gained along the way.
Part memoir, part philosophical investigation, part advice to aspiring writers, this is a guide to awakening the soul. Everything that readers loved about The Secret Life of Bees is to be found in the pages of Writing Creativity and Soul – the warmth, the fierce intelligence, the wit, the spiritual hunger, the search for beauty and meaning and, perhaps above all, the rebel heart.
The New Age of Sexism
3.690 kr.AI is here, bringing a seismic shift in the way our society operates. Might this mean a future reimagined on equitable terms for women and marginalised groups everywhere?
Not unless we fight for it. At present, power remains largely in the hands of a few rich, white men. New AI-driven technologies, with misogyny baked into their design, are putting women in danger, their rights and safety sacrificed at the altar of profitability and reckless speed.
In The New Age of Sexism, Sunday Times bestselling author and campaigner Laura Bates takes us deep into the heart of this rapidly evolving world. She explores the metaverse, confronts deepfake pornography, travels to cyber brothels, tests chatbots, and hears from schools in the grip of online sexual abuse, showing how our lives – from education to work, sex to entertainment – are being infiltrated by easily accessible technologies that are changing the way we live and love. What she finds is a wild west where existing forms of discrimination, inequality and harassment are being coded into the future we will all have little choice about living in – unless we seize this moment to demand change.
Gripping, courageous and eye-opening, The New Age of Sexism exposes a phenomenon we can’t afford to ignore any longer. Our future is on the line. We need to act now, before it is too late.
An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail
4.390 kr.A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history, Hélène Giannecchini pieces together an alternative genealogy of queer ancestors. In searching and sensitive prose, she sifts the past to bring existences deemed ‘marginal’ into communion with each other, traces of which may remain only in memory and archival fragments. Roving from Casa Susanna, a space of freedom from persecution in McCarthyite North America, to the diary of a man living with HIV in France, and to the life and work of pioneering lesbian photographer Donna Gottschalk, each narrative counters oblivion through loving acts of witness. A slantwise gathering of queer life and activism in the twentieth century, interspersed with images encountered by chance, An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail establishes friendship as a vital political force and offers a moving testament to its liberatory power.
The Transgender Issue
3.990 kr.Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war ‘issue’. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country’s population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized ‘debate’ which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice.
In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the ‘transgender issue’ to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond.
The Transgender Issue is a landmark work that signals the beginning of a new, healthier conversation about trans life. It is a manifesto for change, and a call for justice and solidarity between all marginalized people and minorities. Trans liberation, as Faye sees it, goes to the root of what our society is and what it could be; it offers the possibility of a more just, free and joyful world for all of us.
Is a River Alive? (kilja)
3.690 kr.From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings – who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Is a River Alive? takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.
The book flows first to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining. Then, to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way. And finally, to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river – the Mutehekau or Magpie – is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign.
At once Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, spark debates and lead us to the revelation that our fate flows with that of rivers – and always has.
Bragðarefur – Með molum úr gömlum textum sætum og súrum og beiskum
1.290 kr.Bókin er hræringur af textum með ólíka áferð og bragð á tungu. Í henni fara saman fróðleiks- og skemmtimolar í nokkurs konar bragðaref. Þeir eru tíndir saman úr margs konar handritum frá ýmsum tímum. Ætlunin er að veita lesendum innsýn í fjölbreytt lesefni fólks á fyrri tíð. Allt eins mætti líkja bókinni við ærslabelg. Textarnir eru litríkir eins og sönnum ærslabelg sæmir og þeyta manni inn í nýjar veraldir.