
Örblíða
4.690 kr.Í Örblíðu leiðir Úlfar Þormóðsson lesandann í undarlegt ferðalag, sprottið upp úr hugleiðingum af ýmsu tagi og leit að manni sem sífellt hverfur. Skyndilega er veruleika sögumanns raskað. Dregið er fram í dagsljósið áratugagamalt mál. Úlfar rifjar upp málavexti og afhjúpar ýmsar fullyrðingar sem varpað hefur verið fram.
Leit hans að upplýsingum í stjórnkerfinu tekur á sig kostulega mynd sem minnir á Kafka. Í miðjum klíðum verður hann fyrir þeim harmi að missa unnustu sína til þrjátíu ára – og þung sorgin verður förunautur hans.
Við áframhaldandi leit fýkur sannleikurinn út í veður og vind. Og sögumaðurinn öðlast frið í sálu sinni.
Einstök bók um völundarhús mannheima eftir einn merkilegasta höfund þjóðarinnar.
Úlfar Þormóðsson hefur sent frá á þriðja tug bóka af ýmsu tagi sem vakið hafa mikla athygli.

Margrét Lára – Ástríða fyrir leiknum
7.790 kr.Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir er meðal fremstu íþróttamanna sem Ísland hefur alið. Hún er markahæsti landsliðsmaður Íslands í knattspyrnu frá upphafi og spilaði í sterkustu deildum heims. Hér segir Margrét Lára sögu sína og deilir reynslu sinni og góðum ráðum. Hún gerir ferilinn upp og segir á einlægan hátt frá sigrum og mótlæti.
Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir er meðal fremstu íþróttamanna sem Ísland hefur alið. Hún er markahæsti landsliðsmaður Íslands í knattspyrnu frá upphafi en hún lék sinn fyrsta A-landsleik 16 ára gömul og sinn fyrsta meistaraflokksleik með ÍBV þegar hún var einungis 14 ára. Margrét Lára hélt í atvinnumennsku þar sem hún spilaði í sterkustu deildunum og með einu besta félagsliði heims. Á ferli sínum varð hún landsmeistari í þremur löndum, var kjörin íþróttamaður ársins, spilaði á stórmótum með landsliðinu, varð þrívegis markahæst í Meistaradeildinni og fjórum sinnum útnefnd knattspyrnukona ársins. Margrét Lára skoraði með sinni fyrstu og síðustu snertingu í leik með íslenska landsliðinu og ruddi brautina fyrir ungar knattspyrnukonur, ekki bara á Íslandi heldur um allan heim.
Í bókinni segir Margrét Lára sögu sína og deilir reynslu sinni og góðum ráðum. Hún gerir ferilinn upp og segir á einlægan hátt frá sigrunum og mótlætinu, samherjum og mótherjum, lífinu eftir fótboltann og síðast en ekki síst ástríðunni fyrir leiknum.

Sögurnar okkar – 11 norrænar smásögur
5.390 kr.Í þessari bók má finna fjölbreyttar smásögur fyrir börn og ungmenni eftir eftirtektarverða höfunda frá Norðurlöndunum. Sögurnar fjalla allar á einn eða annan hátt um vináttu, samskipti og allar þær margvíslegu tilfinningar sem fylgja því að vaxa úr grasi. Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir skrifar framlag Íslands í bókina.

Rhythm of labor / Taktur í verki
5.990 kr.Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir (b. Reykjavík, Iceland, 1973; lives and works in Berlin) creates work across video, photography, performance, installation art, and others. Central to her practice is a conceptual approach that fluidly transitions between various artistic mediums. Her work is deeply influenced by anthropological research methods as well as her own personal experiences. She employs strategies of dislocation and defamiliarization to interrogate narratives about labor, class, and urban development and their entanglements with art.
Guðnadóttir’s first monograph Rhythm of Labor is dedicated to her artistic research project Keep Frozen. The project, which has been ongoing for over fifteen years, analyzes the operation of the global economy in the specific local example of the dynamics of industrialized fishing in Iceland. An extensive essay section sheds light on Guðnadóttir’s exploratory performances and films. Heiða Björk Árnadóttir charts the historical and social contexts of the Keep Frozen series. Elisabeth Brun shows how the artist challenges clichéd visualizations of the Arctic and Subarctic, while Anamaría Garzón Mantilla underscores the need to integrate the Arctic north into a critique of coloniality. Katla Kjartansdóttir discusses Guðnadóttir’s series of works that focus on the puffin, a seabird native to the North Atlantic, which has been co-opted by the booming tourism industry as an Icelandic symbol. With a foreword by Julia Gwendolyn Schneider.

Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us
3.690 kr.Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh.
All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what’s wrong with you? Implying, of course, that there is something not quite right about the people who make and consume it.
In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.

Poor Artists
3.690 kr.Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway?In this eye-opening journey through the bizarre world of contemporary art, criticism duo The White Pube tell the story of art like never before.
Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar through childhood obsessions, art school lessons and her professional debut. In surreal encounters with other artists, Quest learns profound truths about money and power, and must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself.
Blending imaginative storytelling with dialogue from anonymized interviews with real people in the art world who have all had to wrestle with the same decisions – including a Turner Prize winner or two, a few ghosts, a Venice Biennale fraudster and a communist messiah – Poor Artists is a powerful testimony to the emotional, existential and financial experience of artists today.

In Writing
3.690 kr.In these intimate and frank conversations with some of our best-loved writers, Hattie Crisell uncovers the mysteries of the creative process, asking: Where do ideas come from? How do stories find their shape? What happens when confidence falters or the work fails – and what does success look like?
The answers range from the thought-provoking to the hilarious. Here we meet the novelist who makes a playlist for each manuscript; the screenwriter who considers swearing an art form; the author who prefers to work in near-darkness, and the confessional writer at risk of revealing too much. Taken as a whole, these inspiring interviews amount to an insider’s guide to the writing process: its disciplines and demands; its ecstasies and agonies; its coffees, word counts and publishing hurdles. Most of all, they reveal how it really feels to write and be read.
With contributions from James Acaster, André Aciman, Ayobami Adebayo, Rumaan Alam, Amer Anwar, Mona Arshi, Andrew Billen, Holly Bourne, Charlie Brooker, Wendy Cope, Cressida Cowell, John Crace, Elizabeth Day, Grace Dent, Kit de Waal, Geoff Dyer, Wendy Erskine, Tor Freeman, Will Harris, Anna Hope, John Lanchester, Sophie Mackintosh, Emily St. John Mandel, Meg Mason, Mhairi McFarlane, Liane Moriarty, David Nicholls, Mary Norris, Graham Norton, Maggie O’Farrell, Ruben Östlund, Robert Popper, Lucy Prebble, Georgia Pritchett, Kiley Reid, John Rentoul, Hugo Rifkind, Jon Ronson, Michael Rosen, Sathnam Sanghera, George Saunders, David Sedaris, Elif Shafak, Alexandra Shulman, Curtis Sittenfeld, Raven Smith, Will Storr, Brandon Taylor, Craig Taylor, Barbara Trapido, Emma Jane Unsworth, Robert Webb, Zoe Williams, Meg Wolitzer.





