Nýja stjórnarskráin
2.690 kr.Nýja Íslenska stjórnarskráin – 2. útgáfa.
Líkt og fram kemur í formála bókarinnar hefur viðleitni til stjórnarskrárbreytinga einkennst af því að sniðganga vilja kjósenda og þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsluna um nýja stjórnarskrá 2012.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, forseti Íslands 1980-1996, ritar formálsorð þessarar fallegu bókar, sem hefur að geyma nýju stjórnarskrána ásamt ítarlegum sögulegum inngangi eftir Þorvald Gylfason prófessor emerítus.
Nýja stjórnarskráin var samþykkt í þjóðaratkvæðagreiðslu 20. október 2012 af yfirgnæfandi meirihluta kjósenda.
Bókin lætur ekki mikið yfir sér en lýsir þó afreki þjóðar, afreki sem almenningur á Íslandi vann í kjölfar áfalls sem hann varð fyrir árið 2008. Það á vel við að gefa þessa bók, bæði sjálfum sér og öðrum.
Draugamandarínur
4.590 kr.Hýðinu er flett af ávextinum. Fyrir innan leynist ýmislegt: matur, myrkur, minningar. Fyrir utan: vökult auga.
Draugamandarínur fjallar um hvað það merkir að gefa af sér. Verkið skoðar, í gegnum hrylling, smáatriði og rytma, þá athöfn sem fer fram þegar matar er neytt. Líkaminn skipar mikilvægan sess í textanum, horft er inn á við eins og í gegnum röntgengeisla og þar má meðal annars sjá sársauka, hungur og aldinkjöt.
„Birgitta dregur tjöldin frá, tendrar ljós.“
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Stúlka með fálka
Original price was: 9.390 kr..4.990 kr.Current price is: 4.990 kr..Stúlka með fálka er sjálfstætt framhald bókanna Stúlku með fingur, Stúlku með maga og Stúlku með höfuð þar sem Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir sagnfræðingur og rithöfundur rekur eigin ættarsögu og ævi. Hér stendur stúlkan á sjötugu og lítur um öxl, sögutíminn frá miðjum níunda tug síðustu aldar til dagsins í dag. Staldrað er við ritverkin og atvik úr einkalífi, ferðalög, vini, fjölskyldu og aðra sem haft hafa áhrif á þennan einstaka höfund.
Þetta er samtímasaga full af visku og vangaveltum um lífið og tilveruna. Sem fyrr er Þórunn hispurslaus og opinská og hlífir sér hvergi – frásögnin er fyndin og gáskafull en um leið blandin trega og söknuði.
Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir er einn fjölhæfasti rithöfundur okkar, jafnvíg á skáldskap og fræði og hefur fengist við flestar greinar bókmennta. Hún hefur hlotið margvíslegar viðurkenningar fyrir verk sín og meðal annars verið tilnefnd til Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna og Bókmenntaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs.
The Land in Winter
3.690 kr.December 1962, the West Country.
Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore.
He’s been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that’s already faltering. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel. Where do you hide when you can’t leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?
Gleðileg jól – Þín eigin saga #12
3.690 kr.Það er desember og þú ert í jólaskapi. Þig langar að renna þér á snjóþotu svo þú arkar upp í fjall. Í stórum helli sitja þrettán furðulegir kallar við varðeld og í myrkrinu glóa risastór kattaraugu. Þú ræður hvað gerist næst! Í tólftu bókinni í þessum vinsæla bókaflokki spinnur Ævar Þór þráð úr bók sinni Þín eigin þjóðsaga.
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Jötunsteinn
Original price was: 6.990 kr..4.790 kr.Current price is: 4.790 kr..Jötunsteinn, steyptur hellusteinn sem til stendur að leggja í gangstétt, þýtur í átt að bílrúðu. Fyrir innan hana situr stórtækur verktaki. Úti stendur bugaður arkitekt. Tíminn silast áfram sekúndubrot fyrir sekúndubrot.
Þrjátíu ár eru síðan Andri Snær steig fram á ritvöllinn og skipaði sér í hóp eftirtektarverðustu höfunda landsins. Í þessari kröftugu nóvellu er Jötunsteini kastað inn í heita umræðu um fegurð í borg sem er smám saman að hjúpast svartri klæðningu og gráu þverliggjandi bárujárni. Sagan hefur þegar komið út á dönsku, ítölsku og ensku og hvarvetna hlotið frábærar viðtökur.
Icelandic Pop: Then, Today, Tomorrow, Next Week
3.990 kr.Iceland punches well above its weight in the world of music, producing global icons like Björk, Sigur Rós, Of Monsters and Men, and Laufey, while at the same time nurturing a vibrant local scene. This book explores how Iceland’s unique social habits, institutions and everyday practices contribute to its thriving music culture. Tracing the development of Icelandic popular music since the rock ’n’ roll era, it examines key influences shaping the scene, from Reykjavík’s musicians to national institutions like radio and concert venues.
With engaging explanations of sociological factors, the book sheds light on why Iceland has become a powerhouse in music. An illuminating journey through Iceland’s music history, this is a celebration of the artistry and cultural forces behind its global impact.
Always Home, Always Homesick: A Love Letter to Iceland
4.690 kr.From the bestselling author of Burial Rites comes an inspirational memoir about her travels in Iceland, an extraordinary country that has forged a nation of storytellers. When she was seventeen years old, Hannah Kent travelled to Iceland from Australia. She’d never seen snow before, didn’t speak a word of Icelandic.
All she knew was that she wanted to have an experience – to soak up something of the world. Soon she found herself isolated in a remote part of Iceland in a dark winter. It was a gruelling experience, but she quickly fell in love with the country: with its brutally beautiful landscapes and with its people.
On returning home, with images of Iceland’s towering glaciers and windswept tundras in her dreams, Hannah began to write. Now, as a mother and a wife, she looks back to that extraordinary year in Iceland.
Vaim
3.990 kr.Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjørgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is cheated, twice. That night, while sleeping on his boat, he hears a familiar voice: unexpectedly, it is Eline, who wants to come home to Vaim with him.
She leaves a note for her husband Frank, packs her bags and runs away while he is out fishing. Vaim, Jon Fosse’s first novel since he received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the story of this triangle, a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman. And all, of course, was strange…
The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin
5.990 kr.When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re-envision our own.
Le Guin’s maps offer journeys of consciousness beyond conventional cartography, from the Rorschach-like archipelagos of Earthsea to the talismanic maps of Always Coming Home. Rather than remaining within known terrain, they open up paradigms of knowledge, exemplified by the map’s edges and how a map is read, made and re-made, together. The Word for World brings her maps together with poems, stories, interviews, recipes and essays by contributors from a variety of perspectives to enquire into the relationship between worlds and the imagination and representation of them.
With contributions by Federico Campagna, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Daniel Heath Justice, Bhanu Kapil, Canisia Lubrin, Una McCormack, David Naimon, Nisha Ramayya, Shoshone Collective, Standard Deviation, Marilyn Strathern. Co-published by Spiral House and AA Publications to coincide with an exhibition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s maps at the Architectural Association, London, opening on 10 October 2025.
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
4.390 kr.A lavishly illustrated edition of Murakami’s classic short story. Katagiri found a giant frog waiting for him in his apartment. It was powerfully built, standing over six feet tall on its hind legs.
A skinny little man no more than five foot three, Katagiri was overwhelmed by the frog’s imposing bulk. ‘Call me “Frog,”’ said the frog in a clear, strong voice. Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this special edition of Murakami’s celebrated short story sees the bewildered Katagiri find meaning in his humdrum life through joining forces with Frog in an effort to save Tokyo from an existential threat.
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
3.990 kr.The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself.
Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept. An unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she’s loved or wanted. Each has been a match and a mismatch, a liberation and a threat to her very sense of self.
The ephemera left by their passage – a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss – make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy. What does it mean to connect with another person? What impels us to touch someone, to be touched by them, to stay in touch? How do we let them go? In yet another tour de force of fiction, Claire-Louise Bennett explores the mystery of how people come into and go out of our lives, leaving us forever in their grasp.