Som nioåring blir renskötardottern Elsa vittne till hur en man dödar en av hennes renar. Hon hotas till tystnad och blir smärtsamt medveten om att hennes ursprung väcker ett glödande hat. "Stöld" är en vild och vacker jojk till renskötarlivet, men också en spännande roman om en sällan skildrad verklighet i norr. Där renar tjuvjagas och dödas brutalt och polisen inte utreder brotten. Där spänningarna mellan samer och andra bybor förgiftar generationer. Hotet mot Elsa förändrar henne för alltid och genom åren bär hon med sig ett lent renöra som en ständig påminnelse. Familjen och släkten kämpar för rättvisa men i det tysta växer en desperation. Augustprisbelönade Ann-Helén Laestadius första roman för vuxna bygger på verkliga händelser. "Stöld" är en varm men samtidigt svidande skildring av en bortglömd del av Sverige där människor ställs mot varandra.

From the award-winning co-author of ‘I Am Malala’, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong?Twenty-seven years ago, Christina Lamb left Britain to become a journalist in Pakistan. She crossed the Hindu Kush into Afghanistan with mujaheddin fighting the Russians and fell unequivocally in love with this fierce country of pomegranates and war, a relationship which has dominated her adult life.Since 2001, Lamb has watched with incredulity as the West fought a war with its hands tied, committed too little too late, failed to understand local dynamics and turned a blind eye as their Taliban enemy was helped by their ally Pakistan.Farewell Kabul tells how success was turned into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest nations on earth, the Taliban undefeated, and nuclear armed Pakistan perhaps the most dangerous place on earth.With unparalleled access to all key decision-makers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, London and Washington, from heads of state and generals as well as soldiers on the ground, Farewell Kabul tells how this happened.In Afghanistan, Lamb has travelled far beyond Helmand – from the caves of Tora Bora in the south to the mountainous bad lands of Kunar in the east; from Herat, city of poets and minarets in the west, to the very poorest province of Samangan in the north. She went to Guantánamo, met Taliban in Quetta, visited jihadi camps in Pakistan and saw bin Laden’s house just after he was killed. Saddest of all, she met women who had been made role models by the West and had then been shot, raped or forced to flee the country.This deeply personal book not only shows the human cost of political failure but explains how short-sighted encouragement of jihadis to fight the Russians, followed by prosecution of ill-thoughtout wars, has resulted in the spread of terrorism throughout the Islamic world

Stinas jojk är den fascinerande berättelsen om Stina Larsdotter, sameflickan som inte slutade växa. När hon levde i mitten av 1800-talet var det inte ovanligt att människor med udda utseenden visades upp mot betalning, och Stina lät sig övertalas. Den fattiga renskötardottern från Malå blev en attraktion i både stimmiga ölkällare och fina salonger. Så småningom blev hon känd över hela Europa, och med tiden alltmer självständig. Stina, som började som ett offer för sin samtid, blev en driven affärskvinna som under sitt korta liv både kunde hjälpa sina föräldrar ekonomiskt och köpa ett eget hemman. Stina mättes och undersöktes under sin levnad, bland annat av rasbiologen Anders Retzius, och efter sin död 1854 ställdes hon ut på Karolinska Institutet. I år, 2024, begravs Stinas kvarlevor i Malå.

Mahi Binebine's courageous novel delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate glimpse into the difficulties facing asylum seekers and a striking portrait of human desperation. Mahi Binebine’s courageous novel takes place in Morocco, where seven would-be immigrants gather one night near the Strait of Gibraltar to wait for a signal from a trafficker that it is time to cross. While they wait, their stories Kacem Judi is an escapee from the civil war in Algeria; Nuara, with her newborn child, hopes to find her husband, who hasn’t been in touch for months since moving to France; and Aziz, the young narrator, and his cousin Reda are severed, in different ways, from their families in southern Morocco. They all share a longing to escape and a readiness to risk everything. Welcome to Paradise delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate and striking portrait of human desperation.

Stinas jojk är den fascinerande berättelsen om Stina Larsdotter, sameflickan som inte slutade växa. När hon levde i mitten av 1800-talet var det inte ovanligt att människor med udda utseenden visades upp mot betalning, och Stina lät sig övertalas. Den fattiga renskötardottern från Malå blev en attraktion i både stimmiga ölkällare och fina salonger. Så småningom blev hon känd över hela Europa, och med tiden alltmer självständig. Stina, som började som ett offer för sin samtid, blev en driven affärskvinna som under sitt korta liv både kunde hjälpa sina föräldrar ekonomiskt och köpa ett eget hemman. Stina mättes och undersöktes under sin levnad, bland annat av rasbiologen Anders Retzius, och efter sin död 1854 ställdes hon ut på Karolinska Institutet. I år, 2024, begravs Stinas kvarlevor i Malå.

Mahi Binebine's courageous novel delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate glimpse into the difficulties facing asylum seekers and a striking portrait of human desperation. Mahi Binebine’s courageous novel takes place in Morocco, where seven would-be immigrants gather one night near the Strait of Gibraltar to wait for a signal from a trafficker that it is time to cross. While they wait, their stories Kacem Judi is an escapee from the civil war in Algeria; Nuara, with her newborn child, hopes to find her husband, who hasn’t been in touch for months since moving to France; and Aziz, the young narrator, and his cousin Reda are severed, in different ways, from their families in southern Morocco. They all share a longing to escape and a readiness to risk everything. Welcome to Paradise delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate and striking portrait of human desperation.

A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes. When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last ones left – and whatever came for the others will one day come for them. Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural rituals – anything left behind that might be useful to Home and their survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something unbelievable: a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending entity thousands of years ago. Now Scout, their brother and their sometimes-fearless, space-faring cat, Pumpkin, must race to save what matters most.