We hope you are home for the holidays enjoying time with your family, friends, good food a comfy chair and lots of great books! We are taking a few days off and look forward to seeing you back in the shop on January 2nd, 2019!
It has been a true pleasure to help curate and create a library for The Apartment’s gorgeous two bedroom apartment now available for rent.
Vogue magazine’s Brooke Bobb spent the night ‘inside Copenhagen’s Chicest Design Store’ and wrote a glowing review with a special mention of the library!
‘There were loads of books, too, from those on Cy Twombly to a tome dedicated to the Danish jewelry label Griegst. This, in fact, was a signature touch from the clever and curious proprietor. “The luxury of having time to read books is something that I prioritize when I travel,” Busck explained. “Therefore, it was important for me to fill the apartment with interesting literature on art, design, and architecture.” ’
We suggest taking a few minutes to read the wonderful review of The Apartment’s apartment in Vogue magazine, and leave you with the final words which perfectly sum up Brooke Bobb’s experience:
‘Again, I thought about all of the beautiful hotels, rentals, and resorts that I’ve stayed in. But at that kitchen table I thought, for the first time in my travels, I could really live here. A home sweet home, indeed.’
It has been the mother of all summers and at long last the rain is bringing back the green. We know you’ve bought lots of books - earning the heartfelt gratitude of booksellers everywhere - and we hope you have enjoyed disappearing into them.
While we lay on beaches and in deckchairs under seemingly unending blue skies trying to ignore our devices (and perhaps the news), the sun did little to bring light and enlightenment into the darkness that seems to have invaded the hearts and minds of many of the world’s politicians.
They are still chasing that elusive electorate, not realizing that what we need is not to be chased but to be led. We need brave, honest and committed women and men who possess the courage to speak out against the mob(mentality), call out injustices and perhaps most importantly dare to imagine, voice and create a new and shared vision of a future that reflects the dreams of a bigger, more global community.
We know they are out there these would-be leaders. All we have to do is vote for them!
So if you listen carefully, you will hear the pitter-patter of elections coming your way; they are local, they are national, they are close by and far away. This is the time to discuss, to challenge, to question; ourselves, each other and our politicians. Who are we, what are our values, who do we want to be? There is no time like the present to put our money where our mouth is - on small changes and seismic events - in order to show future generations that we did more than shake our heads and turn away.
Welcome back! Let us pay attention. It matters and it’s going to be exciting!
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We are also very excited to be able to offer a list of wonderful events at the shop this Fall season.
We hope you will find a talk, a concert or a book launch to inspire you! Check out our events to meet some of the inspiring speakers and performers we look forward to welcoming.
As always, we welcome your ideas, questions and thoughts and we look forward to seeing you at the shop, here on the website, on Facebook and on Instagram!
Kind regards,
Isabella & the staff of Books & Company
Today, as we bid farewell to Kofi Annan, I think back with immense gratitude to that day in March of 2013 when he graced our little corner of the world with his ever gracious, always thoughtful and sharply intelligent presence. Thank you sir, for this and for your service to the United Nations and beyond.
Photos courtesy of Anne Prytz Schaldemose.
A summer like this with sweltering temperatures across Europe calls for icy chills courtesy of some of your favorite writers.
Click on the victim above for a selection of : "Books that have profoundly scared me when I read them — made me want to sleep with the light on, made the neck hairs prickle and the goose bumps march".
- straight from the pages of The New York Times Book section.
Happy reading!
We are very excited to be joining our friend, cookbook author and frequent Books & Company speaker Trine Hahnemann at her new inspiring space for a very special book talk on Friday, March 16 @ 7pm.
Guest speaker and bestselling author Mark Forsyth will be discussing his latest book, A Short History of Drunkenness, which traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way.
It will be an evening of drinks, snacks and talk….but mainly drinks; cocktails by expert mixers from Balderdash, the legendary cocktail bar, fine wines by Osterreich Wine and beer from organic brewery Herslev Bryghus.
There will, of course, also be an opportunity to purchase signed copies of Mark Forsyth’s books which aside from the evening’s book includes The Etymologicon, The History of Eloquence and many more titles on history, tradition and the stories behind it all.
So join us for what promises to be an unforgettable (depending on number of drinks) evening by booking tickets at hahnemannskoekken.dk
Hello and welcome to 2018!
Much has been and will surely continue to be said of 2017, but only time and perspective will allow historians to truly judge the events set in motion and the individuals responsible.
For now, most of us can probably agree that the year was notable in large part for its surprising and often unpredictable choices, declarations, movements and disclosures.
History has seen better years, but it has also seen much worse and the stroke of midnight offers, as always, an opportunity to hit refresh, learn from past experiences and carry with us across the finish line the good while leaving behind the bad.
The most serious danger posed by 2017 was the sense of impending dread and doom that covered us like a heavy blanket threatening to suffocate us with negativity and growing cynicism. Disappointment in our fellow men and women began to eat away at core values we hold dear and which are part of the makeup of any successful society: trust, respect and the belief in the goodness of others.
Fortunately, we are not yet too far down the rabbit hole to turn back, undo, start over and refresh. We can and must shift focus to the positive, to the fact that most people - by far - are good, want to do good and that good (perhaps even great) leaders are in our future and can indeed lead the way to a more inclusive, more tolerant and brighter year ahead.
That’s the beauty of a new year!
At Books & Company we would like to start the new year by thanking you for the old. As always, we are overwhelmed by and greatly appreciate your support and commitment to a small bookshop in Hellerup. We love the conversations, the shared stories and the laughs that make our days so bright, interesting and full of hope.
Thank you for loving books - and our company!
Happy New Year!
Isabella and the staff of Books & Company
Welcome back!
We hope you enjoyed the boat rides and the bike rides; the beaches and the bazaars, the sunshine AND the rain. We hope you took lots of naps and read lots of books. We did (napped AND read) - and you can catch our reviews online in the next few weeks.
There are as many ways to spend a summer as there are people, but one thing most experiences have in common is the opportunity to step back and reflect; on our choices and our voices, on elections and selections; on how we live our lives and spend our days.
So often it is the books and articles we find time to read - the ones crowding our bedside tables waiting for summer to roll around - that offer new opportunities for reflection.
Our favorites make us question “the slippery slopes” of life - the habits and patterns we have unwittingly fallen into - and the best of such pieces strike that fine balance of simultaneously making you smile, cringe and think twice - all in the short span of a column and a cup of coffee.
One such article is David Brooks’ The Golden Age of Bailing published in The New York Times in July. We encourage you to read, smile (maybe cringe a bit) and consider whether this sounds familiar:
“All across America people are deciding on Monday that it would be really fantastic to go grab a drink with X on Thursday. But then when Thursday actually rolls around they realize it would actually be more fantastic to go home, flop on the bed and watch Carpool Karaoke videos. So they send the bailing text or email: “So sorry! I’m gonna have to flake on drinks tonight. Overwhelmed. My grandmother just got bubonic plague.…”
Enjoy!