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The novel created a furore on publication in Sweden, where Bergman vented his displeasure on national television.

Most of the great women depicted in Nina Burton's book were pioneers in ways that might have led to certain death.

The Linnean system effectively excluded girls from formally studying botany. Ann Granhammer’s novel about the daughter of the great natural scientist can be read as a metaphor for the fate of a whole generation of young women.

Ninni Holmqvist’s novel is set in the future, in Sweden, in a society where politics are driven by the forces of economic rationalism, and ethical considerations no longer play a role in its institutions.

Theodor Kallifatides has produced a novel that is more than an update of the Hercules story.

Thomas Kanger's novel tells the story of the sudden and unexpected occupation of Korsør in Denmark.

Åsa Larsson’s third crime novel dealing with Rebecka Martinsson.

The stage is set for the sixth Annika Bengtzon novel by Liza Marklund, in which our heroine finds herself in the murky world of cutting-edge medical research, where the financial and academic stakes are huge, and mutual suspicion and back-stabbing are the norm.

Roland Poirier Martinsson gives us a biography of the elusive Archimedes.

Mikael Niemi takes a genre and plays with it.

Agneta Pleijel's historical novel, set in the eighteenth century, is a study in childbirth.

Kjell Westö’s epic novel spans the early twentieth century and a volatile period of Finland's history.