Agnes Broomé

That magical, belly-flipping fizz of first love.

Her Stockholm is cold, exposed and lonely, and her protagonist and narrator more often than not wanders the streets alone, rejected by both lovers and society.

The compelling strangeness of a world virtually humming with suppressed secrets and on the brink of collapse.

Egerkrans reminds us just how frightening these creatures once were and seeks to restore a measure of the darkness and terror they possessed in days of yore.

Söderlind has taken her inspiration from a dark but horrifyingly real chapter in the history of Ångermanland. The plot revolves around Stake Mountain, a hill on which 71 local women, sentenced to death for witchcraft, were beheaded and burnt in the 1670s.

One of the Nordic region’s most interesting writers of youth fiction.

Shines a light on a shamefully ignored chapter of Sweden’s modern history with immeasurable sorrow and intense anger – but also with warmth and love.

Arra has never spoken a word, but has learnt to recognise and sing all the songs of the trees and the river.

Urban fantasy with a distinctly Nordic flavour.

The reader eavesdrops on a nocturnal phone conversation with a friend, in which the events of the day slowly unfold.

Four individual narratives wind through the cold, technologically-mediated world of today’s youth.

The third book in Kristina Ohlsson’s series of crime novels centred on a police team in Stockholm.

A curated list of recent gems in Swedish-language literary fiction, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.

Celebrating Women in Translation Month, with a selection of writers and works presented in translation on Swedish Book Review.