Emma Naismith

‘The real world, the one outside, does not want to take her… She refused to obey. They beat her black and blue at the penitentiary but she still did not do what she was told, and they realised in the end that they would have to kill her or send her to hospital. So it was the hospital.'

Martin Engberg's entertaining misadventure explores the themes of knowledge, failure, identity and the stresses of academia.

In Johan Rundberg's The Night Raven, the merciless winter of 1880, an abandoned newborn and a murder all coincide to push eleven-year-old Mika, an orphan, into exploring her past and solving a mystery in the city of Stockholm.

A curated list of compelling historical 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.