Eric Dickens

Elise Karlsson's third novel is a stylistically chilly, pared-back reflection on the workings of our present-day society.

There are many intertextual references, usually to European philosophers, and black-and-white illustrations of paintings, landscapes, and photographs, in the spirit of the German novelist W.G. Sebald.

A novel of violence and feelings.

This novel examines the life of Queen Victoria from girlhood to dotage. With one difference: it avoids affairs of state almost entirely, instead devoting a section each to Victoria the girl, the wife and the widow.

A Gothic celebration of the city in the form of a vampire novel.

This little white book is the latest in a series of several works by Lotass that straddle the boundaries of genre.

Jan Mårtenson is a name that could feature alongside the several other Swedish crime novel authors who have gained a reputation in English translation.

Tove Jansson’s first ever Moomin comic strip.

Bo Carpelan's impressionistic description of the life of a small boy from infancy to 13 years of age in 1930s Finland.

The five knives become the leitmotif of Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo's novel. One of these knives, which have ornately decorated handles, is carried in a rather unusual place: its blade is tucked into a hymn book which is, in turn, tucked down the back of the young woman’s trousers, causing abrasions on her back.

Jörn Donner, himself a significant Finland-Swedish author and film expert, has written a biography of one of the more important Modernists that Finland has known: Elmer Diktonius.