Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo

Neoscandia is a dystopia set in the future. This graphic novel by Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo and Catherine Anyango Grünewald is a page-turner that merits multiple re-readings and translation.

Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo's works span drama and prose, but always with a poetic touch, and In Transit is no exception.

Young children’s books often feature dragons and princesses, and this one is no exception.

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

Helsinki's last vampire slips like a cat across the rooftops of Finland's capital, with only one wish: to die.
Translated by Sarah Death

On one level a time-travelling murder mystery, on another a meditation on travel, home and rootlessness, Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo’s haunting novel defies standard categorisation.
Translated by Sarah Death

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.

Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo's short, fragmented gem of a novel in which a woman ponders her impossible relationship with a married man, trying to figure out what to do with a love that is not supposed to exist. In a lovely poetic prose that glimmers with dark humour she tries to write her way back to inner strength and her own true self.