Henning Koch

It is surprising to learn that we now readily accept the presence of mallards, swans, cormorants, mandarin ducks, tufted ducks, goldeneye and a host of other species, all of which were wholly unknown in urban or built-up areas a hundred years ago.

Bodström has an acute understanding of the war of attrition fought between politicians and the media.

This is not some lurid tale of a serial killer, but an examination of what happens when complex social structures such as the legal system or healthcare fall prey to enthusiastic or misguided professionals. This book bites back at the therapists, police and lawyers who for some reason viewed this patient – Sture Bergwall, also known as Thomas Quick – as a professional battleground.

As we move smoothly and cinematically between locations, we sense that a secondary purpose of the author is to muddy the division between autobiography and fiction. Even our own lives are stories, after all, in which we figure as the heroes. Can anyone know this better than a filmmaker?

In our current civilisation almost defined by personal mobility, how should one define a writer in exile?

Peter Törnqvist's first novel is an intellectual and urban work speculating upon the world from oblique and baroque angles.

Birgitta Stenberg has written an inventive autobiographical hybrid which subverts the genre.

Jonas Gardell’s project to define 'a possible Jesus'.

Lars Sund’s latest novel will provide book circles everywhere with endless hours of fun and games, and they will be amply rewarded, for this is the work of an unusually gifted novelist writing with confidence, playfulness and subtlety.

Per Wästberg’s biographical novel of one of Carl Linné’s most inscrutable apostles.

Mikael Timm's portrait of Ingmar Bergman through his work.

What sets Dick Harrison and Kristina Svensson's book apart from many Viking studies is its detailed use of archaeology – in many cases a more reliable source of information than the Icelandic sagas.

The facts in Bengt Jangfeldt’s biography of Vladimir Majakovsky are remarkable: until this book came along we never actually had them.

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

Fabian Kastner's experimental novel is rooted in the tradition of Perec, Borges, Gombrovicz and Thomas Pynchon.

The Lindström brothers' well argued and researched book will appeal to students and others who enjoy reading Scandinavian history beyond the traditional fare of marauding Vikings.

The growth of filmic art is interestingly if at times slightly arbitrarily explored in this companion text to the exhibition of the same name at Bonniers Konsthall art gallery.

Henrik Nilsson is a poet, literary critic and radio journalist from Malmö, and Nätterna,Verónica is his prose debut. What he has given us is a collection of short stories set in Lisbon, a city he clearly knows and loves. 

In his Blood on the Snow, Bondeson has set out to provide a round-up of the conspiracy theories, as well as a reassessment of the actual police investigation into the murder of Olof Palme.

Zvonimir Popović's novel is a poetical work that forms a strong and complex picture of the Yugoslav experience while at the same time reaching beyond particularities of time and place.

All Wild is deceptive – a work of autobiography far greater than the sum of its parts. 

This book is something very unusual – a genuinely witty piece of self-deprecating autobiography. It is also an exploration of the obsessive tendencies of collectors, the mentality of island dwellers, and a biographical peek at the obscure life of celebrated entomologist and erstwhile sable farmer René Malaise.