Ian Giles

In his sixth novel Gunnar Ardelius returns to key issues facing young Swedes in the modern world.

Former police officer Anders de la Motte's suspenseful crime novel was nominated Best Swedish Crime Novel Award by the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers.

These short stories may simply be too frightening – or perhaps unnerving – for some readers.

This is the kind of book likely to elicit the attention of gatekeepers in the world of YA fiction.

Journalist Henrik Brandão Jönsson's fourth book is a short history of the Lusophone world that brings together several of the key Portuguese-speaking nations in one volume, providing insight into parts of the world readers may know little to nothing about.

The thriller lives!

A woman is admitted to a secure psychiatric ward claiming she needs to prevent a terrorist attack. In the suspenseful thriller Black sun, Andreas Norman unpicks a white supremacist conspiracy to assassinate the Swedish prime minister.

In a post-apocalyptic dystopian world of the not-too-distant future, the global order as we know it has collapsed. Nattavaara, a strong example of speculative fiction, explores what it takes to survive in the fictional nation of Nordmark in this new era.

A curated list of thrilling page-turners to lose yourself in, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.

A curated list of outstanding fiction for young adults, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.