Irene Scobbie

National values always have a geographical and historical context: there is no immutable core of ‘Swedishness’, but a series of changing conceptions and expressions reacting to outside factors. This study examines how these key expressions have influenced Sweden’s development.

Now Masha, Tolstoy’s favourite child, comes into focus, completing the Russian triptych.

Readers will surely ponder these perceptive, thought-provoking essays long afterwards.

The influence of English crime fiction on Maria Lang’s novels is obvious: the closed circle of suspects, suspense, and the solution reached through use of the little grey cells with pipe-smoking as inducement to concentration.

This collection of short stories, awarded the Yle literary prize, comprises a series of portraits set in the 1950s–80s, and many of the characters are Finnish parents still suffering from the after-effects of the wars with Russia, or the next generation reared by such parents.

Åsheden examines her material again and publishes her account of events, hoping to lift the curse still hanging over Holmér’s name.

Torsten Pettersson's first work of crime fiction.

The second volume of Torsten Pettersson's planned crime trilogy.

Elisabeth Rynell captures the mystical mood of her earlier novels – the wonder of the awe-inspiring scenery, the changing seasons – with the quality of legend.

Together with Mankell and Nesser, Åke Edwardson represents the best in modern Swedish crime fiction.

P.C. Jersild's memoirs take us through his medical training and his subsequent career.

Åsa Larsson’s third crime novel dealing with Rebecka Martinsson.

The influence of English crime fiction on Maria Lang’s novels is obvious: the closed circle of suspects, suspense, and the solution reached through use of the little grey cells with pipe-smoking as inducement to concentration.

The influence of English crime fiction on Maria Lang’s novels is obvious: the closed circle of suspects, suspense, and the solution reached through use of the little grey cells with pipe-smoking as inducement to concentration.

Sara Stridsberg has written a freely structured fantasy novel based on the real-life character of Valerie Solanas (1936-1988), the American radical feminist author who achieved notoriety in 1968 by shooting Andy Warhol.

Svensson has produced a fascinating picture of the upper classes in Sweden, and of Swedish attitudes towards Germany in the decades leading up to World War II.

This is Åke Edwardson’s seventh novel featuring his Gothenburg detective Erik Winter, and like the other six in the series, it is strong on plot. 

This rich, thought-provoking novel introduces convincing Chinese and Western characters and places them against momentous political events of the twentieth century.