Martin Murrell

‘Holy forests, / where every tree within itself / bears a thousand icons, which were not painted by human hand. / See, a vast forest of icons!’

Author Ulf Stark’s and illustrator Linda Bondestam’s illustrated book presents 27 species which no one but their creators has ever seen – in splendid colors and with ingenious rhymes.

What do Emily Dickinson and Marilyn Monroe have in common?

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

‘Bonsai cats’ are cats which were stuffed into glass vessels as kittens to restrict their physical growth and so become moulded into an unnatural shape at the will of their owners. Human children may, in a comparable way, be brought up forcibly conditioned, in the social bottles adults squeeze them into.

Each of the 32 poems in this little volume could have an explication devoted to it.

A collection of Andersson’s reflections on his experiences while translating James Joyce.

The suspense grows and there is nothing for it but to read on.

Eva-Stina Byggmästar's poems are about the joy of writing poetry, of being a poet, of what poetry is and means.

Staffan Bruun's novel, bearing on its cover the description ‘Burt Kobbat on the hunt for a missing Beatles tape’, should find a ready market in the English-reading world, and not only among lovers of contemporary crime fiction.

A curated list of thought-provoking recent poetry collections, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.

Kjell Espmark's fifteen stories (or quasi-letters) form a chain of psychiatric case-studies.

Ninni Holmqvist’s novel is set in the future, in Sweden, in a society where politics are driven by the forces of economic rationalism, and ethical considerations no longer play a role in its institutions.

Staffan Bruun wanted to write about “the worst thing that could happen to a mother-in-law’s dream”, and in this novel he has succeeded admirably.