Nichola Smalley

Johannes Anyuru's novel, a searing warning about a possible future, frames a strong message in breathtaking prose.

Khemiri is known for his ironically self- referential approach to writing.

It’s a kind of community rarely portrayed in literature.

Haridi grapples with tricky subjects such as mental illness and urban poverty from a child’s skewed perspective.

One should expect nothing less from a press born of the short-lived magazine Const Literary (P)review.

The playfulness thinly veils a more serious message – the lack of status afforded to education and learning in modern society.

A collection of texts that offer possible solutions to apparently insurmountable problems.

This prose poem turns a mirror on the life of a family, a society, and a human being, and in doing so, makes the reader see the world in a different way.

Personalities as varied as Greta Garbo, Linnaeus and Goethe; a disastrous Nobel Prize ceremony, desperate rides in stolen cars, the snow-covered roads of the Arctic Circle.

Love and multiculturalism in Finland in the early twenty-first century.

Renowned for his vivid imagery and soul-searching portrayals of contemporary urban life in Sweden, poet and author Johannes Anyuru returns with an intensely personal tale of suffering and determination.

Arra has never spoken a word, but has learnt to recognise and sing all the songs of the trees and the river.

Urban fantasy with a distinctly Nordic flavour.

The reader eavesdrops on a nocturnal phone conversation with a friend, in which the events of the day slowly unfold.

Four individual narratives wind through the cold, technologically-mediated world of today’s youth.

In Anneli Jordahl's Like the Dogs in Lafayette Park, a Swedish woman obsessed with class-related injustice finds inspiration in the work of the Black Panther movement.

The third book in Kristina Ohlsson’s series of crime novels centred on a police team in Stockholm.

A curated list of recent gems in Swedish-language literary fiction, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.

A curated list of recent highlights in narrative non-fiction, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.

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

A curated list of recent highlights in picture books and chapter books for young readers, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.

Celebrating Women in Translation Month, with a selection of writers and works presented in translation on Swedish Book Review.