Reviews

In Where Music Comes From, Göran Greider examines the presence of music in our lives.

In her wonderful new picture book, We Have to Have Ketchup! Pija Lindenbaum, tells the story of a camping site problem that captures both a microcosm of contemporary society and the child’s world.

In The Book of Events, Andrzej Tichý uses an unconventional novel to portray the fragmented nature of life experiences.

Elise Karlsson's There is life here tells the stories, dreams, fears and realities of the first residents in the 1970s new-builds in Rinkeby, Stockholm.

In The Organist’s Daughter, Anneli Fichtelius brings to life Swedish-speaking Estonia, lost since the second world war. Set in the 1870s, it is the first novel in a trilogy.

Deep in the Woods is the third novel in Marie Hermanson’s 1920s Gothenburg series, following the policeman Nils Gunnarsson and the journalist Ellen Grönblad in a time of great change for the city.

Johan Persson's debut charts the biggest day in twelve-year-old Ivy’s life: the day she is going to enter a huge painting for her town’s autumn exhibition. But there’s one small problem. The painting is not even close to completion.

Set on the Danish island of Bornholm in 1945, Jens Liljestrand’s Liberation is a historical crime novel that shines a light on a lesser-known part of the second world war.

Agitating, gossiping and saving the children: A group of exceptional women journalists emerge from relative obscurity in Fatima Bremmer’s The Pioneers.

No Truth in Wine by Andreas Grube is a bold, fast-paced crime novel in a completely new genre, Vino Noir, written with great flair and a genuine sense for getting the reader hooked from the first page, and just like with a good wine, wanting more and more.

Enter the strange dystopian world of The Dog Owners and its sequel The Cat Hunters, where dogs are third-class citizens on a mission to reclaim their freedom. And where the human boy Martin is on his own difficult journey to find his father.

If you were ever a young person who tried to find yourself in books, you may identify with the narrator of Mattias Timander’s debut novel, Your Will Is in the Woods. 

Malin Lindroth’s Another Doctor Glas is a feminist take on the classic 1905 Swedish novel by Hjalmar Söderberg.

In his book Just Don’t, Johan Anderberg puts forward the argument of biding one’s time in the crucial moments.

Ted Forsström and Åsa Lucander’s Stiven is a charming picture book about a very hungry cat.

Body Double is a chilling and exciting book that makes the reader question what actually has happened.

An engaging blend of realism and ghost story reminiscent of Maria Gripe, Kristina Sigunsdotter's The Bear Spring is a story with many layers.

Originally published in 1980 to great acclaim, Antti Jalava’s Asphalt Flower is something of a Sweden Finn classic. It views Stockholm through the eyes of Erkki, an aspiring author and second-generation immigrant from Finland.