Henning Koch

It is surprising to learn that we now readily accept the presence of mallards, swans, cormorants, mandarin ducks, tufted ducks, goldeneye and a host of other species, all of which were wholly unknown in urban or built-up areas a hundred years ago.

Bodström has an acute understanding of the war of attrition fought between politicians and the media.

This is not some lurid tale of a serial killer, but an examination of what happens when complex social structures such as the legal system or healthcare fall prey to enthusiastic or misguided professionals. This book bites back at the therapists, police and lawyers who for some reason viewed this patient – Sture Bergwall, also known as Thomas Quick – as a professional battleground.

As we move smoothly and cinematically between locations, we sense that a secondary purpose of the author is to muddy the division between autobiography and fiction. Even our own lives are stories, after all, in which we figure as the heroes. Can anyone know this better than a filmmaker?

A companion text to the exhibition of the same name at Bonniers Konsthall.

In our current civilisation almost defined by personal mobility, how should one define a writer in exile?

Peter Törnqvist's first novel is an intellectual and urban work speculating upon the world from oblique and baroque angles.

Birgitta Stenberg has written an inventive autobiographical hybrid which subverts the genre.

Jonas Gardell’s project to define 'a possible Jesus'.

Lars Sund’s latest novel will provide book circles everywhere with endless hours of fun and games, and they will be amply rewarded, for this is the work of an unusually gifted novelist writing with confidence, playfulness and subtlety.

Per Wästberg’s biographical novel of one of Carl Linné’s most inscrutable apostles.

Mikael Timm's portrait of Ingmar Bergman through his work.

What sets Dick Harrison and Kristina Svensson's book apart from many Viking studies is its detailed use of archaeology – in many cases a more reliable source of information than the Icelandic sagas.

The facts in Bengt Jangfeldt’s biography of Vladimir Majakovsky are remarkable: until this book came along we never actually had them.

Roland Poirier Martinsson gives us a biography of the elusive Archimedes.

Fabian Kastner's experimental novel is rooted in the tradition of Perec, Borges, Gombrovicz and Thomas Pynchon.

The Lindström brothers' well argued and researched book will appeal to students and others who enjoy reading Scandinavian history beyond the traditional fare of marauding Vikings.