Reviews

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 The Smuggler’s Treasure, a young boy visits his grandma on an island in the archipelago and discovers a 100-year-old smuggling mystery that he needs to solve before criminals do.

In To the Trees Ella-Maria Nutti explores the importance of language and culture to a sense of self and a feeling of belonging.

Together since childhood, it is no longer possible for Melvin and his friends to take their bonds for granted, nor assume what those bonds mean for each other anymore in Mikael Berglund’s novel Slush.

Catgirl and Other Stories is a new collection of graphic short stories by Anneli Furmark that brings together evocative illustrations and melancholic humour.

Mats Jonsson's Stina's joik is a moving YA graphic novel about a Sámi woman who used her extreme height to earn money for her family, while never fully living her own life.

Influencers, consumer culture and Meghan Markle writing positive messages on bananas: Liv Strömquist’s graphic novel The Pythia Talks takes on wellness culture and our fear of death.

In Chop Chop: The Story of Brave Earthling Linda Bondestam tells a complex and appealing story about a good-natured robot.

The story of one of the Little Rock Nine, Gloria. In the Shadow of Oppression is co-authored by Gloria Ray Karlmark and Elisabeth Åsbrink.

In An Endlessly Long Spring, translator Lida Starodubtseva proves her mettle on a different side of the creative process.

In her latest book, While We’re Living, Nina Björk deep-dives into the waters of existential philosophy. In seven chapters, she discusses authenticity, identity, meaning, trust, love, time, and reality – impressive topics to tackle.

In Stone in Silk, Mikael Niemi describes a Finnish-speaking northern Sweden set in a period far from the egalitarian social democracy we think of today.

How We Met Your Mother by Kaj Korkea-aho is memoir about a gay male couple and their desire to have a child.