Reviews

Finland, 1942. Residents returning to the evacuated town of Hanko begin to rebuild their lives, their relationships and the hometown they love in a time of war. Karin Collin’s Where My Heart Is is the last part of a trilogy on Hanko during WW2.

Alva Hedlund's debut work of poetry, Owned, is an intimate and sharp exploration of the inextricability of the self and others. 

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.

A story of watch thefts and information leaks told skilfully from multiple narrative viewpoints. A Thief and a Police Officer is Johan Eriksson's fiction debut.

Set in the late 1970s, Monika Fagerholm’s Nowhere Land/Women in Revolt is a story of creative development and female revolt, with Baader-Meinhof looming in the background. It starts when Alice moves to the suburbs and ends with her becoming a writer.

A pearl from deep in the ocean turns into the moon in this bewitching picture book by Klara Bartilsson.

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.