Reviews

Bestselling author Majgull Axelsson's new novel, about "a mother who isn't a mother", runs the gamut from thriller to romance and readily retains the reader’s attention throughout.

The work of Gösta Ågren holds a special place in Finland-Swedish – and Swedish and Finnish – literature. This collection brings together many of his works from the past 60 years.

Ulrika Knutson's fascinating, vibrant biographical narrative explores the life of Elin Wägner, one of Sweden's most important writers of the early 1900s.

The most recent work by veteran Swedish author Agneta Pleijel is an engaging novel centring on the real-life meeting in 1969 between Agatha Christie and the Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka

In Tullias värld, Kerstin Ekman sets out with grace, inventiveness and often anger to shed light on the hidden lives of the women of Ancient Rome.

'I was born ready to flee.' Elisabeth Åsbrink's genre-bending book portrays three generations of women against the background of Jewish diaspora history.

In the middle-grade novel Lindormars land, Frida Nilsson writes about the need and desire for love and about the difficult choices we sometimes have to make.

Pooneh Rohi's melancholy, haunting novel affords a penetrating insight into what it means to have a composite identity formed by different, conflicting cultures, and how that condition can affect one’s life choices.

Sara Stridsberg's moving book for children echoes her award-winning adult novel, The Gravity of Love, and is gorgeously illustrated by Sara Lundberg.

A love triangle between three people and three Scandinavian capitals is the subject of Johanna Frid's debut novel.

Journalist Helena Trus writes about her grandmother’s experiences during the Holocaust – a reflection on the trauma of persecution and war through the generations.

Everyone carries misery with them. In her debut YA novel stand-up comedian Melody Farshin uses snappy imagery and inventive metaphor to make this book far from miserable.

Linnea Axelsson’s prize-winning epic poem told from multiple perspectives involving two different families over the course of a century.

Kolbjörn Guwallius’s debut novel is a timely tale that takes us into the world of hate sites and alternative media, set against the backdrop of the 2018 Swedish election.

Author Svab and illustrator Bergebo explore the bewilderment and disorientation of life as a refugee from the perspective of five-year-old Hala.

In Broderier, Burcu Sahin creates an uncompromising verbal tapestry that is both a record of her personal experience and memory but also a shared testimony.

Toninho de Lima was plucked from poverty in Rio to play one of the street children in Swedish director Arne Sucksdorff’s award-winning 1965 film My Home is Copacabana. His daughter, journalist and editor Anna de Lima Fagerlind, tells the story of his journey.

An impressive novel by Sami Said that entertains, provokes and moves in equal measure.