Reviews

We have two different parents: one called Yeltsin, the other Putin.

Saga is a strong female character; it’s a delight to read a novel about a teenage girl who finds her own way and isn’t afraid of being different.

‘Bonsai cats’ are cats which were stuffed into glass vessels as kittens to restrict their physical growth and so become moulded into an unnatural shape at the will of their owners. Human children may, in a comparable way, be brought up forcibly conditioned, in the social bottles adults squeeze them into.

One should expect nothing less from a press born of the short-lived magazine Const Literary (P)review.

Haridi grapples with tricky subjects such as mental illness and urban poverty from a child’s skewed perspective.

It is natural as time passes to re-evaluate our relationship with our late parents.

Alsterdal has been carving out a niche as a writer of page-turners with a political, international flavour.

‘Of course, Stalin wasn’t as perfect as Putin’.

As the pages turn, each successive image zooms out, first to the park, then to the town, countryside, ocean, earth, moon and eventually the solar system.

Öland: ‘A place where a chilly, salty taste forms a membrane, coating and soothing ever-open wounds which will always struggle to heal’.

There are different ways to write about the Holocaust.

A provocative retelling of Roland Paulsen’s study of Sweden’s Public Employment Service.

As in Alejandro Almenábar’s 2001 film ‘The Others’, the encounters with the dead challenge and unsettle our perception of reality.

Nothing is what it seems in Edenborg’s counterfactual historical romance.

The thriller lives!

Readers will surely ponder these perceptive, thought-provoking essays long afterwards.

A comic book with kidnappings, changelings, fortunes sought and happy homecomings.

She has an understanding of environmental chemistry, mathematics and meteorology – but when it comes to people…