Reviews

Highly conceptual poetry which goes much deeper than mere experimentation.

Tichý carries his prose like a great central European writer of the 20th century.

Svensson creates neologisms and plays with nursery rhymes, children’s stories, pirate lore, and other intertextual references, making her novel intricate and intriguing.

An ambitious exploration of what it means to be human.

‘The problem is the same everywhere: introducing democracy hurts.’

This linked story collection grabs us with its oddity from story one.

These girls hunt with boundless appetite.

Åkerman’s book opens up new perspectives on the queen who had admired Alexander the Great since she was a child, who refused to marry, and who sought to develop intellectual networks abroad.

Socially aware and experimentally inclined.

Stockholm medical academia provides a neat setting for this sensitive, educated, music-loving female detective.

The compelling strangeness of a world virtually humming with suppressed secrets and on the brink of collapse.

A singular collection of poetry in which the present is conveyed through the presence of the past.

Andersson's book is a call to arms against the sterile, anonymous, uniform and ubiquitous ‘grey boxes’ of Finnish modernism.

Outsiders, creativity, challenging boundaries, and finding one’s identity.

A hybrid text combining prose poem, journal, autobiography and travelogue ... ‘words en route’.

Greek has given us many words: democracy, philosophy, logic and poetry. Since the collapse of the country’s economy however, a newer, unhappier vocabulary has sprung up associated with Greece: words like troika, corruption, austerity.

Sara is a believer: she believes passionately in the power of books.

Nordenhök writes with a very sensual and poetic pen that reveals layer after layer of what went on in a family living in pre-war Indonesia.