Reviews

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.

In You Can Escape a Crazy Man But Not Hide From a Society – 10 Years after Utøya, Ali Esbati documents his first-hand experiences of the mass shooting on the Norwegian island of Utøya, and the ominous political and cultural atmosphere that pervaded before and after it.

While the War Is Ongoing There Is No Reconciliation is a collection of articles published in Sweden and Finland over the past two years by Anna-Lena Laurén, Russian correspondent of sixteen years.

William Älgebrink's The House at the End of the Pärl River is a thriller-horror story about a search for blood.

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.