Reviews

Malin Lindroth’s Another Doctor Glas is a feminist take on the classic 1905 Swedish novel by Hjalmar Söderberg.

In his book Just Don’t, Johan Anderberg puts forward the argument of biding one’s time in the crucial moments.

Ted Forsström and Åsa Lucander’s Stiven is a charming picture book about a very hungry cat.

Body Double is a chilling and exciting book that makes the reader question what actually has happened.

An engaging blend of realism and ghost story reminiscent of Maria Gripe, Kristina Sigunsdotter's The Bear Spring is a story with many layers.

Originally published in 1980 to great acclaim, Antti Jalava’s Asphalt Flower is something of a Sweden Finn classic. It views Stockholm through the eyes of Erkki, an aspiring author and second-generation immigrant from Finland.

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.

In her latest book, While We’re Living, Nina Björk deep-dives into the waters of existential philosophy. In seven chapters, she discusses authenticity, identity, meaning, trust, love, time, and reality – impressive topics to tackle.

In Stone in Silk, Mikael Niemi describes a Finnish-speaking northern Sweden set in a period far from the egalitarian social democracy we think of today.

How We Met Your Mother by Kaj Korkea-aho is memoir about a gay male couple and their desire to have a child.

Karolina Ramqvist’s The First Book weaves through different tenses and times, interlacing stories like sections of a long braid. There are many lenses through which one could read it, and Ramqvist never sticks to just one.

Twelve poems for young readers by Barbro Lindgren, I’d Like to Be a Tree encourages young readers to connect with nature.

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.