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Kristina Sandberg’s monumental trilogy about Maj Berglund, a housewife from the small town of Örnsköldsvik, is a tour de force.

Kristina Sandberg’s monumental trilogy about Maj Berglund, a housewife from the small town of Örnsköldsvik, is a tour de force.

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

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

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

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

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

The thriller lives!

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

Kristina Sandberg’s monumental trilogy about Maj Berglund, a housewife from the small town of Örnsköldsvik, is a tour de force.

‘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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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