Reviews

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.

Among beauty bags and wine bottles lingers a refreshing attitude of acceptance and hope.

Janson explodes dangerous myths, traces a complicated history and reveals linguistic connections that together were, and are, misused by nationalists and racists to invent a past that suited their political objectives.

It was with good reason that the publisher decided to send a copy of the novel to the leaders of all the Swedish political parties.

This is a novel that plays with the genre that has brought Swedish writing international attention, with the crime writer as protagonist, perpetrator and potential victim.

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.

Storytelling is an important motif in this book, which has elements of a fairy tale itself.

This novel examines the life of Queen Victoria from girlhood to dotage. With one difference: it avoids affairs of state almost entirely, instead devoting a section each to Victoria the girl, the wife and the widow.

The thing about each of the tiny exercises in form, however, is the twisted nature of what emerges.

Egerkrans reminds us just how frightening these creatures once were and seeks to restore a measure of the darkness and terror they possessed in days of yore.

This prose poem turns a mirror on the life of a family, a society, and a human being, and in doing so, makes the reader see the world in a different way.