Reviews

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.

Kellerman’s self-awareness makes the writing both hysterically funny and sharply intelligent, creating a true picture of life as it is lived now.

The central problem of this novel is Greta Garbo: who do we refer to using that name?

Rådström’s God in this Bible does not rule from on high, but is the Writer of the world and, like all writers, wonders at the way his creation tends to slip out of control.

In her sensitive and engaging language, von Bredow lets her protagonist ponder how appearances affect all our relations. Why does everybody seem so false? How can Andreas’s father cheat and pretend everything is normal at home?

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.

This trilogy about Siri, her family and friends provide both exciting reading and critical perspectives on key problems in society today.

Uusma has written a non-fiction text, incorporated some of her own life into it, and given it the form of a thriller.

Bodström has an acute understanding of the war of attrition fought between politicians and the media.

These diary-like collections are distilled versions of her long-running blog and, like the blog, they are illustrated, mainly with her own often quirky and slightly blurred photographs.