Reviews

Socially aware and experimentally inclined.

Stockholm medical academia provides a neat setting for this sensitive, educated, music-loving female detective.

The compelling strangeness of a world virtually humming with suppressed secrets and on the brink of collapse.

A singular collection of poetry in which the present is conveyed through the presence of the past.

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.

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

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.

A fascinating blend of fiction and historical fact embracing classicist aesthetics, rumbustious lowlife and Enlightenment political thought, it draws the reader into an enthralling world of intellectual hedonism.

The theme of social class, which has emerged so strongly in works by Susanna Alakoski and Eija Hetekivi-Ohlsson, is to the fore in Olsson’s novel, too.

What’s most important: to remember correctly or to find the correct words?