Reviews

These girls hunt with boundless appetite.

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

An ambitious exploration of what it means to be human.

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

A hybrid text combining prose poem, journal, autobiography and travelogue ... ‘words en route’.

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

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.

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

The journalist Martin Schibbye and the photographer Johan Persson set off from Sweden to investigate the activities of the Swedish company Lundin Oil.

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.

Lindqvist has again produced a history which has drawn on scholarship and excellent narrative technique to portray a past era vividly.

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

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

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

Sara is a believer: she believes passionately in the power of books.

The plot interweaves fact and fiction and introduces a motley crew of real-life characters – including King Carl XVI Gustaf and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt – into the narrative.

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

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.