Reviews

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.

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.

Descending to a basement toilet, he finds the exit locked and wanders subterranean corridors to emerge on the street in a Lund city and university of the 1920s.

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.

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

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

Kadefors’s portrait of a girl outsider in baggy clothes and hoodies, who manages to become a blog fashion icon, raises questions about who has the authority to write about young people.

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?

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.

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

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

Each of the 32 poems in this little volume could have an explication devoted to it.

Written in elegantly simple prose, with just the right degree of 1930s formality in the dialogue, the novel successfully fuses history-as-it-happens with the stories of the individuals leading their lives at this particular juncture.

An atmospheric novel set on the fictional island of Ör, off Ulla-Lena Lundberg’s native Åland Islands, finds this seasoned and much-lauded writer on top form.

A disquieting feeling sets in ... Anything that is mentioned only casually ends up making you scared.

Fagerholm does not tell a story as much as evoke a world.