Reviews

Love and multiculturalism in Finland in the early twenty-first century.

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

This novel explores growing up and growing out of childhood certainties, but also the roads to growing into woman amidst the lying and the beauty.

Exceptionally intelligent as well as an intellectual, Donner displays sheer brainpower, which imposes shape, style and interest on the extraordinary miscellanea of his life.

A perfect combination for those wanting to get a grip on their own issues with ‘the system’.

Seldom can we read a spy story of such psychological depth.

The book is very much a meta-novel. Its nine chapters consist of nine parables, corresponding perhaps to the nine leaves torn from the centre of his long-dead father’s poetry notebook. The notebook had recently come into the author’s hands, even though he had long believed that his strongly religious mother had burnt the notebook. To her way of thinking, poetry was sinful. Parables, however, were acceptable.

He has an eye for the little absurdities of life: Helen invites her new work colleague to dinner hoping to pair him up with her friend, but her intentions are thwarted by her own husband getting too enchanted with the guy.

Illustrated in rich swathes of violets, purples and blues, this picture book aims to help young children come to terms with fear of shadows and the dark.

Drawing on the latest research, this volume is a welcome addition to the comparative histories on Scandinavia and the Second World War.

A story of forbidden love and ostracism.

You imagine that, within her, Violencia hosts a continuous never-ending party.

Both prosecutors end up turning to crime to reach their goals.

Arguments as much as works of literature, inviting thought about what illness means to the individual and his/her nearest, as well as presenting, at times obliquely, the issues raised by attempts to organise health care on a massive scale.

A fictional account of the writer and poet Karin Boye’s time in 1930s Berlin.

Personalities as varied as Greta Garbo, Linnaeus and Goethe; a disastrous Nobel Prize ceremony, desperate rides in stolen cars, the snow-covered roads of the Arctic Circle.

The first step of the plan consists of buying a tea plantation in Darjeeling.

A fine piece of investigative authorship.