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Curated and edited by Darcy Hurford
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Elden och döttrarna. Valda och nya dikter
New poems, interlaced with older ones – old favourites.
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Ondskans pris
The historical setting of the story is as important as the investigative aspect of it.
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Knapptryckarkompaniet. Rapport från Sveriges riksdag
The author’s personal and frankly partisan account of a period as a Member of Parliament.
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Arra. Legender från Lavora
Arra has never spoken a word, but has learnt to recognise and sing all the songs of the trees and the river.
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Blixtslukaren
This picture book for three to six year olds is a welcome addition to any child’s bookshelf but to their parents’ coffee table as well.
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Tolv månader i skugga
As we move smoothly and cinematically between locations, we sense that a secondary purpose of the author is to muddy the division between autobiography and fiction. Even our own lives are stories, after all, in which we figure as the heroes. Can anyone know this better than a filmmaker?
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Det enda könet. Varför du är förförd av den ekonomiske mannen och hur det förstör ditt liv och världsekonomin
Thought-provoking non-fiction on how women are left out of the study of economics and human behaviour, and how this affects human understanding of the world economy.
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Medealand och andra pjäser
These plays provide a genuinely compelling narrative experience in their own right.
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Flodtid
Continues Frostenson’s weaving together of ideas, use of contradictory images, transformations and unpredictable leaps that have made her one of Sweden’s most revered poets.
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Himmel över London
A witty, metafictional confection combining a thriller plot with many other strands.
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Grand final i skojarbranschen
The blurb speaks of ‘a hilarious play on the idea of autofiction’ – and so it is. The story about the famous writer Lillemor Troj is closely based on Kerstin Lillemor Ekman’s own literary career.
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Causa Mortis
Palm concentrates on an area he knows very well: the work of a pathologist specialising in crime victims.
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Pojkarna
This is a novel about gender. It is about coming to terms with the fact that in our society you are sorted into the ‘not powerful’ category of people if you happen to have a female body.
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The Agency Semolina Pritchard Ltd
The Agency of the title is a London theatre agency, run by a larger-than-life character called Semolina Pritchard.