Reviews

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.

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

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 influence of English crime fiction on Maria Lang’s novels is obvious: the closed circle of suspects, suspense, and the solution reached through use of the little grey cells with pipe-smoking as inducement to concentration.

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

A fine piece of investigative authorship.

A shadowy, treacherous epoch, when Europe stood on the brink of war and a dark cloud of fear and intrigue – both personal and political – hung over the continent like an impending plague of locusts.

Söderlind has taken her inspiration from a dark but horrifyingly real chapter in the history of Ångermanland. The plot revolves around Stake Mountain, a hill on which 71 local women, sentenced to death for witchcraft, were beheaded and burnt in the 1670s.

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.

‘Madness’ is not just an idea, but rather the essence of the book.

The quiet underdog with hidden qualities, a loser suddenly finding that he or she can make a difference in a situation where former tormentors now have to rely on him or her.

‘Judaism is a humanity unto itself – as diverse and heterogeneous as all of humanity on our planet.’

A readable, fascinating journey into politicised crime, set in a past that feels both distant and very close.