Reviews

Julia Dahlberg’s debut novel is a multi-dimensional narrative, a modern skärgårdsroman (skerries novel).

Eva Ström's novel takes risks by trying to examine how the unexplainable can feel as real and important as reality.

The tension is ratcheted up in Liselott Willén's well-crafted psychological drama, which is anything but a police procedural, and written in language with real savour.

Poems reworking the literary history of the sonnet from Shakespeare to Auden and beyond, echoing with intertextual references to other underworld travellers.

A comprehensive selection of Martinson’s poetry in English translation.

After poetry collections and a first novel, Moodysson trained as a film-maker; this further novel marks his return to prose writing.

Dedicated amateur botanists Ekman and Eriksson provide a unique mixture of curiosity and enthusiasm, science and scholarship, with the addition of an acute awareness of cultural and environmental change.

A definitive collection of Harriet Löwenhjelm’s idiosyncratic, fascinating poetry, illustrated with her own paintings and drawings.

The final book in Jens Lapidus’s gangster crime trilogy.

Göran Persson could see no reason for Sweden to be ashamed of anything it did during the war. Klas Åmark’s book is in every way a contribution to greater knowledge and vigorous debate. Those who want a powerful argument in favour of reading this work should consider this brief, simple motive: to find out how right Persson was and, later, how wrong.

Claes de Faire is a journalist turned novelist.

New works by and about the poet and the art of translation.

Grips you by the throat, a great novel that tells you something about la condition humaine – and also a very Swedish one, with links to writers like Vilhelm Moberg and Harry Martinson.

The third book in Kristina Ohlsson’s series of crime novels centred on a police team in Stockholm.

Gedin cares for his subject, but is not restrained: Larsson is shown to be a greater artist and a less consistently agreeable man than his reputation might suggest.

For anyone with a passing interest in the poetry of twentieth-century Europe, this volume is a must-have addition to their collection and with it we are allowed a clear glimpse of Tranströmer looking eye to eye with the very greatest writers of his time.

This little white book is the latest in a series of several works by Lotass that straddle the boundaries of genre.

Peter Törnqvist's first novel is an intellectual and urban work speculating upon the world from oblique and baroque angles.