Reviews

Saga has just started secondary school when she meets him: the man who is to become her obsession, ‘Stockholm’s most beautiful man’.

How challenging it is to be caught between two – or more – worlds.

Arra has never spoken a word, but has learnt to recognise and sing all the songs of the trees and the river.

Urban fantasy with a distinctly Nordic flavour.

Reality is a manifold concept, but we take it for granted.

An interesting blend of social realism and crime fiction.

A masterly portrayal of small, frightened teenage souls trapped in growing, awkward, sweaty bodies.

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.

Inspired by classic stories and computer adventure games.

New poems, interlaced with older ones – old favourites.

These plays provide a genuinely compelling narrative experience in their own right.

The powerful mixture of fantasy and grim social realism works well in this haunting novel.

Who in their right mind would speak up for a paedophile island?

Handberg's novel hauntingly describes that strange, becalmed yet activity-filled bubble we inhabit between the death and funeral of a parent.

The historical setting of the story is as important as the investigative aspect of it.

A great source of information and an articulate companion to crime fiction as a literary genre.

This book simply had to be reviewed here: not only is this what could quite fairly be described as the definitive book to date on Scandinavian crime fiction in the English language, but it is a work which strongly features the theme of translation itself.

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?