Reviews

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.

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

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?

Essays on entomology.

An interesting blend of social realism and crime fiction.

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

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

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.

This collection of essays contains something for almost everyone with an interest in the overall theme of making expertise matter without favouring technocratic governance.

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.

A witty, metafictional confection combining a thriller plot with many other strands.

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.

Palm concentrates on an area he knows very well: the work of a pathologist specialising in crime victims.

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.

The Agency of the title is a London theatre agency, run by a larger-than-life character called Semolina Pritchard.

A delightful comedy with touches of realism.

An original and humorous novel capturing not only quintessentially Swedish, but also very western phenomena of modern life.

A comprehensive study of the rise of right-wing extremism in Europe by a knowledgeable and brave journalist.