Reviews

Although Mankell is best known for his crime novels starring Inspector Kurt Wallander, he also writes many other kinds of books, including novels about Africa. This one explores the nature and legacy of European colonialism.

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

Everything about Linda Olsson’s writing is permeated by nature, gentleness, longing and loving. She makes it personal, drawing you slowly but inevitably into her story, so that you care about the characters, as if they were your own kin.

A captivating, complex novel: Palm paints beautiful images of wintry Stockholm and arouses a palpable impression of the 1980s.

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

The colon in the title ushers the reader into this world, the world of the beautiful but socially inept, and a world made up of triangles.

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

The author is insightful about the quirky by-ways of the mind, knows a lot about science and in particular about viruses.

The suspense grows and there is nothing for it but to read on.

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

In our current civilisation almost defined by personal mobility, how should one define a writer in exile?

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.

This is a nicely illustrated book with funny, colloquial prose, mostly in the form of dialogue. In a charming way it demonstrates that we are all more or less strange.

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

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

A portrait of the poet Tomas Tranströmer.

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

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.