Reviews

Carola Sandbacka’s historical novel focuses on the often neglected details of everyday life during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.

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

Beate Grimsrud’s story about madness and creativity.

Niklas Rådström does justice to Lorenzo da Ponte.

Sara Stridsberg's novel engages in an interesting way with its source material: Nabokov's Dolores Haze (Lolita).

Johannes Anyuru's debut novel takes inspiration from Homer.

Sigrid Combüchen has finally won the prestigious August Prize for this cleverly composed work delving into the details of a ladies’ novel without plunging into the chicklit category.

Bengt Ohlsson bids us believe that our contemporary psychology can shape the future of individuals, as happens in this novel.

Camilla Ceder’s second novel returns to Christian Tell and his team of detectives.

Björn Larsson's satire on the Scandinavian crime fiction wave abounds with meta-fictional allusions.

Leif GW Persson's crime novel draws on his deep knowledge of the Swedish legal system and police procedure.

Niklas Ekdal, like Stieg Larsson, has a background in journalism; and, like Larsson, he uses the thriller genre to criticise aspects of Sweden’s recent history.

Torsten Pettersson's first work of crime fiction.

The second volume of Torsten Pettersson's planned crime trilogy.

A collection of essays on Strinberg edited by Lena Einhorn.

Professor of Slavonic Studies and translator Bengt Jangfeldt's vänbok (notes in remembrance) and portrait of the poet Joseph Brodsky.

A quote from Henrik Berggren explains the drive behind this biography: ‘Checking the newspaper cuttings about Palme, I realised I had found a source referring to much of the history of the twentieth century.’

A YA novel by Sara Kadefors about life as a latchkey kid.