Reviews

Theodor Kallifatides has given us an affectionate portrait of people who are not afraid of opening their hearts. It is a rare and tender novel.

The past, the sense of its presence, is scattered through the present of Eva Runefelt's poems.

Carina Burman’s witty and thoroughly researched pastiche on Victorian detective stories.

Torbjörn Flygt’s novel inspires admiration for his competence and expertise in handling a complicated narrative.

Åsa Moberg has written a remarkable biography of Nightingale that deals with the many aspects of her impressive work, not only her nursing but also her activities as a major feminist.

Together with Mankell and Nesser, Åke Edwardson represents the best in modern Swedish crime fiction.

Sven Olov Karlsson's chronicle of rural Sweden.

Per Wästberg’s biographical novel of one of Carl Linné’s most inscrutable apostles.

Bo Carpelan's impressionistic description of the life of a small boy from infancy to 13 years of age in 1930s Finland.

Contrary to the conventional police drama, Jan Guillou's novel raises more questions than it answers, not only about the guilt or otherwise of those eventually convicted, but also about the destruction of aspects of democracy by the very processes that are supposed to protect it.

The protagonist of Malte Persson's historical novel, like a more solemn and scientifically-inclined Mrs. Dalloway, is surrounded by interesting individuals with stories of their own.

Erik Andersson's novel takes the reader on an odyssey through the province of Västergötland, aptly compared by one character to the Iowa corn belt in the United States.

This book brings together plays, short stories and columns by Jonas Hassen Khemiri. The result is linguistic experimentation at its funniest.

A literary confrontation with the fact of the suicide of a boyhood friend in the late 70s, this is the book Niklas Rådström spent thirty years not writing.

Klas Östergren's novel based on Old Norse tales reimagines the gods as a Mafia-like clan.

Erik Helmersson's debut novel paints a detailed and dramatic picture of Iceland.

Henning Mankell’s novel is a fascinating and intriguing murder mystery. But it is also much more than that.

The five knives become the leitmotif of Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo's novel. One of these knives, which have ornately decorated handles, is carried in a rather unusual place: its blade is tucked into a hymn book which is, in turn, tucked down the back of the young woman’s trousers, causing abrasions on her back.