Reviews

One of the many triumphs of Steve Sem-Sandberg's narrative is that it shows how the mechanics of persecution operate within a society of the persecuted.

Fans of the Persepolis graphic novels will surely be charmed by Marjaneh Bahktiari's feisty young female characters.

Aris Fioretos has written a wry meditation on human identity, loss and longing, and what it is to be Greek.

Karolina Ramqvist's gangster girlfriend plays happy homes in a novel highlighting the ease with which women (and men) can slide into a conscience-free virtual reality of glamour and luxury.

Helena von Zweigbergk is an accomplished storyteller, and the problem of this unfortunate family is compelling.

Kerstin Ekman’s first-person narrator, a down-at-heel physician, follows up on a chance encounter with the writer Hjalmar Söderberg by providing him with information on potassium cyanide pills as an instrument of death...

There can be few more appealing places than the Stockholm archipelago on a beautiful summer’s day. In this novel Viveca Sten once again takes the reader into the heart of the community on the island of Sandhamn.

Jonas Gardell’s project to define 'a possible Jesus'.

Tove Jansson’s first ever Moomin comic strip.

Henrik Nilsson's clever and stylish debut novel offers us an exciting, multi-layered tale set in fin de siècle Vienna, in which books are the real heroes and Vatican bankers and Papal conspiracy theories have to take their allotted place in the literary jigsaw.

The unique thing about Mikaela Sundström is the style of her writing. Reading her novel is like meeting a gossipy neighbour after coming back to your home town, who wants to tell you everything about everybody, leaving you amused, confused and quite possibly, misinformed.

This novel confirms Majgull Axelsson’s position as one of Sweden’s most interesting and accomplished contemporary storytellers.

Katarina Mazetti's social-conscience-laced comedy shows that love between two people is not instantly recognisable but can look like just about anything, and human beings are like icebergs, nine-tenths hidden beneath the surface.

Lars Sund’s latest novel will provide book circles everywhere with endless hours of fun and games, and they will be amply rewarded, for this is the work of an unusually gifted novelist writing with confidence, playfulness and subtlety.

Marianne Jeffmar's novel tells the love story of Johan and Brita who meet each other in a vicarage in the northern province of Ångermanland in the 1920s.

Ola Larsmo believes that the novel can be an effective vehicle for tackling painful conflicts, cover-ups and scandals in ‘the recent past.’ His own contribution to the genre is about misogyny and prostitution seen through the eyes of a physician in nineteenth-century Uppsala.

Per Wirtén's journalistic account of maritime adventurer Anders Svedlund's life.

Staffan Bruun's novel, bearing on its cover the description ‘Burt Kobbat on the hunt for a missing Beatles tape’, should find a ready market in the English-reading world, and not only among lovers of contemporary crime fiction.