Reviews

What sets Dick Harrison and Kristina Svensson's book apart from many Viking studies is its detailed use of archaeology – in many cases a more reliable source of information than the Icelandic sagas.

Jessica Kolterjahn's novel is a sustained, understated but moving portrayal of a person, sometimes baffled and sometimes euphoric, exploring her own feelings, sexuality and reactions to the world.

Agneta Pleijel's historical fiction demonstrates elegantly how history can aid maturity through observing and identifying with the humanity of shadowy figures from the past.

Jörn Donner, himself a significant Finland-Swedish author and film expert, has written a biography of one of the more important Modernists that Finland has known: Elmer Diktonius.

The last part of Kjell Johansson’s trilogy about Sweden’s lumpenproletariat during the construction of the welfare state.

The facts in Bengt Jangfeldt’s biography of Vladimir Majakovsky are remarkable: until this book came along we never actually had them.

Anne Swärd’s second novel is a disturbing account of a family blown apart, trying after 20 years to find each other (or perhaps avoid doing so).

Kerstin Ekman’s collection of essays is an adventurous read through literal and literary forests.

The second novel by Emma Juslin, a young Finland-Swedish author.

Susanna Alakoski’s emotionally powerful account, which won the Best Novel category of the August Prize in 2006, gives gut-wrenching insight into the life of the twelve-year-old daughter of alcoholics.

P.C. Jersild's memoirs take us through his medical training and his subsequent career.

Kjell Johansson's second, free-standing part of a novel trilogy about a working class family.

This anthology is one of several books published to mark the centenary of Astrid Lindgren’s birth in November 1907, focusing on her role as one of Sweden’s foremost public campaigners.

Kjell Espmark's fifteen stories (or quasi-letters) form a chain of psychiatric case-studies.

Niklas Rådström's intriguing novel takes a sideways look at the visit of Hans Christian Andersen in 1857 to the home of Charles Dickens.

Jesper Bengtsson paints a rich and well-balanced picture of Myanmar.

The novel created a furore on publication in Sweden, where Bergman vented his displeasure on national television.

Thomas Kanger's novel tells the story of the sudden and unexpected occupation of Korsør in Denmark.