Reviews

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.

Henning Mankell's outstanding detective continues to perform in this novel, but the real subject matter – the troubled man of the title – is Wallander as a person rather than as a police officer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The second volume in Tim Davys’s planned quartet.

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

When is an autobiography a novel? The question is relevant because Enquist’s book won the 2008 August Prize – in the fiction category.

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

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.

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.