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.

Bengt Ohlsson’s novel is remarkably expressive, with powerful descriptive writing.

Ernst Brunner's novel documents the planning, execution and aftermath of a thrilling art raid.

Åsa Linderborg's autobiographical work has been hailed as a classic of the growing-up genre so central to Sweden’s literary canon.

Jerker Virdborg’s novel might better be called a reading experience, written by a cinematographer.

Inger Edelfeldt combines her fascination with fantasy with a serious concern for the psychological and social pressures of the teenage years.

Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s second full-length novel is aimed exclusively at the internet generation.

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.