Reviews

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.

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.

Tim Davys’s first book is about Mafia pressure on soft toys.

Katarina Mazetti is well known in Sweden for her humorous novels and short stories. Her fiction is hilarious, often bordering on the farcical.

Lena Andersson has written a diabolical satire about cravings, mass paranoia and mechanisms of control in a society that calls itself democratic.

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.

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.