Reviews

Sven Olov Karlsson's chronicle of rural Sweden.

Ellen Matsson's inheritance story is part psychological drama, part minutely-observed social history, part poetry.

Åsa Moberg has written a remarkable biography of Nightingale that deals with the many aspects of her impressive work, not only her nursing but also her activities as a major feminist.

The protagonist of Malte Persson's historical novel, like a more solemn and scientifically-inclined Mrs. Dalloway, is surrounded by interesting individuals with stories of their own.

The past, the sense of its presence, is scattered through the present of Eva Runefelt's poems.

Per Wästberg’s biographical novel of one of Carl Linné’s most inscrutable apostles.

Robert Åsbacka's novel on the search for art in everyday life, with characters who are ordinary people appreciative of Beckett’s plays and Baroque organ music.

Peter Birro mixes Strindberg’s own works with a biographical account.

Hans Gunnarsson is one of the best chroniclers of contemporary life in Sweden.

Erik Helmersson's debut novel paints a detailed and dramatic picture of Iceland.

Lise Indahl's first novel for young readers is much more than the ghost story it seems at first to be, as the mysteries that unfold all have their explanations in the concrete world and raise serious questions about social reality in contemporary Sweden.

This book brings together plays, short stories and columns by Jonas Hassen Khemiri. The result is linguistic experimentation at its funniest.

Seasoned author Peter Kihlgård is bidding for our attention with an experiment in form.

Björn Larsson's short stories, set in the world of academia, are light-hearted, ironical Tales of the Joys of Discovery.

Henning Mankell’s novel is a fascinating and intriguing murder mystery. But it is also much more than that.

The reader is drawn in by Lars Norén’s warts-and-all portrayal of a sensitive but self-centred artist battling with depression and a mid-life crisis.

A literary confrontation with the fact of the suicide of a boyhood friend in the late 70s, this is the book Niklas Rådström spent thirty years not writing.

Göran Sahlberg's exuberant yet wistful novel with its vivid, tragic-comic account of a very unusual childhood evokes an era when Sweden felt it stood centre-stage in the world.