Reviews

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.

Has Daniel Sjölin produced 'the world’s last novel'?

The five knives become the leitmotif of Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo's novel. One of these knives, which have ornately decorated handles, is carried in a rather unusual place: its blade is tucked into a hymn book which is, in turn, tucked down the back of the young woman’s trousers, causing abrasions on her back.

Mikael Timm's portrait of Ingmar Bergman through his work.

Klas Östergren's novel based on Old Norse tales reimagines the gods as a Mafia-like clan.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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