Reviews

Åsa Larsson’s third crime novel dealing with Rebecka Martinsson.

The stage is set for the sixth Annika Bengtzon novel by Liza Marklund, in which our heroine finds herself in the murky world of cutting-edge medical research, where the financial and academic stakes are huge, and mutual suspicion and back-stabbing are the norm.

Roland Poirier Martinsson gives us a biography of the elusive Archimedes.

Mikael Niemi takes a genre and plays with it.

Agneta Pleijel's historical novel, set in the eighteenth century, is a study in childbirth.

Kjell Westö’s epic novel spans the early twentieth century and a volatile period of Finland's history.

Lars Bergquist's detailed and authoritative book is essential reading for anyone interested in Swedenborg.

Staffan Bruun wanted to write about “the worst thing that could happen to a mother-in-law’s dream”, and in this novel he has succeeded admirably.

This historical novel from Carina Burman concerns the doings of a group of Swedes in Rome.

Fabian Kastner's experimental novel is rooted in the tradition of Perec, Borges, Gombrovicz and Thomas Pynchon.

The Lindström brothers' well argued and researched book will appeal to students and others who enjoy reading Scandinavian history beyond the traditional fare of marauding Vikings.

In Lotta Lundberg's impressive and disturbing novel, a quartet of dwarves and midgets attempts to exchange the freak-show circuit for a place to live and work with dignity.

Fredrik Lång has an impressive academic record in the natural sciences, mathematics, philosophy and history. My Life as Pythagoras, unlike his earlier novels, almost sinks with the sheer weight of the interesting things he has got to say. 

Henrik Nilsson is a poet, literary critic and radio journalist from Malmö, and Nätterna,Verónica is his prose debut. What he has given us is a collection of short stories set in Lisbon, a city he clearly knows and loves. 

Sara Stridsberg has written a freely structured fantasy novel based on the real-life character of Valerie Solanas (1936-1988), the American radical feminist author who achieved notoriety in 1968 by shooting Andy Warhol.

Northern Constellations offers readings selected to uncover previously neglected aspects and contexts of individual creations and collective environments alike.

This wonderful book of Tranströmer poems has much to teach other translators in its immense concentration and daring accuracy.

Svensson has produced a fascinating picture of the upper classes in Sweden, and of Swedish attitudes towards Germany in the decades leading up to World War II.