Reviews

Mikael Niemi’s second work for adults comprises nineteen tales, linked through setting, themes and narrative voice, and described by the author as science fiction. 

Addressing an audience at the Gothenburg Book Fair in September 2004, Ellen Mattson described Splendorville, her sixth book, as a story of sorrow and loss.

In Jacqueline Karp's first full collection of poetry, she discovers the cultures of Berlin, the Czech Republic, the Baltic States, Poland and, above all, Sweden, sharing her personal reactions to sights, sounds and tastes. 

Marie Hermanson's sixth novel is, as she freely admits in a recent interview, “a novel about characters who we cannot sympathize with.”

Karin Brunk Holmqvist’s novel has great potential to be funny and heart-warming, but unfortunately stumbles in predictability. 

This is Kjell Eriksson’s sixth detective story to feature Detective Inspector Ann Lindell and her Uppsala colleagues, and as with the previous novels it is a combination of police procedural and psychological study. 

Per Olov Enquist once more explores Europe’s struggles for enlightenment, in a daring novel whose writing is elegantly truffled with pieces of research made personal by allusive writing.

Inger Edelfeld's finely observed novel offers a portrait of a psychologist paralysed by shock and grief after the sudden, premature death of her beloved partner Yannis.

Many critics were won over by Carina Burman's period detail and the sheer exuberant cheek of The Streets of Babylon.

On the surface, Christina Bergil's novel is an intriguing and mysterious book that follows “The Wolf Man” - Sigmund Freud’s most famous case.

‘They were white underpants, of very fine quality.’ This is the concise and powerful first sentence of Majgull Axelsson’s new novel, The Woman I Never Was. And it resonates throughout the story.

With the 1946 novel This side of the sky, Stina Aronson set out to explore new territory in Swedish literature, giving voice to a landscape and a population of Finnishspeaking Swedes in the far north. 

Established novelists Lars Ardelius and Carin Svensson have written a historical novel chronicling the fortunes of a family of seventeenth-century French-speaking Walloons from the southern part of Belgium who emigrate to Sweden.