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2009:2

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Issue number: 2009:2

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REVIEW

Struggling Love

Staffan Bruun's novel, bearing on its cover the description ‘Burt Kobbat on the hunt for a missing Beatles tape’, should find a ready market in the English-reading world, and not only among lovers of contemporary crime fiction.

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Jag vill inte tjäna

Ola Larsmo believes that the novel can be an effective vehicle for tackling painful conflicts, cover-ups and scandals in ‘the recent past.’ His own contribution to the genre is about misogyny and prostitution seen through the eyes of a physician in nineteenth-century Uppsala.

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Den falske vännen

Henrik Nilsson's clever and stylish debut novel offers us an exciting, multi-layered tale set in fin de siècle Vienna, in which books are the real heroes and Vatican bankers and Papal conspiracy theories have to take their allotted place in the literary jigsaw.

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De vackra kusinerna

The unique thing about Mikaela Sundström is the style of her writing. Reading her novel is like meeting a gossipy neighbour after coming back to your home town, who wants to tell you everything about everybody, leaving you amused, confused and quite possibly, misinformed.