Series:
Mayakovsky
Bengt Jangfeldt
A Life at Stake is a riveting and fascinating portrait of the legendary Mayakovsky, a poet surrounded by many myths. With considerable insight and a light touch, Bengt Jangfeldt describes not only a great but tragic human life, but also an entire era…
The Root of Evil
Håkan Nesser
A friendly vacation with dramatic consequencesOne summer in the early 2000s, a handful of Swedish tourists spend a couple of weeks together in Finistère, Brittany. Two couples and two singletons – in all, six newfound friends. They spend their days s…
The Masters in the Woods
Kerstin Ekman
The forest is a central theme in many of Kerstin Ekman’s novels. There is, for instance, The forest of hours, Dödsklockan [The Death Clock], which is set during moose hunting season, as well as Vargskinnet [The Wolf Skin], which treats the subject of…
April Fool, Sigge
Lin Hallberg
The Sigge books form a series about horses written by Lin Hallberg and illustrated throughout by Margareta Nordquist. Everybody Loves Sigge was awarded a prize by the Book Jury, which is children’s own list of the year’s best books. The books have al…
The Lost City
Jo Salmson
The Lost City is the first volume in a new series of fantasy books by Jo Salmson, making her debut as an author. It’s exciting and eminently readable – as readable as Lasse & Maja’s Detective Agency and as exciting as Narnia. The book contains a weal…
Let´s Go
Jan Lööf
This book is like a wonderful catalogue, where we can revel in clear, solid, imaginative pictures of different forms of transport: submarines, cars that are a heap of junk, houseboats, tractors, helicopters … Jan Lööf is a completely unique illustrat…
The New Arrival
Helena Bross
Frank is about to move house, and it’s his last day at his old school. On Monday he’ll be joining “Class 1b”. He doesn’t know anybody there, and the new school looks so big! What if nobody wants to play with him at break time? And what if their Maths…
Mystery For Extra-terrestrials
Rose Lagercrantz
Rosa Lagercrantz has written a considerable number of children’s books. This is her first mystery – and it’s rather special. The story takes place in the school where Humlan [Bumble Bee], the heroine, is just starting in Class 4. She’s just moved to…
