Books

The Shadow on the Stone Bench

Maria Gripe

The Shadow series by Maria Gripe is set in Sweden in the 1910s. It centres on the friendship that the upper-middle-class girl Berta develops with her family’s maid Carolin. Carolin seems to be hiding many secrets she doesn’t like to reveal  – is she…

Original title: Skuggan över stenbänken

Category: Children / Fiction 12-15

Pub date: 25-06-2004

Format: 135 x 215 mm, 384 pages

Billy and The Whistle

Birgitta Stenberg

Original title: Billy och visselpipan

Series: Billy

Category: Children / Picture Books

Pub date: 15-06-2004

The Shadows and the Rain

Håkan Nesser

Viktor Vinblad was hard to understand. He sang the Psalms back to front and his parents killed each other. At fifteen years of age he was on the way to solving Fermat’s riddle but fell out of the window on the second floor at school. He did not die b…

Original title: Skuggorna och regnet

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 14-05-2004

Fräs, den lilla panterkatten

Isabelle Halvarsson

Original title: Fräs, den lilla panterkatten

Category: Children

Pub date: 06-04-2004

Pelle meets an engineer

Jan Lööf

It’s two o’clock, Pelles’ mom will be home in an hour. Should he make the most of the time and finish cleaning his room? He starts with the railway tracks, but barely has time to pick up the first piece before a voice tells him to leave it where it i…

Original title: Pelle träffar en lokförare

Category: Children / Picture Books

Pub date: 26-03-2004

Format: 36 pages

Sex for Guys

Manne Forssberg

It can be extremely difficult for a teenage boy to get hold of decent information about sex and love, and this at a time when he has an endless number of questions he wants to ask.Adults are often afraid of raising the subject at all – many have a “L…

Original title: Kukbruk

Category: Children / Children´s Non Fiction

Pub date: 04-03-2004

Format: 176 pages, bl/w illus.

The Dog

Kerstin Ekman

From the author of the highly acclaimedBlackwater comes a beautiful fable exploring the bond between a man and a dog.In the heart of the tranquil countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to eagerly follow his mother and master. But away from the sa…

Original title: Hunden

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 10-11-2003

Format: 133 pages

Billy in school

Birgitta Stenberg

Billy and Lotta wants to go to school. But between them and the school is a big road. How will they get over it?

Original title: Billy i skolan

Series: Billy

Category: Children / Picture Books

Pub date: 31-10-2003