Books

Notes from a Summer Cottage

Nina Burton

From the 2016 August Prize for Non-Fiction winner comes a beguiling and in many ways exceptional nature memoir, an homage to the natural world around us.What begins with a renovation of Nina Burton’s summer cottage, swiftly turns into an exploration…

Original title: Livets tunna väggar

Category: General Non-Fiction / Essays

Pub date: 15-09-2020

Children Who Have Changed the World

Jenny Strömstedt

Seventeen children who in various ways have made the world a better place. Such as Louis Braille who invented Braille, Margaret Knight who invented all sorts of things (and had to fight in court for her patents), Liam Hannon who made sandwiches for t…

Original title: Barn som förändrat världen

Category: Children / Fiction 9-12

Pub date: 14-09-2020

Format: 184 x 247 mm, 160 pages

Sonja and the Hat Split

Måns Gahrton

A beautiful and thought-provoking story about divorce and finding your place in a new family constellation. Sonja alternates living with Mummy one week and Daddy the next. Both places are nice but in different ways. When autumn comes Daddy brings out…

Original title: Sonja och skilsmössan

Category: Children / Picture Books

Pub date: 14-09-2020

Format: 195 x 260 mm, 32 pages, colour

The Five Demons

Ola Lindholm, Johan Lindqvist

From time immemorial there have been criminals and there have been heroes who have fought criminality and stood up for justice. Twelve-year old Sam has been trained to be one of the world’s strongest and cleverest agents. Together with Kung Pow maste…

Original title: Kung Pow. De fem demonerna

Series: King Pow

Category: Children / Fiction 9-12

Pub date: 09-09-2020

Format: 148 & 210 mm, 160 pages, b&w illustrations

35 Socks

Maja Karlsson

Experienced knitting book writer and designer Maja Karlsson’s new book is full of socks that will kickstart your desire to knit – everything from the simplest beginner’s sock to more advanced patterns. The descriptions and diagrams are easy to follow…

Original title: Trettiofem sockor

Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction / Crafts & Hobbies

Pub date: 08-09-2020

Format: 170x260 mm, 208 pages

The Theft

Josefine Sundström

This story is about a day when Saga wants to paint the landscape outside and ends up trying to solve a mystery in the gardens of her terraced street. Somebody is stirring things up on Sunflower Way, rubbish has been thrown on the ground by the bins a…

Original title: Sagasagor. Läs tillsammans. Stölden

Series: Saga's Stories

Category: Children / Fiction 6-9

Pub date: 04-09-2020

Format: 148 x 210 mm, 48 pages, colour

The Fire

Josefine Sundström

Reading practice for beginners, with Saga Louisa Larsson on Sunflower Way!In the new Read It Together series you will find the best of both worlds. Adults and children take turns to read, the adult reads the main part of the text in lower case letter…

Original title: Sagasagor. Läs tillsammans. Branden

Series: Saga's Stories

Category: Children / Fiction 6-9

Pub date: 04-09-2020

Format: 148 x 210 mm, 48 pages, colour

Odysseus´Boy

Annika Thor

Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, does not have many friends his own age in Ithaca. Most of the time he is at home in the palace, with his mother Penelope and his nanny Eurykleia. He thinks a lot about his father, whom he never got to know. Odysseus went of…

Original title: Odysseus pojke

Category: Children / Fiction 9-12

Pub date: 04-09-2020

Format: 148 & 210 mm, 336 pages, b&w illustrations