Books

Love, olives and thyme

Anna Bergenström

Pelles nya kläder

Elsa Beskow

Pelle has a lamb whose coat grows longer and longer, while Pelle’s Sunday suit grows shorter! Pelle shears the lamb, and the wool is carded, spun, dyed and woven. Finally, the tailor makes a new suit for Pelle.

The Strangler’s Honeymoon

Håkan Nesser

The police fear that a serial killer is on the loose in Maardam. When the retired Superintendent Van Veeteren reluctantly leaves his cosy secondhand bookshop – to be confronted, as a private investigator, with yet another violent criminal – he uncove…

Essays of Nature

Harry Martinson

Blackwater

Kerstin Ekman

On Midsummer’s Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she stumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder–a…

The Self-Healing Human

Sanna Ehdin

This is the Bible of holistic medicine in Sweden and has sold over 200 000 copies! It is thought-provoking, written in a personal style and offers many suggestions for what to do to feel better, including practical exercises in relaxation and self-kn…

Flowering Nettles

Harry Martinson

FLOWERING NETTLES is commonly regarded as Harry Martinson’s masterpiece of prose and is, still today, an exceptionally upsetting reading experience. The story of the parish boy Martin Tomasson and his fate as a child onon the farms where he is accomm…

The Weeping Girl

Håkan Nesser

Håkan Nesser’s astonishingly successful Van Veeteren series continues with the eighth book, THE WEEPING GIRL.Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . . .A community is left reeling after a teacher – Arnold Maager – is convicted of murdering hi…