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Hope Springs Eternal

Karin Wahlberg

It’s the year 1953 and polio is a raging epidemic. Young Ella-Kristin is called upon to leave her nursing education and instead come to help as an intern at the local hospital. She worries about her soon to be fiancé Carl, who is constantly put to th…

Original title: Än finns det hopp

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 22-08-2013

Office Ninja

Lars Berge

OFFICE NINJA is a dry and darkly humorous satire on working life – The Office meets Being John Malkovich. Come along for the ride!On one of the myriad identical floors of a large office complex about 20 minutes outside Stockholm resides Helm Tech, a…

Original title: Kontorsninja

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 01-08-2013

The Living and the Dead in Winsford

Håkan Nesser

One night in November, a woman arrives in Winsford, on Exmoore of southwest England. She settles in with her dog in a remote house on the moor. She doesn’t use her real name, and why she has come to stay remains unclear. She wanders in thorns, fog an…

Original title: Levande och döda i Winsford

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 09-07-2013

The Devil Helped Me

Caroline Eriksson

It was considered a little odd that the beautiful young daughter of a district court judge chose to marry the soft-spoken farmer’s son, Per, who since his father’s death had been living alone with his mother. But Hanna felt he was the right one for h…

Original title: Djävulen hjälpte mig

Series: Swedish Murders

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 27-05-2013

The Emigrants

Vilhelm Moberg

THE EMIGRANTS is the first part of Vilhelm Moberg’s large ‘Emigrant’ epic about Kristina, Karl Oskar, Robert, Arvid and everyone else in the parish of Ljuder. After many years of famine and other hardships in a poverty-stricken Sweden, they decide to…

Original title: Utvandrarna

Series: The Emigrants

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 15-01-2013

House at the Edge of the World

Åke Edwardson

After ten novels featuring Detective Inspector Erik Winter, Åke Edwardson left him lying at the bottom of a swimming pool in a tourist resort in Spain, Nueva Andalucía. We didn’t know if he was dead or alive. But now we know. Erik Winter survived, bu…

Original title: Hus vid världens ände

Series: Winter

Category: Fiction

Pub date: 19-10-2012

The Butcher from Little Burma

Håkan Nesser

The fifth book about the police Gunnar Barbarotti from the town Kymlinge. It is also the first and only book about Ellen Bjarnebo, known as the Butcheress of Little Burma. For personal reasons inspector Gunnar Barbarotti is unfit for work. He is give…

Original title: Styckerskan från Lilla Burma

Series: Barbarotti

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 14-09-2012

GLITTERING

Göran Tunström

Pétur is born on the slope of an Icelandic volcano. His father, Halldór, takes care of him and fills his childhood with tales which Pétur carries with him in his travels around the world as an adult. It’s about longing, saying farewell to life, but a…

Original title: Skimmer

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 10-09-2012