Snow Angel
Anna-Karin Palm
Snow Angel is a story of realism and magic, set in Stockholm in the mid 1980’s, more precisely in the winter of 1985-86, just before the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. It is a time of darkness and secrets, and Hedvig, a young orphan woma…
Requiem for John Cummings
Bengt Ohlsson
REQUIEM FOR JOHN CUMMINGS is a completely unexpected portrayal of one of rock’s most famous men.His artist name was Johnny Ramone. This is the novel about his life and death.
The Sky Over London
Håkan Nesser
A far-ranging novel about swinging London at the end of the sixties – cleverly set as the division of an inheritance at a dinner party, also in London, but in the early years of the 21st century. The love story, which is central to the novel, goes ba…
Kolka
Bengt Ohlsson
KOLKA is a story about a girl about to become an adult who desperately tries to orient herself in a new environment and is amongst one of the strongest portraits Bengt Ohlsson has ever written.
The Angel House
Kerstin Ekman
At the windy corner of Highway Street and Industrial Road, opposite the Co-operative Stores, stood a lime tree and a large old wooden building. There was a newspaper kiosk too, to be strictly accurate. The lime tree and the building used to talk to o…
City of Light
Kerstin Ekman
Ann-Marie is a middle-aged woman returning from Portugal to the Swedish town in which she grep up in order to sell the old house she has inherited from her father. Memories of the past are everywhere, ensnaring her. She ends up staying in the house,…
The Lonely Ones
Håkan Nesser
A trip behind the Iron Curtain would change their lives forever…It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala. Different circumstances push the three young couples together and, over the course of a few years, they become friends. A summer…
Carpet Dealer Olsson’s Death
Karin Wahlberg