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
The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot
Carl-Johan Vallgren
Spanning almost two centuries, The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot, his Wonderful Love and Terrible Hatred is a thrilling, disturbing and beautiful story, that has sold to over 20 countries. Hercule Barefoot is born…
The Practice of Murder
Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Ekman, former member of the Swedish Academy and one of Sweden’s greatest living crime writers’ latest collection of essays, The Practice of Murder, is a meditation on unresolved issues in the classic Swedish novel, Söderberg’s Doctor Glas. St…
The Worms of Carmine Street
Håkan Nesser
The island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River is probably the most densely populated district in the world. This area is also home to more tales and stories than anywhere else. The Worms of Carmine Street is one of them. It was written dur…
