The Darkest Day
Håkan Nesser
When family secrets are revealedIt is December in Kymlinge and the Hermansson family gather to celebrate a 105th birthday party – dad Karl-Erik is turning 65, his eldest daughter Ebba, 40. But nothing goes according to plan. On the night before the b…
From Doctor Klimke’s Horizon
Håkan Nesser
In From Doctor Klimke’s Horizon we meet the language teacher who receives a hand written message from a woman who has been dead for thirty years, the author who travels to the city of death and sighs and is drawn into the suicide pact of a pair of lo…
Markings
Dag Hammarskjöld
After Dag Hammarskjöld’s death in September of 1961, a manuscript was found at his residence in New York. It was entitled Markings. In an enclosed letter he called the notes for “a kind of ‘white paper’ concerning my negotiations with myself – and wi…
Gregorius
Bengt Ohlsson
GREGORIUS by Bengt Ohlsson paraphrases Hjalmar Söderberg’s famous novel, Doctor Glas, and tells the story from the novelist Pastor Gregory’s perspective.The book was published in 2004 and won the August Prize the same year.
The Girl with the Cornflowers
Karin Wahlberg
The Shadows and the Rain
Håkan Nesser
Viktor Vinblad was hard to understand. He sang the Psalms back to front and his parents killed each other. At fifteen years of age he was on the way to solving Fermat’s riddle but fell out of the window on the second floor at school. He did not die b…
The Dog
Kerstin Ekman
From the author of the highly acclaimedBlackwater comes a beautiful fable exploring the bond between a man and a dog.In the heart of the tranquil countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to eagerly follow his mother and master. But away from the sa…
The Wolf Skin Trilogy, Part 3
Kerstin Ekman
With THE WOLF SKIN TRILOGY #3 Kerstin Ekman concludes her broad trilogy about the village of Blackwater, which began in 1999 with God’s Mercy and was followed by the second book in 2002. Kerstin Ekman, who turns 70 in August 2003, is one of the most…
