and Piccadilly Circus is not in Kumla
Håkan Nesser
The image engraved itself on my memory like an etching and it have been there ever since. If I had atually taken a photo it could not have been clearer.Signhild in the light, Ester in the dark. The poet Olsson and O Sole Mio in their leathers, ready…
She Who Looked In
Karin Wahlberg
The Choreographer
Håkan Nesser
A man and a woman. He sees her one day when winter is over; somewhat hesitantly she is choosing a dress in a shop. He speaks to her. She answers. Thus they become – guided by an inexorable choreography – a couple.But the story is played out both then…
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…
Engagement
Gun-Britt Sundström
With sales of over 60,000 copies since the relaunch, Engagement is a masterful modern classic that is ever-relevant and ever-fascinating.What is it to be a couple? What responsibilities can one presume, and what can you ask from each other? Time? Sex…
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…
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…
