The Bomber
Samuel Bjørk
On a Saturday morning, a woman boards the Oslo metro wearing a suicide vest. The explosion shakes the Norwegian capital. The city is placed under lockdown, the royal family is evacuated to safety, and all emergency units are put on high alert. Journa…
Stig.
Niklas Rådström
“One evening, a few hours after Stig Claesson had passed away, someone from TT called and told me. I was, of course, aware of how ill he had been and that death was near, and yet we are always just as unprepared when it finally arrives. The reporter…
The Moon’s Confidant
Niklas Rådström
The one holding the pen in Niklas Rådström’s The Moon’s Confidant is Lorenzo Da Ponte—librettist for Mozart’s three most famous operas—born Jewish, ordained a Catholic priest, married and father of six, a poet, gambler and adventurer, a friend of Gia…
What Once Was Fire
Viktor Banke
‘I don’t know if there’s any particular moral to this story, only that the defence lawyer isn’t concerned with either justice or the truth’ What Once Was Fire is an outstanding debut novel about boys who commit violent crimes and the lawyer who defen…
A Handful of Rain
Niklas Rådström
We are prepared to do almost anything to keep life in those we love. We throw ourselves to the ground and try, with our bare hands, to stem the flow of blood from battered bodies. Again and again, we insist that what we have been told cannot be true,…
Bad Harvest
Maria Adolfsson
A violent storm. An isolated peninsula. And a killer among them. Welcome back to Doggerland! A sudden and devastating storm sweeps across Doggerland just as the oyster season begins and the annual harvest festival opens. When the only road to Njord’s…
The Guest
Niklas Rådström
In early summer 1857, H. C. Andersen sets out on a long European journey to many of the cities he had visited on earlier travels. In his luggage he carries his new novel To Be or Not to Be in three editions—Danish, German, and English. The most impor…
