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Kafka’s Lung

Cecilia Hansson

‘I’m standing outside the main door to Hauptstrasse 187. It’s the beginning of May, the time of year when Kafka was journeying towards death. The sun beats on the back of my neck and I’m clutching a cake box. There are birds; I hear one or two cars f…

Original title: Kafkalungan

Category: Fiction

Pub date: 02-08-2024

Young Man’s Journey To The Night

Håkan Nesser

Young Man’s Journey To The Night is the ninth title in the ‘Barbarotti’ series and opens with the delivery of a pizza, served with a cold-blooded murder…It’s early summer and grading time in Kymlinge. Sports teacher and former all-rounder Allan Fre…

Original title: Ung mans färd mot natt

Series: Barbarotti

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 30-07-2024

Summer Days

Callum Bloodworth

80-year-old Stina Nilson is sick and tired of being sick and tired. But when her old friend-turned-enemy, Bengt, has the audacity to want to make their collective living… modern, Stina will do ANYTHING to destroy Bengt and uphold her late husband’s d…

Original title: Sommardagar i Kollektivet

Series: The Collective of Broken Hearts

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 12-06-2024

Flödarp Forever

Jesper Ahlin Marceta

Brilliantly balanced between comedy and family drama, Flödarp Forever is the unexpected, entertaining reading-experience you had no idea you craved this much.When Jon and Eva grow up in Flödarp, there are forty families, two lonely old people, one bu…

Original title: Flödarp för alltid

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 21-05-2024

Schellenberg’s Ring

Daniel Birnbaum

Following the success of Dr. B, Daniel Birnbaum is back with a novella centered around the Venice Biennale 1942.“Prince Eugene was there. And my friend, Grünewald, despite being Jewish. Still, it’s as if the exhibition never happened.”The year is 194…

Original title: Schellenbergs ring

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 08-05-2024

Your Time Will Come

Carl-Johan Vallgren

Winner of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Award for Best Swedish Crime Novel of 2024.The literary comeback by one of Sweden’s paramount novelists and depictors of inhumane evil and the beautiful prevalence of life.Falkenberg, 1993. It all begins w…

Original title: Din tid kommer

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 19-04-2024

Alejandro.

Pauline Olsson Ghoreishi

“I press the phone hard to my ear and feel my cheek get hot and sweaty when Adam says Hello do you know what has happened Alejandro is gone. Adam says Hello do you know what has happened Alejandro is dead.”When Adam calls to tell our unnamed protagon…

Original title: Alejandro.

Category: Fiction

Pub date: 02-04-2024

Elevation

Malin Ullgren

‘She hadn’t been prepared to lose anything. All she had wanted was to gain something. In a way, that was all there was to it.’Elevation is about a woman in the middle of life who increasingly feels the need of a cure for the approaching emptiness and…

Original title: Förhöjningen

Category: Fiction

Pub date: 28-03-2024