Bernadotte
Herman Lindqvist
Sweden’s best-loved historian charts the golden reign of a royal dynasty2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the House of Bernadotte’s reign on the Swedish throne, longer than any other dynasty in written history. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia…
Selma Lagerlöf
Anna Nordlund, Bengt Wanselius
A definitive life and letters biography of Selma Lagerlöf in words and images, with photographer Bengt Wanselius as picture editor. Selma Lagerlöf – The Tale of a Modern Woman is an academically meticulous biography based on a rich array of source ma…
Project: Wolf
Lars Berge
Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage 202018 000 copies sold in SwedenThis is not a book about wolves. Neither is it a natural science title. It’s a narrative about mankind; human obsession, greed and ambition. And the…
Birgit
Elisabeth Meyer-Topsøe
This biography has been written by Birgit’s longstanding friend Elisabeth MeyerTopsoe. She tells the reader about Birgit’s childhood on a farm in southern Sweden, her studies and her fantastic career, which achieved international status in the late…
Mannerheim
Herman Lindqvist
The story of ‘the father of modern Finland’ told by renowned historian Herman LindqvistThis is the story of the legendary marshal of Finland, Gustaf Mannerheim. It is common knowledge to most Swedes that he was the supreme commander in four of Finlan…
The Dark Heart
Joakim Palmkvist
A missing person. A tragic love story. And the woman who solved one of the most bizarre murders in Swedish history. Over 12,000 copies sold in three months.Like a modern-day In Cold Blood, THE DARK HEART delves into a case that left a small rural com…
The Good Girl Revolt
Birgitta Ohlsson
Why are the overachieving ‘Good Girls’ often ignored at work, frequently bypassed in their careers, and even criticised for their exacting standards instead of applauded, promoted and encouraged? Swedish high profile liberal politician Birgitta Ohlss…
Dag Hammarskjöld
Henrik Berggren
When Dag Hammarskjöld took over the post as Secretary-General of the United Nations, he was greeted with the words: “Welcome … to the most impossible job on this Earth.” He was a compromise candidate who was assumed to be a weak and docile administ…
