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…
The Gutenberg Galaxy Nova
Nina Burton
NONFICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR – WINNER OF THE 2016 AUGUST PRIZEThe fate of humanism told through the life of the 16th century literary star Erasmus of Rotterdam. In the time of Gutenberg’s great printing innovation, and the birth of free media, Erasmu…
The Last Pig
Horace Engdahl
The Last Pig is a book in two parts.The first is made up of aphorisms, an anachronistic form that fits this (culturally) conservative author like a glove. Lengthwise they range from one-line tweets to composed reflections. Though readers are as likel…
Another World
Cecilia Lindqvist
After seven days of travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Cecilia Lindqvist approaches Beijing. It is January 1961, and she is shocked by her first encounter with China. The country is plagued by famine and the harsh political climate casts a dire sh…
The Warsaw Swedes
Staffan Thorsell
On June 9, 1942, a speech was broadcast on the BBC that would change human history. Władysław Sikorski, Poland’s prime minister exiled in London, revealed that 700,000 Jews had been systematically murdered in brutal Nazi concentration camps, quaranti…
The Book of Rivers
Nina Burton
From the celebrated author of Notes from a summer cottage and August Prize awarded The Guthenberg Galaxy Nova.What can possibly connect glaciers, steam engines, eels and birds, diasporas and culture shifts, fairy tales and Gutenberg, dragons, salt an…
