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 Wild & Violent Vasa Dynasty
Herman Lindqvist
When Gustav Eriksson was elected regent in 1521, he was alone and destitute – his relatives had been executed in the infamous Stockholm Bloodbath and all of the family’s assets were seized. But Gustav was used to wielding influence, and he came to th…
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…
Erik XIV
Herman Lindqvist
Erik XIV, the oldest son of Swedish king Gustav Vasa, might be Sweden’s most misunderstood monarch. Today we remember him as the king who went mad, married a common woman, disowned his brothers and died of poisoning. But, there was much more to K…
When Finland Was Sweden
Herman Lindqvist
For almost 700 years Sweden and Finland were one and the same country. Yet in Sweden this period remains strangely unknown. But Herman Lindqvist fills the hole in the Swedes’ knowledge about the country’s long kinship with Finland – and he does so in…
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…
