They Called Her Daisy
Prinsessan Christina, Fru Magnuson
Princess Margaret of Connaught, grandchild of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and first wife of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, died in 1920. She was only 38 years old, very pregnant with her sixth child. She not only left the royal family paralyzed…
Through Objects Our Memories Live On
Dina Rajs, Jovan Rajs
Dina and Jovan Rajs were born in the former Yugoslavia and their childhood was marked by the Holocaust. Dina hid using forged identity papers and was in constant fear of being discovered. Jovan hid too, but was also imprisoned in several concentratio…
Kim Wall
Ingrid Wall, Joachim Wall
A Voice SilencedNational bestseller — 23,000 copies sold‘I wake up in the middle of the night. Two different ideas have taken root in my consciousness during my half-slumber, ideas refusing to be silenced until I’ve acted on them. The first is that K…
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…
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…
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…
