Dragonbane. The Awakening
E.P. Uggla
Tamea has never felt at home as the daughter of a rich nobleman, with expensive dresses and jewellery. She has always preferred to practise swordsmanship with her older brother. But one day her brother is called away on a secret mission outside the c…
Agnes Cecilia
Maria Gripe
Maria Gripe’s Agnes Cecilia is one of the most classic and widely read Swedish young adult novels. A ghost story that is just as eerie today as when it was first published.Nora has a creeping feeling of something inexplicable, of someone suddenly sta…
Fright
Peter Bergting
A frightfully terrifying collection of the best classics and well-known monsters from the world of literature and films. Peter Bergting, perhaps Sweden’s best known fantasy illustrator, has brought together horror favourites from throughout the ages…
This is My Life
Rose Lagercrantz
Every year Sophia yearns to go to summer camp. Her biggest dream is to be with the other kids, “the normal ones” as she calls them. But it is not so simple when you are not ordinary. Sophia is autistic. On her birthday, she suddenly decides to escape…
The Dor Beetle Flies at Dusk
Maria Gripe
When Jonas, Annika, and David are watering flowers at the Selander farm, they find old letters sent to an Emelie who lived in the 18th century. The letters mention a three-thousand-year-old Egyptian statue in Ringaryd, where they live. Does it still…
You are Going to Miss Me!
Moa Herngren
I am seventeen years old. I decided to become an adult less than 24 hours ago and I’m already a criminal. Now I’m on the run from the police and hiding in the woods.When Mom travels to the countryside with her new lover and Dad flyes to Mallorca with…
Deep Sea
Annika Thor
Review for the English edition: ‘The third installment in a proposed quartet of books about Stephie’s experiences as a Jewish refugee in Sweden during World War II that began with Batchelder-winning Faraway Island (2009) and honor book The Lily Pond…
The Lily Pond
Annika Thor
