Books

The Thrill of the Hunt

Anna-Karin Palm

THE THRILL OF THE HUNT is a collection of ten short stories exploring issues surrounding female sexuality, desire and gender roles.Each short story delves into a scene from a woman’s life. After her two latest novels, Herrgården and Snöängel, Anna-Ka…

Original title: Jaktlycka

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 09-05-2014

The Veterinarian

Gertrud Hellbrand

The Isle of Wight, England, summer 1965: Bengt, a young Swede, is drawn into a love triangle, which becomes a matter of life and death. Meanwhile, at a riding camp in Verden, Germany, provincial girl Lucille learns the extent of life’s injustice. The…

Original title: Veterinären

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 28-03-2014

The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

This is the second book in the beloved LEAGUE OF PENSIONERS series.Märtha Andersson and the League of Pensioners have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and headed for Las Vegas. This is their opportunity for a new lease of life and they…

Original title: Låna är silver, råna är guld

Series: The League of Pensioners

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 19-03-2014

Swing

Bengt Ohlsson

Bengt Ohlsson’s SWING is a comical, tender and gripping story about our demands for excitement and fantasy in our sex life in a time when porn is called erotica and you can buy dildos at the nearest pharmacy. Like no other, Bengt Ohlsson is able to c…

Original title: Swing

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 24-01-2014

Hope Springs Eternal

Karin Wahlberg

It’s the year 1953 and polio is a raging epidemic. Young Ella-Kristin is called upon to leave her nursing education and instead come to help as an intern at the local hospital. She worries about her soon to be fiancé Carl, who is constantly put to th…

Original title: Än finns det hopp

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 22-08-2013

Office Ninja

Lars Berge

OFFICE NINJA is a dry and darkly humorous satire on working life – The Office meets Being John Malkovich. Come along for the ride!On one of the myriad identical floors of a large office complex about 20 minutes outside Stockholm resides Helm Tech, a…

Original title: Kontorsninja

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 01-08-2013

The Emigrants

Vilhelm Moberg

THE EMIGRANTS is the first part of Vilhelm Moberg’s large ‘Emigrant’ epic about Kristina, Karl Oskar, Robert, Arvid and everyone else in the parish of Ljuder. After many years of famine and other hardships in a poverty-stricken Sweden, they decide to…

Original title: Utvandrarna

Series: The Emigrants

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 15-01-2013

GLITTERING

Göran Tunström

Pétur is born on the slope of an Icelandic volcano. His father, Halldór, takes care of him and fills his childhood with tales which Pétur carries with him in his travels around the world as an adult. It’s about longing, saying farewell to life, but a…

Original title: Skimmer

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 10-09-2012