Books

The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

This is the first book in the beloved LEAGUE OF PENSIONERS series.¿79-year-old Märtha Andersson dreams of escaping her care home and robbing a bank. She has no intention of spending the rest of her days in an armchair and is determined to fund her wa…

Original title: Kaffe med rån

Series: The League of Pensioners

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 01-08-2012

The Forest of Hours

Kerstin Ekman

Ekman’s central character is Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal. The novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he m…

Original title: Rövarna i Skuleskogen

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 01-11-2011

The Cigarette Afterwards

Horace Engdahl

Literary historian and critic, linguist and member of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl continues to study the world around him, investigating our daily struggles, literature and its critique, history and our dreams. In these short textual fragment…

Original title: Cigaretten efteråt

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 18-10-2011

Grand Finale

Kerstin Ekman

From legendary author and former Swedish Academy member Kerstin Ekman comes an instant classic centering on the professional and personal relationship between two women, and the lies they tell to keep up appearances at any cost.In GRAND FINALE the ac…

Original title: Grand final i skojarbranschen

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 07-10-2011

Snow Angel

Anna-Karin Palm

Snow Angel is a story of realism and magic, set in Stockholm in the mid 1980’s, more precisely in the winter of 1985-86, just before the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. It is a time of darkness and secrets, and Hedvig, a young orphan woma…

Original title: Snöängel

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 09-09-2011

Requiem for John Cummings

Bengt Ohlsson

REQUIEM FOR JOHN CUMMINGS is a completely unexpected portrayal of one of rock’s most famous men.His artist name was Johnny Ramone. This is the novel about his life and death.

Original title: Rekviem för John Cummings

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 12-08-2011

The Sky Over London

Håkan Nesser

A far-ranging novel about swinging London at the end of the sixties – cleverly set as the division of an inheritance at a dinner party, also in London, but in the early years of the 21st century. The love story, which is central to the novel, goes ba…

Original title: Himmel över London

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 29-07-2011

Kolka

Bengt Ohlsson

KOLKA is a story about a girl about to become an adult who desperately tries to orient herself in a new environment and is amongst one of the strongest portraits Bengt Ohlsson has ever written.

Original title: Kolka

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 17-09-2010