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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

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