Books

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

City of Light

Kerstin Ekman

Ann-Marie is a middle-aged woman returning from Portugal to the Swedish town in which she grep up in order to sell the old house she has inherited from her father. Memories of the past are everywhere, ensnaring her. She ends up staying in the house,…

Original title: En stad av ljus

Series: The Women and the Town Series

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 18-06-2010

The Angel House

Kerstin Ekman

At the windy corner of Highway Street and Industrial Road, opposite the Co-operative Stores, stood a lime tree and a large old wooden building. There was a newspaper kiosk too, to be strictly accurate. The lime tree and the building used to talk to o…

Original title: Änglahuset

Series: The Women and the Town Series

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 18-06-2010

The Practice of Murder

Kerstin Ekman

Kerstin Ekman, former member of the Swedish Academy and one of Sweden’s greatest living crime writers’ latest collection of essays, The Practice of Murder, is a meditation on unresolved issues in the classic Swedish novel, Söderberg’s Doctor Glas. St…

Original title: Mordets praktik

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 04-09-2009