Books

Revelation

Katrine Wessel-Aas

Step into the dashing world of the Winther Family – a magical Norwegian series in the vein of Downton Abbey. The series has captured readers’ hearts and is a runaway bestseller with 1,5 million copies sold! A mysterious woman knocks on the door of wi…

Original title: Når alt kommer for en dag

Series: The Winther Family

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 11-08-2020

THE PRIEST’S KID

Göran Tunström

The kid is Göran Tunström himself, growing up in Sunne, in the middle of the world. It’s about childhood’s curious joy of discovery and strange events, about friends and girlfriends, about the death of the father that makes everything fall apart, to…

Original title: Prästungen

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 07-08-2020

I Don’t Like Mondays

Clara Clementine Eliasson

Akin to Emma Cline’s The Girls and classic Thelma & Louise, I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS is an emotionally-charged whirlwind of a debut novel, loosely based on the infamous ‘I don’t like Mondays’ 1979 school shooter Brenda Ann Spencer, focusing on the months…

Original title: Mot San Francisco

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 31-07-2020

Famous Men That Have Visited Sunne

Göran Tunström

This is the last novel published during Göran Tunströms lifetime and won the August Prize in 1998. Swedish, as well as international, celebrities appear in the town of Sunne during a week in September in the 60´s, and take part in the story. This is…

Original title: Berömda män som varit i Sunne

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 14-07-2020

The Christmas Oratorio

Göran Tunström

In Sunne all, once again, are gathered to perform Bach’s jubilant Christmas Oratorio. From there, the story expands: it spans over three generations, begins in the thirties and ends today. The plot moves between Värmland and its geographical opposite…

Original title: Juloratoriet

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 14-07-2020

The Thief

Göran Tunström

In Sunne in Värmland, fat Ida Pripp meets lazy Fredrik Jonson Lök and is enchanted, seduced and humiliated. Twelve children are born in the meager house on Torvnäs, but this is foremost the story of Johan, the thirteenth child born in the meager hous…

Original title: Tjuven

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 14-07-2020

Tullia’s World

Kerstin Ekman

Just like many other Roman women, little is known about Tullia, beloved daughter of Cicero and the heroine of legendary author and erstwhile Swedish Academy member Kerstin Ekman’s latest book.Based on her interest in antiquity, Kerstin Ekman gives us…

Original title: Tullias värld

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 15-05-2020

Midsummer Night Dreams

Bengt Ohlsson

It’s 1988. A 20-something friendship group go to Roslagen to celebrate Midsummer. During the night, Jenny and Olof reveal that they are expecting, and the news fill the friends with a strange feeling. Is it already time to grow up? But they have all…

Original title: Midsommarnattsdrömmar

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 24-04-2020