Warming Hands
Katarina Widholm
Stockholm, 1942. Young Betty from Hudiksvall is now married to the son of the Molander family, for which she previously worked as a maid. The war is raging in Europe and everything including food must be rationed. On the surface, things seem to have…
Counting Heartbeats
Katarina Widholm
Heart-rendering debut, no 3 in the Book of the Year Award 2022, introducing charismatic and loveable book-lover Betty. It’s the interwar years in Sweden when we first meet Betty, a bookish 17-year-old who can’t wait to get out of her small town and s…
Norton’s Philosophical Memoirs
Håkan Nesser
Now don’t start getting ideas. I am not a philosopher. I’m a dog. But I look like a philosopher, they say, and I’m not sure the distinction is as great as you might think. I’m what’s known as a Rhodesian Ridgeback. My forebears used to hunt lions in…
