“Great credit must go to Giles’s translation. The key to humour is timing and that’s easily lost in another language. Not so here. There’s a real snap to the sentences; the punchlines fall just where they need to; and the comic possibilities afforded by punctuation and paragraphing are well exploited.” George Cochrane in The Telegraph

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2023 – now in paperback from Penguin Books.

Christmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev’s mother lets him in on a secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. And so begins a new kind of childhood, in which fathers come and go, arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet. Fathers can be magicians or murderers, artists or canoe enthusiasts, and, like growing pains, or the weather, they appear uninvited and leave without warning. Fathers are drawn to his mother like moths to a flame – but even she can’t control how they behave.

Vivid and joyful, raw and tender, Bloody Awful in Different Ways is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins and ends; and above all, about men. Because after all, you learn an awful lot about this strange species when you have seven fathers in seven years.

‘Bloody awful? Bloody brilliant, more like’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Pure joyous storytelling on every page … A little treasure of a book’ FREDRIK BACKMAN
‘A delight from start to finish’ JENNIE GODFREY
‘Flawless … So sharp, so beguiling, so acutely observed’ GUARDIAN

Join Moomintroll, his charming family and his eclectic band of friends on a series of adventures in a picturesque land where anything can happen: a snow horse comes to life in the depths of a freezing winter, a stolen ruby leads to a trial set in the Moominhouse garden, and seeds planted on Midsummer’s Eve sprout a crowd of electrical Hattifatteners!

Moomin fans of all ages will delight at the stunning artwork that accompanies the lively, witty writing, and become fully immersed in the beautiful Moominvalley.

An unnatural fog, lingering for weeks, has settled over the Stockholm archipelago, home to twelve-year-old Tuva. No one can explain it. Tuva, attuned to the mysteries of the sea, has her suspicions.

When her classmate and his mother nearly drown in the damp, choking fog, Tuva seeks answers about its supernatural nature. And the truth she uncovers is more wondrous—and sinister—than she could have imagined.

All the while, a hauntingly familiar voice calls for Tuva, pulling at the ties that bind her to the supernatural world, trying to draw her in. But are the powers that Tuva possesses enough to save the world from this true evil lingering in its midst?

Beginning in 2024, yet set largely during the early 2000s, Sunset at Zero Point unfolds on a secluded Swedish island, home to a secret weapon lab that has been off-limits for years, evoking the bestselling works of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.

Stålenhag’s masterful storytelling and hyper-realistic art transports you to an alternate history revealing his most intimate work to date, delving into themes of masculinity, friendship, and sexuality through the lens of a queer science fiction tale. The story spans decades following two young men, stuck in the past and each other’s orbit, as fleeting moments become defining memories as they set out to explore the forbidden zone together.

Set against the backdrop of Stålenhag’s native Sweden and based on the alternate version of Mälaröarna outside of Stockholm, Sunset at Zero Point juxtaposes giant futuristic machines with the inner turmoil of its characters facing a social dystopia, crafting a narrative that is both visually stunning and emotionally resonant.

A calmly devastating portrayal of a couple’s separation and the lives that continue beyond it.

Detective Leonore Asker has just settled in as head of the Department of Lost Souls, a unit for odd cases, when her father contacts her after years of silence. A body has been found on his farm and, as the main suspect, he is desperate for Leo’s help. But is her father as innocent as he claims or is he trying to reel Leo into his grip once again?

Meanwhile, Martin Hill moves to a secluded estate to write a biography about the business leader Gunnar Irving, intrigued by the fact that the legendary property contains an abandoned astronomical observatory. Soon, Hill discovers that the area has more stories to offer…about mysterious lights and mutilated bodies. While Asker and Hill try to find answers, the Glass Man rises from the depths of darkness from which no one ever returns. Nobody but him.

Comet in Moominland, the first full-length Moomin novel, was published 80 years ago. Tove Jansson revised the text a decade later and again in 1968, reorganising the story and adding new characters. This version became definitive and has been translated into over 60 languages. Now for the first time this edition can be read in English, in a brand-new translation.

Tove Jansson’s story of a mysterious, threatening comet, and the journey of discovery by Moomin and his friend Sniff across the Lonely Mountains, has captivated generations of readers across the world. The story introduced much-loved Moomin characters, including the free-spirited Snufkin, the philosophical Muskrat, the intuitive Snorkmaiden, obsessional Hemulens and strange Hattifatteners.

Prospectors who can smell money. Big money, or they would have stayed in the sun. Like diviners, they put their ear to the granite and say, “Here lie such extraordinary riches that no-one will be able to refuse.” When the fun is over, they are already far away. Far from poisoned watercourses and contaminated ground, far from unemployed miners whose lungs have breathed in silica, asbestos and diesel fumes.

In the latest instalment of the Millennium series, spring returns to Sweden’s far north, but a night-time explosion destroys a historic river bridge in the forest, shocks the residents of the small town of Gasskas and leaves the police playing catch-up in a fast-moving situation. Natural resources in the region are being shamelessly exploited by shadowy multinationals and their local government puppets, opposed only by Lisbeth Salander’s niece Svala and a group of environmental activists. What begins as a protest spins out of control when a young journalist is found murdered. Lisbeth’s long-term sidekick, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, not in the best of health, is about to move north from Stockholm to become the editor at of the local newspaper and be near his daughter and grandson. He  unravels a story that has the makings of an explosive scandal. Lisbeth, meanwhile, is desperate to track down her old hacker friend, Plague, who has vanished. When it becomes clear that both she and Svala are on a secret underworld hit list, Lisbeth decides to stake everything on keeping Svala safe.