Through the portrait of one unforgettable friendship, Anne Swärd tells a modern-day fairy tale about the embrace of family and community – and the treacherous enticements of the world beyond home.

Moominmamma and young Moomintroll search for the long lost Moominpappa through forest and flood, meeting a little creature (an early Sniff) and the elegantly strange Tulippa along the way. Tove Jansson illustrates her first ever Moomin adventure with stunning sepia watercolour and delightful pen and ink drawings. A revelation for Moomin fans.

In an unnamed country, in an unnamed year sometime in the future, Chief Inspector Jensen of the Sixteenth Division is called in after the publishers controlling the entire country’s newspapers and magazines receive a threat to blow up their building, in retaliation for a murder they are accused of committing. The building is evacuated, but the bomb fails to explode and Jensen is given seven days in which to track down the letter writer. Jensen has never had a case he could not solve before, but as his investigation into the identity of the letter writer begins it soon becomes clear that the directors of the publishers have their own secrets, not least the identity of the ‘Special Department’ on the thirty first floor; the only department not permitted to be evacuated after the bomb threat.

ISBN 9780099554769.

Written under the male pseudonym of Ernst Ahlgren in 1885, this memorable work of early feminist fiction is set in  rural southern Sweden. The gifted young Selma is forced to give up her dreams of attending art school when her uncle forces her into marriage with a wealthy local squire, a much older man. Profoundly shocked by her wedding night and by the mercenary nature of the marriage transaction, she finds herself trapped in a life of idle luxury. She finds solace with her medical-student cousin and old sparring partner Richard, but when their mutual regard threatens to blossom into passion, Selma is forced to take radical action.

The second volume and Batchelder honor recipient of Annika Thor’s Faraway island series. Too old for the island elementary school. Stephie is allowed by her foster family to continue her education in Gothenburg. Another transition awaits, as well as first love and the endless fear of the war and the fate of the girls’ parents. Nellie is now alone on the island, and becoming more and more adapted to her new life in Sweden, at the expense of her memories of home and family.

A story of robbery and murder, retribution, love and betrayal plays out against the backdrop of the stalwart fishing community in the West Coast archipelago. Young Elsalill, sole survivor of the mass killing in the home of rich Lord Arne, becomes a pawn in dangerous games both earthly and supernatural. As the deep-frozen sea stops the murderers escaping, the price that must be paid is sacrifice and atonement.

The Jews of the Nazi-administered Polish ghetto of Lodz in the Second World War were led by a strangely two-faced authority figure who realised his own survival depended on making the ghetto indispensable by turning it into an efficient industrial machine. But what of the starving cogs in his machine, the individuals desperate to believe that the trains onto which they are herded will take them to other work camps and better futures? Termed ‘one of the great Holocaust novels of the twentieth century’, this book won the prestigious August prize and has been published in over twenty languages.

This short novel serves as the introduction to the other two volumes of The Löwensköld Trilogy.  It introduces the Löwensköld family and the curse that comes to hover over them for several generations.

(Translated jointly with Stuart Tudball)

A pale, style-conscious, politically-correct town librarian, recently widowed, and a bachelor dairy farmer mourning his capable mother and desperately in need of a traditional, hard-working wife – it’s never going to work. But the chemistry between them proves totally irresistible in this, probably the best-known novel by one of Sweden’s most popular comic writers.

ISBN 9781907595073

This is volume one of Annika Thor’s brilliant young adult tetralogy that follows two Austrian sisters sent on a “kindertransport” to Sweden as World War II begins. They are fostered out to two very different families on an island in the Gothenburg archipelago. A Faraway Island covers their first year  in Sweden, and won the 2009 Batchelder Award.

God’s Mercy begins a trilogy that follows the lives of a number of people whose lives intertwine from the early twentieth century nearly to the present day. In this volume the protagonist is a midwife who journeys to employment in the north, following the clergyman she believes she loves. But life has a great deal more in store for her than the life of a minister’s wife.

The first book by Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) is the story of Gösta Berling, a defrocked minister, and the “cavaliers” who live on a Swedish estate in the 1820s.

Originally published in 1910, this is the classic novel of the Swedish women’s suffrage movement. Its vividly and wittily portrayed gallery of diverse female campaigners comes together to form a sisterhood that throws itself into tireless campaigning. They clash with irate conservative opponents (of both sexes) and risk both limb and reputation to win their struggle for the vote. The main protagonist, a young female journalist who is unconventional, bold and wily, finds that the trauma of love and the demands of friendship can be complicated distractions from the task in hand.

New edition 2021!