Charlotte Löwensköld

Charlotte Löwensköld is only a distant relation to the Löwensköld family whose name the first volume of this trilogy bears. But her fate is firmly intertwined with theirs, and the reader comes to love her as dearly as do some of the characters. A heartrending and spine-tingling story of the twists and turns of life, then as now.

This middle volume of the Löwensköld trilogy moves forward in time. It is a tale of great psychological insight and social commentary, one of the main themes being the mother-son relationship. The language is beautiful, the content often tongue in cheek, and the impact tremendous.

Into A Raging Blaze

Handed a flash drive in the corridors of power in Brussels, dark forces will do anything it takes to stop Carina Dymek telling the world…

This is Andreas Norman’s debut novel and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award in 2015 in my translation.

Nature is my Kitchen

Sámi cookery and reflections

This volume – a cross of cookbook and personal memoir – by Greta Huuva reflects on the culinary past and present of Sápmi in northern Sweden.

Borderline

The Fifth Season

The Ravens

‘Startling in its depiction of nature, madness and faith, The Ravens is a vivid book, sensitively translated by Sarah Death, about the terrors and passions of childhood.’ Katie Kitimura

This August Prize-winning first novel depicts a teenage boy’s struggle to confront the world of adulthood in rural southern Sweden in the 1970s, an era lovingly recreated in small details. Caught between loyalty to his disintegrating father and fear of his destiny as the future owner of a failing farm, Klas tries in vain to find positive role models and seeks solace in the world of nature, above all in watching birds.

 

Dolce Far Niente In Arabia – Georg August Wallin and his Travels in the 1840s

In the 1840s the Finnish orientalist Georg August Wallin traveled in the Middle East, where he collected material on Arabic dialects.

In the 1840s the Finnish orientalist Georg August Wallin traveled in the Middle East, where he collected material on Arabic dialects. Considered an eminent scholar by his contemporaries, he died an untimely death shortly after his seven-year journey and was therefore able to publish only a fraction of his material. Gathering together what we know of Wallin’s work, the scholars in this book tell the fascinating story of his life and travels in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and Persia.

In order to make contact with local inhabitants, Wallin assumed a Muslim identity and disguised himself as the physician ‘Abd al-Wali’ from Central Asia. Inquisitive and sharp-eyed, he was able to document daily life among the urban dwellers of Cairo and the Bedouin of the northern Arabian Peninsula, preserving his unique material in letters and diaries written in his native language—Swedish—but, interestingly, sometimes rendered in the Arabic alphabet. Recounting his adventures through the ancient and holy lands of the Middle East, the authors here also highlight Wallin’s importance as a pathbreaking ethnographer and linguistic researcher.

Laponia: Nature and Natives

A beautiful edited volume guiding the reader through the Laponia World Heritage Site

The stunning Laponia – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – is the subject of this edited volume, featuring photography by Andrea Barghi. Translations of all Swedish-language contributions were prepared in conjunction with the editor.

Linda, As in the Linda Murder

Savage Spring

The Devil’s Sanctuary

Bubble

Buzz

Game

The Andalucian Friend

Vikings!

A whistlestop tour of Historiskas award-winning exhibition on the Vikings

This guide to Historiska’s award-winning Vikings exhibition was commissioned in translation by the National Museum in Edinburgh to mark the arrival of the touring exhibition.

He Who Kills the Dragon

In this second installment of Persson’s trilogy of police procedurals featuring the “small, fat and primitive” Evert Bäckström, the grand master’s most appallingly repulsive (and funniest) character is finally given his fifteen minutes of fame by way of his patented combination of laziness, luck, and an unbelievable sense of timing. A seemingly ordinary murder puzzles Bäckström, who is struggling with …

In this second installment of Persson’s trilogy of police procedurals featuring the “small, fat and primitive” Evert Bäckström, the grand master’s most appallingly repulsive (and funniest) character is finally given his fifteen minutes of fame by way of his patented combination of laziness, luck, and an unbelievable sense of timing.

A seemingly ordinary murder puzzles Bäckström, who is struggling with strict orders from his doctor to lead a healthier life. His gut feeling proves him right: within days, his team has another murder linked to the first on their hands, and reports of alleged ties to a Securicor heist gone out of control, killing two. The nation needs a hero, and the newly appointed head of the Västerort police force Anna Holt needs somebody to kill the dragon for her. Who better to heed to the task than Evert Bäckström: self-sufficient, ostentatious, devoid of moral, Hawaii shirt-clad, and, latterly, armed?

The Long Shadow

A violent robbery has taken place in an affluent area of the Costa Del Sol, in which an entire family are killed – grandmother, mother, father and two children. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to the story, and when she arrives in Spain and gains access to the crime scene, she is horrified to discover there was a third child – …

A violent robbery has taken place in an affluent area of the Costa Del Sol, in which an entire family are killed – grandmother, mother, father and two children.

Annika Bengtzon is assigned to the story, and when she arrives in Spain and gains access to the crime scene, she is horrified to discover there was a third child – a teenage daughter – who is unaccounted for.

Annika makes it her mission to find the missing Suzette. But as she delves into the mystery, she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she’d envisioned as once again those closest to her turn out to be the ones she knows the least about…

Lifetime

The most famous police officer in Sweden is found murdered in his bed. His four-year-old son is missing. His wife is suspected of killing both of them. No one believes her when she says she is innocent. No one except for news reporter Annika Bengtzon. Her personal life in turmoil, she turns all her energies to her work, investigating the …

The most famous police officer in Sweden is found murdered in his bed. His four-year-old son is missing. His wife is suspected of killing both of them. No one believes her when she says she is innocent.

No one except for news reporter Annika Bengtzon. Her personal life in turmoil, she turns all her energies to her work, investigating the life of the murdered man.

But if his wife is innocent, where is their son? And will the truth be uncovered in time to find him…before it’s too late?

The Global Empire

The Body Machines