Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded by a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin. At the heart of this literary intrigue is a handwritten manuscript that leaves no one unaffected. The Polyglot Lovers is a fiercely witty and nuanced contribution to feminism in the #metoo era. Pleasure is an elusive thing, love even more so.

Tove Jansson: artist, cartoonist, Moomin-creator, author, correspondent, archipelago-dweller, challenger of convention. Out of the thousands of letters Jansson wrote, a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. Into these she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. To read these letters is both an act of startling intimacy and a rare privilege. Penned with grace and humour, Letters from Tove offers an almost seamless commentary on  Jansson’s life as it unfolds within Helsinki’s bohemian circles and her beloved island home.

‘A unique and authentic voice that speaks to the reader across time and culture, heart to heart’. Boyd Tonkin, The Independent.

In April 1988, Valerie Solanas – the writer and radical feminist, who attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol – was discovered dead in her hotel room. She was 52, alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.

Stridsberg reconstructs her life through imagined conversations and monologues and gives a powerful and heartbreaking voice to the enigmatic woman who wrote The SCUM Manifesto.

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019.

Swedish chef and food blogger Ylva Bergqvist explores the virtues of living and eating green. The concept is simple, ease your way into a mostly or full vegetable-forward diet by cooking dishes that are quick to prepare and impossible to resist.

Everyone is welcome in Moominvalley – especially at Christmas. This beautiful, classic picture book tells a comic tale of misunderstanding, adapted from one of Tove Jansson’s classic Moomintroll stories.

The Gothenburg Cultural Cooperation Initiative within the Church of Sweden sought to draw attention to Dag Hammarskjöld’s classic book ‘Markings’. Vägen valde dig/The Way Chose You contains texts by Archbishop Emeritus KG Hammar, meditations – and contemplating texts, reflections written by five co-writers; Monica Getz, Paolo Lembo, Roger Lipsey, Ismail Seralgeldin and Gunnar Stålsett. It also includes interviews with Ingrid Betancourt and Patti Smith.

This translation was prepared on behalf of the publisher, and involved significant background research on the original work by Hammarskjöld.

“In this lively feminist graphic essay collection, Strömquist embraces an often fraught topic, balancing serious analysis and irreverent, R-rated humor.” — Publishers Weekly

“How I loved reading Liv Strömquist’s Fruit of Knowledge. If her strips are clever, angry, funny and righteous, they’re also informative to an eye-popping degree. Should you be in possession of a teenage daughter, you absolutely must buy it for her and all her friends, in addition to those copies you will now immediately purchase for yourself and all of yours.” — The Guardian

Making really good beer at home can actually be fun, easy and cheap – and take less than a day! In Kitchen Brewing, beer enthusiasts Jakob Nielsen and Mikael Zetterberg show you how to create delicious-tasting beers on a budget in just a matter of hours, without losing any quality along the way.

Ask No Mercy is a translation of Martin Österdahl’s novel Be inte om nåd, the first book in Österdahl’s trilogy featuring Max Anger, a former coastal ranger with a mysterious family background who has become an analyst at Vektor, a Stockholm think tank focused on Russia. Max Anger—With One Eye Open, a television series based on the original novel and produced by Sweden’s Nice Drama and UK-based Twelve Town, with Adam Lundgren and Evin Ahmad as Max and Pashie and with principal photography in Lithuania, premiered on Viaplay in 2021. Be inte om nåd has been translated into languages including Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The book was inspired by Martin Österdahl’s experiences in Russia in 1996. Ask No Mercy is available as a paperback, an e-book, and an audiobook.