The Lazy Way to a Wonderful Life, by Gunnel Ryner

Are you tired of fighting an uphill battle and constantly having to rely on your own willpower, motivation and self-discipline? Would you like to learn a smarter, simpler way to get the life you’ve always dreamed of – both at home and at work?

Gunnel Ryner overturns the traditional view of self-development and success, in which it’s all about you, and instead shows how you can create an environment – with the right people, things, places, conditions and ideas – that simply draws you in the direction you want to go.

With a light-hearted blend of science, humour and relevant examples, she demonstrates the positive aspects of laziness and shows how the right environment is more important than willpower. The book also provides you with a step-by-step method that makes it easy and fun to get where you want, both in your own life and together with your colleagues at work.

Gunnel Ryner has a degree in behavioural science and is a speaker, organisational consultant and coach. With her talks, workshops and coaching programmes, she has inspired thousands of people to take themselves and their workplaces to completely new heights. The Lazy Way to a Wonderful Life is her second book.

Intrigo

The first collection of Håkan Nesser’s novellas and short stories to be published in the UK. A perfect introduction to the godfather of Swedish crime.

Intrigo contains five stories set in the fictional city of Maardam.  Secrets are revealed, lies exposed, and the past returns to haunt the people who thought they had escaped it.

Slugger

Nominated for the 2019 CWA International Dagger Award.

Historical fiction meets thriller noir in this hard-hitting crime novel. In 1930s Stockholm, former boxer Harry Kvist is trying to stay out of trouble. But the gangs of Stockholm have other ideas. Set against a backdrop of a sweltering heatwave and rising tension between communists and fascists, this thrilling conclusion to The Stockholm Trilogy really packs a punch.

They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears

Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction.

Winner of the 2017 August Prize. In the midst of a terrorist attack on a bookstore reading by Göran Loberg, a comic book artist famous for demeaning drawings of the prophet Mohammed, one of the attackers, a young woman, has a sudden premonition that something is wrong, changing the course of history. Two years later, this unnamed woman invites a famous writer to visit her in the criminal psychiatric clinic where she’s living. She then shares with him an incredible story–she is a visitor from an alternate future.

Migraine

Short story by bestselling author Arne Dahl, published as part of Novellix’s Swedish Crime box.

Arne Dahl, the bestselling writer and creator of the Intercrime series and the Berger & Blom series, takes you through an action-filled story that will make your heart pound–and your head throb.

I slam the door open. This room is bigger, brighter. In the distance, a clearing of light: flashing, piercing, corrosive. A door of pure light. A double door of divine brightness. The whiteness outside. Explosive, but alluring. More shelling, at a greater distance, it has to come from machine guns. But who are they shooting at? Was I hit? Am I dead?

Let’s Hope for the Best

“A moving and tender work of autofiction that depicts the obsessive interiority of grief.”–Kirkus

In her debut novel, Let’s Hope for the Best, Carolina Setterwall recounts the intensity of falling in love with her partner Aksel, and the shock of finding him dead in bed one morning. Carolina and Aksel meet at a party, and their passionate first encounter leads to months of courtship during which Carolina struggles to find her place. While Aksel prefers to take things slow, Carolina is eager to advance their relationship -moving in together, getting a cat, and finally having a child.

Perhaps to impose some order on the chaos, Carolina devotedly chronicles the months after Aksel’s passing like a ship’s log. She unpacks with forensic intensity the small details of life before tragedy, eager to find some explanation for the bad hand she’s been dealt. When new romance rushes in, Carolina finds herself assuming the reticent role Aksel once played. She’s been given the gift of love again. But can she make it work?

A striking feat of auto-fiction, written in direct address to Setterwall’s late partner, LET’S HOPE FOR THE BEST is a stylistic tour-de force.

How I Spend My Days and My Nights

A thrilling short-story by Håkan Nesser, published as part of Novellix’s Swedish Crime box.

Two strangers meet in a bar one rainy November night. Their conversation is the starting point for an intricate tale full of lies, doubt–and plans for a murder. How I Spend My Days and My Nights is a thrilling short story by the Swedish crime author Håkan Nesser, well-known from his Van Veeteren crime series.

Alright. He cleared his throat and adjusted his glasses.
So Marlene, that s what she calls herself these days?
I didn t respond. Unease was crawling down my spine.
When I knew her, her name was Clara. Clara Maxwell. She never mentioned that?
Involuntarily I shook my head.
I met her for the first time more than fifteen years ago. In London. She was a redhead back then.
Five seconds, I said. You have five seconds. What the hell are you trying to say?

The Room; The Invoice; The Circus

Hunted

Stories from Moominvalley

Beautiful retelling of three classic Tove Jansson tales.

Celebrating seventy-five years of the Moomins, Stories From Moominvalley is a beautiful collection of three classic Moomin stories, based on Tove Jansson’s original works.

Everyone is welcome in Moominvalley, and Moomin lovers of all ages will delight at the stunning artwork that accompanies the lively storytelling in this collection.

Sensitively adapted for a younger audience by Alex Haridi and Cecilia Davidsson, Stories From Moominvalley is both perfect as a gift and is a must-have for fans of Tove Jansson’s enchanting world.

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