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.

Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture and religion collide causing the taboo around menstruation to have grave consequences. Younger people who menstruate are deterred from going to school, adults from work, infections are left untreated. The shame is universal and the silence a global rule.

In It’s Only Blood Anna Dahlqvist tells the shocking but always moving stories of why and how people from Sweden to Bangladesh, from the United States to Uganda, are fighting back against the shame.

A thrilling book for children exploring the tales of the Norse myths.

In this fourth and final volume of Annika Thor’s Faraway Island tetralogy, World War II has finally drawn to a close. Stephie is finishing upper secondary school and hoping to go on to study medicine. But she and her sister Nellie have lost contact with their parents. In the post-war years they are among the many Jews who have search for family members, hope against hope.

At the turn of the century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich or Piet Mondrian, acknowledged fathers of 20th century abstraction. Like many of her contemporaries, af Klint was interested in the invisible relationships that scientists at the turn of the century were discovering shape the world. She strongly believed in a spiritual dimension to the universe and devoted her life to an exploration of this realm.

Hilma af Klint’s process of investigation took many forms and drew on systems and symbols outside the traditional language of art. Notes and Methods traces the origins of her powerful abstract work. Included are the first mediumistic drawings she created with The Five; Flowers, Mosses and Lichens, a spiritual explication of the plant world; and the Blue Notebooks in which af Klint catalogued her most important body of work, The Paintings for the Temple.

Notes and Methods is the first extensive English translation of the writings of Hilma af Klint. In addition to translations of all notebooks reproduced, the book also includes Letters and Words Pertaining to Works by Hilma af Klint, an invaluable guide to the meaning behind the work compiled by Hilma af Klint herself.

Stig Dagerman (1923–1954), a major author in the postwar period in Sweden, published Wedding Worries (Bröllopsbesvär) in 1949. This was his fourth novel and the last book he published before his untimely death.