The Black Curve is the story of a love affair.

Ester Nilsson is a sharp, honest, self-disciplined essayist – until she meets self-centred artist Hugo Rask. Julie Myerson captures the flavour of the book in her Guardian review: ‘Love, famously, is blind. People in love can lose even the most basic critical faculties and become capable of monumental self-deception. Hardly a new story, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this particular myopia as astutely and entertainingly explored as in this stunning novel […] All Ester wants is for Rask to return her feelings, to love her back, to claim her. But when she takes his hand in public it squirms “like a captured maggot, trying to extract itself from hers without making it too obvious”. You want to shout, “Don’t waste another moment with this man!” We’ve all been there – we’ve all been Ester. Your cheeks burn for her, but they also burn for yourself.’

An excruciatingly true and funny novel, a delight and a challenge to translate.

In this frank autobiographical novel P. O. Enquist narrates every last detail as if he were merely a character in the eventful and perplexing drama of his own life.

One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake was Forsström’s first new collection after her celebrated trilogy, I studied once at a wonderful faculty, published by Bloodaxe in 2006. As Sweden’s August Prize jury commented, this is poetry ‘both melancholy and impassioned’, expressing a ‘struggle against meaninglessness, disintegration, destruction – against death in life’.

‘This book-length poem by the celebrated Finnish-Swedish poet evokes a wintry landscape where we follow “one another’s tracks through the heart, the snow”.  A parallel text allows Anglophone readers to follow Forsström’s light-footed, melancholic free verse in the original, guided by David McDuff’s delicate translation.’ – Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sunday Times

‘…One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake is a sequence that may be read as one silence-punctuated extended poem. Water, fishes, stars, glitter, dust, rain, wolves, hares: these are among the leitmotifs, and have literal and metaphorical resonance. The natural world intersects at every turn with the moral world, and is intrinsic to Forsström’s love poems and elegies.’ – Carol Rumens, online Poem of the Week, Guardian

Percy Barnevik on Leadership is the translation of this iconic Swedish business leader’s management bible, Ledarskap, from Swedish into English. Leadership is Dr Barnevik’s compilation of advice and ancecdotes gained in his 50-year long career leading and growing large global corporates such as ABB, Skanska, Astra Zeneca, General Motors and DuPont.

The easily-read and user-friendly book is divided into 200 topics or lessons covering the importance of execution, the lesser need for strategy, the investigation trap, the right to make mistakes, delegating upwards, the elimination of meetings to the handling of crises, and everything in-between.

“ON leadership is one of the best books I have read for many years on Leadership, strategy change and little tit bits for a person who is so busy that sitting down for a 4 hour read has to have an outcome. It is broken down into sound-bytes and one of my favourites is 185 Be Yourself.”  Seonaid Mackenzie

“Wonderful book by a world-class business leader.” Robert McTamaney

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.

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

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