A story of robbery and murder, retribution, love and betrayal plays out against the backdrop of the stalwart fishing community in the West Coast archipelago. Young Elsalill, sole survivor of the mass killing in the home of rich Lord Arne, becomes a pawn in dangerous games both earthly and supernatural. As the deep-frozen sea stops the murderers escaping, the price that must be paid is sacrifice and atonement.

The Jews of the Nazi-administered Polish ghetto of Lodz in the Second World War were led by a strangely two-faced authority figure who realised his own survival depended on making the ghetto indispensable by turning it into an efficient industrial machine. But what of the starving cogs in his machine, the individuals desperate to believe that the trains onto which they are herded will take them to other work camps and better futures? Termed ‘one of the great Holocaust novels of the twentieth century’, this book won the prestigious August prize and has been published in over twenty languages.

This short novel serves as the introduction to the other two volumes of The Löwensköld Trilogy.  It introduces the Löwensköld family and the curse that comes to hover over them for several generations.

(Translated jointly with Stuart Tudball)

A pale, style-conscious, politically-correct town librarian, recently widowed, and a bachelor dairy farmer mourning his capable mother and desperately in need of a traditional, hard-working wife – it’s never going to work. But the chemistry between them proves totally irresistible in this, probably the best-known novel by one of Sweden’s most popular comic writers.

ISBN 9781907595073