Sara has never left Sweden but at the age of 28 she decides it’s time. She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books and sets off for Broken Wheel, Iowa, a town where she knows nobody.

Sara quickly realises that Broken Wheel is in desperate need of some adventure, a dose of self-help and perhaps a little romance, too. In short, this is a town in need of a bookshop.

With a little help from the locals, Sara sets up Broken Wheel’s first bookstore. The shop might be a little quirky but then again, so is Sara. And as Broken Wheel’s story begins to take shape, there are some surprises in store for Sara too…

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.

A family torn apart. Another trying to find a way to be as one.

Ingemar Lerberg had it all: successful businessman, politician, husband, father. Until he is found, brutally beaten and left for dead, in his mansion in a fashionable district of Stockholm. His wife, Nora, is missing. With no alternative, his children are taken into care. In one night, a family has been ripped apart.

Journalist Annika Bengtzon is assigned to the case. As she delves into the horrifying details of this family’s fate, she grapples too with the change in her own. With her new boyfriend she must patch together a family from their respective children and stepchildren, and find a way for them all to live harmoniously.

Family matters above all else, but all is never as it seems. Behind the scenes, darkness lies.

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.