The Wandering Pine

“When everything began so well, how could it turn out so badly?”

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.

Tua Forsström – One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake

‘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 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

Without a Trace

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 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.

Percy Barnevik on Leadership

A powerful and humorous collection of business wisdoms for anyone with aspirations to succeed as leader or indeed anyone who’s a fan of the formidable Percy Barnevik.

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

Charlotte Löwensköld

Charlotte Löwensköld is only a distant relation to the Löwensköld family whose name the first volume of this trilogy bears. But her fate is firmly intertwined with theirs, and the reader comes to love her as dearly as do some of the characters. A heartrending and spine-tingling story of the twists and turns of life, then as now.

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.

Into A Raging Blaze

Handed a flash drive in the corridors of power in Brussels, dark forces will do anything it takes to stop Carina Dymek telling the world…

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

Nature is my Kitchen

Sámi cookery and reflections

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

Borderline

The Fifth Season

The Ravens

‘Startling in its depiction of nature, madness and faith, The Ravens is a vivid book, sensitively translated by Sarah Death, about the terrors and passions of childhood.’ Katie Kitimura

This August Prize-winning first novel depicts a teenage boy’s struggle to confront the world of adulthood in rural southern Sweden in the 1970s, an era lovingly recreated in small details. Caught between loyalty to his disintegrating father and fear of his destiny as the future owner of a failing farm, Klas tries in vain to find positive role models and seeks solace in the world of nature, above all in watching birds.

 

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