Stars & Snowflakes: Simple, sustainable papercrafts for the festive season

When the nights draw in and you need to add a little magic and sparkle to your long evenings, what better way than to make your own decorations?

All you need is paper, scissors and glue and with the templates and step-by-step instructions in this book, you can create a winter wonderland in your own home. Start with a simple snowflake shape in different sizes and scatter them around the room, or hang them from your windows.

Create the simplest Christmas tree topper, or a series of stars in varying colours to decorate the family table. All sorts of paper can be used – from leftover wrapping paper, to baking paper and coffee filter paper.

There are also wreaths, garlands, leaves, flowers and lots more to discover and once you start folding and creating these stunningly simple projects, you’ll want to make more and give them as gifts, too!

It’s the perfect sustainable, seasonal craft for even novice crafters.

Memoirs of a Child (Mårbacka II)

A quirky miniature delight, full of insight, wisdom and humour. With conscious artistry, Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf lifts the lid on a rural childhood that propelled her into a glorious lifetime of creative writing.

In this second part of her notionally autobiographical trilogy, Selma Lagerlöf broadens the perspective from the farm where she grew up to include the people and places around Lake Fryken in her beloved Värmland county. The personal creation myth which she began in Mårbacka continues here with a focus on the self-discipline and imagination needed to fulfil a childhood ambition to become an author. It is hard work that sometimes means taking a stand against convention but also a deeply enriching process in a home steeped in storytelling and books. The mature author reveals the roots of the young bibliophile’s growing skill in deploying fiction to manipulate and embellish reality, producing a wryly charming, tongue-in-cheek account that we should beware of taking at face value.

The Axe Woman

Two cousins and rivals, two farms, and a woman who could be a murderess or an exploited victim. A traumatised DI Barbarotti is forced to fly to the mountains of Norrland in pursuit of the truth.

A fifth outing for Inspector Barbarotti of the Kymlinge police. Returning to his desk too soon after personal trauma, the sleepless detective is faced with taking another look at two old cases, a murder and a disappearance. How safe was the conviction, and where has the man on the moped vanished to? Is the woman the press called the Axe Woman a dangerous convict, an exploited victim, or more complicated than both those stereotypes imply? A brain-fogged Barbarotti ends up travelling to the magnificent fells of the Swedish north to secure a vital interview, and nothing is ultimately quite what it seemed.

Dr. B.

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden, based on his grandfather’s life.

In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. A fascinating portrayal of the astonishing connections and often mysterious players illuminated by his grandfather’s remarkable wartime life.

Stockholm South: Siege by Karl Eidem and Jale Poljarevius

The first book in an intense thriller series featuring Inspector Hannah Kaufman.

On her way to work one ordinary Wednesday morning, Inspector Hannah Kaufman is unexpectedly called to Stockholm South Hospital, where she’s confronted by a far from ordinary event. Armed men have invaded the children’s hospital and are threatening to kill one child an hour if their demands aren’t met.

Hannah and her colleagues face a dramatic hostage situation with enormous media attention. Meanwhile, inside the hospital walls, the clock is ticking for the innocent children imprisoned with the terrorists…

For fans of Ian Rankin, James Patterson and the popular Netflix show Money Heist.

Karl Eidem is an author and financial analyst. Jale Poljarevius is a police superintendent and expert in organised crime. He is also known for his appearances on Efterlyst, the Swedish TV equivalent of Crimewatch.

It Came to Me on a Whim – The Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess

A compelling tale that will grip true-crime fans as Maria Bouroncle reveals the story behind a long-kept family secret.

In the cold spring of 1929, Artur Andersson leaves his wife and three children alone for a few hours to go and fetch firewood in the forest. When he returns, the children lie dead in the bathtub. The story of Ingeborg Andersson and what happened that day was a tightly guarded family secret for 70 years. Drawing on Ingeborg’s own letters and other archive material, Maria Bouroncle recreates the tragic tale of her great-aunt and her treatment by the criminal justice and mental healthcare systems of the day.

Sweet Revenge

Two gripping novellas from bestselling author Camilla Läckberg

Two gripping novellas from the No.1 international bestselling author

Women Without Mercy

Ingrid gave up her career to support her husband. Now he’s having an affair.
Birgitta is avoiding the doctor. No one can see the bruises her husband leaves.
Victoria left Russia to marry a man she met online. But he is nothing like she imagined.
Maybe the only way out is to commit three perfect murders…

Truth or Dare

Best friends Liv, Martina, Max and Anton are spending New Year’s Eve together.
But each of them is keeping a terrible secret.
When a game of truth or dare takes a dark turn, the shocking truth emerges.
Not everyone will live to see the chime of midnight…

Home for Easter by Annika Devert and Jessika Devert

The second in a light-hearted series by Annika Devert and Jessika Devert, continuing the adventures of Emelie as she discovers love and friendship on a small Swedish island.

On the island of Sardinön, Easter is fast approaching but Emelie still has some difficult questions on her mind. Should she take the job at the community centre? If her new partner Andreas has a child with a lesbian couple, and he moves in with Emelie – then she’ll have a baby in the house. Does she want that? And her finances are a constant worry, but it seems that the vase she’s been left by Aunt Astrid is worth a bit of money and perhaps that will improve her situation. But when the vase disappears, Emelie is dismayed and doesn’t know what to think. Could her neighbour Birgitta have stolen it? Or Kjell the restaurant owner?

Instead of thinking about the future, Emilie plans an Easter party for the islanders, with a talent show and a festive buffet. On Easter Saturday they take a walk to the lighthouse on the cliff, where an unexpected surprise awaits her…

Home for Easter is the cosy successor to the Devert sisters’ popular Christmas romance Home for Christmas. Perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Poppy Dolan and Cathy Bramley.

A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding

Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control? A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected.

Winner of the 2019 Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize
Winner of the 2019 Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize
Shortlisted for the 2020 Tidningen Vi Literature Prize 

In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it is this moment their father chooses to reveal his affair. Pandemonium ensues.

Over two decades later, Sebastian is recruited to join a mysterious organisation, the London Institute of Cognitive Science, where he meets Laura Kadinsky, a patient whose inability to see the world in three dimensions is not the only thing about her that intrigues him. Meanwhile, Clara has travelled to Easter Island to join a doomsday cult, and the third triplet, Matilda, is in Sweden, trying to escape from the colour blue.

Then something happens that forces the triplets to reunite. Their mother calls with worrying news: their father has gone missing and she has something to tell them, a twenty-five-year secret that will change all their lives …

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Sam Berger’s life has been turned upside down. He is suspected of a murder and his partner, Secret Service agent, Molly Blom, is in a coma.

A detective under arrest. A killer running freeA dark and gripping thriller set in the Stockholm Archipelago, from an international bestseller and Scandicrime star.

Detective Inspector Sam Berger’s life has been turned upside down. He is suspected of a murder and his partner, Secret Service agent, Molly Blom, is in a coma.

Meanwhile, a terrorist attempt is threatening Stockholm and a wanted murderer is on the loose. Berger escapes to the Stockholm Archipelago while he waits for orders from the Swedish Security Service’s chief executive.

But is he the solution or is he part of the problem?