Geiger

An East German spy cell is reactivated in present-day Stockholm.

This is Gustaf Skördeman’s literary debut and rights have been sold to a number of languages based on the English translation.

The Bucket List

Debut thriller by Mohlin and Nyström.

Half Swedish/half American FBI agent John Adderley ends up working for the police in Karlstad under a new identity where the tackles a cold case that left detectives stumped ten years earlier. Named 2020 CrimeTime Swedish crime fiction debut of the year.

This translation was originally prepared on behalf of the foreign rights agent and resulted in sales to more than fifteen different languages.

Black Ice

An exciting thriller by Carin Gerhardsen set on Gotland.

Many exciting things happen in this book that is translated from Swedish and where I have written words here to extend this point.

Goblin Girl

From the publisher:
A dating site match goes really wrong in this troubling, funny graphic memoir.

Winner of the 2021 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle’s 2020 Leonard Prize

“Romanova’s disarming debut graphic memoir grapples with gender, power, and bad Tinder dates. … As she learns to heal and understand herself, readers who have dealt with mental health struggles or unequal power dynamics in relationships will recognize and sympathize with her regenerative conclusion.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

To Cook A Bear

“So much to relish here . . . the plot is gripping, there’s a beautifully handled thread on reading and writing, and the writing is just lovely!” DIANE SETTERFIELD, author of Once Upon A River

It is the summer of 1852 in Kengis, a village in the far north of Sweden, where revivalist preacher Lars Levi Laestadius and Jussi, his young Sami protégé, set out to solve a heinous crime.

Winner of the Petrona Award 2021.

The Little Birds’ Art Tour!

A delightful and illuminative art book for children and curious grown ups offering a cheeky bird’s eye view of works from the Swedish Nationalmuseum collection.

An art book for children and curious grown-ups.

The Invisible Guest in Moominvalley

Retelling of a Tove Jansson classic. Part of the Back to Jansson series.

This unique retelling of Tove Jansson’s touching short story The Invisible Child captures Jansson’s wise, perceptive and original voice and includes delicate, painterly illustrations full of character and detail and based on Jansson’s original drawings and colour plates.

The Secret Life of Farts

Hilarious children’s picture book with rhyming verse.

A toot or a blow,
A honk or a squeak,
Each fart is special,
Each fart is unique!

 

A laugh-out-loud illustrated journey into the secret world of farts.

The Secret Life of Mr Roos

In this compelling and memorable novel, a chance meeting has a profound effect on two lonely lives. Their unique road trip leads Inspectors Barbarotti and Backman to the heart of Europe.

At fifty-nine years old, Valdemar Roos is tired of life. Stuck with a job he hates, a wife he barely talks to and two step-daughters he doesn’t get on with, he hasn’t much to look forward to. Then a winning pools coupon gifts him the chance of a fresh start.

A secluded hut in the middle of the woods. A recovering young drug addict on the run from rehab and a vengeful boyfriend. Valdemar starts living a double life that could be his downfall, and eventually the police have to act. This is the third novel in Håkan Nesser’s Inspector Barbarotti series and an intriguing addition to the collection.

The Art of Stillness in a Noisy World

The world is a frenetic place – we just need to find time to breathe

Simply sitting in silence every once in a while, without moving, doing nothing, might just be the smartest choice you make in the world we live in. In The Art of Stillness in a Noisy World, meditation and yoga expert, Magnus Fridh, will help you find the calmness amidst the stresses of everyday life, helping you to become more present in a world where we seem to becoming ever more absent.

This translation was prepared with a short turn around time for the publisher, including fact-checking and reference tracing.

Knots That Simplify Your Life

With a bit of rope and the right knot, it’s easy to come up with smart solutions!

In Knots: That Simply Your Life, writer Miki Anagrius shows how a basic understanding of knots is a useful, fun, and attractive tool not just in boating, but in everyday life. Through beautifully shot illustrations you’ll learn how to use knots to store, organize, and link various objects, as well as hang and carry items.

The possibilities are endless: tie a shoelace knot that never loosens but is easy to undo; adjust the height of lamps and flowerpots suspended from the ceiling; bunch up newspapers bound for the recycling; bind your roast and herbs in the kitchen; suspend your bicycle from the ceiling; restrain overly eager pets.

With a dose of competence at knots, many problems can be solved in an attractive and practical manner. This book also provides information on the different types of rope, knots, and string, how to stop bits of rope from fraying, and how to connect different lengths of rope and make practical loops.

The Bird Within Me

This is a fictionalised story based on the artist Berta Hansson.

Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

Co-translated with Paul Norlen.

The profoundly moving story of how love, courage, and determination brought Greta Thunberg’s family back from the brink.

The Scandinavian Skincare Bible: the definitive guide to understanding your skin

Holistic skincare from the epidermis to the microbiome, by an expert in dermatology.

An award-winning skin scientist explains how to maximise skin health and make the best of your looks without spending a fortune on skincare products.

Moomintroll Sets Sail

Retelling of a Tove Jansson classic children’s tale. Part of the Back to Jansson series.

Combining the spirit of Jansson’s original warm and witty text with stunning illustrations of all her most beloved characters, Moomintroll Sets Sail is a heartwarming story of kindness, adventure and courage, as the Moomins come to realise that although adventure is exciting, home is always best.

Girls Lost

Finalist for the PEN Translation Award.

Winner of Sweden’s most prestigious literary prize for young readers, Girls Lost is a thriller featuring three teenage girls: Kim, Bella, and Momo. The three occupy a challenging limbo between childhood and adulthood, made only more difficult by the steady provocation of their malicious male classmates and pubescent bodies that are changing beyond their control. They are on the precipice of a grown-up world that seems to be broken into two groups: male and female; public and private; assailant and target. Eager to escape, the girls seek refuge in Bella’s greenhouse, a free zone where their imaginations run wild and their talents can flourish.

Wretchedness

A deeply musical novel about poverty and being ‘the one who got away’

Shortlisted for the 2016 August Prize

Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize

Winner of  the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

Malmö, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all over again the chaotic song of his youth. He emerges to a different sound, heading for a crash.

From sprawling housing projects to underground clubs and squat parties, Wretchedness is a blistering trip through the underbelly of Europe’s cities. Powered by a furious, unpredictable beat, this is a paean to brotherhood, to those who didn’t make it however hard they fought, and a visceral indictment of the poverty which took them.

Many People Die Like You

In this collection from the winner of Sweden’s August Prize, Lina Wolff gleefully wrenches unpredictability from the suffocations of day-to-day life, shatters balances of power without warning, and strips her characters down to their strangest and most unstable selves.

An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour’s makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she’s had sex with her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping cava through the maquette of a giant penis becomes a murder weapon in the hands of a disaffected housewife. Wicked, discomfiting, delightful and wry, delivered with the deadly wit for which Wolff is known, Many People Die Like You presents the uneasy spectacle of people in solitude, and probes, with savage honesty, the choices we make when we believe no one is watching … or when we no longer care.

Lazarus

Anxious People

One bank robber, seven strangers and a really bad idea…

“A wildly unpredictable caper which begins with a failed bank robbery leading to a hostage situation unlike any other.” Shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2021.

Fire, Smoke, Green

Vegetarian barbecue, smoking and grilling recipes from the writer who brought us ‘Green Burgers’

This is more than just a barbecue cookbook. Fire, Smoke, Green is broken up into seven chapters that cover everything you need to know about making great food over the flame: from grilling directly onto fire, to cooking with indirect fire, smoked recipes and even wood-fired pizza.

A Silenced Voice

The media treated her as a victim, but she was far more than that. She was a voice for the voiceless.

A moving memoir of an inexplicable crime, a family’s loss, and a legacy preserved.

Kim Wall was a thirty-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. Then, in the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead of writing the next day’s headline, she’d become one.

As the bizarre events of Kim’s murder unfolded, the world watched in shocked disbelief. For Kim’s distraught parents, Ingrid and Joachim, it was a devastating personal struggle. In the ensuing months, day by gruelling day, they had to come to terms with their loss, process the global media attention, and endure the investigation and trial. In the end, they’d make certain that Kim would be seen not only as a victim but as a bright, funny, complicated, ethical, and selfless young woman—a loved and loving daughter, sister, fiancée, colleague, and friend.

Kim Wall’s life and promise may have been cut short, but everything she stood for lives on in this emotional memoir of braving the worst of days, moving forward, and never forgetting.

Nominated for the Bernard Shaw Prize in Swedish.

In the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain

Winner of the August Prize.

The story of the complicated long-distance relationship between a Jewish child and his forlorn Viennese parents after he was sent to Sweden in 1939, and the unexpected friendship the boy developed with the future founder of IKEA, a Nazi activist.