The Bucket List
Translator: Ian Giles
Author: Peter Mohlin & Peter Nyström
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Year of Publication: 2021
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.
Goblin Girl
Translator: Melissa Bowers
Author: Moa Romanova
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Deborah Bragan-Turner
Author: Mikael Niemi
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Year of Publication: 2020
“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!
Translator: Andy Turner
Author: Lena Eriksson, with Helena Sjödin Landon, Sara Borgegård Älgå and Alexander Kateb
Publisher: Lilla Piratförlaget and Nationalmuseum
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Annie Prime
Author: Tove Jansson, Alex Haridi, Cecilia Davidsson
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Annie Prime
Author: Malin Klingenberg, Sanna Mander
Publisher: Pushkin Children's
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Sarah Death
Author: Håkan Nesser
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Ian Giles
Author: Magnus Fridh
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Alice E. Olsson
Author: Miki Anagrius
Publisher: Gingko Press
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: B.J. Woodstein
Author: Sara Lundberg
Publisher: Book Island and Groundwood
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Saskia Vogel
Author: Greta Thunberg, Malena Ernman, et al.
Publisher: Allen Lane
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Fiona Graham
Author: Johanna Gillbro
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Annie Prime
Author: Tove Jansson, Alex Haridi, Cecilia Davidsson
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Saskia Vogel
Author: Jessica Schiefauer
Publisher: Deep Vellum
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Nichola Smalley
Author: Andrzej Tichý
Publisher: And Other Stories
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Saskia Vogel
Author: Lina Wolff
Publisher: And Other Stories
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Neil Smith
Author: Lars Kepler
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year of Publication: 2020
Anxious People
Translator: Neil Smith
Author: Fredrik Backman
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Ian Giles
Author: Martin Nordin
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Year of Publication: 2020
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
Translator: Kathy Saranpa
Author: Ingrid & Joachim Wall
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
Year of Publication: 2020
The media treated her as a victim, but she was far more than that. She was a voice for the voiceless.
In the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain
Translator: Saskia Vogel
Author: Elisabeth Åsbrink
Publisher: Other Press
Year of Publication: 2020
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.