A Home – The World of Carl and Karin Larsson

A book about life at Lilla Hyttnäs in Dalarna, home of Carl and Karin Larsson, in the late 19th century.

A book about life at Lilla Hyttnäs in Dalarna, home of Carl and Karin Larsson, in the late 19th century. Written by Ulrika Ewerman, with photographs by Mira Wickman, translation by Ian Giles, and styling by Elsa Billgren.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

An over-educated, under-employed man struggles to complete his novel and get his life together over the course of one scorching hot Swedish summer in this clever, provocative, and hilarious novel that is already an acclaimed sensation abroad.

Convinced of his own moral and intellectual superiority, the nameless protagonist of this debut novel is also paralyzed by self-consciousness. Yet, inspired by Stephen King’s On Writing, he decides to dedicate four hours a day to work on his own novel over the course of one summer. Only, he must also balance his creative goals with a part-time government job and looking after his girlfriend’s possibly brain-damaged Pomeranian dog.

Too bad he’s uninspired by his job, almost kills the dog, and realizes his novel is slowly morphing into misguided fan fiction about French writer and enfant terrible Michel Houellebecq.

Even when he’s alone, he can’t help but pontificate before an imagined audience, making over-the-top cases for and against all manner of culture war battles, referencing everyone from Spike Lee to Grumpy Cat. He obsesses over identity politics, and veers into dangerous territory as he and his androgynous girlfriend engage in sexual role-play. He’s an emblem of all the follies of our age—happily unaware that in his refusal to be ordinary, he’s become a walking cliché of misguided manhood.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a portrait of a person belatedly coming of age, a blistering takedown of a privileged man who believes he’s a revolutionary, and “a crackling firework display of comic brilliance” (Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden).

The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow

‘The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow’ is a polyphonic, elegaic testimony to the Indigenous Northern Sámi people forcibly displaced from their homeland along the Norwegian seaboard in the first half of the twentieth century. Published by the University of Minnesota Press.

‘The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow’ is a polyphonic, elegaic testimony to the Indigenous Northern Sámi people forcibly displaced from their homeland along the Norwegian seaboard in the first half of the twentieth century.

Published by the University of Minnesota Press.

The Oyster Diver’s Secret

Heart-warming adult fiction about female friendship.

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award 2024.

Nobel: The Enigmatic Alfred and His Prizes

This is the fascinating story of the path from Alfred Nobel’s youth to the high-stakes drama that enveloped the dynamite king’s last will and testament.

The telegram reaches Sweden on the morning of Friday, 10 December 1896. Sixty-three-year-old Alfred Nobel has passed away quickly and unexpectedly during the night, at his villa  in the Italian city of San Remo. The news makes it into Afton­bladet the same day. ‘Every educated Swede feels sorrow at  the loss of one of their greatest countrymen,’ writes the news-paper, while avoiding the question that will soon be on every-one’s lips: Who will now inherit his riches?

 

NOBEL: The Enigmatic Alfred and His Prizes is the fascinating story of the path from Alfred Nobel’s youth to the high-stakes drama that enveloped the dynamite king’s last will and testament. Set against the backdrop of cities such as St Petersburg, Hamburg and Paris, and framed by family quarrels, heartbreak, successes and betrayals, NOBEL is also a captivating account of nineteenthcentury Europe that explores its political currents, literary treasures and scienti?c genius. This is a story about breaking boundaries.

The awardwinning author, journalist and member of the Swedish Academy, Ingrid Carlberg, has combed through archives in multiple countries, unearthing hitherto unknown sources that cast new light on the man who dreamed of doing good for humanity. She combines the researcher’s scholarly rigour with the readability and verve of a narrative journalist. In NOBEL, she has written the first cohesive, comprehensive work to tell the story of Alfred Nobel and the background to the Nobel prizes.

Cookies & Crumbs: Chunky, Chewy, Gooey Cookies for Every Mood

Some like ‘em gooey and chewy, others chunky and crunchy, but everybody loves cookies.

Whether it’s classics like Milk Choc Chip, Peanut Butter and Chunky Double Choc, or new favourites – think Coffee and Cardamom or Melt-in-the-middle S’mores – you’ll find endless options for baking cookies at home with these unforgettable flavour combinations, as well as an array of unbeatable vegan and gluten-free recipes.

In this fun-filled, fresh-out-of-the-oven celebration of everyone’s favourite sweet treat, Kaja Hengstenberg keeps things simple, guides you through the basics and presents delicious, doable recipes. With handy tips scattered throughout, alongside ideas for using up leftovers – ice cream sandwich, anyone? – these are recipes that will show you how to make seriously good cookies every single time.

The Cuckoo

Detective Patrik Hedström and Erica Falck are back exploring threads of the past woven into the present and old sins that have left long shadows.

As a heavy mist rolls into the Swedish coastal town of Fjällbacka, shocking violence shakes the small community to its core. Rolf Stenklo, a famous photographer, is found murdered in his gallery. Two days later, a brutal tragedy on a private island leaves the prestigious Bauer family devastated.

With his boss acting strangely, Detective Patrik Hedström is left to lead the investigation. Tensions rise threatening cracks in the team of officers at Tanumshede police station and pressure mounts as the press demand answers.

In pursuit of inspiration for her next true-crime book, Patrik’s wife Erica Falck leaves behind their three children and travels to Stockholm to research the unsolved decades-old murder of a figure from Rolf’s past. As Erica searches for the truth, she realizes that her mystery is connected to Patrik’s case. These threads from the past are woven into the present and old sins leave behind long shadows.

The Emotion Trap

Practical and accessible self-help guide for depression, stress, anxiety and procrastination from a clinical psychologist.

Why negative feelings hold you back and how small changes can set you free: a psychologist’s toolkit for modern life.

Hunter in Huskvarna and other stories

A boy goes missing from a Swedish town. A police officer’s mistress cares for his dying wife. A woman becomes obsessed with her psychoanalyst’s daughter. These stories together form a dizzying portrait of love and survival.

Eleven stories spanning raw reality and fairy tale, held together by a sense of longing: for escape from the mundaneness of a prescribed life, for a past which promises an undiscovered future, for a place or a person that fees like home.

Will You Care if I Die?

Will You Care If I Die? is a powerful memoir about social class, race, friendship and unexpected love, and a blazingly topical exploration of social polarization and the rise of the far right. In Sweden, where children murder children and where gun violence is the worst in Europe, Nicolas Lunabba’s job as a social organizer with Malmö’s underclass requires firm boundaries …

Will You Care If I Die? is a powerful memoir about social class, race, friendship and unexpected love, and a blazingly topical exploration of social polarization and the rise of the far right.

In Sweden, where children murder children and where gun violence is the worst in Europe, Nicolas Lunabba’s job as a social organizer with Malmö’s underclass requires firm boundaries and emotional detachment. But all that changes when he meets Elijah – an unruly teenage boy of mixed heritage whose perilous future reminds Nicolas of his own troubled and violent past.

Allowing Elijah into his home and then into his heart, Nicolas crosses one of his own red lines. With the odds stacked against them, and completely unprepared for the journey he and Elijah now set off on together, can Nicolas keep Elijah safe from harm and steer him towards a better future? Written as a letter to Elijah, Will You Care If I Die? tells Nicolas and Elijah’s story – and asks us to reimagine what it means to care for one another in an uncaring world.

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