In April 1988, Valerie Solanas – the writer and radical feminist, who attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol – was discovered dead in her hotel room. She was 52, alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.

Stridsberg reconstructs her life through imagined conversations and monologues and gives a powerful and heartbreaking voice to the enigmatic woman who wrote The SCUM Manifesto.

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019.

Swedish chef and food blogger Ylva Bergqvist explores the virtues of living and eating green. The concept is simple, ease your way into a mostly or full vegetable-forward diet by cooking dishes that are quick to prepare and impossible to resist.

Everyone is welcome in Moominvalley – especially at Christmas. This beautiful, classic picture book tells a comic tale of misunderstanding, adapted from one of Tove Jansson’s classic Moomintroll stories.

The Gothenburg Cultural Cooperation Initiative within the Church of Sweden sought to draw attention to Dag Hammarskjöld’s classic book ‘Markings’. Vägen valde dig/The Way Chose You contains texts by Archbishop Emeritus KG Hammar, meditations – and contemplating texts, reflections written by five co-writers; Monica Getz, Paolo Lembo, Roger Lipsey, Ismail Seralgeldin and Gunnar Stålsett. It also includes interviews with Ingrid Betancourt and Patti Smith.

This translation was prepared on behalf of the publisher, and involved significant background research on the original work by Hammarskjöld.

“In this lively feminist graphic essay collection, Strömquist embraces an often fraught topic, balancing serious analysis and irreverent, R-rated humor.” — Publishers Weekly

“How I loved reading Liv Strömquist’s Fruit of Knowledge. If her strips are clever, angry, funny and righteous, they’re also informative to an eye-popping degree. Should you be in possession of a teenage daughter, you absolutely must buy it for her and all her friends, in addition to those copies you will now immediately purchase for yourself and all of yours.” — The Guardian

Making really good beer at home can actually be fun, easy and cheap – and take less than a day! In Kitchen Brewing, beer enthusiasts Jakob Nielsen and Mikael Zetterberg show you how to create delicious-tasting beers on a budget in just a matter of hours, without losing any quality along the way.

Ask No Mercy is a translation of Martin Österdahl’s novel Be inte om nåd, the first book in Österdahl’s trilogy featuring Max Anger, a former coastal ranger with a mysterious family background who has become an analyst at Vektor, a Stockholm think tank focused on Russia. Max Anger—With One Eye Open, a television series based on the original novel and produced by Sweden’s Nice Drama and UK-based Twelve Town, with Adam Lundgren and Evin Ahmad as Max and Pashie and with principal photography in Lithuania, premiered on Viaplay in 2021. Be inte om nåd has been translated into languages including Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The book was inspired by Martin Österdahl’s experiences in Russia in 1996. Ask No Mercy is available as a paperback, an e-book, and an audiobook.

Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture and religion collide causing the taboo around menstruation to have grave consequences. Younger people who menstruate are deterred from going to school, adults from work, infections are left untreated. The shame is universal and the silence a global rule.

In It’s Only Blood Anna Dahlqvist tells the shocking but always moving stories of why and how people from Sweden to Bangladesh, from the United States to Uganda, are fighting back against the shame.

A thrilling book for children exploring the tales of the Norse myths.

In this fourth and final volume of Annika Thor’s Faraway Island tetralogy, World War II has finally drawn to a close. Stephie is finishing upper secondary school and hoping to go on to study medicine. But she and her sister Nellie have lost contact with their parents. In the post-war years they are among the many Jews who have search for family members, hope against hope.

At the turn of the century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich or Piet Mondrian, acknowledged fathers of 20th century abstraction. Like many of her contemporaries, af Klint was interested in the invisible relationships that scientists at the turn of the century were discovering shape the world. She strongly believed in a spiritual dimension to the universe and devoted her life to an exploration of this realm.

Hilma af Klint’s process of investigation took many forms and drew on systems and symbols outside the traditional language of art. Notes and Methods traces the origins of her powerful abstract work. Included are the first mediumistic drawings she created with The Five; Flowers, Mosses and Lichens, a spiritual explication of the plant world; and the Blue Notebooks in which af Klint catalogued her most important body of work, The Paintings for the Temple.

Notes and Methods is the first extensive English translation of the writings of Hilma af Klint. In addition to translations of all notebooks reproduced, the book also includes Letters and Words Pertaining to Works by Hilma af Klint, an invaluable guide to the meaning behind the work compiled by Hilma af Klint herself.

Stig Dagerman (1923–1954), a major author in the postwar period in Sweden, published Wedding Worries (Bröllopsbesvär) in 1949. This was his fourth novel and the last book he published before his untimely death.

Told she has six months to live, an Iranian refugee living in Sweden rages against her inevitable decline—and wrestles with the choices of her past—in Hashemzadeh Bonde’s spare and devastating novel, her first to be published in the U.S.

At 50, Nahid is unceremoniously diagnosed with terminal cancer. She knows death: A former Marxist revolutionary who fled Iran for Sweden, she has seen it. Now that it is upon her, she ought to be prepared. “I’ve always carried my death with me,” she announces. “Our time was always borrowed. We weren’t supposed to be alive. We should have died in the revolution.” But the reality of the diagnosis terrifies her. “What do you do when they tell you you’re dying?” she wonders, caustically. What follows is less a plot than a reckoning: As her health declines, she recalls her childhood in Iran, the early excitement of the revolution followed by the brutality of the violence. She reflects back on her marriage and her early years in Sweden, poisoned by the pain she and her husband shared. And in the present, she considers her daughter, Aram, raised in so-called freedom, now an adult with a doting Swedish boyfriend. She loves Aram more than anyone, but her anger makes her cruel. “You have no mother,” she tells Aram, shortly after diagnosis. “You have nobody. You’re an orphan.” Nahid is capable of betrayal; she learned that during the revolution. Now that she is dying, she debates the value of her choices: “I wonder now what’s worth more,” she says. “Freedom and democracy. Or people who love you. People who will take care of your children when you die.” Translated—gorgeously and simply—by Wessel, Nahid’s sentences are short and thrillingly brutal, and the result is exhilarating. Hashemzadeh Bonde, unafraid of ugliness and seemingly unconcerned with likability, has produced a startling meditation on death, national identity, and motherhood.

Always arresting, never sentimental; gut-wrenching, though not without hope.

–Kirkus Reviews

Cutting, often cruel, and with razor-sharp humour, Acts of Infidelity explores the role of the lover in today’s culture.

Selma Lagerlöf’s powerful anti-war novel, written during World War I, grapples with issues any society at war must struggle with. As relevant today as it was when it was written. A true classic.

Swedish title: Bannlyst.