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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Translator: Neil Smith
Author: Lars Kepler
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year of Publication: 2020
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.
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.