**THE INSTANT SWEDISH CULT CLASSIC‘Clever, funny and tender’**FREDRIK BACKMAN, bestselling author of My Friends and A Man Called Ove'A warm and funny tale about betrayal, loneliness and sorrow, but above all the desire to belong'LISA RIDZÉN, bestselling author of When the Cranes Fly South There’s no health guru in Sweden better than Cassi. Couple’s therapy? Puppy yoga? Full moon rituals? She’s got e...

Once inseparable, Joel and Nina haven't spoken in twenty years.When Joel's mother Monika develops dementia, he has no choice but to return to his home town. Monika needs specialist care, and that means Pineshade - which also means Joel is going to have to deal with his one-time best friend, for Nina works there.It's not long before Monika's health deteriorates - she starts having violent, terrifying outbursts, and worse, she appears to know things she could...

'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' - Sunday Times'I never thought I would see myself in an eel, until I read Svensson’s beautiful book, in which he anthropomorphizes eels and shows how mysterious they are, and how little we know about them. It’s a beautiful book that makes you realize that the eel is our cousin — we are the eel, and the eel is u...

'Breathlessly suspenseful, ingeniously plotted and impossible to put down' Yrsa SigurdardottirThe epic, explosive Fabian Risk series concludes with this action-packed thriller from international number one bestseller Stefan Ahnhem.He has extorted. He has abused. He has raped. He has sacrificed colleagues as a means to reach the top. His name is Kim Sleizner – and he works as a police chief in Copenhagen.Dunja Hougaard used t...

'Never mind Scandi crime fiction, the time has come for Scandi horror.' Metro *****What if...?A large wolf escapes its captors.A cult leader breaks out of psychiatric care.A disillusioned woman is forced to end her self-imposed exile.Stefan Spjut's latest novel explores the ancient notion that our forests may be inhabited by beings we do not understand, creatures neither animal nor human, living in the shadows ...

'An incredible book. Profoundly affecting and deeply soulful. This book will stay with me forever**.'** Ruth Jones, the Sunday Times bestselling author of By Your SideI don't know how you've made it this far . . .Sami's childhood is much like any other - school with his friends, dinners with his family, playing with his pets (stray cats and dogs, and the turtle he keeps on the roof).But with Syria at war w...

'HOW CAN ANYONE LEAVE SOMEONE THEY LOVE?'Martin Berg is falling into crisis. Decades ago, he was an aspiring writer, his girlfriend was the wildly intelligent Cecilia Wickner, and his best friend was the hellraising artist Gustav Becker. But Martin's manuscript is now languishing in a drawer, Gustav has stopped answering his calls, and Cecilia has vanished - leaving him to raise their children alone.Cecilia: an eccentric wife and absent mother, a woman who was perhaps only ...

Brought to you by Penguin.There’s no health guru in Sweden better than Cassi. Couple’s therapy? Puppy yoga? Full moon rituals? She’s got everyone in the remote village of Bäcken covered. The locals don’t really know who Cassi is or how she managed to turn a derelict cottage into a successful self help retreat, but one thing is clear: they’re all willing to pay good money for her services.There’s only one problem: Cassi is a fraud. A great one at that, who h...

Brought to you by Penguin.‘This is a searing and incredibly important book, storytelling at its best’ Donal Ryan‘A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise I don’t know how you’ve made it this far.'Sami’s childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of family and school, of friends and relations and pets (including stray cats...

**"Jenny Rogneby is the new queen of Nordic noir. Her heroine is like no one else." —David Lagercrantz, author of the #1 best-selling The Girl in the Spider's WebThis second installment in the Leona Lindberg series follows the corrupt detective as she deals with the emotional fallout of her actions while investigating a terrorist attack in the heart of Stockholm.**Perfect for fans of Henning Mankel and Steig LarssonA man blows himself up ou...

Vilda takes life as it comes, talking for hours about everything and nothing with her best friend, Alma. It’s never been a big deal to Vilda that her mother’s side of the family is Sámi and her father’s is Swedish, but as summer vacation starts, she wants to know more about her indigenous roots—and she’s looking forward to her beloved grandfather, Áddjá, teaching her the Sámi language.Then Áddjá has a fatal heart attack and, overnight, Vilda loses not only a person she loves most i...

Shortlisted for t****he Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' Sunday Times‘What a joy! Patrick Svensson’s sinuous weaving of natural history, philosophy, psychology and autobiography is as compelling and rewarding as a silver eel’s return to the Sargasso Sea. I loved every moment.’ Isabella T...