NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF 2025A mega bestseller in Sweden — and winner of its two biggest literary awards — Colony is a gripping portrayal of contemporary society and its alternatives.Burnt-out from a demanding job and a bustling life in the city, Emelie has left town to spend a few days in the country. Once there, ...

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author’s own diagnosis.Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained undiagnosed. When portrayed in popular culture, women on the spectrum often appear simply as copies of their male counterparts — talented and socially awkward.Yet autistic women...

A playful guide to understanding the ways of ‘normal’, The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy flips our usual scripts about neurodiversity.Following on from her internationally successful memoir, The Autists, Clara Törnvall has written a fun, comprehensive, and accessible explanation of neurotypical, or ‘normal’, behaviour. Full of facts, tips, and tests, and developed with input from other autists, this book places the difficulties autists face in the ...

‘There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.’Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced into hard labour until the end of the war.Now ninety-eight, she has spent her life educating young people about the Holocaust and answering their quest...

In the spring of 2020, as a new and deadly virus rapidly spread across the globe, the world shut down. But a small country in Northern Europe remained open.First, its government instituted no restrictions. Then, it didn’t order the wearing of face masks. While the rest of the world looked on with incredulity, condemnation, admiration, and even envy, a small country in Northern Europe stood alone. As Covid-19 spread across the globe rapidly, the world shut down. But...

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 unive...

Award-winning Swedish poet Mats Söderlund explores the changes in his local mountains, along with the grief of losing our natural places – encouraging us to save what's left.Solastalgia is the distress caused by losing our beloved landscapes. How will we mourn the ice?Mats Söderlund first hiked to the Helags massif, Sweden, in 1976, aged eleven. In 2022, he could see the glacier had shrunk. The Nordic region is warming quickly, and Mats sho...

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis.Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained undiagnosed. When portrayed in popular culture, women on the spectrum often appear simply as copies of their male counterparts—talented and socially awkward.Yet autistic women e...

A playful guide to understanding the ways of "normal people", The Autist's Guide to the Galaxy flips our usual scripts about neurodiversity.Following on from her internationally successful memoir, The Autists, Clara Törnvall has written a fun, comprehensive, and accessible explanation of neurotypical, or "normal", behavior. Full of facts, tips, and tests, and developed with input from other autists, this book places the difficulties autists face i...

Doaa Al Zamel och hennes familj lämnar det krigsdrabbade Syrien för Egypten. Men även där blir det politiskt instabilt och allt farligare att vistas. Hon möter och förälskar sig i Bassem, en före detta frihetskämpe, och tillsammans bestämmer de sig för att lämna de trakasserier de möter i Egypten att fly till Europa. Doaa och Bassem blir två av de tusentals flyktingar som gör den livsfarliga resan över Medelhavet på överfulla och nedgångna båtar.Efter fyra dagar till havs sänks der...