The chilling third novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck investigating a string of child murders.In the once peaceful parks of Stockholm, a killer is stal
Ingmar Bergman is still the doyen of cinema. He is known for masterpieces of controlled human emotion, exploring every facet of the personality in relentless detail. He wrote: "I had the possibility of corresponding with the world around me in a language
Rakastumisen, syntymän ja kuoleman huumaava kuvaus - oodi suomalaiselle kesäyölleValoisin kesä on taittumassa sadonkorjuun tummuvaan helteeseen. Kahden vuorokauden aika erilaiset ihmiskohtalot yhtyvät ja risteävät, ilo ja tuska kietoutuvat toisiins
Stig Dagerman’s influential novel about a young man’s troubling journey through despair and illicit passion.Set in a working-class neighborhood in Stockholm, A Burnt Child revolves around a young man named Bengt who falls into deep, private turmoil wi
A woman is found dead in Anderslöv, a small village in southern Sweden. While Martin Beck investigates her murder, his colleague Larsson becomes embroiled in the hunt for two men responsible for the death of a policeman during a shoot out on the open roa
With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, The Laughing Policeman is a classic of the police procedural and "must readi
Benché il successo di Barabba e il Premio Nobel nei 1951 l’avessero fatto conoscere al grande pubblico anche italiano, Pär Lagerkvist è stato in seguito quasi dimenticato; lasciato in disparte dai flussi delle mode. Ma la scarna semplicità della sua
A continuation of an allegorical tale by the great Swedish poet, playwright, novelist & essayist (followed by "Pilgrim at Sea", 1962 & being the 3rd installment of Lagerkvist's tetralogy consisting of Barabbas, The Sybil, The Death of Ahasuerus &a