Month: December 2005

I was very impressed that the Åhleans department store stocked an entire section of books by Swedish authors. It was mainly made up of Henning Mankell novels, but having read all them, and wanting to read something Swedish I picked this up from the Stockholm based journalist Liza Marklund. This seems to be the third…

Yes – another Scandinavian novel. Does Iceland count as Scandinavia? Indriðason is the man who’s just won the CWA Gold Dagger, and inadvertently caused them to change their rules regarding the language of first publication. This wasn’t the book that won the award – that’s still only out in trade paperback. But this is his…

I believe that this is the thirtieth entry in the Discworld series, and that means that Pratchett has been publishing more than one title a year on average. I understand that he’s slowed down a bit more recently, but the guy’s a publishing phenomenon. This time around we meet Moist von Lipwig, who’s a cheat…

I guess that Hard Case Crime must have been over the moon when one of the kings of fiction deigned to write a novel for them. I’m also guessing that he’s so powerful a literary figure that he doesn’t have to worry about his publishers getting upset when he writes for another one. I’m not…

This is the third of the Fandorin novels to be published in English. I’m not all together convinced that they’ve been published over here in the same language as they were in Russia, since this one seems to follow on more from the first UK published novel than the last. In this instance our hero…