I love Sofia Lundberg’s debut novel. 96-year-old Doris has a very strong bond with her grandniece, Jenny, and although they live across the world from each other, they Skype on a regular basis. But the history of Doris’s long life is actually revealed through letters she has been writing for Jenny. These alternating story lines …
If you’ve ever wondered how to commit the perfect murder, this book will give you some clues. Much delightful mayhem occurs in these five short chapters, where we come to know the seemingly mild-mannered Maud, an elderly retiree in Göteborg, Sweden. Maud leads a rather comfortable but pedestrian life of solitude, which she will protect at …
This week’s tofu press of a tome is Magnus Nilsson’s The Nordic Cookbook, which, as we’ve discovered, encapsulates Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Island, Norway, and Sweden—the whole “Nord,” as it were. Like all fabulous Phaidon cookbooks, this one is eleventy hundred pages of absolutely stunning pictures and mouth-watering recipes. Like “Black Pudding Head …
