Swedish Historical Fiction

Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.

A gripping historical novel about a daring escape from Nazi Germany The responsibility weighs heavily on the shoulders of twelve-year-old Holger. Ever since their Jewish parents were deported, it has been up to him to hide his younger siblings from the Gestapo. Countess Sophie finally wants to do more than just talk and joins a resistance network. Her first mission: to take three children to a safe place. But nowhere in Berlin is safe from danger. When a bomb hits the hiding place, the members of the network hatch a daring plan to help them escape from the Reich. The courage of the siblings...

A forgotten grave. A vanished woman. A house that remembers what everyone else has lost. When the first snow settles over Dalberg, Gertrud expects nothing more than a quiet winter with Peter, the man she rediscovered late in life. But a single grave at the long-abandoned Restad sanatorium shatters that peace — a grave bearing a name no one should know: Hanna Madelene. For Gertrud’s American friend Eileen, that name is a wound. For Gertrud, it becomes a calling. This mystery unfolds in the aftermath of Midsummer Lights and the story of Hanna Madelene — yet it can be read entirely on ...

Hanna Madelene 3 A Novella – Nr 3 in the Trilogy about Hanna Madelene Chicago, 1940s. Hanna Madelene lives between worlds — mother, wife, and gifted violinist, yet marked since childhood by silence, difference, and a mind that often drifts beyond reach. When trauma shatters the fragile order she has built, her dissociation leads her back across the ocean, to Sweden and the riverbanks of her birth. There, within the walls of Restad Gård asylum, reality bends and blurs. Folklore creatures she once saw as a child — vättar, trolls, even Näcken himself — begin to shimmer through the ...

A tender historical novella set in 1860s Sweden — where a young girl stands at the edge of childhood, and the edge of the world she’s always known. Dalsland, Sweden – 1864. Twelve-year-old Elin rises before dawn to milk the cow, mind her younger brothers, and stir thin porridge over the fire. In a quiet village where everyone knows your name—and expects you to stay—she begins to feel the first stirrings of something more. A failed harvest. A baby’s fever. A carved wooden horse. And a boy named Jonas, whose dreams stretch far beyond the lake. As childhood fades and winter closes ...

When Gustaf and Anna Klar and their three children leave Sweden for New York in 1897, they take with them a terrible secret and a longing for a new life. But their dream of starting over is nearly crushed at the outset: a fire devastates Ellis Island just as they arrive, and then the relentlessly harsh conditions and lack of work in the city make it impossible for Gustaf to support his family. An unexpected gift allows the Klars to make one more desperate move, this time to the Midwest and a place called Swede Hollow.

It’s 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets…or is he? Mika is shocked when a newborn baby is left at the orphanage in the middle of the night, by a boy with a cryptic message. Who is he? And who is this “Dark Angel” he speaks of? When a detective shows up, Mika senses something even more sinister is going on.

Special Edition with Historical Companion & Author’s Note From a forest-side cottage in rural Dalsland to the wide, smoke-streaked streets of 1870s Chicago, Elin: The Complete Journey tells the unforgettable story of one young woman’s quiet revolution—from survival to selfhood, from heartbreak to home. Born into hunger and hardship, Elin grows up in a Sweden still shadowed by famine and tradition. At seventeen, she boards a steamship alone to meet a fiancé she barely remembers, stepping into a future no one—least of all Elin herself—could have imagined. This sweeping historical ...

A #1 international bestseller, this atmospheric and breathtaking sequel to the “cerebral, immersive page-turner” (The Washington Post) The Wolf and the Watchman explores the darkness hidden beneath the splendor of 18th-century Stockholm. Stockholm, 1794: A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses...

Dalsland, Sweden, 1869. She’s carrying more than memories. He’s waiting on the far side of the sea. And the future is asking for everything. Seventeen-year-old Elin has always done what’s expected. She peels the potatoes. Scrubs the floors. Keeps her head down. But beneath the stillness, a quiet longing grows. Jonas has already crossed the ocean — chasing the promise of land and freedom in America. Elin stayed behind, tending the life she knows, holding onto the dream of one day joining him. Now, with a secret stirring beneath her apron and a letter pressed to her chest, she must ...

Two unlikely allies work to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm in this spellbinding finale to the #1 internationally bestselling historical trilogy that is filled with “plenty of twists to satisfy thrill-starved readers” (The Washington Post)...

Game of Thrones i vikingamiljö! Året är 993. Under ett slag i östra Viken ser unga Torstein sin fader bli ihjälslagen på ett fasansfullt sätt. Själv blir han bortrövad som slav. Det är en orolig tid i Norge. Olav Tryggvason vill ha makten i landet och göra Vite Krist till den nya guden. Torstein måste uppleva en slavs slitsamma och fredlösa tillvaro innan han växer upp till att bli en fruktad krigare och legosoldat. Längs vägen vävs hans öde ihop med Olav Tryggvasons.

Efter en framgångsrik militär karriär i Indien möter general Thaddeus Carlyon till slut sin död, men inte i stridens hetta utan på en middagsbjudning i London. Till en början ser det ut att vara en olyckshändelse. Men senare erkänner generalens vackra hustru villigt att det var hon som dödade honom–något hon envist håller fast vid trots att hon riskerar att bli hängd.

Brobyggarna är första delen i Jan Guillous nya romanserie som skildrar mänsklighetens mest dramatiska och blodiga århundrade 1900-talets Europa. I den första delen möter vi tre fattiga norska fiskarpojkar med förbluffande teknisk begåvning. Med hjälp av välgörenhet får de möjlighet att studera vid den tidens viktigaste tekniska läroanstalt, universitetet i Dresden. De utexamineras 1901 och två av bröderna hamnar därefter vid dåtidens största järnvägsbyggen det ena i Tanganyika, det andra mellan Kristiania och Bergen i Norge.

I sitt brev till Even beslutar Solfrid att inte avslöja sina känslor för honom. Istället sätter hon punkt för hans förhoppningar. Det har varit en lång resa för Emilie och Susan. När de äntligen anländer till St. Paul hör de unga kvinnorna en bekant röst ropa efter dem. Sagan om Emilie är en släktkrönika fylld av hemligheter och kärleksintriger. Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga.

Sweden, 1913. Having petitioned the court for independence from her aristocratic family, the young and vibrant Agneta Lejongård takes control of her destiny. In Stockholm, she explores her bohemian passions in art and free love, joins the suffragette movement with her best friend, and defiantly resists the expectations of women in high society. Then comes news of a tragic accident and an urgent summons to return to the family’s manor house in the country. As for Agneta’s forward path in life, she must now follow it back home.

Den andra boken i den spännande och dramatiska berättelsen om Australiens kolonisation - ett land av blod, passion och drömmar. Livet i den nya kolonin i Australien är svårt - svårt för de fria och ännu svårare för fångarna. Många dukar under för sjukdom och svält. Många rymma, men få lyckas och de som misslyckas straffas brutalt. Men en del, däribland Jenny Taggart, bestämmer sig ändå för att göra detta hårda land till sitt. Hon sviks i vänskap och kärlek, men hon förlorar aldrig ur sikte - en framtid i frihet.

Catriona Hennessy, hon som bär titeln 'frun i dalen’ i de skotska högländerna, har uppfostrats till att vara stolt, självständig–och att vaksam mot män av Cynster-släkten vars rykte är vida känt. När hennes förmyndares sista vilja tvingar henne att gifta sig med Richard Cynster inom en vecka blir hon rasande. Hon tänker inte ge upp sitt liv, sin frihet–eller sitt hjärta. Men ett barn vill hon ha. En arvinge. Frågan är om den charmige Richard Cynster är villig att hjälpa henne med just det och inget mer.

Now thirteen, Mika has left behind her Stockholm orphanage for a treacherous journey with Detective Hoff to finally meet her mother, Annie Moonwind, a maid at the imposing Roseboon estate. Upon their arrival, and to their surprise, Valdemar is mistaken for the local constable, and Mika his errand girl, summoned to arrest Annie for mysterious crimes. But are dark forces at work at Roseboon? After all, doors are kept bolted. Windows are nailed shut. And screams pierce the dark. Maybe something wicked has been unleashed. Everything points to a creature that only comes at night.

Utanför Sveriges gränser dånar den världsbrand som med tiden kommer att kallas andra världskriget. För Lauritz, den äldste av bröderna Lauritzen, blir det allt svårare att undvika att ta ställning. Familjens största ekonomiska tillgångar finns i Tyskland, liksom Lauritz svärföräldrar. Men Tyskland har ockuperat brödernas hemland Norge. Lauritz äldste son Harald är SS-officer stationerad i Oslo, äldsta dottern Johanne arbetar inom norska motståndsrörelsen, andra sonen är officer i svenska flottan och yngsta dottern förefaller vara spion.