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.

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 ...

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.

She smiled at the men who killed her brother. Then she destroyed them. Stockholm, 1942. While Europe burns, neutral Sweden has become the world's most dangerous chessboard—a city where German, British, Soviet, and American spies circle each other in an endless shadow war. Karin Lindqvist is a celebrated actress with a secret: she works for Swedish intelligence, gathering information from the Nazi officers who court her at diplomatic receptions. It's her way of avenging her brother, torpedoed by a German U-boat in the North Sea. But when a German pastor arrives with an extraordinary ...

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.

Magic and myth inhabit these chapters in figures both familiar and strange. Giant trolls and talking animals are everywhere. The winds take human form. A one-eyed old woman might seem reminiscent of the Norse god Odin. We meet sly aunts, resourceful princesses, and devious robbers. These stories, set in Norway's majestic landscape of towering mountains and dense forests, are filled with humor, mischief, and sometimes surprisingly cruel twists of fate. All are rendered in the deceptively simple narrative style perfected by Asbjørnsen and Moe.

From the author of the bestselling Swedish Migration history in the Tales of Memory series. She planned to live and die by the same lake. Life had other plans. In the deep forests of 19th-century Sweden, Signe has built a fragile but meaningful life — rooted in land, labor, faith, and fierce love. When winter closes in and events beyond her control begin to unravel everything she knows, Signe must make choices that will shape not only her own fate, but the future of her family. "This story pulls the reader into it — a wonderful story that could have actually happened 200 years ago in ...

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...

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)...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

They left with nothing but a name and a hope. Sweden kept everything else. Between 1850 and 1920, more than one million Swedes left behind the only world they had ever known. Not adventurers. Not soldiers. Farmers. Mothers. Young men who had never seen the sea. They crossed it anyway. The Tale of the Journey tells their story the way it was actually lived — alternating between grounded historical chapters and intimate vignettes that bring each era to life from the inside. The history: the hunger years in Småland, the impossible crossing, the prairies of Minnesota where Swedish became ...

Unge Eric Letang är färdigutbildad jurist och brinnande aktiv i politiken. Som ung notarie på den beryktade advokatfirman Henning Sjöstrand tvingas han gång på gång ta ställning till hur juridiken kan användas till både gott och ont. Hans första stora mål för honom ut i Europa den heta sommar när de röda fanorna dominerar gatorna i Paris och när socialism med mänskligt ansikte går under i Prag. Och den vänsterradikala vågen kommer att än mer splittra familjen Lauritzen mellan de yngre som anser att det är rätt att göra uppror och de äldre som vidhåller att äganderätten står över allt annat.

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 ...

Monte Cassino, det heliga berget norr om Neapel, var en naturlig observationspunkt. Sluttningarna, mindre höjder och dalen framför hade av tyskarna byggts ut till en av världens mest respektingivande försvarsställningar. Slaget om Monte Cassino vintern och våren 1944 var ett obeskrivligt helvete for både anfallare och försvarare. De allierade satte in allt vad de hade av flyg, artilleri, pansar och infanteri från många nationer och bland de tyska styrkorna stred de främsta elitförbanden.

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.

Nådens år 1177. Arn Magnusson har hunnit bli 27 år och är redan en ärrad veteran bland korsfararna i det Heliga Landet. Mycket har hänt under de tio år som gått sedan han förvisades från Arnäs i Västergötland efter den förbjudna förbindelsen med sin älskade Cecilia. Nu sitter han som borgherre i garnisonen i Gaza med uppdrag att hålla lag och ordning i trakten. Under tiden avtjänar Cecilia sitt straff i Gudhems kloster. Innanför klostermurarna härskar den stränga Moder Rikissa och utanför pågår ännu den blodiga maktstriden mellan de sverkerska och erikska ätterna.