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 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 with her children—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. Blending richly researched history with intimate, character-driven storytelling, this novel follows one woman through everyday life marked by scarcity, folklore, motherhood, and quiet ...

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...

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 ...

They left with nothing but a suitcase and a name — and built a legacy that still lives in your kitchen, your stories, your heart. Step into the journey of the Swedish emigrants who crossed oceans, carried traditions, and quietly shaped a new world — one letter, one recipe, one memory at a time. Between 1850 and 1920, more than a million Swedes left everything behind in search of a better life in America. Their stories have been scattered across time — in letters, in family memories, and in the silent spaces between generations. In this beautifully crafted blend of history and ...

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 ...

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...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Nu är det 70-tal. Vänstervågen från 1968 ter sig närmast som en idyll jämfört med det krig som håller på att växa fram mellan Europas säkerhetstjänster och en alltmer splittrad vänsterrörelse. Det blir bokstavligen en fråga om liv eller död.

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.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman—already a...

Eric, den tredje generationen Lauritzen, växer upp på 1950-talet. Det är en tid när grunden för det svenska folkhemmet och välståndet läggs. Ett sönderbombat Europa skriker efter svenska råvaror. Samtidigt präglas tiden av skräcken för kärnvapenkriget. Men för Eric finns orosmolnen på närmare håll. Hans skyddade tillvaro i Saltsjöbaden är på väg att slås i spillror. I den stora omvandlingen föds också en ny ungdomskultur och influenserna kommer inte längre från Europa utan från Amerika.

Mot östfronten rullar ständigt nya kolonner med vapen, ammunition och manskap. I motsatt riktning transporteras oupphörligen totalförstörda stridsfordon, artilleri och sjuktransporter med soldater som inte är mycket mer än vid liv. Sven och de andra soldaterna i det 27:e straffregementet lever i konstant fruktan för de ryska stridsvagnarna, som kommer närmre för varje dag. Ett felaktigt beslut innebär en säker död. Sven, Lillebror och Legionären befinner sig svårt sårade i en iskall godsvagn på en farlig resa västerut mot sjukhuset i Hamburg.