Fiction

Lanceheim, the second installment in the fantasy series by Tim Davys (a pseudonym), is published by HarperCollins. “A fast-paced literary and psychological drama in which the trials and tribulations of a group of stuffed animals illuminate the moral and philosophical dilemmas we all share.”

Leif GW Persson is Sweden’s foremost crime researcher and psychological profiler. Since his first book about detective Lars Johansson was published in 1979, he has also been one of Sweden’s leading authors of crime fiction. The first of his books to be published in English is his novel about the murder of “the prime minister,” Between Summer’s Promise and Winter’s End, now available from Pantheon Books.

Selma Lagerlöf’s classic novel, published in 1891, has now been published by Penguin Classics in a new English translation, the first since 1898.