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Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village

Marit Kapla (author), Peter Graves (translator)

In this extraordinary and engrossing book, an unexpected cultural phenomenon in its native Sweden, the stories of Osebol’s residents are brought to life in their own words.

Marit Kapla has interviewed nearly every villager between the ages of 18 and 92, recording their stories verbatim. What emerges is at once a familiar chronicle of great social metamorphosis, told from the inside, and a beautifully microcosmic portrait of a place and its people. Lose yourself in its gentle rhythms of simple language and open space, and to emerge feeling like one has really grown to know the inhabitants of this varied community, nestled among the trees in a changing world.

Pandemonium: Some verses on the Current Predicament

Armando Iannucci

Born out of the emotional tempests and contradictions COVID-19 has forced upon us, this scalpel-sharp mock epic from the inimitable Scottish satirist is as much about Britain and Brexit as it is about the pandemic.