Biblioteken i Norrbotten

Sofie bygger en kärleksmaskin. Bosses kassettradio spelar Lou Reeds Transformer. Lennart förbereder sig för att ta STEGET. Franks platt-TV dubbar alla program till japanska. Märta ...

”Den strålande septemberhimlen: ett hån! Den lugna vida utsikten över Västergötlands slätter och berg: ett hån! Tåget kunde ha dunkat sin väg fram i tusen år, i takt med mänsklighe ...

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) var en österrikisk författare, journalist och dramatiker av judiskt påbrå. Under 1920- och 1930-talen befann han sig på höjden av sin karriär och var en av ...

Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaerml ...

Who could have known that when Rudyard Kipling wrote these Jungle Book stories in 1893-94, they would eventually inspire the Oscar nominated song "The Bare Necessities" – one of th ...

"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments." Similar to Hans Christian Andersen fairy-tales (but with trademark witticisms), ‘The Happy Prince and ...

The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupi ...

Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Hap ...

"Dream Days" is a whimsical collection of Kenneth Grahame’s nostalgic childhood reminiscences and joyful children’s stories. Told from the point of view of a boy and his siblings, ...

"There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother’s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not ...

Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in German ...

Gerard is a downright legend. At least in his own mind. Old and retired, the French brigadier muses over past adventures serving in the Napoleonic wars, and while he certainly shou ...

The supernatural is an everyday occurrence for John Kendrick Bangs, who just can’t avoid seeing ghosts everywhere! A witty, turn-of-the-century spoof of the gothic horror anthology ...

"Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down." A rich, old man has been mysteriously stabbed, and ...

Ett av världslitteraturens viktigaste författarskap i tillblivelse.När Virginia Woolfs Samlade noveller och prosaskisser kom ut 1985 var det första gången så många som 17 av texter ...

Allt förändras när hon får en smartphone av sin man. Ett uppdämt bekräftelsebehov får en explosionsartad effekt på henne och plötsligt bryr hon sig mer om sina selfies än om sin eg ...

JAG SKA SPRÄTTA UPP DIG FRÅN FITTAN TILL HALSEN. Det är det senaste i raden av hotfulla meddelanden som Sylwia fått. Alltid från anonyma kontantkortstelefoner. Säkert en ensam galn ...

Allt är bra. Som det ska. Med korsordets givna svar och städandets strikta ritualer försöker Mia hålla mörkret på avstånd. Men skuggorna i lägenheten brer ut sig och visar sig där ...

Allt spricker i sömmarna. Inte bara den begagnade studsmattan eller Mathias relation till dottern Ellen. Exfrun Helene gör påstötningar för att få umgås med dottern och det täta sk ...

Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, ...

Anna, a German mill-owner’s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as ...

A princess is locked away on a remote island guarded by a dragon. Many suitors try and fail to save her, but one day a clever boy arrives. So begins ‘The Island of Nine Whirlpools‘ ...

Arguably the best compilation of mystery stories ever, ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ (1892) is for any lover of intrigue and sophisticated humour. Sherlock’s talent for solvi ...

At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volu ...

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy thes ...