Books published in Swedish
TWINS
Kindle books. April 2025
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Twelve-year-old twins Peter and Mikael and their best friend Filip are nearing the end of the best summer vacation ever, and they have decided to end it in style (as they put it). Everything is going according to their plan until Peter and Filip wake up in their tent in the morning and discover that Mikael's sleeping bag is empty.
Peter's beloved twin brother has disappeared!
Ten years later, Peter receives a letter. It's from Mikael...
Questions pile up. Is Mikael alive? And if so, where has he been all these years? The search for Mikael begins at the mysterious rock outcrop where they camped ten years ago.
The story Twins is an exciting portal fantasy in a modern style, with a mix of humor and seriousness.
Novel: 243 pages
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Where no one wants to be
Lava förlag. November 2024
Där Ingen Vill Befinna Sig
Sanna wakes up alone in her hotel room and remembers the evening she spent with Sebastian.
They were brought together by Sebastian's friend Mats and the weekend's 'blind date' in Varberg has definitely brought them together. It turns out that they are a perfect match. But when Sanna gets out of the comfortable hotel bed to check where Sebastian has gone and discovers him lying on a ledge four to five meters below the hotel window, total happiness turns into pure panic. Sebastian is rushed to the hospital where the doctors diagnose him with broken bones and a coma.
To his friends it looks like he fell out the window in his sleep, but to Sebastian the events unfold in a completely different reality. Just before he fell asleep, he was lured out by a strange man, floating freely outside the window, to a utopian place he could not resist. A wonderful South Sea island where, according to the man, an unimaginable happiness awaits him. But it turns out that the place where Sebastian ends up is not at all as the strange man described it, but a place where absolutely no one wants to be.
Facts:
The book's story lingers because there is an unpleasant connection to reality. An imaginative, exciting, unpleasant and thought-provoking story on the theme of coma and the state between life and death. Not that this book is in any way about the corona pandemic, but during the pandemic many seriously ill people were put into an artificial coma. Several of those who survived testified afterwards that they had been in a hellish world. They had all been in a place ... Where absolutely no one wants to be.
Novel: 226 pages
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SOMNUM EXTERRERI
Norlén & Slottner. Augusti 2023
Somnum Exterreri, mardröm
The nightmares have come more often lately. At first Tom didn't remember much of them, but now they have become clearer, they feel almost real. That's why he is terrified when he receives an email with a film that reflects his latest dream. The violence in the film is even more vivid than in the dream.
Eric, who has always been different and lives a lonely life, also has nightmares. He has realized that they are true dreams and feels that something must be done about what happens in the dreams. He knows that he has no ability to prevent it, but hopes to be able to use his special technical knowledge to get help for this.
Tom and Erik live in the same city...
Nightmare is an exciting novel with some humorous elements and which also leaves some unexplained phenomena in the plot for the viewer to interpret.
Background
I woke up one night from a terrible nightmare and sat up in bed. It probably happens to all of us from time to time, nothing strange about it, nothing you immediately reflect on, the dream usually seems to have blown away by the morning. But this particular night was a little different. This time the dream was not only really horrible, but also incredibly detailed and realistic, almost as if I was experiencing it for real. It would turn out that it didn't end there ...
This book is based on that incident.
Why is the title of the book Somnum Exterreri?
I was looking for a title that would fit a script where nightmares formed the basis of the plot. Simply calling the book Nightmare felt too ... thin. There had to be something else, something that would capture the interest, but still not trumpet it outright. After a little research (and after playing around with different translations) I finally ended up in the fantastic world of Latin. Nightmare became Somnum Exterreri.
Somnum stands for 'Sleep', and Exterreri for 'To be afraid'. The interpretation was: To be afraid when you sleep. And what can produce fear when you sleep? "Nightmares!"
Novel: 250 pages, Danish binding
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