Biblioteken i Malmö

H.L. Mencken, in his illustrious career as a journalist, made his reputation with satirical writing and controversial ideals. Although his is a name not customarily associated with ...

Enslaved by their own fears, the characters in this riveting collection are straining for redemption. Their choices reflect the well-worn patterns we carve for ourselves through ou ...

William Black's debut short story collection looks closely at lives lived in the heart of coal country-now fracking country-in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Two miners battered by a c ...

A woman recalls the freedom and power of childhood games; a surprise anniversary party goes awry when the husband is hospitalized and the fault lines and strengths of a family are ...

The stories in this new collection from Tom Noyes show us everyday characters weighing the evidence of their circumstances and seeking ways to understand more fully the mysteries t ...

A multi-layered narrative comprising a series of interwoven short stories and poetic texts which can be read within continental Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond. Tadjo imagi ...

"Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed."Hughie, a charming young man with no money, wants to marry a girl named Laura. But Laura’s father is co ...

The narrator has gone out to a garden in the middle of the night. But the garden, under the light of the moon, doesn’t seem like a usual garden. Everything seems a little weird and ...

When Harry Houdini travels all the way to Egypt, he doesn’t know yet that this trip will take him to one of his greatest – and most terrifying – adventures. During the trip he is k ...

Basil Elton is a lighthouse keeper who has followed in his father’s and grandfather's footsteps – all of them have taken care of this very lighthouse. Elton is still fascinated by ...

Kalos and Musides are two Greek sculptors who are asked to sculpt statues for a competition. But while they are preparing their statues, something terrible happens – Kalos becomes ...

When captain James P. Orne and his crew kill a strange and enormous animal in the sea, they are confused. They have never seen anything like this before – the animal looks like a g ...

It is the time to celebrate Yuletide – a festival that ancient Germanic people celebrated during the darkest times of the year. A man returns to his home town to share this special ...

"Strictly speaking, there were only six poor travellers; but, being a traveller myself, though an idle one, and being withal as poor as I hope to be, I brought the number up to sev ...

"Minerva House ... was ‘a finishing establishment for young ladies,’ where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything an ...

"Society, taken in the lump, is all dwarfs (...) And when you’ve no more left to give, they’ll laugh at you to your face..."A man sets up a circus in a respectable neighbourhood an ...

Doctor Marigold is a traveling salesperson and a good man. But his wife beats their daughter Sophy and he is too weak-willed to do anything about it. When Sophy dies, Marigold is s ...

"He is a regular dare-devil, you know: a gambler, a duellist, a seducer, but a jewel of an hussar - a real jewel."A handsome young hussar rides through a small town, seduces a youn ...

"Everybody knows it's our business to score. You don't get a chance to get a bite of any thing, and you don't get to bed till two o'clock o' nights, but you're always being screame ...

Ingen får veta att de två älskande reser tillsammans. Att deras separata ankomst bara är ett villospår - ett sätt att undvika upptäckt. Förhoppningsvis är det ingen bekant som åker ...

Rutger von G's mystiska död har gäckat östgötska Kisa i ett helt sekel. Han var illa omtyckt, och dessutom gammal och bräcklig, när han tog sitt sista andetag under äppelträdet i t ...

Petra Bravo har återvänt till Rand och ska för första gången få träffa den unge jimbugen Lhan. Vid sin sida har hon magikanden Jend, som för närvarande befinner sig i en kropp som ...

Nu undrar du förstås vad den här berättelsen innehåller. Och det ska du få veta! Här finns en hexaflexagon som ingen någonsin lyckats vika, en ung doktorand som tror sig ha hittat ...

När jimbugen Ghezor råkar på rönnkvinnan Rowenna blir han omedelbart förälskad. Hon är dock inte alls imponerad av hans grå elefanthud och tredelade näsa. Men så händer något som g ...

Syrenerna spred sig som främmande ogräs över den plåtkalla prärien. Planetens svarta sol var på väg upp och kastade brinnande skuggor över landskapet, när Ilijot blästrade fram mot ...