Astrid Lindgren

“Kerstin and Barbro are a couple of teenage twins, who by a whim of fate (or more correctly, a whim of their father) have managed to end up in a small manor in the country. How the dilapidated property gets to be restored despite a lack of funds, what the twins’ part in its restoration is and how each of them gets a gentleman admirer, is what this happy and fun-filled book is all about”.

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This is a story about the Wars of the Roses and competing for Stormumriken, an odd-shaped stone.

For a couple of intensive weeks in the summer, war breaks out between the White Roses and the Red Roses. On the White side are the knights, Anders, Eva-Lotta and Bill – better known as Master Detective Bergson – against the Red knights, Sixten, Benka and Johnny. Their struggle leads them into the dark shadow of a crime, and Master Detective Bergson has to come to the rescue again.

In this book we get to accompany Pippi when she buys 18 kg of sweets, when she goes to the fair and tames boa constrictors and villains, when she takes Tommy and Annika to a desert island and is shipwrecked for two days. But then along comes Captain Longstocking in his sailing-ship, Hoptoad wanting Pippi to go with him to the the South Sea island where he was washed ashore after having been blown overboard during a violent storm.

The Nils Karlson Pyssling Collection is filled with stories that have become unforgettable classics, such as: Nils Karlson Pyssling, Herr Liljonkvast who takes the little sick Göran to Skymningslandet, Peter and Petra who belong to the mysterious Small People, the cheerful Cuckoo-Clock bird, Lustig-Gök, the mischievous doll Mirabelle who grew up in a garden, the dearest sister and the cruel robber Fiolito in the story, There aren’t any Robbers in the Forest.

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13 year-old Eva-Lotta Lisander is running as fast as her legs will carry her. This time it’s not the struggle between the White Roses and the Red Roses that’s got her running. There’s a dead man in the bushes at the farm – it’s Green, the pawnbroker who’s lying there… the sleepy little town is shaken by a dreadful crime and Master Detective Bill Bergson and his friends are being thrown into life-threatening adventures.

Kati lives in a comfortable little den on Kaptensgatan. She shares her life and what it brings with Eva – happy, blonde, intelligent Eva. Not just her exciting position as a shorthand/typist in a legal office, not just the daily life in the batchelor flat, but now a trip to Italy. “We’ve got to start learning Italian”, says Eva, “key phrases, like: ‘what dangerous, passionate eyes you have, Signor’ – stuff like that!”

“You trip over villains and bandits wherever you go”, says Anders to his friend Bill Bergson. And he’s quite right. Admittedly, the master detective has now got rid of his habit of suspecting everybody around him, but something happens during a night-time visit to a ruined castle that gets his attention. He and Anders and Eva-Lotta witness little Rasmus being dragged off by kidnappers and now he doesn’t hesitate to take on the challenge.

Up on the roof of an altogether normal house on an altogether normal street in Stockholm, lives a Mister, whose name is Karlson. He is a a handsome, exceedingly wise, all-round hero in the prime of his life, who lives in a tiny little cottage hidden behind the big chimney. One beautiful day, through the window of Smidge’s room, in flies Karlson …