Arkistot: Kirjat

Veera Salmi: The Book of Oboi

A spectacular novel about a world where literacy has been decimated and a boy who does not believe in stories.

Thirteen-year-old […]

Tero Mielonen & Mari Ahokoivu: I’ll Become a Researcher

A wonderfully informative book on how interests and hobbies that are fostered at a young age can help people find […]

Malin Kivelä, Martin Glaz Serup & Linda Bondestam: If You Meet a Bear

Nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize and for the August Prize 2021 in the […]

J. Sakari Salonen: Five Apocalypses

Lauri Jäntti Non-Fiction Prize 2022.

In Five Apocalypses, geoscientist and palaeoclimatologist J. Sakari Salonen focuses on those dark moments in pre-history […]

Jukka Viikilä: Heavenly Reception

Winner of the Finlandia Prize 2021.

Author Jan Holm is undergoing urgent surgery: the blood in his heart has been circulating […]

Pekka Juntti: Wild Dog

A strong debut novel, set in the forgotten villages of Lapland where people and trees take care of each other.

When […]

Iida Rauma: Destruction

A case study of an individual who was nearly destroyed and all that is being destroyed right now.

Destruction is about […]

Meri Valkama: Yours, Margot

Winner of the Debut of the the Year Prize 2021.

A fascinating debut novel about the fragility of memory and the […]

E. L. Karhu: To My Brother

A masterful and sometimes brutal tale of an anonymous woman who dotes on her very different brother. She emerges as […]

Maisku Myllymäki: Holly

A hypnotising and fervent novel about two very different women and a psychological suspense story about isolation.

Eva, who works as […]

Tiina Raevaara: Me, My Dog and Humanity: A History of Coexistence Between Species

What does the human-animal connection mean from the perspective of evolution and humanity?

Tiina Raevaara, writer, science journalist and biologist with […]

Osmo Tapio Räihälä: Why Is Contemporary Music So Difficult?

Winner of the Non-Fiction Finlandia Prize 2021.

Composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä describes – not without humour – music composing and listening […]

Katariina Vuori: Across the Sea, Towards the Past – How I Fell in Love with a Dead Sea Captain

A fascinating narrative non-fiction work about love, memory and two sea journeys.

In the era of the dreaded great famine at […]

Ulla Tuomainen: Sexual Nature – Mate Choice, Sex and Family Life in the World of Animals

Feathers fly, scales dance and horns clash, there is interior decorating of fine nests, gifts exchanged, matrimonies tied and severed. […]

Matias Riikonen: Matara

Winner of the Tulenkantaja Prize 2021, nominated for the Finlandia and Runeberg Prizes.

Matara is about an imaginary micro nation founded […]