Vaggeryds bibliotek

"Den svarta boken. Små berättelser om död och förvandling" är Magnus Västerbros första skönlitterära bok. Här blandas historia och nutid, ibland med utgångspunkt i verkliga händels ...

Paris, 2027. Ett presidentval står för dörren. Plötsligt dyker det upp en viral film föreställande en skenavrättning av ministern och kandidaten Bruno Juge. Det kommer an på Paul R ...

Tolvåriga Bird Gardner har inte sett sin mamma på över tre år. Margaret försvann efter att hennes dikter använts i protesterna mot de stränga lagar som införts för att värna ”ameri ...

Susso Myrén jobbar i hemtjänsten och i sin mammas souvenirbutik, belägen i Folkets hus, mitt i Kiruna, världens största stad – och minsta. Genom sin hemsida söker hon svar på en fr ...

Pallantors vita murar håller på att tappa sin kraft, och därmed riskerar staden att förlora sitt skydd mot fördunklarna som ödelagt otaliga domäner. Pallantors akademi, där Julia, ...

There’s been a long-standing argument in literary circles, surrounding Shakespeare’s sonnets. The works are dedicated to ‘Mr W.H.’ and academics have debated as to who this elusive ...

‘The Sea Lady’ is ‘The Little Mermaid’ for grownups. Set in Folkestone, the story focuses on a mermaid who comes ashore, with the intent of seducing Harry Chatteris. Living under t ...

Siblings Robert and Laura McIntyre have fallen on hard times following the death of their mother and their father’s subsequent descent into alcoholism, which is bankrupting the fam ...

Professor Challenger is back - this time with some haunting encounters to handle.Challenger's friend Edward Malone, a journalist, begins to investigate spiritualist meetings for hi ...

‘The Jesuits’ Church in G‘ (1844) was written by the German Romantic author E. T. A. Hoffmann, most famous for his novella ‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’ (1816) which inspired ...

Councillor Krespel is an eccentric violin maker who lives with the mysterious Antonia. Considered to have the most beautiful singing voice the town has ever heard; she has only sun ...

‘The power to destroy, was continually increasing. There was no increase whatever in the ability to escape’. H.G. Wells creates a hauntingly prophetic narrative of the upcoming ato ...

When Nu, a caveman from 100,000 years ago, is transported via a magic spell to the present, this can only mean one thing – adventure!He falls in love with a girl who is the reincar ...

First published in 1918 ‘Danger! And Other Stories’ is a collection of short stories by Sherlock Homes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The titular tale was originally published in ...

Den siste iguanodon är en samling färgsprakande noveller av Sture Lönnerstrand. I en av novellerna bjuds vi på en spektakulär flykt från ett futuristiskt mardrömdsfängelse, och i e ...

Mary Shelley was ahead of her time - arguably by 200 years.For when her novel 'The Last Man' was published in 1826 with a plot featuring a deadly global pandemic, the public was no ...

‘The Daughters of the Night’ follows Jim Bartholomew, an unconventional bank manager as his life is turned upside down. Thrust in to a chaotic situation with an ensemble of brillia ...

‘The Sea-Raiders’ is a short story from 1897 by the "father of science fiction", H.G. Wells. Set in the seaside town of Sidmouth, retired tea-trader, Fison makes a disturbing disco ...

Set in Paris during King Louis the fourteenth's reign, E.T.A Hoffmann's 'Mademoiselle Scuderi' throws the reader into a city under siege from an organised group of thieves who rob ...

E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The Devil's Elixir' is a gothic, horror-fantasy novel inspired by Matthew Gregory Lewis's novel 'The Monk'. Medardus is the son of a sinner and is raised in a mo ...

Sir Francis Bacon’s ‘The New Atlantis’ is an Early Modern Utopian novel that explores an idealised view of what human progress can achieve. The novel centres around the Utopian Isl ...

Dr. Helberson and his friends, Harper and Mancher, are enjoying a night of smoking and drinking in the good doctor’s office when a question arises. Is a fear of the dead curable? T ...

Vikingapojken Ubbe har allt man kan önska sig, fram tills den dag då Fenrisulven dyker upp. Över en natt måste han växa upp och bli en riktig viking. Detta är en saga om att förlor ...

Det fartfyllda äventyret fortsätter för Sonja, Espen, Lotta och deras vänner i Jotundalen. Sonja och farbror Henrik har återförenats och äntligen kan de åka tillbaka hem. Men vikin ...

En brokig samling människor, ledda av den svenske polisen Johannes Karlfeldt, rusar genom sammetssvart världsrymd mot avlägsen destination. Många skulle säkert tappa fotfästet av r ...