Category Archives: Sweden

FT review of Fishing in Utopia

Posted on July 14, 2008 by acb

Another gratifying review, from the Financial Times, where Hugh Carnegy, the executive editor, likes Fishing in Utopia,a lot, though he thinks, god knows why, that I am “a melancholy soul”. It is the window on Sweden that gives this book … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Literature, Science without worms, Sweden, Travel notes | 3 Comments

Another really good review

Posted on July 6, 2008 by acb

John Carey reviews Fishing in Utopia,in the Sunday Times: thoughtful and illuminating, with a kindly quote towards the end: Fishing in Utopia is a lament for a lost Eden. But it is more than that. Essentially it is a story … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Literature, Sweden | 5 Comments

Publicity

Posted on June 22, 2008 by acb

I didn’t do this. And I am opposed to self-linking. But it’s very funny. See what the FWB has made!

Posted in Blather, Sweden | 6 Comments

Death and Badminton

Posted on June 2, 2008 by acb

A while ago, Felix told me about a parody he had once seen of The Seventh Seal, in which Death appears on a very windy seafront, and when he announces himself the Knight thinks for a second and challenges him … Continue reading →

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I forgot to mention

Posted on May 4, 2008 by acb

the best thing about travelling to Lapland as I will be doing: the dates. I am off on the fifteenth of July and not back until the fifth of August. This means that I will be about two thousand miles … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Travel notes

Posted on May 3, 2008 by acb

The first time I went to Sorsele, where the picture at the head of this page was taken, I flew to Stockholm, took the night train to Östersund, and then a bus for six hours up the 45. The next … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The artist stands ready to serve his community

Posted on May 3, 2008 by acb

This picture is a hjortron, or cloudberry. There are many pictures of hjortron on the net, but that is the one which best, I think, illustrates a proposal made by Tord Pettersson, an artist in Gällivare, who thinks the 45 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Ecstatic blurb

Posted on April 21, 2008 by acb

To London, to meet with Pru Rowlandson, the publicity director at Granta. Stunned to discover that she has actually read the book and thought about it. Has no one told her how publishing works? Also, a lovely cover blurb has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Dumb as all the rocks you’d need to stone a harlot

Posted on April 14, 2008 by acb

I have just watched a documentary about Swedish jihadis, Det Svider i Hjärtat, which has not, so far as I know, been discussed in England, though it has been shown at the Barbican, something I only found out while posting. … Continue reading →

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Swedish creativity

Posted on April 10, 2008 by acb

I think that this is the strangest idea I have ever seen as reality TV: a Swedish production company is going around the Cannes TV festival with an idea for a show where pregnant single women look for stepfathers for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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