Böcker av Eluned Gramich

As much about learning a language as it is about nature, this dignified and nuanced memoir of the author's stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan evokes what is cultured and cultivated, and yet also honours the wild; the untranslatable.

Windstill is set in Hamburg in the winter of 2015. Lora, a 22-year-old university drop-out, is staying with her widowed German grandmother after the sudden death of her grandfather. The novel takes place in the week following the funeral, where all kinds of uninvited guests and unexpected histories emerge. Elfriede''s buried postwar memories resurface after her husband''s death, and Lora must somehow protect her grandmother from a puzzling history while negotiating her own heartbreak.

Elin, Mark and baby Padarn, move into their first house together - a house bought unusually cheap - as Mark relocates them in order to start a new job. Lonely and trapped in an increasingly volatile and disquieting marriage, Elin's world begins to unravel in self-doubt and paranoia: is something else visiting her baby at night, keeping him awake? Soon, a series of terrible secrets crawl out from between the cracks.An unsettling contemporary ghost story by the winner of the Ghastling novella competition.This is an extremely tense and haunting story that promises to have the reader riveted and turning the pages to the very end.