Our authors are:
Karin Brunk Holmquist
Eva F Dahlgren
Ernsjöö Rappe / Sjögren
Kenneth Olof Filipsson
Mark Fredel
Vibecke Groth
Catarina Hurtig
Kristina Hård
Ritta Jacobsson
Lis Vibeke Kristensen
Håkan Lindquist
Mian Lodalen
Vibekes Marx
Bodil Mårtensson
Daniel Möllberg
Tilde de Paula
Lennart Ramberg
Annika Ruth Persson
Jennie Sjögren
Karin Stensdotter
Anders Widén
Inger Wolf
SEEKING SIRILE GENTLEMEN
Sirila gentlemän sökes
Alma and Margit are neighbors and best friends. Their days pass slowly and pleasantly, but their peaceful existence is being threatened. Tomelilla County have plans to build a new road right across their properties and the women’s homes will be razed to the ground. The friends end up sharing a room at a retirement home while waiting for senior apartments. Life at the retirement home is exciting. Alma and Margit discover that the grumpy director Ulla has steamy trysts with her lover in the bushes outside Alma and Margit’s room and when the lover, Kjell, turns out to be a local politician Alma starts concocting plans. She takes a compromising photograph with her old box camera and threatens to reveal them if Ulla and the politician don’t take action concerning the county’s construction plans: particularly the route across hers and Margit’s properties! While a hysterical Kjell schemes at town hall, Alma and Margit devote themselves to buying their first pairs of long trousers – with elastic waistbands – and dream about meeting a nice man. The day dreams result in a personal ad with the headline: “Seeking Sirile Gentlemen.” Alma is the one who suggests it. She believes “sirile” has something to do with energy and happiness, though she’s not entirely sure …
SEEKING SIRILE GENTLEMEN is a novel about women with spunk, about lasting friendships and a reminder that life is wonderful and filled with hope!
Pages: 240
Published by Kabusa Böcker September 2008
”Seeking Sirile Gentlemen. We’re two single women, 81 and 79 years old (one of us has a slight limp) and we’re each looking for a male companion. It would be wonderful if you lived in Tomelilla and have a car so that you can drive us to Kivik when the fruit trees are in bloom.
/ Last try/.”
Karin Brunk Holmqvist works as a sociologist and lives in the south of Sweden in the small village Tomelilla. She also writes chronicles for radio and is a frequent lecturer. She has a past as, among other things, magician and model.
VILLA BONITA
Bonita is 57 years old and she hasn’t moved from home yet. She never will. Bonita lives with her senile mother in their big villa in Ystad, a small and idyllic town in the south of Sweden. She never really met any men in her youth and now she feels old and tired. During a few years, Bonita worked as a cook in a military regiment, but when her father died she promised him to take care of his sickly wife, her mother - and that’s what she has been doing for many years now. Her best friend and neighbour Doris, got married and moved to the big town in her early twenties. Thirty years later, when her parents died, she decided to move back to her childhood home next to Bonita after an uninspiring marriage with a boring man.
Doris has always been the elegant one with her red nails and beautiful shoes. Bonita, on the other hand; clumsy and shy with no experience of the “big world”. But when Doris comes home, their old friendship soon flourishes again. And when Doris finds out what kind of dirty company she is working for, she starts making wild and fantasttic plans and Bonita gets involved. Soon their houses are filled with women in need and Doris’s unintelligent employees get more and more nervous.
A wonderful story about female empowerment. In Villa Bonita Karin Brunk Holmquist is in great form; sparkling, funny and with a tender twinkle in her eye.
Rights sold to: Turkey (Acik Defter Publishing), Germany (Piper Verlag).
THE POTENCY GIVERS
Potensgivarna
A true feel-good book about the Svensson sisters living a quiet and regular life in their parents’ old house in a small village in the south of Sweden. They cook jam, bake wonderful cakes, go to church and make nice broderies. Year after year. But one day they get a new neighbour, the charming Deputy Director, Alvar Klemens, and life gets a new meaning. The thrifty sisters buy new dresses in the nearby town, they invite their neighbour for coffee and in the evenings, they open their special cup board for drinks both once and twice a week.
One day, when Tilda and Elida sit in their garden, they see how a neighbourhood-cat with an enormous sexual enthusiasm courts his girl friend. What had happened to the cat? Just before the passionate encounter, the cat had eaten from the neighbour’s flowerpot containing a special plant.
Now the sisters get a brilliant idea how to earn some money so that they can install a water closet inside the house instead of the old dry privy. They get into the viagra and potency strengthening business in their own special way....
This is a charming and funny book, reminding us about old times, not far away from the modern, urban stressful live of today, and about the cultural confrontations between old and new in society.
Rights sold to: Germany (Piper Verlag), Denmark (Cicero)
Film options have been sold, audio book has been released in Sweden in 2006 (Story Side).
THE BLOSSOM BEETLES
Rapsbaggarna
A true feel-good book about the brothers Henning and Albert who live a quiet life outside a small village in beautiful Österlen, in the south of Sweden. Life goes on as usual with bicycle excursions to the local store and discreet supervision of the old parental home. But times are changing. The home of their childhood becomes a rehabilitation centre for women and there are rumours about strange circles in the brothers’ rape field. A small misunderstanding in front of the TV-camera and the circus has begun...
Once again Karen Brunk Holmquist writes about the confrontation between old and new in our society. With humour and love, she describes the cultural crashes between the urban life and the tranquil countryside.
