Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

Jonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later on set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Jonasson now lives on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea. His most recent novel is Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All.

‘A comic delight of love, luck and mathematics’ Daily Express‘As unlikely and funny as Jonas Jonasson's 2012 debut bestseller, “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared”’ Observer‘Excellent. A drily satirical tour of the world [taking in] Swedish liberals, Colonel Gaddafi and of course, apartheid and the South African Prime Minister B J Vorster’ The Times‘’Feel-good’ set to stun level’ Guardian‘A funny and completely implausible farce about a woman, a bomb and a man’s frustrated ambition to overthrow the king of Sweden … The rest of the world will chuckle all the way through it’ Kirkus