Already in the early 1990’s I co-wrote a handbook about the European Union, but my first ”real” book was a settlement with the prevailing worldview, a message that had been maturing in my mind for some years when it finally hit the shelves in 2009. A few years later I published, as a kind of spin-off, a collection of essays about the dissolution of borders in the world. In 2018, I co-wrote (together with Erik Esbjörnsson) a book about Africa’s challenges and possibilities. A couple of fiction books followed, and in 2024 my journalist colleague Svenolof Karlsson and I published a book about the climate, a topic we have both been passionate about for decades.
Apokalypsens gosiga mörker
(‘The Cozy Darkness of the Apocalypse’)
The world is in a significantly better shape than we think. Why we fail to realize this is something of a mystery, but there are some clues, cultural as well as psychological, and in the first part of the book I try to analyze those. The second part focuses on the evidence: Here is the true state of the world. Three subsections: Welfare, environment and conflict. [In Swedish]
Farväl, oskuld
(‘Goodbye, Innocence’)
Humankind is integrating – truly integrating – for the first time in history. On every speck of the planet it is possible to know in real time what is happening on every other speck. In these essays I discuss the consequences for power, money, knowledge, integrity, identity, gender equality, social life, crime and conflicts when walls between categories of people, culture, habit and gender are crumbling. [In Swedish]
Miljardlyftet
(‘The Billion Boom’)
This book discusses Africa’s possible window of opportunity. Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world where the demographic transition still hasn’t taken place. When it does, if it happens at a rapid pace, the continent could reap dividends. But many wise decisions have to be made simultaneously for this possibility not to be squandered (FB page here). [In Swedish]
Katharsis
(Catharsis = purification / cleansing / purgation)
A short novel (under pseudonym Ella P Ander) about sexuality and gender identity. We accompany HH on a work trip to Brussels and Las Palmas, where she has a number of human encounters. We gradually enter her inner life. Her sexuality and desire follow her wherever she goes; are they a blessing or a curse? Eventually we understand there is something else she plans to do on the trip… [In Swedish]
Ett ägg av fjädrar
(‘An Egg of Feathers’)
A collection of short stories written under pseudonym Ella P Ander. They are different in character and not thematically connected. But the stories are all a bit dream-like (parts came to me in the form of dreams), and they challenge the consistency of identity and time. [In Swedish]
Professionell klimatbevakning
(‘Professional climate coverage’)
My co-author Svenolof Karlsson and I challenge the alarmist climate narrative in the mainstream media. What does science really say? What driving forces are in play behind warnings of imminent doom? Does the news media honor the journalistic principles of truth and independence? This book shows how to cover climate constructively and seriously. [In Swedish]