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Fredrik Sjöberg collects hoverflies on the island of Runmarö, in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist and the author of several books, including "The Fly Trap" and "The Raisin King", which form a trilogy with "The Art of Flight".

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´Although there is much in this world that is incomprehensible, you can nevertheless discover a meaning as long as you have managed to limit your field of search.´

Fredrik Sjöberg - collector, romantic, explorer - spends his life tracing the smallest details of the natural world. In these two beautifully wrought tales he meditates on the joy of little things, childhood memories, long-forgotten Swedish entomologists, earthworms, wine-making, the National Parks of the United States, the richness of life and the strange paths it leads us on.

´Digressive, discursive and delightful´ Daily Telegraph

´A joy . . . Fredrik Sjöberg´s best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he completes a trilogy´ Nature

´Thoroughly entertaining, beguilingly uncategorizable ... By his own admission Sjöberg has a "butterfly mind" ... What insures this approach against triviality is the author´s patient alertness to pattern, to telling correspondence´ Nat Segnit, The Times Literary Supplement

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Digressive, discursive and delightful. Michael Kerr Telegraph

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Fredrik Sjöberg collects hoverflies on the island of Runmarö, in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist and the author of several books, including The Fly Trap and The Raisin King, which form a trilogy with The Art of Flight.

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