A captivating and innovative book of essays about how the beach as a geographical and mythical space between land and sea has functioned as an arena for death and violence – in literature, art, film and real life.

- Borås Tidning

The clichéd images of beach sunsets and seaside summer homes fade like sun-bleached wallpaper against the dark coastal horrors Högselius presents in his collection of beach finds from our cultural history. The beach has always functioned as a border against the unknown and decidedly lethal: sea monsters at the edge of the world, ships carrying plagues, sudden storms, rising tides… That is the strength of this book: even though it ranges through the geography of our planet, it doesn’t primarily arouse a yen to travel, but to read.

- Anna Blennow in Sydsvenskan

Högselius’ charming musings is one of this captivating book’s most outstanding qualities. And as a good essayist, he knows how to balance the universal and the particular, collective culture and private experience, and to add colour to the contours of historical examples with the help of his own personal experiences and unique memories.

- Martin Lagerholm in Svenska Dagbladet

That beaches are, on the whole, very bleak places, is convincingly demonstrated in Per Högselius’ Death on the Beach, a lovely, compact little collection of essays which gives these playgrounds of horror and sorrow a thorough onceover, through the twin lenses of art and literature.

- Petter Lindgren in Aftonbladet