Fredrik Backman Beartown 4 Books Set The Winner, Us Against You, Beartown, Anxious People

Fredrik Backman’s Beartown Trilogy collection brings together four novels: The Winner, Us Against You, Beartown and Anxious People. Set against the pressures of community life and personal crisis, these stories move between a small town shaped by conflict and a tense New Year’s Eve open viewing that takes an unexpected turn.

Across the set, Backman explores how people respond when their lives are disrupted, from residents trying to move on from events they would rather forget, to strangers forced into close proximity under extraordinary circumstances. Questions of family, community, sacrifice and justice run through the collection, alongside the ways people come together in anger, sorrow and love.

Included titles

• The Winner
• Us Against You
• Beartown
• Anxious People

Key details

• Four-book collection set
• By Fredrik Backman
• Includes three Beartown novels plus Anxious People

Synopses

The Winner

Two years after events no one wants to revisit, the residents try to move forward but find the past hard to escape. As they grapple with what family and community mean, they face what they may be willing to sacrifice to protect them.

Anxious People

On New Year’s Eve, House Tricks estate agents host an open viewing in an up-market apartment when an incompetent bank robber rushes in and politely takes everyone hostage. Among those present are Anna-Lena and Roger, Julia and Ro, and bank manager Zara, who only came for the view.

Us Against You

As Beartown faces the possibility of a second tragedy, the story follows two towns and two teams, and what it means to believe in something bigger than yourself. It explores how people come together through anger, sorrow and love, and how standing together can bring a town back to life.

Beartown

In a large Swedish forest, Beartown is cut off and shaped by isolation as more of the town is swallowed by the trees each year. Offered a bright new future, everything is threatened by a single brutal act that divides the town between those who want it forgotten and those who will risk the future to see justice done.