Recent and recommended books

A look at some recent and recommended books:

BIOGRAPHY

Photojournalist Tim Hetherington died in 2011 in Libya, two months after attending the Oscars for “Restrepo,” the documentary he made with Sebastian Junger. In “Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer” (Grove Press, $25), the companion to an April HBO documentary, Alan Huffman vividly chronicles the short life of a man drawn to danger zones to capture the horrors of modern warfare.

THRILLER

Scandinavian crime fiction finds a new voice in Alexander Söderberg, whose dark, intricate debut novel “The Andalucian Friend” (Crown, $26), is the first of a proposed trilogy. It features a Swedish nurse tangled up in international drug violence, thanks to her patient — a charming publisher who also happens to be a crime boss.

POP CULTURE

Richard Hell may not be a household name, but he helped catalyze the New York punk scene with his bands Television and then the Voidoids, not to mention his hacked-up clothing and sloganeering skill. In his poetic memoir, “I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp” (Ecco, $25.99), Hell takes us on a tour of a lost world and stakes out his place in cultural history.

KIDS

A boy and girl break away from their parents by roaming the tunnels underneath a city: It’s a typical scenario for a fantasy tale. But in Melvin Jules Bukiet’s debut children’s novel “Undertown” (Amulet, $16.95, ages 10-14), the city is real (Manhattan) and the creatures the kids meet when they stumble into the labyrinth of sewers are grifters and graffiti artists.