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Epiphany – THE GOLDING

Epiphany – THE GOLDING
  • Author(s): Sonya Deanna Terry
  • Location(s): Oslo, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern

A MYSTICAL FOREST . . . AN ANCIENT PROPHECY . . . A LOVE THAT SPANS LIFETIMES Free-spirited book-club founder, Rosetta, and polished traditionalist, Matthew, are yet to meet and have little in common, but time-travelling sprites from a...

The Bell In The Lake

The Bell In The Lake
  • Author(s): Lars Mytting
  • Location(s): Butangen, Norway
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1880s

The first in a rich historical trilogy that draws on legend, by the author of Norwegian Wood and The Sixteen Trees of the Somme. Norway, 1880. In the secluded village of Butangen at the end of the valley, headstrong...

The Lazarus Solution

The Lazarus Solution
  • Author(s): Kjell Ola Dahl, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden, Norway
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): WW2

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk, who works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Sweden, is killed on his last cross-border mission to Norway. Demobbed sailor Kai Fredly escapes from occupied Norway into Sweden, but finds that...

The Looking-Glass Sisters

The Looking-Glass Sisters
  • Author(s): Gøhril Gabrielsen
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

A tragic love story about two sisters who cannot live with or without each other. Far out on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs to two middle-aged sisters. They seldom venture out and nobody visits....

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
  • Author(s): Lars Mytting
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands, Norway, The Somme
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

By Norway’s bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was...

Boyhood Island

Boyhood Island
  • Author(s): Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Location(s): Tromøy
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

No. 3 in the series. Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of...

Echoes of the City

Echoes of the City
  • Author(s): Lars Saabye Christensen
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post WW2

A jewel of modern Norwegian literature now hailed as Lars Saabye Christensen’s crowning achievement – an intricate and utterly compelling narrative. Christensen is one of Scandinavia’s finest and most celebrated storytellers, who has devoted the best part of his...

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Exploring his own dark memories may be the only way to find a killer When Bergen PI Varg Veum finds himself at the funeral of a former classmate on a sleet-grey December afternoon, he’s unexpectedly reunited with his old...

Killed

Killed
  • Author(s): Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Oslo, Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Crime reporter Henning Juul thought his life was over when his young son was murdered. But that was only the beginning… Determined to find his son’s killer, Henning doggedly follows an increasingly dangerous trail, where dark hands from the...

The Bird Tribunal

The Bird Tribunal
  • Author(s): Agnes Ravatn
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent,...

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