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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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