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The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake

The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake
  • Author(s): Sif Sigmarsdottir
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The captivating, feminist YA thriller. The snow is falling thick and fast now. Snow in Iceland is dangerous. Hannah Eiríksdóttir has been banished from her home in London to a place of eternal punishment for the wicked. No, not...

The Swell

The Swell
  • Author(s): Kat Gordon
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mythology
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century / 1970

In places of darkness, women will rise . . . Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm, two sisters – Freyja and Gudrun – rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm. Sixty-five...

The Vagabond Mother

The Vagabond Mother
  • Author(s): Tracey Scott-Townsend
  • Location(s): Australia, Germany, Iceland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

All Maya Galen wanted was a happy family, stifling the inner urges she had to explore the wider world, for the sake of being there for her children. But parenting with her husband, Con, wasn’t always easy. Their eldest...

Thirty Days of Darkness

Thirty Days of Darkness
  • Author(s): Jenny Lund Madsen, Megan Turney (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actually reads them, and frustrated by writer’s block, Hannah has the feeling that she’s doing something wrong. When she...

White as Snow

White as Snow
  • Author(s): Lilja Sigurdardottir, Quentin Bates
  • Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book 3: Áróra Investigation Series On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women – one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to...

Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: A Memoir of Iceland

Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: A Memoir of Iceland
  • Author(s): Tory Bilski
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

What if you could steal time out just for yourself each year, a brief reprieve from ordinary life and its responsibilities? Wild Horses of the Summer Sun is Tory Bilski’s witty, sometimes poignant, account of her annual ‘horse sabbaticals’...

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  • Author(s): Jon Eschsri
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Facing the loss of his job, Dr. Callum Chamberlain, Lecturer in Icelandic Language and Literature at one of England’s premier universities, meets and falls for fellow scholar Antonia and agrees to her scheme to search for a lost Icelandic...

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