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- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The town is important because it is a port that serves a large coal mine. Colonel Lanser, the head of the invading battalion,...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): N/A
Here are thirty-two classic myths that bring the Viking world vividly to life. The mythic legacy of the Scandinavians includes a cycle of stories filled with magnificent images from pre-Christian Europe. Gods, humans, and monstrous beasts engage in prodigious...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): early 2000s
‘My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I’d hear from him again, but now we’re writing a book together’ To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway,...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1904
A genre-defying debut, this queer historical YA centers a wild and reckless trio who fly in the face of small-town tradition–full of compassion, love, and determination to live the lives of their choosing. It’s 1904 on an island just...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
A freezing December night Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a Salvation Army carol concert. Then a shot rings out and one of the singers falls to the floor, dead. A blood-curdling terror Detective Harry Hole and his...
- Location(s): Butangen, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest smallholding up in the hills near Butangen, having withdrawn from his community. He is drawn to freedom,...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Norway, 1942: She has lost everything to the Nazis. But now she fights back… War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into...
- Location(s): Bergen, Oslo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
There is no love lost between the Oslo and Bergen branches of the powerful Falck family. So when its steely matriarch dies with no will to be found, the seeds of an inheritance dispute are sown. Yet her legacy...
- Location(s): Ghana, Norway, Orkney Islands, Spain, Thailand
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
The Secret of the Purple Lake is a collection of five interlinked stories that take us from Ghana to Orkney, and from Spain to Norway and Thailand. As a minor character from one story assumes a major role in...
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