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The Little Café in Copenhagen

The Little Café in Copenhagen
  • Author(s): Julie Caplin
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Publicist Kate Sinclair’s life in London is everything she thought she wanted: success, glamour and a charming boyfriend. Until that boyfriend goes behind her back and snatches a much sought-after promotion from her.Heartbroken and questioning everything, Kate needs to...

The Poetic Murderer

The Poetic Murderer
  • Author(s): Christoph Burmeister
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Fear will learn to fear you.” If you liked Paul Coelho’s The Alchemist, you will love The Poetic Murderer. Detective 00 Hansen is an enigmatic dreamer in the streets of Copenhagen, riding a fast antelope, and living a slow...

The Royal Physician’s Visit

The Royal Physician’s Visit
  • Author(s): Per Olov Enquist
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1760s (Enlightenment)

It is the 1760s, the height of the Enlightenment. The young King of Denmark, Christian VII, is a half-wit. His queen, the English princess Caroline Mathilde, has fallen in love with his most trusted advisor, the court physician Struensee....

The Serbian Dane

The Serbian Dane
  • Author(s): Leif Davidsen
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Iranian Mullahs have offered a $4 million reward to the person who carries out their fatwa, the death sentence of the internationally acclaimed author Sara Santanda. A Danish daily newspaper has in cooperation with Danish PEN Centre invited her...

The Spectator Bird

The Spectator Bird
  • Author(s): Wallace Stegner
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1954, 1974

This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West. Joe...

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense
  • Author(s): Helle Helle
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A beautifully intimate novel from award-winning Danish novelist, Helle Helle This should be written in the present tense. But it isn’t. Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she’s not. She should probably put some curtains up in...

Victim 2117

Victim 2117
  • Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • Location(s): Berlin, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the heart-pounding new installment of the No.1 bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department’s own – the enigmatic Assad. The newspaper refers to the dead body only as...

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