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- Location(s): Denmark, Nyborg
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Maggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them...
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th century
Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, Rose Tremain’s dazzling, prize-winning tale is a pungently atmospheric, richly provocative, and masterfully orchestrated romance of point and counterpoint: loyalty and deception…tenderness and violence…community and alienation…peace and conflict…”Music & Silence.” Peter Claire is an English...
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1880
Jacobsen’s immediate importance was his status as the ‘writer of his generation.’ With the novel Niels Lyhne (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism’s dream and religion. . . . Like the single...
Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
- Location(s): France, Canada, Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
***WINNER OF THE PRIX GONCOURT*** Paul Hansen is in prison. He’s been in prison for a couple of years now, sharing a cell with a huge Hells Angel with a fear of mice and an intense love of Harley...
- Location(s): Falster
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
The Second World War is long over but its legacy continues to tear a town – and a young boy’s life – apart.Knud is growing up in Falster, a small Danish town in the 1960s. The war is over...
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2022
The Danish concept of hygge is a wonderful thing. Even if most fail miserably when they try to pronounce or explain its true essence. Unless you’re a Viking of course. As Keri stood in the departure lounge of Auckland...
- Location(s): Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. “They...
- Location(s): Elsinore, Denmark
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Middle Ages
He is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; she is simply Ophelia. If you think you know their story, think again. In this reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, it is Ophelia who takes center stage. A rowdy, motherless girl, she grows...
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
#4 Jensen Thriller Matilde Clausen, 9, vanishes from a crowded playground in the middle of Copenhagen, triggering a frantic search across the city. When a possible link emerges to the disappearance of Lea Høgh, 10, six years ago, DI...
Probably the Best Kiss in the World
- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jen Attison likes her life Just So. But being fished out of a canal in Copenhagen by her knickers is definitely NOT on her to do list. From cinnamon swirls to a spontaneous night of laughter and fireworks, Jen’s...
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