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About the Size of the Universe

About the Size of the Universe
  • Author(s): Jón Kalman Stefánsson
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Recent

t the beginning of this story there is death, and yet it is a celebration of life – the passion between a man and a woman, forbidden love, violence, sorrow, betrayal. Happiness and misfortune are passed down from one...

Boulder

Boulder
  • Author(s): Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches (Translator)
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname ‘Boulder’. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together,...

Burning Karma

Burning Karma
  • Author(s): David Rafn Kristjannson
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Böddi wakes up in a hospital bed one morning with no idea of what has happened to put him there. While still in hospital he has an intense psychological Experience which leaves him realizing it is time to change...

Dead Sweet

Dead Sweet
  • Author(s): Katrín Júlíusdóttir, Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland, Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A murder is just the beginning… When Óttar Karlsson, a wealthy and respected government official and businessman, is found murdered, after failing to turn up at his own surprise birthday party, the police are at a loss. It isn’t...

Death at the Sanatorium

Death at the Sanatorium
  • Author(s): Ragnar Jonasson
  • Location(s): North Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An old sanatorium. A terrifying murder. Six suspects and a case that never closed . . . Once a hospital dedicated to treating tuberculosis, The Akureyri Sanatorium now sits haunted by the ghosts of its past. But a single...

Fish Can Sing

Fish Can Sing
  • Author(s): Halldor Laxness
  • Location(s): Reykjavik
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch...

I Remember You

I Remember You
  • Author(s): Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
  • Location(s): Hesteyri
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): present

In this terrifying tale, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house in a remote, totally isolated location. But they soon realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something wants them to leave. Meanwhile, in a...

Independent People

Independent People
  • Author(s): Halldor Laxness
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

A huge, humane revelation of a novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century, written by the Nobel prize-winner dubbed the ‘Tolstoy of the North’. A magnificent portrait of the eerie Icelandic landscape and a man’s...

Kalmann

Kalmann
  • Author(s): Joachim B Schmidt, Jamie Lee Searle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Raufarhöfn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kalmann is the self-appointed Sheriff of Raufarhöfn. Day by day, he treks the wide plains which surround the almost deserted village, hunts Arctic foxes and lays bait in the sea ― to catch the gigantic Greenland sharks he turns...

Murder Under the Midnight Sun

Murder Under the Midnight Sun
  • Author(s): Stella Blómkvist
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What does a woman do when her husband’s charged with the frenzied murder of her father and her best friend? She calls in Stella Blómkvist to to investigate – however unwelcome the truth could turn out to be. ‘Stella...

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