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Phantom

Phantom
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

THE MURDER HAS BEEN SOLVED. BUT HAS JUSTICE BEEN DONE? Harry Hole is back in Oslo. He’s been away for some time, but his ghosts have a way of catching up with him. The case that brings him back...

A Modern Family

A Modern Family
  • Author(s): Helga Flatland
  • Location(s): Oslo, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2016 - 2018

The Norwegian Anne Tyler makes her English debut in a beautiful, bittersweet novel of regret, relationships and rare psychological insights… ‘There is a hint of Ingmar Bergman in this portrayal of a completely normal family, it delves deep and...

Epiphany – THE SILVERING

Epiphany – THE SILVERING
  • Author(s): Sonya Deanna Terry
  • Location(s): Christchurch, Cornwall, Oslo, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern, Pre-History, 18th century

A RETURN TO THE CURRENCY OF KINDNESS The story-within-a-story continues and a sequence of stunning revelations unfolds in Epiphany’s gripping conclusion. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis is looming, a time of losses for some in Rosetta’s circle, and the...

Holiday Reads

Holiday Reads
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • Location(s): Corfu, Norwegian Fjords, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

Short stories for your sun-lounger – or wherever! Seven women, each with a different holiday problem. Meet, Olivia, who wishes she wasn’t on a tennis holiday; Estelle, alone on a cruise; Fiona who’s flying too close for comfort; Shelley,...

Oleanna (A Novel of Norway in 1905)

Oleanna (A Novel of Norway in 1905)
  • Author(s): Julie K Rose
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1905

Set during the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905, this richly detailed novel of love and loss was inspired by the life of the author’s great-great-aunts. Oleanna and her sister Elisabeth are the last of their family working...

One Last Time

One Last Time
  • Author(s): Helga Flatland
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anne’s diagnosis of terminal cancer shines a spotlight onto fractured relationships with her daughter and granddaughter, with surprising, heartwarming results. A moving, warmly funny novel by the Norwegian Anne Tyler. _______________ Anne’s life is rushing to an unexpected and...

Playdate

Playdate
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Norway, Ariège, Sandefjord, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010s

It was meant to be your daughter’s first sleepover. Now it’s an abduction.   Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, her mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round...

Police

Police
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The police urgently need Harry Hole A killer is stalking Oslo’s streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this...

Reptile Memoirs

Reptile Memoirs
  • Author(s): Silje O Ulstein, Alison McCullough (Translator)
  • Location(s): Ålesund, Kristiansund
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s and 2017

Liv has a lot of secrets. Late one night, in the aftermath of a party in the apartment she shares with two friends in Ålesund, she sees a python on a TV nature show and becomes obsessed with the...

The Consorts of Death

The Consorts of Death
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1995 looking back

It is September 1995 and Veum is in his office when a telephone call takes him back 25 years, to a case where a small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. In the following decades, the...

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