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A Woman in the Polar Night

A Woman in the Polar Night
  • Author(s): Christiane Ritter
  • Location(s): Arctic, Spitsbergen
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

n 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance...

After She’d Gone

After She’d Gone
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Italy, Russia, Sandefjord
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Unsettling, gripping and glamorous. A timely psychological thriller about the danger of beauty, the lure of power, and the fierce love of a mother for her son. Liv keeps a low profile in Sandefjord, Norway: she’s just another tired...

Audrey Orr and the Robot Rage

Audrey Orr and the Robot Rage
  • Author(s): Jenny Moore
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): N/A

When Audrey Orr’s mum wins a luxury cruise to Norway, Audrey thinks she’s won the jackpot — until she realises it’s during term-time. With her no-nonsense headteacher, Mr Stickler, on her case, she has to resort to something a...

Bitter Flowers

Bitter Flowers
  • Author(s): Don Bartlett (translator), Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Varg Veum #8 PI Varg Veum has returned to duty following a stint in rehab, but his new composure and resolution are soon threatened when a challenging assignment arrives on his desk. A man is found dead in an...

Blind Goddess

Blind Goddess
  • Author(s): Anne Holt
  • Location(s): Norway, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the streets of central Oslo. He is taken into custody, but refuses to speak. Five days later...

Blood on Snow

Blood on Snow
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone. Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems....

Burned

Burned
  • Author(s): Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Brutalised Victim in the Wilds: A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She’s been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off....

Christmas Island

Christmas Island
  • Author(s): Natalie Normann
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cosy up in front of a fire and discover Christmas the Norwegian way…full of romance, cosy traditions and hygge! In the bleak midwinter… A really frosty wind is making Holly’s life absolutely miserable After all the years of hard...

Dálvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra

Dálvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra
  • Author(s): Laura Galloway
  • Location(s): Kautokeino
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sámi people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped into Laura Galloway’s wanderlust; an affair with a Sámi reindeer herder ultimately led her to leave New York for...

Dead Island

Dead Island
  • Author(s): Samuel Bjork
  • Location(s): Hitra
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’d once come here to kill herself but now Mia Kruger has returned to the picturesque island of Hitra to escape from the violence and madness of her life as a police investigator. But when she is approached by...

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