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The Last Refuge

The Last Refuge
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): The Faroe Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

You can run from your past but you can never hide from yourself… When John Callum arrives on the wild and desolate Faroe Islands, he vows to sever all ties with his previous life. He desperately wants to make...

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 Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl
  • Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

HC Andersen’s poignant and moving classic in an all-new translation.On New Year’s Eve a small, poor girl walks in the darkness and cold trying to sell her matches. Hungry and frozen, she curls up in a nook and lights...

The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen

The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen
  • Author(s): Jane Yolen
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 1800s

He was the son of a cobbler-awkward, funny-looking, and perhaps a bit crazy. But Hans Christian Andersen went on to become the most beloved children’s writer of all time. Here in rich detail that includes quotes from Andersen’s own...

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 Quiet Girl

The Quiet Girl
  • Author(s): Peter Høeg
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kaspar Krone is a world-renowned circus clown, and a man in some deep trouble. Drowning in gambling debt and wanted for tax evasion, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve...

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...

The Summer of Ellen

The Summer of Ellen
  • Author(s): Agnete Friis, Sinead Quirke Kongerskov (translator)
  • Location(s): Jutland, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1978

Agnete Friis returns with a lyrical, suspenseful new standalone set in rural Denmark that moves between the present and the summer of 1978, exploring obsession, toxic masculinity and the tricks we play on our own memory. Jacob, a middle-aged...

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