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The Wax Child

The Wax Child
  • Author(s): Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken (translator)
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): 17th Century

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her...

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense
  • Author(s): Helle Helle
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A beautifully intimate novel from award-winning Danish novelist, Helle Helle This should be written in the present tense. But it isn’t. Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she’s not. She should probably put some curtains up in...

Under the Hidden Sun

Under the Hidden Sun
  • Author(s): Mark Kennard
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

A beautiful, but naïve young Danish woman becomes trapped in a delusional Nazi’s obsession, and when the man she loves comes back to her everything in her protected world comes crashing down…until she finds a bitter resolve to carry...

Victim 2117

Victim 2117
  • Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • Location(s): Berlin, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the heart-pounding new installment of the No.1 bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department’s own – the enigmatic Assad. The newspaper refers to the dead body only as...

Waist Deep

Waist Deep
  • Author(s): Linea Maja Ernst, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg (Translator)
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and mess around like in the old days. At least that’s what Sylvia had hoped. But when her friends...

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