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Emily Forever

Emily Forever
  • Author(s): Maria Navarro Skaranger, Martin Aitken (translator)
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this novel about poverty, social inequality, and class contempt in Norway, nineteen-year-old supermarket worker Emily is single, pregnant, and struggling to make ends meet. Em’s nineteen years old and pregnant. Her boyfriend Pablo has gone out “to take...

Escape to the Northern Lights

Escape to the Northern Lights
  • Author(s): Carrie Walker
  • Location(s): Norwegian Fjords
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

High-powered lawyer Sara thought she had life figured out – until her whirlwind marriage ends in divorce, her dream promotion slips away and a burnout diagnosis forces her to take a break. Desperate for a reset, she books a...

Eyes of the Rigel

Eyes of the Rigel
  • Author(s): Roy Jacobsen
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1946

In 1946, with the war over, a woman from a small Norwegian island takes her infant daughter and embarks on a quest to find the child’s father– an escaped Russian POW who, last the mother heard, was attempting to...

Faithless

Faithless
  • Author(s): Kjell Ola Dahl
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Oslo Detectives Book 7) When the body of a woman turns up in a dumpster, scalded and wrapped in plastic, Inspector Frank Frølich is shocked to discover that he knows her … and their recent meetings may hold the...

Freya 800AD

Freya 800AD
  • Author(s): Jean Mead
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 800 AD

Freya lived more than a thousand years ago at the beginning of the Viking raids on Britain. Home was a longhouse, one of several in the settlement; a stockade protected the small community from bears and wolves roaming the...

Growth of the Soil

Growth of the Soil
  • Author(s): Knut Hamsun
  • Location(s): Nordland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

“It is the life story of a man in the wilds, the genesis and gradual development of a homestead, the unit of humanity, in the unfilled, uncleared tracts that still remain in the Norwegian Highlands. It is an epic...

I’m Travelling Alone

I’m Travelling Alone
  • Author(s): Samuel Bjork
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree, the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck. It reads ‘I’m travelling alone’. In response, police investigator Holger Munch is immediately...

Into The Dark

Into The Dark
  • Author(s): Ørjan N Karlsson, Ian Giles (Translator)
  • Location(s): North Norway
  • Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Norway’s far north, something unspeakable is surfacing… When a mutilated body rises from the icy waters off the jetty in Kjerringøy, it shocks the quiet coastal village – and stirs something darker beneath. Not long after, a young...

Is Mother Dead

Is Mother Dead
  • Author(s): Vigdis Hjorth
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

To mother is to murder, or close enough’, thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She’s recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective...

Knife

Knife
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Harry Hole 12 HARRY HOLE IS ABOUT TO FACE HIS DARKEST CASE YET. Harry is in a bad place: Rakel has left him, he’s working cold cases and notorious rapist and murderer Svein Finne is back on the streets....

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