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The Girl Without Skin

The Girl Without Skin
  • Author(s): Mads Peder Nordbo
  • Location(s): Greenland
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s and present

When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered in a crevasse out on the edge of an ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent to cover the story. The next day the mummy is gone, and the body of the...

The North Water

The North Water
  • Author(s): Ian McGuire
  • Location(s): Arctic, Greenland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner...

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord
  • Author(s): Kim Leine
  • Location(s): Greenland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. A rugged outpost battered by unremittingly harsh winters, Sukkertoppen is simmering with the threat of dissent; natives...

An African in Greenland

An African in Greenland
  • Author(s): Kpomassie Tete-Michel
  • Location(s): Greenland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland-and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly...

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
  • Author(s): Peter Høeg
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, Greenland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

An exciting and intricate plot, at the centre Smilla Jasperson is a well drawn character. A complex plot, with a tremendous feeling of ice and snow.

The Sea Road

The Sea Road
  • Author(s): Margaret Elphinstone
  • Location(s): Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 11th Century

A haunting, compelling historical novel, “The Sea Road” is a daring re-telling of the 11th-century Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman. Gudrid lives at the remote edge of the known world, in...

The Transcendent Tide

The Transcendent Tide
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Greenland, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been eighteen months since the Enceladons escaped the clutches of an American military determined to exterminate the peaceful alien creatures. Lennox and Vonnie have been lying low in the Scottish Highlands, Ava has been caring for her young...

Cold Earth

Cold Earth
  • Author(s): Sarah Moss
  • Location(s): Greenland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Six archaeologists are digging in Greenland when a killer swine flue sweeps the globe, leaving them isolated. They batten down in the Norse farmstead where they are excavating, scare themselves and write home to anyone who might be left...

A Northern Light in Provence

A Northern Light in Provence
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Birkelund
  • Location(s): Greenland, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of an elderly Provençal poet and finds her life irrevocably changed in this tender and romantic novel set in a French village. Ilse Erlund is a translator who...

Freeze

Freeze
  • Author(s): Kate Simants
  • Location(s): Arctic, Greenland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Frozen Out is set to be a TV sensation. On a small ship off the coast of Greenland, eight contestants will push themselves to breaking point for a £100,000 prize. The show is Tori Matsuka’s baby. After years working...

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