Blogs in February 2024

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club 7th February 2024

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation’s leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the...

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The Little Match Girl 13th November 2023

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...

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The Keeper of Lost Causes 13th August 2023

The first in the Department Q series At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She...

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The Harbour 24th July 2023

Kørner & Werner, Book 3 A boy is missing. A web of lies will be uncovered… When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears, it’s assumed he’s another teenage runaway – an overlooked middle child who will turn up within 24 hours....

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A Death in Denmark 11th April 2023

Meet Gabriel Præst, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmark’s Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim present in a page-turning Nordic murder mystery with a cosmopolitan vibe Everyone in Denmark...

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