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Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas talesHave yourself a truly Scandinavian Christmas... Of visions and prophesies seen in dark, dark woods. Of toys and trees...

In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return - and those who do will never be the same. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into...

FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME & THRILLERS SINCE 1945 Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to but also books whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377186Author Martin HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2022. An action-packed historical novel featuring Danish warrior Styrkar, and his journey through the violent Norman Conquest as he fights for vengeance. The champion of a dead king has nothing...

A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then a body appears ... an atmospheric, darkly funny, twisty debut thriller, first in an addictive new...

Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of...

The continuation of Donovan Cooks historical epic, Charlemagne's Cross SeriesA king, old and frail. A challenger filled with vengeance. A kingdom's fate at stake.Summer AD854Sven the Boar is Jarl of Ribe once more. He and Charles try to settle into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861849Author FINE GRABOLFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 171mm *...

Styrkar the warrior sails to dangerous lands in this thrilling new historical adventure from Richard Cullen. The sequel to Oath Bound, longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2022. England, 1068: a land gripped in the iron fist of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374722937Author Tove DitlevsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374539412Author Tove DitlevsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374539405Author Tove DitlevsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 124mm *...

Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250002556Author Peter H egFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

In the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681379272Author Henrik PontoppidanFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681379296Author Henrik PontoppidanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November nineteenth. Book II of...

Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days,...

After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can't afford. To avoid...

In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious, and prone to nosebleeds, Pliny does not believe in spending his...

'Nordenhof has a sort of literary X factor' OBSERVER'A comet in Scandinavian literature' OLGA RAVN'Fizzes and soars' MARK HADDON*Guardian best translated fiction of 2025*A classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstarA woman...

Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks including the odious and semen-filled Wolkbart. Despite the spare walls which surround him, he frolics with Holy Dionysius in the Garden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241752258Author Tove DitlevsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 200g

Known primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark's most distinguished and original authors. Natalja's Stories, modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, takes an usual approach to the theme of migration by focusing on the...

Fine Gråbøl’s narrator dreams of furniture flickering to life. A chair that greets you, shiny tiles that follow a peculiar grammar, or a bookshelf that can be thrown on like an apron.Obsessed with the way items rise up out of their thingness, assuming...