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Lucie by Amalie Skram
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This novel tells the story of the misalliance between Lucie, a vivacious and beautiful dancing girl from Tivoli, and Theodor Gerner, a respectable lawyer from the strait-laced middle society of... -
Fru Ines by Amalie Skram
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Fru Ines is a city novel, vividly evoking the sights, sounds and smells of nineteenth-century Constantinople. The city is a hub, a meeting point of East and West, where privileged Europeans enjoy a... -
Framed Horizons: Student Writing on Nordic Cinema by C. Claire Thomson 9781909408005
Booksplease Price: £18.14This anthology brings together essays written by BA, MA and PhD students of Nordic Cinema at UCL. The essays discuss the key directors and movements in Nordic film history, including Victor Sjostrom,... -
August Strindberg's One-Act Plays: A Selection by August Strindberg 9781870041935
Booksplease Price: £13.22To most English-language readers and theatre goers, Strindberg is mainly known for naturalistic plays such as 'Miss Julie' and 'The Father', but the dramatic production of Sweden's national... -
Love and Modernity: Scandinavian Literature, Drama and Letters by C. Claire Thomson 9781870041997
Booksplease Price: £18.14This collection of essays celebrates Professor Janet Garton's outstanding contribution over four decades to research, teaching and leadership in the field of Scandinavian Studies. Contributions from... -
The Phantom Carriage by Selma Lagerlof 9781870041911
Booksplease Price: £15.19'Written in 1912, Selma Lagerlof's The Phantom Carriage is a powerful combination of ghost story and social realism, partly played out among the slums and partly in the transitional sphere between... -
Lord Arne's Silver by Selma Lagerlof 9781870041904
Booksplease Price: £13.22An economical and haunting tale, published in book form in 1904 and set in the sixteenth century on the snowbound west coast of Sweden, Lord Arne's Silver is a classic from the pen of an author... -
Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden, the Complete Volume by Selma Lagerlof 9781909408180
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £30.76Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly... -
Anna Svard by Selma Lagerlof 9781909408289
Booksplease Price: £16.17The curse on the Loewenskoeld family comes to fruition in unexpected ways in this final volume of the Loewenskoeld cycle. Anna Svard is also very much a novel of women's struggle toward finding... -
Terminal Innocence by Klaus Rifbjerg 9781909408135
Booksplease Price: £15.19Klaus Rifbjerg's 1958 novel has become a constantly reprinted classic of twentieth-century Danish literature. It is the story of the unequal friendship between two teenagers, Janus and Tore, told... -
Re-Writing the Script: Gender and Community by Elin Wagner 9781909408142
Booksplease Price: £18.14This is the first full-length study in English of the oeuvre of Elin Wagner - feminist, suffragist, pacifist and environmentalist - and also the first to include texts representing a wide range of... -
Barbara by Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Barbara, originally written in Danish, was the only novel by the Faroese author Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900-1938), and yet it quickly achieved international best-seller status and is still one of... -
We Own the Forests and Other Poems by Hans Borli
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Hans Borli (1918-89) was born and lived in the wooded country of Hedmark in south eastern Norway. His days seem to have been divided into two separate parts: by day, he lived the physically demanding... -
The Red Room by August Strindberg 9781909408517
Booksplease Price: £16.17August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best known outside Sweden as a dramatist, but he was also a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, journalism and poetry - as well as a notable artist and... -
The Lowenskold Ring by Selma Lagerlof 9781870041928
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.39The Loewenskoeld Ring (1925) is the first volume of the trilogy considered to have been Selma Lagerloef's last work of prose fiction. Set in the Swedish province of Varmland in the eighteenth... -
Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden Volume 2 by Selma Lagerlof 9781870041973
Booksplease Price: £16.17Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly... -
A Manor House Tale by Selma Lagerlof 9781909408258
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Written in 1899, Selma Lagerlof's novella A Manor House Tale is at one and the same time a complex psychological novel and a folk tale, a love story and a Gothic melodrama. It crosses genre... -
Charlotte Lowenskold by Selma Lagerlof 9781909408067
Booksplease Price: £15.19A curse rests on the Loewenskoeld family, as narrated in The Loewenskoeld Ring. Charlotte Loewenskoeld is the tale of the following generations, a story of psychological insight and social... -
The People of Hemso by August Strindberg
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.62August Strindberg (1849-1912, Sweden's internationally recognised dramatist, was an astonishingly prolific all-rounder. The new National Edition of his works will run to seventy-two volumes: he was a... -
The Contract Killer by Benny Andersen 9781870041782
Booksplease Price: £9.02Karlsen is a down-on-his-luck private investigator looking for work. When the only job on offer is a contract killing, Karlsen agrees despite his lack of experience. Things don't go to plan and it... -
Marbacka by Selma Lagerlof 9781909408296
Booksplease Price: £16.17The property of Marbacka in Varmland was where Selma Lagerloef grew up, immersed in a tradition of storytelling. Financial difficulties led to the loss of the house, but Lagerloef was later able to... -
The God of Chance by Kirsten Thorup 9781909408036
Booksplease Price: £15.19The God of Chance focuses on the relationship between Ana, a high-flying Danish career woman from the international finance sector whose work is her life, and the young teenager Mariama, two women... -
Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden: Volume 1: Volume 1 Selma Lagerloef 9781870041966
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.42Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly... -
Murder in the Dark by Dan Turell
Booksplease Price: £15.19Murder in the Dark sports a winning combination of engaging crime narrative and cool, unsentimental appraisal of Scandinavian society (as seen through the eyes of its shabby, unconventional... -
Little Lord by Johan Borgen 9781909408173
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.42Wilfred - alias Little Lord - is a privileged young man growing up in upper-class society in Kristiania (Oslo) during the halcyon days before the First World War. Beneath the strikingly well-adjusted... -
The Railroad by Juhani Aho 9781870041898
Booksplease Price: £15.19Today, change in our material lives is a constant. Many now living have seen the advent not only of the mobile phone and the Internet, but also of space exploration, vaccines and even indoor plumbing... -
The Defence of a Madman by August Strindberg 9781909408159
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.42This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg's life in the 1870s and 1880s, and focuses on his marriage to Siri von Essen. It purports to be a vehicle for explaining to himself his role in the... -
Chitambo by Hagar Olsson 9781909408555
Booksplease Price: £15.19From birth, Vega Maria Dreary is caught in a vice of conflicting parental expectations. Her father brings her up to admire history's heroic male adventurers, while her mother channels her towards... -
Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North: 2016 by Ian Giles 9781909408333
Booksplease Price: £18.14Maybe 'borealism' could be a name for the Southern preconceived ideas about those who live at Northern latitudes?Thus writes prominent Norwegian writer Kjartan Flogstad. Although not everyone may be... -
Banished by Selma Lagerlof 9781909408487
Booksplease Price: £16.17What happens to an individual who is rejected by society? What happens to a society that eventually realises the living are more important than the dead, and that it is suffering a crisis of values... -
Walpurgis Tide by Jogvan Isaksen
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Two British environmental activists are discovered dead amongst the whale corpses after a whale-kill in Torshavn. The detective Hannis Martinsson is asked to investigate by a representative of the... -
The Beauty of History by Viivi Luik
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.621968. Riga. News of the Prague Spring washes across Europe, causing ripples on either side of the Iron Curtain. A young Estonian woman has agreed to pose as a model for a famous sculptor, who is... -
The Emperor of Portugallia by Selma Lagerlof
Booksplease Price: £16.17For poverty-stricken farm labourer Jan, the birth of his daughter Klara gives life a new meaning; his devotion to her develops into an obsession that excludes all else. We are taken from the miracle... -
Money by Victoria Benedictsson 9781870041850
Booksplease Price: £13.22Victoria Benedictsson published Money, her first novel, in 1885. Set in rural southern Sweden where the author lived, it follows the fortunes of Selma Berg, a girl whose fate has much in common with... -
The Poet Who Created Herself: Selected Letters of Edith Sodergran by Edith Sodergran 9781909408210
Booksplease Price: £16.17Edith Soedergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for the most part when she was dying of tuberculosis in... -
Illuminating the North: Proceedings from the Nordic Research Network Conference 2013 by Agnes Broome 9781909408166
Booksplease Price: £18.14The Nordic Research Network (NRN) began as a forum for UK- based early career researchers to share their work with peers in a convivial intellectual environment. As a multi-disciplinary gathering,... -
The Family at Gilje by Jonas Lie 9781870041942
Booksplease Price: £16.17Captain Jager is the well-meaning but temperamental head of a rural family living in straitened circumstances in 1840s Norway. The novel focuses on the fates of the women of the family: the heroic... -
Childhood by Kerstin Ekman 9781909408227
Booksplease Price: £8.67Kerstin Ekman is primarily known as a novelist, but she has occasionally turned to free verse, especially when the subject is autobiographical. In 1993-1994, Swedish TV 1 conducted a series of talks... -
Betrayed: 2018 by Amalie Skram
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £12.62With high hopes, Captain Riber embarks with his young bride Aurora on a voyage to exotic destinations. But they are an ill-matched pair; her naive illusions are shattered by the realities of married... -
Lobster Life Erik Fosnes Hansen 9781909408524
Booksplease Price: £16.17Life in a grand Norwegian mountain hotel is not what it used to be; Norwegians have deserted the traditions of their nati- ve land, with its invigorating ski trips and lake-fresh trout, for charter...