Sonja Hansen is forty-something, unhappy, single, a Danish translator of Swedish crime novels, living in bustling, modern Copenhagen, and originally…
October 2017 – Nordic Countries
Hans Christian Andersen’s characters belong to the world; Karen Blixen first told stories from her African farm in English; and…
In The Darkest Day Håkan Nesser introduces the reader to Rosemarie and Karl Erik Hermansson, a middle-aged couple who are…
The coming-of-age novel is almost a rite of passage for the emerging novelist, a vehicle through which a voice is…
One evening in August 1947, twenty-four-year-old David Rosenberg from Łódź alights in Södertälje, a small Swedish town with a big…
It begins innocuously enough: “‘Mum, I need a pee.’ ‘Well, go to the toilet then.’ ‘It’s not there.’” Okay, maybe…
Who was Samuel, and why did he die? These are the central questions in a gripping, jigsaw puzzle of truth,…
Sweden may be famous as the birthplace of the contemporary Scandi-crime wave, Pippi Longstocking and the Nobel Prize in Literature,…
There is a key moment in the professional, personal and spiritual life of William Savage – one of The History…
In his previous book, Norwegian Wood (MacLehose Press, 2015), Lars Mytting composed an elegy to trees – not only as…
The first instalment of Roy Jacobsen’s Helgeland trilogy, The Unseen follows a family scraping a rough living on a Norwegian island…
A woman lives alone in rural Norway, enjoying bosky nature’s idyllic manifestations: dark nights (when she walks and skis); watery…
