‘It’s never good for an Icelander to dream of sea ice, she thought. That means a hard spring to come, and ice brings bears.’ There are bears aplenty for Sonja Gunnarsdóttir
April 2011 Sonja was wrenched, shivering, from a deep sleep. She sat up in bed and looked at the thermometer on the air-conditioning unit; it was thirty degrees in the trailer. She
When I wrote Snare, the first book in the Reykjavík Noir Trilogy, which is about lesbian coke-smuggler Sonja and her girlfriend, bankster Agla, I didn’t really think that th
Thursday, 6 June saw the European Literature Network decamp to Brixton to launch the latest edition of our print magazine, The Riveter, an issue that focuses on queer writing from
Born and bred in south London – and not the Somerset village with which he shares a name – West Camel is Reviews editor for the European Literature Network. Before turning his
Paul Burston is the author of six novels including the WHSmith bestseller The Black Path and his latest, The Closer I Get. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The Times,
Icelandic crime-writer Lilja Sigurdardóttir was born in the town of Akranes in 1972 and raised in Mexico, Sweden, Spain and Iceland. An award-winning playwright, Lilja has written
Part of the Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival 6 June 2019, 7pm, Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, London SW2 1JQ Free, book your places here. With Europe facing political and socia
Orenda books would seem to have bagged yet another winner in another Icelander, Lilja Sigurðardóttir: this is her first novel of a new Reykjavík Noir series and it’s a refresh
