Amalie Skram was a female naturalist writer living from 1846 to 1905; she is one of the most important inspirations…
the nordic riveter
The Skeleton and the Anatomy Book centres on a lost poem by Norway’s celebrated nineteenth-century poet, Henrik Wergeland: a dark…
A Modern Family explores the impact of one couple’s decision to divorce after forty years of marriage, documenting the reactions…
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…
In Thomas Enger and his translator, Kari Dickson, Orenda Books have once again come up with a winning combination. Enger…
In Torkil Damhaug’s novel Fireraiser, one character tells another that her psychiatrist has abandoned his medical practice in favour of…
Little Lord is the first part of Norwegian author Johan Borgen’s trilogy focusing on upper-class boy Wilfred – the Little…
In Norway we have more than one writer who is called the “Grandfather of Nordic Noir”. I am afraid, though,…
While we await the sixth and final instalment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ground-breaking, genre-redefining My Struggle series, his publisher Harvill…
