In Tallinn in 1946 a young boy is transfixed by the beauty of a luxurious cream-coloured car gliding down the street. It is a Russian Pobeda, a car called ...

The property of Mårbacka in Värmland was where Selma Lagerlöf grew up, immersed in a tradition of storytelling. Financial difficulties ...

The Angel House  is the third in the remarkable series of free-standing novels that cemented Kerstin Ekman's reputation in her native Sweden during ...

Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography ...

To Pieces is Henry Parland's (1908-1930) only novel, published posthumously after his death from scarlet fever. Ostensibly the story of an unhappy love ...

Written in 1899, Selma Lagerlöf's novella A Manor House Tale is at one and the same time a complex psychological novel and a folk tale, a love story ...

Two British environmental activists are discovered dead amongst the whale corpses after a whale-kill in Tórshavn. The detective Hannis Martinsson ...

Written in 1854-55 and translated after 140 years into English, this is the one and only novel written by a daughter of one of Norway’s best-known ...

Hans Børli (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 ...

Kerstin Ekman's novel  Blackwater  took the world by storm in 1993 and has now been translated into over twenty-five languages. But her reputation ...