Modern archaeological techniques have transformed the understanding of the Vikings. This study looks at townspeople, traders, farmers and pirates from Newfoundland to the Volga.
A professor of astrophysics returns on sabbatical to the rural landscape of her childhood. There she observes the starry Scandinavian sky and the eccentricities of her neighbours.
Suspicion falls on a newcomer when a sawmill is razed by fire. First published in Swedish in 1977, this is the first publication in English of the great Mankell's second novel, set in the ye... read more
Twenty-six gardens, some domestic and intimate, others wild or formal, in a variety of situations - forest, coast, city, farm, castle. Includes Linnaeus's garden.
From an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery on this wonderful Danish artist (1859-1935), celebrated in Denmark but obscure abroad. She was born in Skägen, the northernmost tip of Denm... read more
The author pays tribute to the merchant seamen of many countries, as well as the Allied navies, who experienced the harrowing dangers of the Arctic convoys supporting the essential Soviet wa... read more
We have been fervent advocates of the first two in this series at Sandoe's and we have high expectations for the third - in which Tara meets a man who, like her, has been reliving November 1... read more
Already a huge bestseller in Europe, this novel - written with a bludgeon wielded in fury - is set during Finland's Winter War with the USSR in 1939-40. It centres on Simo Häyhä, the snipe... read more
In 1741, Vitus Bering was shipwrecked off Kamchatka and the surviving crew began to devour the noble herbivore that became known as Steller's sea cow: it was hunted to extinction within thir... read more
Tekla Berg - enigmatic, pill-popping doctor and amateur sleuth - is enlisted by an unsavoury detective to figure out a spate of shootings in Stockholm.
A mid-C19th collection of folktales, first published in 1841: this is its first new English translation in 150 years. Asbjornsen and Moe are the Brothers Grimm of Norway.
First published in 1936, this endearing Icelandic novella follows the annual wintry trek of an aging shepherd, his dog and a tough old ram to round up any stray livestock and bring them off ... read more
A short, illustrated rumination on the work of Edvard Munch through nineteen paintings and drawings. It's as if we're looking over the acclaimed novelist's shoulder as she looks intently at ... read more
The huge army that landed in East Anglia in 845CE became a constant presence for the next fifteen years - unlike previous raids that took place only in the summer months. New archaeological... read more
The late Swedish writer and poet's last book which she asked her friend and publisher Sigrid Rausing to complete and translate. This memoir is notable for its quiet atomising of desire, memo... read more
An intimate history of those dwelling in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, Iceland, Greenland and their diaspora - from the edge of the American continent to the Byzantine empire. Thrilling and or... read more
Strange fable of love, sex and morality, re-issued by Pushkin Press after their acquisition of the Peter Owen list. This won the Finlandia Prize in 2000. Translated from the Finnish.
This Swedish 'cult' book, first published in 1987, has a Borghesian lustre with its purported remnants of a lost work, spirals and labyrinths, the search for knowledge and the draw of the ir... read more
A meeting with an elderly woman tending eider ducks on a remote Norwegian island is tinder, spark and fuel for this remarkable book. Rebanks is a thoughtful story-teller and a very congenial... read more