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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

Anna Ancher’s Light

Helen Hillyard

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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

The Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two ...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

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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

On the Calculation of Volume III

Solvej Balle

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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

The Winter Warriors

Olivier Norek

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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

Beasts of the Sea

Iida Turpeinen

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Tekla Berg - enigmatic, pill-popping doctor and amateur sleuth - is enlisted by an unsavoury detective to figure out a spate of shootings in Stockholm.

Blood Will Tell

Christian Unge

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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.

The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen and Moe ...

Peter Christen Asbjornsen

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The unveiling of a new Great Game by a geo-strategic policy maker - the players also include China and Russia.

So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump ...

Elizabeth Buchanan

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This well-illustrated survey of the art of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland covers a wide range of movements, styles and artists.

Art of the Nordic Nations: Modernism, Freedom and Identity, 1870-1950 ...

Serge Fauchereau

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The contentious history of Arctic cartography and the going in search of the ends of the earth.

Mapping the North: Myth, Exploration, Encounter

Charlotta Forss

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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

Advent

Gunnar Gunnarsson

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The British Museum's expanding collection of drawing and print-making from WW2 to the present from the five northern nations.

Nordic Noir: Works on Paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson ...

Jennifer Ramkalawon

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Danish Modernism in textiles, from the Designmuseum Danmark.

Danish Textile Prints: Through 100 Years

Kirsten Toftegaard

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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

So in the Spruce Forest

Ali Smith

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As compelling as vol 1, this leaves us - outrageously - on a cliff-hanger. (We'll have to wait for November for vol 3...)

On the Calculation of Volume II

Solvej Balle

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The third and final volume of Mytting's superb trilogy.

The Night of the Scourge

Lars Mytting

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An episodic, multi-generational tale set in the Finnish wilderness - and defined by it too.

Tangled Roots

Maria Turtschaninoff

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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

Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers ...

Dawn M. Hadley

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Or a pack of lies? An Icelandic psychological thriller with a dark twist.

One True Word

Snaebjoern Arngrimsson

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Attractive catalogue to accompany the exhibition at the NPG looks at eighty examples, highlighting the bohemian circles Munch moved in.

Edvard Munch Portraits

Alison Smith

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Material culture of the domestic: paintings, ceramics, embroidery, furniture, decorative arts. Many illustrations.

The Scandinavian Home: Art and Identity, 1880-1920

Patricia G. Berman

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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

And the Walls Became the World All Around

Johanna Ekström

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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

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age ...

Eleanor Barraclough

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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.

Troll: A Love Story

Johanna Sinisalo

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By the queen of Icelandic noir.

Can’t Run, Can’t Hide

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

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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

The Ways of Paradise

Peter Cornell

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A study of C19th art in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; finely illustrated, with essays on the developing art scene, family life and much else.

Nordic Art and Way of Life: Art World, Artists and Themes ...

Susanna Pettersson

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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

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

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The master of stillness. To accompany an exhibition of his work in Basel.

Vilhelm Hammershoi: Silence

Felix Kramer

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A gloriously comic short novel from 1975, in which a journalist saves a hare and walks away from a wearisome life into a series of adventures with the hare as companion. Like our protagonist... read more

The Year of the Hare

Arto Paasilinna

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A verse-novel about the experiences of the Sami in the C20th.

Aednan: An Epic

Linnea Axelsson

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Erudition and curiosity impel this vivid, detailed portrait by the world's foremost expert on Linnaeus: this biography won several prizes when it was first published in Sweden in 2019.

The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus

Gunnar Broberg

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The fate of the medieval Norse settlements(vide Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders too!)

The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Lega ...

Robert Rix

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A fever-dream of four different kinds of love that have shaken one life: this novel has won several prizes in Sweden.

The Details

Ia Genberg

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Very nicely produced catalogue to a show at the Munch Museum which also travelled to Potsdam and Vienna. Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Antoni Tapies, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko et alia... read more

Burst! Abstract Painting After 1945

Daniel Zamani

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This close analysis, gorgeously illustrated, amounts to a superb study of the Baroque phenomenon everywhere, as well as of vast and elegant Danish palaces.

Lauritz de Thurah: Architecture and Worldviews in 18th Century Denmark ...

Peter Thule Kristensen

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