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Tales from Scandinavia

Norway, Sweden and Finland

  • The Savage Altar

    The Savage Altar

    by Asa Larsson
    Penguin
    If Larsson keeps up the narrative pace of The Savage Altar in the other five Rebecka Martinsson mysteries still to be published in the UK, you – and Rebecka – will be shattered by the end of the final volume.
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  • Out Stealing Horses

    Out Stealing Horses

    by Per Petterson
    Vintage
    Petterson’s characters are embedded in the landscape and the seasons, the drifting snows of winter and the burning sunshine of high summer.
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  • At the Edge of Light

    At the Edge of Light

    by Maria Peura
    The Maia Press Ltd
    Maria Peura's captivating novel, infused by the power of the seasons and the force of nature, is a primal story of adolescence set in a remote village in northern Finland.
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  • Berlin Poplars

    Berlin Poplars

    by Anne B Ragde
    Vintage
    Neu-Drontheim: a projected city of 50,000 houses that was to be built on the Norwegian coast by the invading Germans during the Second World War. It was a grand scheme – the Reich’s architect Albert Speer had a 25-metre plaster...
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  • The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

    The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

    by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
    Harper Perennial
    From 1965 to 1975, the husband and wife team of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö wrote ten crime novels about the lugubrious Swedish detective Martin Beck.
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