Nordic and Vikings

Wisting - hero of the hit BBC4 detective show - must prevent a murder who escaped justice 20 years ago striking again. In 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on...

KNIFE is the brand new Harry Hole thriller from Jo Nesbo where Harry will come face to face with a deadly foe **THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'This is the...

From the No.1 bestselling author of the Harry Holes series comes Headhunters - fraud, double-crossing and murder in a thriller where nothing is what it seems.... 'Keeps the twists and...

"A windswept, wave-tossed, altogether irresistible novel of literary suspense - I truly didn't want it to end" A. J. FINN"In its scale, scope and ambition, The Sea Cemetery is truly...

This is the second book in the Detective Konrad series, from the Crime King of Iceland. Over 18 million copies sold worldwide. The bestselling Icelandic author of all time. 'One...

Nordic Noir goes Icelandic with the internationally bestselling Dark Iceland series launch Before Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd ttir of the Reykjavik Police is forced into early retirement she is told...

An old sanatorium. A terrifying murder. Six suspects and a case that never closed . . . Discover the new locked-room mystery by the Sunday Times bestselling author Once a...

An old sanatorium. A terrifying murder. Six suspects and a case that never closed . . . Discover the new locked-room mystery by the Sunday Times bestselling author Once a...

Bearing all the markings of a truely classic novel, Troll Fell, is an exciting adventure-filled tale of Peer, his evil uncles, treasure and wicked trolls. Peer Ulfsson stood miserably at...

A new and updated edition of this authoritative work on Viking history, from a distinguished expert in the field Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword Far from being just...

An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visited her father at his remote Faro island home...

'Top-notch' Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A well researched study injected with humour...

Gunter Grass's novel "Der Butt" is one of his most important and best-known works, and yet it has not received the critical acclaim enjoyed by his other novels, most notably...

The times have forced changes in the way we look at "Richard II" more than any other of Shakespeare's plays. What to his contemporaries was a balanced dramatisation of the...

An extraordinary and hugely topical story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world. he Orientalist is the extraordinary story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world...

An insight into the splendour, squalor and energy of everday Roman life Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer...

'A fascinating window on an unfamiliar world as well as an original and puzzling mystery' - Val McDermid An old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. A cryptic...

A riveting, funny coming-of-age story- the first volume in Pirkko Saisio's award-winning Helsinki trilogy 'Grandpa says everyone should leave me alone. If I want to be a boy, then I'm...

A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into English While Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as...

Do you want a solid foundation to your German studies?If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will...

During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of...

Explore Iceland with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the country's trendiest places, and get tips on shopping and what to do...

Effi Briest is only seventeen when she is married off to Baron von Innstetten, travelling to live with him in a provincial town on the remote Baltic coast of Prussia....

During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of...

Kaarlo Vatanen is fed up with his life. He's sick of his job, his wife, his urban lifestyle in Helsinki. But all this changes one warm summer's evening, when he...

'A tantalising mystery, executed with perfection.' - THOMAS ENGER He was locked inside an abandoned house. But he's not the only one . . . When a dead man is...

' Soula is the most exciting new voice in Irish writing' Barry Pierce, i-D 'O ne of my favourite books so far this year' Shahed Ezaydi, Stylist ' Soula Emmanuel...

'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History It's time to meet the real Vikings. A...

Refreshed, renewed, reloaded! All the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings are ready to uncover, including: Viking Gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death by booby-trapped statues. As...

This is a first-hand, comprehensive account of how Finland built a world-class education system during the past three decades. It traces the evolution of education policies in Finland and highlights...

Drawing on the very latest discoveries and augmenting textual evidence with fine archaeological detail, this sweeping narrative, written by a leading authority, creates a vivid picture of the Vikings at...

Artist Signed Edition Photoshop has changed the photographic arena and created new opportunities. Erik Johansson has made international success with his surreal dream worlds. His pictures are pushing the boundaries...

A Munch and Kr ger detective story, following the first case that bought together the brilliant, young police cadet Mia Kr ger and old-timer police chief Munch, as a new...

'I think the world should read it' LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN A Guardian Book of the Year After the unexpected death of her partner, Carolina Setterwall found herself...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD 2025, CELEBRATING THE BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends...

A masterful new translation of one of Kierkegaard's most engaging worksIn the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies...

George Sand was the adopted name of Aurore Dupin. She was famous for her plays, stories, articles and novels, and for her extraordinary life, especially her troubled love-affair with Chopin....

The searing conclusion to the Norse-inspired fantasy romance duology that began with the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling A Fate Inked in Blood. A shield maiden fights to break the...

WINNER OF THE PRIX JEAN GIONO FINALIST FOR THE PRIX INTERALLIE A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A bestselling, award-winning World War II novel about the heroism of a single...

This is a biography of Henrik Ibsen. The author's intention has been to get behind the daunting outside image of the dramatist, in order to reveal the story of Ibsen's...

Professor Prawer's new book documents Heinrich Heine's lifelong involvement with England and the English. It shows him to have been a witty and intelligent observer of English men and women,...

This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship to his...

The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the story of a man who, as the editor of...

The book titled Thomas Mann and His Family by the author Marcel Reich-Ranicki. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Backed up by previously unpublished papers and interviews with Brecht's colleagues and many lovers, this biography argues that Brecht was not in fact the author of the plays which have...

Published to mark the 1200th anniversary of the first Viking raid, on Lindisfarne in 793 AD, this book sets out to reveal the Viking onslaught from the viewpoint of those...

Through tireless searches in archives and some very astute deductions these two ex-BBC television production executives have exposed a new dimension to Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE...

The Collins German Dictionary & Grammar is an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly grammar guide in one handy volume. Colour headwords, cultural notes, a section on translation problems and now...