Last Night at the Lobster, by Steward O’Nan

Last Night at the Lobster is an interesting and enjoyable book written in a quiet mood about life and love in the working world. A tale about ordinary life, with ordinary, real people in it.
The story is about Manny De Leon, manager of a Red Lobster restaurant in a dismal section of Connecticut. The franchise [...]

Missing, by Karin Alvtegen

Missing grabs the reader from the first page, and doesn’t let go until the gruesome end. This fabulous thriller won Best Scandinavian Crime Novel (previous winners include Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla and Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers) and Silverpocket Awards in 2002. With Missing Karin Alvtegen has enjoyed massive success all over Europe.
Sibylla Forstenström is the [...]

Swedish Crime Writers Very Successful in UK and USA

The Swedes are invading the marked for crime and mystery in the UK and USA, and elsewhere in Europe as well. Sweden has a large - and even fast growing -number of excellent crime writers, and many of them have been translated into English during the last decade or so. Norwegian and Danish crime is [...]

The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground, by Ludvig Holberg

The Danish-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg, (born Bergen, Norway 1684, died Sorø, Denmark 1754) was a prolific and entertaining writer, famous mostly for his extremely amusing, divine comedies (Jeppe on the Hill and Erasmus Montanus are probably the best known). However, he also wrote a story that may be considered one of the first science fiction [...]

Moment of Freedom, by Jens Bjorneboe

Moment of Freedom is the first book in the Bjorneboe trilogy known as History of Bestiality. The two other books are Powderhouse and The Silence.
This is a grand work. The anarchic Bjorneboe despised repression and repressive institutions, as well as authority. This trilogy is a broadly founded literary attack on the multiple foundations of repressive [...]

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque

“We are at rest five miles behind the front”. This is how one of the world’s great literary treasures, All Quiet on the Western Front, begins. It is a story about a common soldier’s experience in WWI, written in a quiet style, yet conveying the horrific experiences of war in such a way that it has been [...]

What I Loved, by Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved is a wonderful novel, beautifully written, but also a very demanding book to read, intellectually as well as emotionally.
Siri Hustvedt is an American, but with Norwegian parents. She lives in New York, and is married to, and have a daughter with, the author Paul Auster. She has a Ph.D. in [...]

Black Seconds, by Karin Fossum

(Norwegian title: Svarte sekunder.)
In 2002 Karin Fossum published her sixth Sejer novel in Norwegian. This book, Black Seconds, is now released in English. So far Karin Fossum’s books have been extremely well received. And with Black Seconds, which is among her best books - well written, highly exciting, and with all the depth one expects from [...]