Ypsilon is a human being reduced to the most basic essentials, a naked one-eyed brain floating in...

One August day in 2008 the Norwegian Labour Party's most colourful MP, Arve Storefjeld, is discov...

29 January 1912. In a train compartment in Ogden, Utah, a Danish author was found unconscious. Th...

Fru Inés is a city novel, vividly evoking the sights, sounds and smells of nineteenth-century Con...

Klaus Rifbjerg's 1958 novel has become a constantly reprinted classic of twentieth-century Danish...

This anthology brings together essays written by BA, MA and PhD students of Nordic Cinema at UCL....

Murder in the Dark sports a winning combination of engaging crime narrative and cool, unsentiment...

From birth, Vega Maria Dreary is caught in a vice of conflicting parental expectations. Her fathe...

In Tallinn in 1946 a young boy is transfixed by the beauty of a luxurious cream-coloured car glid...

To most English-language readers and theatre goers, Strindberg is mainly known for naturalistic p...

Victoria Benedictsson published Money, her first novel, in 1885. Set in rural southern Sweden whe...

Edith Södergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many langua...

Two British environmental activists are discovered dead amongst the whale corpses after a whale-k...

Andrievs Radvilis is a former jockey on the Riga trotting track whose solitary retirement is inte...

The twenty-six stories included in this volume are taut, economical in structure, precisely obser...

For poverty-stricken farm labourer Jan, the birth of his daughter Klara gives life a new meaning;...

This novel tells the story of the misalliance between Lucie, a vivacious and beautiful dancing gi...

Nils Holgersson¿s Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a ...

The Nordic Research Network (NRN) began as a forum for UK- based early career researchers to shar...

The God of Chance focuses on the relationship between Ana, a high-flying Danish career woman from...

The property of Mårbacka in Värmland was where Selma Lagerlöf grew up, immersed in a tradition of...

'Written in 1912, Selma Lagerlöf's The Phantom Carriage is a powerful combination of ghost story ...

Penwoman is the classic novel about the Swedish women's suffrage movement. Originally published i...

August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best known outside Sweden as a dramatist, but he was also a prol...

This collection of essays celebrates Professor Janet Garton's outstanding contribution over four ...

Satan has a problem: God has come to the conclusion that it is unfair to send souls to hell if th...

This is the first full-length study in English of the oeuvre of Elin Wägner - feminist, suffragis...

Captain Jæger is the well-meaning but temperamental head of a rural family living in straitened c...

A curse rests on the Löwensköld family, as narrated in The LöwensköldRing. Charlotte Löwensköld i...

What happens to an individual who is rejected by society? What happens to a society that eventual...

Kerstin Ekman is primarily known as a novelist, but she has occasionally turned to free verse, es...

Malin Forst is a precocious, devout twenty-year-old woman attending a Stockholm teachers' college...

Karlsen is a down-on-his-luck private investigator looking for work. When the only job on offer i...

Today, change in our material lives is a constant. Many now living have seen the advent not only ...

Maybe 'borealism' could be a name for the Southern preconceived ideas about those who live at Nor...

The Löwensköld Ring (1925) is the first volume of the trilogy considered to have been Selma Lager...

Written in 1899, Selma Lagerlöf's novella A Manor House Tale is at one and the same time a comple...

Written in 1854-55 and translated after 140 years into English, this is the one and only novel wr...

Wilfred - alias Little Lord - is a privileged young man growing up in upper-class society in Kris...

Hans Børli (1918-89) was born and lived in the wooded country of Hedmark in south eastern Norway....

Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a ...

Set at the end of last century, The Sharks is a thrilling tale of mutiny and shipwreck, which bea...

The Nordic Research Network (NRN) was established in 2010 by graduate students of Scandinavian St...

Are the peripheries the new centre? How do the 'debatable lands' of Scandinavia and Scotland writ...

This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg's life in the 1870s and 1880s, and focuses on ...

August Strindberg (1849-1912, Sweden's internationally recognised dramatist, was an astonishingly...

This spirited and at times sinister novel ensnares the reader in a tangled encounter between mode...

An economical and haunting tale, published in book form in 1904 and set in the sixteenth century ...