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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
Ragnar Jónasson
One winter evening bestselling crime author, Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing.
There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective, Helgi, to crack the case before it’s leaked to the press.
As he interviews the people closest to her – a publisher, an accountant, a retired judge – he realises that Elín’s life wasn’t what it seemed. In fact, her past is even stranger than her stories.
As the case of the missing crime writer becomes more mysterious by the hour, Helgi must uncover the secrets of a very unexpected life . . .
4.390 kr.
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Hotel Silence
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
990 kr.
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Advent
Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889-1975)
Every winter, in the days leading up to Christmas, Benedikt walks into the snowy mountains of Iceland to rescue sheep lost in the blizzards.
With his dog and his ram by his side, traversing wild snowstorms and crystalline nights, fuelled by endless cups of hot coffee, Benedikt dedicates himself to helping other living beings in need. It is midwinter in the harshest of landscapes, but this is a place of deep belonging and peace – brutal and remorseless yet irresistible and indispensable. It is also a time of peace, filled with the anticipation of that special time of year – the days before Christmas: Advent.
This enchanting Icelandic classic of one man’s selfless quest at Christmas time has been newly translated into English for the first time in 90 years.
3.990 kr.
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Njála the short
Kristín Ragna Gunnarsdóttir
Highlights from the most popular saga of Icelanders!
This illustrated book is based on one of the most beloved sagas of Icelanders, The Saga of the Burning of Njál, Njál’s Saga or Njála. The saga is believed to have been written around 1270-1290 although the events of the story took place 300 years earlier.
Here the award-winning artist and author Kristín Ragna Gunnarsdóttir has depicted the broad outlines of Njála in a short text and pictures so that readers can become acquainted with some of the colourful characters and get a grasp of the main storyline. This is not the first time that Kristín Ragna has interpreted Njál’s Saga as she designed and illustrated The Njál’s Saga Tapestry; a 90-metre-long tapestry that was embroidered at Hvolsvöllur (njala.is).
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The Poetic Edda
‘She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,over the mountain hunting fish.’
After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress’s Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of gods and humans are related.
The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor, Loki the trickster, the lovely goddesses and the giants who are their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi, Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer, Brynhild the shield-maiden, and the implacable Gudrun. New in this revised translation are the quest-poem The Lay of Svipdag and The Waking of Angantyr, in which a girl faces down her dead father to retrieve his sword. Comic, tragic, instructive, grandiose, witty and profound, the poems of the Edda have influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien and a new generation of video-game and film makers.
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The Woman at 1,000 Degrees
Hallgrímur Helgason
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The Quiet Mother
Arnaldur Indriðason
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad’s phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the truth – for her and for himself.
As Konrad digs into the woman’s past, he is drawn into a web of secrets, lies and betrayal. Each revelation points to a hidden life that connects her death to a decades-old murder – and to shadows from Konrad’s own family history.
The Quiet Mother is a masterful blend of human tragedy and relentless suspense, where every discovery comes at a cost. Arnaldur Indridason once again proves why he is the voice of Nordic Noir, delivering a harrowing tale of guilt and redemption.
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A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder
Brynja Hjálmsdóttir
In A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, written by contemporary Icelandic poet Brynja Hjálmsdóttir and translated by Rachel Britton, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems, however, is always shaking itself up, leaping between the extreme and the daily, the gross and the delicious, between being scared and being scary. These surreal, visceral, and somehow polite poems explore what it can be like to be a woman and to slither through and away from threat to find voice and form and power, no matter how strange. The apocalyptic utopia we arrive at in this book—The Whore’s City—is a perfect model to move to in one’s head: feminist, funny, odd, and a little disgusting, all towards transformation.
3.490 kr.
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Death at the Sanatorium
Ragnar Jónasson
High up in the mountains stands a sanatorium. Once a hospital dedicated to treating tuberculosis, it now sits haunted by the ghosts of its past.
One wing of the hospital remains open and houses six employees: the caretaker, two doctors, two nurses and a young research assistant. Despite the wards closing decades ago, they remain at the hospital to conduct research. But the cold corridors, draughty windows and echoey halls are constant reminders of the building’s dark history.
When one of the nurses, Yrsa, is found brutally murdered, they discover that death has never left this place – and neither did its secrets. None can escape this terrifying legacy. Despite just four suspects the case is never solved and remains open for two decades.
Until a young criminologist named Helgi Reykdal attempts to finally lay the ghosts of the hospital’s past to rest . . .
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Your Absence is Darkness
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realises he’s lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn’t recognise either woman, and as their stories unfold, he is plunged into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a farmer’s wife whose essay on the humble earthworm changes the course of lives; a pastor who writes to dead poets and falls in love with a stranger; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness, who discovers that his life has been a lie; and an alcoholic transfixed by the night sky.
Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. An incandescent, audacious novel about the misfortune of mortality and the strange salve of time, Your Absence is Darkness is a spellbinding story of death, desire and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.
Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
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The Red Fish
Rúna (Sigrún Guðjónsdóttir)
Little Simbi feels like he’s the only bright red fish in the deep blue sea. So one day, he sets out on a journey to try to find other fish who look like him. The reader follows Simbi through oceans both cold and warm—sometimes he’s frightened and sometimes he’s excited. But no matter what, he never lets go of the hope that one day soon, he will discover a little, red playmate and find true happiness!
In The Red Fish, Rúna (Sigrún Guðjónsdóttir) effortlessly intertwines playful text and vivid pictures to tell a delightful and exciting story that has stood the test of time. The Red Fish was first published in 1972 and later republished with the current illustrations in 1985. This new edition introduces young readers to a classic gem of Icelandic children’s literature and is sure to enchant readers for generations to come.
The Red Fish
Over the course of an artistic career that has spanned illustration and graphic design, painting, ceramics, and large-scale murals, Rúna has received numerous awards and distinctions. These include the Order of the Falcon, Iceland’s highest honour, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Iceland Design and Architecture.
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Bónus Poetry
Andri Snær Magnason
Bónus Poetry takes the reader on a mythological journey through the aisles of an undisclosed Bónus Supermarket branch, and is based on Dante’s Divina Commedia. Starting in “Paradiso” (the fruit and vegetable section), we travel through “Inferno” (meat and frozen goods) before finally ending up in the “Purgatorio” (cleaning products).
The book was initially published by Bónus Supermarkets in Iceland and sold at supermarket counters on eternal “special offer”. The author signed the same contract as every other producer: “If the consumer is harmed by the product, the producer is liable.” Bónus Poetry became the biggest selling poetry volume in the history of Iceland. No consumers have yet been harmed but please call the service desk in case of headaches, dizziness or general bursts of poem disorder.
2.490 kr.
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