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  • The Unseen

    by Roy Jacobsen ...
    Translated by Don Shaw, Don Bartlett ...
    Series Book 1 - The Barrøy Chronicles
    Shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize • Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award • "Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel The Unseen is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read."―Eileen Battersby, Irish TimesBorn on the Norwegian island that bears her name, Ingrid Barrøy’s world is ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Child Wonder

    A Novel

    by Roy Jacobsen ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    *Winner of the prestigious Norwegian Booksellers' Prize**A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection (Holiday 2011)*A glorious evocation of a Norwegian childhood in the early sixties by an author short-listed for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC AwardLittle Finn lives with his mother in an apartment in a working-class suburb of Oslo. Life is a struggle to make ends meet, but he does not mind. When ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • White Shadow

    by Roy Jacobsen ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    Series Book 2 - The Barrøy Chronicles
    The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The UnseenNo-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Unworthy

    by Roy Jacobsen ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    "Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class" Times Literary SupplementThey're a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Doppler

    by Erlend Loe ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    Doppler has a nice house, a nice wife and a nice job. But Doppler isn't happy.'Wonderfuly subversive, funny and original' Observer.'A darkly comic fable' Independent.When his father dies, Doppler decides to leave everything behind and start a new life in the forest. There, deep amongst the trees, he reconnects with nature, ponders the meaning of life, and bonds with a baby elk called Bongo.Sweet, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Eyes of the Rigel

    by Roy Jacobsen ...
    Translated by Don Barlett, Don Shaw ...
    Series Book 3 - The Barrøy Chronicles
    The highly anticipated third novel in a historical series that began with International Booker-shortlisted The UnseenThe war is over, and Ingrid Barrøy leaves the island that shares her name to search for the father of her daughter. Alexander, the Russian POW who survived the sinking of the Rigel, has attempted to cross the mountains to Sweden, and now Ingrid follows, carrying their child in her ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Just a Mother

    by Roy Jacobsen ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    Series Book 4 - The Barrøy Chronicles
    The fourth installment in Roy Jacobsen’s bestselling Barrøy Chronicles.After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has returned to Barrøy, the island that bears her family name. The Second World War still casts its long shadow: former collaborators face cold shoulders, while others wish to leave the painful years in the past. When a boy arrives on the island, Ingrid assumes responsibility for him, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lazy Days

    by Erlend Loe ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    Meet Bror Telemann. 42 years old. Husband to Nina Telemann. Father to Heidi, Berthold and Sabine. Currently: stage director at the Norwegian National Theatre. Soon to be: world-famous playwright and general talking head.Now he's on holiday with his family at the foot of the Alps, south of Munich. That's in Germany. Nina loves Germany. Telemann does not. Telemann loves Nigella Lawson.Ahem... he ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Hike - and every damn thing else

    by Don Shaw ...
    Once more we meet Freddy, Phil and Don the hilarious, yet deep thinking, tales of three retired men determined to keep hiking to the bitter end in their beloved Peak District but each for very different reasons...Phil a former air-traffic controller and the groups self-appointed leader is on a mission not to grow old. He believes his combination of obsessive physical exercise and the latest ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Hike

    by Don Shaw ...
    Freddy, Phil and Don are three grumpy old men, travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement, at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them.Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District, come gale, hail, snow or torrential rain. They pass the time bumping into colourful and eccentric locals, but their real passion is bickering ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Hike

    by Don Shaw ...
    Narrated by Terry Molloy ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    Freddy, Phil and Don are three grumpy old men, travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement, at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them.Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District, come gale, hail, snow or torrential rain. They pass the time bumping into colourful and eccentric locals, but their real passion is bickering ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    White Shadow

    by Roy Jacobsen ...
    Narrated by Ann Richardson ...
    Series series Barrøy

    Unabridged

    6 hours 59 min

    The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The UnseenNo-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up ... Read more

    $19.99 USD