Solveig Palsdottir

Crime novel set in Reykjavik featuring a suicide in prison, leading to an investigation that turns up dark secrets concerning the victim's past and a

A suspended police officer's instincts are triggered when he hears about woman who disappeared in a remote location in rural Iceland

Contemporary crime set in Iceland. When wealthy doctor Rikhardur Magnusson goes to sleep in his luxurious caravan and doesn't wake up, Gudgeir and Els

A retired, reclusive woman is found on a bitter winter morning, clubbed to death in Reykjavik's old graveyard. Detectives Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún fac

A young academic goes to ever greater lengths to keep a secret that sits at the heart of her work, and in doing so begins to lose her grip on her thes

The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture examines the origins and development of one of the most important inventions in human history. B

The McCormicks flee Glasgow towards the close of the nineteenth century. They head for America, the New World. Desperate to improve their lot they are

Solveig Gasche provides a conceptual analysis of responsible trade in commodities. Taking into account human rights and environmental standards, she d

Sigga of Reykjavik is the story of a spirited young woman who flees the abusive conditions on an Icelandic farm, only to face grinding poverty in Depr

As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune - leaving Torvik's g

Having answered a Berlin newspaper advertisement for "strong women who can cook and do farm work," Sophie Charlotte finds herself married with two son

While much has been published abroad about the German filmmaker and author Hans Jurgen Syberberg, this is the first English monograph about him. Autho

Name Construction in Mediæval Japan examines Japanese names from earliest records to the close of the medieval period in 1600. Like ancient Greek or L