Books published by Norvik Press

Ypsilon is a human being reduced to the most basic essentials, a naked one-eyed brain floating in an aquarium of nutritious liquid. Through his consciousness we observe his obstinate struggle to maintain his freedom of action in this utterly dependent situation whilst it slowly dawns on him that he is a part of a wide-ranging scientific experiment.

Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later.

This is a translation of the author's tetralogy, published between 1974 and 1983, that traces the growth and development of a railroad town by portaying working-class women and children, rather than society's movers and shakers.

The final volume in Ekman's quartet of novels depicting life in a Swedish railway town. Ann-Marie searches for identity and meaning in a modern, secularized society. The suggestion that lives attain meaning and even a kind of immortality by being remembered and narrated is central to the book.

The Angel House is the third in the remarkable series of free-standing novels that cemented Kerstin Ekman's reputation in her native Sweden during the 1970s.

The Spring focuses on the lives of three women, Tora, Frida and Ingrid, during the interwar years.

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

Pentti Saarikoski was a prolific translator and journalist, and a revered modernist poet central to the Finnish literary scene of the 1960s and 1970s. The inventiveness, warmth and humour of Saarikoski''s voice have made him something of a national treasure in Finland. His writing is at once playful and political, drawing on everyday life and current affairs, as well as Greek antiquity. This collection of poems chosen and translated by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah charts Saarikoski''s artistic development over the decades from his early Greek period to his politically charged participative poetry, and ultimately his last known poem. This dual-language edition places the original Finnish poems side-by-side with their English translation, inviting readers to explore the elegant craftsmanship of Saarikoski''s use of language. 

From birth, Vega Maria Dreary is caught in a vice of conflicting parental expectations. Her father brings her up to admire history's heroic male adventurers, while her mother channels her towards housework and conformity. But when puberty comes, paternal half-promises evaporate and Vega has to fight her own way out of the domestic cage.

Malin Forst is a precocious, devout twenty-year-old woman attending a Stockholm teachers' college in the 1930s. Confounded by a sudden crisis of faith, Malin plunges into a depression and a paralysis of will.

This anthology showcases the scope of current research by early-career scholars in Scandinavian Studies. The essays explore how the North has been imagined and mediated as 'home' in literature, historiography, language and the arts.

One August day in 2008 a Norwegian Labour Party MP is discovered in a remote cabin, together with four of his family and friends, all with their throats slit. This unprecedented crime sends shudders through the national psyche, as the search for the perpetrators begins and people have to adjust to the terrifying thought: it can happen here too.

Life in a grand Norwegian mountain hotel is not what it used to be. Sedd's grandparents are fighting a losing battle to maintain standards at Favnesheim hotel, whilst the young Sedd observes developments with a keen eye for the absurd and a growing sense of unease that all is not well.

This is the last novel by Estonia's greatest twentieth-century writer, Anton Tammsaare, and it constitutes a fitting summation of the themes that occupied him throughout his writing: the search for truth and social justice, and the struggle against corruption and greed.

Described as 'perhaps the most private of Selma Lagerloef's books', the novel takes us deep into a father-daughter relationship that carries the seeds of tragedy within it almost from the start.

In an intricate study of relationships in which marriage is the only respectable career for a woman. Sophie, the youngest of four daughters of a cynical and disappointed mother, struggles against society's precepts and her own conditioning to be allowed to make an independent choice.

Swedish feminist, suffragist, pacifist, and environmentalist, Elin Wagner was the author of a prodigious amount of journalism, political pamphlets, and prose fiction as well as an acclaimed biography of Selma Lagerloef.

The twenty-six stories included in this volume are taut, economical in structure, precisely observed and laced with irony.

Two British environmental activists are discovered dead amongst the whale corpses after a whale-kill in Torshavn. The detective Hannis Martinsson is asked to investigate by a representative of the organisation Guardians of the Sea - who shortly afterwards is killed when his private plane crashes.