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Gudbjorg Thorisdottir has been hiding from the ghost of an ugly secret for most of her life. When she finally faces the truth of what happened in her childhood, the ghost floats away. Painting an evocative picture of life in Iceland, this is the story of a girl who didn't know how unnatural it was to experience heaven and hell in the same house.
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Rebecca Grey and her alcoholic mother, Bex, live in insecurity and poverty. Following a tragedy in Bex's past she made a decision which nobody must ever find out about. Will Rebecca escape from her mother's lies and make a life of her own?
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Escaping his life of taking drugs and chasing girls in Iceland, a troubled young man finds himself in a Chinese hospital. There, a vivid experience leads him on a journey to his spiritual teacher. The harsh realities of life in a south-east Asian prison and falling in love finally give him the strength to confront his disturbed past.
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There's a hard grit to the poems in GHOSTS, which meets a fluid movement of language to create waves of recognition and understanding. The topics and themes are covered honestly, and with refreshing vulnerability. Nick Conroy's paged poetry is like the written musical score of his live performance.
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When somebody sits opposite Lauren Wilson on the ferry to the Outer Hebrides, a hand pushes a mug of tea towards her. She recognises the scar on the back of it, releasing a flood of memories. Some people believe in the existence of a parallel universe. Could it be the bearer of that scar who has the power to decide what happens to Lauren now?
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A group of friends: separated by time, choices, and circumstance are reunited by their shared encounters with an uncanny presence that looms over their lives. The seeds were sewn in their childhoods, now they must try and understand what is happening, before it is too late.
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In April 1940, two British Destroyers sail into the harbour at Tórshavn. From that point onwards the lives of the Faroe Islanders are irrevocably altered.
Eighteen-year-old Kjartan blames the war for taking away the last remaining member of his family while he is struggling with intense feelings for his best friend Orri.
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In a series of family upheavals, Ellie shocks everybody by selling her home and deciding to live in a converted van. On the road she meets the mysterious Eliza who turns up in the most unexpected places. Ellie can't change the past, but she hopes a trip to Iceland may enable her atone for the mistakes she made when she was a young mother.
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Born to a Greenlandic mother and an English-Explorer father, Malik never knew his father and with his mother and uncle dead from alcoholism, Malik’s only companion is a guiding spirit no-one else can see.
One day a white man with a nose like a beak and a shadow like a seagull appears on his doorstep and invites him to England. The Seagull’s Laughter is an immersive read, intertwined with the nature and magic of Greenlandic folk tales.
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When they are called to Australia to identify the body of a young man, Maya is given her son’s journal. After a sleepless night she makes the decision to follow in her youngest son’s footsteps and become a vagabond, leaving her husband and daughters to return to the UK without her. From now on she needs to rely on her own physical and emotional strength.
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