The days of these tales live on in songs and novels as well as history. In The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker, we are taken into the past as it pertains to the areas of Norway and its ...

We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen is an spellbinding ... Albert mentors the young Knud Erik, the hero of the second half of the book. Much like life this is not a tidy book.

Hartsuyker’s second volume in her trilogy (after The Half-Drowned King) continues the saga of Ragnvald Eysteinsson, set in ninth-century Norway, a turbulent period of bloody unrest. Ragnvald is ...

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Near the eerie start of “The Drowned,” John Banville’s latest psychological procedural set in 1950s Ireland, a lanky man named Armitage emerges from the dark onto a rural field near the sea.

and plunge into water tanks that left her half-drowned. So how did the onetime Queen of England — cast here as the mother of treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) — take to a full-on Jerry ...

Linnea Hartsuyker’s novel “The Half-Drowned King” raises the question, what was happening back home in the Viking homelands? Especially in Norway? She has a great deal of material to work ...

If you like your psychological suspense stories awash in atmosphere, drenched in dread, positively soaked through with sinisterness, “Palace of the Drowned ... at a London book party.

In “The Half Known Life,” Pico Iyer journeys around the globe to study conceptions of the world beyond. By Mark Epstein When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ...

A screen grab of the new Half Price Books website that finally lets customers search for a book online and find out which store stocks it. In the future, the plan is for you to be able to search ...

If book sales are any indication, the most popular poet in America in the last decade has been Jalal al-Din Rumi, a Sufi mystic who died over 700 years ago. In The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and ...

In Danish author Carsten Jensen’s epic novel “We, the Drowned,” these themes are accompanied by a strong sense of the peculiarities of human nature. This first novel by a noted journalist ...