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.

Lieut. Teichmann agrees half-heartedly with the half-truths, then changes his mind, protests that there is some meaning, at least, in fighting courageously. Into Madness. His own fight ends ...

The Drowned Cities' stands out as one ... As a science fictional concept, however, the half-man works very well. One of the book's most pleasant surprises is its approach towards technology.

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 ...

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 ...