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Call of the Deep North: “Palace of the Snow Queen” by Barbara Sjoholm

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Lucy Pollard-Gott

The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. Author Barbara Sjoholm makes her winter travels in Lapland personal from her first pages, where she confides her deep sadness and restlessness after … Continue reading →

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Arctic Mysteries Run Deep: “Under the Snow” by Kerstin Ekman

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Lucy Pollard-Gott

Under the Snow by Kerstin Ekman, trans. Joan Tate, Picador, 1999. (First published in Swedish in 1961) Kerstin Ekman’s Under the Snow stretches the police procedural  genre–or rather, freezes it–to fit its setting: a tiny Sami village on the Arctic … Continue reading →

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