An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park … with a whole host of problems. A quirky, tense and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen, FIRST in a series…**Soon to be a major motion picture starring Steve Carell for Amazon Studios**'Laconic, thrilling and warmly human. In these uncertain times, what better hero t...

A hauntingly beautiful, gripping novel about Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes against the Sámi people Winner of the Savonia Prize Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold on to his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her re...

The critically acclaimed novel about two young men on a fearless journey across cities, borders and identities Imagine . . . we can do anything now, we can be anyone, we can go anywhere Bujar's world is collapsing. His father is dying and his homeland, Albania, bristles with hunger and unrest. When his fearless friend Agim is discovered wearing his mother's red dress and beaten with his father's belt, he persuades Bujar that there is no place for them in their country. Desperate for a chan...

'A sense of lurking horror that will leave you troubled for weeks' - Sam Jordison, Guardian Book of the Year 2010. From the author of Not Before Sundown, this novel is a skilful portrait of the unquenchable desire of Westerners for the pure and the primitive. A young Finnish couple go on the hiking trip of a lifetime in Australasia with Heart of Darkness as reading material. The trip gradually turns into a tortuous thriller with belongings disappearing and, even more mysteriously, reappear...

Highly praised anthology of 100 years of Finnish literary fantasy. The latest volume in the Dedalus European fantasy series, this anthology of short stories includes a wide range of texts covering the period from nineteenth century until today. The richness and diversity of the stories reflects the long tradition of fantasy in Finnish literature, ranging from the classics to experimental literature, from satire to horror. This is the first collection of Finnish short stories of its kind an...

An internationally acclaimed debut novel about war, family, love and belonging - and a talking cat Yugoslavia, 1980s: a 16-year-old Muslim girl named Emine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But what was meant to be a happy match soon goes terribly wrong. Her country is torn apart by war and she flees with her family. Decades later Emine's son, Bekim, has grown up a social outcast in Finland; both an immigrant in a country suspicious of foreigners, and a gay man in an unaccepting so...

Get ALL THREE books in the hilarious, award-winning, internationally bestselling Rabbit Factor trilogy in one GREAT VALUE set!An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is upended when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park … with criminals, desperate schemes, dangerous enemies, impossibly high stakes and the bewildering chaos of family life. A darkly funny, tense and brilliantly offbeat trilogy from award-winning Finnish auth...

Once Ida nearly died at the hands of a killer. Now she's trying to live again, to forget the monsters in her head. But the nightmares are coming back, more terrible than ever.Because Ida, now working as a journalist, has uncovered evidence of a serial killer stalking Helsinki's streets. And no one - not Ida, not homicide officer Kerttu Leppänen, tortured by her own demons - can stop them.Sometimes the monsters are real. And hunting them can destroy you.

A desperate sawmill owner's attempt to save his business spirals into crime, chaos and unintended consequences in a hilarious dark, nailbiting thriller by the international bestselling author of The Man Who Died.**Shortlisted for Best Finnish Crime Novel of the Year***'The king of the humorous crime caper' Abir Mukherjee'It may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we haven't been looking ...

"A sprawling, seething epic" Lucy Steeds, winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize"As deep and profound as the sea itself" Philip Hoare"Almost hypnotically readable" Guardian**"Remarkable" The TimesThe crew of Vitus Bering's ill-starred Great Northern Expedition are shipwrecked off a remote, uncharted island.** With no hope of rescue, they give in to despair. Until t...

The arrival of a meteorite in a small Finnish town causes chaos and crime in this poignant, chilling and hilarious thriller, by the international bestselling author of The Rabbit Factor and The Man Who Died – MAJOR MOVIE coming soon to Netflix!`With moral dilemmas, plenty of action, and the author's trademark mixture of humour and melancholy, this is Tuomainen's best yet´ Guardian`Scandinavia's answer to Carl Hiaa...

***Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award******Book of the Year in The Times***Things don't go entirely to plan when undercover ace detective Jan Nyman is sent to the 'hottest beach in Finland' to investigate a suspicious death. Fargo meets Baywatch in a mesmerising, poignant dark-comedy thriller by the King of Helsinki Noir'A roller-coaster read and extraordinarily poignant' Guardian