Max Mollerup is a Danish journalist, working for his newspaper in Paris during the turbulent sixties. He has a comfortable apartment, a car and all the other conveniences of modern urban life. However, he is also chronically insecure, incapable of doing or saying the right thing at the right time. In an age which exuded cool assurance and self-confidence, Mollerup is a loner who, unsuccessful with women, resorts to prostitutes. His one attempt at a serious relationship soon disappears beneath a slough of uninterest. To make matters worse, someone else wants his job, and his most successful book has just been exposed as a work of plagiarism. Then his mother comes to stay: an aging Danish film star from the 1930s, she is awful to him and he is in turn brutal to her.

Discover a moving tale of isolation and the painful loss of innocence. **NOW AN INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING FILM** In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever. As a 67-year-old man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has moved to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. But a chance encounter with a character from the fateful summer of 1948 brings the painful memories of that year flooding back and will leave Trond even more convinced of his decision to end his days alone. 'One of Norway's finest living writers' Independent 'Deeply atmospheric...a stunning novel' Daily Telegraph

Gabriel Rayner finds much more than his wayfaring brother in the Florida Keys when he rescues a drowning mermaid.

Ephyra is a mermaid who has taken human form to escape a warlord named Erebos. Ephyra must find a Champion to fight for her. She thinks the rules of engagement are easy - don't fall in love with the Champion - but she soon discovers how dangerous it is to break this rule.

Together, in a clash of culture shock and heat, Gabriel and Ephyra battle their odds. They can't deny the connection between them but if Gabriel becomes her Champion, he will be enslaved to the Merfolk for eternity. Can she ask him to do that? Would he do anything just to be near her?

"Sensuality Level": Sensual

In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco. Their home, with a pious mother who sings hymns all day and a silent father, is as cold as their surroundings. But the unshakeable bond between brother and sister creates a vital warmth which glows in spite of the chill and the dark clouds that threaten to overtake their dreams.