Category: Reviews Archive

When I first heard of the photographic book Legend by Fiann Paul, portraying people dressed in Viking-style in Icelandic landscapes, I imagined it would depict scenes from

Brian Pilkington has made a name for himself in Iceland as an illustrator of children’s books. He is particularly famous for his illustrations of trolls, which

The Pets by former Sugarcubes bassist Bragi Ólafsson, originally published by Bjartur in 2001 and translated to English in 2008, is one of the stranger

The original tour guides/photography books in Veröld’s “Iceland Cool & Crisp” series, Reykjavík and The Golden Circle and Blue Lagoon, offered a fresh perspective on tired tourist destinations

This is the third book by renowned Icelandic photographer Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson that I have reviewed, the other two being The Little Big Book About Iceland (2009) and Icelandic

This month I’m cheating a little. The book I’m reviewing is not just out and an English version of it has not just been released.

The travel guide The Real Iceland by Páll Ásgeir Ásgeirsson is supposed to tell the whole truth about the Icelandic nation, including all the customs and quirks

The Thief of Time by Steinunn Sigurdardóttir, originally released as Tímathjófurinn in 1986, appeared in the English translation of Rory McTurk in 2007. There is a clever idea