Hammerfest is a thirty-hour bus ride from Oslo, though why anyone would want to go there in winter is a question worth considering. It is on the edge of the world, the northernmost town in Europe, as far from London as London is from Libya, a place of long, hard winters, where the sun sinks into the…
North of North
Bill Bryson
‘I had also long harboured a curious, half-formed urge to see what life was like in such a remote and cheerless place.’
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
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Peace Shall Destroy Many
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Blue Sky Days
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Vladimir in Love
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The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson’s books include A Walk in the Woods (Black Swan/Broadway Books), Notes From A Small Island (Black Swan/Avon), Mother Tongue (Penguin/Avon) and A Short History of Nearly Everything (Black Swan/Broadway Books). He was born in Des Moines, Iowa and lived in England for over twenty years.
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