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Mare’s Nest brings the best in International contemporary fiction to an English-language readership, together with associated non-fiction works. To date, it has concentrated on the flourishing literature of Iceland, which appears under the Shad Thames imprint.

Mare's Nest also publishes Faroese fiction and Hungarian non-fiction.

	Blue Tower, The by Thorarinn Eldjarn Offenders against the Great Edict - the puritan ethical code imposed by the Danish King on his Icelandic subjecs in 1564 could include imprisonment in Copenhagen's notorious Blue Tower. £9.95		The Swan by Gudbergur Bersson A nine-year-old girl is sent to a country farm to serve her probation for shoplifting - a characteristic Icelandic sentence. £9.95		Under Southern Stars by Gunnar Hoydal The children of a former UN worker revisit as adults theplaces and people they remember from travels with their father round a continent on the far side of the world. £9.95
	Z - A Love Story by Vigdis Grimsdottir " I want you to know the real me" - resounds tragically through this novel... To be afraid to finish reading a book is a strange feeling..." £9.95