Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 24 results for “philip roughton”
Skip side bar filters

  • Land of Love and Ruins

    by Oddný Eir, Philip Roughton ...
    Winner of the EU Prize for Literature“Oddný Eir is an authentic author, philosopher, and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now.… A true pioneer!!!!!!!!” —Björk“Part diary, part philosophy (think Pascal and Montaigne), always keen and true and delightfully smart, this is a book that I related to deeply and loved consuming ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heaven and Hell

    by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 1 - The Trilogy About the Boy
    “There are novels that make something inside you come awake, and make you want to keep it awake. Maybe that’s what a classic is: not only a work that endures but one that makes something endure in you—something that lasts even after you may have forgotten the whole story and the characters’ names. Such is the case with the Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s ‘Trilogy About the Boy’.” ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Advent

    The Wintery Icelandic Christmas Classic

    by Gunnar Gunnarsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    'As we come nearer to Christmas this wondrous book becomes ever more poignant and magical. Once read never forgotten' Michael MorpurgoEvery winter, in the days leading up to Christmas, Benedikt walks into the snowy mountains of Iceland to rescue sheep lost in the blizzards.With his dog and his ram by his side, traversing wild snowstorms and crystalline nights, fuelled by endless cups of hot coffee ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Sorrow of Angels

    by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 2 - The Trilogy About the Boy
    “There are novels that make something inside you come awake, and make you want to keep it awake. Maybe that’s what a classic is: not only a work that endures but one that makes something endure in you—something that lasts even after you may have forgotten the whole story and the characters’ names. Such is the case with the Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s ‘Trilogy About the Boy’.” ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • A Parish Chronicle

    by Halldór Laxness ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    From Iceland’s Nobel laureate, an essayistic tale of the unlikely miracles that return a church—fated to disappear over & again throughout time—to the same hillsideIn the still of morning, Ólafur sharpens his scythe on the bone-dry pavestones that separate his farmhouse from the rest of Mosfell Valley, where life revolves around sheep. The sound of his hammer rings out like a high-pitched bell ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Heart of Man

    by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 3 - The Trilogy About the Boy
    “There are novels that make something inside you come awake, and make you want to keep it awake. Maybe that’s what a classic is: not only a work that endures but one that makes something endure in you—something that lasts even after you may have forgotten the whole story and the characters’ names. Such is the case with the Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s ‘Trilogy About the Boy’.” ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Salka Valka

    by Halldor Laxness ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    **"This is a remarkable achievement and will hopefully lead to a revival of interest in an oft-overlooked literary genius." – Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA fresh translation of Nobel Prize–winning author Halldór Laxness's modernist masterpiece, Salka Valka.**A feminist coming of age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class and the corrosive effects of social and economic inequality, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Your Absence Is Darkness

    by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 45 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize • A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2024 • A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists.A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside, not knowing who he is, why he’s th... ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Iceland's Bell

    by Halldor Laxness ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman.In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Quiet Mother

    A chilling mystery from Iceland’s king of suspense

    by Arnaldur Indridason ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 3 - Detective Konrad
    A lifetime of secrets. A murder that will expose the truth.'Arnaldur Indridason is a literary phenomenon' HARLAN COBEN'Indridason writes crime novels that are as chilling as the landscape where they're set' ANN CLEEVES'The undisputed King of the Icelandic Thriller' GUARDIANA woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with... ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • The Day is Dark

    Thora Gudmundsdottir Book 4

    by Yrsa Sigurdardottir ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 4 - Thora Gudmundsdottir
    A chilling new case for Thora Gudmundsdottir, from Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson.When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate.Is there any connection with the woman who vanished from the site some months earlier? Why are the locals so hostile? And could one of the team staying at ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Someone to Watch Over Me

    Thora Gudmundsdottir Book 5

    by Yrsa Sigurdardottir ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 5 - Thora Gudmundsdottir
    **A creepy, compelling thriller, SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME is the fifth Thora Gudmundsdottir novel from Yrsa, 'Iceland's answer to Stieg Larsson' (**Daily Telegraph).A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his care home and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove that Jakob is innocent.If he didn't do it, who did? ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook