Best Selling Books by Tiina Nunnally

"Andersen provides a fascinating backdrop for the life of the acclaimed fairy tale writer . . . a budding genius placed in the context of his time." — Publishers Weekly Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper cut-out artist, a neurotic hypochondriac, and a man with intense but frustrated sexual desires. This startling and immensely readable, definitive biography by Danish scholar Jens Andersen is essential to a full understanding of the man whose writing has influenced the lives of readers young and old for centuries. Jens Andersen sheds brilliant new light on Hans Christian Andersen''s writings and on the writer whose own life had many aspects of the fairytale. Like some of the memorable characters he created, Andersen grew up in miserable and impoverished circumstances. He later propagated myths about his life and family, but this new biography uncovers much about this man that has never been revealed before. "[An] enthralling, ground-breaking new biography . . . Jens Andersen has a novelist''s insights which enhance his meticulous biographical skills, making us appreciate (among much else) that ambiguity is as intrinsic to the life as to the art that came out of it." — The Independent

OC I have been unfaithful to my husband.OCO "Marta Oulie"OCOs opening line scandalized Norwegian readers in 1907. And yet, Sigrid Undset had a gift for depicting modern women OC sympathetically but with merciless truthfulness, OCO as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. At the time she was one of the youngest recipients and only the third woman so honored. It was UndsetOCOs honest story of a young womanOCOs love lifeOCoOC the immoral kind, OCO as she herself bluntly put itOCothat made her first novel an instant sensation in Norway. "Marta Oulie," written in the form of a diary, intimately documents the inner life of a young woman disappointed and constrained by the conventions of marriage as she longs for an all-consuming passion. Set in Kristiania (now Oslo) at the beginning of the twentieth century, UndsetOCOs book is an incomparable psychological portrait of a woman whose destiny is defined by the changing mores of her dayOCoas she descends, inevitably, into an ever-darker reckoning. Remarkably, though UndsetOCOs other works have attracted generations of readers, "Marta Oulie "has never before appeared in English translation. Tiina Nunnally, whose award-winning translation of UndsetOCOs "Kristin Lavransdatter" captured the authorOCOs beautifully clear style, conveys the voice of Marta Oulie with all the stark poignancy of the original Norwegian. "

Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should, but Pippi has other ideas. She would much rather spend her days arranging wild, exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours, Tommy and Annika, or entertaining everyone she meets with her outrageous stories.Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman, dancing a polka with burglars, or tugging a bull''s tail. Generations of children have fallen in love with Pippi Longstocking. Just like Tommy and Annika, readers are instantly charmed by her warmth and sense of fun. Astrid Lindgren''s children''s classic first appeared in 1945. Astrid once commented, ''I write to amuse the child within me, and can only hope that other children may have some fun that way, too.'' When she was growing up, Lauren Child loved Astrid Lindgren''s books. She remembers: ''I discovered Pippi when I was about eight years old andfound her completely inspiring.'' Known and loved as the creator of some equally feisty little girls - notably Clarice Bean and Lola - Lauren has brought her own inimitable style to this beautifully-illustrated edition of Pippi Longstocking. This edition includes four illustrations from the book presented as limited edition prints and packaged with the book.

One night José Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre''s uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be taken to the roof to breathe the beautiful air fresh off the Indian Ocean. On that theatre roof, his life ebbing away, Nelio begins his story. At the age of five, Nelio watched helplessly as his village was burned to the ground and his people were massacred by bandits. He escaped by chance; a man handed him a gun and ordered him to shoot another boy, but instead he turned the gun on the bandit and ran. He made his way to the coast, encountering en route bizarre characters who gave him guidance. Upon arrival in the city Nelio joined a rough street gang, and began a very different way of life. Henning Mankell''sChronicler of the Windsis a dazzling new venture from the master of crime; a beautifully told fable of the African continent.

Margit Andersson returns home to Seattle and discovers a brutal murder. She also receives an anonymous letter about relics stolen from a Danish museum in 1802.

A rash of murders occurs in the Scandinavian community in Seattle. Translator Margit Andersson, an amateur detective, discovers the victims were involved in resistance against the Nazis during World War II.

Den berømte amerikanske forfatter og oversætter Margit Andersson modtager en runetegning fra en ældre, dansk fisker kort tid før hans død. Runetegningen viser sig at være et kodeskrift og efter en tidskrævende afkodning, afslører den gemmestedet for et hidtil ukendt dansk guldhorn. Margit drager til Danmark for at undersøge gemmestedet nærmere, men med en skurk lige i hælene udvikler hendes rejse sig i en uventet retning. Kriminalroman i to dele om forfatteren og oversætteren Margit Andersson Tiina Nunnally (f. 1952) er en amerikansk forfatter og oversætter. I perioden 1969-1970 boede hun i Århus, hvor hun studerede skandinaviske sprog og historie. Nunnally har oversat en lang række skandinaviske romaner til engelsk, herunder Peter Høegs "Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne", Tove Ditlevsens erindringer "Det tidlige forår" og Sigrid Undsets romantrilogi "Kirsten Lavransdatter". I 2009 uddelte Det svenske akademi en pris til Nunnally for sit bidrag til udbredelsen af svensk litteratur.