Query: Novels set in Norway excluding Norwegian novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Tightrope Men
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Sleeping on Jupiter
Bear Island (novel)
Shadow Forest
When Jays Fly to Barbmo
Séraphîta
The Fated Sky
Snow Treasure
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Mother of Kings
Randi Lives in Norway
Lord Kelvin's Machine
Dark Hero
Evidence from documents: The Tightrope Men: '''''The Tightrope Men''''' is a novel written by English author Desmond Bagley, and was first published in 1973.
Giles Denison's life is turned upside down when he awakes to find himself in a luxurious hotel. Denison has a reputation as an alcoholic, so waking up in a strange room is not too surprising, but he finds that not only is he now in Oslo, Norway, but that the face in the bathroom mirror is the face of another man. However he calms down a bit once he locates a scar on his leg, a scar he has had from childhood, and realizes that he had been kidnapped from his flat in London and surgically altered to resemble a Finnish scientist, Dr Harold Feltham Meyrick.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: Nevertheless, they manage to escape and find refuge on an island off the coast of Norway.
Sleeping on Jupiter: She later escaped and was adopted, moving to Norway.
Bear Island (novel): This novel is a murder mystery with the added twist that the scene of the crimes is Bear Island, an island in the Svalbard archipelago of the Norwegian Arctic.
Shadow Forest: A week later, a letter comes from their Aunt Eda in Norway. The letter states that they will be coming to Norway the following day.
When Jays Fly to Barbmo: The novel is set on a remote island off the coast of Norway during World War II.
Séraphîta: '''''Séraphîta''''' () is a French novel by Honoré de Balzac with themes of androgyny. It was published in the ''Revue de Paris'' in 1834. In contrast with the realism of most of the author's best known works, the story delves into the fantastic and the supernatural to illustrate philosophical themes.


In a castle in Norway near the fjord Stromfjord, Séraphitüs, a strange and melancholic being, conceals a terrible secret. Séraphitüs loves Minna, and she returns this love, believing Séraphitüs to be a man. But Séraphitüs is also loved by Wilfrid, who considers Séraphitüs to be a woman (Séraphîta).
The Fated Sky: Set in Norway and Iceland during the Viking period, it depicts the stirring but bleak existence of Dark Age Europeans at a time of insecurity and constant threat from raiders.
Snow Treasure: Set in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II, it recounts the story of several Norwegian children who use sleds to smuggle their country's gold bullion past German guards to a waiting ship, the ''Cleng Peerson''.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: After finding a glacier with a Magrathean inscription honoring Slartibartfast, they realize they are on pre-historic Earth in 2,000,000 BC, that the hominids are Neanderthals, that they have traveled across Europe from the future site of Arthur's home city of Islington in Great Britain to Norway, and that the Golgafrinchans are the ancestors of the modern human race.
Mother of Kings: '''''Mother of Kings''''' is a historical novel by American writer Poul Anderson. It was first published in 2001 by Tor Books. The book is an account of the life of Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, a tenth-century queen of Norway and wife of King Eirik Bloodaxe. It is based largely on the accounts of Gunnhild's life given in ''Egil's Saga'' and ''Heimskringla''.
Randi Lives in Norway: '''Randi Lives in Norway''' (also: '''Gerda Lives in Norway''', original title: ''Randi bor i Norge'') is the title of a book by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, with photos by Anna Riwkin-Brick. In 1965 the book was published by Rabén & Sjögren.
Lord Kelvin's Machine: excluding Norwegian novels: '''''Lord Kelvin's Machine''''' is a science fiction novel by American writer James P. Blaylock.
Novels set in Norway: St. Ives and his valet, Hasbro, pursue Narbondo across Norway, contesting Narbondo's plot to destroy the earth and, later, efforts to revivify Narbondo's apparently frozen corpse.
Dark Hero: '''''Dark Hero''''' is a 1946 thriller by Peter Cheyney featuring a Chicago gangster involved in the gang wars of the 1930s, who during the Second World War finds himself in Nazi-occupied Norway and becomes a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance - by applying essentially the same skills which had made him a successful and feared gangster.