Author: Quentin Bates
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Two Days Of Criminal Activity
Iceland Noir: it’s happening again! People thought we were nuts at the time, when in reality we were suffering from…
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Icelandic Yoga, Al Fresco Style, With Gooseflesh
Exploring ‘naked yoga’. Huh?A series of coincidences and a lady from Reykjavík took Tony Prower from southern England to Iceland,…
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What’s So Great About Nordic Crime Fiction?
About a dozen years ago, a groundswell of interest in Nordic crime fiction began to gradually grow with appearance of…
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Mackerel Mayhem And The Unholy Triangle
Forty years ago, Iceland saw its last real spell of hard times before the crash of 2008. In 1968 it…
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Mackerel Madness!
It’s been a few years now since mackerel showed up around Iceland in enough numbers to start appearing on barbecues….
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Faceless Bureaucracy Or Benevolent Uncle?
The 1957 Treaty of Rome, the rock on which the EU is built, states that there should be a common…