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A Parish Chronicle
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529985757
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $19.99

A Parish Chronicle

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Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Halldor Laxness, the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, in this rich, rustic and charming novel.

An intimate, magical novel about one enduring church in a rural Icelandic valley - an ode to a quiet way of life now lost to time forever

The resting place of legendary Viking warrior Egil Skallagrímsson’s skull, Mosfell Church is a lonely, country church, fated to be destroyed. But as the plans to destroy it take shape, stories, myth and folklore abound in one magical last attempt to leave Mosfell standing.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529985757
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Halldor Laxness

Halldór Laxness (Author) Halldór Laxness (1908 - 98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
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Also by Halldor Laxness

Independent People
Salka Valka
Under the Glacier
Wayward Heroes
The Atom Station
Iceland's Bell
World Light
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