Björn Larsson Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Celtic Ring (1995)
  2. Long John Silver (1999)

Non fiction

  1. From Cape Wrath to Finisterre (2005)

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Björn Larsson Books Overview

The Celtic Ring

On a dark night in the Danish harbor of Dragor, Ulf receives a log book from a lone sailor who then disappears. The log’s bizarre records lead Ulf and his friend, Torben, into a dangerous winter crossing of the North Sea toward Scotland. As they pass through the Caledonian Canal, a lock gate bursts open, nearly killing them. Fear and paranoia begin to take hold as they come to suspect that someone wants them dead. And then they notice the black fishing boat trailing close in their wake…

Before long, Ulf and Torben find themselves at odds with arms smugglers, a Druidic cult, and some of the world’s most dangerous waters.

Long John Silver

Translated by Tom Geddes A brilliantly evocative successor to Treasure Island. Long John Silver is living out his twilight years on Madagascar. He has a price on his head, and the Royal Navy is looking to bring him to justice. But what obsesses him most is the fear of posthumous obscurity, and this motivates him to pen his memoirs. Bjrn Larsson’s Long John Silver is compelling and attractive, a treacherous and anti authoritarian figure, driven by pride and a sense of fairness. He tells of his life as a smuggler and of working the Caribbean slave ships; of his years as quartermaster to the rum soaked brute Captain Flint; and, finally, of his meeting with Daniel Defoe, with whom he watches the hanging of pirates at London’s Execution Dock. But this is no mere sequel to Treasure Island. Larsson takes Robert Louis Stevenson’s story as his basis and reinvents it, bringing the most complex and powerful character to the fore. Long John Silver is not only a beautifully textured evocation of eighteenth century seafaring life but also a witty, absorbing, and allusive comment on the making of a myth.

From Cape Wrath to Finisterre

Cape Wrath tells the story of how Bjorn Larssons came to write his dark novel The Celtic Ring about the disappearance of a sailor, arms smuggeling and a secret Druidic cult. On the long sailing trip between Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Brittany and the Spanish coast of Galicia, Larsson talked to many sailors and adventurers, fishermen and seafarers, who were waiting for the next tide to leave port. Their yarns, woven together in Larssons’ head, form the backdrop to The Celtic Ring, his thriller about a Celtic secret organisation. Their philosophy, however, is not fiction: Cape Wrath describes a different way of life, a life with the sea, which unites the people of the Celtic fringe of Europe.

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