Glen Pearce
@pearceglen.bsky.social
Director of Cold War Network,writer for Nordicwatchlist. Heritage, literature, travel and all things Scandi. All views my own..
www.glenpearce.com
www.glenpearce.com
Tesco really entering the spirit of Valentines Day. Don't forget to buy your beloved a bottle of washing up liquid for Feb 14th!
January 25, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Tesco really entering the spirit of Valentines Day. Don't forget to buy your beloved a bottle of washing up liquid for Feb 14th!
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The sales have been counted and verified...
We can now reveal we served an amazing 2.7 MILLION SCONES over the year.
Plus, every single bake and brew you've bought at one of our cafés directly supports our work looking after the places you love. Thank you.
We can now reveal we served an amazing 2.7 MILLION SCONES over the year.
Plus, every single bake and brew you've bought at one of our cafés directly supports our work looking after the places you love. Thank you.
December 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The sales have been counted and verified...
We can now reveal we served an amazing 2.7 MILLION SCONES over the year.
Plus, every single bake and brew you've bought at one of our cafés directly supports our work looking after the places you love. Thank you.
We can now reveal we served an amazing 2.7 MILLION SCONES over the year.
Plus, every single bake and brew you've bought at one of our cafés directly supports our work looking after the places you love. Thank you.
Always good advice...
December 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Always good advice...
Lisbon likes a big Christmas tree
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Lisbon likes a big Christmas tree
Las Palmas is a very strange place...
December 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Las Palmas is a very strange place...
Professor Higgins lied, the rain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain!
December 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Professor Higgins lied, the rain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain!
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When it’s grey outside and you just want to stay wrapped up in bed.
Photo: Ickworth Estate
Photo: Ickworth Estate
December 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
When it’s grey outside and you just want to stay wrapped up in bed.
Photo: Ickworth Estate
Photo: Ickworth Estate
Just finished my last book review of the year and also finished writing the @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social Top 10 Books of 2025 list. Who will get the coverted 'Book of the Year' crown? Well that would be telling! Some interesting stats though...
December 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Just finished my last book review of the year and also finished writing the @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social Top 10 Books of 2025 list. Who will get the coverted 'Book of the Year' crown? Well that would be telling! Some interesting stats though...
Festive viewing started...repeat viewing of murderous Norwegian Barn Elves
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Festive viewing started...repeat viewing of murderous Norwegian Barn Elves
Latest review for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social Olivier Norek’s The Winter Warriors. Discover why this novel is both harrowing and essential...
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#BookReview #WinterWarriors #OlivierNorek #BookslSky
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@orendabooks.bsky.social
#BookReview #WinterWarriors #OlivierNorek #BookslSky
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The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek - Book Review
Nordic Watchlist reviews The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek and discover why this novel is both harrowing and essential.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Latest review for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social Olivier Norek’s The Winter Warriors. Discover why this novel is both harrowing and essential...
@orendabooks.bsky.social
#BookReview #WinterWarriors #OlivierNorek #BookslSky
nordicwatchlist.com/2025/11/13/t...
@orendabooks.bsky.social
#BookReview #WinterWarriors #OlivierNorek #BookslSky
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Latest review for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social Scars of Silence by Johana Gustawsson, published by @orendabooks.bsky.social 20 Nov. A crime thriller that’s as human as it is haunting.
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#BookReview #ScarsOfSilence #JohanaGustawsson #BookSky #LidingöMysteries
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#BookReview #ScarsOfSilence #JohanaGustawsson #BookSky #LidingöMysteries
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Latest review for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social Scars of Silence by Johana Gustawsson, published by @orendabooks.bsky.social 20 Nov. A crime thriller that’s as human as it is haunting.
nordicwatchlist.com/2025/11/08/s...
#BookReview #ScarsOfSilence #JohanaGustawsson #BookSky #LidingöMysteries
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#BookReview #ScarsOfSilence #JohanaGustawsson #BookSky #LidingöMysteries
A madcap road trip across frozen Finland in Antti Tuomainen's The Winter Job. Published this week by @orendabooks.bsky.social
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#BookSky #TheWinterJob #DarkComedy #Finland
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#BookSky #TheWinterJob #DarkComedy #Finland
The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen - Book Review
Read Nordic Watchlist's The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen - Book Review. The Finnish author's latest novel is out now and published by Orenda Books.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A madcap road trip across frozen Finland in Antti Tuomainen's The Winter Job. Published this week by @orendabooks.bsky.social
nordicwatchlist.com/2025/10/23/t...
#BookSky #TheWinterJob #DarkComedy #Finland
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#BookSky #TheWinterJob #DarkComedy #Finland
After 7 years my final visitor day on Orford Ness is done and dusted...departing NT 20 January
October 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
After 7 years my final visitor day on Orford Ness is done and dusted...departing NT 20 January
Love this story from the Royal Signals today, a war horse given the freedom of the barracks including attending mess dinners...
October 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Love this story from the Royal Signals today, a war horse given the freedom of the barracks including attending mess dinners...
In The Wake, the gripping second novel in Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s Black Ice series, 5 university friends reunite on Iceland’s Westman Islands for a funeral, but a chilling note and a rising body count suggest their past is far from dead.
@hodderfiction.bsky.social
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@hodderfiction.bsky.social
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The Wake by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - Book Review
Nordic Watchlist reviews The Wake by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - the gripping second novel in the author's Black Ice series.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In The Wake, the gripping second novel in Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s Black Ice series, 5 university friends reunite on Iceland’s Westman Islands for a funeral, but a chilling note and a rising body count suggest their past is far from dead.
@hodderfiction.bsky.social
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@hodderfiction.bsky.social
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Happy 40th Birthday to Les Miserables, a show that loomed large in my early career.
October 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Happy 40th Birthday to Les Miserables, a show that loomed large in my early career.
For Guđrún Guđlaugsdóttir’s A Lethal Legacy, forget fast-paced action—this story is all about slow-burning drama, sibling rivalry, and secrets that refuse to stay buried..
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
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@corylusbooks.bsky.social
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A Lethal Legacy by Guđrún Guđlaugsdóttir - Book Review
Ever wondered what secrets are hiding in a quiet Icelandic farmhouse? In Guđrún Guđlaugsdóttir’s A Lethal Legacy, journalist Alma Jónsdóttir dives into a family mystery after an elderly farmer’s death...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
For Guđrún Guđlaugsdóttir’s A Lethal Legacy, forget fast-paced action—this story is all about slow-burning drama, sibling rivalry, and secrets that refuse to stay buried..
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
nordicwatchlist.com/2025/10/06/a...
@corylusbooks.bsky.social
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Snowblind, the first of Ragnar Jónasson's Dark Iceland series gets a tenth anniversary edition from @orendabooks.bsky.social including Fadeout, the prequel that started it all back in Iceland in 2009. Review for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social now live...
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Snowblind/Fadeout by Ragnar Jónasson - Book Review
A decade ago, English readers got to read Snowblind, the first of Ragnar Jónasson's six-book Dark Iceland series. Now finally we also get to read Fadeout, the prequel that started it all back in Icela...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Snowblind, the first of Ragnar Jónasson's Dark Iceland series gets a tenth anniversary edition from @orendabooks.bsky.social including Fadeout, the prequel that started it all back in Iceland in 2009. Review for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social now live...
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Well September was a busy month reviewing wise for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social with me writing 12 reviews during the month! Missed any? Don't panic, a thread to catch up...
#BookSky #WalterPresents #NordicNoir #ScandiNoir
#BookSky #WalterPresents #NordicNoir #ScandiNoir
October 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Well September was a busy month reviewing wise for @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social with me writing 12 reviews during the month! Missed any? Don't panic, a thread to catch up...
#BookSky #WalterPresents #NordicNoir #ScandiNoir
#BookSky #WalterPresents #NordicNoir #ScandiNoir
In what has been a busy September, book review wise there's still time for a couple more before month end..latest is @liljawriter.bsky.social conclusion to the Aróra Investigates series Black As Death. Published by @orendabooks.bsky.social, review now live @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social
#BookSky
#BookSky
September 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In what has been a busy September, book review wise there's still time for a couple more before month end..latest is @liljawriter.bsky.social conclusion to the Aróra Investigates series Black As Death. Published by @orendabooks.bsky.social, review now live @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social
#BookSky
#BookSky
Norweigian Health & Safety rules deny my wingwalking career...
September 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Norweigian Health & Safety rules deny my wingwalking career...
God how I hate Stansted Airport. Been sent to 4 different gates so far this morning. Each time gate change is announced we traipsed across the terminal only to get there and changed to another gate back on the other side of airport. Now at fourth gate and staff dont know if its the right gate!
September 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
God how I hate Stansted Airport. Been sent to 4 different gates so far this morning. Each time gate change is announced we traipsed across the terminal only to get there and changed to another gate back on the other side of airport. Now at fourth gate and staff dont know if its the right gate!
Tomorrow, Book of Mormon in Norwegian...what could possibly go wrong?
September 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Tomorrow, Book of Mormon in Norwegian...what could possibly go wrong?
After a summer break, back on the book reviewing wagon with a vengeance! First batch of 4 reviews now live on @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
After a summer break, back on the book reviewing wagon with a vengeance! First batch of 4 reviews now live on @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social
This weeks reading...
August 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This weeks reading...