Norwegian Wood

You could say the book has spread like wildfire. For the world’s first comprehensive book about firewood is high in bestseller lists in Britain and generating heated discussions online and in pubs, offices, cafes and bars - about logs, log-piles and the best fire. * Daily Mail. *
A how-to book with poetry at its heart. * Times Literary Supplement *
You don’t need to have a wood burning stove or fireplace to be captivated by the craft and lore surrounding a Stone Age method of creating heat. * Boston Globe *
As much as Mytting captures the romance of the great outdoors, the nobility of the honest graft of wood chopping, and our close relationship with trees, it is also a step-by-step guide to preparing your wood store. * Independent *
Lars Mytting has given us the definitive wood-cutting bible * Trønder-Avisa *
Beautiful, important, real * Dagbladet *

Lars Mytting, a novelist and journalist, was born in Favang, Norway, in 1968. His novel The Sixteen Trees of the Somme was awarded the Norwegian National Booksellers’ Award and has been bought for film. Norwegian Wood has become an international bestseller, and was the Bookseller Industry Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016. His novel The Bell in the Lake was a number one bestseller in Norway and nominated for the Norwegian National Bookseller’s Award 2018.

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