I'm halfway through an excellent book on Japan, "Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan" by the Canadian Will Ferguson (Soho Press, NY, 1998) - an informative, insightful and very funny writer and a worthy competitor to Bill Bryson IMHO. The title of another of his books, "Why I Hate Canadians", is intriguing, but I haven't located it yet.

Ferguson's opening quotation, by Rudyard Kipling, is worth repeating: "All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world - those who stay at home and those who do not. The second are the more interesting."

I find myself thinking, considering how much I read, it's amazing that I have never read anything set in Denmark that I can think of.

If you like Crime novels at all, you may enjoy any of Henning Mankell's set in Sweden, as a good second best.

I have also been singing the parises of Sarah-Kate Lynch's "Blessed are the Cheesemaker" and "By Bread Alone" and you may want to try Anne Tyler- "Breathing Lessons" is good

beth23, I just topped the Master Thread on Fiction Books Recs!! Enjoy! :-"

If you like thrillers, Ken Follett's "Hornet Flight" is a good one, set in German-occupied Denmark during the Second World War.