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Brita Caisa Seipajærvi straps on her skis and takes the long road from Finland to Norway with her two children. Brita Caisa has been disciplined by the church for having an affair with a married man. She can heal animals and humans. The destination for their journey is Bugøynes, where the sea is said to be boiling with cod.
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'Most exciting is the descriptions of the love between Brita Caisa and the married farmer Mikko, with intensely sensual erotic writing as a result. Together they are greater than his bible and triumphing the judgement by society.' AFTENBLAD
'... Bestseller-potential. ... a riveting novel about love, work and superstition. ... historically interesting. ... can be read in one lustful rush.
The Knife in the Fire is the first title in the Ruijan rannalla/Songs from the Arctic Ocean series, about Finnish Kvens and the landscape they live in. Brita Caisa was the great-great-great-grandmother of author Ingeborg Arvola. Arvola’s writing evokes the smell of blood after slaughtering reindeer, the taste of cloudberries, the feeling of coldness from the snow and the heat from the fire. Kniven i ilden – Sanger fra Ishavet 130 x 205 mm / 448 pages Ingeborg Arvola (b. 1974) grew up in Pasvikdalen and Tromsø in the far north of Norway. She made her debut with the novel Korellhuset, published in 1999. She has since written a number of novels for children and adults. She has received the Cappelen Prize in 2004 and Havmannprisen in 2008. In 2019 she was awarded The Ministry of Culture Prize for Children´s Books for her novel Buffy By is Talented, a book she was also nominated to the Brage Prize for. In 2022 The Knife in the Fire, the first book in her trilogy Songs from the Arctic Ocean, was published to great commercial and critical acclaim. Rights sold to: Denmark (Gutkind), Sweden (Albert Bonnier)
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Ingeborg Arvola THE KNIFE IN THE FIRE
The Knife in the Fire is a riveting historical novel about work and love, strong communities, and carefree erotica, the individual and the Thecommunity.yearis1859.
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Excerpt from The Knife in the Fire: Nothing tells me that this is fateful. Nothing about the scents, the meadow; nothing about the gusts of wind that lift my hair once more; nothing about the evening sun that breaks through the clouds and makes me shine. It is a perfectly ordinary day. Arduous through the underbrush. The struggle up the last slope accompanied by the clouds of mosquitoes we wakened when we passed the last bog. I am simply me. My body sways like the blades of grass in the meadow as I walk towards the farmyard and the end of the freshly ploughed field. The man I assume to be Askan-Mikko lays down the reins on the horse’s neck and comes to meet us. His steps are long and soft. We both reach out a hand. “Hyvä bæivi,” I greet him, and am about to introduce myself when his gaze strikes me.
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The Revolutionary Spring Vigdis Hjorth has written a stunning and insightful book about one of the most important events in a human’s life – becoming an adult and growing independent, even when it hurts others. There is a rhythm in Paula’s life – the meals at the table at home, going skiing in the wilderness with hot toddy and icy breath, the summers at the cabin in Østfold, raspberry bushes and cold-water swimming, the visits to grandma on the West Coast – a rhythm which offers her safety and clarity throughout her childhood. Mother, father, sister, and brother in their little house are the most important people in her life. And then there is Karen, her best friend.
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The calm is shattered the summer that Paula discovers the pile of letters her mother has written to grandma. The life her mother describes in the letters is unrecognisable: It says her sister Elisabet performed well in her exams, while in reality she failed them; it says that Elisabet sung a solo at the Christmas recital, which she did not; and it says that the father has been promoted to the head of his office. Paula is barely mentioned. Her mother’s pretense is a shock to Paula, who is now surrounded by the lies of an adult’s making. How should she relate to her mother? Who can she be in the family now? Paula is on the edge of becoming a teenager, and the world is opening up before her as both a terrible and wonderful place. She doesn’t want to believe in the god her mother pretends she believes in. She doesn’t want to start lying about her life. Fifteen years is [Vigdis Hjorth's] most well-written novel yet.
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Vigdis Hjorth (b. 1959) has over several decades been one of Norway’s most important authors. She published her debut in 1983 in form of the children’s book Pelle-Ragnar and the Yellow Building, for which she received the Norwegian Cultural Council’s Debut Prize. Since then, she has had a prolific and award-winning authorship, writing for both children and adults. She has won several awards in Norway and has been nominated twice for the Nordic Council Literature Prize so far, for Will and Testament (2016) and Is Mother Dead (2020).
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Hjorth writes existential books about human conditions and life choices, and throws a sharp gaze at current topics in the contemporary time. With novels such as Long Live the Post Horn! (2012) she has made her mark as a fearless political author. Her big breakthrough came in 2016 with Will and Testament, which became an instant favourite among literature critics as well as a huge sales success. In this novel Hjorth writes about complicated family relationships, about violation and liberation in close relationships, and the right to own one’s own story. Will and Testament was nominated for the National Book Award and Millions Best Translated Book Award when it was published in the US and the UK in 2019. Hjorth’s novels have been translated into 28 languages.
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‘Vigdis Hjorth is back at her best, with a raw and painful book. Brave and uncompromising.’
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The protagonist of Is Mother Dead is an acclaimed artist, Johanna, who has spent three decades in the US with her husband and child. When her husband dies, she returns to Norway, where she is invited to put on a major retrospective. What remains of the life she left behind in Norway several decades ago? What does she expect to find when she returns? How will she manage to build a bridge between past and present? We follow Johanna’s self-examination as well as her attempts to understand and come closer to her mother. In this novel, Vigdis Hjorth digs deeper into the mother-daughter issue, once again writing compellingly and profoundly about a timeless theme.
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‘Vigdis Hjorth's Is Mother Dead is a brooding and searching novel that proves why she is among our very best. The book resembles a thriller; the crescendo is edge-of-your-seat literature. Hjorth is an expert in plotting and linguistic rhythm. Long sections are broken up by pages with plenty of air and low-key reflections, several of which you will return to and read again and again.’
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Arv og miljø 130 x 205 mm / 352 pages Hjorth WILL AND TESTAMENT A classic story of inheritance, centred on two summer cabins on Hvaler. Two children have been looking after the place and their parents for many years. They are due to inherit the cabins. But there are two other children, who have partly broken away from the family. How do they fit into the inheritance dispute? During the inheritance discussions another story emerges which brings violent forces into play. It's all about family history. Will and Testament is a powerful novel, which created great debate when it was first published in 2016.
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WINNER OF THE NORWEGIAN CRITICS PRIZE 2016. NOMINATED TO THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019. NOMINATED TO THE NORDIC COUNCILS LITERATURE PRIZE 2016. FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE.
Roy Jacobsen THE UNWORTHY In Roy Jacobsen’s latest novel, The Unworthy, we follow a gang of boys and girls from an apartment building on the eastside of Oslo during the WWII German occupation. They live in poverty, but get by creatively swindling, stealing like magpies, falsifying documents and committing extensive burglaries. They don’t shy away from exploiting the Enemy, either. With this pack of children, a lauded writer has rendered a brutally frank and warm portrait of a time, a place and an everyday life that thus far have been absent from the stories told of WWII. The Unworthy is wise, raw and entertaining. A gem of a story, written by an author in his right element. This is a Roy Jacobsen novel of best mark. De 130uverdigex205mm / 288 pages
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Roy Jacobsen (b. 1954) is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary authors in Norway, and has since his sensational debut in 1982, with the short story collection Prison Life, which won him the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas’ Debutant Prize, developed into an original and daring author with a special interest in the underlying psychological interplay in human relationships. He has been nominated three times for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2017 he was shortlisted for both the Man Booker International Prize, as the first Norwegian author ever, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, for The Unseen. In 2013 Jacobsen’s authorship reached a new milestone with the publication of The Unseen, book one in his Barrøy trilogy. It is set in the first half of the 20th century on an island on the North-Western coast of Norway, and is a monument over human courage and life-saving practical and social knowledge. White Shadow followed in 2015, and The Eyes of Rigel was published in 2017. The Barrøy trilogy became an immediate critically acclaimed sales success, it has been translated into 29 languages, and has sold nearly 500.000 copies in Norway alone. In total, Jacobsen has been translated into 38 languages.
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NETTAVISEN ‘It is a pure pleasure to read Roy Jacobsen’s novel Only a Mother. …keeps the reader captivated from the first to the last sentence.’
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One day a boy arrives on the island. Shortly thereafter, his father disappears. Ingrid assumes responsibility for the boy, and adopts him. As such, Mathias becomes a central part of the Barrøy community, together with Kaja, Ingrid’s daughter by birth. Life on the island is demanding, but the letters from friends in Oslo and Trondheim tell of a Norwegian society undergoing dramatic changes. Which stories should Ingrid keep to herself, and which ones should she bring to light? What kind of future is she imagining?
Roy Jacobsen ONLY A MOTHER Return to Barrøy!
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Only A Mother is the fourth book in a series of novels that have delighted readers in Norway and abroad. It’s a novel about being a parent, being a part of a community, and about living under conditions that require hard labour. It is also a story about parts of our near past that have stayed in the dark. And it’s about an unusual woman, who has to navigate painful experiences in a rough, weather-beaten, and diverse society on the coast of Northern Norway. ‘Roy Jacobsen has added a new chapter to his masterpiece …’
After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has finally returned to Barrøy. Life has become more stable, but the war still casts its long shadows across the country. Former collaborators face cold shoulders or obscured retaliation. Others simply wish to leave the painful years in the past.
‘… a beautiful and intense novel. …poetic, virtuoso, warm …No one describes the coastal and cultural history of the Helgeland coast as Roy Jacobsen.’
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'The past as a mirror for the present […] Roy Jacobsen’s stories about the islanders on the Helgeland coast gradually resemble a magnificent saga about the basic human conditions in the struggle with nature. […] Roy Jacobsen’s own words that ‘a historical novel should be a contemporary novel’ feel true. The author is a master of dialogues where secrets and trivialities form minefields and tensions.'
DAGSAVISEN, NORWAY 'I demand that this book be read […] Roy Jacobsen writes truthfully, tenderly and sharply about the everyday heroes of toil and care.'
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'Roy Jacobsen has written a beautiful and intense novel. […] poetic, virtuoso, warm and beautiful. […] No one describes the coastal and cultural history of the Helgeland coast as Roy Jacobsen.' VG, NORWAY Rights sold to: Azerbaijan (Qanun Publishing House), Bulgaria (Aviana), Canada (Biblioasis), China (Writers Publishing House), Czech Republic (Pistorius & Olšanská), Denmark (Rosinante & Co), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), Faroe Islands (Sprotin Forlag), Finland (Sitruuna kustannus Oy), France (Éditions Gallimard), Germany (C. H. Beck), Greece, Hungary (Scolar Kiado), Iceland (Forlagið), Israel (Keter Books), Italy (Iperborea), Lithuania (Lithuanian Writers’ Union Publishing House), Macedonia (Shkupi), Netherlands (Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij), Poland (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie sp. z o.o.), Portugal (Relógio D’Água Editores), Republic Of Korea (Fiftyone K. Inc. Zhan publishing), Slovenia (VBZ), Spain (Alianza Editorial, S.A.), Sweden (Norstedts), Syrian Arab Republic (Mamdouh), Turkey (Yapi Kredi Kültür Sanat Yay. Ticaret ve Sanayi A.S.), United Kingdom (MacLehose Press), Norway (Hålogoland Teater), Russia (Izdatelstvo Albus Korvus)
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Old-Giæver is approaching the end of his life and spends his last days on earth informing Young-Giæver about their family history, about practical things like the mud stick, the pick-up, suet cakes, pillows, ships, women and obviously the conflict with the Iunker-family. Giæver doesn’t want to leave this life without ensuring customs and practices, knowledge, life wisdom and most importantly the hatred towards the Iunkers is continued by the next generation. Erlend Loe is back in tip-top shape with his peculiar humour and sharp observations. Written like a monologue delivered by Old-Giæver, this is a gem of a book.
Erlend Loe Erlend Loe (b. 1969) is one of Norway's bestselling authors. His work has been published in 41 territories so far. He made his literary debut with Captured by the Woman in 1993. His breakthrough both in Norway and internationally came with the publication of his second novel Naiv.Super in 1996. His 2004 novel Doppler was critically acclaimed for its depiction of the modern man and has become an international sucess. Erlend Loe also writes books for children and has had great success with the Kurt series. Rights sold to: Denmark (Gyldendal)
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Erlend Loe GIÆVER AND IUNKER
I'mGood.not telling you this for fun, I'm doing it for you, and for all Giævers be they alive, dead or yet to be born. You’re not writing! Pen to paper! There you go. Now I’ll begin. My name is Giæver. The valley where the Giævers live is shared with the Iunker-family who live on the neighbouring farm. But they are not very neighbourly, as the two families have been in conflict for over eight hundred years.
Hey! Look at me when I’m talking! Are you writing this down? Are you ready? Are you recording? I’d like you to record and take notes at the same time. That way you’ll get everything. What isn’t said disappears. What is said disappears too, it just takes longer. Okay? Are you ready?
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THREE STORIES In The Bellboy's Luggage - Three Stories we venture into three different literary universes. Still, the narratives are connected through the author's unmistakable style and his topics of choice. Here we meet known and loved themes and artifacts from Saabye Christensen's repertoire, stories characterized by an author with great confidence in his own material. An author that dares to venture outside the frames of both novel and short storywithout letting go of the joy and power of storytelling. Wild Wine, Polaroid and Used can be read as three unique stories. But they also form a triptych whose body consists of the Saabyean in itself. In these stories we find that the streets of Oslo, and the characters at the outskirts of great events come into clearer view than ever before. The Bellboy's Luggage is a gift to anyone who has ever been excited about the writing of Lars Saabye Christensen. x 205 / 640
Lars Saabye Christensen
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Lars Saabye Christensen is one of Norway’s most beloved and prolific authors. Despite being known for his long novels, his debut book was the poetry collection History of Gly (1976), for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas prize. His first novel, The Amateur, was published in 1977 and Saabye Christensen often says all his novels could’ve had this title. Humans who struggle with inner insecurities and lack of a directory of their own lives, who are not professionally well-prepared in all of life’s situations, but instead make wrong choices and appear clumsy – these are the people he has an ever-recurring love for in his books. His big breakthrough novel was Beatles (1984), which is one of the bestselling literary titles in Norway ever and which new generations of youth keep falling in love with. In 2001 his epic major work The Half Brother was published, an extraordinarily generous and moving novel, which follows a family over a period of many years and through all stages of life. The Half Brother became an international success and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Between 2017 and 2021 the series Echoes of the City was published, which was met with exceptional criticism and reached a large readership. Saabye Christensen has written over 70 titles, won numerous prizes and awards, and has been translated into 36 languages.
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Lars Saabye Christensen (b. 1953) has published a number of novels, poetry and short story collections since his literary debut in 1976 with The Story of Gly. His breakthrough came with Beatles (1984), one of the greatest literary sales successes in Norway that, over the years, new generations continue to hold close to their hearts. He received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for The Half Brother in 2001. Saabye Christensen has also received the Riverton Prize, the Critics' Prize, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, the Dobloug Prize and the Norwegian Reader's Prize. He has been published in 36 countries. ENGLISH CITY I AND
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The fourth volume of Echoes of the City centres on Jesper Kristoffersen and Trude Hagen, whose destinies are closely bound to the city and the streets they live on, as well as Oslo’s other Fagerborginhabitants.and the world are shrinking, the pace of life has stepped up a notch: it is the 1980s and a new generation is taking over, a generation with the world at its feet. The tramlines bind the city together but also lead to places that take people out of the city – whether to Hurdal, Sweden or Lake Como. Regardless of how different their dreams may be, their struggles place them at odds with the city and the world.
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Lars Saabye Christensen ECHOES OF THE CITY Book 4: Jesper and Trude
Byens spor – Jesper og Trude 130 x 205 mm / 464 pages
ECHOES OF THE CITY I: Book 1: Ewald and Maj ECHOES OF THE CITY II: Book 2: Maj ECHOES OF THE CITY III: Book 3: The Shadow Book 272 COPIES600SOLDINNORWAY Rights sold to: Czech Republic (Kniha Zlin), Denmark (Grif), Germany (BTB Luchterhand), Poland (Literackie), Tunisia (Societe dar Meskeliani), UK (MacLehose Press), Egypt (Al Kotob Kahn) ‘Lars Saabye Christensen allows himself digressions and diversions in the last novel in his Oslo trilogy Echoes of the City. This sets the three-volume work slightly off-kilter. Just what it takes to make the trilogy necessary. Yes, necessary.’ NRK ‘Lars Saabye Christensen writes warming literature of reminiscence, full of linguistic treats.’ AFTENPOSTEN ‘It is gripping, in some passages glittering. And only a reader with a heart of steel could fail to be deeply moved…’ DAGBLADET
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Eivind Hofstad Evjemo (b. 1983) studied writing at Litterær Gestaltning in Gothenburg, Sweden. For his debut novel Wake me if I fall asleep from 2009 he won the Tarjei Vesaas’ First Writers Award. For his second novel, The last You will see is a face of Love from 2012 he recieved The Young Critics Prize, the UT-award and Writer of the year from Trøndelag County. The novel We Welcome You from 2014 received wonderful reviews. In 2015 he was listed as one of the ten best norwegian authors under 35, by weekly newspaper Morgenbladet and Norsk Litteraturfestival.
Den nye årstiden 130 x 205 mm / 288 pages
The great new novel about Norway, love and life as a farmer, and moving into a new time Hans Junior is a farmer at a dairy farm, which he runs with his father. The milk truck arrives. The grass grows and is harvested. Winters pass into spring. But when his father passes away, Junior ends up being responsible on his own. A single man in the house and a lot of animals in the barn. One day the agricultural inspector Sylvi stops by to inspect the farming and animal welfare. She gets a cup of coffee when she’s about to drive away, as well as an invite to return. Shortly after, she moves in. The cows in the barn start changing their behaviour, the Sitka spruce between the farm and the sea grows tighter – the nature is changing in challenging ways, and Sylvi and Hans do what they can. Sylvi is affected by an unexplainable illness, and goes to their neighbour Siriporn, who and offers massages from a room at the farm. Siriporn and and her husband Johan’s property borders ancient monastery ruins, and Siriporn has big plans for alternative operations. The new season is both realistic and apocalyptic. It is an ode to labour, and to the love that no one can see. It is the first book in a planned trilogy.
Eivind Hofstad Evjemo THE NEW SEASON
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The farmer waited for her in the yard. A regular, semi-tall man wearing a barn suit. Thin, dry hair which the wind created some movement in. He gave her a careful look, this uninvited guest – the inspector who had forced her way in. The golden-brown workers’ gloves which peeked out of his pockets made her think of tinder fungus (she had gone to Brekke the day before and stumbled upon an overturned tree trunk which a lot of such fungi). She had already noted that the farmyard was well-kept – nothing muddied or any broken equipment, no old boat motors in piles of rust, no potato boxes with calf carcasses – which in itself meant there was direction and plans for this farm. But she made sure to park her car flush with the exit and left her key in the ignition. The guidelines said two inspectors should attend inspections; one to do the talking with the farmer, one to collect the necessary information. Sylvi had maybe been silly when she came alone, but she brushed it off. Her colleague was sick, nothing to do about that. Sylvi lifted her camera – fullycharged battery – opened the door and went outside. Are you AccordingHans?tothe papers he was thirty-eight-years-old, single. Had several times been awarded the Silver Cow award for deliveries of so-called “elite milk”. During previous inspections Hans Senior had mostly been the one to speak. The farmer’s father. That’s right, he said. Then she said: I’m here for an unannounced inspection. She took a deep breath in and smiled, tried to read the man’s face and the little grimaces which appeared when the word inspection was pronounced, but he only turned slightly sideways, put one finger over one nostril and blew out (she had to be patient).
Kjersti Halvorsen (b. 1993) grew up in Lier. She has attended author-studies at the college in Bø and studied psychology at the University of Oslo. She made her debut in 2019 with the novel Ida Takes Charge, a book that earned her a nomination to the Tarjei Vesaas debut prize. Rights sold to: Denmark (Straarup & Co)
VG Det er jeg som kan hjelpe deg 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages
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‘Wow, Kjersti Halvorsen can surely create and write. Her second book does not disappoint. [...]’
ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE ‘A brilliant psychological thriller. […] There is no doubt that this overflows with literary quality.’
‘[…] this book has everything I want, and then some.’
I’M THE ONE WHO CAN HELP YOU Psychologist Edvin works at the Kvervel Manor. He is engaged and soon to be a father for the first time. One day, he gets a new patient, André. Edvin knows him from his childhood but hesitates to tell his boss about their relationship. He is ashamed and unable to say more than ‘we went to school together’, which really doesn’t cover it. Edvin was bullied, and André was the bully. Now they have to deal with each other on a daily basis. Why did André start taking drugs? Did Edvin have anything to do with what happened? Why was life so cruel to André but kind to Edvin? Or has life been kind to him?
Kjersti Halvorsen writes about complicated topics such as power, addiction, revenge and reconciliation in an entertaining way.
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Ida's greatest fear is terror. This doesn't get any better when she meets Aksel at University; a lone wolf with dubious interest in weapons. Aksel has become an outsider, and Ida needs to take drastic measures: How can she prevent disaster, and save Axel. Perhaps equally important: How can she save herself?
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‘Brilliant language … precise and observant. […] The novel explores, among other things, what can create a breeding ground for lonliness and xenopholia in young men, which allows them to end up as misogynists, despisers of society, or school shooters. It is well portayed, and you have to confront yourself while reading.’ DAG OG TID ‘This book is a gem, in many ways a mystery novel. Halvorsen writes with a razor sharp edge.’ DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV Rights sold to: Denmark (Straarup & Co)
Ida Takes Charge is a dark and funny debut novel about overcoming fear and finding your calling in life. 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
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Annabelle grows up in England, and as a five-year-old her mother passes away from cancer. Not long after she’s sent to Norway to live with her grandparents, while her father stays overseas. Hunt for Shadows is the adult author’s attempt to process the loss, the void, to examine how it’s affected her life. First and foremost, this book revolves around attempting to get to know the humans that put one on earth – putting together one’s family, piece by piece, like a puzzle. Why do we become the humans we are? How do our childhoods shape our lives? What does the loss of a mother and the absence of a father mean for the life that goes Withon?warm humour and a lot of vulnerability, Annebelle Despard goes to work investigating her father’s history, and she gradually gets close to recognising what the loss of her mother has meant for her. The result is a memoir full of subtleties, a small treasure chest of a book, which surprises and moves the reader.
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Klappjakt på skygger 130 x 205 / 240 pages
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Annabelle Despard (b. 1943) is born in Britain, has a degree from the University of Oslo, and lives in Kristiansand. She has worked as a translator and an editor. She made her literary début in 1995 and has since written seven collections of poetry.
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Kvinne savnet 130 x 205 mm / 176 pages
Håvard lives a quiet life in a small village on the west coast of Norway. Everything changes when Susanne, a bubbly girl from Oslo, moves into the house next door with her boyfriend. During a few warm summer months Håvard and Susanne begin an intense and secret relationship. A relationship that ends when Susanne suddenly vanishes in the mountain. Håvard doesn’t give up hope about finding her. Susanne must be out there somewhere. No one just disappears. Woman, missing is something as rare as a tender and poetic suspense novel.
Didrik Morits Hallstrøm (b. 1984) was born in Oslo, and is an Art Director educated at The Westerdals School of Communication. His debut You are not dead until I stop loving you (2011) was well received by both the critics and the readers. He has since written several novels.
Didrik Morits Hallstrøm WOMAN, MISSING
'What is the ethical responsibility of an author? […] Right to Privacy goes straight to the heart of this problem in a way that is both funny and thought-provoking.'
Selma Lønning Aarø (b. 1972) made her debut in 1995 with The Final story. She has been a newspaper columnist for Dagbladet and Klassekampen for a number of years. Her novel, I'm Coming, was translated into several languages. Her Lying Face is praised by critics and readers. Right to Privacy is her latest novel.
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Selma Lønning Aarø RIGHT TO PRIVACY
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FUNNY AND SHARP-WITTED
Selma Lønning Aarø’s new novel is funny, sometimes frightening and unusually topical. A continuation of a strong feminist tradition, it also comments on the debate about reality literature.
An author wakes up in hospital. Something dramatic has happened –she just can’t quite remember what. What she can recall, however, is what happened before. When the author moves to Fredrikstad from Oslo with her family, she finds new friends, a new life and what she hopes will be the starting-point for a new novel. Her new girlfriend X has given her permission to write whatever she wants about what they describe as a major issue that has marked X’s life. It looks set to be the author’s best novel ever, but X gradually becomes increasingly unstable and intimidating, and the author realises that her entire writing project is in jeopardy. The same goes for her artistic freedom, her finances, her relationship to her publisher and colleagues – not to mention the relationships in her own family. What can an author allow herself, and who really owns a story?
Privatlivets fred 130 x 205 mm / 346 pages
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Excerpt from Right to Privacy To my surprise, the pain X spoke of made the same holes in me as Mum’s pain once had. I’d tried to fill them in, these holes. I’d filled them in with travel and childbirth, with fun and frivolity, but as X spoke, each of these holes seemed to open up again, as if a plaster had been ripped off a wound. As X spoke, I was reduced to the same powerlessness I had experienced as a child. I felt the same anger I had felt as a child. X, who could fix pretty much anything, X, who went with the flow and did exactly what she felt like all the time, could not fix this. She was powerless and I didn’t want X to be powerless, just as I hadn’t wanted Mum to be either when I was younger. If I was meant to write anything at all, this was it. It was a peculiar feeling and when I left X that evening, I did the only thing I could do. I went home across the bridge with the ever-present wind in my hair. My head grew cold and clear. I crept into my house and up the stairs and started to write.
Odd Klippenvåg IN THE SHADOW OF EILIV Magnus has been divorced for a long time, after acknowledging that he is homosexual. When his ex-father-in-law, Eiliv, dies, memories are brought back, especially those connected to Eiliv’s house where his ex-wife grew up. This novel is a journey in and around a man’s journey to find himself, where Eiliv’s house becomes an important place for many of the people in Magnus’ life.
I skyggen av Eiliv 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
Odd Klippenvåg SECRET LIVES Odd Klippenvåg is one of Norway's most important writers of the short story. His first collection, No phoenix, was first published in 1979. In many ways is the Phoenix, this mystical bird that raises from its own ashes, a good metaphor for Klippenvågs short story authorship: The genre is the same and some themes are recurring, but the short stories are new and fresh, without giving the feeling of having read them before—rather the contrary.
Hemmelige liv 130 x 205 mm / 608 pages
Odd Klippenvåg (b. 1951) made his literary debut with the novel Nigth image in 1978. He has since published several novels and short story collections, some of which focus on homosexuality. He has also written a trilogy about the lives of classical composers. Klippenvåg is a critically acclaimed writer whose work is of a rare literary quality.
Odd Klippenvåg has written an explorative and open novel. He writes with a finely tuned language and digs deep into who we are and how we live.
Secret lives is a collection of Klippenvåg’s very best short stories thus far.
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Peter Franziskus Strassegger
'Peter F. Strassegger from Bryne, Norway, but with roots in Austria, has felt the need to retrace the path chosen by his grandfather, who picked the wrong side during the war. Strassegger does so in a way that is very powerful, personal and thought-provoking.' powerful
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29FICTIONOm stein og jord 130 x 205 mm / 368 pages
CASUALTY OF WAR One day, while tidying up, an author comes across a confession written by his grandfather. He isn’t unfamiliar with what he reads, but the new text brings new truths to light. Peter gains a deeper insight into his grandfather’s involvement in the war—at least as his grandfather chooses to remember it. This confession forms the basis of an intricate and exciting story from the Second World War. The grandfather’s story is characterised by a desire for adventure and a need to grow as a person in his hometown of Bryne, in Germany and on the frontline in Russia. But it also contains many unpleasant truths—particularly for Peter, who distances himself from his grandfather’s political position. With empathy, intelligence and a searching gaze, the author explores his grandfather’s story from the war. He travels to the same places, including Russia, and tries to understand what motivated his grandfather.
piece of literature. ' NRK
POWERFUL ABOUT INHERITANCE
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Peter Franziskus Strassegger (b. 1984) was born in Austria but has lived in Norway since he was 12 years old. He was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debut award for his novel Stasia
To ten-year-old Daniel the summer holidays at the family’s cabin by the sea is one of the highlights of the year. There he can safely play with his Lego without other children making fun of him, and he gets to spend a lot of time with his grandpa, who he hasn’t seen much this year since his grandpa has been very ill. But this summer there are boys around his own age in the neighbouring cabin. And a little girl is stranded on a reef and must be rescued. Daniel prefers being on the water over being in the water. But why does his mother yell at his grandpa when he’s going for a swim? And is Daniel allowed to adopt the cat a woman asks if he wants?
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Ebbs & Flows is a novel about the possibilities and limitations of childhood, and about the incipient realisation that it can’t last forever. Flo & fjære 130 x 205 mm / 240 sider
Kristian Hæggernes EBBS & FLOWS
Kristian S. Hæggernes (b. 1972) saw his first collection of poetry The Weight of Falling Shadow published in 2004, and has since published a number of books within different genres. He has studied at the Writers Academy in Bergen, and works as a mentor for young writers at Trafo.no. His poetry has been published in a number of magazines. Hæggernes is currently a member of the Norwegian literary council.
Rune Salvesen
The Shield-Maiden Trilogy revolves around three women who at different parts of history – in the years 2022, 1942 and 872 – display fierce courage and resistance: The fictional politician Sylvi, the woman of resistance Solveig Bergslien and the Gausel queen Ragnhild. In 2022 Sylvi is at a cabin in Rogaland with two friends, when an external danger suddenly threatens them. What should Sylvi do? Can she learn something from Solveig and Ragnhild’s stories? What does it mean to stand up for what you believe in and fight for what matters?
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Skjoldmøytrilogien 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
A shield-maiden, according to Norse literature, was a female warrior fighting alongside men.
THE TRILOGYSHIELD-MAIDEN
Rune Salvesen (b. 1978) was born in Stavanger, and now lives in Sandnes. He debuted with texts in the anthology Signaler in 1997, and he has since published several novels.
The Shield-Maiden Trilogy is an experimental novel which plays with timelines and narrators. The novel asks what kind of internal strength is required when one needs to mobilise to resist external enemies.
Hedda H. Robertsen ROOM 66
Hedda H. Robertsen (b. 1987) made her debut with the novel Shot to ribbons by Mads Mikkelsen in 2008. She graduated from Warwick University in England and the University of Oslo. Room 66 is her fourth novel.
Rom 66 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
Eivind Buene CONFIRMATION
The narrator of Room 66 is a young author living near Oslo’s oldest church. She devours books and films about nuns and monastic life, dreaming of renouncing desire, and of a strict and regimented life. But she also hungers for genuine connection. After several encounters with a nameless mechanic, she hires a car and heads south. Alone. Her destination? A convent in France. We also meet Chris. Single mother by day, stripper by night. Chléo is a receptionist and works at a beach hotel in France. Iris is a nun, and every morning she puts on her black habit and goes to prayer. Emma lives in London in a sexless relationship with architect James. The five women find one another and share their stories of love, grief, loss and passion.
Eivind Buene (b. 1973) studied composition and pedagogy at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and is a renown Modern Composer. One Man Band (Enmannsorkester), published in 2010 was his first novel. He has since published three more novels, all of them acclaimed by the Norwegian Critics. 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages
Years have passed since he and Emma’s mother split up. Have they co-parented well enough over the years? Have they managed to give their daughter, Emma, a good life? Can Endre say that he’s done his best as a part-time father? And what awaits Endre now that his daughter is on the cusp of adulthood and soon to start making her own way in life?
How can you be a good dad when you only ever see your daughter for a few days at a time? Is it possible to put your differences aside and come together as a family again when your daughter is getting confirmed and a big party is being thrown in her honour?
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Johanne’s due date is fast approaching, but the trauma of her previous labour has taken hold of her body. Her daughter Sigrid was born under dramatic circumstances via c-section, which led to mother and daughter being kept separate at the hospital during those first vital hours. Johanne is convinced the separation ruined her daughter’s connection with her and that it has become a permanent damage to their relationship. This time, with the new baby, everything needs to go well.
Mari Andreassen (b. 1983) is from Tromsø. She works with drama and the performing arts, and has studied writing in Tromsø. How Long Will We Last is her debut novel.
Mari Andreassen FLESH AND BLOOD
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The family finds out her husband’s great aunt Tilla has passed away. Johanne has never met her, but now her house needs to be cleaned out. Something awakens inside Johanne, and she becomes obsessed with finding out more about Tilla, who isolated herself in her house after becoming a widow and only met people sporadically. Could Johanne end up like that? Is she able to confront herself by mirroring herself up against the lonely life their great aunt led?
In The Book of Tilia we meet a woman who has become pregnant right before the end of a relationship. She decides to carry out the pregnancy alone, and all contact between herself and the baby’s father is ended. The novel is about the process the narrator goes through from the beginning of the pregnancy until Usingthe birth.adirect and sincere language the novel circles around the movement from fear and insecurity to gradual feelings of safety, from ambivalence to happiness, from weakness to strength, from isolation to moving out into the world as an expectant mother, and from winter to spring, summer and early autumn, where spring coincides with a change in the narrator’s emotional life. The Book of Tilia can also be considered a novel which deep down is about embracing life – and daring to explore the unknown.
Silje Aanes Fagerlund THE BOOK OF TILIA
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Boken om Tilia 130 x 205 mm / 176 pages Silje Aanes Fagerlund (b. 1978) lives in Oslo. She studied literature in both Bergen and Oslo and has translated Marguerite Duras' book Écrire ('Writing').
35FICTIONDress & Slips 130 x 205 mm / 208 pages
Aksel Selmer SUIT AND TIE Willy lost his mother one year ago. He was the one who found her dead by the bottom of the stairs to the basement. He misses her intensely. He’s still not the boy his father wanted him to be. Father wanted Willy to become just as dedicated a clothing director as he is. Therefore, he drives Willy to an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. That’s where he will become strong and independent, that’s where he will become a man. Willy soon discovers that the school is not his style. Finally, back home in his small town, his days become a fight to please father, to please his surroundings, to find his place in school, to find friends, to find himself, to survive. Suit and Tie is a strong and captivating story about loneliness, longing, and identity.
Aksel Selmer (b. 1958) made his literary début with a poetry collection. Since then, he has had another collection of poetry published, as well as ten novels for adults and young readers.
Ingrid Brækken Melve (debutant)
Rebekka wakes up at the hospital after a heart transplant. She has never thought of her body as her own, but rather a tool through which God has shown himself. The close, interwoven relationship with God is beautiful to her and offers her life meaning and cohesion. At the same time the relationship is painful, and Rebekka experiences God’s wrath when she seeks closeness with other people, without thinking about God. After waking up Rebekka looks back at her life so far. Can her new heart, which has been given to her because someone else has died, show her a new way to live? At the same time, she is scared of losing what she’s had. Is a new and different life possible while still keeping her relationship with God? Is that really what she wants?
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Ingrid Brækken Melve (b. 1986) was born in Trondheim and lives in Kråkerøy. She writes hymn poems and is a theologian, has previously been a parish priest, and is a PhD-researcher in theology. Rejection is her first novel.
REJECTION
HIM, SOLO «I am rootless, homeless, restless, loveless»
Robin Van de Walle (b. 1994) grew up in Belgium and lives in Bergen. He has studied Nordic Studies and Literature Communication in Oslo and Amsterdam, and has attended Skrivekunstakademiet in Bergen. Him, Solo is his first book.
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Robin Van de Walle (debutant)
Him, solo starts as a classic breakup-novel. Robin is 26 years old and has been left by the man he thought was the one. The heartbreak leads to a journey of discovery unlike most; a literary exploration of one’s own life and background, and about being a queer foreigner in Norway. The reader is brought to Robin’s childhood and upbringing in Belgium, through his years of studying and relationships in Sweden and Norway, to the present Bergen where lockdown, isolation and pandemic restrictions enhance the emptiness and loneliness following the breakup. First and foremost, Him, solo is about the great loneliness. The loneliness you can feel even when you’re surrounded by others. A remarkable debut novel which explores highs and lows; you’ve got Star Wars and Titanic, outer space and the seabed, philosophy of language and Grindr-sex.
Han, solo 130 x 205 mm / 256 pages
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn WHITE NORWEGIAN MAN what do you want to be when you grow up?
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Tjønn was adopted from South Korea to Norway as a child and has always noticed that he looks different, as he puts it himself. With the pandemic – and the awareness around racism and Asian hate – he got new and painful perspectives about his own background and upbringing.
I want to be a white, Norwegian man White Norwegian Man is a touching and important book about a subject many experience every day – namely racism. In this poetry collection the author Brynjulf Jung Tjønn depicts his own experiences of Brynjulfracism.Jung
White Norwegian Man is about Norway and the racism many ignore, both the hidden type and the visible one. And not to mention the lonely human who hopes for understanding and finding somewhere to feel at home.
Kvit, norsk mann 148 x 210 mm / 96 pages
Kvar dag skal vi vere så modige 130 x 205 mm / 176 pages
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STRONG DEFENSE OF NOSY NEIGHBOURS
'Tjønn is awesome at letting the stories fold out slowly, slowly. He metes out information on the central characters so that the readers has the time to picture what could happen. [...] the text opens in such a way that the reader can feel the pain that has struck someone else. This is one of the nobles things literature can do.'
WINNER OF THE P2
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn
EVERY DAY WE SHALL BE SO BRAVE At home, the boy does everything to help his mother keep going. Because his mother needs to rest. She needs to be alone. But sometimes, his mother relies on him. She forces him to skip school.
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn (b. 1980) made his literary debut with the novel I came to love in 2002. He has since published a number of books for both children and adults. His novel for Young Adults, You are so Beautiful, won the Brage Prize in 2013.
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One day something happens: the boy witnesses the neighbour shooting one of his animals, a cow. They bury the animal together. But if the neighbour can suddenly kill one of his own animals, what else might he be capable of?
Så vanskelig og så ufattelig enkelt 130 x 205 mm / 168 pages Ellen Mari Thelle (b. 1977) lives in Oslo. She has published several books and won the Norwegian Youth Critics’ Prize in 2019 for her novel Bernard Comes Knocking (2018).
How does one approach life as a ruin? When her mother’s dementia worsens and she starts needing constant care, Line’s world changes. What was once a solid existential framework looks more and more like a ruin where the life of her and her mother so far is left in pieces around her. How is she supposed to keep it together? And at the same time keep the faith in meaning and excess in her own and her mother’s life? What happens to a life that the person living is unable to relate to? So Difficult and So Unbelievably Easy is a moving and upsetting attempt at keeping the faith in continuity and belonging in the relationship between mother and daughter, parent and child.
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They’ll Return in the Autumn is a novel set at the folk high school in Sandvik, about being the child of a teacher, about writing. It’s about the unsure and the sincere, those who stand staring at the stars with their father, those who walk around waiting for the world to end. It’s about finding one another and hanging lanterns in the trees.
The new students have arrived from all over; in cars, by train and bus, they have been left here with all their belongings, and they’ve spread out all over the hallways, taken over the rooms, filled them with their posters, their stereos, perfume, candles and dreams.
THEY’LL RETURN IN THE AUTUMN
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Om høsten kommer de tilbake 130 x 205 mm / 280 pages Håvard J. Nilsen (b. 1980) grew up in Mosjøen and lives in Trondheim. Håvard J. Nilsen
Ellen Thelle DIFFICULT AND SO UNBELIEVABLY EASY
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I DON’T WANT TO BE SAVED In I Don’t Want to be Saved the surroundings are threatening. A village is going through change. The sun is burning. An animal walks the forest. The patrols are lurking in the mountains. The ferry has broken down. The lighthouse no longer lights up. People die and disappear. And those who cling on, do their best to create direction in a chaotic and lonely existence.
Vegard Sæteren, born 1982 in Oslo, where he also resides. In addition to being a writer, he is an advanced child protections practitioner. Sæteren
Jeg vil ikke reddes 130 x 205 mm / 176 pages
FÆDELANDSVENNEN A LITERARY FEAST 'The wordstream
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After what was supposed to be a short get-together by the river before dusk, two good friends manage to bring home a freshly caught salmon by a funny coincidence. They have no other choice but to prepare the salmon on a whim and spontaneously invite a bunch of people over for dinner. The invitation is quite random and widely spread, on a firstcome, first-served basis which will set the tone for the rest of the night.
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Morten Langeland NAILS IN MOURNING
'condition of
FORLAGFLAMME to fall behind, to live or to exist, to be included or to be in a secrecy'– thats's what this weird, demanding and yet deeply captivating novel is about.' Nails rich and satisfying. reccomend grabbing
a slice.' VÅRT LAND
Nails in Mourning is a novel in which a large and spawning mature salmon not only forms the economic basis for the story, but also in a way forms the value basis for the way the text develops.
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Morten Langeland (b. 1986) had his debut in 2012. In 2016 he was awarded the Stig Sæterbakken Memorial Award for promising young writers. '... I'm no longer just convinced that this is a great novel. I'm also moved, touched, and happy to have parttaken in this work of art. I'll carry this book inside me for a long time.'
Fifty/Fifty 130 x 205 mm / 264 pages
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Morten Langeland FIFTY/FIFTY Morten Langeland’s new novel Fifty/ Fifty is about an author who sits in the library of the new National Museum, struggling to write an essay about the typical Norwegian kindness in Tarjei Vesaas’ authorship. During a break in his work he becomes aware of a skater who repeatedly, over several days, tries to pull off a 50/50 – grind down the rail outside the Themuseum.novelisabout rehab, about not giving up and about self-care through the love for others. 'If you dislike Jan Erik Vold, Dag Solstad, Norman Mailer or J.D. Salinger, you’ll hate Morten Langeland.'
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MORGENBLADET
‘On point about trauma relief … In Heidi Furre’s hard-hitting novel The Power, a mother tries to take back control over her own life. … What has happened cannot be undone. Nor will this borderline rape end up in court. But Heidi Furre has found another form of relief through her accurate formulations. Formulations that will hit home with the reader.’
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Heidi Furre THE POWER ‘Quite often I can tell by just looking at a person. I don't know exactly how I can tell, it´s something fleeting. It lives in the face. It´s in the skin, around the mouth, in the eyes. Some women carry pain in their face. It´s hard to get a grip on it, it easily slips away. It is despite of youth, despite of beauty. I have seen it in others since I was a child, before I could tell what it was. I have seen it in children. I have seen it in old women. Some days I have seen it in myself. In my pores, the tone of my skin, the lines. If I am not careful it comes pouring out.’
Liv is a nurse. She takes good care of herself and others. She is a normal person hiding a normal secret. One night, many years ago, she was raped. By a man she willingly followed home. The Power is a novel about power, but also a book about having the power. The Power to move on. 130Maktax 205 mm / 144 pages
‘The Power is a concrete story about Liv’s experiences, and a story about how many women feel every time they step out of the bus on their way home late at night, having to walk the last stretch alone in the dark.’
Heidi Furre (b. 1986) made her debut 2013 with the novel The Paris Syndrome, to critical acclaim. She has since written two more novels. In addition to her writing, Heidi spends the majority of her time working as a photographer.
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Excerpt from The Power I wrote the letter. Sat in the changing room at the gym, wanting to be on neutral ground. It was hard to find the words; I wasn’t sure if I was expressing myself correctly. At first I wrote non-consensual sex, it was okay to write that. But it didn’t seem right, because it wasn’t sex. If sex is a mutual act, it wasn’t sex. I wrote sexualised violence, I wrote assault, I wrote sexual trauma, but nothing seemed right. There was too little violence or too little sex. Deep down I knew which word to use, I just couldn’t bring myself to write it. Couldn’t face that word, that fucking lousy word. Rape. I wrote rape.
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Linn Strømsborg NEVER, EVER, EVER «I am 35 years old. I do not want children. It’s not something I talk to other people about. It is something that I am ashamed of, a topic I avoid; take long verbal detours around. When my friends talk about having kids, I change the topic. I do not want to be to certain or unbending, because I might suddenly wake up one day and find that I have become one of them, an ordinary woman in her thirthies wanting to get pregnant, wanting a family, wanting to expand my life, my body and my heart to make room for more than myself. You are allowed to change your mind.» The main character in Linn Strømsborg´s novel Never, ever, ever has never wanted children. She has been living with Philip for eight years, and they have agreed to not have children – up until now. Because maybe Philip might want to become a dad after all? And while her two best friends are expecting their first child, and her mother is constantly nagging about grandchildren, and her everyday life is full of parents with toddlers and births and the struggle of others to have enough time for it all, she is firm in her life and her choice about not having children.
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Never, ever, ever is a novel about why we have children, and why we do not have children. It is the story about choosing something other than what is expected of you, but at the same time wanting a normal life.
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‘The story is elegantly composed, at times cinematic. Strømsborg has written rare and energized prose about a timely and somewhat taboo topic.’
Linn Strømsborg (b. 1986) made her debut 2009 with the novel Roskilde, the story of a group of young people at a music festival, and followed up with the chap book The Øya Festival in the same year. She has since written two novels about the main character Eva; Furuset in 2012 and You're not gonna die in 2016. She is one of the most interesting young voices in contemporary Norwegian fiction today.
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‘Lotta Elstad creates observing and fresh comedy out of the unwanted pregnancy of a freelancer. There has not been a lot of room for the easy going in Norwegian contemporary literature. Lotta Elstad clears the space for this kind of writing. That is why it is so easy to let yourself be excited by her novels.’
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Lotta Elstad I REFUSE TO THINK I Refuse to Think has much of the same sharp and smart humour as Lotta Elstad's earlier books. We meet Hedda Møller after a traumatic plane landing and hazardous journey back to Oslo, through a Europe in crisis, on buses and trains, dirty hostel rooms and a one-night stand in Berlin that will not stop sending her messages in CAPS LOCK. Back home she discovers that she is unwantedly pregnant. That should be an easily solved problem. It´s not.
‘AAVAILABLEfeministdirect hit!’
‘Lotta Elstads energy, wittiness and precision makes I Refuse to Think to one of this year's most enjoyable reads. Within its comical genre, it is absolutely perfect; stimulating, exciting, funny, sharp – and somewhat dark.’
‘Lotta Elstad has written a novel that is funny, even if it is political. Elstad writes with energy and good timing. The suspense lasts until the last chapter.’
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I Refuse to Think is a dark, feministic contemporary comedy about politics, love – and an abyss that is getting dangerously closer.
MORGENBLADET Jeg nekter å tenke 130x205 mm / 240 pages 47FLAMMEFORLAGLotta Elstad (b. 1982) is a writer, journalist, historian and non-fiction editor. She has since her debut in 2008 published several acclaimed books, both narrative non-fiction and novels.
The well-known mountain climber and expedition leader Ingrid Berg has come home from abroad to take over the management of The Mountain View Hotel, which her family has run for generations. Christmas is getting close, and a lot of guests are expected from both Norway and abroad. The expectations are high, and Ingrid is viewed as the saviour of the traditional mountain climbers' hotel. But complications galore, because someone doesn’t want Ingrid to succeed at running the hotel, and the risk of failing is high. Not to mention Ingrid suddenly encounters another problem: She’s become scared of heights. The ultimate feelgood Christmas read, with romance, family, traditions and an old mystery, all set in a picturesque Norwegian winter in the mountains.
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Kjersti Herland Johnsen has a degree in History from the University of Bergen and has worked in the Norwegian publishing industry since 1998. She lives in Oslo with her family. Christmas at Himmelfjell Hotel is her second novel. Jul på Himmelfjell hotell 130 x 205 mm
Kjersti Herland Johnsen CHRISTMAS AT THE MOUNTAIN VIEW HOTEL
Excerpt from Christmas at The Mountain View Hotel
The sun rose, the light became whiter, the sparkle sharper. There weren’t many hours the winter sun would stay over the horizon until it would again turn a warmer colour and sleepily say its goodbyes, before sinking down into a sea of red and orange. Then twilight would fall as colourful strips over the horizon before it by six o’clock already was night again – a long, dark and cold winter night in the mountains of ButNorway.–shetook a deep breath – a lot would happen at the Mountain View Hotel by then. It wasn’t only the Siberian jay that had its tasks to get through. The hours between sunrise and sunset held much also for Ingrid Berg and the staff at Mountain View Hotel: It was the first Sunday of advent, and Christmas was approaching rapidly. They had to prepare for the arrival of the Christmas guests and test the dishes for next week’s advent dinner. In the course of a few weeks they would find out if everything they had worked for in the past months really could succeed.
Fie's sister Sara is the one who takes charge in the situation and demand that Fie get a grip of the situation. To speed things up, she gives Fie a challenging Christmas Calendar with new tasks every day leading up to Christmas. And with this, despair turns into an adventurous, at times overwhelming but in the end pretty nice advent after all! Christmas Calendar is a charming and touching Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood!
During breakfast on a totally ordinary Tuesday, Fie's husband abruptly tells her that he wants a divorce and tells her to move out. He is a dentist, and for years Fie has as well as being his wife been his faithful assistant - without pay. Now she is banished to an both impractical and uncharming attic apartment on the other side of the city. Dazed and in despair that her life has been turned up-side down, Fie tries to soften the blow with sedatives. Her grown up son is embarrassed about his mother break down and does not answer his phone.
The
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Siri Østli is married with five daughters and a university degree in French, Russian and Psychology. She debuted with Across Greenland in High Heels in 2009, and has since then received excellent reviews on a number of feelgood novels. The Christmas Calendar is her latest book, and it takes her authorship in a more uplit direction.
Siri Østli THE CALENDARCHRISTMAS
AMY BRANN, Author of Engaged, Make Your Brain Work and Neuroscience for Coaches. Fly, sommerfugl 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages
Annicken R. Day FLY, BUTTERFLY Maya Williams is an ambitious, hard working New York Business Woman, stymied on her way up the corporate ladder by sexist, male executives. But when she is sent to a conference in Hawaii and expected to lie on stage, she does the unthinkable – she tells the truth. After the event she has a break down on the beach, and then decides to stay in Kauai´i for a few days. After all: she was just fired. In Kauai´i she meets people who open her eyes to different ways of thinking and being, she begins to see life, work, love –and her self – in a whole new light. She learns how to chill, to breathe and to be more in the moment. All of a sudden she has a vision of wanting a life that might be totally different from what she thought. When Maya returns to the corporate world as an executive, can she implement her new philosophies and still succeed? And will her personal and professional metamorphosis ultimately bring her the happiness and freedom that she dreams of? ‘Fly, Butterfly is a page turner that draws you in and makes you nod furiously, laugh deeply and then sob with empathy. This is a powerful novel that has the energy to inspire change.’
Annicken R. Day has worked with corporate culture for more than 20 years, i.e. as President of Culture at Norwegian Tandberg, and Cisco. Since 2012, she has been running her own company, Corporate Spring, where she leads her team in helping leaders and teams all over the world in building great places of employments and engaged corporate cultures. She is also a globally renowned public speaker, having written articles for Huffington Post and Business Insider, and co-authored the book Creative Superpowers. Her first novel, Fly, Butterfly, is a story that in many ways reflect Annicken's own experiences, philosophy of life and personal choices: Choosing the heart over the head, trust over fear, and keeping the courage to live one's own life on one's own terms. When Annicken is not travelling, she splits her time between Norway and California. Rights sold to: Germany (Suhrkamp/Insel Verlag)
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Rynes, Nordland, 1942: A young girl named Marie is wrenched away from her safe life on Hjartøy when her older sister needs help. Her sister is married and lives on a farm in Rynes some miles to the north.
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Linnea knows nothing of what awaits her when she arrives in Hjartøy in the middle of winter, and the challenges are unending. One day, she finds a small clock that puts her on the trail of a dramatic story from World War II.
Right next to the farm is a German prison camp where Serbian soldiers are living in terrible conditions. But in the midst of all the atrocities, love blossoms when Marie meets a young prisoner named Jovan. They both know it could mean death if their relationship is revealed, and Jovan decides to flee to Sweden. This proves to have dramatic consequences. As Linnea finds out more and more about Marie, her own life also takes a new turn.
Jorid Mathiassen WHERE THE WHITE LILIES GROW Hjartøy, Nordland, 2009: Linnea needs to get out of Oslo after a relationship ends. She accepts her friend Iris’ offer to stay in the old house that had once belonged to her great-aunt Marie.
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Jorid Mathiassen (b. 1965) grew up on the Helgeland coast up north, and now lives in Oslo. She has a major in Nordic language and literature from the University of Oslo and has the last ten years worked as a publishing editor at Cappelen Damm, and currently at Strawberry Publishing. Prior to being a publishing editor, she worked as a journalist in the magazine Bok & samfunn. Where the White Lilies Grow is her debut novel.
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Excerpt from Where White Lilies Grow
As soon as Marie finished washing the cups, she snuck out and started running toward the river. They’d heard shots coming from the camp earlier in the day, and she could hear the voice in her head saying it was more dangerous than ever to be wandering around outside, that the guards were being more watchful and that she was putting herself, the others in the house, and Jovan – if he was still alive – in even greater danger. Still, she ran and ran until she could taste blood. She[…] stopped as she approached their hiding place and slowly crept forward, looking around cautiously. The thought of the hateful face of the Norwegian guard who’d stopped her the first time still frightened her. She held her breath in total silence. Her heart was pounding and she closed her eyes for a few seconds. When she opened them again, she saw the top of his head sticking out of the pit he’d made for them that was almost completely covered with branches. She let out her breath again and the relief flowed through her whole body like a waterfall.
Hilde S. Palladino HIDDEN UNDER SNOW
Hidden under snow is a character-driven psychological crime fiction novel. Therapist Bjørk Isdahl is witness to the brutal suicide of one of her former clients – Azora. Among Azora’s possessions was a photograph of Bjørk, with the words ‘I know why you have nightmares’ written on it. Bjørk has always had terrible nightmares –nightmares she’s never mentioned to anyone else. So how could Azora have known about them, and why did she have that photo of Bjørk? Both the police and Bjørk search for the link between them. A link that connects the two and their lives more closely than Bjørk was even aware of herself. This work of psychological crime fiction is a fascinating dive into repressed memory and how the past and one’s upbringing can shape and impact them – even if they don’t remember it.
Hilde Palladino (b. 1968) is a former student of Norway’s Crime Writer’s School and lives between Oslo and Bali. Self-employed, she runs various companies’ social media channels. Hidden under snow is her first crime novel. Rights sold to: Denmark (Straarup & co.), Germany (Blanvalet – PRH), Sweden (Modernista AB)
STAVANGER AFTENBLAD EFFICIENT NEW NORWEGIAN CRIME! '… an elaborate debut. … H. S. Palladino (53) is a Norwegian crime writer debutant with a firm grip on her tools. … The revelations towards the novel’s end, regarding Azora’s fate and Bjørk’s own past, will likely surprise even the most alert of readers.' VG
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EXCITING AND WELL-WRITTEN CRIME DEBUT WITH PLENTY OF DRIVE '... many surprises and people who both interests and moves us. ... Palladino writes with great energy.'
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Excerpt from Hidden under snow, translated by Kari Dickson I’m annoyed that I allowed myself to be lured out, check my phone to see if she’s called again, or left a message that I haven’t seen. Nothing. She probably forgot as soon as she rang off, lost herself in a high minutes later. I can just see her: thin and indifferent, on a filthy sofa. Her face devoid of personality, her sunken eyes unnaturally far back in their sockets. Why the hell did I agree to meet her? I turn on my heel and am about to leave, but then change my mind. People like her don’t have it easy. It won’t kill me to wait a little Remnantslonger.ofthe day’s downpour still linger in the air; the mist hangs heavy over the rooftops. I start to walk to and fro, pull my parka tighter around me, rub my hands together and blow into them. How I hate this time of year. If Azora’s not here in the next ten minutes, I’m leaving. Then I curb my irritation, roll her name around my mouth. The gravel and rotten leaves scratch under the soles of my boots. Was she christened Azora, or was it just what she called herself`? I can’t remember. Must admit that I haven’t really given her much thought over the years. It’s not so strange, really, that she managed to get hold of my phone number. After all, in my face has been on the front page of every newspaper in the country more times than I can count in the past year – the most hated woman in Norway. I suddenly get the feeling that I’m being watched. I can’t put my finger on it, but I glance up at the office windows and feel the hairs rise on my neck. Turn around, and squint up at the roofs, follow the edge all the way round. Is she up there? I immediately imagine I can see a shadow, but it’s probably no more than reflections in the mist. Maybe it’s a cat, or possibly some pigeons settling for the night. My pulse rate increases all the same. I shouldn’t be here. Not in this neighbourhood, not alone. And certainly not at this time of night. When the light in the window is switched off, the courtyard is engulfed in darkness. I take a few steps back, notice that my legs are a bit wobbly and the sweet smells even more sickly. I hear car tyres on wet tarmac in the distance. I keep my eyes trained the top of the building. There’s no movement up there now. Just the metallic grey mist swirling.Iwait.Listen.Getready to leave. Then I get that feeling again, that someone’s watching me. Did they trick me into coming here so they could rob me? Is someone out to get me after everything that happened last year? I scan the office windows, one by one, looking for silhouettes. Get out my mobile phone, decide that Azora’s not coming. Look up at the roof one last time, as I listen for signs that I’m not alone. I’m on my way back towards the curved passage when I hear it. The scream rends the night, and my body. An inhuman scream, full of fear, followed by a faint rush of air. From above. I don’t have time to think about what’s happening, just spin round and look up. And see a body falling, rotating, and crashing to the ground only a few metres from me.
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Caught behind enemy lines, NATOpilots Ylva and John faces a seemingly impossible task: They have to cross the frozen Siberian tundra on foot - with the enemy at their heels – to get back to Norway and stop a catastrophe that might lead to World War III.
Grethe Bøe MAYDAY Sensational Action Thriller Debut!
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The Arctic is blowing up – and Ylva is the spark!
The relations between Russia and NATO are at a freezing point as NATO launches their greatest ever winter exercise in the far north of Norway. The Russians are provoked and mobilize their own “snap exercise” on the Russian side of the border. A Russian fighter plane is provoking a Norwegian carrier helicopter in the border area between Norway and Russia, and F-16-pilots John Evans and Ylva Nordahl is sent to escort the helicopter safely to shore. The NATO-plane end up in a stress-flight with the Russian plane, and the F-16 is damaged in a near crash, it is then shot down after ending up on the Russian side of the border. The episode sparks political crisis where both Russia and NATO see the event as an attack. The only thing that can stop an all-destructive conflict is the pilots Ylva Nordahl and John Evans making their way back across the border to Norway, to tell what really happened. It is a fight against time, as the Russian President, The General Secretary of NATO and private military industry are all sharpening their knives.
FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILIABLE Grethe Bøe make her debut as an author with the action thriller Mayday. But she has for years been writing and directing internationally prize-winning films and TV-series from the Arctic areas. Her film Operasjon Arktis won the Amanda Prize in 2015 and was also featured at a number of international film festivals. She has worked as a camera assistant with Steven Spielberg.
JonnyFredFoto: NORWEGIAN CRIME SENSATION: BRAVO! ‘Grethe Bøe makes a great debut with a chillingly realistic thriller where the north of Norway is in danger of becoming a new Crimea. DAGBLADET REFRESHING DEBUT ‘Grethe Bøe and her protagonist Ylva are fresh and welcome additions to the Norwegian Crime Book Universe. It feels refreshing to have the arrival of a female author writing in a genre otherwise dominated by men – already writing with authority and weight about anything from international politics and reindeer herding to how to fly a fighter jet. And not least in a language full of good and creative descriptions and sentences.’ VG A SERIOUSLY FRESH DEBUT The idea and potential is at top level, written with international approach, cockiness and thorough on all the detail; be it the technical parts of flying a fighter jet, military, political or geographical … with main characters that have extreme survival skills and technical knowledge.’ ADRESSEAVISA
Meidel Jonsson finds his grandfather dead in his house. Suddenly 18-year-old Meidel is all alone in the world. In his head he has many compartments: one for play, one for good ideas, one for causing havoc. As well as a compartment for pain and realisation, which he wants to close off forever. Now Meidel has nothing else to lose. But when he goes shopping at the local grocery store, he begins talking to the young girl behind the till and suddenly senses an opportunity.
Karin Fossum THE NIGHTRUNNER
130Natteløperenx205mm / 192 pages 'A charming detective and a nerve-wrecking crazy killer. This is Fossum-crime of the top shelf!' DAGBLADET 'The Nightrunner is yet another insightful crime about those who exist on the outside. A large story in a small format, told by an author who is still at the top in her genre. After 18 published novels that's no small feat!' VG '… entertaining and elegant novel from one of our incisive Norwegian crime writers.' TØNSBERGS BLAD
Investigator Eddie Feber is a force of nature at work, and at home he has a house full of children and his wife Karmen who writes crime novels. In their town, several people start getting visits at night by a shining appearance holding a weapon. Feber doesn’t have much to work with, except for a note that says only ‘833’. Feber has his very own methods, and some will claim he often crosses the line.
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Karin Fossum (b. 1954) made her literary debut in 1974 with the poetry collection Maybe Tomorrow (Kanskje i morgen), for which she won the Vesaas First Writer's Award. She has published books in several genres, but is best known for her crime fiction series about Inspector Konrad Sejer. Several of her books have been filmed for the screen and TV. She has received a number of prestigious awards, including an LA Times Book Award and The Brage Prize for her novel The Indian Bride (Elskede Poona). In 2017 The Riverton Club named her Best Norwegian Crime Writer through the times! Karin Fossum's books are translated into 34 languages.
Rights sold to: The Netherlands (Meulen Hoff De Boekerij)
a pleasure' NETTAVISEN 'MANY CRIME NOVELS LACK THAT SOMETHING ELSE. NOT THIS ONE.' TØNSBERG BLAD Drepende drage Angrende hund 130 x 205 mm / 240 pages
We’re in it together, she said. No matter how it ends, we two are in it together –can you promise me that? That she’ll die pretty soon? They looked at each other and smiled. After all, it was only a game. Aksel is a journalist with the local newspaper whose boss says he's ‘good at tragedies’. His sister Ellinor has lost her job and is desperately seeking to escape from reality. Brother and sister have been close since childhood, bound together by destiny. A gas leak on a one of the big farms kills several hired hands in their sleep. It looks like an accident. In a nearby house, an 80-year-old woman is found lying at the foot of her stairs one day, with a crushed skull. Somebody has left the place in disarray to make it look like a burglary. In Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog, we meet a new and unusual detective: Eddie Feber – a man blessed with joie de vivre and eight children. Alert and seemingly chaotic, he nonetheless has strategies for bringing the dark truth to light. that it's
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Rights sold to: Finland (Johnny Kniga), Netherlands (Meulen Hoff) Karin Fossum
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Hans Olav Lahlum (b. 1973) is a writer and historian. He made his literary debut with the critically acclaimed biography Oscar Torp in 2007. He has since published a number of crime novels and non-fiction books. His crime novels have become bestsellers in Norway, and are available in English, Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian, Danish, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Russian, Slovakian and Korean.
The tenth novel in the K2 series from Hans Olav Lahlum! It’s 1974 and K2 is now working as a private investigator. One day a young woman named Marlene shows up at his office. She puts a large bank note and a black-white photography on his desk. The man in the photo was convicted in 1963 for the murder of the woman’s older brother, Daniel, and is due to be released the following day. The only problem is that the young woman in K2’s office isn’t sure if the right man was convicted for the murder. She wants to pay K2 to solve the case. Then, the convict surfaces dead shortly after being released. Who's behind it all? In K2's office, Daniel and Marlene's father also shows up. His wish to get answers to his own sister's disappearance back in 1939 means K2 has to ask his loyal consultant Patricia for help. Who was Daniel? Who killed him and why? And what is the connection between the disappearence in 1939, and the murders in 1963 and 1973?
Hans Olav Lahlum THE SIBLING MYSTERIES
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Hanne Gellein (b. 1978) is from Trondheim, but lives in Sweden with her husband and children. She is a trained nurse but has now turned her attention more towards writing of crime fiction. She made her debut in 2020 with the critically acclaimed novel All the Little Birds. Her second novel, Under Pain of Death, is a character driven crime of the gruesome and unpredictable kind, inspired by the true story of Norway’s worst serial killer.
Hanne Gellein UNDER PAIN OF DEATH
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At Moveien care home the residents seem frightened, scared, and confused. Lately there have been exceptionally many deaths following an unusually tough flu season, and at the same time there is little money for maintenance. One of the patients with dementia, Alma Lien, broke through the closed doors and was found frozen to death outside. The string of deaths worries pathologist Silje Andersen, and she suspects something might be seriously wrong. But how can she prove it? Elderly people dying is completely natural. Under Pain of Death is Hanne Gellein’s second crime novel and is a characterdriven psychological crime novel inspired by reality. It shows to what extent a distorted human mind can decide to defend its gruesome actions. Religious fanaticism, distorted selfimage, and the art of trusting oneself are key themes in this novel. 205 368
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The heavens will weep blood is a one-of-a-kind thriller Evenjourney.Stubberud is a soldier in the Special Forces. But now he has fallen sick with cancer. Before he leaves the force he takes on one last mission: A simple escort of a terrorist to Somalia. The plane from Oslo is hijacked, and the terrorist is set free. The only one who can save the 245 passengers from certain death is an unarmed man, sick with cancer, with no knowledge about planes.
Sigbjørn Mostue has written a fast paced story that also touches our hearts. At times you might have to loose it all to win what is most important.
Sigbjørn Mostue THE SILENT SAVANNAH The Silent Savannah is the sequel to Sigbjørn Mostue’s nail-biting, Riverton Prize-nominated thriller The heavens will weep blood in which we met the series hero: Even Stubberud, leader of a top-secret, counter-terrorism unit.
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Sigbjørn Mostue (b. 1969) has a degree in the History of Ideas, and has been working as an editor. He is now a full time writer, having written a number of bestselling books for young readers.
The retired elite soldier is looking to start a new life in Kenya, where he plans on helping train the Savannah gamekeepers and bring about an end to the ruthless slaughter of elephants and other wildlife. However, strong forces lie behind the poaching activities – forces connected to some of the world’s most powerful nations.
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Sigbjørn Mostue THE HEAVENS WILL WEEP BLOOD
‘This has to be one of the best crime novels this spring.’ RANDABERG 24 ‘Simply put a really great crime novel.’ BERGENSAVISEN Atle Nielsen (b. 1956) has spent many years as a journalist, author, quizmaster and artist, and has published a number of books for both children and adults. Mord og kjærlighet 130 x 205 mm / 384 pages
Atle Nielsen LOVE AND MURDER In Love and Murder, we’re introduced to TV2 journalist Ole Bull as he works to push through a controversial report with major implications for a city council member and her family. The case takes a dramatic turn when Bull’s own boss is fatally shot outside his home a few weeks later. Both the police and the media suspect that the unknown killer has several more names on their hit-list. Ole Bull goes into hiding in London, but little does he know that one of the clues in the murder case happens to lead the investigation to the very same place. A race between life and death ensues, in both London and Norway.
Love and Murder is a dark thriller about dangerous curiosity and what happens to a journalist’s integrity when constantly put to the test.
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RINGERIKES BLAD Ellen G. Simensen (b. 1975) is educated works as a career consultant. She has attended Cappelen Damm’s crime author programme, hosts a crime podcast and has arranged several writing courses for young people. Tro meg når jeg lyver 130 x 205 mm / 263 pages
Believe Me When I Lie is a psychological crime novel that spans a wide canvas, from eastern Norway to the far west of the country.
‘The language is playful and colorful, with nature descriptions approaching the poetic and filmatic. Especially when the plot turns to western Norway, she’s good. Very good … This book debut proves to be a solid and suspense-driven thriller, where the author shares her keen insight into the human mind.’
Ellen Gustavsen Simensen
BELIEVE ME WHEN I LIE Police officer Lars Lukassen sees the chance of a promotion when he is called out to investigate a dead body. The situation at the police station in Hønefoss deteriorates when a sinister figure starts plaguing schoolchildren. At the same time, teacher Johanna Brekke arrives in town and Lars is attracted to her. But what is Johanna running away from, and who is friend and who is foe in the quest for truth?
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Terje Bjøranger THE CALIPHATE
Terje Bjøranger (b. 1959) lives in Lørenskog and works as a police prosecutor for Kripos. He made his debut in 2012 with The Third Sister. In 2017, he published the critically acclaimed Barcode. Bjøranger has also worked with the Norwegian UDI for several years in areas such as forced marriages and honor crimes.
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A young man is found murdered on Bygdøy island in Oslo. He is dressed in an orange suit and is holding his own head in his hands. Suspicion immediately falls on ISIS. Could there be a link to Islamist extremists or is this a set-up? Charlie Robertson and his police colleagues must work hard and fast to prevent further murders and –not least – to avoid terrorist atrocities the police fear are being planned. The Caliphate is the third book about Detective Charlie Robertson.
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