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Cappelen Damm Agency

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RIGHTS CATALOGUE

NON-FICTION

Cappelen Damm Agency 2023

Fall 2023

Representing some of Norway’s leading contemporary authors.

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CAPPELEN DAMM AGENCY

Cappelen Damm is Norway's largest publishing house, publishing approximately 1000 titles a year within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, educational books and children's books. Cappelen Damm is owned by Egmont.

Cappelen Damm Agency represents the rights of all of the authors in this catalogue.

The Agency is responsible for all foreign book rights, as well as rights for TV, film, radio, anthologies, electronic media etc. We are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the authors and the sales of foreign rights.

40 uker, en menneskegraviditet og 81 andre måter å få barn på 148 x 210 mm / 248 pages

Blix

40 WEEKS, A HUMAN PREGNANCY AND 81 OTHER WAYS TO REPRODUCE

It takes 40 weeks to grow a human baby, and along the way the relationship between the foetus and the pregnant woman bears resemblance to that of a parasite and its host. One takes and takes, while the other one almost dies in the process. Why do we as humans carry our babies inside our bodies for so long, and is there a reason that we are throwing up and feeling nauseous? Are there any better ways to reproduce? Does any living being reproduce in a stranger way than us humans?

Throughout the 40 weeks of a human pregnancy we meet another being who’s finished reproducing each week. The spotted hyena gives birth after only 16 weeks, but she has to give birth through a penis-shaped clitoris, which cracks

open during labour. Do they have it easier? The common Surinam toad doesn’t have a uterus, but instead has evolved to have a swollen piece of skin on their backs where the eggs sink in. This way she can carry the offspring with her, instead of leaving the eggs in the water. Are there any signs that it’s actually quite clever how the human body handles it?

This book gives evolutionary comfort throughout the troubles of pregnancy and an explanation as to how we ended up here, as the smartest species with the most tiresome, but nonetheless not such a stupid way to reproduce.

Anna Blix (b. 1985) is a biologist, author and political advisor in the Norwegian Parliament. She has long experience as a writer and communicator, and writes a regular column about science for the newspaper Morgenbladet.

Anna

Rights sold to: United Kingdom (MacLehose Press – UK Commonwealth excl. Canada), Germany (Westend Verlag)

Excerpt from 40 weeks:

Week 8

The Giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) lies motionless in her cave. She’s stuck her eggs to the roof, they hang down in big clusters, there are a hundred thousand of them. She measures four metres from the end of one tentacle to the other, she is long as a station wagon, and weighed up to 50 kilos when she crept into the cave eight weeks ago. Since then, she has not eaten, not gone outside, not done anything except watch over the eggs. The only movement she makes is to blow water over the eggs with her big siphon, the tube she usually rapidly squeezes water through to shoot her body through the ocean. She makes sure the eggs get enough oxygen, that parasites and algae don’t stick to them. With her sensitive suction cups she strokes the eggs, feeling them carefully, taking care that also those in the centre of the cluster get fresh water. Slowly she starves as she sacrifices everything for the eggs, for the babies, she will lay there until they hatch in about 4-5 months, the amount of time it will take depends on how warm the water is. Does she get hungry, does her digestive system protest when she doesn’t give her body nutrition?

I’m lying in my own cave, my dark bedroom. I am an octopus whose only purpose is to take care of my offspring, the embryo inside me. I vomit to make sure no parasites get near my egg, I stroke my hands carefully over my belly, I will lay here for a long time still. I should feel happy there’s a new human growing in my belly, thankful that it’s going well so far, but I can’t. To feel nauseated is not like feeling a little pain in the foot, something I can distance myself from, dull with painkillers and still function. The nausea ruins everything I try to do, and no matter what I do it won’t disappear. I cannot think when I feel nauseated, I cannot take care of my three-year-old while I’m vomiting, I cannot have conversations with my partner while I wait for my stomach to turn inside out again. I can only lie completely still and hope it passes.

There is no better literature than great non-fiction. Written by specialists who are unbound by strict terminology or publication pressure, but in a liberal and relaxed language. The biologist, journalist, writer and columnist Blix is incredibly good here. […] the most amazing stories about mating, pregnancy, gender and sexuality.

DAGBLADET 

... my judgement is that this is the best book I've read so far this year. The combination of well-written text, a good frame story and incredible facts about weird pregnancies, is simply put a winner. I'm unsure if I'll have the pleasure of reading anything better this year.

AFTENPOSTEN

Dag O. Hessen TRACKING THE WOLVERINE

Chasing the animal, the purpose and the memories in a diminishing nature

One day in February 1972 Dag O. Hessen is on a ski trip with his father in the mountains, when they come across a wolverine track in the snow. The young Dag convinces his father to follow the trail, but after half an hour of searching, the imprints of the predator disappear down a steep passage and they have to give up on their hunt.

50 years later he’s back at the same place to pick up on the trail of the animal that escaped him. His father is now long gone, but the mountains are still there. And somewhere out there is a wolverine.

Jervesporet:

130 x 205 mm / 224 pages

The wolverine, and the desire to meet the wild animal, is the framing of the story taking place in the mountainous nature. But this is also a story about time passing and changes we cannot prevent. About everything that slips through our fingers. The things we cannot completely catch and tame: A childhood long gone, close family members who have passed, the wild nature and a natural diversity which is about to weather away. And at the bottom of all of this lies a deep affection and respect for nature and biology, presented by one of Norway’s most respected non-fiction authors.

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'He is our Thoreau, anno 2023.'

VÅRT LAND

'Dag O. Hessen’s Tracking the Wolverine will place as one of this year’s best non-fiction books. ... The book deserves a place next to the author’s own favourite cabin reads: Zappfe, Thoreau, and Ingstad.'

BOKMAGASINET/KLASSEKAMPEN

Dag O. Hessen is a Professor of Biology at the University of Oslo. He has written many scientific works on themes like ecology and evolution. He has also published ten popular science books about evolution, biology and the environment. His work is found at the crossroads of biology and philosophy. He has received several awards for his promotion of popular science, among them the Riksmålsprisen in 2008.

Rights sold to: USA (Greystone -- World English)

Jakten på dyret, meningen og minnene i en krympende natur

Excerpt from Tracking the Wolverine:

The sky above us is white, below us the snow is white, and these two variations on white meet at the horizon. Brilliant white. The sun is starting to make its comeback after the winter, and is detectable through the white cloud cover. There are clusters of scrawny mountain birches, further down birch forest, then below us a fir-clad valley and in the distance beyond a view of the mountain peaks in the north-west. Father and I are in the mountains. It is the winter holidays and we’ve walked from the cabin, through the forest and off any ski paths, as we have so often. We cross a set of fox tracks, in a dip with willow thicket the grouse have embroidered their prints in the snow, interrupted by hare tracks. Here the grouse have had their roosts, partly buried, partly covered by the night’s light snowfall, before they shook off the snow at sunrise, breakfasted on winter buds, leaving behind nothing but wing prints as a farewell gesture in the fresh snow. The winter mountains stand silent and still, there is little to see, but these tracks tell a mute story of who’s been here, and on rare occasions a dramatic hunting story, with trails of blood in the snow. But mostly it’s just white.

Then we cross some tracks unlike any usually found here. The prints are of massive paws, and they run in a straight line from the horizon in the north and disappear over the gentle mountain ridge to the east. “Bear,” I say. “Wolverine,” says my father, who is widely knowledgeable and also a vet. The largest Mustelid in Norway, he says, a relative of the snow weasel and stoat, but with the appearance of a small bear. A creature few ever get to see, and such compact ferocity and strength that there’s barely anything equals it. It doesn’t recoil from the steepest gorge, or a lynx or wolf or bear, and it can take down a reindeer many times its own weight, before biting off its head and hanging it up high in a tree - like a trophy. It has jaws that can chew frozen flesh or crush even the strongest thighbone, and it’s a perpetual motion machine that can go on and on. In short, the wolverine is way off the scale, says my father, a pragmatic man with no taste for dramatic exaggeration.

DEN NYE FISKEN

Kjetil Østli and Simen Sætre THE NEW FISH

A global history of salmon farming

In the early 1970s, a group of scientists wanted to make more food for the world. They looked to the sea. They sampled genes from 41 Norwegian and Swedish rivers, and designed a salmon that was fatter, more docile, and faster growing. This was the beginning of a new industry, salmon farming.

The industry spread from coastal Norway to all corners of the Globe. Jobs were created, business boomed, salmon farmers became filthy rich.

A new type of food, the salmon sushi, spread across the world. But as soon as the new fish was let loose in nature, unexpected things started to happen. Wild salmon stocks disappeared, diseases spread in the salmon farms, salmon louse swarmed, and the new industry became highly contested.

'... 365-page exposé in the vein of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring ...'

NEW YORK TIMES

In a prize-winning, five-year investigation, the authors Simen Sætre and Kjetil Østli take a closer look at the global salmon industry. For the first time, the whole story of salmon farming has been told. The result combines nature writing from Norwegian fjords with classical muckraking and character-driven literary non-fiction. The authors start out with a question: What happens when you place a new animal in the fjords? This book gives you the answer. NORLA SELECTED

DAGBLADET 

Kjetil Østli (b. 1975) is a journalist and author. He co-runs the online magazine Harvest, specializing in nature writing. He has received several prizes and awards for his reporting and his four books, and his debut Cops and robbers earned him the prestigious Brage Award.

Simen Sætre (b. 1974) is an investigative reporter who has been published in many languages. He has written six books, on themes including the international chocolate industry, oil states, and a spy in the Norwegian army. His thought-provoking books have been acclaimed and nominated for prizes.

'Lies and torture – This book about salmon farming is exceptional investigative journalism.'

'This is top-class journalism. They ask open questions without moralizing, with an underlying critical gaze.'

VÅRT LAND

Excerpt from the Prologue, The New Fish

We thrash about and are a danger to ourselves and to the rest of the life that surrounds us, wrote biologist Edward O. Wilson, who says that today’s world resembles a Star Wars-like civilization with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. “Apart from the fact that we mostly behave like monkeys and have a limited life expectancy, we are godlike,” Wilson writes.

With this kind of mentality, our intelligence and creative urges can also be our enemy. This is thematized in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In these works, man uses his brain to create something new and innovative – but the results are terrifying.

Goethe describes the tragedy of development, where great ambitions for society upset nature’s balance. For Shelley, the new creature ultimately becomes a monster.

On the other side of this cautious attitude is the engineer-like optimist; our intelligence has taken us this far – so it can therefore also be our salvation.

Problems are solved with new research and innovation. If the air gets too hot, we’ll invent technology to slow down the heating. If the atmosphere is filled with CO2, we’ll capture and purify more CO2. If there are fewer wild animals to eat, we must produce more domestic animals or change our eating habits. And with fewer fish in the ocean, we have to create new fish to eat.

Yes, the fish – shouldn’t we also domesticate the fish?

Rights sold to: Finland (Gummerus), USA (Patagonia Books – World English Rights), China (China Worker)

Kart over ensomheten

130 x 205 mm / 344 pages

Hilde Østby MAP OF LONELINESS

About humanities unstoppable desire for community, and what drives us apart

In March 2020 the world closed down and stayed completely or partly closed for two and a half years. Most arenas where humans go for companionship, such as offices and concerts, weddings and funerals, disappeared or were decimated overnight. It’s as if the whole world has taken part in a huge experiment in loneliness, according to author Hilde Østby. The result of this experiment is worth dwelling on, as it’s not an easy diagnosis to just brush off. Research shows that loneliness, if it is chronic, is more dangerous for our health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

In Map of Loneliness Hilde Østby approaches the subject on a personal, philosophical and journalistic level in order to get to grips with loneliness – one of our most enigmatic and under-

communicated public health challenges. She shows us what loneliness does to us and asks where it comes from. That is a question which can be answered both medically and existentially. Maybe the mechanisms which drive us apart could later bring us back together? In that case loneliness is something we must solve as a community, through community, and for the community.

BOK365

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Hilde Østby (b. 1975) is a historian of ideas, author, journalist and former publishing editor. She made her debut as an author in 2013 with the critically acclaimed novel Encyclopedia of Longing.

Rights sold to: Canada (Greystone), Hungary (Park Publishing)

'One of this year´s most important books – as long as many enough of us actually read it.'

BACKLIST:

Rights sold to: Australia (NewSoth), Azerbaijan (Qanun Publishing House), Canada (Greystone Books), China (SSTE), Denmark (Gyldendal DK), Estonia (Tänapäev), France (Marabout), Germany (Berlin Verlag), Hungary (Kolibri), Italy (Ponte alle Grazie), Japan (Misuzu Shobo), Netherlands (Balans Uitgeverij), Poland (Marginsey Publishing House), Republic of Korea (Minumsa), Russia (Alpina), Spain (Editorial Ariel), Sweden (Norstedts), Turkey (Kaplumbaga Yayinlari), Ukraine (Pabulum), United States (Brilliance)

Rights sold to: Azerbaijan (Qanun Publishing House), Canada/UK/US (Greystone Books), Denmark (EC Edition)

Rights sold to: Azerbaijan (Alatunan), Poland (Marginesy), Canada/UK/US (Greystone Books), Turkey (Kaplumbaa Kitap), Hungary (Park Kiado)

Kristin Gjesdal (ed.) and Dalia Nassar (ed.)

WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS Romance, revolution and fellowship

Did women philosophers exist in the ninetheenth century? Most certainly!

In Women Philosophers the works of nine women philosophers in the tradition from romanticism to phenomenology are presented: Germaine de Staël, Karoline von Günderrode, Bettina Brentano von Arnim, Hedwig Dohm, Clara Zetkin, Lou Andreas Salomé, Rosa Luxemburg, Edith Stein and Gerda Walther. The collection clarifies their central position within movements such as German idealism, socialism, Marxism and phenomenology. In a clear and engaging style, it discusses central questions such as: What is truth? What lies at the basis of the human feeling of community? How should humans relate to nature? How can we best think about gender and identity? How should we respond to social injustice? What is the most productive understanding of the human capacity for empathy and community?

The red thread running through the book is the respective philosopher's wish to write accesible, engaging and for a broader audience. The introduction by the editors gives a better overview of women's place in the period, and presents each of the nine philosophers with a retrospective view of their historical importance as well as their relevance today.

'Who would have believed that an anthology on dead female philosophers would be one of last year’s best non-fiction publications?'

AFTENPOSTEN

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Kristin Gjesdal is a professor in philosophy at Temple Univeristy, Philadelphia. Her research interests include modern German philosophy, aesthetics, phenomenology and hermeneutics. She has written a number of books published by Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, and sits on the editorial board of several international journals and book series.

Dalia Nassar is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include modern German philosophy, aesthetics, natural philosophy and environmental philosophy.

Kvinner i filosofien

Excerpt from Women Philosophers

The long nineteenth century—the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I—was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. Philosophically speaking, this period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism, Nietzscheanism, and phenomenology. Contributing to these movements, women philosophers explored a wide range of philosophical topics and styles, helped shape philosophy’s agenda, and translated their thoughts into activism and practice. This last point is significant: being excluded from formal academic education and positions, many women philosophers developed a way of philosophizing that was more activist in spirit and geared toward communicating with ordinary people rather than university colleagues and students. In and through their practice of philosophy, women philosophers gained an increasing sense of agency, challenged existing doctrines, built networks across cultures and language barriers, and drew upon and developed connections between various philosophical traditions. Thus, the works produced by women philosophers often offer a different angle on the history of philosophy; these works help us to rethink both the intellectual history of the nineteenth century and the systematic questions that motivated and underpinned its philosophical developments. Moreover, they reveal to us the ways in which philosophy was once practiced—and how philosophy can and indeed should be pursued: in dialogue with, rather than in abstraction from, our daily lives. In essence, the contributions of nineteenth-century women in the German tradition demonstrate that philosophy has the potential to transform lives and also to be transformed by our lived experiences and practices.

Abid Raja MY GUILT A Story about Liberation

The former Norwegian Minister of Culture Abid Raja has been called loud, dominant and a poser.

But his life has in large parts been the opposite: Hiding pain and the handicap he was born with. Hiding from the violence and the bullying. And hiding his feelings for his one true love. His feeling of guilt - a mixture of shame and fear, has stopped him from acknowledging many of the other feelings he as a person is equipped with. The only thing he at one point was feeling was rage and anger.

When he, as a grown up, sought help from a female psychologist to find a way to control his temper, she asked him: "Do you have any idea about where this anger comes from? Is there something else in your life that is the real issue that spark this anger?"

This is the brutally honest story about Abid Raja´s turbulent journey to rise above his class, his yearslong fight to be with the woman he loves and the painful liberation from shame, guilt and exclusion.

'Important, well written and very good.'

NETTAVISEN, 

'A deeply moving and honest self-biography. One of the most important books that have been written about growing up between two cultures in Norway. '

MORGENBLADET

'A Painful and shocking, as well as impressive and inspiring self-biography.'

VG

A MAJOR BESTSELLER OVER 120.000 SOLD

Abid Q. Raja (1975–) is a lawyer, a social thinker, a Liberal Party politician and was the Cultural Minister under the Erna Solberg government. He was the founder of the cross cultural Dialogue Meetings and the think tank Minotenk. In 2010 he was awarded the Fritt Ord (Free speech) Prize.

Nadia Ansar MY SHAME

A Story about Expectations and Secession

Nadia Ansar was named after the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci. She was the symbol of the “perfect 10”; unattainable, flawless, and perfect. On the outside she was the immaculate daughter, the good immigrant and the well-integrated psychologist, an expert in feelings such as shame and guilt. What no one could see was that she carried with her a heavy rucksack of shame and dark secrets.

Through the book My Shame she now wishes to use her own personal and professional voice to tell the story about the talented minority girl’s fight to be able to be herself. About growing up in Oslo as the daughter of the local grocer and the only girl in her school class with a minority background. About her dad’s breakneck split between the equal Norwegian society and the patriarchal expectations of their culture. About the fight for equality in her marriage, after marrying the love of her life.

As an adult Nadia Ansar has often witnessed several well-educated sisters of minority backgrounds give up on the painful balancing act in the supposedly equal Norway. They become housewives with hijabs, and some move back to their parents’ home country. Nadia Ansar believes it is the feelings of shame which primarily prohibits them from leading free lives.

Nadia Ansar (43) is a psychologist, specialist in emotion-focused therapy and specialist in clinical family psychology. For the past 19 years, she has worked as a psychologist and project manager in, among other things, Alternative to violence, in child and youth psychiatry, in family protection, and as department head in the Blue Cross Compass. For the past 6 years, she has worked at the Institute for Psychological Counseling in Oslo and has recently completed a doctorate in emotion-focused skills training for parents, under the auspices of the Norwegian Institute for Emotion-Focused Therapy, the Research Council of Norway and the University of Oslo.

Min Skam: En Historie om Forventninger og Løsrivelse 130 x 205 mm / 256 pages

Atle Nielsen HELLO! The Big Phone Book

In Hello! you’ll read about anxiety over telephone charges, queues for telephone boxes, long-distance phone calls, receiving-party-pays systems, prank callers and nuisance calls. The telephone has left its mark on film and literature, music and theatre. Some telephone calls have changed the world, others have altered the direction of people’s lives. This book is full of fantastic facts and photographs spanning a period of 160 years.

A highly informative and entertaining book about how one invention changed the world, becoming humanity’s most cherished possession and most important tool.

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.

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Veronica Danielsen

AURORA BOREALIS

The Northern Lights and the People Below It

The Northern Lights have fascinated humans throughout times. When the colours dance across the sky, it almost seems like magic. In more recent times the interest in the Northern Lights is increasing with the introductions of technology that can forecast the lights and analyse the magnetism of the atmosphere. And all signs point to us being able to see a lot of Northern Lights in the years to come. The sun is entering an active phase and makes the night sky light up in green, turquoise, purple and red. With a little help from this book, it’ll be easier to find the lights on your own. You’ll also learn what the Northern Lights can tell us about the world around us.

Most people cannot see neither atoms nor galaxy clusters in their daily lives, but everyone can see the Northern Lights. And both the colours and the shape of the lights tell a story about what’s happening above our heads. After reading this book, you’ll be able to gaze up at the sky and know how the Northern Lights are put together that night. In addition to this, the book addresses incredible myths, how animals experience the lights, how the lights affect us and our technology – and even Northern Lights on other planets!

Aurora Borealis: Nordlyset og menneskene under det 151 x 226 mm

Veronica Danielsen is a physicist, science communicator and a real aurora geek. She loves learning new things and sharing what she has learned with others, including through science shows and in her work as an encyclopedia author.

Audun Myskja

NATURALLY PAIN-FREE A Practical Guide to Treating Your Pain

Do you have a headache, back pain or aching in your legs? In Naturally Painfree doctor and holistic therapist Audun Myskja shows how you can treat your pain yourself.

We may be in pain because of an acute injury, chronic inflammation, wear and tear, feelings that have been suppressed in the body, or traumas and shocks that have not been addressed. The brain may forget, but the body keeps score. In this book you’ll receive guidance to understand what pain actually is and what actually happens on the inside –anything from pain signals to the brain and tense breathing, to tight muscles and blockages in the body’s flow system.

For more than four decades Audun Myskja has developed and tested different methods of self-treatment of pain through simple and natural means. He’s given many patients their lives back through methods of pain treatment which is based on one’s own resources. In this book he shares his best relief and healing techniques, such as strength and stretching exercises, breathing techniques, pressure points, visualization, and sound. The book also contains unique stories about people who are now living new and pain-free lives, or whose pain is no longer controlling their day-to-day – including the author’s own experience of managing pain.

Pain can come with huge costs, mostly for the individual, but also for the society. Insight and effective tools help us understand and manage the pain – and can in many instances lead to a pain-free life.

Dr Audun Myskja (b. 1953) is a specialist in general medicine, an author and a researcher. He has a doctorate based on his use of music therapy as an aid in care of the elderly. Myskja has been the leader of several projects aimed at improving the treatment of dementia in which the emphasis was on the patient's individual worth and resources.

Ishita Barua

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAVES LIVES

AI is the Doctor's New Superpower

Artificial intelligence both shapes and changes our society. It affects all parts of our lives, from social media to the industries and not least the health services. Artificial intelligence may seem difficult to understand for most people, but in order to shape our own future with the technology, and ensure that it’s used in a smart manner, it’s important that we try to understand and manage it.

In this book the author show how artificial intelligence can be used within healthcare, where it helps doctors to solve their tasks in a better way. Artificial intelligence can offer the doctors superpowers, give patients better access to good healthcare, and even save lives. In this book, real stories are shared as well as experiences from Norway and the rest of the world, amongst other things from the author’s own research within medicine and technology.

The book also offers an introduction to what artificial intelligence really is, how it works and how it can improve our lives, as well as which challenges it brings along with it, such as several ethical dilemmas.

Kunstig Intelligens Redder Liv 151 x 226 mm / 280 pages

Ishita Barua (b. 1988) is a medical doctor with a PhD in artificial intelligence in medicine. She’s been named one of the foremost women in tech in Norway and has done research at Oslo Universitetssykehus and Harvard Medical School.

Siri Dalsmo Berge INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR COUPLES

The road to a healthier relationship

Did you know that a good relationship can strengthen your immune system, lower your blood pressure, and make wounds heal faster? On the other hand, relationship troubles can triple the risk of heart attacks, increase the risk of infection and can cause more buildup of plaque in the arteries.

In this fascinating and entertaining book GP and researcher Siri Dalsmo Berge shows how your relationships and health are connected. Through stories from both her life as a doctor and her personal life, she offers specific and researchbased tools for better relationships and increased quality of life.

Instruction Manual for Couples – The road to a healthier relationship highlights the benefits for your health related to relationship issues in a whole new way. It’s all put together with warmth, a bit of cheek and a large dose of hope – which offers you belief that improving your lives together is possible.

ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE

Siri Dalsmo Berge is a mother of four, specialist in general medicine and has a couples therapist degree. Outside her job as a general practitioner, she researches how doctors approach their patients’ relationship issues in their consultations, as well as lecturing about relationships and health.

Sold to: Hungary (Mind Kiado)

Bruksanvisning for parforholdet 151 x 226 mm / 168 pages

Siri Dalsmo Berge

INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR EVERYDAY SEX

The road to a closer relationship

Sex is an important part of a relationship. Some believe it is the very glue in the relationship, but do you know what the key to good everyday sex over time is? It is neither technical skills nor synchronized orgasms that are most important. Couples who have good sex over many years primarily have a solid friendship at the bottom. A friendship characterized by mutual trust and admiration. And then they prioritize sex. Even though they are busy and have a thousand irons in the fire, they choose to spend time being intimate with each other. They make room for it, because they have experienced that everyday sex strengthens their closeness and sense of belonging.

In Instruction Manual for Everyday Sex, GP and couples therapist Siri Dalsmo Berge guides you through common sexual concerns and problems as she does in consultations with patients. She combines medical knowledge and up-to-date research on sexuality and health with good, well-documented advice on how you can increase your sexual well-being and intimacy with your partner in everyday life.

The quality of your close relationships is the most important factor that affects how long you live. Physical intimacy and sex are an important part of this, and a good sex life contributes to better health, while problems with sex or difficult sexual experiences create ill health. In other words, good everyday sex is good for you!

Erik Hexeberg and Sofie Hexeberg OUT OF THE BRAIN FOG

Take back your energy, concentration, memory and good mood

Do you find it difficult to maintain your concentration? Do you feel like your head is stuffed with cotton? Do you dread the next day at work, an exam or a social gathering because you are tired and feel like your memory is failing? In Out of the brain fog you get knowledge and advice on how you can get back to being yourself again!

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148 x 210 mm / 144 pages

More and more people seem to be affected by brain fog. It is not a medical diagnosis, but a phenomenon that can occur in a number of different conditions, for example food protein intolerance, high sugar intake and insulin resistance, and as a side effect of various diseases. Brain fog can feel like having cotton, wool or fog in your head. It makes you less attentive than normal, may cause problems maintaining concentration, remembering when things have happened and struggling to get work tasks done effectively. Fortunately, there is advice to be had!

Sofie and Erik Hexeberg are doctors and dietary specialists with extensive experience in using food as medicine. Many of their patients regain their energy, memory and concentration by avoiding foods they don’t tolerate. In the book, you gain knowledge about what brain fog is, and effective tools to get rid of it. The authors offer a range of practical advice, instructive patient stories and easy-to-use recipes. You can also follow your own recovery from week to week by filling in simple forms.

If you feel foggy, don’t despair: With this order of good, tested and proved tools you will get much better or recover completely!

Sofie and Erik Hexeberg are doctors, dietary experts and authors. They run Dr. Hexeberg's Clinic in Tønsberg and Bærum and are particularly concerned with how patients can improve their health through dietary changes.

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Marco Elsafadi PARENTING POWER

The Method That Strengthens Your Relationship with your Child

As a parent you can help your child develop a strong and positive mindset. You can offer help to handle difficult emotions. You can parttake the good times and support the child’s curiosity as it explores the world. But how do you lay the groundwork for this good communication, and how can you strengthen it? In Parenting Power, youth worker Marco Elsafadi offers you the tools you need to get closer to your child. He shares his very best techniques on how to meet and understand your child in the best possible way – as well as how you can recognize the pitfalls when they first appear.

It really all comes down to investing the time and effort – what you put into your relationship with your child while they are still living at home. Which questions should you ask, and which conversations should you have? The fights between parent and child can seem unnecessarily large if you don’t understand each other when situations arise. When you take their feelings seriously, your child will learn that they can come to you and share news, get support and comfort. Their safe haven. If the child feels loved, prioritized, and acknowledged, the desire to explore will come naturally and the chances that they will become a confident and independent young adult is high – which again will create strong and healthy relationships with other children and adults.

Foreldrekraft 148 x 210 mm / 256 pages

Marco Elsafadis’ reflective, whimsical, and warm style of narration will both engage and touch anyone who reads this book. His goal is to help you become a calmer, more confident and harmonic parent, whose appropriate and constructive reactions become a natural part of your reflexes. By following his methods, you will be able to better connect with your child – right now, but also later in life.

Marco Elsafadi (born 1976) is a Palestinian refugee who arrived in Norway with his family in 1987. He was a professional-level basketball player and represented the Norwegian national team for 12 years. In 1993 Marco began his involvement with children and young adults, and in 2002 he established the organization New Page, which up until 2011 worked with youths in difficult situations: drug problems, skipping school, leisure problems and violence. Today he's the leader of UNIFY, a foundation which works preventatively and is forward-looking by offering to follow up youth groups through weekly activities and environmental therapeutic meetings.

Gry Hammer HAPPY TUMMY, HAPPY YOU

The Gut at its Best with Stomach-Friendly Food

Do you have a troubled and sensitive stomach? Do you want powerful experience and research-based advice about how to handle this, as well as recipes for stomach-friendly food? Then Happy Tummy, Happy You is the ideal book.

Gry Hammer has throughout several years shared dietary knowledge through courses and bestselling books. In Happy Tummy, Happy You she guides you through our digestive system and teaches you how you can get a calmer tummy by improving the intestinal flora. The author shares a load of concrete advice, practical exercises and lovely recipes for food which will strengthen your digestion and make your gut happier. Try oven-baked cod with pesto, keto pad thai or sourdough bread baked in a cast iron pot. Or how about yogurt pudding with strawberries, liquorice balls or apple pie with a fermented nutty topping?

You will also get recipes for drinks which nourish the good bacteria in the stomach, enzyme snacks to prevent digestive problems and many potent and delicious shots, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts. When you know what your body can handle, you can eat so many delicious things, and Gry will guide you along the way. Don’t let an unstable tummy take control over your life – start your lifestyle change today!

Gry Hammer is enthusiastic about food. She is a blogger, a writer and a guru on fermented food. She lectures and runs courses on fermentation and traditional food culture.

Gladere mage, gladere deg 170 x 240 mm / 208 pages

Hege Hasler Barhaughøgda and Gunn-Karin Sakariassen

THE GREEN DIABETES BOOK

Stable Blood Sugar on a Plant-based Diet

Learn how to put together delicious, green meals with maximum nutrition and blood sugar friendly ingredients!

In The Green Diabetes Book you get healthy and tasty plant-based meals which both prevent and improve your health and Type 2 Diabetes. The book is also useful also for those with the Type 1 of the disease. The authors, who have many years of experience with cooking food for good blood sugar balance, address all types of plant-based diets, so that you can choose the food you prefer. In addition to all the knowledge you’ll need to be able to eat full-fledged and nutritious meals without fish and meat, you also get 80 recipes for delicious breakfasts and lunches, gorgeous dinners and snacks, and sweet bakes for those times you want a special treat. The book offers several base recipes and a range of tips on how to vary the dishes. All the recipes include nutritional information.

Hege Hasler Barhaughøgda (b. 1970) is a nurse and has worked with diabetes for many years, the last eight at Dr Fedon Lindberg's Clinic in Oslo. Nutritional advice is the most important aspect of the treatment she provides there.

Gunn-Karin Sakariassen (b. 1954) is a nutritional therapist, who studied at the Norwegian Academy for Natural Medicine and gained further experience at the clinic of Dr Fedon Lindberg. She works every day at the Heggeli clinic for holistic medicine.

Den grønne diabetesboka 170 x 240 mm / 176 pages

Lise Finckenhagen QUITE SIMPLE

Why do we salt the water before we cook the vegetables in it – and how long should they cook for? How can we get an extra crispy crust on our toast bread? And what is required to fry the perfect steak? In Quite Simple chef Lise Finckenhagen wants to teach all home cooks how to feel confident in the kitchen. The book offers 60 recipes full of taste – suitable for anyone, even beginners, to cook.

Toast in different variations with lots of melted cheese, gorgeous egg dishes you can eat for dinner as well as breakfast, pasta dishes that will impress on date night, and simply all the recipes you need whether you’re broke, are having friends over for dinner, are short on time, have a craving for a takeaway or if you’re just missing your mum. In this book you get the recipe for the world’s best Bolognese sauce, juicy burgers, sushi pizza, some irresistible desserts and a long list of dishes that will pique your appetite. You’ll also get a quick introduction to sauces, dressings, and side dishes that everyone should know about.

In between the recipes are smart tips to help elevate the flavours, to get to know the ingredients better as well as techniques so that step by step – almost without any effort at all – you can become a better cook.

Lise Finckenhagen is one of Norway's best-known chefs. She was awarded the Chef of the Year-prize in 2009. She has worked in several reputable restaurants in France and Spain and was the first Norwegian chef to have worked at El Bulli.

Lise – Helt Enkelt 195 x 250 mm / 208 pages

Martine M. Sletmoen SKILLEBEKK SOURDOUGH

Skillebekk Sourdough is a delightful and inspiring book about how to successfully make the most delicious sourdough baked goods in a simpler way. It contains recipes for traditional bread, bread for special occasions, rolls, no-knead bread, pizza, cakes and snacks – all made from sourdough.The book demonstrates simple sourdough techniques, offering a wide variety in what you can bake.

In addition the book offers you ideas about how to make individual and personalised bread with unique decorations. Step-by-step instructions show you how to make the most fantastic patterns on your baked goods.

Why not take along a loaf instead of flowers or wine next time you’re invited to dinner by friends?

Martine Sletmoen (31) lives in Skillebekk in Oslo, where she shares sourdough baking tips and tricks through her Instagram account @skillebekksurdeig. Through social media, she has garnered massive interest from followers nationwide in Norway and receives daily messages from people who have tried to get started with sourdough but never had any success until they followed her simple guidance. Martine also has her own series on the Food Channel, Surdeigskolen (Sourdough School), whose first episode racked up 125,000 unique viewers in the first week alone.

Skillebekk Surdeig 195 x 250 mm / 248 pages

Martine

M. Sletmoen

HOOKED ON SOURDOUGH From Salt to Sweet

Hooked on Sourdough is an inspiring and gorgeous book showing the extent of everything you can bake with sourdough. Not only are the baked goods fluffier, juicier, more flavourful and with a crunchier crust – sourdough is also gentle and good for the tummy.

In Hooked on Sourdough you get delicious and well-tested recipes for everything from the most gorgeous breads and bread rolls to cakes, sweet bakes and tasty pizzas. You’ll get the best tips and tricks to succeed with your sourdough baking, as well as inspiration for expanding your sourdough repertoire with new favourites. If you thought baking with sourdough is just for the especially dedicated or interested, think again! Sourdough is easy and lots of fun – and it is very easy to become hooked!

Hekta på surdeig 195 x 250 mm / 224 pages

Varme Vinterdrikker

151 x 226 mm / 152 pages

Arnt

Steffensen

WARMING WINTER DRINKS

With and Without Alcohol

Warming Winter Drinks is the book that will make those cold seasons a little cozier and a lot warmer! The recipes are a mix of well-known classics, forgotten classics, and exciting innovations. The most gorgeous hot chocolates both children and adults will love. The best recipe for gløgg. Hot toddies which will cure your winter cold. Warm punches to make even the coldest January nights nice and soft. And a long list of other exciting warm drinks you may have never heard of before, but which you’ll definitely be tempted to try out. How about an Aperol punch, the recipe for King Olav’s hot chocolate or a Harry Potter-inspired Butterbeer? Or could we maybe tempt you with a Mexican Atole with peanut butter?

Something warm and tasty will help you through the dark winter times. Whether it’s a delicious drink around the campfire with good friends, in front of the fireplace on a groggy and dark winter’s night, or on a sunny ski trip with your whole family. As well as recipes, you’ll also learn about the history behind several of the warm drinks: how did Bosse Bergstrøm make Hot Shot a Swedish hit? Does a 300-year-old drink recipe still hit the spot? What is a bouillon pair? And which warm drink put Gwyneth Paltrow on everyone’s lips in 2015?

Arnt Steffansen (b. 1968) is a chef and President of the Norwegian Diet and Nutrition Association in Delta, a trade union for chefs and kitchen staff working in the public sector. He is a former canteen manager and Norwegian master of the institutional culinary arts. Knowledge of drinks, wines and spirits is an important part of a chef’s training, and Steffansen has written several books about spirits and food culture.

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Trine Sandberg THE SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS FOOD BIBLE

In The ScandinavianChristmas Food Bible you get everything you need to succeed at creating a cozy Christmas and tasty Christmas food! Do you want to bake perfect saffron rolls, make candied almonds, Mozart balls, cinnamon stars, coconut macaroons and a delicious ice cream cake with meringue? Do you want to try your hand at making traditional Christmas meals for the first time? Trine walks you through any possible pitfalls and gives you indispensable advice.

Trine Sandberg, owner of the largest food blog in Norway and a popular cookery writer, has collected her 145 most important Christmas recipes, split into the following chapters: advent, Christmas confectionery, Christmas bakes, Christmas dinners, cake tables, Christmas desserts and Christmas breakfast. Trine also shares ideas and tips for activities during advent, such as preparing confectionaries and cakes, edible gifts, how to arrange a Christmas tree party, suggestions for menus for the New Year’s Eve party, and what to do if you have leftovers.

Trines jul 210 x 250 mm / 432 pages

In this book Trine Sandberg delivers the recipe for a warm, cozy Norwegian Christmas celebration.

30.000 COPIES IN PRINT

Trine Sandberg wanted to pass on the family recipes to her daughters when they moved away from home. That was the start of her food blog Trinesmatblogg.no. She is Norway's bestselling writer of cookery books.

Julie Embrå and Anne-Grethe Embrå POP COLOUR KNITTING

Pop Colour Knitting is a collection of delightful pattern compositions and delicious color combinations that take you straight back to the fashion of the 80s.

Are you tired of the same old color palette, and difficult recipes with no room for error? Do you want to knit funky and colorful garments that the whole family will love? Pop Colour Knitting gives you fun patterned knitwear for both young and old. The garments are wide, short, narrow and long, in everything from fluffy mohair to merino wool and hand-dyed yarn. The authors particularly want to inspire you to use leftover yarn from other knitting projects, and give you several tips on what to do with it.

The book also realizes the authors' big knitting dream, namely patterns and designs for men, and you get completely new recipes for adults and children that have never been published before. The degree of difficulty varies, and the book is therefore perfectly suited to both beginners and more experienced knitters.

Behind the wonderful garments of Embraknit are two creative and colorful creatures, Anne-Grethe and Julie, and together they create a knitting universe that differs from most others. Embraknit (@embrajulie, 112,000 followers on Instagram) rarely has a strict plan for her knitting projects, here the garments and patterns are created along the way, and gut feeling is the compass.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Lindhardt og Ringhof), Germany (GeraNova Bruckmann)

Farger & fluff 195 x 250 mm / 200 pages

Hvem er Embraknit?

Embraknit består av mammaen min, Anne-Grethe, og meg, som heter Julie. I denne boken er det jeg (altså Julie) som fører pennen, men det betyr ikke at mamma ikke er med. Hun har et ord med i alle prosesser og beslutninger som tas, men liker seg best i kulissene. Sånn sett har vi en fin og avklart arbeidsfordeling. «Vi»-et i boken er altså mamma og jeg.

Vi er begge fargerike, kreative sjeler. Mamma har strikket i hele sitt liv, mens jeg begynte først etter lang tids press fra henne. Det er vi glade for i dag!

Gradvis begynte jeg å dele strikkeprosjektene på Instagram-kontoen @embrajulie. Folk likte tydeligvis det jeg delte, for stadig flere uttrykte begeistring og ønsket oppskrifter på plaggene. Og slik startet Embraknit.

Fizzy Pop

Fizzy pop er en gøyal genser å strikke. Både fargene og mønsteret oser av 80-tallet, og hos noen vekker den kanskje minner fra barndommen? Navnet kommer fra de sure turkise og rosa godteriflaskene med tyggegummismak – men det er lite som minner om surt

når de er ferdig strikket slik at maskebildet skal bli jevnere.

ORD OG UTTRYKK Pinne brukes (i tillegg til om strikkepinner) om én maskerad når du strikker frem og tilbake.

Omgang brukes om én maskerad når du strikker rundt. Rapport brukes om flere omganger/pinner eller masker som skal gjentas.

Baksiden av arbeidet er vanligvis den siden av arbeidet som vender bort fra deg på ethvert tidspunkt mens du strikker.

Mønster brukes om de forskjellige fargemønstrene som er strikket på plagget.

Glattstrikk betyr at rettsiden av plagget bare består av rette masker.

Rillestrikk betyr at du strikker frem og tilbake, og strikker rett begge veier.

Retten er den siden som vender ut.

Vrangen er den siden som vender inn.

Den gule versjonen er blant annet strikket med restegarn fra andre prosjekter i boken. Her kan du erstatte den mørkerosa bunnfargen med gul, og de andre fargene i mønsteret etter eget ønske.

Garnfargene er kun forslag, bruk gjerne de fargekombinasjonene som passer deg best. Andre garntyper med samme

Hele arbeidet strikkes i glattstrikk foruten vrangbordene.

EMBROIDERED KNITS

Create amazing knitted garments and accessories by adding embroidered motifs!

In Embroidered Knits, Diana Loug (@gollestrikk on Instagram) shares exciting embroidery motifs and knitting patterns for adults, as well as her best tips for succeeding with embroidery on knitting garments and accessories.

In Embroidered Knits you’ll learn how to embroider large and small floral motifs, berries and hearts, Nordic and clean motifs – and other distinctive details. Some are colourful, other garments and motifs have more of a muted expression. There is something for everyone in this book, regardless of age. You’ll learn simple techniques mixed with patterns for knitting sweaters, jackets, vests, headbands and hats. You’ll also get tips on which types of yarn are most suitable for the garment you’d like to embroider.

By embroidering knitted garments and accessories you no longer wear, or that perhaps are stained or in need of some patching up, you can extend the lifecycle of your clothes. You’ll also get a completely unique piece of clothing. So get comfortable, have fun and create simple embroidery art! Maybe you’re already a knitting addict? With this book you’ll run the risk of becoming infected by the embroidery virus too!

Diana Loug is known as @gollestrikk on Instagram, where she impresses and inspired with her beautiful knits and accesories with embroideries. Embroidered Knits is her first book, and easy step-by-step guide to decorating your own knitwear with emborideries.

Diana Loung

Broderi på strikk 195 x 250 mm / 200 pages

Ane-Karine Øvrum KNITS FOR CUTIES

Gorgeous children's clothing with structure and unique details

Knits for Cuties delivers 35 beautiful and timeless knitting patterns with classic, Nordic style and design. The garments are perfect for girls and boys between the ages of 0 and 12 years and can be worn both day-to-day and for dressier occasions. The yarn recommended in the patterns are in soft, classic colours, either in soft wool or a lighter linen and cotton fabric. With each pattern there’s also suggestions of yarns to use in different qualities and price levels, to offer flexibility to your preference, season, and finances. The difficulty level varies from easy to slightly more challenging, and in the book there are many fun projects aimed at those who find structural knitting particularly fun. There are also smart QR-codes in the book that link to instructional videos, to help you along the way.

Knits for Cuties is the book for those interested in knitting garments with good designs, as well as knitting soft, beautiful and classic garments that will be worn time and time again – before they’re passed on to the next child or the next generation.

Ane-Karine Øvrum (34) is a midwife and designer of children's clothing. She is known on Instagram as @littleandloop.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine)

Strikk til søtnoser 195 x 250 mm / 248 pages

Skappelglede 195 x 250 mm / 256 pages

Dorthe Skappel JOY WITH SKAPPEL

Crazy knits in soft Norwegian wool

Norway’s knitting queen Dorthe Skappel is finally back with a new and irresistible knitting book! In Joy with Skappel you’ll get large doses of inspiration and new favourite patterns galore. The garments are knitted in lovely colours and in sustainable, soft wool. Several patterns have the small, well-known “Skappel-twist” which has made Dorthe’s knitting patterns muchloved by knitters of all ages.

The patterns in Joy with Skappel have easy and clear instructions and are suitable for both beginners and intermediate knitters. You’ll get both easy knits and more challenging designs – it all depends which project you want to get working on.

Come on in to the beautiful, playful world of Skappel and be inspired by this autumn’s loveliest knitting book. We promise you hours of knitting joy.

Dorthe Skappel is a popular TV presenter and known for her many years leading the entertainment show Good evening Norway and the TV awards ceremony Gullruten. She is passionate about knitting and knitting design and has great success with her own patterns. She wants to convey that it is not difficult to knit and that everyone can feel the joy of having a self-knit sweater.

Camilla Dingsøyr KNIT YOUR OWN WARDROBE ESSENTIALS

Knit Your Own Wardrobe Essentials teaches you to knit the garments you never tire of. Here you will find patterns for beloved essentials, wonderful knits from innermost to outermost layer, timeless classics and chic fashion knits. In other words, everything you need to make wardrobe essentials—all year round!

Author Camilla Dingsøyr designs simple, delicate and classic garments, often with a twist—on several occasions creating new trend garments in the Norwegian knitwear landscape.

The book is jam-packed with both new and classic knits that you can make for years to come—and perhaps pass on to the next generation.

Camilla Dingsøyr (b. 1975) is an art director and graphic designer trained at Westerdals School of Communication and the Norwegian School of Creative Studies. In the last 14 years, she has worked as a freelance designer, with assignments in the culture sector.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine)

Strikk din egen basisgarderobe 210 x 277 mm / 176 pages

Ida Wirak Trettevik

A KNITTER’S YEAR

Ida Wirak Trettevik has been designing knitting patterns under the name of Witre Design since 2018. Her patterns are primarily for women, with some items for children and men. A Knitter’s Year contains a total of 30 patterns, many of them new and exclusively designed for this book.

Knitted clothing has become important for many people in a time of increasing focus on slow fashion and sustainability. Because we take extra good care of clothes we make for ourselves, choosing materials and colours we are fond of and will want to wear for a long time. And because a person who knits knows how much work goes into every single piece of clothing. A Knitter’s Year is a result of this: the desire to knit your own wardrobe, with clothing for every season.

The book covers a whole year, and the photos show Ida and her family in wellknown locations in Oslo and eventually at their new home on the island of Engeløya in Nordland, Northern Norway.

BESTSELLER!

Ida Wirak Trettevik (b. 1989) is the woman behind Witre design, a website of knitted clothes and patterns. She is followed by more than 30,000 Instagram users. The first patterns launched in 2018, and from the start, Witre design has been about finding a modern expression for knitted garnments and designs, creating patterns that will inspire to knit one's own wardrobe – piece by piece. A strong motivation behind the concept is also to help knitters create pieces of good quality and longevity, adjusted to the individual knitter's own preferences.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Finland (Tammi), Germany (Frech Verlag), UK (Search Press – World English))

Witre design 210 x 297 mm / 208 pages

Hawre Gyth DELICATE KNITS FOR CHILDREN, AND A FEW FOR THE ADULTS

Delicate Knits for Children, and a Few for the Adults is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind knitting book.

In this book, you’ll find instructions on how to make a vast array of different garments, mostly for the little ones, but you’ll also be able to make a number of lovely, fluffy patterns for the adults in your life too.

Hawre Gyth is passionate about making sure her garments are both durable and timeless, while keeping them fashionable – so they can be worn time and time again. As you’re introduced to her world of knitting, you’ll be shown how to make comfy tights and the most beautiful jumpers and dresses. With the patterns in this book, you can also look forward to knitting jackets, matching tops and trouser sets, bodysuits, kneesocks, scrunchies, bonnets and various other small bits and pieces. And as a bonus, a lot of the patterns are ideal for using up your leftover yarn!

Norwegian-Kurdish Hawre Gyth has been knitting and dabbling in handicrafts ever since she was 4 years old. She designs irresistible knitted garments with the cutest details in soft, subtle colours.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Bogoo Publishing)

Delikat strikk til barn og litt til voksne 210 x 277mm / 176 pages

Victoria Dam SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS

Advent Comforts and Christmas Spirit

Indoors and Outdoors

Dark green wreaths and Christmas red fruits. Green pizza on the barbecue and orange garlands in the window. Angels made of icing on the tree and breaded Christmas ham on the table. And of course, a gingerbread house in the windowsill.

Garden designer and interior design enthusiast Victoria Dam is full of creativity when Christmas is near. It begins with homemade advent décor, flower decorations and ornate candles. It continues with edible Christmas ornaments and presents, hot drinks and spiced Christmas bakes. Before it all ends with an abounding table of Christmas goods and, a little later, a tempting table for New Year’s. Just like the pictures in the book will show you, Victoria does a lot of these activities with her twin daughters.

In this extensive, picture-rich inspirational book Victoria Dam shares recipes for food, Christmas snacks, Christmas ornaments, flower decorations, wrapping paper and much more – everything that makes Christmas a cozy and evocative time for the whole family.

Swedish-born Victoria Dam is Head of Marketing for a media company, and in her spare time a garden and interior design enthusiast who assists with anything from idea sketches to complete garden designs. She frequently shares pictures of gardens, interiors and cooking on @hagebyen with her 48,000 followers.

Jul i hagebyen 210 x 277 mm / 240 pages

198 x 272 mm / 160 pages

Hege Barnholt

NATURAL CHRISTMAS 100 Creative Ideas

Natural Christmas is the ultimate DIY Christmas book, and brims over with creative ideas for everything from wintery wreaths and beautiful Christmas decor to personal gifts and gorgeous wrapping ideas. Also included are decked tables to reflect the Christmas spirit and spiced baked good, as well as outdoor winter magic with ice lanterns and home made bird feeding stations.

Hege Barnholt created a wame, cozy Christmas atmosphere when she gives old Christmas traditions a personal touch. She shows consideration for nature and the environment by making lights from beeswax and coffee filtres in linnen, upcycling fabric scraps in Christmas bulbs and girlanders, and by picking fallen twigs, pine cones and greenery from her local green areas to create winter bouquets and decorations.

The book inspires to many atmospheric moments with friends and family throughout advent, and the book will become an integral part of your pre-holiday traditions each and every year.

Hege Barnholt is the author of several books and is also consulted as a stylist. Hege has a precise sense of colour which is expressed in her styles and images.

Rights sold to: France (Saxe)

Naturnær jul

Eviggrønne adventslys

Adventslys i lune grønne toner skaper en harmonisk stemning.

DU TRENGER: 4 grønne håndlagde kubbelys 4 keramikkskåler i jordnære fargetoner eviggrønne kvister som kristtorn, sypress, rosmarin og sølvgran

vokset tråd 4 tørkede appelsinskiver, se side 71 4 kanelstenger grønn ulltråd

SLIK GJØR DU: • Lag små kranser til hvert lys bestående av kvister fra kristtorn, sypress, rosmarin og sølvgran. • Legg kvistene med over- lapp til små buketter og bind sammen med vokset tråd.

• Deretter binder du sammen bukettene til en girlander og former dem til en krans.

• Sett lysene oppi kransen – og deretter ned i keramikkskålene slik at de står stødig.

• For å øke duften av jul festet jeg en tørket appel- sinskive og en kanelstang med ulltråd til kransen.

Gå aldri fra levende lys.