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«The text takes hold from the first page, and effortlessly holds the reader's interest through three quite different parts. [...] I'm already looking forward to the next book from this author.»

ADRESSEAVISEN ✩

«In Howling with Wolves, Ida Gilberts delightful debut novel, these opposites [the city v. the country village, the elite v. normal people] are dressed in particularly caricatured clothes [...] it is very witty [...] Gilbert writes with humor and a talent for cricature.»

KLASSEKAMPEN

Morten Langeland NAILS IN MOURNING

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.

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.

Sørgerender 130 x 205 mm / 120 pages

'To belong or to fall behind, to live or to exist, to be included or to be in a 'condition of secrecy'– thats's what this weird, demanding and yet deeply captivating novel is about.'

FÆDELANDSVENNEN 

A Literary Feast

'The wordstream Nails in mourning is rich and satisfying. I reccomend grabbing a slice.'

VÅRT LAND

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 museum.

The novel is about 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.'

MORGENBLADET

'... 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.'

FÆDELANDSVENNEN

Morten Langeland (b. 1986) had his debut in 2012. In 2016 he was awarded the Stig Sæterbakken Memorial Award for promising young writers.

Makta 130 x 205 mm / 144 pages

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.

‘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.’

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.’

NRK

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.

I Refuse to Think is a dark, feministic contemporary comedy about politics, love – and an abyss that is getting dangerously closer.

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‘A feminist direct 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.’

FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

‘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.’

DAGSAVISEN

‘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.’

MORGENBLADET

Lotta 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.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Hoff & Poulsen), France (Marabout), Germany (Kiepenheuer & Witsch), Netherlands (Uitgeverij Prometheus), Romania (Casa Cartii), Poland (Wydawnictwo Pauza), Polen (Pauza)

Fiske

THE SEA, I ALWAYS COME BACK TO YOU

The sea, I always come back to you is a book about a place where one can feel at home, feel oneself, a place to daydream to when the world is knocking on the door or thoughts become too large. A place in which to be filled with joy and happiness, and just be. It is also the story of a mother-daughter relationship, from childhood to adulthood.

Anna Fiske (b. 1964) is an author, illustrator, and cartoonist. Fiske’s playful and distinctive style, both literary and pictorial, has earned her numerous awards and honours for her works. Several of her books have been published with great success in many countries.

Anna Fiske TREES I HAVE KNOWN

The chestnut tree in the courtyard: tall, hard, proud; the birch tree with long swinging arms, the weeping willow, and the tree with a trunk black as coal – these are some of the trees in Anna Fiske's life. And then there are all the pine trees: in the childhood garden, by the sea where they are shaped by salty breeze, in the mountains, in the garden in the new country – it’s important to always have a pine tree in one’s life.

In this picture book for adult readers' enchanting interaction between memories in drawings and in poetical texts, Anna Fiske has created her own genre.

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.

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.

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.

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.