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Anna 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.

ENGLISH SAMPLE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE

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.

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.

Dag O. Hessen WOLVERINE TRACKS

One day in February 1972 Dag O. Hessen is on a ski trip with his father in the mountains when they come across wolverine tracks 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.

Wolverine Tracks is Hessen’s most personal book so far. It's a portrait of one of nature´s most fascinating and shy animals, so compact in its wildness and power that there is hardly anything like it. An animal with a jaw strong enough to bite through even the thickest thigh bones and enough power to take down an animal many times its own weight, bite its head off and then drag its body up a tree. Seeing the animal in its natural habitat is a rarity only very few people get to experience.

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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.

Dag O. Hessen (b. 1956) is a Professor of Biology at the University of Oslo. He is a distinct voice in the debate on topics like evolution, climate, ecology and biology as a way of understanding humanity. He has written many scientific works on themes like ecology and evolution, and has also published a number of popular science books about evolution, biology and the environment. He has received several awards for his promotion of popular science.

Excerpt from Wolverine Tracks:

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.

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

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

DAGBLADET 

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

VÅRT LAND

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.

Rights sold to: Finland (Gummerus), The US (Patagonia Books – North American Rights), China (China Worker)

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?

205 mm / 320 pages

Torolf E. Kroglund THE HISTORY OF THE BOAT

From forest to ocean with the vessel that changed the world

While the Covid-19 pandemic led to closed borders and a break lasting well over two years, Torolf E. Kroglund built his own pram – without any experience. It was going to be a rowing boat – a pram. It gets built following a traditional clinkbuild method, just like the Vikings did and which is now declared a world heritage by UNESCO. At the same time both the author’s and the planet’s health worsens dramatically. Building a boat becomes a way to build a way out.

This book looks at the history of the boat, from African migrants who at the dawn of time left the continent by boat, to the present boat migrants, and the complicated culture of the coast. With a personal approach the book digs into the core of what the boat has

meant, both internationally and for Norway as a nation. The boat as a specific vessel between land and continent, moving towards freedom and free time – but also in the less literal meaning; the method of communication which carries humanhood. We’re all in the same boat.

'Contagious storytelling from someone who isn't born with skis on his feet, but oars in his hands.'

ADRESSEAVISEN 

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Torolf E. Kroglund (b. 1974) is an author, journalist, festival manager and literary critic. He has spent the last five years helping his son Edgar to develop his skateboarding skills. The result is the documentary book Tenk brett – Skateboarding i Norge.

Historien om båten: Fra skog til hav med farkosten som endret verden 130 x

Jon Kyllingstad RACE

A History of Science

For more than ten years historian Jon Røyne Kyllingstad has studied how the concept of race has been used in the history of science, from the 1600s until today. The idea that some races have been elevated above others has been rooted in all parts of academia, and affected research within anthropology, history, and medicine.

Some of our foremost researchers have allowed themselves to use a scientific “reasoning” for systematic discrimination, and in this interesting as well as frightening work parts of our academic history which so far has been forgotten or ignored is put to the light in a systemic manner.

Rase

151 x 226 mm / 416 pages

Jon Røyne Kyllingstad is a historian, and has worked with the history of science and the history of academic institutions in the period between approx. 1870 – 2000.

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.

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)

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

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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)

Synne Sun Løes NO ONE CAN SPIT AT A SMILING FACE

As long as difference exists, it will always speak with a contradictory tone. Speak over itself. Interrupt, protest and bang its fist on the table. Try to convince the world that it deserves to be heard. At the same time it’s also scared to death and trying to hide under that same table. Tries to muzzle itself. All because it’s scared to be exposed.

In these personal and investigative essays Synne Sun Løes writes about adoption and identity. She bases her writing on her own experiences as adopted, as well as non-fiction, academia and the public debates. The themes being illuminated are widely spread, from xenophobia, racisms, being different, “the trend of diversity”, hysteria around infringement and Korean revenge art, to more psychological topics such as transgenerational traumas, psychoanalysis, and connectional damage.

How can one take ownership of one’s own experiences as adopted and as a “different child” without being accused of taking on the role of a victim? How can one adopt one’s own personal identity, as oneself, when one is “different” in present day Norway? How is identity affected by meeting one’s own biological parents? How can one survive in a world which time and time again tries to spit in one’s face?

The author approaches these questions both with wonder, humour and seriousness, and she also casts a critical view at the tendency of society to simplify, edit and polarize the stories from marginalized groups.

Synne Sun Løes (b. 1975) is based in Oslo. She debuted in 1999 with the book Yoko is alone. For her YA-novel, Eating Flowers for Breakfast (2002), she won the prestigious Brage Prize. She has been awarded Riksmålsprisen and been chosen as a White Raven author.

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Hans D. Høeg NO ONE IS INNOCENT: ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE LEFT

My time as Chief of Staff for an American congressman

Does the Norwegian left have a problem with anti-Semitism? Yes, argues Torkel Brekke in this book.

The author shows how parts of the left have cultivated conspiracy theories about Jews and how Soviet Holocaust revisionism was spread in the Norwegian public. He examines how violence against civilian Israelis is justified and how parts of the Norwegian trade union movement and organizational life moved from postwar sympathy for Israel and the Jews to a rhetoric with an anti-Semitic character.

No One Is Innocent takes an uncomfortable but necessary reckoning with a political tradition that has been ignored for far too long.

For the left, it has been easy to stick the Jew-hatred on the others, i.e. Nazis and the far-right.

The left has failed to look in the mirror and ask how they themselves have referred to and treated Jews.

Torkel Brekke (b. 1970) is a professor at OsloMet. He has his doctorate in Oriental studies from the University of Oxford, and works primarily with religion, politics, prejudice and conflict studies. He is associated with the Center for Extremism Research (C-REX) at UiO and the think tank Civita. He has been a visiting professor at several universities outside Norway.

Ingen er uskyldig Antisemittisme på venstresiden 130 x 205 mm / 256 pages

Hans D. Høeg A NORWEGIAN IN THE HOUSE

My time as Chief of Staff for an American congressman

Our Man in Washington is the story of the Norwegian who became Chief of Staff for an American Congressman in 2012 and ended up leading a plot to topple the USA’s third most powerful man.

When Hans Høeg met a hillbilly by the name of Thomas Massie at the prestigious MiT in Cambridge in 1991, he realised it would be the start of a long and rewarding friendship. What’s more, he decided then and there that he would get on board if his energetic, weather-beaten friend ever decided to embark on an exciting project sometime in the future.

But when Thomas’s offer came, more than 20 years later, it was not the entrepreneurial dream Hans had imagined. His outspoken, freedomloving fellow student from Vanceburg, Kentucky, had thrown himself into

politics and had, against all the odds, been elected to represent his district in Congress on behalf of the Republicans. Massie wanted to create one hell of a commotion in Washington and needed a wingman he could count on. His choice fell on a somewhat reluctant Hans from Drammen.

Now Høeg tells the incredible story of his years at the heart of the innermost circles of power in the USA. It’s the tale of two engineer nerds’ efforts to understand the political game, their spectacular attempt to overthrow the Republican speaker, John Boehner, and a rude encounter with a self-sustaining system of corruption and bureaucratic chicanery – an ugly culture that was a logical precursor to the tumult of the 2016 presidential election.

Hans D. Høeg (b. 1971) is a Norwegian entreprenuer and investor living in the US. Between 2012-2017 he worked as the Chief of Staff for republican congressmann Thomas Massie.

Excerpt from A Norwegian in the House

He glanced at me sideways. “Like say if you had a band of rebels, a few defectors who met in secret last night and made pledges … ” My developing political brain was still in its infancy, but it managed to figure out that he was talking about the vote for the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, the person third in line for the presidency, a uniquely powerful position currently occupied by Ohio Republican John Boehner.

Was my friend serious? After he’d been in the House for only a few months, and my first official day as his Chief of Staff, he was part of a rebel alliance with the outrageous idea of overthrowing the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and all the entrenched interests connected to him?

It was January 3, 2013, and the vote for Speaker was only hours away. Other than swearing in new congressmen and women, the vote for speaker is the main order of business on the first day of a new Congressional session. Over the next several shocking years, we were to learn that the speaker has massive powers to control and affect the legislation in Congress, much more than people are aware of. The Speaker is also third in line for the U.S. presidency – if the President and Vice President both are unable to serve, the Speaker becomes the head of state.

But weren’t votes for Speaker predictable, traditional rituals of straight party-line voting? Was my friend saying today somehow was going to be different?

Øyet 130 x 205 mm / 200 pages

Sara Nøland and Borghild Fallberg (ill.) THE EYE

The Body’s Amazing Camera

The eyes are the body’s unique camera, livestreaming every waking hour to the brain. How in the world do these moist organs, decorated with irises of varying colours, manage this incredible task – that is, seeing? Sight is a bit like love: you don’t know you love it until it’s gone. In reading this book, you will come to realise that the function of the eye plays a key role in our lives.

In this book, medical student and researcher Sara T. Nøland describes how vision works in a simple, entertaining and fascinating way, injecting fun facts, the latest and most cutting-edge research, and specific tips and tricks.

Sara T. Nøland (b. 1996) is a medical student at the University of Oslo. She also worked in research for the start of a PhD, during which time she researched dry eyes. Sara has worked as a companion at the Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted’s summer camp for children and young people for several years.

Silje Baarli Salvesen IN TEARS

To move, engage and provoke through crying

Crying is the first thing we do in this world. The crying kickstarts our lungs and our lives outside the uterus. As children we cry a lot, and there is no difference between boys and girls, but somewhere along the road to growing up the crying becomes more feminized and by some made into a problem.

This book considers emotional crying. Emotional crying is unique to humans. The author Baarli Salvesen considers the social, historical, cultural, and psychological aspects of crying. And why do some people cry only once every ten years, while others cry ten times a week?

Silje Baarli Salvesen is a public health nurse with extra education in psychology and psychosocial work with families. She has experience working in hospitals, children’s welfare and schools, and crying is a natural part of her life at work.

Gråt

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Pulskuren 148 x 210 mm / 208 pages

THE PULSE CURE

Balance your stress, sleep better, enjoy life longer

Do you want to know how you can get more willpower, surplus and energy? How much you specifically can manage or need to work out, sleep and read, and how you can prevent serious disease? With The Pulse Cure and a heartrate monitor as a guide you can achieve all of this!

The Pulse Cure is ideal both for those who are a little ill and tired and want their energy back, and for those who feel good but would like some more vitality and to improve their willpower, their endurance and excess energy. You will sleep better, feel more energised and happier and be more present in the now. And you will have a much larger chance to live a healthy and active life when you get older.

In this book the author guides you through a vital journey through your nervous system, where you will be guaranteed to be surprised along the way!

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BESTSELLER

Torkil Færø (b. 1969) is a general medical practitioner, author, photographer, globetrotter and life artist. He has a burning interest in sharing help for self-help purposes and has previously published the book Camera Therapy.

Torkil Færø

Malin Eberhard-Gran og Siri Vangen HOW WE BECOME

The incredible development of babies

– week by week

How Artificial Intelligence Can Save Lives

What was your life like before you were born?

How We Become is a timely, impactful, and accessible answer to the ultimate question: “How did I become me and where do I come from?” Two of Norway’s leading pregnancy and maternity experts take you on the gripping and surprising journey of how we start life. Week by remarkable week.

What does everyday life look like, living in a womb? Can we remember anything from our time there? When do we start to hear sounds? Do we form a relationship to others before we’re born? How do we experience our own birth?

Take a sneak peak into the womb and follow how we develop from one tiny cell into a unique, screaming baby made up of thousands of billions of cells. Lively illustrations and digestible chapters create a delightful pace to this mind-expanding journey. How We Become combines research and illuminating history, with a refreshing voice that captivates you.

'At a time when pregnant women are inundated with information of varying quality, it is invaluable to have this book. Easy to understand and insightful about the most important thing in life - pregnancy.'

KARI LØVENDAHL MOGSTAD. MEDICAL DOCTOR, SPECIALIST IN GENERAL MEDICINE AND AUTHOR.

'As a reader, one is left humbled and in awe of the fine-tuned mechanisms behind the development of each of us.'

GUTTORM HAUGEN. PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF THE FETAL MEDICINE SECTION, OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.

Malin Eberhard-Gran is a professor of clinical medicine and a specialist in community medicine. She has connections to the National Centre for Women’s Health in Oslo. For the last 15 years she has worked with research and been in charge of large surveys and examinations about pregnancy-related health.

Siri Vangen is an obstetrician and professor of clinical medicine, with a specialisation in gynecology and maternity care. She is also the head of National Centre for Women’s Health in Oslo.

Det gror i mor Barnets utrolige utvikling – uke for uke 148 x 210 mm / 144 pages

Catrin Sagen and Kjersti Kvam UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION

The most important things to know

Understanding Communication: The most important things to know is the book that can make us better at communicating with one another and with ourselves. Every day we communicate non-stop. We give messages, ask questions, react, signal how we’re feeling, scream out in anger, cry tears, present our opinions, show our love, chat, send texts, call, and write. We applaud when we’re excited, we bang our fist on the table when we’re angry, and we stare at the ground when we want to avoid something.

But do you really know how you communicate and how others perceive and receive it? And do you understand what others try to convey to you?

Misunderstandings are the root of many mental loads, but the more you know and understand about communication, the better you will get at expressing yourself and receiving information from others in a clear and precise manner.

Understanding Communication is the first book in the Mini Psychology series, which considers the important everyday psychology we live with. In Understanding Communication the author asks the questions we all have, and the psychologist Catrin Sagen, one of the most well-known voices of therapy in Norwegian media, pours out her wise and human knowledge about the topics.

Catrin Sagen is a psychologist, and one of Norway’s clearest voices on the topic of couple’s counseling.

Kjersti Kvam is a journalist and author, renowned for being a wizard in social settings and engaging conversations. For the time being she also works as a host for the psychological conversation podcast called Summa Summarum.

NEW SERIES ABOUT THE IMPORTANT EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY WE LIVE WITH

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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.

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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 til parforholdet 151 x 226 mm / 168 pages

Excerpt from Instruction Manual for Couples:

Over the last few years there have been many studies which confirm that troubled relationships affect people’s health. Trouble in romantic relationships is more or less as dangerous for the health as smoking! Some would say that’s an exaggerated claim, some would say it’s scaremongering, but it is actually true. Researchers from Harvard University have followed more than 700 people from the beginning of their 20s and throughout their adult lives.

The numbers are clear: What matters the most for how long we live is not genes, obesity, smoking or physical activity, but the quality of our closest relations. As an adult the relationship between a couple is often the most important one.

This made me think. How do I approach this knowledge as a GP for my patients? How do other colleagues do it? How well-known is this connection between relationship quality and health?

These questions have led to a PhD-project where I research how trouble in relationships is handled in GP consultations. As a GP we meet 70 percent of the population each year. Through a secure relation and a wholesome approach to the health problems the patients arrive with, we have a unique opportunity to pick up on the relationship problems and show them the way forward, so that they can get help before the patterns of behaviour become too rigid.

Kristin Leer ADHD

Seven Roads to Fresh Understanding

ADHD is often defined as a psychiatric disorder, but physician and author Kristin Leer, who has ADHD herself, as well as children with ADHD, cannot see ADHD as the diagnosis of a disease. For the author, it was a relief to find out that she had ADHD. Had she realised earlier that the cause of so many challenges and sorrows – at school, in her professional career, in personal relationships – could be summed up in four simple initials, she would have been spared much frustration and anxiety. ADHD is something you can live with. What’s more, it can sometimes have some surprisingly positive sides. However, ADHD may also make life feel like an uphill struggle, and the range of functional impairments can be extensive.

The book offers a new perspective on how to understand ADHD, reviews diagnostic criteria and treatments, and offers excellent everyday coping strategies. A better life is possible when ADHD is diagnosed than when it isn’t.

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Kristin Leer studied medicine in Warsaw and did her residency at Oslo University Hospital, Aker. This is where she discovered her interest in psychiatry and abandoned her dream of becoming a surgeon. Kristin is a specialist in psychopharmacology and psychiatry, has extensive experience of addiction psychiatry and has taught nurses, and community and social workers about ADHD.

Rights sold to: Poland (Wydawnictwo Znak), Denmark (EC Edition)

ADHD – 7 veier til ny forståelse 140 x 210 mm / 232 pages

Cecilie Benneche WHAT DO YOU FEEL NOW?

Our emotions are natural, yet we humans have long tended to think and manage ourselves away from them. It seems far from natural to us to experience what we’re actually feeling – or grasp who our emotions are directed at.

In this book, you’ll learn to clear away some of the obstacles blocking your emotions and allow your feelings to ‘run off’ on their own, without you having to think about them so much. It will free up your strength and create inner peace.

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Sara Lossius GOOD MORNING

Good Morning helps you to establish good and meaningful morning routines that can give you inner peace, extra motivation and support—no matter how busy you are.

In this book, Sara Lossius gives inspiring insight into how simple habits and short rituals and exercises first thing in the morning can make a big difference to your day and your life.

Good Morning provides 75 specific routines and reflection tasks, all of which take between two and 30 minutes.

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Sara Lossius (b. 1982) runs Norway's biggest health- and lifestyle podcast, Ingefær (ginger), with more than 140,000 downloads every month. Sarah holds an MA of social psychology from the London School of Economics.

Hva føler du nå? 130 x 205 mm / 276 pages

Cecilie Benneche is a psychologist. She communicates information on various mental health-related topics through articles and lectures, answers questions in Psykisk helse magazine, and leads the denfølelsen project.

God morgen 148 x 210 mm / 152 pages

Ut av

148 x 210 mm / 144 pages

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!

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.

Erik Hexeberg and Sofie Hexeberg

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON CHOLESTEROL

More than 600,000 Norwegians use cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent cardiovascular diseases. Does everyone benefit from using them? Could many people avoid the side effects by using food as medicine? And is there really a link between high cholesterol, constricted blood vessels and heart failure?

These questions and many more are answered in A New Perspective on Cholesterol, where doctors Erik and Sofie Hexeberg take a deep dive into the role of cholesterol for a healthy heart and give us a new understanding of the causes of cardiovascular disease — the second most common cause of death in Norway.

Erik Hexeberg and Sofie Hexeberg

A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES

Generally, patients are presented with the perception of the autoimmune diseases as being 'auto' in the sense that the body starts to attack itself without any cause and that the disease is also 'auto' in the way that the disease continues and will not be controlled unless the patient is treated with anti-inflammatory drugs.

In this book the authors demonstrate the link between autoimmune diseases and food proteins by blood tests showing increased concentration of antibodies to specific food proteins and in parallel identifies parts of food proteins in urine samples. The authors propose a model where any food protein could elicit an immune response in a susceptible individual and thereby trigger an autoimmune disease.

The dietary advice this book offers is based on this approach, and the book contains stories from people with different autoimmune diseases.

Nytt blikk på kolesterol 151 x 226 mm / 272 pages

Nytt blikk på autoimmun sykdom 151 x 226 mm / 256 pages

Caroline Leithe ORDER AND SYSTEM

Genius Tidying Tips for Your Daily Life

Tired of mess and chaos at home? Do you dream about always being able to find the Tupperware, the passport, and the football shoes when you need them – and also organising both your sewing kit and your wardrobe? Order and System: Genius Tidying Tips for Your Daily Life takes you on an entertaining journey through all the rooms in your home and shows how you in 5 simple steps can create good systems which will result in a lasting tidiness.

This book is ideal for those who are allergic to pointed fingers and who instead would prefer advice served in a generous, unceremonious, and fun way. The author Caroline Leithe presents her tips with humour and charm, and the book is beautifully illustrated with colourful and inspiring photos. By following Caroline’s simple advice and smart procedures you can regain control over your things, rather than them controlling you.

Orden

Caroline Leithe (32) is an interior design architect, business owner and the woman behind the popular Instagram @ordenogsystem, one of Norway’s biggest social media profiles within organising and tidying.

Marie

Olaussen

SAVING BIG

My Very Best Tips for Saving Money

Saving Big puts economy and smart money management on the agenda, without wrapping the topics in foreign words, incomprehensible terms and graphs which require a degree in economics to understand. Here you can get the tips and inspiration you need for your day-to-day life and your wallet, from an author who’s had the first-hand experience of being completely broke.

In Saving Big you get tips for how to cut your expenses, increase your income and save money by not spending it on unnecessary things – so that you can have more money for what you actually want to spend your money on. The book is chock full of surprising, fun and super useful saving tips, and the author puts all the expenses from a day-to-day under a magnifying glass – from food, clothes and beauty products to housing, cars and gardens. And so much more! In addition to this you get smart tips for investing as well as practical tips for how you can turn the hundreds you have saved into even more – and not least teaching you how to make your new, good money habits last.

Jakten på tusenlappene: Mine aller beste sparetips 151 x 226 mm / 208 pages

Marie Olaussen HOW TO GET RICH IN A YEAR

Get your finances in order, peace of mind and the means to have the life you’re dreaming of

How to Get Rich in a Year is a funny, inspiring, surprising and very useful book about personal finances.

Marie Olaussen shows us how we can all change our ways, allowing us to allocate money for exactly what we want to prioritise. She shows how we can cut our consumption while still being able to buy a coffee on the fly, drink wine on a Tuesday, invest in our own pension and go on holidays the family will never forget - if that is what we want above all.

This book contains no financial jargon because it’s so tedious the author can’t even bring herself to write it. It is a book about finances with a sad but funny start and a proper happy ending. And from the very first chapter, readers will realise that this book purchase is a real money-saver.

Marie Olaussen works as an editor for a local newspaper, where she is responsible for all sorts journalistic projects like podcasting, themed editions and live events. Her first book, How to Become Rich in One Year, came out in 2021 and was an immediate bestseller.

Hvordan bli rik på et år 170 x 240 mm / 192 pages

Kristine Weber THE 8-WEEK FORMULA

Protein rich food, effective workouts, and habits for life

The 8-Week Formula is the perfect book for those who want to get in shape quickly, and who want a strong body you feel comfortable in. If you follow author Kristine Weber’s method, you’ll experience noticeable changes within 8 weeks as well as a number of positive health benefits. In this book you get tailor-made nutritional plans with tempting recipes for food with lots of protein, as well as effective workout programmes that make it easy to succeed.

8-ukersformelen

148 x 210 mm / 168 pages

The book is designed so that you can choose whether you want to work out at home, at a gym or both. There are also nutritional plans with protein rich meals which will satisfy your hunger and help build strength. Kristine Weber makes it easy to take care of your own health, and offers tempting suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper, throughout the whole week. The author also shares tips and advice to make the lifestyle change feasible and possible to maintain over a longer time, regardless of what else you have going on in life.

The 8-Week-Formula offers the advice that can help you have a better life, without strict regimes which are foreign and far from your day-to-day life. By following Weber’s tips you’ll experience the joy of a healthier and stronger body.

Kristine Weber is an economist and nutritionist, and works as a lifestyle coach, personal trainer and is a bestselling author of book on fitness and health. She is a previous Norwegian champion and Nordic champion in body fitness.

Vibeke Klemetsen and Jannicke Wiel

YOGA MAGIC

Simple Practices to Counter the Everyday Grind

A unique and magical yoga book which can transform weariness into happiness!

The yoga profiles Vibeke Klemetsen and Jannicke Wiel spread real yoga magic with this inspirational and applicable book. Practical poses, breathing exercises and meditations against physical and mental everyday ailments go hand in hand, and you get smart tools to feel better in your body and mind. The goal is to increase the feeling of being in charge of your life and yourself when you need it the most.

Yoga being magical means that it can change something inside you. Use the book as an encyclopedia based on how you’re feeling day-to-day and what you need to strengthen. Use it when you’re feeling down, uneasy, or out of balance, when you need calm, energy and happiness, and when you want to treat yourself well. The yoga poses can be practiced individually or made into a sequence or a flow, and the meditations and breathing exercises which are included with each pose can be practiced independently of the physical poses. Based on their own experiences the authors present their poses in a new way, where they put emphasis on attitude as well as the pose.

Vibeke Klemetsen has a burning passion to spread knowledge about yoga and is one of Norway’s biggest names within yoga. She has written several books and hosts a podcast about yoga.

Jannicke Wiel has run the center Oslo Yoga for over 20 years, and she has contributed to making yoga more popular in Norway. She has written several books about yoga.

Yogamagi 195 x 250 mm / 240 pages

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 strong 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 for you!

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, drinks, 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

BACKLIST:

KAKENE VI ELSKER

Elin Vatnar Nilsen THE CAKES WE LOVE

In The Cakes We Love the Norwegian baking queen and author Elin Vatnar Nilsen has collected all her favourite cakes in one place. The recipes are thoroughly tested and simple to follow, and nothing is left to chance. If you follow Elin’s measures and approaches, you are guaranteed to bake the most beautiful and delicious cakes!

The Cakes We Love is the book you’ll get out every time there’s a birthday, a graduation, a dinner with friends and for weekend treats – or when you just want to surprise your family with a delicious cake. You’ll open the book time and time again, because you’ll always find cake recipes you love and need, whether it’s the undefeated pavlova, a soft Norwegian spice cake, or gooey and lovely brownies to cheer up an otherwise boring Monday evening.

De mest populære oppskriftene fra det norske kakebordet

elin vatnar nilsen

vi elsker 195 x 250 mm

Elin Vatnar Nilsen is an educated confectioner and has operated a popular food blog, krem.no, since 1999.

Sparekokeboka

151 x 226 mm / 216 pages

Kristoffer Tvilde THE BUDGET COOKBOOK

Eat like a king while saving money

When it comes to saving the first advice is often to cut down on the food budget. It was exactly this economist, food writer and author Kristoffer Tvilde had to do in 2013, when he and his partner were completely broke. Over the course of a few years, they managed to save over 600 euros per month on food while still eating like kings.

Now Kristoffer shares what he’s learned: In The Budget Cookbook you get more than 50 tasty recipes, a lot of them based on typical leftovers, as well as weekly menus, shopping guides and useful and practical tips for how to reduce food waste. He guides you in which food items to look for, cures your fear of the best before date, crushes food myths and shows how a few easy and useful tips can lower your food budget without compromising on taste.

This is a book for everyone who loves food, wants a fuller wallet and cares about the environment.

Kristoffer Tvilde, @krisslovesfood on social media, is a food profile, economist and author. He is a master of cooking delicious dishes based on budget-friendly produce and leftovers, and teaches you how to reduce your food budget without compromising on taste.

Hungry Boys (Magnus Liøkel, Ole Kristian Samuelsen)

OLE LEARNS TO COOK

The book for anyone who never read a cookbook

Why learn from your own mistakes when you can learn from Ole’s?

Throughout the years Ole and Magnus of Sultne Gutter (Hungry Boys) have been dating, Ole had only cooked a handful of times. Magnus wanted to change this. He put together a kitchen training programme to turn his partner from a hungry boy into an able home cook.

In Ole Learns to Cook you can follow Ole’s progression and Magnus’ frustration through 14 entertaining and informative chapters based on different cooking techniques. After each technique there are classic recipes for timely French and Italian-inspired dishes that any home cook with a taste for good food should know.

This is the cookbook for those who want to become more confident in the kitchen, those who want to polish their techniques or those who just want to eat better food.

Sultne Gutter (Hungry Boys) started as an Instagram account in 2019 where Ole Kristian Samuelsen and Magnus Liøkel shared recipes that would result in a rapid growth of followers. Today they host their own tv-series on the food channel Matkanalen and has launched a new digital takeaway restaurant.

Ole Kristian Samuelsen (b. 1993) is from north of Norway. He has had a career with the boy band Ekko Ekko and studied finance at the Norwegian Business School.

Magnus Liøkel (b. 1989) in Kongsvinger. He studied law and worked as a lawyer for the Norwegian Armed Forces before he moved to Oslo and started working as a content writer.

Ole lærer å lage mat 170 x 240 mm / 240 pages

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.

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.

Trines jul 210 x 250 mm / 432 pages

Trine Sandberg TRINE’S FOOD FOR YOUNG COOKS

Trine Sandberg believes children should be allowed into the kitchen to make the food they like to eat.

This book inspires the family’s 10 to 16-year-olds to spend more time at the kitchen counter, making food for themselves and their family.

The book contains 50–60 recipes for children and young people. The dishes are designed to ensure that the household’s young cooks can make the food alone – everything from snacks to dinners and cakes.

The recipes are divided into four main sections. In After School, you’ll find toast, wraps, salads and other yummy stuff to tickle your tastebuds after a long day at school. The leftovers can be saved for packed lunches or eaten when you’re training. The Dinner chapter contains delicious food that’s fun to serve up to the whole family. The Friday Fun chapter includes classics like tacos and pizza, as well as vegetarian food like summer rolls. The Cake chapter appeals to anyone with a love of baking and a sweet tooth.

Trines kokebok for unge kokker 195 x 250 mm / 240 pages

Jørgen Ravneberget THE FORAGING BOOK, AUTUMN AND WINTER

The interest in edible, wild growths is increasing. In The Foraging Book, Autumn and Winter you learn to identify these wild growths and where they grow, with a focus on Northern Europe. The book also includes several edible seaweed and kelp species. Knowledge about the different species is important when you’re going out into nature. This book describes the seasonal edible growths in a detailed manner, while you gain knowledge about the most important characteristics, about smells, colour and their appearance. Author Ravneberg also offers tips about how to use what you have foraged.

Sankeboka høst og vinter 144 x 210 mm / 88 pages

Jørgen Ravneberg (b. 1992) is a chef at the restaurant Kolonihagen Frogner in Oslo. He is originally from Alta in Finnmark. In 2017, he was named Green Chef of the Year.

Jørgen Ravneberget EAT MORE GREEN

Forage for your own food!

Eat More Green is a recipe book based on many of the wild plants from Ravneberg’s first book, The Foraging Book. This book aims to inspire more use of both wild and cultivated vegetables and ingredients and to show how easy it is to include wild plants in your regular diet. The recipes are simple in order to keep the threshold low and the quality high, so that everyone can cook the food in the book.

Here you will find everything from bread baked with nettles to restaurant dishes and cocktails. The dishes meet most needs, from dinner on a Tuesday to date night on a Saturday.

Spis mer grønt 190 x 260 mm / 272 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.

195 x 250 mm / 200 pages

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.

POP-strikk

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.

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.

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

Andreas Qvale Hovland and Rodrigo Qvale EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT PLANTS 101 Questions and Answers

Everything You Want to Know About Plants is a must-have book for anyone who has or dreams about a home filled with green, beautiful plants.

In this book you can find the answer to any question you’ve ever had about plants: Why are your green and hopeful plants not growing large and lush? How does the Monstera get its holes? What should you do when your holiday waterer has been too eager, the leaves are turning yellow, or spider mites have moved onto your favourite plant?

In Everything You Want to Know About Plants, Andreas Qvale Hovland and Rodrigo Qvale, the couple behind @plant_papis, have collected 101 of the most frequent questions from their followers on the page, with good, specific, and often surprising answers. You also get to know a range of favourite plants, tips for care and whimsical DIYsuggestions.

Behind Plant Papis is couple Andreas Qvale Hovland and Rodrigo Qvale. Every day they share generous doses of plant happiness, tips, ideas and inspiration with their 65,000 followers on Instagram.

Alt du lurer på om planter 195 x 250 mm / 240 pages

Lag dinegen blandingjord-

Vår jordblanding:

● 2 deler plantejord ● 1 del perlitt ● 1 del bark Dette er ikke noen eksakt vitenskap, men vi blander vanligvis etter dette mengdeforholdet i en plastboks som vi har stående i boden.Da har vi jordblandingen klar når vi skal potte om. Perlitt og bark får du kjøpt de fleste steder som selger planter.Bark kan kjøpes som orkidéjord på flere plantebutikker. Grunnen til at vi blander inn perlitt og bark i jordblandingen vår, er for å skape struktur i jorden.Struktur,eller åpninger i jorden,gjør at det lettere kommer luft inn jorden, som er positivt for rotdannelse og vekst. Denne blandingen gjør også at du har mer kontroll på vanningen. Vann vil renne lettere gjennom jordblanding med struktur.Vi liker å bruke perlitt og bark, men du kan også blande inn pimpstein,pon,vermiculite eller sand.Her ser vi at folk bruker forskjellige blandinger ut ifra deres egne erfaringer. Prøv deg frem,så finner du din perfekte miks.

Du kan tenke at tropiske planter ikke vokser i plantejord i sitt naturlige habitat.De lever i et tropisk klima,og mange av dem vokser også på andre planter og trær.Ved å blande inn forskjellige substrater,vil du kunne skape et miljø som er noe likere naturen.

Hvordan vet jeg hvilke planter som liker å være rotbundet?

46 ALT DU LURER PÅ OM PLANTER

Først kan det være fint å avklare hva dette betyr. Uttrykket rotbundet kommer fra det engelske ordet «root bound». På

planten har snurrerøtter. Er det jord overalt vasken? Da har den ikke snurrerøtter.

Det finnes grader av snurrerot. Det gjør ingenting om det er noen røtter

som kveiler seg rundt potten. Men på den andre siden er det ingen planter som liker å bare ha røtter potten. Med det mener vi at snurrerøttene fyller

hele potten, og det er nærmest ingen jord igjen.

Noen planter foretrekker å ha det litt trangt potten. Eller for å si det på en annen måte: De liker virkelig ikke å ha for mye plass. For å forstå hvorfor det er slik, kan vi tenke på plantenes naturlige habitat. I naturen kjemper planter om plass, lys og næring. Noen planter vokser også på trær og andre planter. Det er disse plantene du kan vente med å potte om.

Andre vanlige planter du ikke trenger å potte om med det første:

● Fredslilje (Spathiphyllum)

● Treklatrer (Philodendron)

● Grønnrenner (Chlorophytum comosum)

● Svigermors tunge (Sansevieria)

● Pengetre (Crassula ovata)

● Porselensblomst (Hoya)

Emma M. Garlant

PUPPY

Everything you need to know about your new family member

Have you been thinking about getting a puppy? Are you expecting a puppy? Or maybe you’ve got one already? Then this book is perfect for you!

The puppy stage is a very special period in a dog’s life cycle. At this stage, we bond with them and make them gain confidence in their new family. We must socialize them with both humans and other animals so that they will harmoniously interact with them later. We need to train them in all kinds of environments, make them get used to walking along busy roads on all kinds of surfaces, taking the train and tolerating loud noises.

Valp 148 x 210 mm / 208 pages

In this book, you will get easy-to-read theory and a handful of practical advice –all to help you and your puppy get through this intense, fun and sometimes tiring period. The book is written by the renowned behavior biologist and dog expert Emma M. Garlant.

Emma M. Garlant DOG

Everything you need to know about your best friend

This book is for anyone who owns a dog, wants to get a dog, or is just interested in dogs.

You’ll learn how to use reward-based methods to train your dog so they behave how you want, so they come when you call them, walk on a lead, and stay calm indoors, as well as how to prevent and deal with common behavioural problems.

Through this book, you’ll gain all the knowledge you need to ensure that you and man’s best friend can live together in harmony.

Emma M. Garlant is a renowned behavioural biologist and an expert on dogs. Garlant has 37 years of experience, both with her own and other people’s dogs. She holds courses and lectures, as well as providing consultancy services. Garlant stays updated on all the new research within the field.

Hund 148 x 210 mm / 208 pages