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Cappelen Damm Agency 2017

Published by CAPPELEN DAMM AS www.cappelendamm.no

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Print: AiT Bjerch AS, Norge 2017

ISBN: 978-82-02-55047-9

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AUTHOR: VIGDIS HJORTH

TITLE ENGLISH: WILLS AND TESTAMENTS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: ARV OG MILJØ

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 352 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

BULGARIA (Aviana)

DENMARK (Turbine)

FRANCE (Actes Sud)

GERMANY (Osburg Verlag)

SWEDEN (Natur & Kultur)

WILLS AND TESTAMENTS

NORWEGIAN BOOKSELLER'S AWARD

Vigdis Hjorth's new novel starts as a classic story of inheritance, centred around two summer cabins on Hvaler.

Two children have been looking after the place and their parents for many years. They are due to inherit the cabins. But there are two other children, who have partly broken away from the family. How do they fit into the inheritance dispute?

During the inheritance discussions another story emerges which brings violent forces into play. It's all about family history.

Wills and Testaments is very powerful and interesting – by far the most talked about and debated Norwegian novel of 2016.

Nominated to:

• Critics Award 2016

• Young Critics Award

Vigdis Hjorth (1959–) has made an exciting literary career and has written many popular books for both children and adults. Today she is an awardwinning author and one of Norway's most interesting contemporary writers.

‘Only Vigdis Hjorth is able to handle a serious topic in such a strong, intelligent and poetic way.’

DAGBLADET

‘Vigdis Hjorth has written her best novel; about a sexual assault that destroys all the relationships in a family … Vigdis Hjorth writes about the conflicts that build up in an authentic, everyday language – but something quivers between the lines. There is an energy, a level of suspense in the story that only exists when something is really at stake.’

ADRESSEAVISEN

‘The way Vigdis Hjorth writes takes us straight into the lives and life choices that most people recognize around us and within us.’

‘Vigdis Hjorth's new novel is furious and wise, trembling and stringent.’

NRK

‘Hjorth dispenses secrets with Ibsen-like precision, so that the level of suspense is maintained up to the very last of the 343 pages.’

AFTENPOSTEN

‘Vigdis Hjorth's new novel, about heritage and the guilt in all words' meanings, is abhorrent. But good … Wills and Testaments is a hopeless book about a desperate yearning for justice. Definitely interesting, extremely wellwritten, and with well-portioned suspense. But dark, without the humorous oblique glance that tends to be Hjorth's trademark.’

DAGSAVISEN

AUTHOR: LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: MAGNET

TITLE NORWEGIAN: MAGNET

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 784 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

BULGARIA (Vessela Lutzkanova)

DENMARK (C&K Forlag)

GERMANY (btb Luchterhand)

NETHERLANDS (De Geus Uitgeverij) POLAND (Wydawnictwo Literackie)

MAGNET

WINNER OF THE BRAGE PRIZE 2015

For nearly three years, every single day, Lars Saabye Christensen wrote this novel. It will stand as a major work in his authorship. Beatles was his great youth work, The Half-Brother the middle-aged man's masterpiece. Magnet is the aging author's masterpiece. In this work, he has invested everything he has, and at the same time – and this is the most impressive – it may seem that he has done something completely new.

Magnet is a love story. It is about a mismatched couple who try to pull in the same direction with all their might.

‘There is something very unusual about being one of our most popular authors and being highly ranked in international literature at the same time. That is the status of Lars Saabye Christensen and his writing.’

TØNSBERGS BLAD

‘I rarely read a long novel which is so full of mature wisdom and beautiful language and Magnet at the same time manages to surprise the reader with unexpected turns.’

BERGENS TIDENDE

‘Well prepared, well composed, well written, well presented. Enjoy! …Magnet is securely on a level with Beatles and The Half Brother.’

‘A master wordsmith is at work here.’ P2

Lars Saabye Christensen (1953–) has published a number of novels, poetry and short story collections since his literary debut in 1976 with The story of Gly. His breakthrough came with Beatles (1984), one of the greatest literary sales successes in Norway that, over the years, new generations continue to hold close to their hearts. The author received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for The Half Brother (2001).

He has also received the Riverton Prize, the Critics' Prize, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, the Dobloug Prize and the Norwegian Reader's Prize. His books are published in 36 countries.

GENUINE JOYS

SANNE GLEDER

Two of our greatest artists have created their first book together, an exceptionally beautiful book for adults about the joy of small glimpses.

‘We have laid bare private life, abandoned our inhibitions and vacuumed every corner to find as many joys as possible. We have succeeded. It is important for us to emphasise that these joys are not ironic; as the title says, they are genuine.’

‘Lars Saabye Christensen and Stian Holes picturebook for grown ups is a Genuine Joy.’

DAGBLADET

THE NEW RULES

DE NYE REGLENE

In The New Rules Lars Saabye Christensen follows up Kargo with precise poems about the world.

‘LONG AFTER BRECHT"

I'm waiting for her, the one I don't want to meet And yet, I am impatient How dare she How dare she come so late Does she perhaps think that she is the one who doesn't want to meet me?’

AUTHOR: LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN

ILLUSTRATED BY: STIAN HOLE

FORMAT: 170x220 mm / 88 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: DENMARK (Rosinante&Co)

AUTHOR: LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN FORMAT: 151x226 mm

AUTHOR: ROY JACOBSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: THE INVISIBLE

TITLE NORWEGIAN: DE USYNLIGE

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 256 pages

RIGHTS SOLD:

ALBANIA (Shkupi Publishing House)

AZERBAIJAN (Qanun Publishing House)

BULGARIA (Aviana EOOD)

CZECH REPUBLIC (Pistorius & Olšanská)

DENMARK (Rosinante&Co)

ESTONIA (Eesti Raamat)

FAROE ISLANDS (Sprotin Forlag)

FRANCE (Gallimard Editions)

GERMANY (Osburg Verlag)

ISRAEL (Keter Books Ltd)

ITALY (RCA Libri Sp.A./Bompiani)

SPAIN (Malpaso)

SWEDEN (Norstedts Förlag)

TURKEY (Yapi Kredi Culture, Arts and Publishing Inc)

UNITED KINGDOM (MacLehose Press)

THE INVISIBLE

Again, Roy Jacobsen has written a novel about an unlikely heroine, and he does it better than ever before. The Invisible is a monument over human courage and life-saving practical and social knowledge.

The novel is set in the first half of the 20th Century on an island on the North-Western coast of Norway. The island is small, there is only space for the Barrøy family. Life on the island is difficult. The Barrøy family is poor, but certainly not without guts and skills. They live off of their small land, they have some livestock, they fish in the sea and make use of whatever the waves wash ashore.

Jacobsen’s descriptions of man and nature are breathtaking. There is plenty of light here, even humor. The family’s daily work is a balancing act between refining the riches that wild nature so generously offers, and surviving in the very same wild nature that takes lives. The family’s love for their environment is brilliantly communicated. A life somewhere else is unthinkable to them.

The Invisible is inspired by real people, who Jacobsen knew in his childhood. It is a family saga, and a coming-of-age story about Ingrid. It can also be labeled a Robinsonade.

‘This is a terrific novel. The level of precision is joyous, the language poetic. Roy Jacobsen stays in top form. He has the observational skills and the abilities to tell the truth about the human being. The result is great art.’

VÅRT LAND

‘…Roy Jacobsen at his very best … The Invisible is simply a fantastic novel.’

DAGBLADET

‘… with a great vision and wisdom Jacobsen rolls out an unsheltered drama on barren land.’

ADRESSEAVISEN

WHITE OCEAN

This is the sequel to the successful novel The Invisible. White Ocean is a dramatic love story from the small island Barrøy in the year 1944–45. Ingrid thinks she is alone on the island and still end up experiencing an unusual love affair in the course of several intense winter weeks.

Roy Jacobsen gives us a welcome reunion with the people of Barrøy. This time he unrolls an even bigger canvas as he delivers a powerful and eventful novel about a fateful year in Norwegian history.

‘Once again, Roy Jacobsen is outstanding as a very talented author with a modest, compelling style.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘All I can say about this book is that it is fantastic. Gripping.’

FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

‘In White Ocean, life is portrayed both beautifully and brutally.’

BERGENS TIDENDE

‘The novel is securely composed by a novelist who uses wonderfully beautiful language put together with poetic skill.’

‘White Ocean develops as a magnificent story, elegant and sharp, lingering long in the reader's imagination.’

DAGSAVISEN

Roy Jacobsen (1954–) has since his literary debut in 1982, with the short story collection Fangeliv, evolved into an original, strong and analytical writer with a special interest in the underlying psychology at play in human relationships and actions. He is a wonderful storyteller with obvious political engagement. He has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award: for The Conquerors in 1991, and Frost in 2003. He was also short-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2009 for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles

His books are published in 29 countries.

AUTHOR: ROY JACOBSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: WHITE OCEAN

TITLE NORWEGIAN: HVITT HAV

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 240 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

BULGARIA (Aviana)

CZECH REPUBLIC (Pistorius & Olšanská)

DENMARK (Rosinante&Co)

ESTONIA (Eesti Raamat)

FAROE ISLANDS (Sprotin Forlag)

GERMANY (Osburg Verlag)

SWEDEN (Norstedts)

TURKEY (Yapi Kredi)

AUTHOR: BRITT KARIN LARSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: YOU CAME FROM LIGHT

TITLE NORWEGIAN: AV LYS ER DU KOMMET

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 192 pages

YOU CAME FROM LIGHT

We meet a girl living with foster parents. She doesn't understand why her mother didn't want her. In her adulthood, she starts looking for answers to her questions, both in order to understand her own outsider status, and to give her own daughter a beginning.

This is a strong novel about how loss can open up for other possibilities, other adventures. But perhaps you shouldn't find the answers to everything? Do you lose something if you aren't longing for something?

‘A great storyteller that deserves a great audience.’ DAGSAVISEN

‘Beautiful and restrained.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘Britt Karin Larsen moves in a familiar landscape in this little novel about lonely children and other unhappy fates.’ VG

‘Tender and beautiful about rootlessness.’ FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

Britt Karin Larsen (1945–) has written poetry, books for children, documentary books and novels. Her first published work was a 1978 collection of poetry. She is renowned for her Gypsy trilogy, and her historic novels about the life of people in the wooded area of Finnskogen in Norway.

PHOTO: © ANITA KROK, GLÅMDALEN

HER LYING FACE

In Kristiania in April 1897, the newspapers Morgenbladet and Verdens Gang announced that Knut Hamsun had reported Mrs. Anna Munch to the police and asked that her mental state be investigated. That spring, several anonymous letters slandering Hamsun had appeared in Kristiania.

Hamsun was convinced that the letters had been written by the authoress Anna Munch, a woman he had first met during his lecture tour in 1891.

To put it mildly, Anna Munch was entranced by Knut Hamsun. She began to follow him, even to Paris, and on several occasions she booked in to the same lodgings as he had. She constantly sent him letters, to which she eventually received no replies. In other words, she was a good old-fashioned 'stalker.'

This epistolary mystery was the starting point for Selma Lønning Aarø's artistic novel, which brings a forgotten author to life and, not least, says something about the major struggle female authors of the time had to be seen and heard.

‘Selma Lønning Aarø's latest novel has the potential to reach a vast audience and it will leave them shaken, moved and enlightened.’

DAGBLADET

‘Selma Lønning Aarø really knows how to wield a story. Here Anna Munch emerges from oblivion in a manner that can only be described as spellbinding … beautifully written and skilfully composed.’

‘There is a lot to like about this novel. It is well told and excellently documented.’

VÅRT LAND

AUTHOR: SELMA LØNNING AARØ

TITLE ENGLISH: HER LYING FACE

TITLE NORWEGIAN: HENNES LØGNAKTIGE YTRE

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 304 pages

Selma Lønning Aarø (1972–) made her debut in 1995 with The Final Story. She has been a newspaper columnist for Dagbladet and Klassekampen for a number of years. Her novel, I'm Coming, was translated into several languages. Her Lying Face is her latest novel, praised by critics and readers.

AUTHOR: ERLEND LOE

TITLE ENGLISH: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

TITLE NORWEGIAN: SLUTTEN PÅ VERDEN SLIK VI KJENNER DEN

FORMAT: 143x206 mm / 280 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

CZECH REPUBLIC (Kniha Zlin)

DENMARK (Gyldendal DK)

FINLAND (Johnny Kniga)

HUNGARY (Scolar Kiado)

MACEDONIA (Tabernakul)

SERBIA (Geopoetika)

SLOVAKIA (Premedia)

SWEDEN (Alfabeta)

TURKEY (Yapi Kredi)

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Doppler is back. After years deep in the woods, Doppler remembers that he has a family. He puts Bongo, the moose, into a kennel for deer and makes his way into Oslo.

He is looking forward to seeing his wife and children, but his old house looks strange. On the name label on the mailbox, his name has been crossed out and a new one put in its place: EGIL HEGEL.

Doppler thinks he has reached rock bottom, but his troubles have only just begun.

PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THE SERIES:

Erlend Loe (1969–) is one of Norway's bestselling authors. His work have been published in thirty-nine countries so far. He made his literary debut with Captured by the Woman in 1993. His breakthrough both in Norway and internationally came with the publication of his second novel Naiv. Super in 1996. His 2004 novel Doppler was critically acclaimed for its depiction of the modern man.

Erlend Loe also writes books for children and has had great success with the Kurt series.

PHOTO: FREDRIK ARFF

‘Probably this year's funniest book.’

ADRESSEAVISEN

‘The End of the World as We Know It is dystopic cultural critique with high entertainment value.’

‘Loe's most entertaining novel for a while, and an eventful journey.’

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

‘Loe's new novel stands out as the best means of enduring the world as we know it right now.’

NRK

‘The satire of the last two books is in many ways as before, but the cut seems darker, more rebellious and sharper. Thus Loe becomes even more recklessly funny …’

MORGENBLADET

‘And the observations are good. Sharp. The themes Erlend Loe lets him reflect upon are definitely contemporary. A book for our time.’

DAGSAVISEN

‘The crusade against cleverness and conformity continues.’

DAGBLADET

‘Awfully funny.’

KLASSEKAMPEN

AUTHOR: TOR EVEN SVANES

TITLE ENGLISH: TO THE WESTERN ICE

TITLE NORWEGIAN: TIL VESTISEN

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 192 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Jensen & Dalgaard)

GERMANY (Osburg Verlag)

RUSSIA (Paulsen LLC)

FILM RIGHTS (Einar Film og Fortellinger AS)

TO THE WESTERN ICE

At the start of the seal-hunting season a sailboat leaves the quay at Tromsø. On board is a young, newly qualified vet on her first tour of inspection for The Fisheries Department. She is alone with a crew of seal-catchers and hunters, and will be with them in the icy wilderness around Greenland for six weeks.

The narration in To The Western Ice is vigorous on every page, consistent in style, shocking and uncompromising in content.

Full English translation available.

THE AUTHOR SAYS:

‘The novel reads as a psychological chamber play; with an intense, grinding, claustrophobic feel to it. Some readers and critics have pointed to how it lends from the thriller-genre, and there is really no need to argue with that, but there is a case to be made that this is a poetic thriller, in the sense that the never changing ice, the ever present light is as fundamental to the story as the characters in it.’

Tor Even Svanes (1978-) has a Ph.D in Media Studies. He made his debut as an author in 2006 with The Second Son Hotel Eldorado followed in 2011 and To The Western Ice is his third novel.

‘With the help of subdued language rich with association, and brief, vivid flashbacks to events out at sea in the arctic, the author builds the tension with a sure hand. First and foremost it is the intensity and spare prose that combine to distinguish this novel from others …’

‘The book effectively draws the reader into the inspection of Norwegian seal hunting in Greenland. The claustrophobic opening is remarkably good … Rather than telling the story chronologically, Svanes creates a narrative that provides an uncomfortably clear impression of Mari's claustrophobia on board the ship.’

KLASSEKAMPEN

‘The particularly masculine combination of brutality and feline craftiness is skilfully and ruthlessly described. Combining this psychological warfare with the description of the ship and the sea, Svanes earns a place in the darkest corner of seafaring literature …’

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

‘What could have been artificial and affected is instead an organic text. And it all really rests on a simple premise: The author knows when to stop.’

AFTENPOSTEN

‘Svanes borrows techniques from thriller literature and creates an intense and concentrated psychological drama in the confines of the seal-hunting ship, where anything can happen at any time.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘… Svanes has written a really good novel. With skillful use of narrative technique and language and a tight grasp of the theme, he creates a literary space which almost steps forward to within touch of the reader …’

UNIVERSITAS

‘A stark presentation of seal-hunting on the Greenland ice – and of being a woman in a tough masculine environment … Svanes succeeds both in describing the coarse male milieu in its own terms and in tracing the female inspector's reactions with sensitive understanding …’

ADRESSEAVISEN

AUTHOR: BRYNJULF JUNG TJØNN

TITLE ENGLISH: ALL THE LIGHT AND ALL THE DARK

TITLE NORWEGIAN: ALT DET LYSE OG ALT DET MØRKE

FORMAT: 130x205 mm

ALL THE LIGHT AND ALL THE DARK

The novel opens with a scene that seems like it was taken straight from a drama series. Hildegunn is having a child and calls on her mother Vibeke, who is mentally ill. It is clear that the daughter wishes to reconcile with something dramatic that happened in her childhood.

Following the meeting, Vibeke's thoughts take her back to her own childhood and adolescence in a village on the west coast of Norway. We go across from the dark and immediate, over to the distant and bright, and see her father working with saw and wood, the sawdust flying and all the good times along the way and afterwards.

So how does the journey transpire from something so seemingly idyllic to the difficult meeting between Hildegunn and Vibeke? What happened in the meantime? That's what Vibeke – and we, alongside her – is trying to find out. First slowly, and then with greater speed, we find ourselves moving towards the dramatic climax, when Vibeke behaves in such a way that she loses contact with her daughter.

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn (1980–) made his literary debut with the novel I Came to Love (2002). Tomorrow We Will Sit in the Sun (2009) was his debut as a children's book author. His young adult novel from 2013, How Beautiful You Are, won the Brage Prize. His books have been translated into several languages.

UNDER THE WINDOW

What to do when life gives you lemons? The main character in Under the Window is a middle-aged supermarket worker who is on sick leave. She insists on wearing a rather old-fashioned neckbrace although there are doubts she really needs one for medical reasons.

She also has family worries. Her daughter has moved in with an older lover before finishing high school. Her husband is more occupied with his sudden passion for bicycling than he is passionate about her and their marriage.

Following the doctor's advice, she starts a new routine of afternoon walks in the hope for a speedy recovery from her gloomy everyday life. In the course of her walks, she meets a man with a dog. They become friends and together they start spying at their neighbours during their evening strolls. Life suddenly gets much more interesting.

Under the Window is a heartfelt, loving story told with humour and soul.

AUTHOR: AKSEL SELMER

TITLE ENGLISH: UNDER THE WINDOW TITLE NORWEGIAN: UNDER VINDUET

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 160 pages

Aksel Selmer (1958–) made his literary debut with a poetry collection called More people should have come here in 1992. Since then he has had another collection of poetry published, as well as ten novels for adults and young readers. He is loved by the readers and critics for his portrayal of funny, quirky characters and his warm sense of humour.

PHOTO: © ANN BIRGITTE TVEITEN

AUTHOR: EIVIND BUENE

TITLE ENGLISH: IT WILL ALL BE DIFFERENT

TITLE NORWEGIAN: OPPSTANDELSE

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 432 pages

IT WILL ALL BE DIFFERENT

It Will All Be Different is a wide-ranging epic novel in two parts. It is about two couples in an open relationship. We meet four more or less equal main characters who all make themselves heard in their own way.

This novel is something between a novel of ideas and a psychological study. It starts in the 1980's with a group of friends who find their salvation when they discover shared joy and musical solace within the context of the Pentecostal movement, which they are led to by the main character David's excessively ecstatic and paralysing meeting with The Saviour.

As an adult David experiences the same excess as an artist and through living in an open relationship where partner-swapping and sexual experimentation are important ingredients.

Eivind Buene brings out interesting social trends in this novel, which contains shades of both Philip Roth and Michel Houellebecq.

‘It Will All Be Different by Eivind Buene is a well written and original novel of ideas … This is good literature, free of moralism and clear answers. Searching and well written.’

VÅRT LAND

Eivind Buene (1973–) has been a composer in residence with orchestras and festivals in Norway and abroad. His music has been performed in prestigious venues like Centre Pompidou, Berlin Philharmonic Hall and Carnegie Hall. He made his literary debut in 2010 with the novel One Man Orchestra Singalong from 2012 is his second novel.

FAREWELL TO ALL THAT

This is the sequel to Sondre Midthun's critically-acclaimed debut novel Don't Ever Come Closer. The main character is living in secret in Malangen, where he grew up. Here, he stands face to face with his childhood memories, the village and not least himself.

Farewell to All That is an intense, clever, sad, but sometimes also surprisingly funny novel, full of human relationships and existential reflection.

ABOUT THE DEBUT NOVEL DON'T EVER COME CLOSER:

‘This is a nerve-wrecking novel that is hard to put down.’

AVISA NORDLAND

‘A sparkling debut and contains occasionally splendid novel writing.’

BERGENS TIDENDE

‘Sondre Midthun is a debutant with a classic tale that stings.’ AFTENPOSTEN

AUTHOR: SONDRE MIDTHUN

TITLE ENGLISH: FAREWELL TO ALL THAT TITLE NORWEGIAN: FARVEL TIL ALT DÉT

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 512 pages

Sondre Midthun (1986–) has worked as a journalist, magazine editor and at the Academy for Creative Writing in Bergen. He has contributed to the anthologies Signaler and Gruppe 11. He made his literary debut with the novel Don't ever come closer in 2011.

PHOTO: KJELL R. STRØM

AUTHOR: STIG AASVIK

TITLE ENGLISH: THE LOFOTEN WALL

TITLE NORWEGIAN: LOFOTVEGGEN

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 288 pages

THE LOFOTEN WALL

The narrator of this novel is sitting trapped in a job-seeking course through NAV, the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration. Among all the other job seekers, he lets his thoughts wander here and there in violent thrusts back and forth in time.

The Lofoten Wall is a fragmented, intense and meandering insider's tale from within Stig Aasvik's mind; events past and present are intertwined in one long stream of consciousness; his childhood, his mother's sudden and untimely death, travels to his father's hometown in Lofoten, family life, work, everyday events, events great and small, wounds great and small, difficult and painful experiences. Everything pours out, is turned inside out and enlarged.

This is an ambitious story, an inner struggle, a complex, musical, dark, dreamy and lyrical tale about being a human being – here and now.

‘He writes the way a meticulous and sensitive Knaugård might do, merciless but carefully and tender about his close ones. The text grows in a well-groomed and rich inner language.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘ The Lofoten Wall is sweet. The language is radiant. The transitions from thought to thought come naturally. Not for a moment do we miss an external narrative.’

ADRESSEAVISEN

Stig Aasvik (1970-) lives in Oslo. His debut was The Electrical Elephant from 2002. Internal Affairs from 2012, his third novel, was awarded The Bookseller' s Scholarship for Authors. It received great reviews and was nominated for Book of the Year in the publication Natt & Dag.

THE END OF OUR FLAG

TARJEI VESAAS' DEBUT AWARD

In Rottenhof, brothers Adam and Florian are very much left to themselves in a small community where things aren't quite as they should be. They scout for robbers and jugosers in a barren landscape, and both look forward to and dread the impending war.

Since their mother spends all her time with their little sister and their father is Rottenhof's most important man, it becomes Adam's job to watch over and educate Florian. And Adam is a rather special educator. He shows Florian all the rituals that must be performed so that the robbers don't put them in their bags and take them with them, and he concocts gruesome ways to kill the Pröll-child.

Behind this veneer of childlike imagination, we are able to sense a society in ruins and a world constantly on the verge of war. It is also a story about how a small community is forced to react to abuse. And when the war ends and Florian gets sick, Adam's high ideals of bravery and love for the fatherland are broken down in the face of reality.

The End of Our Flag is an enjoyable, brutal and substantial story about the crises mankind can't avoid.

ABOUT STASIA:

‘The language is wild and wondering, dancing and at the same time tight.’

KLASSEKAMPEN

‘Upsetting read about neglect and rootlessness.’

DAGSAVISEN

AUTHOR: PETER FRANZISKUS STRASSEGGER

TITLE ENGLISH: THE END OF OUR FLAG

TITLE NORWEGIAN: SLUTTEN PÅ FLAGGET VÅRT

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 256 pages

Peter Franziskus Strassegger (1984–) was born in Austria but has lived in Norway since he was 12 years old. He was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debut award for his novel Stasia, and has since written two more novels.

PHOTO: © THOMAS WINJE ØIJORD

AUTHOR:

BENEDICTE MEYER KRONEBERG

TITLE ENGLISH: IT HAS TO BE DONE

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

DETTE ER HELT NØDVENDIG

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 224 pages

IT HAS TO BE DONE

Since her very powerful debut novel No One Shall Hear How Quiet It Is in 2010, Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg has been one of our most productive and critically acclaimed authors. She is often compared to Merethe Lindstrøm.

The central event which drives the plot in her new novel It Has To Be Done is a divorce.

Daniel, a photographer, take his two young daughters on a boat trip while he reflects on what really happened between him and his wife, Sonja. What drove her to end their marriage and their life together?

During the trip he decides to break the agreement he has made with his ex-wife, to only have the daughters at sea with him for one single day. He takes the children further out to sea to go camping on a remote island, even though he knows there is a storm coming, putting their lives in grave danger. To his astonishment, Daniel realizes that a part of him welcomes this. But how far is he willing to go, gambling with his children's lives in order to get his revenge?

In It Has To Be Done, Kroneberg continues her intensive investigation of families.

ABOUT NO ONE SHALL HEAR HOW QUIET IT IS:

‘Suggestive about mental health.’

VÅRT LAND

‘Kroneberg writes well, and I believe in her story.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg (1972–) was born in Oslo. She graduated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology with a degree in Nordic Literature. It Has to Be Done is her fifth novel.

THE WORLD PLAYS HIDE AND SEEK

Hanna is in her thirties. All she wants to do is to be an author and to start a family with her boyfriend, Morten. But Morten shows very little understanding for both her writing and for her wish of becoming a mother.

Then Hanna is served some devastating news: She has an eye sight condition, which will slowly turn her blind. On a trip to Iceland to take part in a half-marathon, she finally understands she needs to change her life.

During the race, instead of crossing the finish line, she runs off in the rural Icelandic landscape, and meets a man, Hallgrim. The choice between Morten and Hallgrim steadily becomes more acute as her eye sight continues to deteriorate.

The World Plays Hide and Seek is a novel about finding your own way.

‘Oh, how I recogniced myself in this story. Wanting to write, almost at any price, being so passionate about it, day and night. But the man you love thinks what you're doing is just nonsense … A painful and beautiful novel.’

ANNE B. RAGDE, AUTHOR

‘Siri M. Kvamme put the problems like a painful tip of literary reflections into the protagonist´s life, the sickness, the uncertainty … But the main characters disease is just one of several weighted strong elements in this novel, that has more than one narratives carrying the story. I would like to say lifting it, to an existentially wondering and interesting level.’

HAUGESUNDS AVIS

AUTHOR: SIRI M. KVAMME

TITLE ENGLISH: THE WORLD PLAYS HIDE AND SEEK

TITLE NORWEGIAN: VERDEN LEKER GJEMSEL FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 224 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: BULGARIA (Aviana)

Siri M. Kvamme (1975–) has studied literature and writing, and worked as a journalist and literary critic for over ten years before she started writing full time. She made her literary debut in 2001, with a collection of short prose. Her first novel Winter Heart from 2008 was well received by the critics. In 2012 she published the novel Nightwalker. The World Plays Hide and Seek is her third novel.

AUTHOR: OLE KRISTIAN ELLINGSEN

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 304 pages

AUTHOR: KRISTIN BUVIK SIVERTSEN

FORMAT: 130x205 mm

THE LAST DAYS

ENDETID

The main character in The Last Days is a priest. When his only daughter is raped and killed, at first he finds little comfort and help in the faith and the hope he has given to others.

When the perpetrator flees into hiding in his homeland, the father is provoked by the powerlessness and passivity of the police and the authorities. This eventually leads him to defy the lack of extradition agreements and to take it upon himself to punish the crime which has been committed to his daughter.

Ole Kristian Ellingsen (1952–) works as a writer for the advertising agency McCann. Vindicated from 2014 was his debut, and he has since published two more novels.

CARE

OMSORG

On February 17, 2015, the police are called to an assisted living facility about a suspicious death and a possible rape. More than a month and a half later, a recently graduated policewoman is brought on to the case. She starts interviewing residents, employees and others who might be able to shed light on what happened.

Slowly but surely, the conditions at the assisted living facility are revealed.

With an insightful, sharp, exciting and enjoyable debut, Kristin Buvik Sivertsen asks the question of what care means in our time.

Kristin Buvik Sivertsen (1986–) lives in Oslo. She has a Master's Degree in Literary Science from the University of Copenhagen. Care is her debut.

PELARGONIA

Pelargonia is a novel about the process of growing up rather than a narrative plot. It is a collection of texts and descriptions of a childhood in Norway at the beginning of the 1990s, which now and then opens connections to both youth and young adulthood.

The novel is mainly driven by the language. The descriptions are attentive and affectionate – of mother and father and of clouds, flowers, the light, wheat flour, plums and clothes pegs.

Everyday objects and events are described with sensitivity, and although the book can appear enigmatic and inaccessible, it is also open-hearted and communicative.

FROM PELARGONIA:

‘Still peace and tolerance prevails around me. I collect football cards in a jar, I brush my teeth twice a day, I experience something close to order. The wind stroking through the gardens loves me secretly, and sometimes I have to tighten my belt by two notches to keep from not disintegrating.’

AUTHOR: FREDERIK SVINDLAND

TITLE ENGLISH: PELARGONIA

TITLE NORWEGIAN: PELARGONIA

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 96 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: DENMARK (Forlaget Silkefyret)

Frederik Svindland (1985–) grew up in Porsgrunn. He has studied at the School of Creative Writing in Bø. Pelargonia is his debut novel.

PHOTO: ANNA-JULIA GRANBERGBLUNDERBUSS

AUTHOR: PÄIVI LAAKSO

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 112 pages

AUTHOR:

BENEDICTE ALEXANDRA LIE

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 240 pages

CLEARING THE AIR

MYGGFANGERNE

Päivi, an artist, gets a telephone call from her mother to say that her father is on his deathbed. She hurriedly packs her bags and leaves to be with her father during his final days. The family meet in a hospital in North Finland in an attempt to clear the air and find reconciliation.

Laakso takes us through their last days together, with unmistakeable rawness and unsurpassed humour.

Päivi M. Laakso (1967–) is from Tornio in Finland but lives and works in Norway. She published her debut in 2001, the novel I Love Sun, and has since written two more novels. She is also a renowned artist, with several exhibitions in later years.

THE EYE CHART

SYNSTAVLE

The Eye Chart is the story of Silje, who started studying medicine but who now works in a café instead. Her father owns and manages an optometry practice, that he wants Silje to take over.

The story begins when her father dies and Silje and her boyfriend go home for the funeral. This is when Silje eventually discovers the twist in the story.

Her father had a sister, Silje's aunt, who was a doctor and who is deceased. What Silje doesn't know is that she took her own life after mismanaging a patient. Her father's motive for not wanting Silje to become a doctor begins to appear in another light.

A well written, complex and thought-provoking novel.

Benedicte Alexandra Lie (1971–) is a professor at the Medical Faculty of the University in Oslo. She studied creative writing in Tromsø. The Eye Chart is her debut.

EROTICA

What is Erotica? What do we actually mean when we say that something is “erotic”?

If we simply agree – in a servile way – to all that we are presented with in the media, these questions would seem easy to answer. Erotic images are around us all the time.

Inger Wold Lund chooses a different approach, however. Through a series of dialogues, most of them a page or two long, individual episodes unfold. And as they do, our preconceptions about the erotic are challenged or expanded upon in surprising ways.

Some of Lund's texts are decidedly sensual. Others are comical and even border on slapstick. Although Erotica is inspired by classics from the erotic canon, it is undoubtedly a singular work, with its own vision and scope. Throughout the collection, Lund displays a keen ear for language and an eye for how small events loom large in the most intimate of moments.

Erotica is also a book about experience and memory. Lund finds remnants of the past everywhere, in an abandoned house, in an old pair of pants or in fingermarks in the fog on a car window.

AUTHOR: INGER WOLD LUND

TITLE ENGLISH: EROTICA

TITLE NORWEGIAN: EROTIKA

Inger Wold Lund (1983–) is an artist and writer. She has had several exhibitions in Norway and abroad, and has in addition to Cappelen Damm published books with Flamme Forlag and Ugly Duckling Presse. She lives in Oslo.

PHOTO: HEIDI FURRE

AUTHOR: TANIA KJELDSET

TITLE ENGLISH: HALLOWEEN

TITLE NORWEGIAN: HALLOWEEN

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 128 pages

HALLOWEEN

A red thread runs throughout Kjeldset's short stories. Whether it's the old lady going on a date, the children watching toads, or the middle-aged woman hiding in the basement on Halloween, they are all part of the same loose network that constitutes life.

Bound together by the metro, those who take it and those who drive it, the various characters are all connected.

In her first book for adults, Tania Kjeldseth writes beautiful and painful short stories – with an assured gaze and precise language, she encircles our lives.

Tania Kjeldset (1960–) is an illustrator and writer with nine children's and young adult books to her credit. Her previous book, July, was sold to France, Sweden and Germany.

AN EVEN GREATER LONELINESS

Finely tuned, intimate and surprising. Odd Klippenvåg doesn’t disappoint when he produces a collection of short stories.

The common theme of the stories is human relationships as they play out in closely defined situations: the sister visiting her brother whom she has not seen for a long time; the man ordering flowers and champagne before leaving the office; or the pensioner sitting down to listen to classical music in the title story.

The art of the short story at a high level.

Odd Klippenvåg (1951–) made his literary debut with the novel Night Picture in 1978. He has since published several novels and short story collections, some of which focus on homosexuality. He has also written a trilogy about the lives of classical composers. Klippenvåg is a critically acclaimed writer whose work is of a rare literary quality.

AUTHOR: ODD KLIPPENVÅG

TITLE ENGLISH: AN EVEN GREATER LONELINESS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: EN ENDA STØRRE ENSOMHET

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 144 pages

AUTHOR: STEFFEN KVERNELAND

TITLE ENGLISH: VAMPIRE

TITLE NORWEGIAN: VAMPYR

FORMAT:

151x226 mm / 256 pages

VAMPIRE

A Gothic yarn about the dark secret behind one of Norway's greatest painters. The book is about betrayal, desperation and sick love, seen through the eyes of the drunken cartoonist and Bohemian, Steffen Kverneland.

Unlike anything else you've ever read. And much better than most of it.

Vampire is illustrated with Kverneland's characteristic pictures throughout the book, inspired by the artist Edvard Munch .

Steffen Kverneland had great success with the awardwinning graphical biography MUNCH – the book was awarded the Brage Prize for Best narrative non-fiction in 2013 and has been sold to nine countries.

‘Bloody and crazy wild!’ NRK

‘Bloody entertaining.’

STUDENTMEDIENE I STAVANGER

‘Bad blood in Bjørvika.’

DAG OG TID

Steffen Kverneland (1963–) is a prize-winning Norwegian cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for the cartoons Amputated Classics (1994–2001) and Munch (2013), that was awarded The Brage Prize for best non-fiction the same year. Vampire is his first novel.

AUTHOR: EIVIND LARSSEN

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 72 pages

AUTHOR: ARNE HUGO STØLAN

FORMAT: 125x200 mm / 64 pages

END HOME

ENDEHJEM

A man loses his girlfriend and children in a car accident. He is left alone in a house where everything reminds him of them. Sometimes he can see them so clearly that he doesn't know what to believe.

But what happens when they stop appearing? End Home is a beautiful and philosophical collection of poems about love, loneliness and memory.

Eivind Sudmann Larssen (1984–) comes from Lillehammer and now lives in Bergen. He made his literary debut in 2014 with the novel Nobody misses Edward Niema End Home is his first collection of poetry.

MANNAKORN

Mannakorn are small scraps of paper with passages from the Bible. These are placed in a bowl from which a scrap is taken, and this passage is taken as the basis for an interpretation. Similarly, Stølan also lays out “random” Bible passages, interpretations that move freely and surprisingly compared to the Bible's starting point. Often with humor and seriousness within a single text.

Arne Hugo Støland (1955–) has worked as a teacher and a journalist. He is now a full-time writer and teaches creative writing classes.

YOU DECIDE THAT THIS IS A MEMORY

Marianne Teie debuts with a poetic depth dive into part of Norway's history. Martinus Mathisen lived in Lillehammer a hundred years ago, and the poems in this collection depict his life. This is a life characterized by deprivation, grief and loss – but also by solidarity and closeness.

Much of what Martinus struggles with, is foreign to us. A hundred years ago, Norwegians had to face the death of children, tuberculosis, and a longing for America, the land where everything could be better.

Marianne Teie takes us into this foreign world, while at the same time, her poems also point out the similarities between all humans, regardless of time and space.

AUTHOR: MARIANNE TEIE

TITLE ENGLISH: YOU DECIDE THAT THIS IS A MEMORY

TITLE NORWEGIAN: DU BESTEMMER DEG FOR AT DETTE ER ET MINNE

FORMAT: 115x215 mm / 128 pages

Marianne Teie (1978–) resides in Oslo, where she also works as a teacher. You Decide That This Is A Memory is her first publication.

AUTHOR:

NILS-ØIVIND HAAGENSEN

TITLE ENGLISH:

MAYBE IT HELPS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: KANSKJE DET HJELPER

FORMAT: 115x185 mm / 672 pages

MAYBE IT HELPS POEMS

1998–2010

Nils-Øivind Haagensen is likely today's most popular poet of his generation in Norway. He is compared to the likes of Sweden's Göran Sonnevi, Chile's Pablo Neruda and America's Allen Ginsburg.

After two critically acclaimed collections, his authorship gained momentum with the first of what has since been called The Adress Books. For a while, he was a veritable word machine for newspapers and delivered texts that lay within – but also crossed the borders of – most genres.

When he gives readings, the venue is normally full to capacity. At Cappelen Damm, he published books such as Haruki and I, which was published in 2010. Maybe it helps assembles all the poetry Haagensen has published with Cappelen Damm from 1998 to 2010 – as well as a good deal of extra material from this period.

Thus, we get a thick and beautiful book of hundreds of pages, equipped with a foreword by Johan Harstad and an interview with the author.

If you wish to translate one of Norway's most important poets, you may want to start here, with Nils-Øivind Haagensen.

Nils-Øivind Haagensen (1971–) has worked as a journalist and has a degree in Comparative Literature. He is now Publishing Director of Flamme forlag. He made his literary debut in 1998 with the poetry collection Hands and rememberance, and has since written eight poetry collections, three novels and a travel book. In 2004 he was awarded the SULT award for his writing, and in 2013 he was nominated to the Nordic Council Literature Prize for his poetry collection Good morning and good night

VENETIAN WALKING STICK WITH AN ELEPHANT HEAD

The essay collection Venetian Walking Stick with An Elephant Head opens with an explanation of where the title comes from. Bringsværd describes a situation in which he is walking and is so absorbed in his own thoughts that he falls right down on his stomach and slips across the floor, slapstick-style. “Like a living bobsled”, he slid straight into the door of a Spanish restaurant so hard that blood flowed.

Later, he is telling the story to Jon Bing, who informs him that he must get a walking stick. And not just any walking stick – but a “Venetian walking stick with an elephant head”

Calling this book a cornucopia is almost an understatement. It is a diverse and living journey through cultural and literary history with one of Norway's best storytellers, Tor Åge Bringsværd, as a guide.

Tor Åge Bringsværd is one of the most notable Norwegian storytellers of our time.

AUTHOR: TOR ÅGE BRINGSVÆRD

TITLE ENGLISH: VENETIAN WALKING STICK WITH AN ELEPHANT HEAD

TITLE NORWEGIAN: VENEZIANSK SPASERSTOKK MED ELEFANTHODE

FORMAT: 140x176 mm

Tor Åge Bringsværd (1939–) has received many awards, as a writer and as a playwright. His works have been translated into 23 languages and his theatrical works have been staged in twelve countries. Bringsværd writes for all ages.

AUTHOR: TIRIL BROCH AAKRE

TITLE ENGLISH:

FJÄLLRÄVEN YELLOW

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FJÄLLRÄVEN GUL

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 208 pages

FJÄLLRÄVEN YELLOW

NORLA FOCUS

TITLE

Fjällräven Yellow is a coming-of-age novel. We meet eighteen year old Sjur Tangen in the aftermath of a serious traffic accident in which a girlfriend died. His best friend, Frede, is still in hospital and has given Sjur the responsibility for delivering a yellow back-pack with secret contents to various places in Hakadal, where they live.

At home, his mother is arguing with her lover, and his little brother, Jesper, is having violent temper tantrums. Sjur has hardly any contact with his father, and now his dog, Houdini, has gone missing in the mountains. And all the time Sjur is thinking about a girl called Pjotr, and the things that happened last summer.

‘Tiril Broch Aakre is a remarkable storyteller. Fjällräven Yellow is a moving and somewhat brutal novel about a person on the brink of breaking.’

DAGBLADET

‘Tiril Broch Aakre has a sense for language that make her texts a necessity to read … Fjällräven Yellow feels both important and well composed.’

NRK

‘One association is the intense language of Per Petterson. Broch Aakre has given Sjur many of the same characteristics and angles that we find with Petterson's acting and observing men – people that only have a thin membrane between what they can convey, and on the other side: honesty, vulnerability and other depths.’

DAGSAVISEN

SAVE THE CHILDREN

WINNER OF THE YOUNG CRITICS AWARD 2015

Tanja has moved to Hakadal outside of Oslo with her husband and two children. Here she tries to build a home, make packed lunches, keep the driveway clear of snow, teach her children the difference between right and wrong – and put the past behind her. This proves more difficult than she initially imagined.

“Everything will fix itself overnight”, Tanja used to tell herself. She imagines falling asleep and that an ingenious clock is ticking inside her – securing, rerouting and reinstalling. But that is not how it works any more. At night the floodgates open. And suddenly she cannot get the days to connect.

Save the Children is a warm, powerful novel about sorrow, fear and everday Sisyphean labour.

‘Beautiful and important about being a couple, a family, a person.’

RUTH LILLEGRAVEN, AUTHOR

‘It is well done to write such a rich novel about such hard and big questions in life, in so few words.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘In no more than 124 pages Tiril Broch Aakre makes us understand that she is a writer to be counted with in the years to come … Save the Children is a gripping novel.’

NRK

‘Tiril Broch Aakre's first novel is a tight force field – intense and exciting to experience.’

DAGBLADET

AUTHOR: TIRIL BROCH AAKRE

TITLE ENGLISH: SAVE THE CHILDREN

TITLE NORWEGIAN: REDD BARNA

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 128 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: ALBANIA (Shkupi)

Tiril Broch Aakre (1976–) previously worked as an editor in the publishing house Tiden Norsk Forlag. She is now an author and translator. She made her debut in 2013 with Laces, a collection of poems. In 2015, her first novel Save the Children received excellent reviews.

PHOTO: HEIDI FURRE

AUTHOR: LASSE WARDENÆR FOSSHAUG

TITLE ENGLISH:

ACCORDING TO THE SEA

TITLE NORWEGIAN: ALT ETTER HAVET

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 168 pages

ACCORDING TO THE SEA

With his debut novel Over the Bridge from 2013, Lasse W. Fosshaug showed that he masters the classic worker's novel. In his second book, Fosshaug takes the proletariat with him into the dystopia.

According to the Sea is a book about the little people in the big story. About the individual's role in space and time. The book reads as a thriller, with an innovative mix of worker's novel and dystopian sci-fi, and the reader is challenged to reflect on the role technology plays in our lives.

‘Lasse W. Fosshaug has written a novel that manages to entertain, and at the same time take its reader dead seriously.’

MORGENBLADET

‘Relevant Science Fiction has often been used to comment the present. Fosshaug does this, and he does it well … A novel that at its best almost erases the passage between fantasy and realism.’

NRK

‘In Lasse W. Fosshaug's novel the end of civilization is in the making … It is the way he paints the picture of the ruin of civilization that make the story glow, with a matte, grimy shine of almost existential melancholy.’

KLASSEKAMPEN

‘Catastrophe and collapse.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Lasse W. Fosshaug (1982–) has previously published Looking for Love (2011), a conceptual poetry collection based on leaked intelligence reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2013 he published his first novel, Over the Bridge. He studied at Litterär gestaltning in Gothenburg.

THE CENTER

SENTERET

In The Center, Victoria Durnak explores major themes such as loneliness and post-partum depression, but with a pleasant narrative voice that is both inquisitive and smart at the same time. As in her previous novel, The Marketplace from 2015, Durnak examines how meetings between people can take place in our day and age. While The Marketplace looked at the website finn. no, the action in Durnak's new novel takes place at the mall.

We get familiar with the book's protagonist: a young mother who has moved to Skien to get away – away from Oslo. Away from the man who does not want to be the father of her child.

AUTHOR: VICTORIA DURNAK

THE MARKETPLACE

TORGET

In Victoria Durnak’s second novel, Elin decides to get in touch with people giving things away on classified ad website. She offers to deliver the items to those who want them, and ushers in the winter season as an unpaid carrier.

Almost everything ends up where it’s supposed to, but it’s unclear who’s helping whom. When Nora goes to pick up a poster for delivery, she sees that the poster guy has an album full of childhood photos of her best friend Siri. He demands something in return for it. Has Nora got anything that might tempt him?

AUTHOR: VICTORIA DURNAK

Victoria Durnak (1989–) debuted in 2010 with the poetry collection Stockholm Says. She has since released several poetry collections and novels.

AUTHOR: LINN STRØMSBORG

TITLE ENGLISH: YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE

TITLE NORWEGIAN: DU DØR IKKE

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 184 pages

YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE

Eva lives an apparently normal, recognisable and good life. As seen from the outside, there is no cause for concern. Then one day she has a panic attack on the bathroom floor.

You're Not Gonna Die is both a very small and an almost infinitely big novel – on how an often inexplicable and apparently needless anxiety can afflict us. It can make us avoid what we used to seek. We understand something basically horrible: that being ourselves does not happen automatically. We have to fight for it, usually while nobody is looking. But it is also a story of surviving the struggle, and of friends who don’t stop calling even though you never ring back.

‘… a hopeful book about anxiety.’

KLASSEKAMPEN

‘Maybe one could say that Strømsborg's authorship is moving in a more serious direction with this book, but there is still something unmistakably Strømsborgesque with this novel that portrays the circumstances of a no longer quite so young, anxious woman in an essentially questioning and wondering way, with a hint of misery, melancholy, a sense of lost time, life passing you by, while you’re sitting alone in an empty room, like Demi Moore in St. Elmos Fire, just being scared.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

FURUSET

You can’t go home again, said Tom Wolfe. Sure you can, says Linn Strømsborg, but only for a little while.

Furuset is a suburban novel. A post-study depression novel. A novel about growing up in reverse. About friends, music, getting lost and realising that you can’t simply get lost after all. About taking a step back before you might be able to take two forward.

This is the first book about Eva.

‘A moving and beautiful tale of adulthood that didn’t come when it was supposed to … Every decade, every place needs its young Werther, or its young Eva from Furuset.’ NRK

‘Linn Strømsborg's writing hurts. About grown up life that may not be so grown up after all, about loneliness and about friendship. This novel make me feel less alone. Good literature might do that to you.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Linn Strømsborg (1986–) made her debut 2009 with the novel Roskilde, the story of a group of young people at a music festival, and followed up with the chap book Øya in the same year. She has since written two novels about the main character Eva; Furuset in 2012 and You´re not gonna die in 2016. She is one of the most interesting young voices in contemporary Norwegian fiction today.

AUTHOR: LINN STRØMSBORG

TITLE ENGLISH: FURUSET

TITLE NORWEGIAN: FURUSET

FORMAT: 140 x 210 mm / 224 pages

AUTHOR: KARIN FOSSUM

TITLE ENGLISH: THE WHISPERER

TITLE NORWEGIAN: HVISKEREN

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 336 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: DENMARK (Gyldendal DK)

NETHERLANDS (Marmer) SWEDEN (Forum)

THE WHISPERER

Ragna Riegel works at Europris and lives alone in her childhood home. Her parents have died and her only son has moved to Berlin. They have no contact other than occasional Christmas and birthday cards.

Ragna lives within close confines. She likes her job because it is full of routine, she likes to sit on the same seat on the bus every day and she likes to buy the same things at the local shop each day. She must have order in her life. And she does, until one day she finds a letter in her mailbox with her name on the envelope and a clear threat written in block capitals on the sheet inside.

The letter reinforces a nightmare where Ragna Riegel's life is threatened by an unknown enemy and she realises that she must use all means possible to defend herself.

The novel takes the form of Konrad Sejer's interrogation of Ragna Riegel after the worst has happened; after it is too late.

A powerful narrative from one of the strongest voices in Norwegian crime literature.

Karin Fossum (1954–) made her literary debut in 1974 with the poetry collection Maybe Tomorrow, for which she won the Vesaas First Writer's Award. She has published books in several genres, but is perhaps best known for her crime fiction about Konrad Sejer. Several of her books have been filmed. She has received a number of prestigious awards, including an LA Times Book Award for her novel Beloved Poona.

Karin Fossum's books are translated into 34 languages.

‘With the intense build-up of suspense and a completely astounding and unexpected final crescendo, The Whisperer, for me, is a masterpiece.’

TØNSBERGS BLAD

‘The intimate depiction of an individual's innermost thoughts and feelings form the focus of this project, which is so eminently executed that the reader is left speechless at the author's insight and understanding, as well as the way in which she conveys these.’

FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

‘Superb.’

VARDEN

‘She has written a tremendously good story about someone who could easily be our neighbour.’

ADRESSEAVISEN

‘The Whisperer is a novel that measures up to any literature, crime or otherwise.’

DAGBLADET

‘Creepy, unnerving discomfort and plausible madness in everyday life … The unthinkable lingers and quivers within the text, creating suspense as the story builds towards the shocking reveal.’

‘It is her ability to make average, often wounded human psyches crackle and glow in all the colours of the rainbow that is Fossum's forte as a writer. She has an exceptional eye for fragility and vulnerability, and the complexity and dark humour of these states of mind.’

AFTENPOSTEN

‘The Whisperer has qualities that distinguish the author at her best: Finely-honed psychological insight in combination with chilling discomfort.’

DAGSAVISEN

AUTHOR: EYSTEIN HANSSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: HUNTED

TITLE NORWEGIAN: JAGET

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 448 pages

HUNTED

A body surfaces in Oslo's financial district – a man from the Middle East without identification. The case is homicide detective Elli's first as a new mother. The investigation points to an American who is already in prison. Elli's intuition is that the murder was committed in order to hide an even greater crime with which the American was involved.

Meanwhile, in Libya, Basma and her two children are fighting for a place on one of the refugee boats crossing the Mediterranean.

With the migration from Syria as a background, the thriller Hunted portrays how war, escape and xenophobia push people to their utmost limits.

This is the sixth book in the series about Elli.

With his novels about detective Elli, Eystein Hansen has topped the charts on audiobook listening service Storytel, and twice been nominated for the National Booksellers Award.

‘Magnificent intelligence thriller.’ DAGBLADET

‘Hanssen

sparkles in the police scenes and shines when it comes to dialogue.’

Eystein Hanssen (1965–) portions out his time between writing books, working on film projects and PR tasks. His first work of fiction Those Not Missed came out in 2010 and his next book Poison Surge the following year. Both books were nominated for the Booksellers' Prize. He has so far written a total of seven books about his female protagonist, Police Detective Elli Rathke.

HE WHO BRINGS ABOUT ANOTHER ' S DEATH

A rock musician with a previous conviction for violence but now experiencing success as a writer, is accused of the murder of his literary mentor.

For old times' sake, defence attorney Mikael Brenne has taken on a case he thinks he can win, but he forgets his possibly most important guiding rule: never ask a question if you don't know the answer.

The consequence is not just the loss of a case, but the loss of a life.

‘Death Metal, a sex murder and a curious lawyer makes a welcome addition to the Norwegian Crime Literature.’

AFTENPOSTEN

‘Well worked through and professional.’

DAGBLADET

‘Another hit from Chris Tvedt! A well thought plot, with threads woven nicely into each other and with surprising twists … entertaining and exciting.’

BERGENS TIDENDE

Chris Tvedt (1954–) is born in Bergen. In addition to Law School he has studied Comparative Literature. In 1988, he started practicing as a lawyer, but is now working as a fulltime writer.

AUTHOR: CHRIS TVEDT

TITLE ENGLISH: HE WHO BRINGS ABOUT ANOTHER ' S DEATH

TITLE NORWEGIAN: DEN SOM FORVOLDER EN ANNENS DØD

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 368 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: UKRAINE (Nora-Druk)

PHOTO: MAJA HATTVANG

AUTHOR: TORKIL DAMHAUG

TITLE ENGLISH: A FIFTH SEASON

TITLE NORWEGIAN: EN FEMTE ÅRSTID

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 576 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: DENMARK (Modtryk) GERMANY (Droemer Knaur)

A FIFTH SEASON

Ann, Victor, Helene and Nicolai are four young friends. They like trying things out, but their exploits don't always turn out well. One of the things they should not have done was to lock a classmate in the basement of a ruined riverside factory, where there had once been a nasty accident. Soon after, two of the four youngsters are found dead, and the third has disappeared.

A Fifth Season is a psychological thriller which brings the reader close to both victims and perpetrators. It is a crime novel where the reader has the opportunity to follow the investigation of abduction and murder. What happened? Who is guilty?

This is a thought-provoking novel which throws light on how events we cannot control intrude to turn everyday life upside-down. What happens to us and to our relationships with our loved ones? We meet young people driven by lethal forces they don't understand. We meet a father who will do everything to find his daughter. We meet some of the faces of evil.

Torkil Damhaug (1958–) has a degree in medicine with a specialization in psychiatry. His debut novel, Flee, moon caused a great stir when it appeared in 1996. His Norwegian and international breakthrough came with the psychological thriller Death by water from 2009. The novel is optioned for a movie. For the novel Fireraiser, Damhaug was awarded the prestigious Riverton Prize for best crime fiction novel in 2011.

‘A thriller with an ambitious set-up, masterful in its formulation – rich in perspective, filled with consciously placed leitmotifs and with a suitably complex structure, this is an intense, exciting and psychologically detailed portrayal of the labyrinth that is the human mind.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘Torkil Damhaug is a crime writer who is unusually assured in his form; I am unaware of any other writer who can invoke the way in which desperation lies in wait in the most everyday situations in quite the way that he does.’

‘Torkil Damhaug is back among the best.’

ROMERIKES BLAD

‘In terms of style, Damhaug is one of our best, with a playful approach to language – the wide-ranging narrative is characterised by outstanding descriptions of environment and natural dialogue.’

TRØNDER-AVISA

‘Extremely cleverly put-together…’

MOSS AVIS

‘Damhaug is a fantastic story-teller, who painstakingly unravels his well-composed narrative. Through dialogue, shifts in perspective and a broad spectrum of minor figures, his characters are depicted as a consequence of suppression, conflict and failure.’

DAGBLADET

‘Damhaug successfully maintains suspense for more than 600 pages.’

FRI FAGBEVEGELSE

‘A Fifth Season is a marvellous existential thriller, a nerve-wracking drama to be ranked among the best of Norwegian and international crime.’

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

‘Torkil Damhaug is the true magician of Norwegian crime writers. A Fifth Season shows him at his very best … A stylistically consistent, psychological crime novel, and in the genre in which Damhaug can be considered in a class of his own here in Norway.’

HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD

AUTHOR:

HANS OLAV LAHLUM

TITLE ENGLISH: THE TRACK CHANGE MURDER

TITLE NORWEGIAN: SPORVEKSLINGSMORDET

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 432 pages

THE TRACK CHANGE MURDER

A 17 year old skier is found shot on the track during the last lap of a relay race at Holmenkollen. The incident happened in open ground, but without any witnesses. Detective Officer Kolbjørn “K2” Kristiansen has a worrying new case to investigate.

The more K2 digs beneath the apparently undramatic surface of the murdered girl's life, the more dramatic events he discovers. The victim was adopted and lived alone with her adoptive mother in a rather chilled and icy atmosphere. Ingeborg didn't like her mother's new lover. She was also searching intensely for the truth about her own origins and had just found out who her biological father was.

The Track Change Murder is a thought provoking family history of a child adopted in 1970s Norway, and a new classic crime mystery in the series featuring K2 and Patricia.

PHOTO: ANNA JULIA GRANBERG, BLUNDERBUSS

Hans Olav Lahlum (1973–) is a historian. He made his literary debut with the critically acclaimed biography Oscar Torp in 2007. He has since published several crime fiction novels and non-fiction books. His crime fiction novels have become bestsellers in Norway, and are available in Danish, English, Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian, Danish, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Russian, Slovakian and Korean.

‘The Track Change Murder is his best crime novel so far. Even those who do not like crime will enjoy reading this one.’

TVEDESTRANDPOSTEN

‘This crime novel is a joy to read! This is definitely Hans Olav Lahlum´s most ambitious and best crime novel to date, full of clues going off in all directions and all coming together in an impressive manner.’

LO-AKTUELT

‘The Track Change Murder is not only intelligent – it is crime magic that is truly fascinating.’

GJENGANGEREN

‘… clocks in the finish of his best K2-novel so far.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘A crime mystery starting off as one of Lahlum´s most intense and best … The story Lahlum has concocted is more complex and has more genuine human pain than his previous novels. In it we find the political lines from the eastern front to Argentina, homosexual love, rivalry between siblings and people who work together, individuals searching for identity and meaning and prejudice in a society divided by class. Lahlum cleverly plays out the same problems in different times, and he has a few aces up his sleeve.’

ADRESSEAVISEN

AUTHOR:

TERJE BJØRANGER

TITLE ENGLISH: BARCODE

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

BARCODE

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 384 pages

BARCODE

A young woman is found brutally murdered near Sognsvann. She is dressed in a police uniform and has an unmistakable tattoo on her chest. The next day, a top politician from the Labour Party jumps in front of a train at Lillestrøm station. As Police Detective Charlie Robertson dives into these cases, he sees connections no one else is willing to see. Robertson and his team get entangled in a pitch-black Oslo in which drugs, prostitution and human trafficking operate freely.

‘In his second novel Terje Bjøranger come out a fullblooded police novel writer’

DAGBLADET

‘A solid and surprisingly good Norwegian police crime that may very well end up as one of this year’s best crime fiction novels.’

ADRESSEAVISEN

Terje Bjøranger (1959–) resides in Lørenskog and works as a Police Prosecutor for NCIS. He debuted in 2012 with The Third Sister. Bjøranger has worked with UDI for several years in areas such as forced marriages and honor crimes.

OPERATION HADES

The family of undercover cop Axel Th. Munthe's colleague Tobben is attacked. Some young people from a new, militant animal rights organization are found brutally harmed. It turns out that we are facing an international criminal organization without any scruples, and whose brutal conduct will show that they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. If they succeed, the country will never be the same.

AUTHOR: SIGBJØRN MOSTUE AND JOHNNY BRENNA

TITLE ENGLISH: OPERATION HADES

TITLE NORWEGIAN: OPERASJON HADES

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 352 pages

Sigbjørn Mostue (1969–) works full time as a writer, having issued two crime novels for adults together with Johnny Brenna. He has also written two award winning fantasy trilogies for middle grade readers.

Johnny Brenna (1964–) is Crime Editor at the magazine Alfa. He has previously been a consultant on crime issues for TV2 and advised the Conservative (Høyre) parliamentary group on crime policy. He worked in the police force for 20 years, and for 13 of these, he dealt with organised crime. Brenna is one of the leading contributors to the award-winning (Brage prize) documentary study Police & Robber

AUTHOR: EVA J. STENSRU

6 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017

SHADOW PLAY

SKYGGESPILL

Oslo/Hedmarken, april 1940

Nobody thinks that the evil will strike them too – but when the world’s most powerful army invades Norway, young Inger Marie and her family in Hamar find themselves in the centre of events. They think they are moving toward safety, but they are moving into a hell which turns their whole existence upside down.

Inger Marie decides to fight for freedom. Even when paralysed by fear she fights on – for her family, for her own life and for love.

AUTHOR: ANNIKKI ØVERGÅRD

9 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017

ANNA FROM RØROS

ANNA FRA RØROS

Anna is nineteen years old and daughter of a German mining engineer. When her father dies in a mining accident in Germany, her Norwegian mother is forced to move back to Røros with the children. When the mother gets ill, Anna promises to take care of her brother, Heine.

Anna dreams of her own happiness, but could she find happiness without breaking the promise she has given her mother?

AUTHOR: ELISABETH HAMMER

7 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017

TWILIGHT

SKUMRINGSTID

Rachel is heir to a farm in Vestfold. She was found in the river as a child, and no one knew where she came from. Yet there is someone who know - and who wants her hurt. She has no idea, but she soon discovers strange powers within herself.

WHITE HEARTS

HVITE HJERTER

New!

There is something mysterious about Ekely Hospital in the Nøtterø archipelago. Amelia is excited on her first day as a student nurse there in 1911. Does she really know what she is letting herself in for? There are strict moral rules to be followed and much she has to forsake, not least her love. Amelia soon begins to notice that the house lives a life of its own during the night. Ekely is brooding on dark secrets from the days when it was a mansion house

AUTHOR: ANN-CHRISTIN GJERSØE

8 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017

EMMA & JOHANNES

An internal family drama.

Dreams and longings – unbreakable bonds …

New!

Emma Dal is seventeen and in love with Olav. Her mother thinks that he isn’t the right one, and wants Emma to go to stay with her aunt in Kristiansund to train with her as a seamstress. Emma is at her happiest when she is out with her father in the boat or wandering off with her sketchbook. When a foreign artist comes to live on the island, her dream of one day becoming an artist comes a step closer.

AUTHOR: INGER HARRIET HEGSTAD

8 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017

AUTHOR: TRINE ANGELSEN

AUTHOR: SIGRID LUNDE

THE DOCTOR’S DAUGHTER

BREIDABLIKK

Engeløya, 1862.

One cold winter evening, Gabriel is on his way home from visiting a patient when his horse suddenly starts to one side. A girl is lying at the side of the road, apparently lifeless. Without hesitation, the young doctor takes her home with him. There is great commotion in his household when the half-dead girl is brought in. Who is she, and where is she from? Nobody knows, and she doesn’t tell them anything …

THE VOICE OF THE HEART

HJERTETS RØST

Two strong men

A woman following her heart

An unforgettable love story

AUTHOR:

A suitcase, an old Bible and a brand new midwife’s bag is all Gjertrud brings with her when she arrives at Sæterdalen in 1899. She has no husband to provide for her, and her midwife’s salary is more often paid in butter or eggs than in money. However, Gjertrud doesn’t complain, for she is filled with the desire to help the women in the small community.

TWO SISTERS

VEIEN HJEM

Two sisters. Two destinies. Jealousy, love and rivalry in Tromsø, 1927. Johanna Abrahamsen and her two daughters are living life on the sunny side, while her husband who is captain of a big ship is away most of the year. Everybody is looking forward to his expected return home, but things don’t all turn out as expected. Friendship and family ties are put to the test. Katrine and Kornelia are as unlike as two sisters can be. One of them charms everybody, while the other feels herself overlooked and is plagued with jealousy.

ROSE-PAINTED

ROSEMALT

Painful and touching farm drama!

Rebekka Lie is seventeen years old and an orphan. She dreams of becoming a painter, but must rather work on the Lie Farm in Østerdalen. Her boyfriend, Jens, has emigrated to America. The farmer on Lie Farm welcomes Rebekka, but his wife is unable to give the farm an heir and has thus become a stern and bitter woman.

SUNNIVA'S SAGA

SAGAEN OM SUNNIVA

The year is 1349. On the Elvestad farm, they are preparing for the wedding of the young farmer's daughter Sunniva Persdatter, just as the Plague is closing its clammy fist around the countryside. Sunniva must fight for her life. This powerful saga is about people who are torn from one another, about fates that are interwoven and about the bonds of love that are forged and broken.

RINGS OF LOVE

ÅRRINGER

A heart-warming and intimate tale set in Lunnerskog in the year 1907.

Silja Olafsen, the only child of timber mill owner Arvid Olafsen, faces a difficult decision. Should she marry and add children to the family brood, or defy her father and take over the running of the timber mill? In the midst of her decision-making process, a stranger shows up in the village: a travelling log driver known as the King of the River. Shortly afterwards the village is struck by an unfortunate incident.

AUTHOR: ANNIKKI ØVERGÅRD

25 BOOKS

AUTHOR: LIV ALMENDINGEN

23 BOOKS

AUTHOR: YVONNE ANDERSEN

33 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017

AUTHOR: TRINE ANGELSEN

30 BOOKS

AUTHOR: ANNE-LISE BOGE

DAUGHTER OF THE SEA

HAVETS DATTER

Elisabeth gazed over the small, gray tree stumps under the mountain while she grasped the worn suitcase in her hand. She was sixteen and off to work as a servant on the Dalsrud estate. She had never been away from her childhood home and now felt expectation and a sense of freedom. Drama, romance and the hard life in Lofoten, Norway.

ORIGINAL SIN

ARVESYND

Young, beautiful Mali comes from a poor family and is "sold" into marriage to a rich farmer boy. The marriage is loveless, and Mali suffers. One day a band of gypsies turn up at the farm, and Mali meets the wild, handsome Jo. Now she learns what love is all about, but this discovery will have fatal consequences for her entire life. This series has broken all records in readership and sales figures.

English version of books 1–5 available on iBooks and Amazon.

26 BOOKS

RIGHTS SOLD TO: FINLAND, POLAND, SWEDEN, USA

AUTHOR: ANNE-LISE BOGE

28 BOOKS

RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

MOTHER'S HEART

MORSHJERTE

The year is 1928. Maren is the daughter of the merchant Thorvald Bredli. He is a wealthy man, with a lot of influence in the community. Since Maren is the only one who can carry on his legacy, he expects her to find a husband of equal social standing. One day the indigent boy Trond Lia is given a job in the storehouse. Maren falls head-over-heels, and the young woman is unaware of the dramatic consequences this relationship will have on her life.

THE STRAWBERRY LADIES

JORDBÆRDAMENE

Life is good in the suburbs of Oslo in the 1950s, and Strawberry Hill is a housewife's paradise. A place where they can live with their young families and guard their perfect façades with eagle eyes.

But when a woman with two children and no wedding ring moves into the area, the idyll is shattered. The stage is set for intrigue and revelations of unspeakable proportions…

LEGACY

LIVSARVEN

The story of Livsarven takes place at the venerable Gimle Farm in Vestfold in the 1880s. This is an action-packed and heartwarming tale, which revolves around the lives and loves of three young women at a time when women were rarely in charge of their own destinies.

AUTHOR: SYNNØVE ERIKSEN

18 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017

AUTHOR: ANN-CHRISTIN GJERSØE

36 BOOKS

RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

MISTLETOE

MISTELTEIN

Forbidden feelings – Intense attraction – Tumultuous jealousy

The year is 1918, and the Spanish flu comes to Horten. A young girl, Selma, wakes up in the middle of the night to see her mother disappearing out into the darkness. Selma follows her. Her mother is a nurse and is helping the crew of a ship down by the quay. Unfortunately, she is infected there …

AUTHOR: ELISABETH HAMMER

24 BOOKS

AUTHOR: INGER HARRIET HEGSTAD

24 BOOKS RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

THE VIOLET STONE

FIOLSTEINEN

One morning a baby girl is found abandoned on the doorstep at Grønvoll farm. It turns out that the baby is of Gypsy blood and has a deformed foot. At Grønvoll, the girl is taken care of by the spinster Gurine and given the name Hansine. Life in the mid 1800s is far from blissful at Grønvoll, but Hansine grows up to become a wise and beautiful young woman, and, as it turns out, she appears to have supernatural powers … Hansine struggles to fit in with the locals who never quite approve of her, and one day she vanishes.

AUTHOR: FRID INGULSTAD

88 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017 RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

WIND OF CHANGE

SØNNAVIND

The author takes us to the factories and houses along the river Akerselva in Oslo, 1905. Elise and her little sister work at one of the factories. Their mother is ill and their father an alcoholic. Elise must take responsibility for her family. The radical changes occurring at the turn of the century, and the fate of the working classes are brought sharply into focus in this successful saga.

English version of books 1–5 available on iBooks.

AUTHOR: FRID INGULSTAD

45 BOOKS RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

INGEBJØRG OLAVSDATTER

By 1352, the Black Death has killed two-thirds of the Norwegian population. A young girl, Ingebjørg Olavsdatter, lost her father. Ingebjørg is young, strong and beautiful, but as an unmarried woman she has little to say regarding her own future.

A gripping tale from the Middle Ages; a personal and political drama.

ALVESTAD

Love and desire, betrayals and mysteries, poverty and the harsh everyday grind are all components of Elin Brend Johansen's new suite of novels set at the end of the 19th century. For many years, Ingrid Alvestad lived peacefully as a member of the upper class in Christiania, but one day, a telegram shatters the calm. Her father has died and Ingrid has inherited a large estate in the province of Romerike. Soon, Ingrid is forced to choose between duty and longing, between her responsibilities and her dreams. The estate, where past sins still lurk, does not welcome her.

DANGEROUS POWERS

FARLIGE KREFTER

In Farlige krefter, an historical series set in Ringerike in the 1600s, we meet the young and passionate heiress to Svanemyr manor, Sunniva. She is blissfully ignorant of the extent of her supernatural powers, but will soon learn that her powers can have fatal consequences. In this dramatic series we follow Sunniva's struggle to survive in a time when women with supernatural powers were burned at the stake.

WATERFALL

FOSSEFALL

Passion and Mystery at Finnskogen!

Fossefall is set in Finnskogen, an enormous forested area that stretches along both sides of the Norwegian-Swedish border. Finnish immigrants settled there in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the culture is rich with myths and sagas. Amalie, a farmer's daughter, has fallen in love with a Finnish man named Mitti. Her parents have other plans for her. They have already decided that she will marry the town's sheriff.

AUTHOR: ELIN BREND JOHANSEN

45 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017 RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

AUTHOR: ELIN BREND JOHANSEN

21 BOOKS

AUTHOR: JORUNN JOHANSEN

55 BOOKS RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

AUTHOR:

SUNRISE

SOLOPPGANG

Intrigue, love and surprises that will take the reader's breath away.

Andrine Tronvik (17) lives in wretched conditions on a farm in Kongsvinger. The old fortress towers over the farm at the top of the hill. But why does Andrine see a decapitated woman on the fortress walls? Is she some form of manifestation from a bygone era? And what gives Andrine the impression that the woman is innocent? Life changes radically for Andrine when she discovers the secrets borne by her own family.

IN WAR AND LOVE

I KRIG OG KJÆRLIGHET

This story is set during the Second World War. From an early age, Kristin has looked after her home and siblings, and has not been particularly concerned with what is going on in Europe towards the end of the 1930s. She just dreams about marrying Jan and living happily together. But soon the war casts its shadow over her world, and she is forced to make a choice that will influence the course of her life.

AUTHOR:

WHITE FROST

The sorceress Rime is guarding a much sought-after secret. As a result she is afraid to fall in love. Only Bork, a farmer's son, succeeds in wearing down her defences. This strong, silent man makes an impression on her, and against her will she is drawn to him. However, Rime has mighty enemies who are aware of her secret and want a share of it. She is not safe anywhere…

EYES OF THE WOLF

ULVEØYNE

This Viking saga is set in a period of time when superstition was stronger than religion, when tempers ran high and conflicts were solved by the sword. When the little slave-girl is born, people are shocked at her appearance: raven-black hair and ice-grey, luminous eyes. Word has it her father must have been a wolf, and so she is given the name Ulva. Refusing a life of slavery, Ulva runs away and tries to survive on her own.

THE ROSE GARDEN

ROSEHAGEN

In 1881, ten-year-old Emily and her mother set out on a voyage. The ship goes down. Emily survives but loses her memory. Twelve years later she discovers a letter that reveals the fact that her life has been founded on a web of lies fabricated by her own mother. A series in which tension, intrigues and hidden pasts mingle.

AUTHOR: TRUDE BRÆNNE LARSSEN

26 BOOKS

AUTHOR: MERETE LIEN

78 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017 RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

DESCENDANTS OF THE STORM

BARN AV STORMEN

Agnete is the daughter of a harbor pilot and lives on an island with a fierce and beautiful landscapes. The story begins when she falls in love and faces a difficult choice between two men. Agnete and those close to her must fight against inner and outer enemies, as well as the ferocious forces of nature on the island that faces the wild ocean. This is a touching love story that also paints a picture of daily life near the end of the 1700s.

AUTHOR: MERETE LIEN

36 BOOKS RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

AUTHOR: SIGRID LUNDE

66 BOOKS RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

THE MIDWIFE

JORDMOREN

As a newly qualified midwife Astri moves to a small community in Western Norway in the 1920s. Work as a district midwife can be both lonely and dangerous, but Astri is pursuing a long time dream. Although the locals are welcoming and seem eager to meet her, she senses their apprehension. She settles in – and faces the challenges of a district midwife. Astri's story is a momentous drama of love and betrayal, life and death.

AUTHOR: JANE MYSEN

84 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017 RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

FLAME DANCE

FLAMMEDANS

The year is 1880. A band of gypsies roams through Lillehammer and the surrounding countryside. We follow their lives, full of drama, excitement and passion, through towns and deep forests. Anna is a young gypsy girl travelling with a large group of migrants. Her engagement to Nikolai is celebrated one bright summer night. But before they are married, a murder is committed in the camp. Nikolai is forced to flee and Anna is left to fend for herself.

AUTHOR: CHRISTIN GRILSTAD PRØIS

42 BOOKS

RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

THE CHAINS OF LIFE

LIVETS LENKER

The year is 1856. At Heimsett farm, 18-year-old Elen is growing up. Even though the family lives in poverty, Elen is happy. But one day, a great tragedy is revealed. Her father has incurred huge debts. Unexpectedly, the doctor in the village offers to save the family farm from being sold at an auction. His one request is that Elen consents to being his bride …

ANNA'S FATE

ANNAS SKJEBNE

It is the year 1900, and on a cold winter's day in Hallingdal, fouryear-old Anna Johnsen is taken away by child care authorities. She is placed with Helga and Nils Bergmoen, a deeply religious couple who take saving little Anna from the sinful life in Ura as their calling.

AUTHOR: ELLINOR RAFAELSEN 18 BOOKS

GUNHILD'S CHOICE

FARSARVEN

In this historical series set in Hallingdal, Norway, in the late 1800s we get to know the life of Gunnhild Johnsen and her five children after her husband follows his dream and sets off to America to find gold. All he leaves Gunnhild is a letter with a promise to return … one day. Gunnhild, struggles to provide for her family after her husband abandons them in poverty, and in despair she decides to put the children into foster care and seek work outside the small village in Hallingdal. Will Gunnhild's husband return from America as a wealthy man? And will his family be there to welcome him back?

NEW HORIZONS

NYE HORISONTER

Trondheim, 1925. Amanda is an only child and heir to the Eikelund estate. A rebellious young woman, she strays from her parents' conservative plans and desires for her future. Persistent confrontations lead her mother and father to arrange a marriage without delay – and when she falls head over heels for a young seafaring vagabond, her father threatens to disinherit her.

AUTHOR: ELLINOR RAFAELSEN 18 BOOKS RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

AUTHOR: ELLINOR RAFAELSEN 20 BOOKS

THE NIGHTMAN'S DAUGHTER

NATTMANNENS DATTER

A warm and thrilling tale of poverty-stricken orphaned children set in 18th-century Bergen.

Bergen, 1701.

Lucie Tønnisdatter holds a lasting memory of her father, seized by mysterious men when she was young. He'd told her he'd always take care of her, but in his absence she was forced to grow up alongside the other poor, orphaned children of the feared Manufactory House.

AMBROSIA 1814

It is a warm spring day in 1813 and Ambrosia Holmsdatter is on her way to Eidsvoll with her mother and siblings. Europe is ravaged by war, and need is great in Norway.

A magical series from the 1800s. Barbra is 16 years old when she runs away from her home in Julsruddalen, taking with her a dangerous secret. Barbra dreams of being a ’timber girl’, working to transport timber to Christiania (now Oslo). But a young girl on her own, travelling desolate country roads and staying in disreputable inns, is tempting prey. AUTHOR:

Ambrosia's father is dead and the family must say goodbye to a life of prosperity in the city. A new life is waiting for them on Tråkka Farm, where their mother's half-brother Hugo Trampe is waiting to welcome them. Ambrosia is soon caught up in both drama and love, and she knows that those close to her have many secrets.

THE TIMBER GIRL

THE BEACH HOTEL

SKJÆRGÅRDSLIV

Drøbak, 1909. A summer paradise. Girls on the threshold of adulthood. An unsolved murder. Josefine and her younger sister, Martine, arrive in Drøbak to live with their aunt following their parents' death. It's here that they come closer to learning the truth about their mother's death, and discover that the small town idyll is no more than a superficial facade …

THE GULDBERG SAGA

STORGÅRDSFOLK

Johanna is the eldest daughter of the country policeman in the farm district of Hedmark. When her father dies from an accidental gunshot, Johanna – a young girl at the end of the 18th century – must take responsibility for the farm and the police work. She feels confident that she will manage. However, when it comes to love… things are not as simple.

English versions of books 1–5 available on iBooks and Amazon.

THE SILVER RIBBON

SØLVBÅNDET

Wealth and romance from Nordland! Victoriahavn (Narvik), 1899. Maiken's sister has left home to work at the new railway construction near the Swedish border. Maiken is determined to follow, but her parents do not want their youngest daughter to cook for weather-beaten navvies. They want Maiken to marry the young priest Daniel Ingstad, who likes her very much. While he is courting her, she earns money working in the rectory, which is a far better life than working among navvies in the wilderness.

AUTHOR: JEANETTE SEMB

33 BOOKS BY THE END OF 2017

AUTHOR: EVA J. STENSRUD

60 BOOKS RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND

AUTHOR: MARTINE STRØMSNES

15 BOOKS

AUTHOR: HILDE ØSTBY AND YLVA ØSTBY

TITLE ENGLISH:

DIVING FOR SEA-HORSES

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

Å DYKKE ETTER SJØHESTER FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 288 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

CANADA (Greystone Books)

DENMARK (Gyldendal DK) POLAND (Marginesy Publishing House)

DIVING FOR SEAHORSES

A BOOK ABOUT MEMORY

Take a plunge into the science of memory, together with sisters Hilde and Ylva Østby, in Diving for Sea-horses

The writers explore the many facets of memory and how it influences our lives, both from a neuroscience perspective and through conversations with some of the most influential memory researchers of our time. They meet people with a special kind of memory – at both ends of the memory spectrum from mnemonists, actors and taxi drivers, to amnesiacs – and discover that most memories are transformed and some are best forgotten. In the middle of winter, they send divers deep into the Oslo fjord in search of where our memories are stored. They wonder if what lies at the heart of memory is what will change our future.

Diving for Sea-horses explains memory through personal and vivid tale telling, combining the best of two craftsmanships: Hilde is a novelist, and Ylva is a neuropsychologist.

‘Go read!’ AFTENPOSTEN

‘…readable and interesting … Reading this book will leave you baffled about how complex memory is’

FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

Hilde Østby (1975–) is a historian of ideas, author, journalist and former publishing editor. She made her debut as an author in 2013.

Ylva Østby (1979–) has a doctorate in neuropsychology from The University in Oslo and is one of Norway's leading experts on how memory functions.

AUTHOR: DAG ØISTEIN ENDSJØ

TITLE ENGLISH: THE HISTORY OF IMMORTALITY

TITLE NORWEGIAN: UDØDELIGHETENS HISTORIE FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 304 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: LATVIA (u.c. Publishing)

THE HISTORY OF IMMORTALITY

“Do you really want to live forever?” With this immortal lyric from the 1980's as his soundtrack, religious historian Dag Øistein Endsjø goes in search of eternal life.

The dream of immortality is possibly as old as humanity itself. One of the few things we all have in common, is the knowledge that we all shall die. The alternative appears as simple as it is unachievable. Is it possible to stop our bodies from changing and to preserve them forever? What would happen if time lost its power over us? What really distinguishes Jesus' resurrection from the zombies who waken to life in The Walking Dead?

The history of immortality will not give you the prescription for eternal life. Nor does it contain any irrefutable evidence that immortality is possible. What it does offer, however, is a wideranging, informative and entertaining account of humanity's engagement with life's most central question: What happens to us when we die, and what might we be able to do to avoid it?

Dag Øistein Endsjø's book Sex & Religion (2009) was sold to eleven countries.

Dag Øistein Endsjø (1968–) is Professor of Religious Studies at The University of Bergen. He researches religious topics, writes, takes part in social debate, and is an activist for human rights.

C – CARBON

AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY

There are good reasons for writing this book with the simple title of C, which is the first and unauthorised biography of carbon, life's central element.

Most of the life processes within and around us involve carbon in one form or another. Carbon in pure form can be both graphite in a pencil, and diamond. It is also the starting point for most of the synthetic materials which pervade modern life. However, the essence of Dag O. Hessen's story is the lifecycle of carbon, the important balance between photosynthesis and cellular respiration, between building and burning.

This book gives us the basis we need for that understanding. It is an informal, well-informed book written with strong personal commitment by one of Norway's best presenters of research and science.

‘Hessen's compelling contribution to knowledge will probably be decisive, inspiring increased responsibility.’

BIOLOG

‘The literary technique is distinctly original … Dag O. Hessen succeeds in creating a piece of accessible literature on the border between science and politics.’

KLASSEKAMPEN

Dag O. Hessen (1956–) 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.

AUTHOR: DAG O. HESSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: C – CARBON

TITLE NORWEGIAN: C – KARBON

FORMAT: 148x180 mm / 264 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: ARGENTINA (Ediciones Godot) GREAT BRITAIN (Reaktion Books Ltd.)

AUTHOR: TORBJØRN FÆRØVIK

TITLE ENGLISH: THE ORIENT EXPRESS. A SPRING JOURNEY FROM LONDON TO SAMARKAND

TITLE NORWEGIAN: ORIENTEKSPRESSEN – EN VÅRREISE

FORMAT:

151x226 mm / 504 pages

THE ORIENT EXPRESS

A SPRING JOURNEY FROM LONDON TO SAMARKAND

Norway's leading travel writer has followed the world's most famous railway journey – from London to Istanbul and on to Samarkand – and woven it into his most sparkling book so far.

For more than 100 years the legendary Orient Express ruled the tracks between Paris and Istanbul. With the backdrop of history, Torbjørn Færøvik embarks on his longest railway journey ever. The adventurous journey takes him through twelve countries and twenty-two cities, stretching a distance of 4,700 miles and including crossing the Caspian Sea.

Torbjørn Færøvik is the only writer who has been awarded the Brage Prize three times. As an author he is known to be knowledgeable, open and curious – and humoristic. In this, his 10th book, he gives us a rich gallery of people and destinies, culture, tradition and drama throughout history.

"Samarkand was the natural place to end the journey", says the writer. "The pearl of the Silk Road, the goal of all dreamers."

Close the doors, take a seat. Come on a journey you will never forget!

‘Copious and interesting book from Norway's most successful travel writer.’

Torbjørn Færøvik (1948–) has a Master Degree in Asian History and has published several critically acclaimed travel books, as well as books for young adults. He has received the Brage prize three times, for India (1999), for China (2003) and for Mao's Kingdom – A Story of Suffering (2012). In 2006 he was awarded the Cappelen Prize for his distinguished authorship.

COMING HOME

TALES FROM TURKEY AND GREECE

In a never-ending, staggering march the Christian population of Eastern Thrace is jamming the roads towards Macedonia. Twenty miles of carts drawn by cows, bullocks and muddy-flanked water buffalo, with exhausted men, women and children, blankets over their heads, walking blindly along in the rain beside their worldly goods. It is a silent procession. Nobody even grunts. All they can do is keep moving.

This quotation from Ernest Hemingway is a description of events in the border zone between Turkey and Greece in September 1922. Stian Bromark's book explores the consequences of the forced migration of populations between the two countries, which Fridtjof Nansen supported.

Bromark travels through Greece and Turkey, visiting historic cities such as Istanbul, Athens, Izmir and Thessalonika.

This is a travel book combined with a historic review of the Greek-Turkish conflict.

‘In Coming Home Bromark demonstrates clearly how meaningless it is to press people and societies into a single mould and a single identity … This historical documentary is written in first class prose.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘…When he is at his best, Bromark knocks the ash off the words with a knack reminiscent of Hemingway … With its topics of refugee streams and nationalism, Coming Home is topical, important and worth reading.’

DAGBLADET

Stian Bromark (1972–) is managing editor of the magazine, Agenda. He has got wide experience as a reporter, commentator, book reviewer and debate and comment editor. He has written seven non-fiction books.

AUTHOR: STIAN BROMARK

TITLE ENGLISH: COMING HOME

TITLE NORWEGIAN: HJEMREISER

FORMAT: 151x226 mm / 208 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: GREECE (Hestia)

PHOTO: FREDRIK ARFF

AUTHOR: TORE REM

TITLE ENGLISH:

KNUT HAMSUN – THE JOURNEY TO HITLER

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

KNUT HAMSUN –REISEN TIL HITLER

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 400 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Vild Maskine)

GERMANY (Eulenspiegel Verlag)

RUSSIA (Progress-Tradition Publishers)

SWEDEN (Atlantis Bokförlag)

KNUT HAMSUN

THE JOURNEY TO HITLER

WINNER OF THE CRITICS AWARD FOR BEST NONFICTION 2014

On Saturday 26th June 1943, Hitler granted one of his rare audiences to a writer, the Norwegian Knut Hamsun, then generally hailed as the greatest living writer of the Germanic peoples, a contemporary Goethe. The meeting started jovially, but ended in disaster. While Hamsun insisted on his loyalty to the Führer, he also spoke out against him, interrupting a man who was not used to being interrupted. A furious Hitler ended the conversation after 45 minutes – and Hamsun and his entourage left in disappointment.

This is the first time this spectacular event in Norwegian and European cultural history has been used as the basis for an entire book. Knut Hamsun – The journey to Hitler explores the trappings of literary genius and authority, as well as the uses of culture in Nazi Germany.

The book's main narrative, the seven-day journey to and from the meeting, ends with an epilogue which includes Hamsun's obituary for Hitler, published on 7th May 1945.

After a teaser which takes the reader straight into the journey, the book – in order to establish the premises of what took place –considers a few episodes from Hamsun's life up until 1943. These include his attempt at doing away with the father figure Ibsen, his Nobel Prize and rise to fame, how he became the favourite of the German far right, his interventions on behalf of Nazi Germany during the war, his antisemitism and his allegiance to the idea of the Germanic peoples, as well as Goebbels' glowing reception of his favourite writer in May 1943. A month later Knut Hamsun sets off to Vienna as the star attraction of a big Nazi propaganda show, a congress of Nazi journalists. It is after having been celebrated as a great success in the second capital of the Reich, Hamsun is flown on to Berghof, Hitler's mountain residence in Southern Bavaria.

Tore Rem (1967–) is a writer, critic and literary scholar working at the University of Oslo. He has previously published books about Kielland, Ibsen and Dickens.

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from what the

press has said about KNUT HAMSUN – THE JOURNEY TO HITLER:

‘… an audience hit, suitable for a tabloid audience, a literary audience, Second World War nerds and anyone looking for a Christmas present for Dad. This story has something in it to fascinate everyone … Tore Rem is a skilled storyteller … a lively mediator who will be met with interest and curiosity.’

aftenposten

‘The book is a biographical masterpiece.’

Demokraten

‘It takes a skilled wordsmith to write well about Hamsun, the man who despite his political views was a wizard with words and whose books still hold readers spellbound all over the world. Tore Rem is up to the job. It is a joy to read The Journey to Hitler. Rem brings recent history to life in tremendously exciting ways, and with a burning passion.’

‘… a liberating book. Liberating because Rem approaches the difficult Hamsun debate in a wise, open and thorough manner … relates to the material in a non-judgmental way.’ Klassekampen

‘Tore Rem's compelling and important book … He is sensitive in his demonstration of Hamsun's transformation from anti-authoritarian individualist to rigid, leading literary figure … Rem … empowers the author in an exemplary manner.’

Morgenbladet

‘Meticulous, exciting and overwhelmingly well documented … Tore Rem's work on Knut Hamsun's meeting with Hitler has become a full-bodied, often very exciting and insightful piece of work …’

Dagsavisen

‘… adds energy and topicality to one of the nation's biggest cultural debates over the past 70 years … Well composed, fresh and innovative … a reading experience.’

NRK

‘… told in a flexible language and with a firm narrative technique … sensational new material … not just a pleasure to read, but also an exceptionally beautiful book.’

Fædrelandsvennen

‘Rem presents a wealth of new material, a superb storyteller.’

Dagbladet

‘Rem's excellent Hamsun biography … documents … once and for all that Hamsun was a convinced Nazi from the 1930s until the end of his life.’

Bergens Tidende

‘… a very competent storyteller … The language is extremely precise, and yet comes across as free and easy … the build-up creates excitement and takes care of the dramatic components in this highly spectactular story.’

Hamar Arbeiderblad

AUTHOR: GUDMUND SKJELDAL

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 288 pages

WIMBLEDON

WHERE THE GRASS IS GREENEST

“Farmers don't play tennis. But they could, and they could do it well.” With its leadoff in this old statement, Gudmund Skjeldal writes a book about what makes the sport of tennis so captivating.

It is the story of Wimbledon's magical grass, Roger Federer and Serena Williams' elaborate games. It is the drama of the days of Björn Borg and John McEnroe, when Norwegian cities and streets were completely empty when the final was being played. Wimbledon is shaped like a waiting period in which these books and experiences are reflected upon, and a colorful reportage trip to Wimbledon itself.

Gudmund Skjeldal (1970–) has a degree in History of Ideas and the author of several critically acclaimed books. He was a member of the Norwegian cross-country team in the 1990s and headed the campaign for climate concerns “White Winter” in 2007 and 2008.

AUTHOR: ATLE GRØNN

FORMAT: 148x210 mm / 312 pages

CHESS OR LIFE

SJAKKEN ELLER LIVET

Chess or Life is different from most books on chess. It describes the fascinating world of chess from the inside. This is not an instruction manual, but a journey through the culture and history of chess, following players' fortunes from Oslo to Manhattan via Russia.

In a warm and friendly style, the book invites you to meet people who are facing an existential question: Chess or life? It ranges from the minor comedies to the personal tragedies and triumphs which can arise in the absurd world of chess.

Atle Grønn (1971–) is a professor of Russian, an international chess master and has been one of Norway's elite chess-players for over 25 years. He has been a chess expert for Norwegian Broadcasting, the editor of Norwegian Chess magazine and leader of Oslo Chess Club. He writes a regular chess column in the weekly newspaper, Dag og Tid

SEPP

A BIOGRAPHY OF LEONHARD SEPPALA

In Sepp, Nina Kristin Nilsen writes about one of the most exciting destinies in Norwegian emigration history. Leonhard Seppala was of Kven lineage – from Skibotn in Troms. He emigrated to the United States in 1900, during the gold rush in Alaska. Nilsen writes about this era, the gold miners, immigrants and life in the Arctic in a way that will leave the reader breathless.

But Seppala's greatest claim to fame (in his time, he was one of America's best known people) didn't come from gold mining, but from dog mushing. When the small gold mining community of Nome – on the furthest west coast of Alaska, by the Barents Sea – was struck by a diphtheria epidemic, it couldn't be reached by neither boat nor plane.

FROM SEPP:

‘It was mid-winter, with temperatures down to 45 degrees below zero and winds of over 35 m/s. In a sled relay that was followed by all of the United States via telegraph lines, the dog teams struggled through the Arctic tundra – and when they reached their destination, a new set of heroes was born.’

AUTHOR: NINA KRISTIN NILSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: SEPP

TITLE NORWEGIAN: SEPP

FORMAT: 151x226 mm

Nina Kristin Nilsen (1971–) is a surveyor, chemical engineer and HSE-advisor. She sailed for ten years on a circumnavigation trip and translated Farley Mowat's The Boat Who Wouldn't Float (2014).

AUTHOR:

SIGURD FALKENBERG MIKKELSEN

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 192 pages

ARAB AUTUMN

ARABISK HØST

Sigurd Falkenberg Mikkelsen has been Norwegian Broadcasting's Middle Eastern Correspondent for the past five years, covering the region from the Arab Spring right through to today's migration crisis.

The correspondent's letters are documentary testimony of this period, filled with descriptions of hope and faith, life and death.

Sigurd Falkenberg Mikkelsen (1975–) is a foreign correspondent for NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation). He worked in Iraq after the invasion by the USA and its allies, and has also covered the warfare between Israel and Hizbollah in 2006. From 2011 to 2016 he was based in Kairo, and covered the entire Middle East for NRK. His academic education was completed at Institut d`Etudes Politiques de Paris.

AUTHOR: ANNE KARIN SÆTHER

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 496 pages

THE BEST INTENTIONS

THE OIL NATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE DE BESTE INTENSJONER

Through vivid storytelling, in-depth interviews and analyses, this book gives us the story behind Norway's own oil adventure. A story that started with good intentions and ambitious environmental goals – before we quickly became greedy and lost our grip on things. The Best Intentions is an ambitious biography of a country that became completely addicted to oil, that attempts to explain what went wrong and what we can do to alter our course.

Anne Karin Sæther (1975–) is a communications advisor for the Norwegian Education Association. Previously, she worked as an advisor for Bellona, and as a journalist for Dagsavisen and NRK Alltid Nyheter

WHO WILL BUILD THE NATION?

It is not a new notion that some people value becoming a carpenter as something less valuable than getting an academic degree at a University. What is new though, is that many of the people who are trained in practical professions no longer will recommend their children to do the same as them.

The cause of this is the loss of status that these kind of jobs has experienced - but what has caused this loss of status? In this book Jonas Bals explain why social dumping and dropout from vocational studies is undermining the very idea of the Norwegian Social Democracy.

AUTHOR: JONAS BALS

TITLE ENGLISH: WHO WILL BUILD THE NATION?

TITLE NORWEGIAN: HVEM SKAL BYGGE LANDET?

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 336 pages

Jonas Bals (1977–) is a political advisor in the Parliamental group of the Norwegian Labour Party, and former Union advisor. He is a trained painter, and academic historian from the University of Copenhagen.

AUTHOR: GUNN BEATE REINTON RULNES

TITLE ENGLISH: THE JOY OF GOOD ORDER

TITLE NORWEGIAN: LISTELYKKE

FORMAT: 148x210 mm / 176 pages

THE JOY OF GOOD ORDER

TIDINESS, ORDER AND CREATIVITY

Tidying up is topical. Many people are feeling dissatisfaction, a sort of tiredness of material things, and longing for more peace and joy.

This is a guide for those who want to tidy up and live with fewer possessions and less clutter. With clever organisation you can make your life simpler and every day easier.

This book will give you good strategies and tips to help you to organise both your daily life and your house. Use lists to plan the process and make the job easier. Involve the whole family in a shared goal and a less cluttered lifestyle.

You will find a choice of different strategies and various tools and methods which you can adapt to your needs.

Other books by Gunn Beate Reinton Rulnes: • The Joy of Good Order – notebook

Gunn Beate Reinton Rulnes (1979–) is an editor, journalist, entrepreneur and author who has blogged about decluttering, sensible organisation and writing lists since 2009. Follow her blog at listelykke.no.

EVERYDAY EMOTIONS

WHY DO I FEEL LIKE THIS? HOW CAN I MAKE IT BETTER?

Many people suffer in today's high-achievement society. Many of us will experience depression and/or stress in the course of our lives. Everyday Emotions gives us answers and help us meet and cope with the challenges we face in life. The book is about how we can have fewer negative thoughts and less worry, and instead experience more joy and increase our self-confidence.

The author combines theory and case studies in a practical and accessible way to show how we can appropriately and effectively deal with problems such as anxiety, depression, stress and low self-esteem.

‘This is important and well written! Recommended!’ HEDDA KISE, TV2

AUTHOR: REBEKKA EGELAND, CARINA POULSEN AND PEDER KJØS

TITLE ENGLISH: EVERYDAY EMOTIONS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: HVERDAGSPSYK

FORMAT: 148x210 mm / 288 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: DENMARK (Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag)

Carina Poulsen trained as a clinical psychologist and is currently doing a 5 year course of further specialist training in clinical aspects of occupational psychology. Carina is particularly involved in minor psychological ailments, mindfulness and yoga, and in the relationship between physical training and psychological health.

Rebekka Egeland is a qualified clinical psychologist and works as a manager in Falck Healthcare Norway.

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AUTHOR: MARIT SLAGSVOLD FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 288 pages

ALL IS RELATIONSHIPS

JEG BLIR TIL I MØTE MED DEG

The starting point of gestalt therapy is that everything depends on relationships. We live in a community and influence each other. Nobody is only his or her self.

Marit Slagsvold is a sociologist and gestalt therapist. In this book she writes about the significance of relationships and about how we can accept differences and live together, as couples and in our communities. She presents the meaning of relationships through her own powerful story. She accepts that she doesn't need to try to be like everybody else. By identifying her own needs, she can lead her life without descriptive labels.

Marit Slagsvold (1962–) is a gestalt therapist, sociologist and author. She works at the Oslo Gestalt Centre and teaches at the Norwegian Gestalt Institute College (NGI) in Oslo.

AUTHOR: KARI LØVENDAHL MOGSTAD

BODY DIFFICULTIES

KROPPSKLEMMA – VÅR TIDS KORSETT

Kari Mogstad is a doctor and mother of five, a passionate mediator and avid article writer. As a doctor, she daily meets children and young adults who are struggling with increasing body image issues and focus on their appearance. Many of them have headaches or stomach-aches, depression and eating disorders.

In the book, she tries to find out more about how children and young adults are really doing, and show parents what a child's reality looks like. She also tackles the role of today's parents and asks what kind of role models we really are.

Kari Løvendahl Mogstad is a specialist in family medicine and sports medicine and works as a general practitioner. She lives in Trondheim, is a mother of five children, a lecturer at NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and a fervent mediator and social commentator.

THE SELFIMPROVEMENT INDUSTRY

Daily, we are fed with advice, exhortations and answers about how we should become the best we can be. Coaches, marine commandos, adventurers and self-help gurus promote the message and offer their solutions. The problem is that the stress which the self-improvement industry imposes on us to be the best we can be, makes this impossible to achieve.

More and more people are seeking advice and help to improve themselves and their performance at home, at work and in education. Their support for the self-improvement industry legitimises the notion that we are never really good enough as we are, and this notion eventually becomes part of our own self-understanding. We come to depend more and more on other people as we seek to develop our sense of identity. Neither indifference nor aggressive criticism will help us to understand the popularity of this phenomenon.

This book aims to understand and explain why the selfimprovement industry exists.

AUTHOR: HANS ERIK NÆSS

TITLE ENGLISH: THE SELF-IMPROVEMENT INDUSTRY

TITLE NORWEGIAN: FORBEDRINGSINDUSTRIEN

FORMAT: 130x205 mm / 192 pages

Hans Erik Næss (1978–) has a doctorate in sociology from The University in Oslo and works as a senior consultant at Westerdals, the Oslo School of Arts. He has published several books.

PHOTO: ANNA-JULIA GRANBERG

AUTHOR: TINE SOLHEIM

TITLE ENGLISH: KNITTED TREASURES

TITLE NORWEGIAN: STRIKKEDE SKATTER

FORMAT: 210x277 mm / 168 pages

KNITTED TREASURES

Tine has taken her inspiration for this book from our rich cultural tradition of textiles which women have shaped with needles and yarn according to the fashion of the day.

There are long and short jackets and jerseys. There are dresses and tunics with or without a waist or a flare, and with sleeves set in or worked in the round. Many of the garments also have patterns for accessories such as headbands, hats, socks and mittens, if you want to match the garment or just to knit something that can be done quickly. Both sheep's wool and alpaca wool can be used.

This is Tine Solheim's seventh book.

Other books by Tine Solheim:

• Sewing Magic

• Stiches & Interiors

• Retro Knitting

Rights to earlier books have been sold to Finland, Ukraine, Germany and France.

Tine Solheim is one of Norway's most prominent clothing– and costume designer. She studied at École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, and worked as an intern with Yves St. Laurent and Per Spook in Paris. For nearly 30 years, she has designed haute couture, costumes, formalwear, wedding gowns and wardrobes for a number of actors, performers, artists and other media figures. In recent years she has also created knitted designs for Norwegian magazines.

SEWING FOR CHILDREN AGED 3 AND UP

This is a new Tilda concept that Tone Finnanger has created with inspiration for what you can sew for children over the age of three. But that's not to say that you cannot use the same ideas for adults, and there are ideas aplenty here.

The book is divided into three sections: Dolls, Just Animals and Sea and Water.

In Dolls, you will find the doll itself, the doll's house, a quilt, embroidered cushions and dolls for the doll.

In Just Animals, you will find a room filled with strange and wonderful animals. Animals that are so rare that they still haven't been discovered. Here you will find hunched monkeys, colourful camels, strange ostriches, a jungle blanket, cushions and pyjama bags.

In Sea and Water, you will discover a completely new world with everything from mermaids, pirates, cuddly whales, snuggly fish, starfish and a fish toiletry bag to a pirate blanket made of old eye patches.

The book is illustrated throughout with photos and step-by-step drawings.

All patterns are provided in full.

Tone Finnanger (1973–) designs all of the Tilda products herself: the books and other printed works, plywood figures, stamps and stencils, paint and metal works. She is schooled in drawing, design, graphic design and traditional painting handwork techniques. She worked as an interior decorator and window dresser until she started the Tilda company in 1999.

AUTHOR: TONE FINNANGER

TITLE ENGLISH: SEWING FOR CHILDREN AGED 3 AND UP

TITLE NORWEGIAN: SY TIL BARN

FORMAT: 210x225 mm / 144 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: BRAZIL (Ambientes & Costumes Editora)

FRANCE (Fleurus | Mango)

GERMANY (Droemer Knaur) POLAND (Foksal)

SPAIN (Ediciones Tutor, S.A.)

UNITED KINGDOM (D&C)

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AUTHOR: MARION RINDSEM

TITLE ENGLISH: HATS

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

210x277 mm / 136 pages

HATS

Hats are incredibly fun to knit: They are small projects you can take with you in your purse, they go by quickly and they're perfect to give away as gifts. But best of all is that you only have to knit one of each!

Marion Rindsem designs beautiful hats, cute hats, simple, difficult and cool hats. She designs hats that suit a family's smallest member, little brother, grandma, mom and dad. Hats is a little Bible of designs with traditional patterns, but also new and unfamiliar combinations. The book has 50 different hat designs – many of them in several different color combinations – so you can let yourself be inspired to play around in your scrap basket. What about an embroidered deer on top of a tough geometric pattern?

If you don't know how to embroider yet, there is a nice little tutorial with step-by-step pictures in the back of the book. And as a little bonus, most of the hats have a beautiful and special challenge at the top: If you could only see yourself from above…

Marion Rindsem started designing knitted items in 2012, when she made her own SoMe-hat. The hat took off quickly on Twitter, and since 2013 she has operated www.marionr.no, where she sells her own knitting patterns and yarn kits. In addition, she holds courses in knitting socks from the toe up and embroidery, and she keeps up a regular #Luetreff (hat meetup) in Oslo. Hats is Marion Rindsem's first knitting book.

IT ' S COOL TO SEW FURNISHINGS, BAGS, CLOTHES

KULT Å SY – INTERIØR, VESKER, KLÆR

Sewing can be quite fun, and it's extra entertaining when what you're sewing is attractive and useful things you can take out and use again and again. Grete Gulliksen Moe has created a wealth of beautiful designs using both new and traditional techniques and materials. You'll find bags for your knitting, needle holders for your knitting needles, the jacket you'll want to move in to and sew in countless varieties and colors, gorgeous bedspreads and pillows, blankets, bags and baskets.

The book is illustrated with photographs and step-by-step drawings.

Grete Gulliksen Moe (1951–) was the first person to write books on the subject of quilting and they have enjoyed enormous success. Grete teaches in Scandinavia, England and the USA and is known for her unique use of color. Clear, fresh hues of red, blue, green and yellow are her trademark.

EVERYONE CAN SEW

ALLE KAN SY

Mari Melilot shows you how you can easily sew your own wardrobe. In this book, she bases patterns on simple, square and round shapes to sew classic, cute, cool and unique clothes. You'll find outerwear, casual wear and office attire. Narrow shoulders, wide hips or quite the opposite? If you sew your own clothes, you're sure to get clothing that fits.

In addition to clothing, you also get patterns for simple and matching purses, holdalls and bags, and at the end of the book, there is a whole page of patterns with simple-cut patterns you can start on as soon as you have mastered the most basic techniques.

AUTHOR: GRETE GULLIKSEN MOE

FORMAT: 195x250 mm / 144 pages

Mari Melilot is an educated fashion designer from Esmod and teaches people how to sew. Everyone can sew is her fourth sewing book.

AUTHOR: MARI MELILOT

FORMAT: 210x277 mm / 152 pages

Arne & CArlos

BIRDS

COLOURFUL AND CREATIVE

Arne & Carlos do it again!

With a basic pattern for a bird and endless variations, they take us into the colourful avian kingdom.

They have found inspiration from nature both at home in Norway and in their wider travels. There are bird patterns knitted in traditional Norwegian designs, with or without a matching woolly hat. Some of the birds are knitted to a pattern, and others have been decorated with grafting stitches, sequins or feathers.

You can play around with different types of yarn, like embroidery thread and glitter yarn. Rummage in your oddments basket for yarn, old sequin bands, pearls, feathers and embroidery thread. The birds can be decorative for Christmas, Easter, summer or autumn. They can be used in many ways. Use them as table decorations, on table cards or alongside colourful floral decorations. Decorate window hangings with tufts and feathers, or mount them in a glass case like an old-fashioned taxidermy display. How about decorating an old birdcage or renewing the Christmas wreath for the door?

The only limit is your imagination. Great ideas for presents for someone you love.

The book has clear descriptions, simple diagrams and step-bystep pictures. There are projects here for everybody, including beginners.

AUTHOR:

ARNE NERJORDET AND CARLOS ZACHRISON

TITLE ENGLISH: BIRDS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: FUGLER

FORMAT: 210x277 mm / 176 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: DENMARK (Koppelwrite) FRANCE (Editions de Saxe) GERMANY (FrechVerlag) NETHERLANDS (Kosmos) UNITED STATES (Trafalgar Square Books)

Arne Nerjordet and Carlos Zachrison presented their first joint fashion collection in 2002 and, in 2003, they were invited to the Paris fashion week to show their designs. The inspiration for their feminine clothes comes from many sources – from Dolly Parton to Japanese pleating techniques and Norwegian traditional dress.

AUTHOR: DAGNY THURMANN-MOE

TITLE ENGLISH: COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE!

TITLE NORWEGIAN: FARGER TIL FOLKET! FORMAT: 195x250 mm / 176 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: POLAND (Agora)

COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE!

‘SCANDINAVIA'S LEADING COLOR EXPERT!’ Stockholm Furniture Fair

Did you know that gray cars crash the most and that red cars crash the least? That white, which is used more and more often in both institutions and schools, increases stress, decreases concentration and is a catalyst for headaches?

What are colors, why do we need them and what do we use them for?

In this book, color expert Dagny Thurmann-Moe battles against an increasingly more colorless existence. She shows us how the world has gone from being colorful and full of impressions to being a landscape of gray and white, even in the summer.

In the first part of the book, she gives an introduction to what colors are, why people need colors, and what we use them for. She explains what a color palette is and how you use it.

In the second part, she tackles the use of color in architecture, public spaces, public institutions and cars.

Finally, she shows how we can use colors ourselves, inside our houses and in our closets, and that colors have a natural place –no matter what style you wish to have.

Dagny Thurmann-Moe has worked as a creative director for the chain of color shops Fargeglede, and now operates Dagny Color Studio, where she works with color and trend forecasting, lectures, and color and concept development for different brands. She is the leading expert of color in Scandinavia today!

AUTHOR:

DORTHE SKAPPEL

TITLE ENGLISH:

OH YES YOU CAN

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

KLART DU KAN SKAPPELSTRIKK

FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 200 pages

OH YES YOU CAN

KNIT WITH DORTHE SKAPPEL

This new book is the sequel to the success of her previous knitting book Knitting with Dorthe Skappel, and tells us more about what gives Dorthe Skappel her creative imagination.

There are new patterns for children and adults, using good quality yarn in brilliant colours. Dorthe says that anybody can knit and feel proud of a sweater they have knitted themselves.

The patterns and descriptions are very easy and are arranged according to size, (S), (M) and (L), with attractive pictures and userfriendly illustrations.

Other books by Dorthe Skappel:

• Knitting with Dorthe Skappel

• More Skappel Knitting

Rights to earlier books have been sold to France, Denmark, Germany and USA.

Dorthe Skappel is a popular TV presenter, known particularly as the lead presenter on the entertainment programme God kveld Norge (Good evening Norway). She is passionate about knitting and knitting design, and her own creative knitting patterns have well-deserved commercial success.

FRIDA ' S COLOUR CIRCUS

WITH PINS AND WOOL

Welcome to Frida's fantastic world of wool, yarn and colour! This is the year's most luxuriant book, almost like a little world of its own.

Frida draws and colours, knits and crochets. What she creates doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be lush! ‘Bless the mess,’ says Frida. But she isn't slipshod about the descriptions and patterns. Here, everything is in its proper place, with clear explanations, splendid pictures and patterns for all the projects.

The book is full of different knitting and crochet projects, and Frida also teaches you how to dye your own multi-coloured yarn. There are colourful lap rugs and cushions, elegant ponchos and numerous small items, including some you can make for your smallest family members, who also deserve to enjoy this wonderful, colourful world.

AUTHOR: FRIDA PONTÉN

TITLE ENGLISH: FRIDA ' S COLOUR CIRCUS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: FRIDAS FARGESIRKUS

FORMAT: 195x250 mm / 144 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: GERMANY (FrechVerlag)

Frida Pontén (1972–) studied fashion design at Esmod in Paris. After working for several well-known fashion and sports brands in Scandinavia she needed more inspiration to her hobbies within among others interior design, knitting and crocheting. This led to the writing of different books and especially this latest one that is supposed to give everyone a possibility to try out some ideas on their own and hopefully get people started to make their own ideas. She is now working as a designer at Odd Molly in Sweden.

PHOTO: LEIF HANSEN

AUTHOR: NINA SKARRA

TITLE ENGLISH:

NINA SKARRA KNITTING BOOK

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

NINA SKARRA STRIKKEBOK

FORMAT:

198x272 mm / 192 pages

NINA SKARRA KNITTING BOOK

In this book, you get 29 unique Nina Skarra-designs that you can knit yourself. Designer Nina Skarra takes us on a journey into her fantastic world and shows you how you can use clothing from the catwalk in your own wardrobe, think consciously about your style, and choose quality pieces that will last a long time.

In addition to patterns, you get a glimpse into Nina Skarra's working method, and get tips on how you can work on and develop your own creative abilities. The fashion world is characterized by a high pace and little focus on sustainability, ethics and the environment. By knitting yourself, you take the power back.

The book is beautifully photographed by fashion photographer Baard Lunde.

Nina Skarra is the first Scandinavian to have shown a clothing collection at Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week. She is internationally recognized for her gala dresses and for collections with sheer, delicate silk combined with the thick, rough fibers of wool. In 2017, she is publishing her very first knitting book.

TOVE ' S BEST CROCHETING AND AFGHAN PATTERNS

This is Tove Fevang's best crochet and Tunisian crochet patterns, collected in a book. Here, you'll find both small and large projects of variying levels of difficulty – such as gorgeous scarves for cool summer or winter evenings, beautiful blankets, pillows and throws for children and adults alike. Potholders and placemats in different patterns and techniques.

The book is illustrated with good descriptions and step-by-step pictures. A thorough introduction of the different stitches used for crochet and Tunisian crochet are assembled in the back of the book.

Other books by Tove Fevang:

• Crochet and Tunisian Crochet for the Kitchen

• Classic Crochet and Tunisian Crochet

• Simple Crocheting

Rights to earlier books have been sold to Sweden, Finland, France, USA, Germany, Great Britain and Denmark.

Tove Fevang (1959–) is known for her work in the areas of quilting, application and embroidery and, in particular, for her colour sense and stylish patterns. She is also highly thought of as a course instructor.

AUTHOR: TOVE FEVANG

TITLE ENGLISH: TOVE ' S BEST CROCHETING AND AFGHAN PATTERNS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: TOVES BESTE HEKLE OG HAKKE OPPSKRIFTER

FORMAT: 195x250 mm / 160 pages

AUTHOR: DENISE SAMSON

FORMAT:

210x277 mm / 136 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Turbine)

UNITED STATES (Trafalgar Square Books)

AUTHOR:

NINA GRANLUND SÆTHER

FORMAT:

210x277 mm / 192 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

UNITED STATES (Trafalgar Square Books)

PONCHO

Now it's all about ponchos!

This simple garment has become a real craze, and not without reason. A poncho can be thin or thick, with or without a fringe, plain or patterned, an outer garment or something to wear to a party.

The design of a poncho offers almost endless possibilities, but the common feature is the simple shape and ease of use. Denise Samson has created a book crammed with crocheted and knitted variations, in all styles and shapes.

Denise Samson is a passionate knitter and regularly contributes her own knitting patterns to the weekly press. She is also an experienced translator of books about hobbies and handcrafts. Poncho! is her second book of knitting. The first, Hooked on Cables, a reference book of cable knitting, was published in 2015.

MITTENS

KNITTING PATTERNS FROM ALL OVER NORWAY VOTTER

Nordic knitting has already charmed the knitting world. Author Nina Granlund Sæther has now researched traditional mitten patterns from all over Norway and brought them together in one book.

In this book you will find old-style mitten patterns from throughout Norway, adapted to today's yarn and equipment, plus exciting stories of their origin and use.

The book contains more than 40 patterns for mittens for women, men and children, with big, useful diagrams and beautiful illustrations.

Nina Granlund Sæther is a journalist and editor. She trained as an arts and crafts teacher and has written several books on handcraft. She contributes patterns to the weekly press and gives lessons on knitting.

CROCHETING

IN THICK AND THIN

HEKLING

Your crocheted garments, bags, blankets, pillows and more for yourself and your home will be so cool! This book offers small and large projects, including scarves, short and long vests, jackets, short and long sleeved sweaters, dresses and skirts. Here, there is no lack of creativity in the use of color with thick and thin yarn. This is the book for both beginners and those who have already crocheted a little. The book is thoroughly illustrated.

AUTHOR: MAY-BRITT BJELLA ZAMORI

FORMAT: 195x250 mm / 160 pages

May Britt Bjella Zamori works as a consultant and translator of knitting and crocheting books, in addition to being a crafts author herself.

LIKE PEARLS ON A STRING

KNITTED AND CROCHETED ACCESSORIES

STRIKK MED PERLER

Teach yourself a completely new and easy way to knit (and crochet) with beads. This book is full of practical and smart accessories for both young and not so young ladies. The items include mittens, hats, headbands, muffs, bags, snoods and scarves, knitted with both thin and thick yarn and with small or large beads.

There are patterns of varying difficulty, suitable both for beginners and for experienced knitters.

Liv Asplund and Jane Asprusten are sisters, who have previously worked together on two Christmas craft books. This is Liv's ninth handcrafts book from Cappelen Damm.

AUTHOR: LIV ASPLUND AND JANE ASPRUSTEN

FORMAT: 198x272 mm / 156 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: USA (Trafalgar Square Books)

AUTHOR: MIA FROGNER

TITLE ENGLISH: GREEN BONANZA

TITLE NORWEGIAN: GRØNN BONANZA

FORMAT:

210x277 mm / 208 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: GERMANY (Jan Thorbecke Verlag der Schwabenverlag AG)

GREEN BONANZA

POTATO PIZZA, SUMMER WRAPS AND CAULIFLOWER “WINGS”

This book is full of the real joy of pure food: good recipes, simple new uses for the best base ingredients, tips on making use of everything and developing helpful routines to waste less.

You will learn what you are eating and where it really comes from. The author offers you over 60 fine recipes for a selection of base ingredients, and seasons the book with her own sense of the pleasure of good food. Each chapter in the book is themed on a particular ingredient, with an introduction to the ingredient, followed by relevant recipes.

Mia Frogner is qualified in literary studies and works as a contents adviser in the creative communications agency Trigger, recently selected as the world's best creative agency. She manages the vegetarian blog Green Bonanza.

RAW INGREDIENTS

What is the secret of good food? If you ask the cooks, the answer will be: good raw ingredients.

In this book, some of our leading chefs are given selections of seasonal ingredients and invited to describe their relationship to them and how one can best combine them into an enticing meal. There are recipes from Oslo's best chefs and everything you need to know about ingredients and how to choose them, season by season.

What is common to all the chefs is that each in their own way they emphasise the importance of good ingredients as the basis for all cooking. We learn how to go in search of the best vegetables, the freshest fish and the best meat. The skilled chefs then show us how best to maintain the quality of the ingredients as we prepare the food.

AUTHOR:

BJØRN TORE FURSET AND MARIANNE NYGÅRD-HANSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: RAW INGREDIENTS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: RÅ VARE

FORMAT: 210x277 mm / 232 pages

Bjørn Tore Furset (1969–) trained as a chef and worked in Lofoten Fish Restaurant in Oslo prior to founding Fursetgruppen, a well established restaurant group in Oslo with several different themed restaurants.

Marianne Nygård-Hansen (1974–) is Marketing and Communications Manager in Fursetgruppen and is passionately interested in food.

AUTHOR: HANNE BUXRUD, PER SOLLERMAN, ANN KRISTIN WANG AND SUNNIVA DRING

TITLE ENGLISH: PORRIDGE

TITLE NORWEGIAN: GRØT

FORMAT: 210x277 mm / 200 pages

PORRIDGE

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

At last we have ladlefuls of brilliant, new and traditional recipes for porridge served up in one book!

All the recipes are based on pure raw ingredients and cereal, grain and seeds such as oatmeal, quinoa, buckwheat, sesame seeds and chia seeds. In addition to the recipes, you will find useful tips on suitable seasonings and an outline of basic porridgemaking techniques such as soaking and cooking times, plus information about adding liquid ingredients such as milk, almond milk and coconut milk.

Hanne Buxrud is a freelance food writer and photographer.

Sunniva Dring is a product developer for United Bakeries and a freelance food stylist.

Per Sollerman is a photographer with a background in the restaurant trade. Ann Kristin Wang is a freelance food stylist and cookery book writer.

THE PRACTICAL DIABETES BOOK

EAT YOURSELF HEALTHIER IN 6 WEEKS

In this informative and easy-to-understand book, you get all the tools you need to get better from type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes: a six-week program with simple practices and a menu for each day, as well as recipes for 80 delicious and glucose-friendly dishes. You'll lose weight, improve your blood pressure and cholesterol, sleep better and have more energy. If you have diabetes type 2 or pre-diabetes, this is the best book to start with!

Gunn-Karin Sakariassen (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.

Hege Hasler Barhaughøgda (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.

AUTHOR: GUNN-KARIN SAKARIASSEN AND HEGE HASLER BARHAUGHØGDA

TITLE ENGLISH: THE PRACTICAL DIABETES BOOK

TITLE NORWEGIAN: DEN PRAKTISKE DIABETESBOKA

FORMAT: 170x240 mm / 240 pages

PHOTO:

AUTHOR: JULIA DØHLEN EDIN

FORMAT:

170x240 mm / 160 pages

STOMACH FRIENDLY BAKING

MAGEVENNLIG BAKST

People with sensitive stomaches, irritable bowels or food intolerances have a hard time when it comes to baking. But look no further! In this book you find 70 recipes for delicious gluten free, dairy free and low FODMAP baking. Simple, tasty and stomach-friendly!

Julia Døhlen Edin (1983–) writes the food blog Magevennlig mat. She is a culture journalist and designer. LowFODMAP – Stomach Friendly Food was her first book.

AUTHOR: KRISTIN GRANLI

FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 184 pages

REAL BREAD

GLUTEN-FREE AND WITHOUT READY-MIXES

EKTE BRØD

Real Bread offers recipes for 50 different, tasty and nutritious breads you can bake yourself, without using ready-mix ingredients. These include the everyday bread children want in their lunchbox, delicious white bread, focaccia and baguettes for special occasions, sourdough bread, crispbread, and bread made in the frying pan.

Everything is clearly explained and all the recipes are accompanied by tempting pictures. You will also get suggestions for your own healthy and tasty ready-mixes for the days when you are rather busy.

Kristin Granli (1969–) is an illustrator, designer and amateur baker. She started baking gluten-free without ready-mixes because her son reacted to many types of food including gluten-free baking ready-mixes.

THE MODERN HUNTER

YOUR GUIDE TO CLEAN AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD

DEN MODERNE JEGER

Do you want to live healthily and sustainably – even though you're trapped in the daily grind? Learn from fermentation and Nordic Kitchen expert Gry Hammer about how to hunt with modern weapons like smartphones and the Internet to find what you want – whether it's meat from free-range animals, unpasteurized milk, or a kombucha starter. And of course, she shows you how to prepare the best and most nutritious food.

The book is practical and focused on “how-to's”, with over 100 recipes.

AUTHOR: GRY HAMMER

FORMAT: 170x240 mm / 216 pages

FOOD FERMENTATION

TASTY FOOD AND DRINK FOR HAPPY DIGESTION

FERMENTERING

Traditional lactic acid fermentation of food and drink can help you enjoy food and good health. Learn to ferment food and drink, and help your gut to become healthier.

Over 100 nourishing and exciting recipes and fermentation procedures from Norway's guru on the subject, Gry Hammer. Using pure, unprocessed ingredients, the author shows you how to prepare food which is as nourishing and easily digestible as possible.

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.

AUTHOR: GRY HAMMER

FORMAT: 210x250 mm / 216 pages

AUTHOR:

ZOE CHRISTIANSEN, CLAUDIA SEIFERT, LISA WESTGAARD AND HANNE MARTINSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: SEAWEED

TITLE NORWEGIAN: TANG OG TARE

FORMAT:

210x250 mm / 192 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: GREAT BRITAIN (Grab Street Publishing)

SEAWEED

AN OCEAN OF FOOD

Seaweeds – healthy, tasty and trendy.

Anybody who has tasted red seaweed wants more! The mild aftertaste of liquorice with a hint of the sea stimulates the tastebuds to call for more. It is delicious as a snack, lightens a thick soup and is a fabulous accompaniment to fish.

Seaweeds are tasty and very useful in all sorts of dishes. The German cook Claudia Seifert has put together an exciting choice of menus – exciting starters, main courses and take-away food, plus tasty desserts, smoothies and energy boosters – all with seaweed as a natural ingredient.

The species of seaweed used in the book are found all over the Northern hemisphere and are also available as dried products. The different species are all illustrated and explained, with short descriptions of how to identify them, where they grow and the other information you need to gather the rich harvest of the sea. A wonderful book which will inspire you to use seaweeds in all types of food – recommended!

Zoe Christiansen is a theatre director, but is now working with The Northern Company to develop the concept of sustainable food production.

Claudia Seifert is a trained chef who has published several cookery books in her homeland of Germany.

Hanne Martinsen is a graphic designer, and is very keen on organic food.

Lisa Westgaard is a well known photographer who has illustrated several cookery books.

EVERYONE CAN BAKE

In Everyone Can Bake, confectioner and blogger Elin Vatnar Nilsen shows you how to make all the classic cakes – from birthday cream cake to pavlova, chocolate cake, kringle and the Norwegian specialty Kvæfjord cake. The book covers the nine basic recipes that any cake baker must know. Here, you'll learn about sponge, custard, form cakes, profiteroles, pastries, meringue, sweet yeast dough, nut base, cheesecakes and chocolate cakes.

Each basic recipe is assigned its own chapter, with thorough descriptions and step-by-step photos, in addition to several recipes that are based on the basic recipes and develop them further. Between the chapters you'll find fact pages with information that's useful no matter what you're baking – about eggs, sugar, yeast, flour, cream, butter, chocolate, leaveners and spices, as well as a decoration school of its own!

Everyone Can Bake is unpretentious and simple enough for everyone to understand, but also sufficiently advanced and challenging for more seasoned pastry makers.

TITLE ENGLISH: EVERYONE CAN BAKE

TITLE NORWEGIAN: ALLE KAN BAKE

FORMAT: 195x250 mm / 208 pages

Elin Vatnar Nilsen is an educated confectioner and has operated the blog krem.no since 1999.

AUTHOR: ELIN VATNAR NILSEN

AUTHOR: FRANCISKA MUNCK-JOHANSEN

FORMAT:

225x300 mm / 152 pages

FRANCISKA ' S TEMPTING CAKES

FRANCISKAS FRISTENDE KAKER

Allow yourself to be tempted!

This is an exceptionally enticing cake book with unusually delicious cakes that anyone can make. Franciska has been baking cakes for more than 20 years, and in this book she has gathered all her best recipes. She is keen to give you the best recipes for cakes that taste fantastic, look fabulous and, what's more, are easy to make.

Franciska Munck-Johansen is one of Norway's most prolific bloggers about interiors, lifestyle and food. She is passionate about cakes and has won the baking contest, Kakekrigen on TV. She also has her own cake column in the household magazine, Vakre Hjem og Interiør.

AUTHOR: LISE FINCKENHAGEN

FORMAT:

210x277 mm / 160 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

(Legind)

(WSOY)

(Forte)

PANCAKES

PANNEKAKER

Hurray! Today we're having pancakes!

Lise Finckenhagen's book about pancakes – a dish that's a favourite in many homes. Pancakes come in innumerable varieties. So why not try something new the next time pancakes are on the menu?

In Lise's book the limits of what you can serve with pancakes are set only by the limits of imagination. The classics are there. Elegant, wafer-thin crepes with vanilla custard and apple, for example, will be a wonderful ending to any meal, but this book will also help you to extend your repertoire.

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.

GRANNY ' S FRUIT AND BERRIES

APPLES WERE HER FAVOURITE

MORMORS FRUKT OG BÆR

Take a walk through Granny's garden and enjoy all the wonderful scents and tastes of sun-ripened apples, pears and plums. Learn to use and enjoy the amazing ingredients that are our berries and fruit.

In this book, Kari once again follows in Granny's footsteps and presents a wide range of recipes for desserts and cakes with fruit and berries as the main theme.

AUTHOR: KARI FINNGAARD

FORMAT: 198x272 mm / 168 pages

GRANNY'S CAKES

MORMORS KAKER

This recipe book will remind you of the very cake you baked or ate on a special occasion, festival or celebration.

There are sections on:

• classic tin-baked cakes

• cakes with fruit and berries

• traditional cakes

• boxed cakes

The author also gives general advice on baking and suggestions about ingredients and utensils. The book has clear instructions combined with good illustrations and will put you in the mood to get out the mixing bowl.

Kari Finngaard (1948–) is a writer, photographer and image artist. Kari enjoys the pleasures of the table; she feels that enticing flavours and smells, and sensuous foods, are among the most important things in daily life. Kari works as a freelance food writer and photographer for the specialist press and has written several books.

AUTHOR: KARI FINNGAARD

FORMAT: 198x272 mm / 144 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: USA (Skyhorse Publishing)

AUTHOR:

MARIANGELA DI FIORE

FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 208 pages

MY ITALY

MITT ITALIA

A genuine interest in food is what connects the Italians. Here, everything is about food. People discuss, debate and live for food. Food is the very soul of Italy.

NATIONAL WINNER GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARD

Mariangela and photographer Josefin packed their bags and set off on a fantastic culinary journey through seven Italian regions. Along the way, they met fantastic people who are passionate about food and ingredients, and who gladly shared their knowledge and their recipes.

‘The cover, the pictures, the texts and recipes – everything is so elaborately laid out and tempting.’

MAGASINET REISELYST

AUTHOR:

MARIANGELA DI FIORE

FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 240 pages

MY ITALIAN GRANNY ' S COOKING

MIN ITALIENSKE BESTEMORS KJØKKEN

Mariangela di Fiore spent all her summers with her grandparents in Naples, where her granny taught her real Italian cooking.

In this book you will find a wealth of good recipes from Granny's kitchen, combined with stories from Mariangela's childhood in Naples. We hear about fresh fish swimming in the bath-tub right until they were prepared, Saints Day celebrations in the town and the story of the Mafia boss who revealed his hiding place because he bought expensive fish at the market.

Mariangela Cacace Di Fiore (1981–) has a Neapolitan father and a Norwegian mother, and has lived in Naples for many years. Her previous publications include a number of books for young people and a documentary for adults on the Camorra.

KRISTINE ' S HEALTHY SWEETS

EVERYDAY GOODIES WITHOUT SUGAR

You're allowed to eat treats even if it's not the weekend or a party! Make goodies without refined sugar, add a bit of protein and fiber, and there you have a sugar-free and tasty protein-rich snack.

In this book, blogger and successful author Kristine Weber gives us her top 50 recipes for the healthy sweets she makes for herself and her family. Among them are delicious smoothies, ice cream, snacks, energy bars, chocolate and cakes. The recipes are divided into the chapters Cold Desserts, Cakes and Pastries, Energy Bars and Snacks, and Kids' Favorite Sweets.

Other books by Kristine Weber

• Healthy and Strong With Protein

• Healthier and Stronger

• Kristine's Muscle Food

• A Healthier Lifestyle with Kristine Weber

AUTHOR: KRISTINE WEBER

TITLE ENGLISH: KRISTINE ' S HEALTHY SWEETS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: KRISTINES SUNNE SØTE

FORMAT: 190x230 mm / 112 pages

Kristine Weber is an economist and runs a very popular blog, which focuses on diet and exercise. She took part in the Norwegian Championship, competing in the area of Body Fitness in 2012, and took 1st place!

AUTHOR:

BENTE HELENE SCHEI

TITLE ENGLISH:

YOGA MADE SIMPLE

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

YOGA HELT ENKELT!

FORMAT:

210x225 mm / 160 pages

YOGA MADE SIMPLE

EXERCISES AND PROGRAMS FOR THE WHOLE BODY

In Yoga Made Simple, yoga teacher Bente Helene Schei focuses on the classic and simple parts of yoga and gives you specific exercises and programs you can follow at home. You can choose the programs that suit you and your level best. The shortest program is 10–20 minutes, a bit longer is 30–60 minutes, and the longest are 60–90.

The book also contains programs with exercises that specifically help fight ailments connected with stomach and digestion, neck and shoulders, balance and concentration. All the poses are described clearly, step by step, and are illustrated with photos of the author. In addition to describing how the poses are done, the author also explains what you should be aware of, what you should be careful of and what the impact of each pose is.

Bente Schei is a yoga teacher and manager of the Center for Classical Yoga. She has been doing yoga for 20 years and maintains the basic idea that yoga is simple. She graduated from the Yoga Teacher School and is a member of the Norwegian Yoga Teachers Association.

CALISTHENICS WITH LASSE TUFTE 2

MORE EFFECTIVE BODY WEIGHT TRAINING

Even more effective body weight strength training exercises from Lasse Tufte. Book 2 contains descriptions of exercises without weights or manuals for the whole body. All the exercises are illustrated by the author. The book is perfect both for beginners who need demonstrations of the exercises and for the more advanced who would like to develop themselves further and learn more. Includes the author's own training programs.

Other books by Lasse Tufte:

• Exercise Together

• Calisthenics

AUTHOR: LASSE TUFTE

TITLE ENGLISH: CALISTHENICS WITH LASSE TUFTE 2

TITLE NORWEGIAN: CALISTHENICS MED LASSE TUFTE 2

FORMAT: 190x260 mm / 176 pages

Lasse Tufte is the founder of the Tufteparken outdoor physical training parks. He introduced Street Workout to Norway. He is recognised both nationally and internationally for his role in sports development as an organiser, exponent, judge, developer of facilities, lecturer and consultant.

AUTHOR: SVEIN ARNE STRØMSODD AND JON ERIK SOLBERG

FORMAT: 210x225 mm / 176 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: FINLAND (Karisto) SWEDEN (Semic)

CUTTING NORWEGIAN WOOD

VEDHOGGEREN

Cutting wood is great for both body and soul. It is an exciting, varied and relaxing activity which appeals to many.

This book is a complete presentation of the art of cutting wood, with chainsaw use as the main theme.

Svein Arne Strømsodd is a wood enthusiast, author and publisher. He is a former forest owner and he has written several practical books for house and hut owners.

Jon Erik Solberg is a qualified forestry technician, working for Stihl, the chainsaw manufacturer. Solberg has been Norwegian Chain Saw Champion several times, and has taken part in international competitions.

AUTHOR: ØIVIND BERG

FORMAT: 210x225 mm / 160 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO: UNITED KINGDOM (Carlton Publishing Group)

THE FIRE

BÅLET

Around the fire is a natural gathering place, both outdoors and indoors. This is a practical guide to the art of kindling and tending fire.

The use of fire is the most important discovery in human history, changing the life and development of our species in many ways. Øivind Berg follows the use of fire as a heat source, a cooking place and a social gathering point right up to the present day.

This book will tell you about different types and uses of fire, how to kindle a fire, the characteristics of different woods as fuel, and how to cook food over a fire.

Øivind Berg (1955–) has written a number of books for children, young people and adults about Norwegian nature and wildlife, outdoor activities, culture and history. He has been awarded the Culture Department's Special Prize for his authorship.

JESPERPUSS

Jesperpus is not like other cats. Jesperpus swims and skis. 100 million over the whole world have seen the film of his ski trip. He blogs, is on Facebook and is ranked among the world's most influential animals. However, Jesperpus is also just like most cats. He likes hunting for birds and mice, and loves his human family very much.

This book shows in text and pictures both his very special talents and his quite ordinary behaviour as an everyday cat.

AUTHOR: AINA STORMO AND KATIA GJERDING WIEGAND

TITLE ENGLISH: JESPERPUSS

TITLE NORWEGIAN: JESPERPUS

FORMAT: 210x225 mm / 152 pages

Alna Stormo (1972–) lives on a farm in Løten in Hedmark. She has long experience with domestic animals and pets and is very active in animal protection. She is Jesperpus' housekeeper and secretary.

AUTHOR: TOMMY TØNSBERG

TITLE ENGLISH: MY GARDEN CALENDAR

TITLE NORWEGIAN: MIN HAGEKALENDER

FORMAT: 170x240 mm / 144 pages

MY GARDEN CALENDAR

12 MONTHS IN THE GARDEN

When should I sow seeds and when should I prune trees and hedges? My Garden Calendar gives you an overview of what should be done in your garden from month to month, and when you should do it. Among other things, it helps you remember when you should sow, plant, prune, fertilize, lime, weed, graft, pick and harvest. The book also reminds you when the birds need extra feeding in the winter, and when it's an especially nice time to enjoy your garden.

In addition to practical advice, tips and ideas about gardening, there are also pages dedicated to taking notes, checklists and sketches. By using these pages diligently, you can collect valuable information and experiences from your own garden that you can enjoy for years to come.

CULTIVATING IN SMALL SPACES

Do you dream of harvesting crisp salads or picking fragrant spices from your own crops? You don't need a big garden to grow tasty berries and fruits, crisp vegetables or delicious herbs – a couple of pots and the clever use of space is all you need. Here, you'll learn how to make the most of what you have available and grow your favorite plants – from soil improvement and fertilizer to planting and monitoring. The authors give great tips about cultivating individual vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, fruits and berries, and useful information on varieties that are well suited to your conditions.

Food from your own harvest tastes extra good. Plant something you love to eat, is the authors' advice.

Other books by Tommy Tønsberg:

• The Big Book of Perennials

• Edibility in Small Spaces

Tommy Tønsberg's (1980–) interest in gardening was already evident at an early age: as a schoolboy he often spent his entire allowance at the nursery. Today, he tends a small but lush garden on the outskirts of Oslo, and is the editor of Norsk Hagetidend, the magazine for members of the Gardeners' Association. He is also a popular guest speaker.

Kenneth Ingebretsen (1977–) is a gardener who works at the largest garden centre in Norway. He also edits the membership newsletter Blomstervenner for the Friends of Flowers Society.

AUTHOR: TOMMY TØNSBERG AND KENNETH INGEBRETSEN

TITLE ENGLISH: CULTIVATING IN SMALL SPACES

TITLE NORWEGIAN: DYRKING PÅ LITEN PLASS

FORMAT: 210x225 mm / 176 pages

AUTHOR: LENE JULSEN

ILLUSTRATED BY: ANDRÉ MARTINSEN

FORMAT:

148x210 mm / 224 pages

AUTHOR:

LORELOU DESJARDINS

ILLUSTRATED BY:

CATHRINE SANDMÆL

FORMAT:

148x210 mm / 272 pages

HE NEVER PROMISED ME GOLD, ONLY GREEN FORESTS

THE NATURE MAN AND I

Man loves woman. Woman loves man. But 385,186 square kilometers of Norwegian nature separates them. All she wants is to have children, all he wants is to go to the mountains. Convincing a “Nature Man” that there is room for a child will prove to be just as difficult as walking up Store Skagastølstind in stilettos. A warm, humorous story about how people can live together despite great differences.

Lene Julsen (1983–) is a journalist and writer with columns in the online journal Harvest, in Norway's biggest outdoor magazine Fjell og Vidde, and in A-magasinet

A FROG IN THE FJORD

EN FROSK I FJORDEN

French Lorelou Desjardins move to Norway and strive to become Norwegian. In this book we get to accompany her on her journey. Through funny anecdotes and stories she tells us about her meeting with Norwegians and Norwegian habits.

She takes a course in Norwegian, go on trips to cabins in the woods, learn how to cross country ski, celebrate the 17th of May, try to find love and explore the meaning of having it “koselig”.

Lorelou is also the writer behind the popular blog A Frog in the Fjord.

Lorelou Desjardins is a lawyer and work as an adviser for the Rainforest Foundation Norway. She writes for several magazines and have a column in VG. She is also a popular lecturer.