Cappelen Damm Agency fiction and non-fiction Autumn 2017

RIGHTS CATALOGUE AUTUMN

2017

FICTION NON-FICTION

RIGHTS CATALOGUE

FICTION & NON-FICTION Cappelen Damm Agency 2017

Published by CAPPELEN DAMM AS www.cappelendamm.no Layout: CAPPELEN DAMM AS Print: AiT Bjerch AS, Norway 2017 ISBN: 978-82-02-56801-6 Cover Illustration: Stian Hole Cover Photo: Unknown photographer/Oslo Museum From Traces of the City (Byens Spor) by Lars Saabye Christensen © CAPPELEN DAMM AS 2017

CONTENT Contact Information

4

Fiction 6 Short Stories

38

Graphic Books

39

Flamme 42 Crime Fiction

50

Narrative Non-Fiction

60

Self-Help 86 Parenting 88 Crafts 90 Food 112 Fitness 130 Gardening 134

INGVILD HAUGLAND Foreign Rights Director ingvild.haugland@cappelendamm.no Phone +47 414 10 647

SILJE MELLA Foreign Rights Manager silje.mella@cappelendamm.no Phone +47 942 22 957

ANETTE SLETTBAKK GARPESTAD Information Manager anette.garpestad@cappelendamm.no Phone +47 984 82 087

ANNETTE FJÆRVOLL Foreign Rights Consultant annette.fjarvoll@cappelendamm.no Phone +47 482 94 681

Follow us on Facebook and our webpage www.cappelendammagency.no Do you want our newsletters? Send an email to Annette Fjærvoll.

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

Cappelen Damm is owned jointly by Bonnier and Egmont.

Cappelen Damm Agency represents the rights of all of the authors in this catalogue. This includes titles from Flamme Forlag, an imprint of Cappelen Damm AS. The Agency is responsible for all foreign book rights, as well as rights for TV, film, radio, anthologies, electronic media etc. We are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the authors and the sales of foreign rights.

We attend the major international book fairs, and look forward to talking to you there!

FICTION

THE EYES OF RIGEL The tale about Ingrid Barrøy, which started with The Unseen and continued with White Ocean, marked yet another break through for Roy Jacobsen. With these books he has captured new readers in Norway – and abroad. The first book in the series has been sold to 15 countries and was nominated to The Man Booker International Prize.

The Eyes of Rigel is the third book in the trilogy. A strong, epic novel about a country and a people after a great war. In this moving story about a woman that does what everyone tells her not to – Ingrid ventures out on a hazardous quest to find the young Russian Alexander, a man she had a love affair with and who is the father of her child.

AUTHOR:

ROY JACOBSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

THE EYES OF RIGEL

The Eyes of Rigel is a very rich novel, and you are left with a well of impressions after the just over 200 pages – both moved and impressed!

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

RIGELS ØYNE FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 240 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

CHINA (Writers Publishing House) GREECE (Hestia Publishers) POLAND (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie sp. z o.o.)

PHOTO: AGNETE BRUN

Roy Jacobsen (1954–) has since his literary début in 1982 with the short story collection Prison-life 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 an obvious political engagement. He has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize: for The Victors (Seierherrene) 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 (Hoggerne), and shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017 for The Unseen (De usynlige), as the first Norwegian writer ever.

His books are translated into 31 languages.

6

THE UNSEEN

FICTION

175 500 COPIES IN PRINT IN NORWAY

DE USYNLIGE

The Unseen is a novel about an unlikely heroine. It 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.

AUTHOR:

ROY JACOBSEN

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.

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 256 pages

RIGHTS SOLD TO 22 COUNTRIES – SHORTLISTED TO THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017

WHITE OCEAN HVITT HAV

119 500 COPIES IN PRINT IN NORWAY

This is the stand alone sequel to the successful novel The Unseen. 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, but experiences an unusual love affair in the course of several intense winter-weeks.

In this novel 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.

AUTHOR:

RIGHTS SOLD TO 13 COUNTRIES

ROY JACOBSEN FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 240 pages

7

FICTION

WILLS AND TESTAMENTS

119 000 COPIES IN PRINT IN NORWAY

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

Two children have been looking after the place and their parents for many years. They are due to inherit the huts. But there are two other children, who have partly broken away from the family.

How do they fit into the inheritance dispute?

AUTHOR:

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

VIGDIS HJORTH TITLE ENGLISH:

WILLS AND TESTAMENTS

Wills and Testament is a very powerful and interesting novel, which certainly created great debate when it was first published in 2016.

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

ARV OG MILJØ FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 352 pages

Winner of the Norwegian Booksellers Award 2016.

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

BULGARIA (Aviana) DENMARK (Turbine) ESTONIA (Eesti Raamat) FAROE ISLANDS (Sprotin Forlag) FRANCE (Actes Sud) GERMANY (Osburg Verlag) LITHUANIA (Alma Littera) NETHERLANDS (Ambo Anthos) POLAND (Wydawnictwo Literackie) SPAIN (Nórdica Libros) SWEDEN (Natur & Kultur)

Nominated to The Nordic Councils Literature Prize.

PHOTO: © KJELL RUBEN/PALOOKAVILLE

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.

She has won a number of prizes and awards, amongst them: The Gyldendal Prize in 2011, the Critics Award in 2012, The Honorary Brage Award and the Amalie Skram Award in 2014, The Aschehoug Award in 2015 and the Booksellers Prize in 2016.

Her books has been published in Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Iceland, The Netherlands, Russia, Finland, Poland and The Ukraine.

8

‘Vigdis Hjorth's books make life less lonely.’

BERGENS TIDENDE

‘Vigdis Hjorth's new novel is

inflammatory material in a strong literary form.’

MORGENBLADET

‘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.’

VG

‘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

FICTION

TRACES OF THE CITY EWALD AND MAJ A new epic story from Lars Saabye Christensen!

We've all stood on a street corner and let the city's lights and sounds pass by. What do we hear when we listen to the sounds of the city? What traces do they leave in us? Who is at the other end of the line when the phone rings? What story can we deduce from the protocols from Fagerborg's branch of the Red Cross in the post-war years? How do the stories all connect? When someone loses something, someone else finds something different. The city and the streets are the same as before, but the people who emerge in Traces of the City have never been seen before.

AUTHOR:

LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN

At the center are Ewald and Maj Kristoffersen, but their fates are closely interwoven with the city and the streets they live on.

TITLE ENGLISH:

TRACES OF THE CITY TITLE NORWEGIAN:

BYENS SPOR

We become acquainted with all these characters and more when we put our ears to the city's conch and listen to it. With Traces of the City, Lars Saabye Christensen has written a breathtaking and magnificent start to what will be a new trilogy.

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 448 pages

PHOTO: MAGNUS STIVI

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 (Historien om 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 (Halvbroren) in 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.

The author has been published in 36 countries.

10

BACKLIST:

FICTION

MAGNET

WINNER OF THE BRAGE PRIZE 2015

For nearly three years, every single day, Lars Saabye Christensen has been writing his new novel. It will be standing as a major work in his authorship. Beatles was his great youth work, The HalfBrother 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 it is the most impressive – it seems that he is doing 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.

AUTHOR:

LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN

Jokum is a photographer who will take pictures of the ordinary, he will see the beauty and melancholy in the world. Synne is an art historian with Edward Hopper as her specialty. She is drawn towards fame, towards the spectacular. He feels more at home in cheap stores and second hand shops than in galleries and museums. Through his pictures he will show how time is present in everything we have. He manages this. Until he takes a picture of their dead child.

TITLE ENGLISH:

MAGNET

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

MAGNET FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 784 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

BULGARIA (Vessela Lutkanova) DENMARK (C&K Forlag) GERMANY (btb Luchterhand) NETHERLANDS (De Geus Uitgeverij) POLAND (Wydawnictwo Literackie)

The novel was shortlisted for the Booksellers Book Award and the radio channel P2-listeners Novel Award.

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

BERGENS TIDENDE

‘A master wordsmith is at work here.’

P2

‘ … a splendid read with bitter-sweet and recognisable pictures of the times and a genuinely exciting love-story of a very varied pair. The dialogue is tightly-written, impressive and quotable.’

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

12

FICTION

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

‘Lars Saabye Christensen and Stian Hole's picturebook for grown ups is a Genuine Joy.’ DAGBLADET AUTHOR:

‘… a jewel of a picture book for grown-ups.’

LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN

FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

TITLE ENGLISH:

GENUINE JOYS TITLE NORWEGIAN:

SANNE GLEDER ILLUSTRATED BY:

STIAN HOLE FORMAT:

170x220 mm / 88 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Rosinante & Co)

13

FICTION

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, who was married to Edvard Munch's cousin, Peter Anker Ragnvald Munch. Anna Munch and Knut Hamsun first met during his lecture tour in 1891, when he went on the offensive against Ibsen and others.

AUTHOR:

SELMA LØNNING AARØ

To put it mildly, she was entranced. She began to follow him, even to Paris, and on several occasions she booked in to the same lodgings as he had.

TITLE ENGLISH:

HER LYING FACE TITLE NORWEGIAN:

HENNES LØGNAKTIGE YTRE FORMAT:

She constantly sent him letters, to which she eventually received no replies. In other words, she was a good old-fashioned ‘stalker.’ The police were not sure that Anna Munch had written the letters. For a while they even wondered whether Hamsun had written them himself.

130x205 mm / 304 pages

This epistolary mystery is 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 had to be seen and heard.

The author has made some amazing biographical discoveries which help to cast light on the most highly debated author in Norwegian history, Knut Hamsun.

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

PHOTO: © AGNETE BRUN

DAGBLADET

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

14

FICTION

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 labels on the mailbox, his name has been crossed out and a new one put in its place: EGIL HEGEL.

AUTHOR:

ERLEND LOE TITLE ENGLISH:

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

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

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

SLUTTEN PÅ VERDEN SLIK VI KJENNER DEN FORMAT:

143x206 mm / 280 pages

‘Probably this year's funniest book.’

ADRESSEAVISEN

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 is dystopic cultural critique with high entertainment value.’

VG

‘The crusade against cleverness and conformity continues.’

DAGBLADET

‘Awfully funny.’

KLASSEKAMPEN

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

15

PHOTO: FREDRIK ARFF

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 (Tatt av kvinnen) 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.

FICTION

ALL THE LIGHT AND ALL THE DARK Pregnant Hildegunn calls on her mother Vibeke for the first time in many years. By this action we are thrown into the story about Vibeke and her childhood in a small village on the West Coast of Norway. Gradually we draw closer on a dramatic happening that has come to put its mark on both of the women.

All the Light and All the Dark is a story about coming to terms with the past, communicated in a beautiful and sensual prose.

AUTHOR:

BRYNJULF JUNG TJØNN TITLE ENGLISH:

‘The Brage Prize-winnning author Brynjulf Jung Tjønn writes engagingly and drivingly good about lack of care in his new novel. … Much of the quality of the novel is in the concrete, simple and clean language that suits stories and situations that are now easy to communicate. Sometimes, when I feel that the narrative is about to become teardripping, the melodramatic tendency is weighted up by a sharp cut style that does not paint the dramatic highlights in uunneccesary broad strokes. Tjønn has composed a driving and engaging story.’

ALL THE LIGHT AND ALL THE DARK TITLE NORWEGIAN:

ALT DET LYSE OG ALT DET MØRKE FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 304 pages

VG

‘Tight and intense.’

PHOTO: ANNA-JULIA GRANBERG/BLUNDERBUSS

BERGENS TIDENDE

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn (1980–) made his literary début with the novel I came to love (Eg kom for å elske) in 2002. He has since published a number of books for both children and adults. His novel for Young Adults You are so Beautiful (Så vakker du er), won the Brage Prize in 2013.

16

FICTION

THE END OF OUR FLAG 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 concocts gruesome ways to kill the Pröll-child.

AUTHOR:

PETER FRANZISKUS STRASSEGGER

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.

TITLE ENGLISH:

THE END OF OUR FLAG TITLE NORWEGIAN:

SLUTTEN PÅ FLAGGET VÅRT FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 256 pages

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

‘This is a psychologically believable, occasionally very fascinating story about personal and political-social problems that are central also in the conflict-filled Europe of today.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘Sharp and wise about family and nationalism.’

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.

17

PHOTO: © THOMAS WINJE ØIJORD

DAGSAVISEN

FICTION

WELCOME TO US How to grieve in the shadow of a national grief? In Welcome to us we meet Arild and Sella, who each in their own way are coming to terms with having lost a son in a ferry accident. That was eight years ago, but after 22nd July 2011 their grief is reawakened.

Welcome to us is a novel about the people on the fringes of the national catastrophe who are still drawn into its emotional undercurrent. It is also a love story about two people compelled to make the choices which keep them alive.

AUTHOR:

‘Evjemo's writing is brilliant, unpretentious, precise and nuanced. He describes the space between people. The distance.

The silent sorrow. The loneliness. The despair. And he has the unique ability to do this subtly, using props with which we are all familiar … But he also writes about love, unity and a sense of belonging. It's real. It's important. And it is penned by an author who would appear to be one of the best that Norwegian contemporary literature has to offer.’

EIVIND HOFSTAD EVJEMO TITLE ENGLISH:

WELCOME TO US TITLE NORWEGIAN:

VELKOMMEN TIL OSS FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 240 pages

ADRESSEAVISEN

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

AUSTRIA (Luftschacht e.U.) FRANCE (Editions Grasset et Fasquelle)

‘One seldom encounters such accomplished writing. Every sentence vibrates with aesthetic delight and existential solemnity.’

BERGENS TIDENDE

‘I am a great admirer of Evjemo's empathetic and cinematic bird's-eye view and I hope that he goes on to write many more books.’

VG

PHOTO: MAJA HATTVANG

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo (1983–) studied writing at Litterær Gestaltning in Gothenburg, Sweden. For his debut novel Wake me if I fall asleep from 2009 he won the Tarjei Vesaas' First Writers Award. For his second novel, The Last Thing You Will See Is A Face of Love from 2012 he recieved The Young Critics Prize, the UT-award and Writer of the year from Trøndelag County. The novel Welcome to Us from 2014 received wonderful reviews, and will be published in France in 2017.

Hofstad Evjemo is also the editor of the yearly debut anthology SIGNALER. In 2015 he was listed as one of the ten best norwegian authors under 35, by weekly newspaper Morgenbladet and Norsk Litteraturfestival.

18

FICTION

THE LAST THING YOU WILL SEE IS A FACE OF LOVE Practically an entire community is described in The Last Thing You Will See Is A Face of Love. The narrative focuses on four characters.

We share their day to day lives as the quiet drama unfolds in a community sheltered by the newly-rich Norwegian state.

AUTHOR:

Hofstad Evjemo writes about the dreams you hold on to in places where the world seems distant – and about everyone sharing the hope that life will offer something more. But, as we know, this is also about a community: new spaces in it are opened up and you can get in behind the facades, go where no one usually goes, find new patterns and structures.

EIVIND HOFSTAD EVJEMO TITLE ENGLISH:

THE LAST THING YOU WILL SEE IS A FACE OF LOVE TITLE NORWEGIAN:

DET SISTE DU SKAL SE ER ET ANSIKT AV KJÆRLIGHET FORMAT:

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo has dared to do something not many in his generation would try: make a community his subject and explore its social hierarchies. He writes in a charged, insightful language.

115x185 mm / 496 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Gyldendal DK)

‘Eivind Hofstad Evjemo recreates life in Norway in 2012, down to the finest detail, in a major candidate for the title “the great Norwegian novel”. … Det siste du skal se er et ansikt av kjærlighet is the kind of book that will challenge the capacity of the delivery trucks supplying the book shops this Christmas.’

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

‘Brilliant: This is an unusually well-written example of contemporary Norwegian literature … Eivind Hofstad Evjemo has an excellent grasp of style.’

KLASSEKAMPEN

‘This is skillfully written. The result is beautiful.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

19

FICTION

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?

AUTHOR:

BRITT KARIN LARSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

YOU CAME FROM LIGHT TITLE NORWEGIAN:

AV LYS ER DU KOMMET

‘A great storyteller that deserves a great audience.’

FORMAT:

DAGSAVISEN

130x205 mm / 192 pages

‘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.’

PHOTO: © ANITA KROK, GLÅMDALEN

FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

Britt Karin Larsen (1945–) has written poetry, books for children, documentary books and novels. Her first published work was the 1978 collection of poetry 5 mg blues og andre dikt. She is reknowned for her Gypsy trilogy, and her historic novels about the life of people in the wooded area of Finnskogen in Norway.

20

FICTION

FINNSKOGEN 1-3 Come back in time with us, and meet the cast out bear hunter Taneli and the survivor Lina, in a story you will never forget.

In the borderlands between Norwegian Hedmark and Swedish Värmland in the 19th century, we meet the ethnic minority of the Wood-Finns. Lina is wandering the woods with a new-born baby in her arms. She meets Taneli, a loner feared by society because of a murder he supposedly has committed. Together they try to build a life.

We also get to know the other Finns in the area, like the drunkard Oluf, the witch Kaisa and the beautiful Hilda. In a ravishing, raw, tender and at times deeply moving way, Britt Karin Larsen tell the tale about the fight to survive and the bonds to nature that Lina, Taneli and the others collect strength and life from.

AUTHOR:

BRITT KARIN LARSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

FINNSKOGEN 1-3 TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FINNSKOGEN 1-3 FORMAT:

The author gives the Forrest Finn-culture a voice, and she does it with tender intensity and great respect.

130x205 mm / 768 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

This edition contains: There is a Tree Growing in Mostamägg, The Forrest of the Sky Bear and As the Stone Shines.

SWEDEN (Heidruns Förlag) DENMARK (Gyldendal DK)

This collected edition of the 3 first books in the series has had a print run of over 15.000 copies in Norway.

21

FICTION

TO THE WESTERN ICE

FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE

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 and shocking and uncompromising in content.

AUTHOR:

TOR EVEN SVANES TITLE ENGLISH:

‘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 … To the Western Ice is outstandingly well written and offers a concentrated presentation of the almost watertight bulkhead between social classes in a country where amazingly many naïve souls believe that all are alike.’

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)

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

‘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. To the Western Ice is a significant, consistent, uncompromising and disturbing novel.’

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

‘Svanes has written a violent and disturbing "arctic-noir"-thriller.’

PHOTO: © ANNA-JULIA GRANBERG / BLUNDERBUSS

JYLLANDS-POSTEN, DENMARK

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

22

FICTION

LIGHTYEARS Sunstorms have made the earth uninhabitable. Humanity's last hope, 24 selected passengers in cryo chambers and with erased memories, are on their way to the closest habitable planet – 543 years away.

Norway, the only conscious passenger on board, does its duties, getting the best out of its watch and overlooking the strange banging sounds from the air conditioner. Lightyears is a sad, beautiful and exciting journey back in time and space.

AUTHOR:

‘Didrik Morits Hallstrøm writes Science Fiction that will give you chills. The depictions of the lonely life aboard the space ship Vita is written in detail and intensity, instantly gripping the reader. This is a story that could not have been told in any other perspective. Through short and compact narratives the reader is included in the life and routines of Vita. The space ship, dead, empty and awful, is brought to life in an impressive way through the writing of Hallstrøm. This is a book that you can take with you without regret.’

DIDRIK MORITS HALLSTRØM TITLE ENGLISH:

LIGHTYEARS

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

LYSÅR

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 160 pages

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm (1984–) was born in Oslo, and is an Art Director educated at The Westerdals School of Communication. His debut You are not dead until I stop loving you (Du er ikke død før jeg slutter å elske deg) from 2011 was well received by both the critics and the readers. He has since written two more novels.

23

PHOTO: STEPHEN BUTKUS

AFTENPOSTEN

FICTION

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?

AUTHOR:

BENEDICTE MEYER KRONEBERG TITLE ENGLISH:

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?

IT HAS TO BE DONE TITLE NORWEGIAN:

DETTE ER HELT NØDVENDIG FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 224 pages

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.’

PHOTO: © MONICA KOPPPERDAL HELLEM

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 (Dette er helt nødvendig) is her fifth novel.

24

FICTION

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.

AUTHOR:

SIRI M. KVAMME TITLE ENGLISH:

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 TITLE NORWEGIAN:

VERDEN LEKER GJEMSEL FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 224 pages

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

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

BULGARIA (Aviana)

‘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.’

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 with Read and apart (Raud og frå seg) in 2001, a collection of short prose. Her first novel Winter Heart (Vinterhjerte) from 2008 was well received by the critics. In 2012 she published the novel Nightwanderer (Nattgjengar), and The World Plays Hide and Seek (Verden leker gjemsel) is her third novel.

25

PHOTO: GUNVOR SALTVIK

HAUGESUNDS AVIS

FICTION

BATTLEFIELD A SHORT REPORT FROM THE UNDERGROWTH Familyman Torgrim Eik moves out of his home one weekend to sail over the fjord and go hunting. As he walks through the mountains, memories from a wandering life appear to him. And he begins an internal hunt.

Geir Olav Jørgensen reappears as one of our most powerful writers with a novel that descends into the undercurrents of humanity.

AUTHOR:

GEIR OLAV JØRGENSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

BATTLEFIELD - A SHORT REPORT FROM THE UNDERGROWTH TITLE NORWEGIAN:

SLAGMARK - KORT RAPPORT FRA UNDERSKOGEN FORMAT:

PHOTO: ARNE BRU HAUG

130x205 mm / 176 pages

Geir Olav Jørgensen was born in 1971 and is originally from Husnes in Hordaland. He debuted with the novel Mono (2006), and has since published several critically acclaimed novels.

26

FICTION

EARTH JORD

When Halvor, oldest son and heir, becomes the oldest man on the farm, he has to marry the smallholding woman Regine. Under scarce conditions, the human spirit is put to the test. Son Skjalg must deal with the consequences of Halvor's choices. The book is about two families, two farms. Kollbotn writes a serious drama that stretches across generations. It is powerful and engaging. Kollbotn writes with uncommon courage and honesty.

AUTHOR:

KJERSTI KOLLBOTN FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 288 pages

Kjersti Kollbotn (1959–) is from Nordfjord and lives in Tromsø. She has a doctorate in Engineering from NTNU. I am Mother. I will be Good. (Eg er mamma.

Eg skal vere god.) (2009) was her first publication, followed by the novels Taxi!

(2011) and Ice Fire (Isbrann) (2014).

HOMO SACCO HOMO SACCO

Sophie's world is in free fall. With time off from university, she infiltrates Oslo's art scene, where curator Mr. K, critic Kjell and the artist Scram become her chess pieces. Haunted by traumas, Queen Sophie slowly moves her pieces towards the target: Checkmate. A wonderfully satirical and profound look at the Norwegian art scene, but also a serious examination of the world and society.

AUTHOR:

THOMAS KVAM FORMAT:

130x205 mm

Thomas Kvam (1972–) is a visual artist with several international exhibitions.

Homo Sacco is his debut as a novelist.

27

FICTION

THE OTHER CHILD DET ANDRE BARNET

Single mother Agnes prays to God for a man and chooses to move in with a single father at her son's preschool who winks at her and owns a white house in the countryside in Vestfold.

Why do so many women make bad choices? What do you need in order to trust yourself and make conscious choices? And are you allowed to set limits for a child you don't love?

A very engaging and relevant novel.

AUTHOR:

LINE NYBORG

Line Merethe Nyborg (1969–) was born in Narvik. She is trained at the Westerdals School of Communication and has studied Nordic Languages at the University of Oslo. Her day job is working in Tønsberg on communication issues.

Only Mother who is God (Bare mamma som er gud) (2010) was her first book, and she has since written the novels You do not know who I am (Du vet ikke hvem jeg er) in 2012 and For you, for you alone (For deg, for deg alene) in 2014.

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 208 pages

SEE EUROPE CAPUT MORTUUM SE EUROPA

We are in Oslo and Budapest, where we are following the fates of several people with a family connection: At the center of the story is Rita, who is no longer with them. Who are we and how can we live in the world we are committed to?

Wera Sæther's first novel in eight years is a powerful and insightful story of loss and sorrow, about those who are left behind. See Europe is an opus compiled around a country on the outskirts.

AUTHOR:

WERA SÆTHER FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 304 pages Wera Sæther (1945–) has since her literary début in 1973 written in several genres: poetry, translations, novels and children's books. Wera Sæther travels extensively in Easter Europe, India, Central Africa and the Middle East, writing and taking photos.

28

FICTION

PORNOMANIA Mattis grows up in an age of porn magazines and censored pictures of naked bodies. But then the Internet arrives, the censorship is gone and porn is made available for free through streaming. To attract "voyeurs" the porn becomes more and more violent and humiliating. This is when porn take over the life of Mattis.

From living in a house with his parents and younger sister, he is institutionalized in the care of the state. He is sentenced for rape, arson and hard violence. The pornography imprisons him, in a bodily prison he wants to break free from.

AUTHOR:

EIRIK HUSBY SÆTHER TITLE ENGLISH:

This is a novel about a generation of voyeurs. About extroverted sex and loneliness.

PORNOMANIA

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

PORNOMANIA FORMAT:

Eirik Husby Sæter (1984–) is born and raised in the area of Bjørndal in Oslo.

He has studied criminology, and in 2009 he graduated from The Norwegian Police Academy. As well as being a writer, he works as a police officer at the Crime Guard in Oslo. Pornomania is his fifth novel.

29

PHOTO: AGNETE BRUN

130x205 mm

FICTION

IT WILL ALL BE DIFFERENT OPPSTANDELSE

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.

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

AUTHOR:

EIVIND BUENE FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 432 pages Eivind Buene (1973–) is a composer. His music has been performed in prestigious venues like Centre Pompidou, Berlin Philharmonic Hall and Carnegie Hall. He made his literary debut in 2010.

FAREWELL TO ALL THAT FARVEL TIL ALT DÉT

This is the stand alone sequel to Sondre Midthun’s criticallyacclaimed début 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.

AUTHOR:

SONDRE MIDTHUN 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.

30

FICTION

UNDER THE WINDOW UNDER VINDUET

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.

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

AUTHOR:

AKSEL SELMER FORMAT:

Aksel Selmer (1958–) made his literary debut with a poetry collection called Hit skulle det ha kommet noen flere in 1992. Since then he has had another collection of poetry published, as well as ten novels for adults and young people. He is loved by the readers and critics for his portrayal of funny, quirky characters and his warm sense of humour, especially in Norway and Denmark.

130x205 mm / 160 pages

THE LOFOTEN WALL LOFOTVEGGEN

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.

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.’

STIG AASVIK

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

130x205 mm / 320 pages

AUTHOR: FORMAT:

Stig Aasvik (1970–) lives in Oslo. His debut was The Electrical Elephant (Den elektriske elefanten) from 2002. Internal Affairs (Indre anliggender) from 2012, his third novel, was awarded The Booksellers Scholarship for Authors. It received great reviews and was nominated for Book of the Year in the publication Natt & Dag.

31

FICTION

PELARGONIA

WINNER OF THE LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN GRANT 2017

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.

AUTHOR:

FREDERIK SVINDLAND TITLE ENGLISH:

PELARGONIA

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

PELARGONIA

EXCERPT FROM PELARGONIA :

FORMAT:

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.

130x205 mm / 96 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

PHOTO: ANNA-JULIA GRANBERG / BLUNDERBUSS

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.

32

FICTION

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.

AUTHOR:

INGER WOLD LUND

Some of Lund's texts are decidedly sensual. Others are comical and even border on slapstick. Although Erotica is inspired be 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.

TITLE ENGLISH:

EROTICA

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

EROTIKA FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 112 pages

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.

‘She shows us that erotica can be so much more than depictions of wild and unrestrained sex. Rather than writing about erect penises penetrating voluptuous vaginas, these texts mirror those situations where these elements might be present, but where the literary attention is given to the actions that take part before, under and after. … If you are one of those who have given up on erotica, you should give the genre a new chance. And it should start here.’

FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

‘Enticing, humoristic and surprising - Indeed you can write well about erotica!’

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.

33

PHOTO: HEIDI FURRE

KK

FICTION

CLEARING THE AIR 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.

CLEARING THE AIR

‘It takes exactly one hundred pages for Finnish-Norwegian Päivi Laakso to describe a life. A death in the family puts in motion the thoughts about how a life can be lived. This book is a beautiful little novel.’

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

NRK

FORMAT:

‘Clearing the Air represents a refreshingly crafted and different contribution to Norwegian literature’

AUTHOR:

PÄIVI LAAKSO TITLE ENGLISH:

MYGGFANGERNE

130x205 mm / 112 pages

HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD RIGHTS SOLD TO:

PHOTO: ANNA JULIA GRANBERG

FINLAND (Like)

Päivi M. Laakso (1967–) is from Tornio in Finland but lives and works in Norway.

She published her debut in 2001, the novel Jeg elsker sol, and has since written two more novels. She is also a reknowned artist, and has had several exhibitions in later years.

34

FICTION

MERCY Mercy is the story of Nancy and Fredrik, a married couple who have one another but who feel less and less at home in their own time. At least, this is the case for Fredrik. When he receives a fatal diagnosis, he decides that Nancy must be spared from having to live life alone.

Knut Nærum has written a macabre and cheerful story about how difficult it can be to become a murderer.

AUTHOR:

KNUT NÆRUM TITLE ENGLISH:

MERCY

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

BARMHJERTIGHET FORMAT:

Knut Nærum (1961–) has created eleven books of comic strips and fifteen books for children and adults. He is also the playwright behind the production Henrik Ibsen’s Collected Works in 68 minuts.

35

PHOTO: FREDRIK ARFF

130x205 mm / 256 pages

FICTION

THE COURT PHYSICIAN The engrossing re-telling of a story that has been told in many ways, but never before in the form of a novel. In Tor BomannLarsen’s first novel, the starting-point is an historical scenario that never ceases to fascinate us: the last days of the Russian Tsar family.

The Court Physician is the story of an internal exile and of the nature of hope. It is also an unforgettable and unfulfilled love story.

AUTHOR:

TOR BOMANN-LARSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

THE COURT PHYSICIAN TITLE NORWEGIAN:

LIVLEGEN FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 288 pages

PHOTO: JAN HAUG

Tor Bomann-Larsen (1951–) is one of Norway’s leading biographers. He writes with a rare elegance and with great scope and insight. He has published a number of books in different genres. In 2004 he received the prestigious Brage Prize for Non-Fiction for his book The People (Folket). He is currently working on his biography cycle about the Norwegian Royal Family.

Rights to his books have been sold to Germany, Russia and The UK.

36

FICTION

THROUGH THE NIGHT Dentist Karl Meyer's worst nightmare comes true when his son, Ole-Jakob, takes his own life. This tragedy forms the springboard for a complex and diverse novel, which asks essential questions about human experience. What does sorrow do to a person?

How can one live with the pain of unbearable loss? How far will a man be driven by the grief and despair surrounding the loss of his child?

Through the Night is a dark story, drawing on elements from dreams, fairy-tales and horror stories, as it explores the mysterious ways of sorrow and love.

AUTHOR:

STIG SÆTERBAKKEN TITLE ENGLISH:

‘Stig Sæterbakken's novel Through the Night must be one of this year's most fabulous ones – in the fabulous books' darkest, most heart-rending way.’

THROUGH THE NIGHT TITLE NORWEGIAN:

GJENNOM NATTEN FORMAT:

VÅRT LAND

130x205 mm / 272 pages

‘Stig Sæterbakken's first paragraph in the novel Through the Night is a brilliant start to a black and heart-breaking journey in mourning.’

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Løvens Forlag) FINLAND (Basam Books Inc) SLOVAKIA (Premedia Group, s.r.o.)

SPAIN (Mármara Ediciones, S.L.) SWEDEN (Vertigo Förlag) UNITED STATES (Dalkey Archive Press)

VG

‘Garanteed one of this year's best novels … This is Sæterbakken at his best, and Norwegian literature doesn't get much better than this.’

ADRESSEAVISEN

‘… a language which makes you hold your breath in the right places, and chase from side to side, from room to room, as if in a suspense novel.’

AFTENPOSTEN

‘Stig Sæterbakken sounds deeper than most writers, and with Through the Night he has added a new dark, painful and artistically successful novel to his authorship.’

Stig Sæterbakken (1966-2012) was one of Norway's most critically acclaimed authors. His books have been compared to works by artists such as Beckett, Bernhard and Polanski. Sæterbakken's novels often explore the inner life and morality of human beings. A darkness looms in his stories, and yet they are written in a brilliant language.

37

PHOTO: JO MICHAEL STUDIO

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

SHORT STORIES

IDA & ODA AND OTHER STORIES IDA & ODA OG ANDRE FORTELLINGER

Ida & Oda and Other Stories picks up the thread from Hæggernes's earlier publications The Checkout Lady I Have Loved and Other Stories and the novel Cousins and is about meetings between people, how they get to know each other, relate to each other and the networks that develops as they become parts of each other's existences. A sad, wise and lovely book from one of our best short story writers.

AUTHOR:

KRISTIAN S. HÆGGERNES

Kristian S. Hæggernes (1972–) saw his first collection of poetry The Weight of Falling Shadow (Tyngde av fallende skygge) published in 2004, and has since published a number of books within different genres. He has studied at the Writers Academy in Bergen, and works as a mentor for young writers at Trafo.no. His poetry has been published in a number of magazines. Hæggernes is currently a member of the Norwegian literary council.

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 384 pages

THE LOTUS EATERS LOTUSSPISERNE

The Lotus Eaters is a book about how consciousness enters a dialogue with the arts. The narrator poses the existential question: ‘Why was I born?’ before moving through a series of works that have had meaning for him. The absurd drawings of Gary Larson, Jackson Pollock's paintings, Mickey Rourke's role in Rumble Fish, a sentence from Ulysses. The Lotus Eaters is a narratively ambitious and playful collection of short stories.

AUTHOR:

KRISTIAN KLAUSEN FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 176 pages Kristian Klausen (1971–) has been a freelance writer and art instructor, and currently works as an environmental therapist with a psychiatric hospice. He made his literary début in 2008 with his critically acclaimed short story collection The Meal in Emmaus (Måltidet i Emmaus).

38

GRAPHIC BOOKS

TALKING SHOP OUTSIDE THE BOX Flu Hartberg's vivid drawings have elicited praise from people from all walks of life, from your average newspaper readers to the cultural elite. Talking Shop: Outside the Box is a collection of some of Hartberg's best comics, but also includes new material.

The drawings range from the comical to the more reflective, from pure satire to cunning hits. A perfect gift for people, animals and aliens of all ages.

AUTHOR:

This is the third book in the series.

FLU HARTBERG TITLE ENGLISH:

TALKING SHOP: OUTSIDE THE BOX TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FAGPRAT: UTENFOR BOKSEN FORMAT:

Flu Hartberg (1979–) has a background in art, having studied in both Norway and England. His comic series have been published in stand-alone form and in various magazines. He also works as an illustrator, and has produced work for several children's books.

39

PHOTO: ANDRÉ LØYNING

198x272 mm / 128 pages

GRAPHIC BOOKS

VAMPIRE A Gothic yarn about the dark secret behind our greatest painter, about betrayal, desperation and sick love, seen through the eyes of a drunken cartoonist and Bohemian.

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

‘Bloody and hilarious. Steffen Kverneland's debut novel is a gothic horror tale about Edvard Munch.’

AUTHOR:

NRK

TITLE ENGLISH:

‘Kverneland is right to the point here, both having a unique eye for visual details and an ear for lingual twists. … And the illustrations is just remarkable!’

STEFFEN KVERNELAND VAMPYR

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

VAMPIRE

DAG OG TID

FORMAT:

151x226 mm / 256 pages

PHOTO: MAJA HATTVANG

Steffen Kverneland won the Brage Prize for his graphic biography MUNCH in 2013. Vampire is his first novel.

Steffen Kverneland (1963–) is a prize-winning Norwegian cartoonist and illustrator, best known for Amputated Classics (Amputerte Klassikere) (1994–2001) and Munch (2013).

40

FLAMME

SAVE THE CHILDREN REDD BARNA

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.

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

AUTHOR:

TIRIL BROCH AAKRE

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

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 128 pages

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

MACEDONIA (Shkupi)

FJÄLLRÄVEN YELLOW FJÄLLRÄVEN GUL

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 he lives.

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.

AUTHOR:

TIRIL BROCH AAKRE

Tiril Broch Aakre (1976–) is a writer, editor, translator and consultant. She made her debut in 2013 with the poetry collection Lace (Kniplinger). In 2015, her first novel Save the Children (Redd barna) received excellent reviews. She has since written the book Fjällräven Yellow, and is currently writing on the follow up to Save the Children.

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 208 pages

Tiril Brock Aakre is one of NORLAs New Voices-Program.

42

FLAMME

ACCORDING TO THE SEA According to the Sea takes place on two levels: We meet the protagonist Ivan Ivanovitch as he arrives in our era after a journey through time from a relatively close future. He quickly finds lodgings in a hotel in town, and work in the local aluminum factory. Everything is going according to plan. And while life goes along as usual in the little village, with payday beers on Fridays at the Chinese restaurant, downsizing at the factory and football matches on TV, the reader gets to know more about Ivan's life before he ended up in a village in Norway – and you start to sense what direction the world as we know it is going in.

AUTHOR:

LASSE WARDENÆR FOSSHAUG TITLE ENGLISH:

ACCORDING TO THE SEA

This 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.

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

ALT ETTER HAVET FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 168 pages

‘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 border between fantasy and realism.’

NRK

In addition to his Bachelor's Degree in journalism, Fosshaug has studied creative writing at the famous literary writing school, Litterär Gestaltning in Gothenburg, Sweden. After many years working in communications, marketing and PR, he is now writing full time.

43

PHOTO: HEIDI FURRE

Lasse W. Fosshaug (1982–) is a critically acclaimed author, well known for his original style and fluent writing. His first novel, Over the Bridge (Over Brua, 2013) was nominated for the Debutant Prize by the bookseller Norli. Fosshaug's second novel, According to the Sea (Alt etter havet, 2017), was equally well received in Norwegian media. All the reviews can be found on his website, lassefosshaug.no.

FLAMME

YOUR FAMILY A young woman finds new parents online. A little girl gets lost in the store, and when called upon, her father insists that she is not his child. An actor is hired to act an older brother that has been lost. A man catfishes adoptees looking for their families. Three siblings play house. Everywhere we look there are family relations, no matter who we are, we all come from a family, or something that was or could have been one.

In Your Family, Nora Eide writes her way into family relations in all matters of the word. Like a dentist poking around teeth to find rot, Eide poke around in known and unknown familyrelations to find the actual bindings between us, and what it takes to unleash them.

AUTHOR:

NORA KRISTINE EIDE TITLE ENGLISH:

The short stories, texts and points that builds Eides debut is sometimes hurtfull, sometimes funny, but all the time though provoking portraits of family ties and human loneliness, that even in the warmest embraces appear to go hand in hand.

YOUR FAMILY

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FAMILIEN DIN FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 184 pages

‘While the stories vary in style and length, they are bound together by the authors ability to describe Norwegian everyday life with clinical precision. … The result is almost hyper realistic, even if the situations that are described borders on believable. … Your family is an unusually solid publication. It gives a precise description of our vision of blood and water, and every time you laugh, it hurts a tiny bit.’

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

‘Eide succeed in saying something significantly about the role of the family … and she does it with originality, passion and precision.’

DAG OG TID

‘Thought provoking variations on the topic of family, community, belonging and loneliness … The collection is soberly and consequently executed, where many of the texts are closing up on the topic from unexpected angles, with surprising twists, leaving the reader in thoughtfulness.’

PHOTO: HEIDI FURRE

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD Nora Eide (1987–) was born in Trondheim and lives in Oslo. She debuted in 2017 with the short story collection Your Family.

44

FLAMME

I REFUSE TO THINK I Refuse to Think has much of the same sharp and smart humour of her earlier books. We meet Hedda Møller after a traumatic plane landing and hazardous journey back to Oslo, though a Europe in crisis, on buses and trains, dirty hostel rooms and a one-night stand in Berlin that will just not stop sending messages in CAPS LOCK. Back home she discovers that she is unwantedly pregnant. That should be an easily solved problem.

It´s not.

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

AUTHOR:

LOTTA ELSTAD TITLE ENGLISH:

I REFUSE TO THINK

‘Lotta Elstad has written a novel that is funny, even if it is political. Elstad writes with energy and good timing. The suspense lasts until the last chapter.’

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

JEG NEKTER Å TENKE FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 240 pages

DAGSAVISEN

‘Lotta Elstad creates observing and fresh comedy out of the unwanted pregnancy of a freelancer. There has not been a lot of room for the easy going in Norwegian contemporary literature.

Lotta Elstad clears the space for this kind of writing. That is why it is so easy to let yourself be excited by her novels.’

MORGENBLADET

‘I Refuse to Think is a Sareptas Jar of a book; energetic, cheeky and daring. But under the cheekiness there are thoughts about work-life, housing, health and the difference between Norway and the rest of Europe.’

Lotta Elstad (1982–) is a writer, journalist, historian and non-fiction editor. She has since her debut in 2008 published several acclaimed books, both narrative non-fiction and novels.

45

PHOTO: ODA BERBY

KLASSEKAMPEN

FLAMME

FOUR DAYS IN BERLIN One day in February of 2017, the 31-year-old writer Audun return to Berlin to visit the 30-year-old programmer Martin, with whom he shared an apartment 7 years ago. Martin makes good money and is soon to move in with his girlfriend. But he is experiencing an increasingly greater discomfort with living in a class society, in one of the most free countries in the world, with less and less room for anything but working to get paid.

This conflict in feelings leads the former roommates into a hushed state of flux, a conversation full of inns and outs, about life during and beyond capitalism.

AUTHOR:

AUDUN MORTENSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

FOUR DAYS IN BERLIN TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FIRE DAGER I BERLIN FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 200 pages

Audun Mortensen (1985–) is an author and artist. His debut Everyone tells me how good I am, in case I become it (Alle forteller meg hvor bra jeg er i tilfelle jeg blir det) was awarded "Best poem debut of the year" by Aftenposten in 2009.

He has since published a number of poetry books, two novels and the critically acclaimed prose collection, Animals I have met (Dyr jeg har møtt).

46

FLAMME

WHAT WOULD JOHANNES DO? What Would Johannes Do? is a little novel about a grown man, Johannes, who is trying to understand his adult beliefs by thinking back to his childhood. We see a more or less random year in Johannes' childhood, in which he is mostly at home, going to school or messing around with his friends and getting into trouble – and is afraid that he will burn in hell.

AUTHOR:

EXCERPT FROM WHAT WOULD JOHANNES DO?:

THOMAS ESPEVIK TITLE ENGLISH:

I grew up in a Christian family. I was baptized when I was a few months old. My grandmother and grandfather get worried if too much time passes before their grandchildren are baptized. When I was around 19, I considered getting baptized again, but I gave up on that idea. I've never spoken in tongues, even though I often prayed for that gift of grace as a teenager. I've stopped using terms as a gift of grace. I've never sought out strangers to pray for them, but I have placed my hands on, and prayed for, several of my friends. I have never seen a miracle.

WHAT WOULD JOHANNES DO? TITLE NORWEGIAN:

HVA VILLE JOHANNES GJORT? FORMAT:

Thomas Espevik (1988–) grew up in Ålgård, but now lives in Oslo. He has a bachelor's degree in Society and Culture from the University of Oslo and trained in copywriting at Westerdals. He now studies at Forfatterstudiet in Tromsø. He was the editor for the literary magazine Kamilla, and has been published in SIGNALER in 2017. In addition to writing, he has worked for the Norwegian public broadcaster, NRK.

47

PHOTO: HEIDI FURRE

130x205 mm / 136 pages

FLAMME

THE MALL SENTERET

In The Mall, Victoria Durnak explores major topics like loneliness and postpartum depression, but with a pleasant narrator voice that is both marveling and clever at the same time. As in her last novel, The Marketplace (2015), Durnak explores how meetings take place between people in our day and age.

While The Marketplace took on the website Finn.no, the action in Durnak's new novel takes place in a shopping center. We get to know the book's main character: a young mother who has moved to Skien to get away – away from Oslo. Away from the man who didn't want to be a father to her child. She spends her days at The Hercules Mall, visiting the shops and the people working in them, looking at them and trying to get in touch with them, while at the same time she is trying to mother a daughter she hasn't even managed to name yet. According to the Names Act, you have six months to give your child a name. You can do a lot in six months.

AUTHOR:

VICTORIA DURNAK FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 152 pages

THE MARKETPLACE TORGET

In Victoria Durnak's second novel, unemployed gardener Elin decides to get in touch with people giving things away on classified ad website Finn.no. She offers to deliver the items to those who want them, and ushers in the winter season as an unpaid carrier.

A bookcase leaves bruises, an egg cup disappears and a stack of dishtowels sits innocuously in a white plastic bag. 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 FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 160 pages Victoria Durnak (1989–) debuted in 2010 with the poetry collection Stockholm says She has since released several poetry collections and novels.

48

FLAMME

YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE DU DØR IKKE

Eva lives an apparently normal, recognisable and good life. As seen form the outside, there is no cause for concern. Then one day she has a panic attack on the bathroom floor. For no reason she can understand, fear enters her body. She avoids her usual company, preferring to sit in solitude in her room or run lap after solitary lap around the stadium at Bislett, strengthening her body, taking care of herself to avoid death. She could die at any time.

People are dying all the time, without warning, at any age. So why not Eva?

AUTHOR:

LINN STRØMSBORG FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 184 pages

‘… a hopeful book about anxiety.’

KLASSEKAMPEN

FURUSET FURUSET

As Eva finally completes her Master's degree and sits on the roof terrace with her family and friends, champagne flowing freely, it strikes her that she can do whatever she likes – that the future really is up to her. She can find a job, but which? And where? She can find a flat. Fill her days. Live life. The world really is her oyster, as they say, but what will she do with it?

‘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.’

AUTHOR:

NRK

LINN STRØMSBORG FORMAT:

140x210 mm / 224 pages

Linn Strømsborg (1986–) debuted in 2009 with the novel Roskilde, the story of a group of young people at a music festival. She was born and raised in Furuset.

49

CRIME FICTION

HEART OF GLASS Robin and Mikkel are brothers. Robin witnesses the terrible thing that happens to his cousin Amina. He can't help her, nor can he get any help. Robin is unable to tell anyone what he has seen. While Mikkel knows something he does not want to tell. Not to anyone.

Heart of Glass is a story about recognizing evil when you meet it.

About struggling to understand whom you are. But it is also a story about how far a person will go to hold on to love.

Torkil Damhaug has won the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel twice, in 2011 for Fireraiser and 2016 for A Fifth Season.

AUTHOR:

TORKIL DAMHAUG TITLE ENGLISH:

HEART OF GLASS TITLE NORWEGIAN:

GLASSHJERTE FORMAT:

PHOTO: AGNETE BRUN

130x205 mm / 416 pages

Torkil Damhaug (1958–) has a degree in medicine with a specialization in psychiatry. His debut novel, The Flight of the Moon (Flykt, måne) caused a great stir when it appeared in 1996. His Norwegian and international breakthrough came with the psychological thriller Death by Water (Døden ved vann) in 2009. The novel has since been optioned for a movie. For the novel Fireraiser (Ildmannen), Damhaug was awarded the prestigious Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime fiction novel in 2011. He was again awarded the Riverton Prize 2016 for his crime novel A Fifth Season (En femte årstid).

50

CRIME FICTION

A FIFTH SEASON

WINNER OF THE RIVERTON PRIZE IN 2016

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?

AUTHOR:

TORKIL DAMHAUG TITLE ENGLISH:

A FIFTH SEASON TITLE NORWEGIAN:

EN FEMTE ÅRSTID FORMAT:

‘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.’

130x205 mm / 576 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Modtryk) GERMANY (Droemer Knaur)

VG

‘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. The book is structured as a crime novel, but is also a masterfully constructed study of young people's environment in the most precariously emotional time of anyone's life, where anything can happen, for better or (in this case) worse. This book could be described as rural Norwegian crime writing with a high degree of literary ambition.’

DAGBLADET

51

CRIME FICTION

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, and 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.

AUTHOR:

KARIN FOSSUM

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.

TITLE ENGLISH:

THE WHISPERER TITLE NORWEGIAN:

HVISKEREN FORMAT:

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

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

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

130x205 mm / 336 pages

DENMARK (Gyldendal DK) NETHERLANDS (Uitgeverij Marmer) SWEDEN (Forum)

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

DAGBLADET

‘The Wisperer contains all of the elements that make Fossum one of Norway's foremost crime authors: Deep psychological insight and detailed personal portrayals. Language that is dynamic and to-the-point. 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.’

PHOTO: © ARILD SØNSTRØD

VG Karin Fossum (1954–) made her literary debut in 1974 with the poetry collection Kanskje i morgen, 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 (Elskede Poona).

Karin Fossum's books are translated into 34 languages.

52

CRIME FICTION

BARCODE A young woman is found brutally murdered near Sognsvann.

She is dressed in 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.

‘With his second novel, Terje Bjøranger come out as a fullblooded police novelist’

AUTHOR:

TERJE BJØRANGER

DAGBLADET

TITLE ENGLISH:

BARCODE

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

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

BARCODE FORMAT:

ADRESSEAVISEN

130x205 mm / 384 pages

‘Scary, gloomy and credible.’

ROMERIKES BLAD

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

FINLAND (Like)

‘Barcode is a terrifically good crime story. Here there is no lingering or unnecessary pauses in the action. It is straight forward, and every time you turn to a new page there is action and new surprises.’

Terje Bjøranger (1959–) resides in Lørenskog and works as a Police Prosecutor for Kripos. He debuted in 2012 with The Third Sister (Den tredje søsteren). Bjøranger has also worked with the Norwegian UDI for several years in areas such as forced marriages and honour crimes.

53

PHOTO: AGNETE BRUN

KULTURSPEILET

CRIME FICTION

SIGN OF THE FIVE

NEW SERIES!

Sign of The Five is a psychological crime novel that both on the investigative and criminal side take up in it universally human topics like sin, punishment, revenge and forgiveness. The main narrative of the novel is about how both assailants and victims decades later still live with traumatic memories of things that happened during World War II. The book focuses on the nature of war and how it can affect especially young people very strongly.

AUTHOR:

HANS OLAV LAHLUM

The main character in the book has, after losing his wife very early, moved all his hopes for the future over on his only son. And when the son dies, the grandson takes on the same role. When the grandson also dies, our protagonist becomes a man without hope for himself and his family. This triggers long forgotten memories, hidden far back in his mind. The dangerous story about why he lost his wife and why they only had one child – and grandchild, comes creeping out.

TITLE ENGLISH:

SIGN OF THE FIVE TITLE NORWEGIAN:

DE FEMS TEGN FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 384 pages

PHOTO: ANNA-JULIA GRANBERG/BLUNDERBUSS.NO

Hans Olav Lahlum has written a number of crime novels, with the main characters K2 and Patricia. All of them bestsellers in Norway, and published in a number of other countries.

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 sevaral 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.

54

BACKLIST:

SOLD TO: SOUTH KOREA DENMARK SLOVAKIA BULGARIA VIETNAM RUSSIA GREAT BRITAIN GREECE PORTUGAL

CRIME FICTION

HUNTED A body surfaces in Oslo's financial district – a man from the Middle East without any 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 in which the American was involved.

Meanwhile, in Libya, Basma and her two children are fighting for a place on the boats that will cross 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. Refugee Basma, rebel fighter Tariq, intelligence officer Skarpnes and investigator Elli each find themselves on their own edge of a ruthless game in which the ingredients are politics, terror and treason. Only when Basma arrives in Norway does Elli understand that a group of rebel fighters have hatched a sinister plan. The imprisoned American possesses the key to both the rebels' plans and to the murder mystery. But the US is using every means to get him extradited, which puts both Elli's and her daughter's lives in danger.

AUTHOR:

EYSTEIN HANSSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

HUNTED

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

JAGET

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 448 pages

‘Magnificent intelligence thriller!’

DAGBLADET

‘Hanssen sparkles in the Police scenes and shines when it comes to dialogue’ VG

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

PHOTO: SVEIN PETTERSEN

Hunted is the sixth book in the Elli-series.

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 (De ingen savner) came out in 2010 and his next book Poison surge (Giftstrøm) 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.

56

CRIME FICTION

BACKLIST:

Rights sold to: Germany (Aufbau Verlag)

Rights sold to: Germany (Aufbau Verlag), Turkey (Büyükada Yayinlari)

Rights sold to: Germany (Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG)

57

CRIME FICTION

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.

AUTHOR:

CHRIS TVEDT TITLE ENGLISH:

HE WHO BRINGS ABOUT ANOTHER'S DEATH

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

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

DEN SOM FORVOLDER EN ANNENS DØD FORMAT:

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

130x205 mm / 368 pages

AFTENPOSTEN RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Klim) UKRAINE (Nora-Druk)

‘Thorough and professional.’

DAGBLADET

‘Another hit from Chris Tvedt! The plot is well developed, with threads which are braided well together and take surprising twists. … an entertaining and exciting Norwegian crime novel.’

PHOTO: MAJA HATTVANG

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 fulltime writer.

58

CRIME FICTION

OPERATION HADES A thrilling and action packed crime! Operation Hades is the fourth book in the series about police detectives Axel. Th. Munthe and Tobben at the Oslo Policedepartment for special operations.

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

‘It does not lack action nor violence, this novel, that is the duos best so far. The writers have done well through all their four books about Axel and Tobben. As a read it flows well and the book can be hard to put down. Especially since it is action packed from beginning to end.’

TITLE ENGLISH:

OPERATION HADES TITLE NORWEGIAN:

OPERASJON HADES FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 352 pages

ROMERIKES BLAD

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 Politi & røver.

59

PHOTO: AGNETE BRUN

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.

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

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 Seahorses.

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.

AUTHOR:

HILDE ØSTBY AND YLVA ØSTBY TITLE ENGLISH:

DIVING FOR SEAHORSES TITLE NORWEGIAN:

Å DYKKE ETTER SJØHESTER FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 288 pages

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

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

PHOTO: ANNA JULIA GRANBERG

CANADA (Greystone Books) DENMARK (Gyldendal DK) GERMANY (Berlin Verlag) NETHERLANDS (Balans Uitgeverij) POLAND (Marginesy Publishing House) SWEDEN (Norstedts) TURKEY (Kaplumbaga Yayinlari as an imprint of Levent Özata)

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

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.

60

‘From the first page, it is clear that the Østby sisters have both a good grasp of the topic and skill in literary presentation. The text moves effortlessly between presentation of facts, interviews and reportage. The patient histories which are obligatory in books about neurology are often tragic. Here, they are narrated vividly and with a degree of empathy which I usually find lacking in such literature. As a reader, I value factual prose which places its topic in a wider context. The authors are very successful in this when for example they link research into memories of the Utøya massacre with the case of the murder of Birgitte Tengs. The story of how this latter case changed political praxis is in itself sufficient for me to encourage you to go ahead and read this book.’

AFTENPOSTEN

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

FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

‘Diving for Seahorses is a unique book about memory … science and research presented with wit and energy.’

BOKSTAVER.NO

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

PER IS DYING Per Fugelli, one of Norway's loudest and most fearless voices for almost half a century, has been fighting a long battle with cancer.

Per is Dying will be his very last book, written as a survey report about the very last episode of life and finished only when he is at death's door.

At the same time, it is a great humanist's last message for posterity, a reminder of what really matters when it all comes down to it.

AUTHOR:

PER FUGELLI TITLE ENGLISH:

PER IS DYING

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

PER DØR FORMAT:

PHOTO: SCANPIX

130x205 mm / 256 pages

Per Fugelli is a professor of social medicine at the University of Oslo and an active participant in public debates. He received the Fritt Ord's award for 2013. He has published a number of books, including Death, Shall We Dance? (2010).

62

Every gravestone should have the inscription ‘He did the best he could’.

We expect, with 100% certainty, zero fuckups, full happiness. This way life becomes a chronic disappointment.

PHOTO: TORSTEIN NODLAND

Recipe for the good life: one teaspoon of love, twelve dreams, sparkle with some kindness, long breaks, one litre of duty and two kilos of ice cream.

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

WHY DO RUSSIANS VOTE FOR PUTIN? In 2006 Bernhard L. Mohr moved to Moscow – a lonely Norwegian in a Russian workplace, in a time when many still thought that a democratic development in Russia was still both possible and probable.

Ten years later he went back to meet his old colleagues to get the answer to that one major question: Why do the Russians vote for Putin? Why do they keep up with the support of what with western eyes may seem as a increasingly repressive regime?

AUTHOR:

BERNHARD MOHR TITLE ENGLISH:

WHY DO RUSSIANS VOTE FOR PUTIN? TITLE NORWEGIAN:

HVORFOR STEMMER RUSSERNE PÅ PUTIN? FORMAT:

PHOTO: MAJA HATTVANG

130x205 mm / 256 pages

Bernhard L. Mohr (1978–) has worked as a journalist and editor, as well as with business development and management in the media industry. Why Do Russians Vote for Putin? is his first book.

64

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

THE INTERPRETER Afghan interpreter Qais Wahidi's account from within the Norwegian and Swedish military involvement in Afghanistan provides a unique documentation of an organization that the Norwegian public has never been fully aware of.

The book, written by Simen Sætre, reveals serious events that until now have been unknown. Wahidi was a central witness to the control of a brigade of 3000 men, and present at key events in the Norwegian involvement in Faryab.

AUTHOR:

MOHAMMAD QAIS WAHIDI AND SIMEN SÆTRE TITLE ENGLISH:

THE INTERPRETER TITLE NORWEGIAN:

TOLKEN

ILLUSTRATED BY:

BJØRN BROCHMANN FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 272 pages

Simen Sætre (1974–) works as a journalist for Morgenbladet. He has previously published three books, including Hugo. En biografi (2006), which was nominated for the Brage Prize.

65

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

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. AUTHOR:

TORBJØRN FÆRØVIK TITLE ENGLISH:

Thorbjørn 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.

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

In this, his 10th book, he gives us a rich gallery of people and destinies, culture, tradition and drama throughout history.

THE ORIENT EXPRESS A SPRING JOURNEY FROM LONDON TO SAMARKAND ORIENTEKSPRESSEN EN VÅRREISE FORMAT:

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

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

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

151x226 mm / 504 pages

POLAND (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie sp. z o.o.)

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

VG

‘Fans of old-fashioned travel writing will love the fruits in this cornucopia.’

DAGBLADET

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.

66

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

THE MIDDLE KINGDOM WANDERING THROUGH CHINA'S HISTORY MIDTENS RIKE - EN VANDRING I KINAS HISTORIE

Spanning over 4000 years of China's history, the author provides us with a fascinating introduction to the country’s dynasties, myths and art – as well as giving us a closer look at the stories and fates of a few individuals.

We meet pioneers and adventurers, peasants and emperors, and are brought up to date with Mao’s rise to power in 1949 and the modern era.

AUTHOR:

TORBJØRN FÆRØVIK

With insight and warmth, Torbjørn Færøvik brings China's history to life.

FORMAT:

150x215 mm / 624 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

SERBIA (Izdavacka Knjizarnica, Zorana Stojanovica)

MAO'S KINGDOM A STORY OF SUFFERING

WINNER OF THE BRAGE PRIZE 2012

MAOS RIKE - EN LIDELSESHISTORIE

In Maos Kingdom: A Story of Suffering, the much praised writer Torbjørn Færøvik tells the story of events during Mao's rule. He bases his well-documented account on recent research and individuals' accounts. In this masterly, deeply committed work, Færøvik discusses the consequences of the brutal political dictates, and also explains what made them possible. This alone makes this book an exceptionally important.

AUTHOR:

TORBJØRN FÆRØVIK

‘The opportunity to read Torbjørn Færøvik’s books always merits celebration… This book comes warmly recommended.’

FORMAT:

150x215mm / 640 pages

DAGEN

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

‘Torbjørn Færøvik offers up a well-written account of what Maos’ rule really entailed.’

DENMARK (Sohn Forlag) NETHERLANDS (Uitgeverij Ad. Donker) POLAND (Prószynski Media)

AFTENPOSTEN

67

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

ROME FROM PLACE TO PLACE

FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE

Join the author as he visits the great architectural works of Rome!

Thomas Thiis-Evensen provide us with exciting details that put them in a historical context and describe their role as the bearers of major historical stories, about ideas and symbols that have influenced the architecture and culture of Europe even into the modern era.

AUTHOR:

THOMAS THIIS-EVENSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

ROME – FROM PLACE TO PLACE

PHOTOGRAPHER:

Through Morten Krogvold's fantastic photographs, the reader is able to experience the beauty of one of the world’s most amazing cities.

FORMAT:

The book is also available in a smaller paperback edition.

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

ROMA – SYV VANDRINGER MORTEN KROGVOLD 248x272 mm / 288 pages

Thomas Thiis-Evensen (1946–) is one of Norways foremost authorities on architecture. In 1989 he received the Award for Groundbreaking Cultural Journalism from the Freedom of Speech organization Fritt Ord. In 2006, Thomas Thiis-Evensen was knighted by the Italian Merit Organization.

Morten Krogvold (1950–) is one of Norway’s most acclaimed photographers.

He has published several books and his work has often been exhibited. He is the artistic director for the annual photo festival Nordic Light.

68

NARRATIVE NARRATIVE NONNON-FICTION FICTION

69

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

THE KINGDOM OF FROST The Cryosphere is the name of those parts of the earth that contain frozen water; like snow, ice, permafrost, glaciers – and something that very few has heard of: invisible glaciers. This is a part of the world that most of us only know from afar – with the exception of Norwegians and other Northerners. But we see less and less of it, as the area is shrinking.

Bjørn Vassnes, Norway's leading science journalist and native to the arctic plateau of Finnmarksvidda, take us on a fascinating journey through climate research, biology, cultural history and archaeology. Weather you live in it or not, The Kingdom of Frost effects all life on earth.

AUTHOR:

BJØRN VASSNES TITLE ENGLISH:

THE KINGDOM OF FROST TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FROSTENS RIKE FORMAT:

PHOTO: JANNE LINDGREN

130x205 mm / 160 pages

Bjørn Vassnes is one of Norway's leading investigative journalists and has won several national and international awards. He took part in starting ‘Schrodinger's Cat’ on NRK TV, has a syndicated science column in Klassekampen and has written several books. Currently, he is on a leave of absence from the University of Bergen, where he works as a media producer.

70

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

THE JOURNEY TO BRETTON WOODS Early one summers day of 1944, a small group of economists set to sea. Their wish was to create a better world. In their wake, London was getting over the first attack performed with the VI – the flying bomb – Hitlers new super weapon. Under the deck of the boat 2000 German war prisoners from the landing at Normandy was kept. On the bridge, Commodore Bisset, the English commercial fleets biggest hero. Ahead of them all – seven days at sea, journeying to the Bretton Woods-conference in the US.

AUTHOR:

MARIA BERG REINERTSEN

Reinertsen tells the tale about the boat journey that would lay the grounds for world economy the way we know it in our time, 70 years later. During the crossing the travellers drafted what would become IMF and The World Bank, while The Queen Mary was criss-crossing to avoid German submarines. Because of the war, the Atlantic more or less vast and empty, apart from the group of economists on deck discussing rules and deprecation of currencies.

TITLE ENGLISH:

THE JOURNEY TO BRETTON WOODS TITLE NORWEGIAN:

REISEN TIL BRETTON WOODS FORMAT:

130x205 mm

Maria Reinertsen (1980–) is a social economist and journalist for Morgenbladet, a Norwegian weekly newspaper, where she writes about financial matters for people who are not necessarily interested in Finance.

71

PHOTO: FREDRIK ARFF

This journey at sea becomes a prism to describe the past – what was it that lead the way to Bretton Woods? – And for the future: What was the effect it had on the world in the half century that followed, and what traces can we still see today?

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

THE COMPASSIONATE HUMAN The Compassionate Human is a book that will simply turn you into a better person. It is a biologist’s optimistic defence for the good in all of us, in these modern times many find dark and disturbing.

When talking about human nature, most of us think of the ability to commit heinious and violent acts, to kill or be killled. In The Compassionate Human author and biologist Dag O. Hessen argues that these mechanisms might more often than not inspire and lead us to do good instead of evil. Empathy, good deeds, cooperation – this is human nature as well.

AUTHOR:

DAG O. HESSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

THE COMPASSIONATE HUMAN TITLE NORWEGIAN:

VI: SAMARBEID - FRA CELLE TIL SAMFUNN FORMAT:

151x226 mm

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.

72

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

CAN UNAUTHORIZED - CARBON 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.

AUTHOR:

DAG O. HESSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

C - CARBON

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

C - KARBON

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.

FORMAT:

130x160 mm / 272 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

ARGENTINA (Ediciones Godot), GREAT BRITAIN (Reaktion Books Ltd.)

‘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

73

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

THE BOY AND THE MOUNTAIN A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY IN NORWEGIAN NATURE The Boy and the Mountain is an expedition through Norwegian nature, a conversation between father and son about nature, about traveling outdoors with a backpack and a tent, and abouthow small humanity is faced with nature.

In the summer of 1894 a six-year-old boy is lost under the mountain Styggemann in the area of Skrim. Hundreds of people search for him, but the boy is gone without a trace.

AUTHOR:

TORBJØRN EKELUND

122 years later a father and his six-yearold son go hiking in the same area. Equipped with a tent and a backpack they walk through thick forest and windy mountain planes. The goal: The top of Styggemann.

TITLE ENGLISH:

THE BOY AND THE MOUNTAIN TITLE NORWEGIAN:

GUTTEN OG FJELLET FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 144 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

PHOTO: MARTE GARMANN

GERMANY (Piper)

Torbjørn Ekelund (1971–) is a writer, author and part owner of the online magazine Harvest. He has earlier published the book The Year in the Forrest – A Micro expedition.

74

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

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.

AUTHOR:

NINA KRISTIN NILSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

SEPP

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

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.

SEPP

FORMAT:

151x226 mm / 256 pages

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).

75

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

KNUT HAMSUN THE JOURNEY TO HITLER 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.

AUTHOR:

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.

TORE REM TITLE ENGLISH:

KNUT HAMSUN – THE JOURNEY TO HITLER TITLE NORWEGIAN:

KNUT HAMSUN –REISEN TIL HITLER

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.

FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 400 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

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.

PHOTO: JON TERJE HELLGREN HANSEN/DAGBLADET / ALL OVER PRESS

DENMARK (Vild Maskine) GERMANY (Eulenspiegel Verlag) RUSSIA (Progress-Tradition Publishers) SWEDEN (Atlantis Bokförlag)

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.

76

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

THE HISTORY OF IMMORTALITY UDØDELIGHETENS HISTORIE

‘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 shall all 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?

AUTHOR:

DAG ØISTEIN ENDSJØ FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 304 pages

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.

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

LATVIA (u.c. Publishing)

RESPONSIBILITY LEADERSHIP IS NO POPULARITY CONTEST ANSVAR

Robert Mood received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award for his fearless openness as the head of the Norwegian Armed Forces. In this book, he writes about leadership as a form of defense for him; first and foremost, people and their values and opinions aren't weapons or vessels.

A leader must have enough integrity and security to stand for his values, no matter which way the political winds blow.

AUTHOR:

ROBERT MOOD FORMAT:

130x205 mm Robert Mood (1958–) is an officer and general lieutenant. He has worked for the Norwegian Armed Forces for 37 years. He is now employed as a researcher at PRIO, and holds lectures across the country.

77

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

PILLMENT WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MEDICINE WE'RE TAKING?

In Pillment, Niels Chr. Geelmuyden poses awareness-raising and flashy questions about drug use, research results, how common medications work and the pharmaceutical industry's working methods. What do our most common medicines actually contain?

Blood pressure medications, statins and painkillers? Who approves them, and how do they work?

The global pharmaceutical industry's turnover is approaching $13 billion a year. It should therefore be well equipped to work on behalf of people's health. But does it? asks the author.

Read this book and acquire the knowledge you need to ask your doctor all the right questions, whether you need a painkiller now and then or have to use medicine every day. Read it for the sake of your own health!

AUTHOR:

NIELS CHRISTIAN GEELMUYDEN TITLE ENGLISH:

PILLMENT

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

PILLEBEFINNENDE FORMAT:

148x210 mm / 368 pages

PHOTO: ASTRID HEXEBERG

Dr. Charlotte J. Haug was a consultant for the book and, in collaboration with the author, provided good advice on prevention, self-help and safer medicine use. Haug holds a Ph.D. in immunology and infectious diseases and a master's degree in healthcare research from Stanford University.

Niels Chr. Geelmuyden (1960–) is a writer and journalist, who has become well known, in particular for his interview portraits for the magazines Kapital and Henne. He writes think-pieces for the radio and columns for publications ranging from the in-flight SAS magazine to newspapers such as Bergens Tidende.

78

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

THE TRUTH IN THE GLASS WHAT ARE WE DRINKING? SANNHETEN I GLASSET

Water, coffee, milk and soft drinks – we drink many litres in a year.

But what are we really drinking? This is a convincing and wellwritten follow-up to Truths of the Table – What you are not told about your Food.

In this Niels Christian Geelmuyden reveals the food industry's methods and the real content of raw materials. Now he knows how to find the genuine, natural drinks without cosmetic additions, rubbish and unhealthy additives.

AUTHOR:

NIELS CHRISTIAN GEELMUYDEN FORMAT:

148x210 mm / 304 pages

He shares this knowledge with the reader of this well written, well documented and important book.

TRUTHS OF THE TABLE WHAT YOU ARE NOT TOLD ABOUT YOUR FOOD SANNHETEN PÅ BORDET

This book offers us thorough, new information about what we find on our grocer's shelves to enable us to choose food that is good for us.

The author reveals the truth about the toxic substances in food that we are not told about. And about how the nutritional value of food is declining without us realising it. About systematic mistakes in feeding the animals we eat, and also mistreatment and medication of them. About the dark sides of genetic modification, pasteurisation, processing and packing. About how food inspectors are becoming more concerned with servingpowerful industry interests than with the health of the citizens. And also about all the good and pure foodstuffs that are still available.

AUTHOR:

NIELS CHRISTIAN GEELMUYDEN FORMAT:

148x210 mm / 320 pages

Worryingly well documented, well written and important.

79

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

TALENT HOW TO DEVELOP A FEELING OF MASTERY IN YOUNG ATHLETES

Anja Hammerseng-Edin was a great handball talent herself, and has met thousands of young athletes who want to be great. Some of them do so, others don't.

What are the most important factors necessary to become truly great? And how can we develop mental strength in athletes, so that they are able to persevere when things get tough?

This book helps involved parents, trainers and support networks support young athletes as effectively as possible.

AUTHOR:

ANJA HAMMERSENG-EDIN TITLE ENGLISH:

TALENT

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

TALENTETS INDRE KAMP FORMAT:

PHOTO: MATS GRIMSÆTH

130x205 mm / 176 pages

Anja Hammerseng-Edin (1983–) plays handball for Larvik Handball Club.

In 2012, she was named the European Handball Championship's most valuable player.

80

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

DEATH LIFE'S COMPANION After having written 12 books, all of which reflect the different stages of life in some way or another, Inge Eidsvåg has chosen this time to confront himself and the readers with the end of life. He is 70 years old, and the horizon of death is moving ever closer.

What does this have to do with what we think about life and death?

The book alternates between a wide range of disciplines: history, philosophy, psychology, anthropology and fiction.

AUTHOR:

INGE EIDSVÅG TITLE ENGLISH:

DEATH

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

DØDEN

FORMAT:

Inge Eidsvåg (1947–) has an MA in history and has been a teacher and a headmaster. He contributes regularly to books, magazines, newspapers and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. He has written several books of his own.

81

PHOTO: UNNI RANHEIM

130x205 mm / 320 pages

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

THE BALLAD OF THE FACADE Do you ever wonder what happened after Nora grabbed her designer purse and left? How life on Aftensolveien really turned out for Nora Helmer, the newly divorced yummy mummy with a crystal allergy, animal print intolerance and inclination for sequin pillows? Do you want tips on where the shoe rack should stand or which fondant has the lowest impact on BMI? AUTHOR:

Enter #dollhouse, meet Nora, her three children, Little Lerche, Iver and Bob, together with the Filipina au pair Joy, whom she shares 50% with Torvald.

LENE HVAL TITLE ENGLISH:

THE BALLAD OF THE FACADE TITLE NORWEGIAN:

BALLADEN MED FASADEN

And behind the perfect facade, new dangers are always lurking.

FORMAT:

PHOTO: GUNNAR FOSSAN

148x210 mm / 192 pages

Lene Hval (1969–) was educated in copywriting at Westerdals School of Communication and also went to DTK Kunstfagskole in Bærum. She works as a freelance copywriter, journalist and artist.

82

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

ANORECTIC An honest, unflinching and unsentimental account of the illness from the inside.

How does a patient with anorexia and obsessive-compulsive disorder experience psychiatry? What kind of battles are fought inside a person that wants to end an illness that since childhood has acted as a lifeline and the same time been a lethal threat?

What does it take to let go? How much does weight really matter?

Through admissions to three different psychiatric facilities for a total of three years, Ingeborg Senneset documented the slow task of regaining control over her own life. Through meetings with the best and the worst sides of health care, paradoxes and conflicts both on an interpersonal and private level, we get the whole story.

Anorectic is an honest, ruthless and unsentimental depiction of the inside of the illness and the hospitals by an author that has the unique combination of being a patient, journalist and nurse.

AUTHOR:

INGEBORG SENNESET TITLE ENGLISH:

ANORECTIC

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

ANOREKTISK FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 320 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

‘Heartbreakingly insightful, mercilessly self-exposing and brilliantly written about suffering from anorexia. … All together a useful book in the treatment of all sorts of compulsive disorders.’

BRAZIL (Editora Letramento)

ADRESSEAVISA

‘Anyone with the slightest fragment of empathy in them should read this book, to understand more about mental illness.’

AFTENPOSTEN

‘A merciless, unpleasant and intense story. Ingeborg Senneset writes in a way that makes us want to read. And hopefully there is something to learn.’

Ingeborg N. Senneset (1985–) is a journalist with Aftenposten, lecturer, qualified nurse, former blogger and editor, and a deputy member of the board of Norwegian PEN. She works on debates, comments and news, along with social media and development of digital media. Senneset has made her mark in topics such as psychiatry, health, human rights, critical thought, science, religion, opposition to vaccines, monarchy, humanism and media criticism. The book Anorectic is an account of the years she was in hospitalized due to eating disorders.

83

PHOTO: MAJA HATTVANG

MEDIER24.NO

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

WE'LL TALK NEXT WEEK "We'll talk next week" he said. And went silent.

When Ellen Sofie Lauritzen reluctantly decides to give the datingapp Tinder a chance, a brand new world opens. A world where you can always swipe your way to your next date, and where the access to new and interesting people is never ending.

But she soon finds out that the Tinder-life also has a dark side. The alternatives are so many, and the next date always seems more alluring than the one you are on. And dumping someone never seems to create any consequences. Not for her, her friends or the men they meet. Lauritzen gives us a humoristic and honest look at a young woman´s year as an app-dater. She tells stories - her own and those of others - about anything from fateful profile pictures and catastrophic choices of pick-up-lines, to double gaming, harassment, date-rape-drugs and deceit. And some stories about actually finding real love.

AUTHOR:

ELLEN SOFIE LAURITZEN TITLE ENGLISH:

WE'LL TALK NEXT WEEK TITLE NORWEGIAN:

SNAKKES TIL UKA FORMAT:

130x205 mm / 176 pages

PHOTO: ANNE VALEUR

We'll talk next week is a friend for those who lie awake at night swiping, and a liberatingly recognizable book for those who have tried to find the right one.

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen (1985–) is a journalist and literary reviewer for Morgenbladet. She previously published the essay ‘Cause of Death: Woman’ in Cappelen Damm's debutant anthology Signatur in 2014.

84

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

ART ROCK The third generation of rock consisted of slightly different types of people than the previous two. Roxy Music, Kraftwerk and David Bowie considered rock music to be a visual art form as much as musical craftsmanship.

By finding a position that looks both back and forth at the same time, they created pop music that still seems completely new and bold, over 40 years later.

Art Rock is a music book with slightly larger perspectives, which touches art history, politics and the biographical.

AUTHOR:

TORGRIM EGGEN TITLE ENGLISH:

ART ROCK

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

KUNSTROCK FORMAT:

Torgrim Eggen (1958–) is a former musician and journalist, now a full time writer. With a sharp and witty pen he echoes the zeitgeist in his novels, exploring phenomena such as vanity, politics, immigration and our crazy and wonderful Internet society.

85

PHOTO: CHRISTIAN BERSET

130x205 mm

SELF-HELP

EVERYDAY EMOTIONS WHY DO I FEEL LIKE THIS? HOW CAN I MAKE IT BETTER? Many people suffer in today's high-achievement society. Very many of us will experience depression and/or stress in the course of our lives. Hverdagspsyk 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.

AUTHOR:

REBEKKA EGELAND, CARINA POULSEN AND PEDER KJØS TITLE ENGLISH:

‘This is important and well written! Recommended!’

EVERYDAY EMOTIONS

HEDDA KISE, TV2

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

HVERDAGSPSYK FORMAT:

148x210 mm / 288 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

PHOTO: KAJA BRUSKELAND

DENMARK (Kristeligt Dagblad)

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 Norge.

86

SELF-HELP

SILENCE Silence is becoming a luxury for the active humans of today. More and more of us experience stress and worry.

Kristin Flood inspires us in creating more quiet moments in our lives. This will make us more able to meet the demands of our time: ‘Silence inspires us to look at life from a new angle than before.

From here we can find new and more creative solutions. Or learn to accept the inevitable. We develop a greater unison between what we feel, think and experience, and the life we live. In this way silence helps us navigate better trough our every day life, and through our life.’

AUTHOR:

KRISTIN FLOOD TITLE ENGLISH:

SILENCE

‘Kristin Flood writes beautifully, intelligently and wise about silence’

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

ROM FOR STILLHET

ERLING KAGGE

FORMAT:

Kristin Flood is a journalist and author. She is currently living in Venice where she is working as a freelance journalist for the Norwegian and Scandinavian press.

87

PHOTO: NINA RANGØY

115x185 mm / 224 pages

PARENTING

SIBLINGS COMPETITOR OR BUDDY GREAT ADVICE ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SIBLINGS SØSKEN - GODE RÅD OM SØSKENFORHOLD

This book offers you practical advice about how to prevent sibling conflicts and rivalry. What kind of changes can you expect when a new sibling arrives? How to pay attention to each individual child and avoid having favourites? How can you go about to create a good sibling relationship that will become life-long?

AUTHOR:

ELISABETH GERHARDSEN FORMAT:

148x210 mm / 192 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

Elisabeth Gerhardsen (1960–) is an expert on clinical psychology of children and young people and has worked with children, parents and staff in nursery schools and in the Activitiy School for more than 20 years.

DENMARK (Dansk psykologisk forlag) RUSSIA (Alpina)

BABY SIGN LANGUAGE OPENING A CHILD'S WORLD BABYTEGN

Baby sign language is a visual form of communication with signs from Norwegian sign language. At four months, babies can react to signs, from six to nine months they can use signs themselves, and at twelve months they can use and identify approximately 100 signs.

The book contains its own baby sign language dictionary with 300 signs, a baby sign language song book with twelve popular children's songs, and many tips and advice. This book has everything you need to start off with baby sign language!

AUTHOR:

PETTER NODDELAND AND MEGAN MATOVICH-NODDELAND FORMAT:

148x210 mm / 200 pages Petter Noddeland and Megan Matovich-Noddeland run the company BeSeen Babytegn. Both are deaf and speak sign language as their mother tongue, have higher education in sign language and hold baby sign language courses in several Norwegian cities.

88

PARENTING

THE STORY OF MARIA HOW YOU GET MENTALLY STRONG CHILDREN Christine Otterstad tells the story of her daughter Maria, an anxious child with significant challenges. Many children have poor self-esteem and psychological difficulties, but at school they learn very little about this part of life.

In this book, you get good advice on how mental techniques can help children cope with new challenges.

With mental training, proper focus and simple techniques, everyday life becomes easier and mental health improves.

AUTHOR:

CHRISTINE OTTERSTAD TITLE ENGLISH:

THE STORY OF MARIA TITLE NORWEGIAN:

HISTORIEN OM MARIA FORMAT:

Christine Otterstad is a mental trainer, writer, blogger and lecturer. She is a certified coach and has a background in sports, psychology and health science.

Her blog is one of the most popular in the country.

89

PHOTO: MONA NORDØY

130x205 mm / 192 pages

CRAFTS

DARING DETAILS INSPIRATION FROM ROOM TO ROOM Creating a daring home is neither prohibitive nor expensive; with a little effort, anyone can get it right. The big difference lies in the details and how you focus on them.

This book shows you how to make the right choices about colors, furniture and textiles, plants and decorations in your own home.

The book is an inspiration for creating holistic and harmonious rooms and shows you the solutions, step by step.

AUTHOR:

HALVOR BAKKE AND CHRISTINE FIKSEAUNET TITLE ENGLISH:

DARING DETAILS TITLE NORWEGIAN:

EVENTYRLIGE DETALJER. INSPIRASJON ROM FOR ROM FORMAT:

210x255 mm / 240 pages

Halvor Bakke is an interior and furniture designer and a well-known host for TV3 on programs including the series Adventures in Redecorating.

Christine Fikseaunet is an interior designer and stylist with a long professional life in the interior design industry. She specializes in textiles and design.

90

CRAFTS

VINTAGE LIFESTYLE OLD KNOWLEDGE, NEW PLEASURES An inspiring feel-good book full of practical info about what and how people did things in earlier times: recipes and garden tips from grandmother, beauty tips from great-grandmother's time, wardrobe sustainability, nature's treasures and a guide to good, old-fashioned table manners.

In this book, journalist and editor Cecilie Larvåg shows how old knowledge can lead to new pleasures – in contrast to the useand-lose society of today.

AUTHOR:

CECILIE LARVÅG TITLE ENGLISH:

VINTAGE LIFESTYLE TITLE NORWEGIAN:

VINTAGE LIVSSTIL FORMAT:

Cecilie Larvåg is experienced in the media industry, has worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency, been the chief editor for ELLE and is the editor of Widerøe's airline magazine. She has published several books and magazines through her own publishing house.

91

PHOTO: THOMAS BRUN

170x240 mm / 232 pages

CRAFTS

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?

AUTHOR:

DAGNY THURMANN-MOE TITLE ENGLISH:

COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE!

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.

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FARGER TIL FOLKET! FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 176 pages

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.

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

ICELAND (Bókabeitan) POLAND (Agora sa)

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

PHOTO: TINE MONSEN

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.

92

CRAFTS

ARNE & CARLOS' FAVORITES Arne and Carlos are celebrating 15 years as a designer duo by picking their favorites from the five books they've published, in addition to adding many new designs. In this book you will find Christmas balls, Easter eggs, scarves, hats, socks, knitted dolls, sweaters and jackets – everything you ever wanted from them, collected in one book!

AUTHOR:

ARNE NERJORDET AND CARLOS ZACHRISON

Dive into the book and be inspired by combinations of colors and patterns.

TITLE ENGLISH:

ARNE & CARLOS' FAVORITES TITLE NORWEGIAN:

ARNE & CARLOS FAVORITTER FORMAT:

210x277 mm / 264 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Koppelwrite) FRANCE (Les Editions de Saxe) 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.

94

CRAFTS

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.

AUTHOR:

ARNE NERJORDET AND CARLOS ZACHRISON TITLE ENGLISH:

You can play around with different types of yarn, like embroidery thread and glitter yarn.

BIRDS

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FUGLER

The birds can be decorative for Christmas, Easter, summer or autumn. Use them as table decorations, on table cards or alongside colourful floral decorations. How about decorating an old birdcage or renewing the Christmas wreath for the door?

FORMAT:

210x277 mm / 176 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Koppelwrite) FINLAND (Nemo) FRANCE (Les Editions de Saxe) GERMANY (FrechVerlag) NETHERLANDS (Kosmos) UNITED STATES (Trafalgar Square Books)

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

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

95

CRAFTS

TINDE HANDKNITS The best thing about knitting your own garments, is that you can make them just the way you want them.

Iselin is the designer behind the brand Tinde and has designed her own colors by knitting with several strands at once, either in the same quality or by blending different qualities in combination with exciting knitting textures.

You get everything from lovely, classic jackets and vests, hats and pullovers to ponchos and short and long sweaters.

AUTHOR:

ISELIN HAFSELD TITLE ENGLISH:

TINDE HANDKNITS TITLE NORWEGIAN:

STRIKK FRA TINDE – JAKKER, GENSERE OG TILBEHØR FORMAT:

198x272 mm / 136 pages

Designer Iselin Hafseld is best known as the founder of the clothing line TINDE, collections of exclusive knitwear with a relaxed elegance. This is her first knitting book.

96

CRAFTS

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.

TINE SOLHEIM

This is Tine Solheim's seventh book.

KNITTED TREASURES

AUTHOR:

TITLE ENGLISH:

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

STRIKKEDE SKATTER FORMAT:

210x277 mm / 168 pages

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.

97

CRAFTS

KNITTING POETRY A KNITTED LIFE 40 beautiful knitwear patterns with amazing use of color and flattering cuts! Kari Hestnes has designed knitting patterns for decades.

In this book, she shows us her dream designs: garments that will stand out in every wardrobe, garments that give you joy and inspiration while you're knitting, and that you will use and love for years to come.

AUTHOR:

KARI HESTNES TITLE ENGLISH:

KNITTING POETRY TITLE NORWEGIAN:

STRIKKEPOESI – 40 INSPIRERENDE OG FARGERIKE PLAGG FORMAT:

PHOTO: GURI PFEIFER

210x277 mm / 192 pages

Kari Hestnes (1959–) is a co-owner of the company Du Store Alpakka, one of the largest importers of alpaca yarns in Norway. She regularly provides many knitting patterns for magazines.

98

CRAFTS

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.

AUTHOR:

MARION RINDSEM TITLE ENGLISH:

HATS

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

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 …

LUER

FORMAT:

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.

99

PHOTO: CECILIE SØNSTERBY

210x277 mm / 136 pages

CRAFTS

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.

AUTHOR:

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

DORTHE SKAPPEL TITLE ENGLISH:

OH YES YOU CAN TITLE NORWEGIAN:

KLART DU KAN SKAPPELSTRIKK

Other books by Dorthe Skappel: • Knitting with Dorthe Skappel • More Skappel Knitting

FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 200 pages

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

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

PHOTO: AGNETE BRUN © CAPPELEN DAMM

FRANCE (Editions de Saxe)

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 had well-deserved commercial success.

100

CRAFTS

NINA SKARRA KNITTING BOOK In this book, you get 29 unique Nina Skarra-designs 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.

AUTHOR:

NINA SKARRA TITLE ENGLISH:

NINA SKARRA KNITTING BOOK TITLE NORWEGIAN:

NINA SKARRA STRIKKEBOK FORMAT:

198x272 mm / 192 pages

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.

101

CRAFTS

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 of the year, 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.

AUTHOR:

FRIDA PONTÉN TITLE ENGLISH:

FRIDA'S COLOUR CIRCUS TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FRIDAS FARGESIRKUS FORMAT:

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.

195x250 mm / 144 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

PHOTO: © LEIF HANSEN OG CAPPELEN DAMM

GERMANY (FrechVerlag) UNITED STATES (Trafalgar Square Books)

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.

102

CRAFTS

LIKE PEARLS ON A STRING KNITTED AND CROCHETED ACCESSORIES 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.

AUTHOR:

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

LIV ASPLUND AND JANE ASPRUSTEN TITLE ENGLISH:

LIKE PEARLS ON A STRING TITLE NORWEGIAN:

STRIKK MED PERLER FORMAT:

198x272 mm / 156 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

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.

103

PHOTO: GURI PFEIFER

FINLAND (Minerva) UNITED STATES (Trafalgar Square Books)

CRAFTS

BABYDILLA SEW, CROCHET, KNIT In Babydilla you meet the bear, the fox, the duck, the sheep and the whale – new, soft friends for the littlest ones. Furthermore, the book is filled with patterns for tons of practical equipment you can make yourself. Here, you will find pasifier strings, diaper bags, blankets, washcloths and bibs.

AUTHOR:

The soft toys have the same unmistakable expressions of Søstrene Miljeteig, and the patterns are richly illustrated with step-by-step pictures, so they are easy to follow for beginners.

SØSTRENE MILJETEIG TITLE ENGLISH:

BABYDILLA

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

BABYDILLA – SY, HEKLE, STRIKKE TIL DE MINSTE FORMAT:

210x225 mm / 144 pages

1

2

3

4

Ellen Marie and Margrethe Miljeteig run the hobby blog Søstrene Miljeteig.

They make jewelry, stuffed animals and decorations. Babydilla is their first book.

104

CRAFTS

THE ULTIMATE REDESIGN BOOK Find value in old textiles and create your very own unique wardrobe! Redesign is environmentally friendly, fashionable and fun. The authors show you how to use what you find in flea markets, attics and cellars as a starting point for sewing. The materials are things anyone can get hold of: duvet covers, old pants and shirts, crocheted tablecloths and blankets, to name a few.

AUTHOR:

CONNIE RIISER BERGE, SIRI BERREFJORD AND MARIANNE VIGNEAU TITLE ENGLISH:

THE ULTIMATE REDESIGN BOOK TITLE NORWEGIAN:

REDESIGN FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 176 pages

PHOTO: KRISTOFFER MYHRE

Connie Riiser Berge has a design education from the fashion school Esmod. She won Moteuka's design competition two years in a row and has participated in several international shows. The Ultimate Redesign Book is her first book.

Siri Berrefjord offers a beginners' course in sewing and has worked as an art and design photographer for 20 years. Siri is also the mother of ‘plastic bunad’ jewelry.

The Ultimate Redesign Book is her first book.

Marianne Hildeng currently works at Fretex as a foreman for the redesign department in Oslo. Previously, she published a book about redesign in the French, Tout se transforme. The Ultimate Redesign Book is her first book in Norwegian.

106

CRAFTS

EVERYONE CAN SEW 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:

MARI MELILOT TITLE ENGLISH:

EVERYONE CAN SEW TITLE NORWEGIAN:

ALLE KAN SY FORMAT:

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

107

PHOTO: ANNE VALEUR

210x277 mm / 152 pages

CRAFTS

SEWING IS COOL KULT Å SY!

This is the book for you if you are looking for basic knowledge about how to sew materials together to create pretty and useful items for your home.

The book is aimed mainly at new beginnersand it is illustrated throughout with pictures and step-by-step drawings, and it explains clearly what materials and equipment you need to keep things simple and make learning to sew a pleasure.

AUTHOR:

GRETE GULLIKSEN MOE

You will find patterns and instructions for sofa-cushions, covers for children's beds and push-chairs, big patchwork rugs, bags and handbags. Many of these things are sewn using new fabric, but old shirts can also find new life in rugs, cushions and much else.

FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 136 pages

SEWING IS COOL 2 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.

AUTHOR:

GRETE GULLIKSEN MOE FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 144 pages

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.

108

CRAFTS

SOFT AND COLORFUL WOOL FELTING MYK OG FARGERIK FILTING I ULL

Felting is an exciting craft with many possibilities. The ideas range from scarves, ponchos, hats and gloves to pillows, blankets, angels and much more.

The models are made in several grades of wool with different possibilities for decoration, with the aim of achieving exciting and different textures and expressions in the final product. The models have different levels of difficulty, from simple to somewhat more advanced.

AUTHOR:

TONE TVEDT FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 160 pages

Tone Tvedt, together with Nina Tvedt Sliper, runs the company Ullform in Stavanger, which is known for its colorful wool products and extensive courses. This is their second book about fulling and felting.

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.

MAY-BRITT BJELLA AMORI

The book is thoroughly illustrated.

195x250 mm / 160 pages

AUTHOR: FORMAT:

RIGHTS SOLD TO:

UNITED STATES (Trafalgar Square Books) May Britt Bjella Zamori works as a consultant and translator of knitting- and crocheting books, in addition to being a crafts author herself.

109

CRAFTS

CHRISTMAS JOY The perfect pre-Christmas book for those who like Christmas and Christmas preparations!

Christmas Joy is a book for the whole family, with Christmas decorations and gifts that children can make themselves and things children and adults can make together. Traditional Christmas decorations get a modern feel.

In this book you will find walnut mice and toilet paper stars, but also gingerbread lanterns, bags and popcorn strings.

AUTHOR:

MIRIAM N. MORKEN AND TONE M. STENKLØV

Why not invite friends both big and small to a Christmas workshop?

TITLE ENGLISH:

CHRISTMAS JOY TITLE NORWEGIAN:

JULEHYGGE FORMAT:

PHOTO: GURI PFEIFER

198x272 mm / 176 pages

Tone Stenkløv has, together with Miriam Morken written several inspiring hobby and Christmas books. They are eager contributors to Christmas fairs and markets in their local communities and can conjure up a Christmas mood by the simplest of means.

110

CRAFTS

111

FOOD

TRINE INVITES YOU Trine Sandberg is celebrating 10 years as a food blogger and invites you to join her for good food and company. In this new book, she presents a broad range of exciting menus and writes about the art of inviting people over – about menu choice, planning and preparations when you're cooking for many. Trine brings her own touch and what she is particularly good at: the menus and composition of dishes and tastes that feed so many so tastily.

AUTHOR:

TRINE SANDBERG

In Trine Invites You, there are close to 100 recipes and 20 different menus for both everyday and parties. Among the menus are a Tex-Mex party, fish Tuesday, gourmet dinner, weekday party, Sunday brunch and a summer party. As part of the menus you will find nachos, Mediterranean chicken pie, French country bread, reindeer steak with root vegetable gratin, crispy duck, bacalao, broccoli salad, rhubarb lemonade, pavlova, coffee cake wreaths and much, much more. All the menus are illustrated with Trine's food photos, which she is known for from her blog and her former bestselling cookbooks.

TITLE ENGLISH:

TRINE INVITES YOU TITLE NORWEGIAN:

TRINE INVITERER FORMAT:

PHOTO: MONA NORDØY

210x250 mm / 264 pages

Trine Sandberg wanted to pass on the family recipes to her daughters when they moved away from home. That was the start of her food blog Trinesmatblogg.no.

She is now Norways best-selling writer of cookery books.

112

FOOD

TRINE'S FOOD

SUPER­ BESTSELLER! 196 000 COPIES IN PRINT.

TRINES MAT

Trine Sandberg, unquestionably the most consulted food blogger in Norway, has collected her most popular dishes in a much sought-after cookbook. In it, you will find the readers' favourite recipes, practical hints for planning and shopping, her popular weekly menus with variants and much, much more. Included are breakfasts, starters, everyday dishes, food to eat with your girl friends, food for the summer, tempting seafood, autumn meals with your friends, family suppers, romantic three-course dinners, weekly menus on a budget and favourite cakes.

AUTHOR:

TRINE SANDBERG FORMAT:

210x250 mm / 280 pages

This elegant cookbook contains over 120 recipes and lovely pictures to go with them – taken by Trine herself. Both text and pictures are all about easily made, exciting and tasty food, and having a good time with family and friends.

TRINE'S FOOD 2 TRINES MAT 2

She has collected even more recipes between the covers of her second book, serving up everything from supper, vegetable and pasta dishes to fish and seafood, chicken, meat and desserts.

The recipes are presented in chapters with clear titles such as Supper, Fish, Meat and Desserts, and the book is easy to find your way around. In six varied and tempting weekly menus, Trine has put together suggestions which suit the tastes of young and old.

AUTHOR:

TRINE SANDBERG FORMAT:

Among the good things you will also find the author's suggestions for a party menu, a ladies' dinner and an Italian evening. Trine's baking recipes are much sought after. In this book she has included almost 70 recipes in a wide-ranging chapter which includes unkneaded bread, chocolate whirls, cakes, biscuits and lots more.

210x250 mm / 392 pages

113

FOOD

MAAEMO The remarkable book about the remarkable restaurant Maaemo – The only Norwegian restaurant with three stars in Guide Michelin.

The spectacular pictures and illustrations of Norwegian nature, and the beautiful photographs of the food and the environment in the restaurant, take you on a journey through the tastes of Norway. Exactly like a meal at this world renowned star-restaurant in Oslo would do.

AUTHOR:

ESBEN HOLMBOE BANG TITLE ENGLISH:

The restaurant is run by Esben Holmboe Bang, and in this book he writes with honesty and engagement about the tastes, the identity, the vision and hard work it takes to bring the exceptional signature tastes to the tables of the restaurant. The book also gives the reader a chance to recreate Maaemo at home: 80 recipes for many of the signature dishes and tastes of the restaurant are presented in the book.

MAAEMO

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

MAAEMO FORMAT:

270x330 mm / 384 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

GERMANY (Matthaes Verlag GmbH)

‘This is a masterpiece, and at the same time a genuine encyclopaedia of one of the most important gastronomic periods in Norway. … It mirrors our country at its best. Showing the trends of our time, with the inspiration from traditions in times long past, taking us into the future. In this book the renewal of the Nordic kitchen is documented in a truthful and honest way. This is a book that will be passed down through generations to come.’

APPETITT

‘To me this book is instantly classic. This is a book it will be referred to in many decades to come, when the food story from our little Nordic corner of the world is to be told.’

RENÉ REDZEPI – CHEF AT NOMA, DENMARK.

‘There are very few chefs that have told their restaurants story as openly and honestly as Espen Holmboe Bang tells the story about Maaemo. … The book is well composed, well written and easy to read with it´s short texts.’

PHOTO: TUUKKA KOSKI

AFTENPOSTEN Esben Holmboe Bang (1982–) was born in Copenhagen, but moved to Norway in 2001. He worked at several fine-dining restaurants in Oslo before opening Maaemo in 2010. In 2016, Maaemo received three Michelin stars – the first Norwegian restaurant to ever do so.

114

FOOD

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.

AUTHOR:

MIA FROGNER TITLE ENGLISH:

GREEN BONANZA TITLE NORWEGIAN:

GRØNN BONANZA FORMAT:

210x277 mm / 208 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

GERMANY (Jan Thorbecke Verlag)

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 blog Green Bonanza.

116

FOOD

MEAT FREE BURGERS WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS What about a Double Sweet Burger made from sweet potatoes or a chipotle burger with bean salad? With absolutely no meat or animal products, but chock full of flavor and nutritious ingredients like vegetables, lentils, beans, grains, seeds and nuts.

Over 80 recipes focus on tasty, simple and practical recipes with raw materials that are readily available. The recipes include quinoa and carrot burgers, potato burgers, Mediterranean burgers, sweet potato fries, coriander dip, burger buns, broccoli and couscous salad, aioli, and bean salad.

AUTHOR:

JANE HELEN JOHANSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

MEAT FREE BURGERS TITLE NORWEGIAN:

KJØTTFRIE BURGERE

In addition to the burger and side dish recipes, the book has the author's best tricks for the perfect veggie burger and tips for what you ought to have in the kitchen.

FORMAT:

210x225 mm / 144 pages

Jane H. Johansen Norway's most popular vegan food blogger! She has 450,000 visits to her blog every month and was winner of Food Blogger of the Year for Alternative Food in 2014. She runs cookery courses and lectures.

117

PHOTO: JOSEFIN MARIA LINDER

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED:

FOOD

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 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.

AUTHOR:

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.

BJØRN TORE FURSET AND MARIANNE NYGÅRD-HANSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

RAW INGREDIENTS TITLE NORWEGIAN:

RÅ VARE FORMAT:

210x277 mm / 232 pages

‘This book gives an accurate picture of the restaurant world of Oslo. Prepared by the best chefs in Oslo, served by Bjørn Tore Furset and seasoned with fine pictures and good recipes.’

VINOFIL.NO

PHOTO: STIAN BROCH

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.

118

FOOD

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.

AUTHOR:

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.

ZOE CHRISTIANSEN, CLAUDIA SEIFERT, LISA WESTGAARD AND HANNE MARTINSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

SEAWEED

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

TANG OG TARE

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!

FORMAT:

210x250 mm / 192 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

UNITED KINGDOM (Grub Street Publishing)

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.

119

PHOTO: LARS PETTER PETTERSEN

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

FOOD

MASALA MAGIC CURRY, NAAN AND OTHER INDIAN FOOD Niru Kumra, who is originally from India, has collected around 70 recipes for tempting and healthy Indian dishes with exotic flavors.

The recipes are divided into finger foods and snacks, main courses, sides, desserts and drinks. These include samosas, curry dishes, naan, raita, chutneys and lassi. You will find both exciting new dishes and delicious, well-known dishes like butter chicken and lamb curry. Many of the dishes are gluten free, vegetarian, or have tips for replacing ingredients.

AUTHOR:

NIRU KUMRA TITLE ENGLISH:

Niru enthusiastically describes the magic that occurs when you combine different spices and other ingredients. She has been working with food for many years and generously shares her many good tips and tricks.

MASALA MAGIC TITLE NORWEGIAN:

MASALAMAGIC – MAGIEN I DET INDISKE KJØKKEN FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 216 pages

With this book, you can easily impress your family and friends with the most delicious Indian dishes!

Niru Kumra came to Norway from India at the age of eight. She holds courses in Indian cooking, arranges food and cultural trips to India and sells products like chutney, curry paste and korma through Masalamagic.

120

FOOD

COOKING FOR ONE This is the cookbook for those cooking for one!

Adam Bjerck says that even if you are dining alone, you should dine healthy and well!

This is a must-have cookbook for anyone living alone, with recipes for one protion of food. It focuses on fast - and not to expensive - courses that make the cookbook perfect for busy everyday life.

The practical week menus make it easy to plan and shop, and make sure that you do not end up with unused ingredients in the fridge. The recipes can of course be doubled - for couples or that extra guest.

AUTHOR:

ADAM BJERCK TITLE ENGLISH:

COOKING FOR ONE TITLE NORWEGIAN:

Adam Bjerck is a renowned chef, part of the Norwegian National Team of chefs, and the mastermind behind the business Adams Matkasse.

1 PORSJON FORMAT:

Adam Bjerck is one of Norway's renowned young chefs and has participated on the Kokkelandslaget team. He is one of the founders of the very successful Adam's Mealbox, and last year he published the book Adam's Food – Simple Everyday Dinners.

121

PHOTO: ADAMS MATKASSE/KIND

195x250 mm / 208 pages

FOOD

NATIONAL WINNER OF GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS

FOOD FERMENTATION TASTY FOOD AND DRINK FOR HAPPY DIGESTION

2016

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.

AUTHOR:

GRY HAMMER

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.

FORMAT:

210x250 mm / 216 pages

You can prepare fermented foods including sourdough bread, yoghurt, pancakes, porridge, orange marmalade, ketchup, sauerkraut, kimchi Nordic style and kombucha.

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.

AUTHOR:

The book is practical and focused on ‘how tos’, with over 100 recipes for everything from Stone Age bread to waffles, liver paté to chocolate spread, venison, mutton stew, cod tongues, tomato soup and beet burgers, and even sweets like apple cake and colostrum pudding.

GRY HAMMER FORMAT:

170x240 mm / 216 pages

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.

122

FOOD

THE PRACTICAL DIABETES BOOK EAT YOURSELF HEALTHY IN 6 WEEKS In this informative and easy-to-understand book, you get all the tools you need to recover 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 or prediabetes, this is the best book to start with!

AUTHOR:

GUNN-KARIN SAKARIASSEN AND HEGE HASLER BARHAUGHØGDA TITLE ENGLISH:

THE PRACTICAL DIABETES BOOK TITLE NORWEGIAN:

DEN PRAKTISKE DIABETESBOKA FORMAT:

170x240 mm / 240 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

DENMARK (Legind)

PHOTO: TOVE K. BREISTEIN

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.

124

FOOD

SOOTHING FOOD FOR THE STOMACH LAVFODMAP - MAGEVENNLIG MAT

The low FODMAP diet consists of good food which calms the intestines – whether you have a bloated stomach, loose stools, constipation or stomach pain. Over 50 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, cakes and desserts without gluten, lactose and carbohydrates that are difficult to digest.

Simple, tasty and stomach-friendly!

AUTHOR:

JULIA DØHLEN EDIN

Includes a diet diary for your own notes.

FORMAT:

170x240 mm / 152 pages

(FODMAP is an acronym for Fermentable Oligo- Di- and Monosaccharides And Polyols.)

STOMACH FRIENDLY BAKING THE BAKING BOOK FOR PEOPLE WITH SENSITIVE STOMACHES, IRRITABLE BOWELS OR FOOD INTOLERANCES MAGEVENNLIG BAKST

70 recipes for successful gluten free, dairy free and low FODMAP baking that will leave you with a happy stomach! Do you suffer from bloating, diarrhea, constipation or stomach-aches? This is the baking book for people with sensitive stomachs, irritable bowels or food intolerances.

AUTHOR:

JULIA DØHLEN EDIN FORMAT:

170x240 mm / 160 pages

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

125

FOOD

EVERYONE CAN BAKE

NORDIC TREATS

In Everyone can Bake, confectioner and blogger Elin Vatnar Nilsen shows you how to make all the classic nordic treats – from birthday cream cake to pavlova, chocolate cake, kringle and 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.

AUTHOR:

ELIN VATNAR NILSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

EVERYONE CAN BAKE

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!

TITLE NORWEGIAN:

ALLE KAN BAKE FORMAT:

195x250 mm / 232 pages

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

‘In my view this is one of the best books about baking that has ever been published in Norway, and it holds it´s own against many of my english languaged baking cookbooks. I suggest that the publishers contact a good translator as soon as possible, translate it to English, put a sticker on it saying "Nordic Treats" and then watch the book ride the nordic wave to the top of the charts.’

PHOTO: SVERRE AURSTAD

HOBBYKOKKEN.NO

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

126

FOOD

FRANCISKA'S TEMPTING CAKES Let yourself 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.

AUTHOR:

FRANCISKA MUNCK-JOHANSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

All the recipes have been thoroughly tested.

FRANCISKA'S TEMPTING CAKES TITLE NORWEGIAN:

FRANCISKAS FRISTENDE KAKER FORMAT:

225x300 mm / 152 pages

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.

128

FOOD

LIFE IS SWEET CAKES FOR ALL TASTES DET SØTE LIV - KAKER FOR ENHVER SMAK

The new book from Norway's indisputable queen of cakeblogging contains new recipes for amazingly good cakes.

Kristine has now chosen from her most popular cakes and ordered them according to taste: vanilla, citrus, berries, fruit, coffee, chocolate, fudge, nuts, spices and mint.

AUTHOR:

KRISTINE ILSTAD

These simple and thoroughly tested recipes are the reason why her website rules the top of the blog list, and why her first book is still a bestseller two years after its release.

FORMAT:

210x250 mm / 328 pages

LIFE IS SWEET KRISTINE'S FAVOURITES DET SØTE LIV - KRISTINES FAVORITTER - KAKER OG DESSERTER

Kristine Ilstad writes the blog Det søte liv (www.detsoteliv.no), which is Norway's biggest cake-blog with over 3000 recipes and thousands of visitors every day.

Here you will find about 200 selected new recipes, which altogether comprise an invaluable collection for anyone who likes to create something sweet and good in the kitchen, whether for big gatherings or for intimate family use. All the recipes are easy to follow, with clear instructions.

AUTHOR:

KRISTINE ILSTAD FORMAT:

210x250 mm / 328 pages

Kristine Ilstad is passionate about baking and writes the blog Det søte liv (The good life), which is Norway's biggest cake-blog. She is qualified in commerce and in law, and works as a tax lawyer for the finance house DNB.

129

FITNESS

CALISTHENICS WITH LASSE TUFTE CALISTHENIC EXERCISES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CALISTHENICS MED LASSE TUFTE

Build up your strength and have fun training – indoors and out!

There has been enormous growth in interest in weight-training and calisthenics. Now we have the book, written by the expert himself, Lasse Tufte, who demonstrates and explains the best exercises in the ‘calisthenics bible.' The exercises are all illustrated, and they are divided into categories such as warming up, legs, the backs of the thighs, stomach and pulling exercises.

AUTHOR:

LASSE TUFTE FORMAT:

190x260 mm / 360 pages

This book is perfect both for beginners who need to have the exercises demonstrated and for more advanced participants who want to develop and learn more.

CALISTHENICS WITH LASSE TUFTE 2 MORE EFFECTIVE BODY WEIGHT TRAINING CALISTHENICS MED LASSE TUFTE 2

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.

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.

LASSE TUFTE 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.

130

FITNESS

EXERCISE TOGETHER TREN SAMMEN - MED LASSE TUFTE OG JØRGINE VASSTRAND

Team up with at friend and exercise together! It is social and effective to do your exercise together with someone. Join FunkyGine and Lasse Tufte, and let them show you the best and coolest exercises. Anything from duo-push ups and knee-lifters with friend-resistance, to duo-squats and partner-burpees.

Use your bodyweight to get stronger, leaner and guaranteed in better shape. Learn and be inspired by the experts.

This book contains over 200 exercises.

AUTHOR:

LASSE TUFTE AND JØRGINE VASSTRAND FORMAT:

190x260 mm / 168 pages

EXERCISE TOGETHER 2 TREN SAMMEN 2

Fun with even more effective and entertaining exercises you can do with one or more training buddies. Try everything from simple push-ups, side thrusts and duo knee lifts to leapfrog. The book contains descriptive images of over 100 exercises the authors demonstrate themselves.

The exercises combine muscle strengthening exercises and fitness exercises.

AUTHOR:

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.

LASSE TUFTE AND JØRGINE VASSTRAND FORMAT:

190x260 mm / 240 pages

Jørgine Vasstrand, also known as Funkygine, was educated at the Norwegian Sports Academy. She is a personal trainer, nutritional coach, runs one of Norway's biggest training blogs and has Norway's largest trainer profile on Instagram. She is known for the training she does with her two children and creative body weight exercises.

131

FITNESS

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.

AUTHOR:

BENTE HELENE SCHEI

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.

TITLE ENGLISH:

YOGA MADE SIMPLE TITLE NORWEGIAN:

YOGA HELT ENKELT! FORMAT:

210x225 mm / 160 pages RIGHTS SOLD TO:

PHOTO: NICKI TWANG

DENMARK (Legind) GERMANY (Droemer Knaur)

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.

132

GARDENING

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.

AUTHOR:

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.

TOMMY TØNSBERG TITLE ENGLISH:

MY GARDEN CALENDAR TITLE NORWEGIAN:

MIN HAGEKALENDER FORMAT:

170x240 mm / 144 pages

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.

134

GARDENING

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.

AUTHOR:

TOMMY TØNSBERG AND KENNETH INGEBRETSEN TITLE ENGLISH:

CULTIVATING IN SMALL SPACES TITLE NORWEGIAN:

DYRKING PÅ LITEN PLASS FORMAT:

210x225 mm / 176 pages

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

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.

135