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NON FICTION
Norwegian Wood II – Revised & Expanded Edition
Lars Mytting
Number of pages: 339
Year of publication: 2025
A Major New Edition of Norwegian Wood. Expanded, Updated, and More Relevant Than Ever.
We’re delighted to announce the release of a fully revised and significantly expanded edition of Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting, already a global publishing phenomenon and the definitive reference on firewood. With over 600,000 copies sold, film rights sold and translations in 22 languages, this classic returns at the perfect moment: when environmental awareness, energy self-reliance, and timeless crafts are more important than ever.
This new edition is twice as comprehensive as the first Norwegian edition, has a completely new layout, 30 new photographs and 8 hand-drawn illustrations. Every chapter has been meticulously updated based on 12 years of new research and feedback from readers worldwide.
Mytting retains the voice and soul of the original while enriching it with practical innovations, deep cultural insights, and cutting-edge environmental knowledge. It is still the book that inspired readers to stack, split, and burn more wisely—but now, it does even more.
LARS MYTTING (b. 1968) made his debut with the novel Horsepower (Hestekrefter) in 2006. Norwegian Wood (Hel ved, 2011) became an international bestseller and won the British Book Industry Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 2016. In 2014, he received the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for the novel The Sixteen Trees of the Somme (Svøm med dem som drukner), which has been published in 17 languages and appeared on The Times’ bestseller list. In 2018, The Bell in the Lake (Søsterklokkene), the first book in the Sister Bells trilogy, was published. It was followed by The Reindeer Hunters (Hekneveven) in 2020, and in 2023, The Night of the Scourge (Skråpånatta), the final installment, was published. Mytting’s books have sold over one million copies worldwide and have been published in 23 languages.
In 2022, he was awarded the Dobloug Prize.
The Sister Bells Trilogy
Lars Mytting
Spanning 1500 pages, 80 years and 3 generations, the Sister Bells Trilogy is an epic tale that combines Norwegian folklore and mythology with the drama of the modern novel – a story rich with hardship, faith, war, passion and technical evolution. Already considered a modern classic, and with more than 400 000 copies sold, it’s the bestselling trilogy in Norway over the past 70 years.
The Bell in the Lake
The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 1
As long as anyone could remember, the Sister Bells had rung over the narrow valley, with a sound so rich and powerful that three masses were all it took to render the bell-ringer deaf. The bells were forged in remembrance of the twins Halfrid and Gunhild Hekne, who were conjoined from the hips down. There was always an air of something greater about the twins, as if they belonged to a different, more powerful world altogether, and one of the tapestries they wove was said to foretell the future.
In 1879, a young pastor, just graduated, moves into the rectory where nineteenyear-old Astrid is in service. From Germany a young stranger arrives with grand visions for the parish. The old stave church that has housed the bells for centuries faces an uncertain future, and soon the village is subjected to sudden changes and unyielding wills.
The Reindeer Hunters
The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 2
The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since parish pastor Kai Schweigaard returned to Butangen in Gudbrandsdalen with Astrid Hekne’s newborn son Jehans on his lap. Facing a well-kept grave outside the new church, he is tormented by his old betrayal, which led to several deaths and the separation of the two powerful church bells. The bells were cast in memory of two conjoined sisters in Astrid’s family, two mythical weavers. Schweigaard becomes obsessed with finding the ancient Hekne tapestry, made by the sisters and lost for centuries, hoping it will show how he can atone for his misdeeds and reunite the bells.
Jehans has grown up and lives in modest conditions on a homestead farm, ostracized by his own family. He instead seeks the mountains, where he enjoys freedom, fishing, and reindeer hunting. One August morning, Jehans kills a massive reindeer bull, and in the same moment encounters a mysterious hunter.
The Reindeer Hunters is a grand story of a country headed for a new era, of land clearing and futile toiling, of taming waterfalls and lighting the first electrical spark in the deep, dark, rural nights, and about the great European war where brother faces brother.
The Sister Bells Trilogy is translated into 17 languages, with more to come.
The Night of the Scourge
The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 3
The Night of the Scourge is an epic novel about a village community and a country at large headed into war, about the passing of generations, about betrayal, and about an aging pastor caught in the prophecy of his own death. A new generation at Hekne has inherited the obsessions of their ancestors and senses that the warnings of the Hekne tapestry will soon be fulfilled, among them the warning of the night of the scourge; a doomsday night that, according to old village beliefs, will be the last day of the world as they know it.
«Sensuous and at the same time systematic about local legend, jealousy and grief.»
STAVANGER AFTENBLAD
«As a whole, it is an amazing story, so deep and intense that it surpasses most recent Norwegian novels. And the intensity drives both the reader and the characters from one extreme to another.»
HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD
«Mytting’s characters feel like real people of flesh and blood; he weaves together the literary, the psychological and the social to an artistic whole.
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FICTION
Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach!
Johan Harstad
Number of pages: 976
Year of publication: 2024
Foreign Sales:
Denmark, Gutkind
Germany, Ullstein
The Netherlands, Podium
Croatia, OceanMore
Poland, Wydawnicza
Relacja / Mamania
Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach! is a novel about the discovery of a paving-stone-shaped object which, when touched, is said to create the illusion of having lived an entire life within the span of seven minutes.
Centered around a group of teens in Stavanger in the late nineties, taking numerous historical and geographical detours to the Soviet Union, Berlin, Warsaw, small-town Iceland, Shanghai and, last but not least, the island Tristan da Cunha in the sixties, featuring suburban youth on the hunt for the next industrial exhaust fan to warm themselves by in the evenings, Cold War spies with multiple and shifting loyalties, Zapatistas who keep things local, marijuana wholesalers of questionable mental caliber, young people in love, amateur radio dads who are all widowers, old-school and new-school sailors, Icelandic ecoterrorists, suicidal single moms, self-tormenting clinical directors, psychiatric patients (and some who probably should’ve been), an adventurous local meteorologist from Stavanger, an astrophysicist with an urgent need to explain himself about nonacademic topics, and with guest appearances from figures like Andrei Tarkovsky and Erich Mielke, the novel explores the idea that time might never really have been on our side after all.
This is an epic story about waiting; for life to begin, for things to pass, waiting for the right one, waiting for death, waiting in vain. It is a novel about Ingmar, Jonatan and Peter. And Ebba.
JOHAN HARSTAD (b. 1979) is a Norwegian author and playwright. He made his debut in 2001 with the short prose collection Herfra blir du bare eldre (From Here on in You Just Get Older) and has since published collections of short stories, plays, a YA novel, as well as the novels Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? (2005), Hässelby (2007) and Max, Mischa & The Tet Offensive (2015). The latter, which has received overwhelming acclaim in Norway, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, was awarded the Dutch Europese Literatuurprijs in 2018. The production of the play Osv. (Etc.) at the National Theatre, where Harstad was the inhouse playwright in 2009, was awarded the Ibsen Prize. He has also been awarded the Hunger Prize for his «younger, eminent» literary work, and the prestigious Svenska Akademiens Dobloug Award for his authorship. His books have been published in over 30 countries. Harstad lives in Oslo.
Nominated for the 2025 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Author Photos: John Erik Riley
«A LITERARY MASTERPIECE. A homage to the world’s raging realities and amazing opportunities.»
VG
«Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach! is a massive achievement from a man with an extra-ordinary knack for storytelling and an affinity both for horror movies, spy thrillers and cowboy classics. The best of the best in this enormous novel is the coming-of-age story set to Forus and Stavanger in the 90s, a heartfelt and at the same time carefree story of friendship, love and the youthful restlessness of waiting for something wonderful to happen»
NRK
«This is the biggest novel of the year. A triple album of a novel, it elegantly weaves together different genres: sci-fi, spy thriller, nonfiction and coming-of-age. It all results in a tremendous read, a harrowing and highly relevant novel of our time.»
ADRESSEAVISEN
A Sudden Appeal of the Jungle
Nikolaj Frobenius
A bold and deeply personal novel that is sure to spark debate.
In this raw and gripping story, acclaimed author Nikolaj Frobenius explores a man’s descent into crisis and his desperate search for meaning. At midlife, V. realizes he has lost control over his substance use. Though he has long appeared functional in both work and family life, he now finds himself overwhelmed by anxiety and alienation. Traditional therapy fails him, and he turns instead to literature, philosophy, and the frontiers of consciousness research.
His journey ultimately leads him deep into the Peruvian jungle, and to the ancient psychedelic brew ayahuasca.
An Unexpected Pull Toward the Jungle is a fearless exploration of mental health, addiction, and the blurred lines between science and mysticism.
NIKOLAJ FROBENIUS (b. 1965) is an author and screenwriter whose novels have been published in over 15 countries. He debuted in 1986 with the poetry and prose collection Virvl, and gained international recognition with Latour’s Catalogue in 1996. Frobenius studied film at The London Institute and has written several screenplays, including Insomnia (1997), later remade in Hollywood, and Sons of Norway (2011), based on his own novel Theory and Practice.
NIKOLAJ FROBENIUS
EN UvENtA dRAgNINg mOt JUNgELEN
Roman
Number of pages: 280
Year of publication: 2025
While it’s Still Too Late Short Stories
Tomas Espedal
Number of pages: 176
Year of publication: 2025
Foreign Sales:
Denmark, Lindhardt & Ringhof
Germany, Matthes & Zeit
«Tomas Espedal’s new book has the best title of the century! A masterfully written collection from a pen fueled by a volcano. »
BOK365
«Few Norwegian writers dissolve the barrier between text and reader like Espedal. His latest work swings between the idyllic and the unsettling, pulsating with a literary urgency that demands to be read.»
MORGENBLADET
«A fascinating collection where a thousand flowers bloom — a bold counterattack against cultural conformity, embracing the wild and the untamed.»
BERGENS TIDENDE
«A genre-defying explosion of creative energy. While It’s Still Too Late reinvents the short story form and marks an electrifying new chapter in Espedal’s career.»
VÅRT LAND
TOMAS ESPEDAL (b. 1961) is an acclaimed Norwegian author known for his distinctive literary voice and genre-defying works. Espedal has published both novels and short prose collections. In his later works, he writes closely from personal experience, exploring the relationship between the novel and genres such as essay, letter, diary, autobiography, and travel writing. His book Tramp. Or the Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life (2006) was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, as were Against Art (2009) and Bergeners (2013). He received the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature in 2009 and the Gyldendal Prize the same year. In 2011, he was awarded the Brage Prize for Against Nature. Espedal was also nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2013 and has been published in 24 countries.
Take your bed and walk. The scent of young boys in spring. That woman he would like to be.
Don’t scratch your name into mine. There is no freedom for a hardworking man.
I’m unpacking my library.
Everything you lose will be returned to you twice over. Close to life lies death.
Every dog has its day.
Augustine and the pears.
You should have had two names. It hurts to sit on a train. It is always now.
A monster with its family. A homeless millionaire.
The man with the dog. Sleeping alone. Professor Janei.
There are cities. Flora. Florist.
Flourish. Nomine. Nomen. Nomenclature. Certain names.
The art of reading.
The joy of money.
The art of sleeping.
His name was Karoline. On the road. North.
Karel’s ballpoint pen is full of ink.
Fading Light
Kristin Vego
Number of pages: 144
Year of publication: 2024
Foreign sales:
Denmark, Turbine Germany, Suhrkamp/Insel
How do I go about describing this time? The small pockets of time where there were no other witnesses: It’s these I want to pick up, like jellyfish, and hold to the light. See the filaments inside.
Johanne rents a room in a white house in the countryside. Almost without noticing, she slips into a relationship with Mikael, the man who lives there. It develops into a love lasting a lifetime. With the relationship comes Mikael’s daughter, his ex-wife, and the characteristic landscape surrounding them. Seventeen years later, Johanne sits in the house alone, beginning to pen down their story as the days grow shorter and autumn turns to winter.
Fading Light is a novel about the cycles of the female body, about the fear of losing the one you love, and about appreciating the here-and-now fully; a delicate and powerful exploration of the threads that tie us to a place and to each other.
KRISTIN VEGO (f. 1991) is a Danish-Norwegian author from Aarhus, Denmark, living in Oslo. She made her debut in 2021 with the short story collection Look Your Last on All Things Lovely. The book was published in Danish in 2022. For her debut, she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas Debut Prize in Norway and the Bogforum Debut Prize in Denmark. Vego is a former editor of the literary magazine Vagant and a literary critic in Dagbladet Information. Fading Light is her first novel.
«Danish-Norwegian Kristin Vego was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas Debut Prize for her debut collection of short stories, Look Your Last on All Things Lovely, in 2021. When she now publishes her first novel, she lets the stringency and concentration of the short story form carry over. […] Vego’s way of conveying and putting feelings into words is through lovely, almost lyrical images that feels like they are experienced through the body.»
ADRESSEAVISEN
«A remarkably good novel. […] especially the ability to write forth a characteristic atmosphere and mood, a mellow elegy of a time and a relationship that has faded to dust, makes an impact. Descriptions of the ways that humans and nature interact is another literary vein that makes Vego’s novel stand out.»
MORGENBLADET
«Hitting the nail on the head with her first novel. […] In her first novel, Danish-Norwegian Kristin Vego (32) demonstrates an unmistakable talent for both atmosphere and suspense. Fading Light is packed with effortless literary references as well as gorgeous metaphors […] Melancholy, absolutely, but Kristin Vego’s descriptions of passing time and changing seasons are more than anything brimming with beauty.»
AFTENPOSTEN
IGGY
Edy Poppy
Number of pages: 280
Year of publication: 2025
We’ve no time to lose, we say to each other, time and time again, like a mantra. Choosing not to keep Iggy has made the mantra even more important.
Not choosing Iggy means choosing art, doesn’t it? Marina Abramović has taken three abortions. She claims that having children makes women lag behind in the art world. That you have to be conscious of what you prioritize to spend your energy on. It won’t be on me now, I think, stroking my flat belly.
Iggy is a novel about fear of the conventional and the lust for exceedance. But also about the unsettling loneliness of someone who never wants to make commitments.
«There’s not a plethora of Norwegian novels about horny, whiskey-drinking, writing women who on top of all this discuss the yearning for a child. Author Edy Poppy play with and challenge art and life both in this whirlwind of a novel.»
KLASSEKAMPEN
EDY POPPY (b. 1975), grew up in Telemark, Norway. In 2005 she published her first novel Anatomy.Monotony., which was translated into several languages. It won the contest for best love story by Gyldendal. In 2011 she published the short story collection Coming.Apart. Iggy is her second novel.
The Light Beyond
Levi Henriksen
A powerful new Skogli novel from one of Norway’s most beloved storytellers.
In this moving sequel to the award-winning Snow Will Fall on Fallen Snow, Levi Henriksen returns with a heartfelt story about grief, fatherhood, and the long shadows of the past.
Daniel Kaspersen’s life is turned upside down when Mona, the woman he found happiness with twenty years ago, passes away. Left to care for her son Sebastian and their daughter Jakobine, Daniel struggles to hold on to the man he was with Mona. As he battles sorrow and self-doubt, he must also navigate the challenges of single fatherhood in the house his great-grandfather built at the foot of Brattberget.
The Light the Dead See is a deeply human novel about love, loss, and the quiet strength it takes to build a future when the past refuses to let go.
“A brilliant sequel. […] Powerful about grief and a slippery serial offender, and a cleverly suspenseful continuation of the story from the successful debut. […] Levi Henriksen’s novel truly sings, but with a serious undertone.” ADRESSEAVISEN
LEVI HENRIKSEN (b. 1964) is an award-winning author known for his short stories and novels, with a strong and loyal readership. He made his literary debut in 2002 with the short story collection Fever, followed by Down, Down, Down in 2003. His breakthrough came in 2004 with the bestselling novel Snow Will Fall on Fallen Snow, which won the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize. Henriksen’s writing blends a rugged, masculine tone with emotional depth, often set in rural landscapes where traditional and modern values collide. His hometown of Kongsvinger frequently appears in his work.
Number of pages: 304 Year of publication: 2025
Exchanges
Hanna Stoltenberg
A new novel from the Tarjei Vesaas Prize–winning author.
When Alma arrives in Beirut with her boyfriend Eivind, who has taken a job with a humanitarian aid organization, she finds herself adrift in a city that feels both vibrant and impenetrable. While Eivind tries to make a difference in the lives of others, Alma spends her days wandering or alone in their rented apartment. Her only real conversations are with their landlord, Paul, who is full of unsolicited advice.
Everything changes when she meets Lisbet, the magnetic wife of a Norwegian diplomat. In Lisbet’s presence, Alma’s days take on a new intensity. But Lisbet’s attention is hard to hold, and when Eivind also begins to slip away into a larger world, Alma must fight not to be left behind.
Exchanges is a sharp, emotionally resonant novel about the roles we play and the ones we’re given, about guilt, authenticity, and what it means to live fully and truthfully.
HANNA STOLTENBERG (b. 1989) was born and raised in Oslo. She has worked as a freelance journalist for Aftenposten K, D2, and Morgenbladet. Her debut novel Nada earned her the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas’ Debut Prize. En positiv forskjell (Exchanges) is her second novel.
Number of pages: 190 Year of publication: 2025
I Don’t Know, I Wasn’t There
Andreas Øverland
A raw and electrifying debut.
A mother unravels, slowly and methodically, in her own home—with her son as the only witness. I Don’t Know, I Wasn’t There is a genre-defying novel, pulsing with vulnerability and power. Set in a bright apartment in Haugerud that gradually darkens, the story captures the quiet devastation of a family in collapse.
Told in a voice that is both poetic and unflinching, this is a novel about emotional inheritance, silence, and the fragile line between love and destruction.
ANDREAS ØVERLAND (b. 1984) is a son, father, and husband. He makes his literary debut in autumn 2025 with the novel I Don’t Know, I Wasn’t There.
Number of pages: 96 Year of publication: 2025
Beneath the Danish King’s Flag
Bjørn
Andreas Bull-Hansen
Number of pages: 480
Year of publication: 2025
The epic Viking saga continues.
Set in the year 1021, the seventh installment of the bestselling Jomsviking series delivers sweeping historical drama from the final golden age of the Viking era. As Europe shifts toward centralized power and new alliances, the legendary brotherhood of the Jomsvikings faces extinction.
Torstein Jarl travels to Wales for the funeral feast of Sigurd Buesson, while in England, Cnut the Great now rules with the support of the Saxon nobility. Yet Torstein still dreams of reclaiming Vingulmork and driving Olaf the Stout out of Norway. In Sweden, Prince Anund prepares to seize power and seeks an alliance with Torstein’s clan.
Battles loom, loyalties are tested, and honor is at stake, but Torstein is no longer a young man. Will Norway’s noblemen rise against Olaf before it’s too late?
Beneath the Danish King’s Flag offers a vivid portrait of a Europe in transition, where ancient loyalties clash with emerging power structures, a gripping historical tale with striking relevance to our own time.
BJØRN ANDREAS BULL-HANSEN (b. 1972) debuted with his short story collection Seven Stories From the Western Forest in 1996. Since then, he has written a number of books across a variety of genres. He had his international breakthrough with his novel Jomsviking (2017), which is the first in a sweeping historical series from the Viking Age. Throughout his authorship, Bull Hansen has become known for his gripping stories and powerful tales of human destiny.
Foreign sales:
Bulgaria/ Uniscorp Publishing House
Denmark/Turbine
Netherland/ Meulenhoff Boekerij
Poland/ Virtualo
Spain/ Editorial Planeta
Sweden/Lind & Co.
Germany/ Penguin Verlag
Hungary/ Central Kiadói Csoport
1899: Prelude
Gunnar Staalesen
Number of pages: 336
Year of publication: 2025
A sweeping historical novel and a standalone prequel to Gunnar Staalesen’s critically acclaimed 1900 trilogy.
In 1899: Prelude, Staalesen takes us back to a city on the brink of transformation. Bergen is growing, changing and divided. Two brothers from the rural valley of Eksingedalen arrive in search of opportunity, only to be confronted by the harsh realities of urban life and deep social divides. Meanwhile, police officers Ole Berstad and Christian Moland investigate two suspicious deaths, and a forbidden love affair unfolds in the shadows at a time when such desires were punishable by law.
Readers will reunite with key figures from the 1900 trilogy, as the story weaves through Bergen’s vibrant theatre scene, its upper social circles, and the spectacular Bergen Exhibition of 1898. With his signature eye for historical detail and human drama, Staalesen delivers a gripping and atmospheric prelude to his landmark series.
GUNNAR STAALESEN (b. 1947) is widely regarded as the literary chronicler of Bergen. He published his first novel at age 22 and is best known for his crime fiction featuring private detective Varg Veum. The series has been translated into 23 languages and adapted for film and television.
In addition to crime novels, Staalesen has written plays, children’s books, and a historical trilogy about Bergen in the 20th century, later followed by the standalone novel 2020 Post Festum, and now the prequel 1899. Prelude. He has received numerous literary awards and holds a degree in English, French, and literature. Staalesen was born in Bergen, where he still resides.
Deathwork
Kjersti Anfinnsen
Number of pages: 108
Year of publcation: 2025
A powerful and unflinching novel about the final chapter of life.
In a private care home outside Paris, Birgitte Solheim lies on her deathbed. Blind, fully depenent, and nearing the end, she drifts between memories and moments of lucidity, visited by caretakers, ghosts, and fragments of her past. The days are long, the loneliness unbearable, and death feels like the only remaining relief.
Deathwork is a stark and lyrical meditation on aging, mortality, and the slow unraveling of self. It is the third and final novel in Kjersti Anfinnsen’s acclaimed trilogy about retired heart surgeon Birgitte Solheim, following The Last Signs of Love and Moments for Eternity —both widely praised and sold to 13 countries.
With quiet intensity and emotional precision, Anfinnsen gives voice to a woman facing the inevitable, from a place deep in the dark.
KJERSTI ANFINNSEN (b. 1975) lives in Oslo. She took a Creative Writing course at the Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and works as a dentist. Deathwork is the third and final book in the trilogy about Birgitte.
Awarded the Havmann prize 2020.
Foreign Sales: The books about Birgitte are sold to 13 countries.
«Touching and wise from the deathbed. Birgitte can be eccentric and unsympathetic, but also fierce, insightful and at times unintentionally funny. The language is precise, grounded, and focused. The author doesn’t overuse metaphors; those she does employ feel carefully chosen. Through short chapters resembling diary entries, Birgitte reflects uncompromisingly, often with biting sarcasm, on life’s highs and lows. She carries grief, loss, and longing and a wealth of life wisdom.
Anfinnsen never falls into the trap of caricature. Instead, she inhabits Birgitte’s experience and her gradual loss of self in a completely unsentimental way that feels deeply authentic. Birgitte comes across as profoundly human. I found myself thinking about her long after finishing the book.»
NRK
«With every page and every passing day, I suffer alongside the dying Birgitte, who can do nothing but wait. The question of how we best support someone during this time continues to echo long after the final word is written and the last breath is taken.»
VÅRT LAND
«With this third and final novel about the Norwegian heart surgeon who has lived and worked in Paris, Anfinnsen has completed a trilogy about aging and death. The result is three slender novels, each containing a surprisingly powerful narrative. Seemingly light and seductive, yet sharp, sorrowful, moving, and darkly humorous. It is a bold undertaking to depict a person’s final days. But Kjersti Anfinnsen balances this impressively.»
DAGSAVISEN
Strawberry Days
Dorthe Erichsen
Number of pages: 336
Year of publication: 2025
The Summer Fjord Series (Sommerfjorden) is a warm and lighthearted series set in Lillevik, a fictional town nestled in a Norwegian fjord. This is Norwegian feelgood at its best!
For Emma – a middle school teacher in her midthirties – life takes an unexpected turn when Andreas, her long-term partner, suddenly breaks up with her and moves to the U.S. Along with him, the future she had carefully planned vanishes. What now?
Her friends – Charlotte, a glamorous housewife, and Mari, a customs officer – send Emma on a holiday to a rented cabin in Lillevik by Sommerfjorden. Here, she is supposed to work in a strawberry field and take some time for herself. But the peaceful solo retreat she envisioned doesn’t quite go as planned – especially when her well-meaning but overbearing grandmother insists on coming along. Emma soon realizes she must learn to set boundaries, even with those closest to her.
DORTHE ERICHSEN (b. 1961) is a well-known Norwegian author and translator. She has previously written three historical romance series, which have been successful both nationally and internationally. The Sommerfjorden series marks her debut in the feelgood genre and her first publications with Gyldendal.
The Angel in the Tree
Dorthe Erichsen
Charlotte, a 35-year-old housewife and yoga enthusiast, is married to finance broker Wilhelm and mother to nine-year-old twins. She gave up a promising sales career to manage the household full-time. But her marriage is faltering, Wilhelm is distant and secretive. Is he hiding something?
A call from her friend Jenny, who works at Havblikk Hotel by Sommerfjorden, offers Charlotte a chance to escape. Jenny needs someone to house-sit and fill in at the hotel over Christmas. When Charlotte uncovers Wilhelm’s secret, her world collapses. She decides to take Jenny’s offers, she’ll be the standin herself, leaving Wilhelm to handle Christmas. But when Charlotte arrives, she notices something strange: the angel is missing from its usual spot. Why today? And was Jenny’s call really a coincidence? The Angle in the Tree is the second book in the Summer Fjord Series.
Number of pages: 300
Year of publication: 225
Foreign Sales:
North/Denmark – Swedish digital rights
North/Denmark – Danish digital rights
North/Denmark– Dutch digital rights
CRIME FICTION
The Living Darkness
Ørjan N. Karlsson
Number of pages: 336
Year of publication: 2025
The fourth installment in the bestselling crime series featuring Jakob Weber from Bodø.
During an unusually hot summer week in Bodø, a gruesome discovery is made at a local waste facility—human body parts scattered among the refuse. At the same time, a half-naked, bloodied, and threatening man is spotted in the scenic tourist area of Gildeskål, 100 kilometers to the south. Chief investigator Jakob Weber is quickly drawn into a complex and high-pressure case.
As both incidents attract national media attention, the investigation is plagued by leaks, and Weber must juggle limited resources while haunted by the feeling that something crucial is slipping through his fingers.
Meanwhile, far from the public eye, a farmhand named Abraham experiences a series of disturbing and inexplicable events on a neighboring farm: a wolf that comes and goes, a mysterious beekeeper, and a corpse that vanishes without a trace.
The Living Darkness is a chilling and atmospheric crime novel that blends psychological tension with the raw beauty of Northern Norway. Ørjan N. Karlsson once again delivers a gripping story where nothing is quite as it seems.
Foreign Sales:
Netherlands, Uitgeverij Marmer
Germany, Pendragon
UK, Orenda Books
Bulgaria, Izida
ØRJAN N. KARLSSON (b. 1970) grew up in Bodø and has published numerous thrillers, science fiction books, crime novels, and two audio originals. He has worked for the Ministry of Defence and is currently head of a department at the Directorate for Civil Protection. The Living Darkness is the fourth book in the series about police investigator Jakob Weber.
Eternal Peace
Agnes Lovise Matre
Number of pages: 352
Year of publication: 2025
Foreign Sales: Denmark, Straarup & Co.
Autumn has arrived in Hardanger when a woman is found dead in a hiking area on Kvamskogen. A wolverine has scavenged the body, making it difficult to identify the victim.
Adding to the mystery, no one has reported her missing. Police chief Bengt Alvsaker and forensic investigator Lerke Ribenholt are both deeply affected by the traumas of their previous case, and Kripos investigator Manuela Nuestro has been brought in as the acting lead. However, Manuela proves to be very headstrong, and the once harmonious working environment at the Norheimsund police station becomes severely strained.
Soon, another woman is found murdered, this time in the center of Øystese. Bengt and Lerke must hunt down a perpetrator they fear might, in the worst case, be hiding among their own ranks. Eternal Peace is the fifth title in the successful DARK FJORD SERIES set in the striking Hardanger landscape, where she uses the crime genre to explore taboo themes such as shame, guilt, suppression, and secrecy.
AGNES LOVISE MATRE (b. 1966) debuted in 2012 with Stroke
My Hair and has since published several novels. Her first crime novel, Looks Can Be Deceiving (Gyldendal, 2017), launched the Dark Fjord series.
In 2020, she received the Silver Dagger Award for her novel Ice Cold.
Snow Angels
Geir Tangen
Number of pages: 368
Year of publication: 2025
Foreign Sales: Denmark, Straarup & Co.
Snow Angels is the third book in Geir Tangen’s gripping crime series set in Haugesund, featuring Chief Inspector Gabriel Fjell and Kripos investigator Aida Ibrahim as the central characters.
It is January, and a cold snap has seized Haugesund. One freezing morning, a woman is found frozen to death near Haraldsstøtta, Norway’s national monument. She is naked, covered in frost, and positioned in the snow as if she had made an angel. The woman turns out to be the daughter of one of Norway’s wealthiest and most powerful men, shipping magnate Fritz Evensen. At the crime scene, investigators uncover multiple clues pointing to men with a hatred for women. Among the evidence is a plastic angel bearing the inscription ”«St. Elliot,» a significant symbol for the incel community.
Then, another dead woman is discovered, arranged in the same manner. This time, the victim is a 16-year-old girl found in the small village of Vikedal.
The brutal murders send shockwaves through Gabriel Fjell and his colleagues at the Haugesund police department. They are joined by Kripos investigator Aida Ibrahim from Oslo, but it quickly becomes evident that the killerhas just begun their vendetta. No one knows who the next victim will be, and this time, the case threatens to strike closer to Gabriel than ever before.
The race against time has begun.
GEIR TANGEN (b. 1970) is originally from Øystese in Hardanger, but now lives in Haugesund . He trained as a general education teacher and worked in lower secondary schools for many years. Alongside teaching, he was also active as a freelance journalist for radio, TV, and newspapers from 1990, and has written short stories in addition to his crime novels.
In the summer of 2019, he began work on a brand-new crime series. The first book, Hour of the Wolf, was published in 2021. Today, Geir Tangen is a full-time author.
The Thirteenth Statue
Ingrid Berglund
Number of pages: 352
Year of publication: 2024
The third novel about probate attorney Oda Krogh and her assistant Reidar Simonsen.
As an assignment on the last day of school before the summer holidays, a primary school class is asked to count the number of humansized statues in the underwater park at Sandvika Children’s Art Centre. The answer key says there are a total of twelve, but the kids insist that they found thirteen. Their teacher discovers the thirteenth statue – a flesh-and-blood human being. Oda Krogh and Reidar Simonsen are trusted with that task of locating the dependents and distributing the assets of the deceased, a Mr. Muhammed Ikra. However, they soon discover that Ikra actually died seven years ago, before he applied for asylum in Norway.
Who is the thirteenth statue, really? And why is the body put on display, as if killing him was not enough? Oda and Reidar are soon tangled up in a network of betrayals and fraud, which makes it increasingly difficult to know whom to trust. Nobody seems to be who they claim to be.
«Without doubt the best in the series – Berglund never disappoints. [...] With the third book in the series with her probate attorney in the lead role, she has shown that she is among the elite of Norwegian crime writers.»
RANDABERG 24
Foreign Sales: Switzerland (French rights), OMBUDFILMS Sàrl
INGRID BERGLUND (b. 1966) holds a master’s degree in economics and finance. Her background spans from working as a bartender in London and an auxiliary nurse in Australia to being a financial analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank and Norsk Hydro. She has written several crime fiction books.
Chris Tvedt
Here Comes the Night
Number of pages: 368
Year of publication: 2025
Chris Tvedt is finally back with a new Edvard Matre crime novel.
Edvard Matre has left Kripos and returned to everyday crime in Bergen. But when Court of Appeal Judge August Welde is found chained to a radiator and beaten to death, the case draws massive attention and is described as an attack on the rule of law.
Welde was known as a strict judge with a past as a tough prosecutor. As a result, there is no shortage of suspects – many with serious criminal backgrounds. A likely perpetrator eventually emerges, but Edvard is far from convinced they’ve found the right person.
No one wants to speak ill of the dead, but Edvard begins to suspect that the motive for the murder may be something entirely different from what they’ve considered so far. The deeper he digs into August Welde’s past, the more disturbing events come to light.
Edvard Matre has his flaws – both as an investigator and as a person – but he never gives up until he uncovers the truth, even if it means stepping over dead bodies.
CHRIS TVEDT (b. 1954) is a crime fiction author from Bergen, Norway. A former lawyer with a background in law and literature, he is best known for his award-winning series featuring attorney Mikael Brenne. Tvedt won the Riverton Prize in 2010 and has also written a trilogy starring Kripos investigator Edvard Matre.
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