JP/Politiken Publishers 2013 catalogue

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CONTENTS FICTION Jussi Adler-Olsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 A. J. Kazinski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 Jesper Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky . . . . . . . . . . 10-11 Morten Sabroe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13 Erik Valeur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15 Peter Tudvad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17 Anders R. Klarlund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Jens Henrik Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Thomas Rathsack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21 NON-FICTION / COOKBOOK Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Scandinavian Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 LCHF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS JP/Politiken Publishers is one of the largest Danish publishing houses of trade books and the home of Politikens Forlag, Jyllands-Postens Forlag, and Ekstra Bladets Forlag.

The publication line includes fiction, children's books, non-fiction, current affairs, documentary and travel guides. The publishing house also runs a fullstore bookshop in Copenhagen.

The company is owned by one of the largest Danish media-houses, JP/Politiken Newspapers Ltd., with three leading newspapers, local newspapers, book publishers, television production and digital activities. www.politikensforlag.dk

The 5:2 diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Anti-age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Eat your way out of the menopause . . . . . . . . . 27 The world’s best diet I + II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The world’s healthiest mother and child. . . . . . . 29 Paleo – Eat in harmony with your DNA . . . . . . 30 The paleo diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Cooking with liquorice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Serving up game. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 CHILDREN'S BOOKS Norse gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-35 Tiberius Scaredycat doesn’t play with girls . . . . . . . 36 Faith, hope and gorgonzola . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Little Allan the human antenna . . . . . . . . . . 38 Little Allan at the doppelganger school . . . . . . . 39

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P LEASE CON TACT Nya Guldberg Foreign Rights Manager E-mail: nya.guldberg @ jppol.dk Tel.: +45 30 38 28 40

Rudi Urban Rasmussen Literary Agent E-mail: rudi.u.rasmussen @ jppol.dk Tel.: +45 20 89 31 88

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THE MARCO EFFECT – VOL. 5 ‘The most boring day in the world’, a newspaper called the day of April 11, 1954. But for the boy Marco it was the day that delivered the worst thing that could ever happen to him: the birth of his uncle Zola. Decades later, Zola coldly and cynically destroys and abuses people and forces the members of his clan into crime.

JOURNAL 64 – VOL. 4 Until only 40 years ago “maladjusted” or simply unlucky Danish women were deported to a little island where malice, mistreatment and torture-like methods were employed to maintain order. Nete Hermansen came here and was also able to escape – or so she thought. The day the past caught up with her became the start of one of Department Q’s most complicated cases.

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE – VOL. 3 In Scotland, a bottle was forgotten on a windowsill for a long, long time. Inside was a barely readable note; the only two things that were certain were that the first word was the Danish word for HELP and that it was written in blood. Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad find themselves drawn into a scary case of cults and disappearing siblings.

THE PHEASANT KILLERS – VOL. 2 In 1987, a brother and sister are found brutally killed in a summer house. The police investigation suggests that the killer is to be found within a group of young boarding-school pupils from some of the wealthiest families in the country. But the evidence is not strong enough and the case is shelved until one of the suspects turns himself in and confesses that he is responsible for the killings.

THE WOMAN IN THE CAGE – VOL. 1 On a beautiful winter's day the young, progressive politician Merete Lynggaard disappears without a trace. The media are all over the story with their headlines suggesting anything from murder and suicide to a planned voluntary disappearance. The police immediately commence a large-scale investigation, alas with no result. Carl Mørck, the deputy detective superintendent who has been through a lot in his time, is put in charge of the new department for "cases of special focus".

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A B O U T T H E AU T H O R The first four volumes in the crime thriller series about Department Q: The Woman in the Cage, The Pheasant Killers, Message in a Bottle, and Journal 64 have made Jussi AdlerOlsen one of the most popular and widely-read authors both in Denmark and abroad.

To this day, the series has sold over 1,200,000 copies in Denmark alone. The series about Department Q is made up of very different individual novels, but together they tell a comprehensive story about the main characters. The series have been sold for publication in over 30 countries and in many places printed in astronomical numbers of copies.

The film rights have been bought by Zentropa, who are preparing to start filming. The previous books in the series have won The Golden Laurels (De Gyldne Laurbær), The Readers’ Book Prize (Læsernes Bogpris), The Harald Mogensen Award and The Glass Key to name a few, as well as a number of awards in other countries.

T HE COMPANY BASHER The wealthy, cynical businessman Peter de Boer is head of a firm in Holland which specializes in bringing down major corporations. He hires the exotic Nicky Landsaat as a marketingtrainee and soon he profits from the ambitious woman. Trouble starts when the Iraqi intelligence service wants him to bring down a great Western corporation.

THE WASHINGTON DECREE On the night of the American presidential election the wife of the Democratic frontrunner, Governor Bruce Jansen is assasinated. Suddenly, the US is in a position where its new president will do whatever it takes to change the American society – immediately and at any cost.

Doggie Rogers, the governor’s trusted employee, is in the middle of it all when Jansen’s controversial decree, cancelling American citizens’ constitutional rights, is passed and all hell breaks loose.

T HE ALP HABET HO USE During World War II, two British pilots, James and Bryan, are shot down over Germany. They know that they will be executed if taken hostage. Pursued

by German dog patrols, they manage to escape by jumping on to a German hospital train transporting mentally deranged German SS-officers away from the front.

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ABOU T THE BOOK Having recently been fired from her job as a journalist for one of Denmark’s major newspapers, Eva Katz’s life has stalled. She is 35 years old and lives in a fixer-upper – with a devastating grief she can’t share with anyone.

When she is offered a job at a kindergarten, she thinks of it as a fresh start in life. But in the meeting with a five year old boy Eva’s life is turned upside down, as she begins to suspect that the boy has been witness to the gruesome murder of a family member. The boy won’t talk about it, and since the authorities have written it off as suicide, Eva follows the only clues she has: a child’s crude drawing and the fact that the little boy comes from an unusual family. His mother is the Danish Crown

Princess’s lady-in-waiting and the little boy has the run of the royal household.

It gradually dawns on Eva that the crime implicates the Danish royal family – and can be traced back to a 200 year old society that is still actively trying to reinstate monarchs across Europe.

A Holy Alliance is a thoroughly researched, fast paced thriller about the war between democracy and monarchy. It takes the reader behind the Disney façade of Europe’s royal families and exposes them for what they are: a large, powerful family, tied together by intermarriage, that wages war to maintain and increase its privileges.

T H E AU T H O R S A.J. Kazinski is the pseudonym of authors Anders Rønnow Klarlund and Jacob Weinreich. A.J. Kazinski is also the author of the international bestseller The Last Good Man (2010) and Sleep and Death (2012). The Last Good Man was awarded the Danish Crime Academy’s Prize for First Time Novelists in 2010 and won the prestigious French award, Prix Relay, in 2011.

Foreign publishers include: Brazil / Editora Aláude Finland / Otava France / J. C. Lattés Germany / Heyne Verlag Greece / Livanis Hungary / Animus Publishing Iceland / Bjatur Bókaforlag Italy / Longanesi

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Japan / Hayakawa Norway / Norsk Gyldendal Poland / Wydawnictwo Amber Romania / Trei Publishing Russia / Corpus Books South Korea / NEO LAB Spain / Ediciones B Sweden / Forum The Netherlands / De Geus

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A B O U T “ S LEEP A N D D E AT H ”

“Entertaining and exciting.

It’s well-written and linguistically imaginative, with a touch of pastiche perfectly suited to the Gothic storyline!”

– Information

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”Kazinski narrates exuberantly and intensely… He actually succeeds to juggle soul and sorrow, life and seeking, without losing grip of reality, suspense, or nerve. And that is really well done.”

– Ekstra Bladet

”One of the most interesting Danish suggestions for a new departure within a genre that seems to flood the market … Death introduces all crime novels. And sleep is what you will probably lack of once you begin reading this novel.”

– Kulturkapellet.dk

★★★★

”It is penned elegantly and scarily exciting, and even has a foundation course in Greek philosophy incorporated.”

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– Berlingske Tidende

★★★★★

”…a really breathtaking crime novel. Besides a superior compositional technique, relevant character sketches, a high speed narrating, and a plot in which the reader gets helplessly caught, it furthermore provides intellectual vitamins.”

– Flensborg Avis

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J E S P ER S T EI N

BYE BYE BLACKBIRD

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Foreign publishers include: The Netherlands / De Geus Iceland / Draumsyn Germany / Kiepenheuer & Witsch Italy / Marsilio Sweden / Norstedts Norway / Schibsted

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Specifications 368 pages June 2013

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POLITIKEN

”Axel Steen is a sceptic by the grace of God, he listens to jazz and has an Egon Schieleposter on his wall; he loves and hates with a violent intensity, is full of longing for women and of love to his daughter. He is a bully, but a bully full of cracks (…) With his poetic pen Jesper Stein knows how to make him a real, reflective human being.”

JYLLANDS-POSTEN

”Exceeding linguistically and well-turned and realistic. So no worries folks, the crime novel of the summer holiday is here (...) Even more fit and ambitious than the predecessor.”

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”Solid psychological depth and a thorough knowledge of the topography of Nørrebro and life as it enfolds itself here do not only make ”Bye Bye Blackbird” a relevant crime novel, it also makes it first class realistic contemporary literature.”

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”With his second Nørrebro-blues about the death-fearing and weed-smoking police officer Axel Steen, Jesper Stein proves himself to be one of the best crime writers in the country - a must-bring-part of this year’s summer luggage.“ ABOU T THE BOOK Bye Bye Blackbird is a brutal Copenhagen thriller about victims, perpetrators, punishment, vigilance and the worst kind of crimes: murder and rape. As its predecessor Unrest it takes place in a contemporary setting in Nørrebro Copenhagen anno 2008. The enfant terrible of the homicide department, the loner and workaholic Axel Steen with the restless heart and the violent temper. In Bye Bye Blackbird we get closer to him as a person. A part of his painful past is revealed and we follow his struggle to shed himself of a lost love in the meeting with a new and demanding woman, whose attitude to life has fatal consequences for Axel’s handling of a new case. Axel Steen receives a call from the past, when a rape investigation shows that the unidentified perpetrator was also behind the Blackbird case, an unsolved sexual murder of a young high school graduate that shocked Copenhagen in 2004. Now – four years later – Axel has the chance to solve the case that cost him his marriage and almost broke him. It soon becomes apparent that more cases are connected to the current one, but have never been linked before due to sloppy police work, errors

and mistrust of the rape victims. But Axel Steen sees the pattern. The hunt begins for a sadistic and cynical serial rapist and killer that haunts the neighbourhood of Nørrebro. Axel Steen, brought to his knees by a conflict over his visitation rights to see his child and an escalating weed addiction, goes further than ever before in his attempt to bring the perpetrator to justice. In this endeavour he will come up against his new boss, who now shares his ex-wife’s bed, and the mistakes of his past that made her leave him.

T H E AU T H O R Jesper Stein has spent ten years as a legal and crime reporter in Copenhagen. Author of the 2008 bestseller ‘You Hunt a Beast and Catch a Human’, which sold 30,000 copies, the biography of the leader of Unit One – Denmark’s answer to the FBI. As a journalist, Jesper Stein has travelled the world, covering wars in the Balkans in the ’90s and famine in Africa. Bye Bye Blackbird is the second book in the series about Axel Stein. The first, Unrest, is sold to six countries and has sold more than 40,000 copies in Denmark since first published.

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A N N E - C AT H R I N E R I EB N I TZ S KY

SLAUGH T ERED P IGS

★★ ★ ★ ★ – A LT for damerne

[Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky] holds the language as well as the material to become a Danish Kerstin Ekman (…)

Riebnitzsky can write so you do not even notice it and this is a huge compliment. The sensations of childhood, the unspoken premonitions, the trembling fear, the exact choreographed situation; the author masters it all.

– Weekendavisen

♥♥♥♥ „Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky is a skilled narrator, keeping the readers’ attention with a cruel family drama (…) a novel intended to be devoured and shocked by.“ – Politiken

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Winner of Politiken’s Novel of the Year Award 2013 A story about travelling far and still being caught

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”A gripping read. (…) A story about all the things that makes life worth living, from the gentle Danish summer-nature to the life-confirming basic relations of love and friendship. The horror of the family does not necessarily lead to perdition, but no doubt the cost to gain the opposite can be immense.“ – Jyllands-Posten

”It is quite understandable that Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky won Politiken’s competition with her novel ”Slaughtered Pigs” (…) Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky has written a shocking and inescapable novel, that combines the close and the global perspective and it turns out they both contain – Dagbladenes Bureau monstrosities.”

ABOU T THE BOOK On the plane back from Afghanistan, Lisa sits down next to Andreas, the doctor. She has decided to tell him her life story. It is the story of a robbery, a perfectly planned death and a little sister who wants to kill herself; of a mother who cries too much and a father who hits. A story about travelling far away and still being trapped. But it is also the story of four inseparable siblings, of love and the will to survive.

Slaughtered Pigs is a brutal and poetic novel about a woman’s struggle to come to terms with her past and just maybe get a chance to find love. Winner of Politiken’s Novel of the Year Award 2013.

T H E AU T H O R Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky was born in 1974 and graduated from Copenhagen’s Writer’s School in 1998. Having

completed her Foreign Language Officer training in Moscow in 2003, she worked at, the Danish Embassy in Russia, before being sent to Afghanistan in 2007, first as a soldier and then as a Foreign Ministry advisor. In 2010 she was awarded the Anders Lassen Award for “significant military and civilian achievements during deployment in 2007 and 2008”.

Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky’s first book was ‘The Women’s War’ (2010), a documentary about her work with Afghan women. The book was shortlisted for Weekendavisen’s Literature Prize in 2010. In 2012, she published her first novel, ‘The Stolen Road’, for which she was awarded BogForum’s Prize for First Time Authors. It was also nominated for Weekendavisen’s Literature Prize and for Danish Radio’s Novel of the Year Award.

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MORTEN SABROE

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”Morten Sabroe’s novel is bloody good, almost movielike literature that cartoonishly plays with the cultural symbols of the Western world. (…) The characters live and breathe as if they were moving images on a movie reel.”

– Weekendavisen

PRAISE FOR ’US’

★★★★★ – Jyske Medier

A formidable novel. A story that oozes suspense and drama (…)

US is a contemporary novel, unravelling the life we strive for and the dreams we have (…) There is plenty of humour in the novel since Sabroe possesses the gift of wittiness.”

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– Nordjyske Stiftstidende

”The novel is a tour de force, like an American skyscraper (…)

A multifaceted thriller of rare quality.”

★★★★ – Jyllands-Posten

”Present are the crescendos bursting with energy, which are always to be found in Sabroe’s prose (…) Then there is the sex and lasciviousness, powerful men throwing spectacular parties, while their cheating and subdued wives read The Great Gatsby in their boudoirs, hate and revenge – and love.”

– www.litteratursiden.dk ”Morten Sabroe writes well and with recklessness. US is elementary thrilling as an entity fascinating and scary and it is very difficult to put aside. I am excited about this well-written novel, which has a drive, a violence and an intensity like a crime story.”

– Politiken “This critical satire Sabroe mixes with a melodramatic and violent thriller about fraternal rifts, fatherly failures, vigilantism, destruction of the male, and sex at the inappropriate time and place.”

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ABOU T THE BOOK John William Harding returns to his hometown Us to reconcile with his brother, whom he failed miserably and deserted ten years ago. His daughter Jackie longingly awaits the return of Robert who has lost both his legs as a soldier in Afghanistan, and who the town is preparing to welcome home as a hero at the train station in Us. But Robert is not on the train, and as a result, the fragile foundations the town rests on begin to crumble, and the dark secrets buried beneath it begins to emerge.

“It started with that TV-reporter lady that asked Harding about the missing girls. Then there were the photos of the baby that someone put up all over town. In the photo the baby was smiling and its eyes were open, it looked alive. But many of us thought that this couldn’t be right. That something terrible had happened, because it wasn’t alive, you see. And then when that thing happened to Harding and the others, people got scared.

Whoever did that, would be someone seriously twisted.

You didn’t know whether someone like that would completely lose it and take it out on even more people.

And then it was like a cattle stampede. You know, if one gets spooked and runs away in a blind panic, the rest will just follow. Why the hell isn’t this traffic moving? We’ve been stuck here for five hours, has there been an accident further up the road? Is that it? Or is it that soldier with no legs who’s up there stopping all the cars? Is it? Is it him?”

Citizen trying to leave Us talking to the TV-News, July 22nd 2011.

T H E AU T H O R Morten Sabroe (born 1947) is a journalist and the author of more than 20 books. The bestseller Du som er i himlen sold 50,000 copies.

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T H E SEVENT H CH I LD

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Seventh Child “A novel so good that you’ll look forward to reading it again.”

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★★★★★ “Erik Valeur’s gripping and dramatic debut novel... is phenomenal!”

– Berlingske Tidende

★★★★★ “Seldom have I read a book put together like such an exquisitely intricate mosaic as this first novel.”

– Nordjyske Stiftstidende

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ABOU T THE BOOK At birth the seven children have only two things in common: They all come into the world in Maternity Ward B at the National Hospital in Copenhagen, and they are all given up for adoption. In the following months, the women who run Kongslund, the famed orphanage, find new families for the children in different parts of Denmark. They grow up without the slightest clue about their past.

Many years later an anonymous letter is sent to a down-andout journalist at a failing newspaper. The letter reveals that one of the seven children carries a secret, and someone has done everything possible to keep that secret hidden. When the story goes public, it brings about explosive consequences.

Could it be that for the past fifty years the prestigious orphanage has been covering up the love affairs of wealthy and famous Danes, hiding scandalous liaisons that took place at the highest levels of society?

The seven adopted children, now adults, are swept up in the search to uncover their past. At the same time, they are desperately trying to figure out which of them is the seventh child, and what could be the nature of the secret that person holds.

The Seventh Child is the story of how this mystery is unraveled – and about the bond between the seven children, whose lives end up inextricably linked during the decades when the social welfare system was established in Denmark, from the 1960s until the present.

T H E AU T H O R Erik Valeur (born 1955) is a highly acknowledged Danish journalist working for newspapers, TV and radio. He and his colleagues have twice received the Cavling Prize. In 1994, he was awarded the Publicistklubben Prize, and in both 1994 and 1999, he won the Kryger Prize. He is the author of several works of non-fiction.

“Entertaining and exciting. It’s well written and linguistically imaginative, with a touch of pastiche perfectly suited to the Gothic storyline!” Information Russia / AST-RELease South Korea / Hyunbaemunhak Spain / Maeva Sweden / Forum Germany / Blanvalet WER / Amazon Crossing

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THE CURSE

”A masterpiece” ★★★★★

– Berlingske “A masterpiece … Tudvad has given new life to him [Kierkegaard] and made him present as a person and as one of the world’s greatest thinkers.”

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– Politiken

”This novel is impressing, voluminous and filled with insight, a beautiful fruit of a lifelong passion for this material”

★★★★ – Nordjyske Stiftstidende

“A big, insightful work.”

”Tudvad is so infatuated in Kierkegaard that he manages to understand him well. He has enough madness to contain this mad man, and at the same time he is doubtful and ironic so he can hold a reflective distance to the suffering Søren.”

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ABOUT THE BOOK The Curse is the dramatic story of Søren Kierkegaard, the brilliant and mad master thinker, whose passionate focus on the “single individual” and the necessity to “imitate Christ” revolutionised philosophy and shook theology to its core. In the tradition of Dostoyevsky and Kafka, The Curse places its main character in a universe where crime and punishment, sin and mercy constantly fluctuate between reality and illusion, so the reader is dragged into Kierkegaard’s meditations and takes part in his existential battle with God and humanity.

In this respect The Curse is a theological novel, but also it provides a psychological portrait of a human who with tragic pathos put heaven and earth in motion in order to find the truth he could live and die for. Kierkegaard’s opponents, Bishop Mynster and Professor Martensen, his unhappy love for Regine, his brother Peter, and his friend Emil are represented together with many other characters in this great tale of veneration

and perversion, murder and perjury, the falsification of the gospel by the church – and of a shepherd boy’s fateful cursing of God. T H E AU T HOR Peter Tudvad (born 1966) holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy with subsidiary studies in Theology and Political Science. He has worked at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre Foundation at Copenhagen University and has written several books on Kierkegaard, amongst others the critically acclaimed Kierkegaard’s Copenhagen (2004) and the scandal-ridden Stages on the Road of Antisemitism: Søren Kierkegaard and the Jews (2010).

Further he has written the documentary bestseller Nurse in the Third Reich (2009) and translated various books on World War II. The Curse is his first novel.

“A tour de force. As a hybrid between a novel and a biography this book demands a lot of its readers, but it is worth all the efforts.”

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ABOU T THE BOOK It’s a winter evening in 1979.The boy tells the police what he saw: a car ran over his father. The people in the car did it on purpose; they drove up on the sidewalk to run him over. And then they backed up and drove off, he says.

No one believes the boy, who is ten years old. They tell him it must have been a drunk driver, that the street was slippery, a lot of people lose control of cars in snow that high.

The boy visits his father at the hospital. His father insists on talking to him in private, and he bequeaths to his son a verse.

It’s a type of oath – a promise his son must keep. A promise that he gave to his own father, a promise that has been given through generations, as far back as anyone can remember, always from father to son. A promise to stand on Mt. Washington in the U.S. on October 3rd, 2000, at dawn. Then his father dies.

My beloved unborn child, this is the story of why I left you.

T H E AU T H O R Anders R. Klarlund (b. 1971) is one half of the A.J. Kazinski moniker with whom he has written two bestselling novels, The Last Good Man (2010) and Sleep and Death (2012).

A.J. Kazinski is currently sold to 17 countries. Mr. Klarlund is a former film director and scriptwriter. He has directed five feature films, including Strings, which was sold across the world, and his last, The Secret Society of Fine Arts. He debuted as an author in 2009 with a partly autobiographical novel, The Affectionates, in which he murders his film director self.

Why I Left is his second novel.

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Twenty years later, the boy is now a man to whom life has not been kind. He’s in a European prison, an ocean away from his destination. His woman waits outside the prison. She’s pregnant, only a few weeks away from giving birth. And a few weeks from when he must be on the mountain at daybreak. But if he flees prison and enters the U.S. illegally, he may never see his child.

Who knows, he could be shot trying to escape, drown on his way across the Atlantic, freeze to death on the mountain. But he must

go – he has to find out who killed his father on that winter night and what lies behind that cryptic oath, why Europe’s dark history has chosen him and his family to play a special role. He’s not a man who has wasted his life on long speeches and fine words.

But now he needs them. Words. If he must leave the one he loves and his unborn child, he has to explain to them why.

The night before he breaks out, he begins his story.

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“A milestone in Danish crimelitterature.”

– Jyske Medier

H A DEATH NGDOGS THE SLEEP AND THE ABOUT THE BOOK The most highly decorated soldier in Denmark’s history, Niels Oxen, scrapes through life in a gritty neighbourhood of Copenhagen. Hoping to escape his inner demons, the retired Elite Soldier relocates to Northern Jutland together with his dog, setting up camp deep in Rold Forest in a bid to live the simple life. But the dream turns into a nightmare for Niels Oxen. After a night-time visit to a medieval castle on the edge of the forest, he is suspected of the murder of the castle’s owner, a former ambassador and founder of an influential think tank.The Danish Security and Intelligence Service appears remarkably quickly, and before the pressured war veteran has time to blink, he has been sucked into the investigation of a string of mysterious murders. Murders that seemingly only have one thing in common: hanged dogs… The unorthodox Intelligence agent Margrethe Franck assists Oxen. Deliberate omissions of the truth and a general mistrust makes their partnership extremely difficult, but slowly they fall into step in the hunt for the murderers, even as the motive for the crime remains completely in the dark.

Hangdogs is the first volume in a new series featuring the traumatised war veteran Niels Oxen. The first three volumes in the series have individual story lines – but are tied together by an overreaching plot: the veteran’s struggle for rehabilitation, and his battle with a secret power elite that have roots stretching all the way back to the Danes Court, the medieval Danish parliament.

T H E AU T HOR Jens Henrik Jensen, writer and journalist, entered the literary scene with his trilogy Kællingen i Krakow (1997), Hofnarren i Murmansk (1999) and Ulven i Banja Luka (2002). Following his break-through, Jens Henrik Jensen embarked on his much acclaimed trilogy about DI Nina Portland. A number of Jens Henrik Jensen’s books have been sold for publication in Sweden, Norway, Germany and Italy.

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“… adept and entertaining, delivered in Jens Henrik Jensen’s solid style.” – Politiken

★★★★★ Photo: Red Star Photo

“... you have to remind yourself it IS only a story, isn’t it?” – Jydske Vestkysten

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“There has probably never been written a Danish thriller on the level that Jens Henrik Jensen delivers with Hangdogs.” – Jyske Medier 19

THOMAS RATHSACK B L AC K DA DAW N

A Danish professor of microbiology and his daughter appear to have died in an accident while on diving holiday in northern Kenya, near the Somali border. By chance, the Danish Defence Intelligence Service discovers that the two may still be alive, kidnapped by Al Qaeda and the Somali allies of the terrorist organisation, Al Shabaab, and held in an unknown location in Somalia.

The professor is forced to build a biological weapon containing a deadly virus, meant to be detonated in a major European city. Thousands of lives are at stake and panic is spreading in Danish and foreign intelligence circles.

Special Forces soldier Michael Plessner is put on the case and his mission is clear: go in with a handpicked Special Forces team, free the Danish hostages and prevent Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab from carrying out their planned terrorist attack.

In a frantic race against the clock, Michael Plessner and his men secretly infiltrate deep into Somalia with the help of a local militia, and once more Michael Plessner has to face his nemesis, Al Qaeda’s top terrorist Mohammed Jamal Azzam.

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Meanwhile the fate of the two missing Danes unfolds.

One turns out to be playing a very unexpected role in a cynical and calculating conspiracy. Black Dawn is the second book about Michael Plessner and his team.

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THE AU THOR Thomas Rathsack (born 1967), a former sergeant in the royal Guards, joined The Royal Danish special operation force, Jaegerkorpset, in 1990. He subsequently participated in a number of special operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2009 he wrote Jaeger — At War with the Elite, which sold more than 100,000 copies in Denmark and sparked the biggest scandal within the Danish Defense Ministry in recent times.

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CARST EN ELLEGAARD CHRIST ENSEN, ORLA BORG, MICHAEL HOLBEK JENSEN

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STORM

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”...a regular page-turner filled with shades and exciting perspectives.”

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★★ ★ ★ ★ – FYENS STIF TSTIDENDE

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”Great insight, great narrative skills and great delight in telling ... the book offers a merciless peek into extreme environments that are hermetically closed to most.”

★★★★ – V EJ LE A M T S F O LKEB LA D

”’Storm’ is a both fascinating and frightening story.”

”The book is entertaining and yet a proof that no drama is bigger than that of real life.”

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”A valuable and thoroughly readable narrative in a unadorned and very little sensationalist language“ – KRIST ELIGT DAGBLAD

”The story deserves to be read keeping in mind that hardly anyone can come up with the stories Storm tells the journalists.”

– I N F O R M AT I O N

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LARS HALSKOV

S CA N D I N AV I A N S TAR

SCANDINAVIAN STAR ABOU T THE BOOK The arson aboard the ship the Scandinavian Star the night of 7th April 1990 is Scandinavia’s biggest unsolved crime. 159 people lost their lives in the blaze. 23 years on, it is still unclear who set fire to the ship and why. Was the conflagration started by a pyromaniac as claimed by the authorities? Or are the perpetrators to be found among unscrupulous ship owners and their cronies in the ship’s crew? The case has never been fully investigated, provoking endless theories and speculation. This book aims to tell the definitive story of the Scandinavian Star tragedy, as accurately as is possible in a documentary report. Previous books on the subject of the fire have been more narrowly concerned with specific aspects of the case or with technical descriptions of the many details of the original investigation. Scandinavian Star gives us the whole story from beginning to end.

The manuscript will be ready for translation December 2014 and will be published in Denmark April 2015 (in time for the 25th anniversary of the disaster).

Many survivors and relatives of victims have asked themselves whether the ship was set on fire in an attempt to pocket insurance money. $24 million was eventually paid out to the American company SeaEscape, who were the registered owners of the ship at the time of the fire, although a Danish company claimed that they had only recently bought the ship from the Americans.

As a consequence, the Danish business man Henrik Johansen was convicted for negligence with regard to safety procedures on-board together with the ship’s captain, Hugo Larsen, and shipping director Ole B. Hansen, in 1993.

For survivors and relatives it remains a mystery why the courts considered Henrik Jansen to be the sole owner of the ship, when the insurance money was paid to the company SeaEscape. The truth is that the ownership issues surrounding the Scandinavian Star were never fully cleared.

The story regularly features in the media in all the Nordic countries, whenever new information that could help solve the mystery emerges. Survivors and relatives of victims have recently asked for a pan-Scandinavian commission to be set up to investigate the matter fully. Former Norwegian police attorney Nicolai Bjønness, who conducted the original criminal investigation and fire specialist Kjell Schmidt Pedersen, who headed the fire investigation team, support this request, in view of the fact that the case was never solved and that new information, which seriously undermines the official explanation, has come to light. The authorities of Norway, Denmark and Sweden have so far refused to reopen the case.

T H E AU T H O R Lars Halskov, 49, is an author and journalist. Since 1996 he has worked for Politiken, Denmark’s largest newspaper, where he has focused on investigative and narrative journalism. He covered the mystery of the arson aboard the Scandinavian Star for the paper. Lars Halskov is the author of three critically acclaimed documentary titles: Condemned Spring – The War in Kosovo (2000) together with Kim Faber, The Ship that Disappeared (2009) with Morten Halskov and A Country at War (2012), with Jacob Svendsen.

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LCHF – EAT YOUR WAY TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

ABOU T THE BOOK LCHF – Eat Your Way To Health and Happiness is a book for those who are tired of mood swings, sugar cravings, poor appetite regulation, and losing weight only to gain it back again. It is for people who would like to lose weight, but also for people who might not need to lose any weight, but who suffer from inexplicable fatigue, inner restlessness and lack of energy during the day. It is also for anybody tired of having to watch and count calories, and who longs for a life where the focus isn’t on food all the time. With LCHF you can eat your fill of delicious food with a clean conscience while gaining a new, healthy lifestyle with the added benefit of greater well-being.

The LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) means that you should avoid foods that contain many carbohydrates but few natural fats. When you eat LCHF you turn the food pyramid, as we know it, upside down and eat lots of good proteins, heaps of vegetables, natural fats from meat, butter, oils and full fat dairy products supplemented with small quantities of nuts and berries – while at the same time eating less bread, pasta and rice.

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This will affect your general health immediately. You will, in all probability, get rid of the extra weight, feel more vigorous and gain other health benefits. In Denmark, Jane Faerber, who is well known on the internet for her very popular blog madbanditten.dk, has lived by the principles of LCHF for many years and has felt the array of health benefits on her own body. Now she passes on her experiences in this book. Here the reader is given a thorough introduction to the concept of LCHF along with 70 tasty recipes to get started straight away on eating according to the LCHF principles.

T H E AU T H O R Jane Faerber is 35 years old, holds a M. A. in French and Rhetoric and has worked in the field of media for many years.

She ate herself away from stomach cramps and mood swings by changing her diet to LCHF. She has created the blog madbanditten.dk where she writes about LCHF. LCHF – Eat Your Way to Health and Happiness is her first book.

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ABOU T THE BOOK The impressive benefits of eating less just two days a week has taken the world by storm.

Danish nutritional therapist Louise Bruun and Birdie Bjerregaard has several years’ experience of working with the 5:2 diet, which is based on the simple principle of eating normally 5 days a week and fasting for 2 nonconsecutive days. Fasting involves limiting your calorie intake – 600 calories per day for men and 500 calories for women. In this book, Bruun and consultant Birdie Bjerregaard offer concrete advice and a host of delicious recipes to help you get started with a diet that will make you slimmer, healthier and fitter.

LOUISE BRUUN, BIRDIE BJERREGAARD

SLIM AND HEALTHY WITH 5:2 65 RECIPES FOR FASTING DAYS

A N T I - AG I N G F O R T H E B O DY SUND & SLANK

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The book provides an uncomplicated introduction to the principles behind the diet and follows four people as they try out the 5:2 approach. The participants undergo a series of tests that reveal how their health improves week by week. The effect of the 5:2 diet is astounding. It has been shown that reducing your calorie intake just two days a week helps you lose body fat, lowers your cholesterol levels and invigorates your brain. The diet also helps prevent cancer and reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and diabetes. In this book, Louise Bruun and Birdie Bjerregaard guide you through a 6-week course, which will help you adjust to fasting. In addition, Slim and Healthy with 5:2 contains a large number of scrumptious recipes for meals containing 500 and 600 calories respectively, making fasting days easy to cope with.

T H E AU T H O R S Louise Bruun is a nutritional therapist, life coach and personal trainer. She has many years’ experience of working with people to improve their health according to their individual needs and backgrounds. Birdie Bjerregaard is a television producer and consultant with a burning desire to increase our understanding of diet and health, and thereby change people’s lives for the better.

5 DAGE SPISER DU NORMALT 2 DAGE FASTER DU LET

ANTI-AGING FOR KROPPEN Af Birdie Bjerregaard & Louise Bruun

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MARIE LOUISE VON SPERLING

ANTI-AGE

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ABOUT THE BOOK Anti-Age is a book about looking after yourself, your skin and your body. Wrinkles are not the only sign of aging. Loss of elasticity and glow, uneven pigmentation and inflammations are also on the list of age-related skin problems. But you can do something about all this and more! Anti-Age provides you with an anti-aging plan that will make you look younger, healthier and more beautiful.

Each chapter unveils the secrets behind the anti-aging plan, helps you look after your body and teaches you how to optimise your age, inside and out. Following the anti-aging plan reduces signs of aging, leaving you looking at least 10 years younger. The question is not whether you want to look younger and better, feel healthier and give your skin strength and glow, but how quickly you want to achieve these things!

Lose

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of your age

THE AU THOR Marie Louise von Sperling received her medical degree from the University of Copenhagen in 2007. She has worked with plastic surgery since 2009 and is in the process of completing her specialty training in the field. While attending medical school, von Sperling worked as a personal trainer and nutritionist and today she runs AESTHETICA, a clinic specialising in wrinkle and facial treatments.

A N T I - AG E G I V ES YO U T H E N EW ES T S C I EN T I F I C F I N D I N G S O N: • Skin care and wrinkle treatments that work, giving your skin a youthful glow

• Cosmetic treatments such as peeling, laser therapy, mesotherapy, botox and fillers • What to eat to maintain or get a beautiful, slim body and supple skin

• What kind of exercise works best for you on your way to your dream body • Cosmetic surgery – pros and cons

• How to prevent the pitfalls of aging and keep your body healthy and beautiful throughout life.

In addition to cutting-edge science and the tools to remove unseemly signs of aging and look after yourself and your body, Anti-Age contains a number of interviews with the country’s best plastic surgeons, who share their views on aesthetics.

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MIKAEL BITSCH, SØREN LANGE AND METTE BENDER

EAT YOUR WAY OU T OF THE MENOPAUSE

ABOU T THE BOOK Yes, you can eat your way away from hot flashes, sleeping trouble and many of the other nuisances that can accompany this stage of life. The food in this book is designed for women in the middle of life. With this book in hand you can avoid hormone therapy and instead learn how to include a series of elements in your diet, to eat your way out of your symptoms. A healthy and vegetablerich diet filled with plant oestrogen, vitamins, protein and other healthy elements is the answer. Plant oestrogen is a natural component of specific foods that fills in for oestrogen the body might be lacking and brings balance to a hormone system in turmoil.

Advice and recipes focus on how to support and edify the body in the best possible way. This book is a manual that shows how you can feel much better by adding special ingredients to your teas, smoothies and meals. All this, without any side effects. The book contains recipes along with lists and plans for how you can change your diet step by step. You will find special help on how to control hot flashes, get better sleep, and control your weight. There is also help for those who suffer from bad moods, patchy memory, or a lowered sex drive.

T H E AU T H O R S MD and Senior Lecturer Mikael Bitsch works in the fields of communication and education. For many years he has worked with the concept: Food as medicine. Mainly with the documentation of the active biological components of food and its effect on the body, as well as the communication of this knowledge in numerous lectures. Mikael Bitch is also the co-author of the book The Healing Kitchen (Det helbredende køkken) which has sold more than 25,000 copies in Denmark. Nutrition advisor and head chef Søren Lange has researched in and worked with lifestyle, overweight and food as medicine for many years. He possesses great knowledge on the connection between food and health, is a keen lecturer, and continuously works with the development of new foods to promote optimal health. Mette Bender works as a science journalist, she writes on health and psychological subjects as a ghost writer and editor.

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CHRISTIAN BITZ OG ARNE ASTRUP

THE WORLD’S BEST DIET

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– Politiken

conquered their ‘slimming sin’ that had tripped them up in their quest to lose weight for years. They tell of their success with following the dietary rules and the reader gets concrete advice and knowledge that, once and for all, dispel any excuse for not becoming and staying slim.

The sequel to the

bestseller ‘the world’s best diet.’

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T H E WO R LD ’ S B E S T D I E T Information from Diogenes, the world’s largest scientific research project in diet and weight loss, which was headed by Arne Astrup, forms the basis of the dietary principles and recipes in the book. It will help you shed all those unwanted pounds and never put them on again. The unique programme is based on the Nordic cuisine and begins with a detailed four-week meal plan, which guarantees a weight loss of 1-2 kilos (2,2 – 4,4 lbs) a week. After the initial four weeks, you move on to phase two where you cook delicious meals based on the 80 healthy and delicious recipes in the book. Phase two is the lasting lifestyle change, which is essential to a successful and enduring weight loss. The World’s Best Diet is based on very simple principles with documented effect. So you don’t have to worry about calories, extreme nutritional advice or strange foods. You just have to enjoy tasty food, which will make your entire family healthier and slimmer. A book full of balanced facts, and with many juicy recipes this is a healthy weight loss-bible.

T H E WORLD’S BEST DI ET 2 This time, Christian Bitz and Arne Astrup have made a book for those who are dieting on their own. The scientific basis for the book is still Diogenes, the most extensive research study on diet and weight loss ever conducted. The recipes, which are all measured in portions for just one person, are even simpler. VBK 2.0 guarantees a weight loss of 1-2 kilos (2,2-4,4lbs) per week with a 4-week meal plan.

After the initial weight loss, the reader is guided onwards with the more than 80 easy recipes designed to inspire healthier eating and living, which is the foundation of a change of lifestyle. And a lifestyle change is essential to enduring weight loss. Sometimes it takes that little bit extra to reach your ideal weight, but Bitz and Astrup highlight seven ‘slimming sins’ to look out for. The book presents seven formerly overweight people, who have each

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CHRISTIAN BITZ OG ARNE ASTRUP

THE WORLD’S HEALTHIEST MOTHER AND CHILD

AB O U T T H E B O O K A practical guide to having a healthy, harmonious and well-adjusted child. By eating the right food and making sure you get optimal nutrition from your diet, you can help your baby grow strong and healthy in the womb. This helps the child avoid a long line of problems, such as behavioural problems and learning difficulties, ADHD, obesity and allergies. The diet in The World’s Healthiest Child will also help you gain only the pounds you really need and ensure that you lose them again quickly after giving birth. As a side benefit, the risk of suffering pre-eclampsia, diabetes, miscarriage, a Caesarean section and birth complications is reduced and you will be slimmer 6 months after giving birth. There is no argument for not using The World’s Healthiest Mother and Child for planning before, during and after pregnancy. The World’s Healthiest Mother and Child is packed with the newest research, helpful tips, recipes and a simple plan that ensures the best start in life for both mother and child.

Professor of Nutrition and Head of the Department of Human Nutrition at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. He has build up one of the world’s leading obesity research groups and he is no. 5 on the Thomson Reuters list of internationally most productive obesity scientists (H-index: 60). He was the chairman of Danish Nutrition Council 1992-2003, President for International Association for the Study of Obesity 2004-2009, Editor in Chief of Obesity Reviews 1999-2010, and since 2011 he has been Associate Editor of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Christian Bitz is MSc Human Nutrition and is well known in Denmark as, among other things, nutrition expert on the two Danish national stations TV2 and DR. He is head of clinical nutrition research at Herlev Hospital, and has sold more than 15,000 copies of his two books “Bitz Your Health” and “Bitz Your Kitchen”. Bitz has won several prizes, including Danish Innovator of the Year 2011.

T H E AU T HORS Nutritional-experts Christian Bitz and Professor Arne Astrup are two of Denmark’s most experienced experts in the field of weight loss. Arne Astrup is MD, Dr. Med. Sci.,

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THOMAS RODE ANDERSEN & THILDE JO MAABJERG

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PALEO – EAT I N HARMONY WI T H YO UR DNA

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Paleo AB O U T T H E B O O K

Paleo – Eat in harmony with your DNA. Exercise in harmony with your body. In this sequel to gourmet chef Thomas Rode Andersen’s bestseller PALEO, Rode Andersen and his wife Thilde Jo Maarbjerg give readers a scientific explanation why the Paleo diet suits the human body.

And why it helps our bodies function optimally. The point of the Paleo diet is not to go hunting for mammoths and comb nearby forests for blueberries. Rather, it’s all about losing the modern eating habits that ruin our bodies, and focusing instead on healthy, natural food with the right balance of protein, fat and carbohydrates. The book contains 87 new recipes for everyday cooking as well as dinner parties. The dishes are based on meat, fish, fruit and vegetables, helping to keep you healthy, active, beautiful and vigorous. Advice is also given about where, when and how much to exercise to strengthen every part of the body while avoiding strain and injuries.

Option publishers include: Hungary / Scolar Norway / Lille Måne Sweden / Pagina Förlag

Specifications 288 pages October 2013

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THOMAS RODE ANDERSEN & THILDE JO MAABJERG

THE PALEO DIET

cookbook T H E AU T H O R S

Thomas Rode Andersen (b.1968). After completing his education, he worked in Michelin-rated restaurants in Germany and Austria. He was then deputy manager at Danish restaurants Fakkelgården and Falsled Kro before landing his dream job as head chef at Kong Hans Kælder in 1996. In 2008, he began modifying the restaurant’s menu to reflect the healthy way of life to which he himself is committed. Rode Andersen is also the author of I kongens klæ´r (In his Majesty’s Service) and the bestseller Stenalderkost (The Paleo Diet).

Thilde Jo Maarbjerg is the restaurant manager and sommelier of the Kong Hans restaurant and was crowned Best Sommelier by Danish restaurant guide Den danske Spiseguide in 2008.

AB O U T T H E B O O K

Gourmet chef Thomas Rode Andersen sticks religiously to the Paleo diet, avoids pasta, wheat, rice and sugar and exercises in harmony with his body. But how fit is Thomas?

To test this, a scientific screening of Thomas’s health is conducted, the results of which can be found in the book. His cholesterol level, hormone balance and any vitamin, mineral or trace element deficiencies have been measured and he has taken further tests to establish whether there are any genetic weaknesses affecting his dietary requirements, lifestyle or long term health.

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JOHAN BÜLOW

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CO O K I N G W I T H LI Q U O R I C E

Cooking with Liquorice

ABOU T THE BOOK Liquorice, delicious, soft liquorice, has become immensely popular almost overnight, and it obviously tastes great straight out of the package. But liquorice also has unexpected potential as a flavouring in food, and this has quickly become one of the hottest trends in cooking, both among chefs and amateurs. In Cooking with Liquorice, Johan Bülow, the man behind the black quality liquorice that bears his name, reveals the world of indulgence hidden inside the rough and stringy liquorice root, from which liquorice is made – and he explains why liquorice deserves a place in next to pepper and saffron in our spice cupboard. Cooking with Liquorice contains 72 hands-on suggestions on how you can use liquorice in all its forms - liquorice powder, liquorice syrup, liquorice oil and normal liquorice - in both sweet and savoury dishes, without it getting complicated.

T H E AU T H O R Johan Bülow is the director, founder and gastronome of his own company, Lakrids by Bülow, a young, fast-growing Danish enterprise, which has made its mark on the Danish market and already exports to countries like Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands. In Denmark the company’s product can be found in specialty stores – wine shops, design stores and selected hotels – in short, wherever content and design are held in high esteem. Lakrids by Bülow also operates four brand stores in Denmark. In London, Lakrids by Bülow graces the confectionary department of illustrious Harvey Nichols and in New York all products can be found at Chelsea Market.

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SERVI NG UP GAME

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– Fyens Stifstidende

ABOUT THE BOOK Nordic cuisine has created an interest in cooking with ingredients found in nature. More people than ever go hunting and never before have so many of the hunters been women. But how is the game that you’ve proudly brought down yourself or bought from the supermarket best prepared and cooked? Serving Up Game gives you expert advice. Its 75 recipes cover all types of game, such as red deer, hare, boar, pheasant, wood pigeon, woodcock and wild duck, to mention only a few. And it’s not just recipes for fancy dinner parties, Serving Up Game also helps you with ordinary everyday dinners and provides instructions on how to use every part of the animal in your cooking.

Take, for example, the pheasant, that will make three whole meals. The emphasis is not on classical dishes, but on reinterpreted and modern versions with delicious side dishes that complement the strong, deep flavour of the game. Finely honed gastronomic skills are not necessary to enjoy the book as much thought and effort has gone into making the cooking experience simple and straightforward. Comprehensive instructions are provided as well as information about hunting seasons for each kind of game.

The beautiful pictures are the work of one of Denmark’s most prominent food photographers, Columbus Leth.

He has just received the Danish Gastronomical Academy’s honorary award for his efforts to promote gastronomy.

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THE AU THOR Rasmus Grønbech is the owner of Restaurant Grønbech & Churchill.

In 2011 he won Best Wild Game Dish of the year at the wild game cooking competition Årets Vildt and has since been on the judging panel of the annual competition.

In 2012, he was awarded his first Michelin star. Grønbech has always been fascinated by the rich flavour of game and the many options and combinations nature’s pantry offers.

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NORSE GODS

ABOU T THE BOOK Here’s a book that will whisk the readers off to Valhalla. Where the Gods feast after battling with the savage giants of Utgard, where the Valkyries choose the warriors and where Odin roams the halls.

All the exciting, wild, scary and funny stories of Norse mythology are retold in text and pictures, allowing children to discover Viking lore and helping adults to become reacquainted Thor, Odin, Loke and all the other Gods and of course the Jotuns, the Norns and the Vanirs.

First he told us stories from the Bible; now it is time for the Norse mythology!

Meet Thor and Odin and beautiful

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THE AU THOR Sigurd Barrett’s ability to convey difficult subjects to children has garnered him numerous awards. Sigurd’s Bible Stories (Sigurd fortæller Bibelhistorier), has sold more than 80,000 copies in Denmark. Sigurd Barrett is a musician, musicologist, TV host, entertainer and the author of several children’s books and won Children’s Book of the Year in 2010 for Sigurd’s Bible Stories.

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TIBERIUS SCAREDYCAT DOESN’T PLAY WITH GIRLS

Renée Toft Simonsen

Tiberius Tudefjæs

Tiberius Tudefjæs går ikke med piger

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Photo: Sanne Berg

Illustreret af Pernille Lykkegård

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– Ekstra Bladet

ABOU T THE BOOK Tiberius is going on a class trip to look for salamanders, but there is one really annoying problem. The girls are coming too, and Tiberius just won’t play with girls. Girls are stupid and they’re scared of everything. But then there is Clara, of course, who is actually kind of pretty. Suddenly she’s drowning and there is only one person who can save her from the mud. Tiberius Scaredycat doesn’t play with girls is the third book in Renée Toft Simonsen’s series about Tiberius, his father, his teacher Hanne, Little Jeppe and everyone else.

T H E AU T H O R Renée Toft Simonsen is a psychologist and author whose production includes the Karla series which has seen great success in both book and film form. The first book of the series, Karla’s Solitaire, was published in 2003 and the sixth and final book, Karla’s Struggle, in 2011. Tiberius Scaredycat is the first title in a new series for younger children.

T I B ER I U S S C A R ED YC AT N EED S B I G G ER M U S C LE S Tiberius doesn’t want to go to school. Three of the older boys from fifth grade have said they would give him a beating. Well, actually they’ve promised him to give him a double beating, if he snitches to the grownups. That’s why Tiberius is trying to build some proper muscles, to defend himself. But suddenly Little Jeppe wants to be Tiberius’s bodyguard. Little Jeppe who picks his nose and is so annoying that Tiberius kind of wants to try his new muscles on him instead. On the other hand older boys might not be so dangerous if you have a bodyguard.

Even one that picks his nose.

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T I B ER I U S S C A R ED YC AT T ELL S A LI E Tiberius has started school and has been given some properly stupid homework. He’s supposed to draw his family, but how can he when his mother has moved to Argentina with a new man and there’s only him and dad left? Tiberius finds the whole thing mortifying and decides to tell his ginger-haired teacher Hanne and all the other children a lie: he’ll tell them his mother is dead.

But lies are hard to wriggle out of and suddenly Tiberius has shut himself in the school bathroom and refuses to come out.

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LARS DANESKOV

FAITH, HOPE AND GORGONZOLA

★★ ★ ★ ★ “Daneskov knows how to write books for children. It’s as simple as that.” ♥♥♥♥♥

– Ekstra Bladet

“Lars Daneskov knows what he is doing.” – Politiken

Photo: Les Kaner

ABOU T THE BOOK It’s not easy having a mother who dreams of a big, strong man with long arms and a moustache. But having a gumball machine, a cheese bike and a reeking piece of gorgonzola at hand helps. A madcap story about a kidnapping, a pizza guy with really hairy arms, a celebrity in high heels, a father who’s been badly injured dancing the foxtrot – and about how grown-ups are generally quite weird people.

“Lars Daneskov has written a wonderful book that is tremendously entertaining. With humour he tells us a story filled with fun, games and a good deal of earnestness”. – Æseløre

Specifications 152 pages August 2013

T H E AU T H O R Lars Daneskov (born 1963) is the father of four, a journalist and the author of among other titles the bestselling Far på Færde, which has sold more than 40,000 copies and Mummy’s Got A Baby in Her Tummy from 2012.

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PETER FRÖDIN & LINE KNU TZON

LITTLE ALLAN THE HUMAN ANTENNA

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Little Allan

The Human Antenna

ABOU T THE BOOK Little Allan – The Human Antenna is a poetic, melancholic and life-affirming story about a boy trying to find his way in life. Allan lives with his father in a dreary apartment block inhabited by an assortment of odd people. Then out of the blue, the alien Majken with her close-set eyes and a robotic sounding voice shows up in her UFO. Majken has lost her monkey wrench and can’t get home without it, and what started out as a boring summer holiday suddenly becomes something much more dramatic and dangerous. It is almost certain that the wrench has been stolen by the mysterious janitor, and that he is now hiding it in the dark basement. But Majken has to get home and Little Allan decides to help.

Specifications 152 pages October 2012

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THE ILLLUSTRATOR John Kenn Mortensen is the creator of Sticky Monsters, available in English through Random House. John Kenn Mortensen, who also works for Dreamworks, has a large international fan base and is particularly popular in California, and his website has had more than two million hits.

THE AU THORS Line Knutzon is an award-winning dramatist. She is currently writing a play for The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. Peter Frödin is a singer, actor and comedian. He is currently performing at the Bellevue Theatre.

Little Allan at the Doppelganger School is the second book in the Little Allan

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PETER FRÖDIN & LINE KNU TZON

LITTLE ALLAN AT THE DOPPELGANGER SCHOOL

ABOU T THE BOOK Little Allan is home alone and that is scary. When he looks out the window it’s as if there’s someone there, behind the bushes, staring straight at him. And out in the square there’s a spotless and fairly long, black car of the sort that would normally never park in his part of town.

A while later Little Allan is at the hot-dog stand to buy some chips. “D’you want salt on your taters?” a man with long, thin hands asks him. “Yes, please”, Little Allan replies, picking one up and dunking it in mayo. And then everything goes black.

When he opens his eyes, four boys are sitting over him.

They look like him, all four of them. Little Allan is at the doppelganger school in Næstved.

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST BOOK

’LITTLE ALLAN – THE HUMAN ANTENNA’ ‘It is divine’

★★★★ – Ekstra Bladet

‘Like a book by Ole Lund Kirkegaard’ – Æseløre.dk ‘Recommended!’ – Bogvægten.dk

‘…Sensitive and crazy and, of course, fun’ – Weekendavisen

Specifications 128 pages September 2012

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”An important new Danish novel“

Winner of Politiken’s Novel of the Year Award 2013 ★★ ★ ★ ★ ”A gripping read … also a story about all the things that make life worth living, from the mild Danish nature of summer to the optimistic, basic relations of love and friendship”.

– Jyllands-Posten

★★ ★ ★ ★ ”Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky has written a shocking and inescapable novel combining the close with the global perspective and it turns out they both contain monstrosities.”

– Dagbladenes Bureau

★★ ★ ★ ★

– A LT for damerne

“[Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky] holds the language as well as the material to become a Danish Kerstin Ekman (…) Riebnitzsky can write so you do not even notice it and this is a huge compliment. The sensations of childhood, the unspoken premonitions, the trembling fear, the exact choreographed situation; the author masters it all.”

– Weekendavisen

♥♥♥♥ ”Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky is a skilled narrator, keeping the readers’ attention with a cruel family drama (…) a novel intended to be devoured and shocked by.”

– Politiken

”This is merely an author telling her story and who is serious about what she writes (..) surprisingly genuine.”

– Kristeligt Dagblad

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– Jes Stein Pedersen, member of the jury and literary editor at Politiken Newspaper