Politiken Literary Agency 2016 catalogue

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Sofie Voller Head of Foreign Rights sofie.voller@jppol.dk Tel: +45 33 47 07 93

POLITIKEN LITERARY AGENCY

Rudi Urban Rasmussen Literary Agent rudi.u.rasmussen@jppol.dk Tel: +45 33 47 07 82

Politiken Literary Agency represents some of Denmark’s leading contemporary authors of literary fiction, crime fiction, children’s fiction and narrative and illustrated non-fiction, both emerging and bestselling.

Politiken Literary Agency sells translation rights worldwide, direct and through sub-agents in selected markets and film and TV rights on behalf of our authors.

Our team combines passion and commitment with many years experience within publishing, foreign rights, contract negotiation and literary agenting and work hard to bring the very best of Danish writing to the world and the readers.

Lene Juul Director, Publisher lene.juul@jppol.dk Tel: +45 33 47 07 01

Politiken Literary Agency is part of JP/Politiken Publishers, 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.

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t has come to the management’s attention that the clear-up rate at Department Q falls significantly short of expectations. Proving the contrary falls to Rose, who has descended into a psychological morass with roots that stretch back far into the darkness of the past. A past in which a terrible crime may have been committed.

Meanwhile an older woman is found murdered in a park in Copenhagen, a crazed motorist has begun a deadly hunt for young women, and fresh crimes

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are being planned elsewhere. Are these events unrelated, or is there a connection buried somewhere?

Carl, Assad and Gordon are faced with a puzzle more far-reaching than ever before, all while their colleague Rose is in serious trouble. The foursome is down one member, but are they also out of luck?

Will they be able to prevent Department Q being closed down, and will the killings in Copenhagen ever stop?

JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

JUSSI ADLEROLS EN ABOUT DEPARTMENT Q The first six volumes in the crime thriller series about Department Q – Mercy, Disgrace, Redemption, Guilt, Buried and The Hanging Girl – have made Jussi Adler-Olsen one of the most popular and widely read authors both in Denmark and internationally. Thus far, the series has sold more than two and a half million copies in Denmark alone and app. 14 million copies worldwide. The series about Department Q is planned as an ongoing narrative consisting of ten very different individual novels. Together they tell a comprehensive story about the main characters. The series has been sold for publication in over forty countries. The film rights for the first four novels have been purchased by Zentropa. The rest of the series will be produced by Nordisk Film.

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Jussi’s books have won several awards, including The Golden Laurels (De Gyldne Laurbær), The Readers’ Book Prize (Læsernes Bogpris), The Harald Mogensen Award, The Glass Key and The Ripper Award, as well as a number of highly prestigious international awards.

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JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN debuterede som romanforfatter i 1997 med Alfabethuset og skrev derefter Og hun takkede guderne og Washington Dekretet. I 2007 udkom første bind i serien om Afdeling Q, Kvinden i buret. Derefter fulgte Fasandræberne, Flaskepost fra P, Journal 64 og i 2012 udkom femte bind i serien, Marco Effekten. Bøgerne sælges i flere end 120 lande, og filmrettighederne til de fire første bind i Afdeling Q-serien er købt af Zentropa. Kvinden i buret havde biografpremiere i efteråret 2013 og Fasandræberne i efteråret 2014.

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On the night of the American presidential election, the wife of the Democratic frontrunner Governor Bruce Jansen is assassinated. Suddenly, the US finds itself in a situation where the new president will do whatever it takes to change 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.

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Han fremlægger et yderst kontroversielt dekret, som skal genoprette ro og orden i USA, men da det går op for amerikanerne, hvad der er på færde, bryder helvede løs. Snart er grænserne lukkede, spærretider indført, en borgerkrig under opsejling, drabstallene støt stigende og borgerne i panik.

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KATRINE NØRREGAARD

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he Liar’s House is the debut novel by twenty-two-year-old dramaturgy student Katrine Nørregaard, and winner of the 2015 novel-writing competition run by the newspaper Politiken in collaboration with Politikens Forlag.

The theme of the competition? Love in modern life, for better or worse.

When Kristian dies he leaves behind a wife, daughter and granddaughter, but also a previously unknown holiday home by the fjords, which turns out to be anything but an ordinary house.

The Liar’s House is a story about love across three generations, and about one family’s attempt to understand the lies of the past.

Perhaps even to forgive …

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Dagbladet Politiken and Politikens Forlag have previously run novelwriting competitions. In 2013 Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky won with her novel Slaughtered Pigs, which became a bestseller and won The Golden Laurels. In 2010 the writing duo Øbro & Tornbjerg won Politiken’s crime-novel competition for their debut novel Scream Under Water.

RIGHTS: All rights available

SPECIFICATIONS: 300 pages, November 2016

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JENS HENRIK JENSEN

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OXEN FROZEN FLAMES M

ilitary veteran Niels Oxen is presumed dead after an accident at sea. In reality he’s holed up on an island in the Swedish archipelago, mulling over the dilemma before him.

If the leaders of the secretive but powerful network Danehof discover that their attempt on his life failed, they will begin a relentless manhunt for him as they seek to correct their mistake. If the Danish police find out that he’s alive, he’ll be arrested and accused of a murder he didn’t commit. Against all odds, Oxen decides to make a stand against those in power. If he doesn’t, he’ll spend the rest of his life running – with no hope of seeing his son again.

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Facing an impossible task, he contacts his former partner from the intelligence service, Margrethe Franck, who has been fired.

The two of them again join forces together with their former head of the intelligence service, Axel Mossman, and his nephew.

The fight against Danehof has had momentous consequences for them all. They’re like frozen flames, and they can only get their lives back by defeating the shadowy group of men.

But how do you fight an invisible enemy?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jens Henrik Jensen (born 1963) is a writer and journalist, In 2012 Hangdogs appeared, and in 2014 Dark Men, the first and second volumes in a series about veteran Niels Oxen. His bestselling trilogy about veteran Niels Oxen has sold a massive 75.000 copies in Denmark only.

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“The second volume of Jens Henrik Jensen’s trilogy on Danehof is a blazing manhunt, where conspiracies and veteran’s politics come together.”

JYLLANDS-POSTEN

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“Exquisite excitement; well-written and thoroughly researched.”

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GERMANY / Kiepenheuer ITALY / Marsilio ICELAND / Draumsyn & Witsch NORWAY / Schibsted HOLLAND / De Geus

POLAND / Helion SWEDEN / Norsteds TURKEY / A7

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About the Axel Steen–series

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he Nørrebro area of Copenhagen provides the backdrop to Jesper Stein’s series of crime novels about the hard-boiled and uncompromising Inspector Axel Steen, who never gives less than 100% to solving a case.

Axel Steen is his own man, refu-

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he Danish producer Peter Bech from SF Studios is planning a series of feature films based on the first three books in the series about Danish police inspector Axel Steen. “Axel Steen is such a strong character so we want to start the films off by getting the audience to truly know him”, he says.

The author himself is likewise very happy about this. ”I look very much forward to working with SF Films. We have the same understanding of the books’ strength and the need to build a strong and complex protagonist on film as well, and will be performed in a contemporary Copenhagen, as we know it from the Axel Steen novels; raw and unadorned and far from the picturesque

sing to let other people run his life. Fighting an eternal battle with his own demons and with those in power – both within the police force and among the city’s criminals – his intake of weed, alcohol and pills has a tendency to dominate when he’s under pressure. The

investigation, the hunt for the criminals and Steen’s chaotic private life are told in a raw, realistic and sometimes poetic tone known as ’2200 Noir’, a reference to the Nørrebro postcode. Stein’s novels have been highly praised by critics both nationally and interna-

tionally, and among other awards he has won the Danish Crime Academy’s Debutant Prize for the first installment in the series, Unrest, as well as the Booksellers’ prestigious Golden Laurel for the fourth in the series, Aisha.

200,000 books sold in Denmark picture we usually see. We aim for a big bang and action at a whole new level,” Jesper Stein continues.

The script writers are the Swedish duo Maria Karlsson (who wrote the script for the film based on bestselling Jens Lapidus’ feature film Snabba Cash) and Oliver Dixon. “These two are highly skilled within the genre and very keen to get started”, Peter Bech explains.

“First of all, they are curious to start researching Copenhagen for locations! Our ambition is to go for the same star quality as that of the

Bourne trilogy with the same high level of entertainment.

This will be films unlike any other Danish films.”

With a huge film budget, SF plans a new film in the series each year. Cast, director et al. is still to be decided.

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THE GIRL AND THE GUARDIAN Psychotherapist Alice Milford, one of the sharpest critics of the medical industry’s close ties with the psychiatric profession, is found dead at her home. She’s been killed with a clay bust made by her own daughter.

Criminal psychologist Katrine Wraa, who is struggling to cope with everyday life after suffering a terrible loss, is assigned to the case. When Katrine trawls through Milford’s client histories both old and new and uncovers the therapist’s complicated private life, the medical industry’s financial interest in the psychiatric diagnostic system, it quickly emerges that nothing is as it first seemed.

The Girl and the Guardian is a story about the darkest sides of human nature. The novel is the fifth independent book by Martha Prize-winners Øbro and Tornbjerg.

OPTION PUBLISHERS: THE NETHERLANDS / Prometheus ICELAND / Draumsyn NORWAY / Norsk Gyldendal

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POLAND / Ingignis GERMANY / Fischer Verlag

SPECIFICATIONS: 350 pages, October 2016

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THE FACE OF THE DEVIL

EVA’S L AST NI G H T

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ALT FOR DAMERNE

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MARTHA PRIZE 2015

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Jeane e Øbro trained as a midwife and later studied communications. She has worked as a consultant and project manager, and is today a full-time writer.

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Ole Tornbjerg studied communications and trained as a film producer. He has worked for many years as a director and producer in the film and television industry.

Today he is a full-time writer. In 2010 Jeanette Øbro and Ole Tornbjerg won Politiken’s Crime Competition with the novel Scream Under Water, which has since been followed up with The Face of the Devil (2011), Eva’s Last Night (2013) and The Norwegian Job (2014).

KATRINE MARIE GULDAGER ○ NOVEL

The Køge Chronicle An epic chronicle – a total of 1,400 pages about family, grief, love, disappointment, hope and passion

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LITTLE HEART

THE NEW ERA

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Innocent Family

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n Innocent Family is first and foremost the story of Frederik, an adventurer and financier who comes from idyllic Southern Funen. Since early childhood Frederik has felt misunderstood by his left-leaning parents. But how can you ever really leave something you can’t come to terms with? After a few years in London and New York, Frederik comes home to his Danish values. His father is

nothing but a shadow beside his strong, emancipated mother, while his sister has become a priest. She thinks Frederik should reflect on his family, and on the fact that no amount of money in the world can buy him the freedom he dreams of.

An innocent family is a novel about how even the best intentions can have consequences.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Katrine Marie Guldager (born in 1966) is one of Denmark’s best established authors. Her books have been translated into several languages, and she has received numerous grants and awards, including the Danish Arts Foundation’s three-year grant. In recent years she has concentrated on her epic family chronicle, The Køge Chronicle, which follows a Danish family from 1938 to the present.

RIGHTS: All rights available

SPECIFICATIONS: 250 pages, January 2017

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O L AV H E R G E L

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ikkel Haslund mainly got into journalism for the ladies.

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But now he’s chained to an online editorial position at a national paper. He’s a confused, middle-aged know-it-all who’s been steamrolled by the age he lives in: the internet has conquered his beloved print newspapers and the future is in the hands of editors who believe that journalists should write on several different platforms three times a day.

One day he defies his young female boss. He is eager to go out into the big wide world and report on it. It’s a world where small men are fired by strong women for next to no reason, ministers are brought to the edge of despair and refugees are invading Europe. But it’s a showdown that has fatal consequences, and the deadline is fast approaching – for the newspapers, for journalism, and for himself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Olav Hergel (born in 1956) is a journalist who has previously worked for the newspaper Berlingske Tidende and now for Politiken. He has won a series of journalistic prizes, including the prestigeous Cavling Prize in 2006, for a series about refugees and refugee children at Danish asylum centres. He has previously published the bestselling novel The Refugee (2006), which was also turned into a movie, and The Migrant (2010). 2012 saw the brutal book But We Went Bad, which he wrote in conjunction with a former gang member from a migrant background, Sleiman Sleiman.

RIGHTS: All rights available

SPECIFICATIONS: 416 pages, October 2016

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ERIK VALEUR

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RIGHTS SOLD: GERMANY / Blanvalet HOLLAND / De Bezige Bij WER / Amazon Crossing

SPECIFICATIONS: 504 pages, October 2015

★★★★★ “What a talent! The Danish literature blooms strange and large flowers at the moment …

Grand both in construction and execution …

There are many strings and many mysteries in this imaginative and fantastic novel with an extraordinary long and disciplined tension span which is not definitively resolved until the very end. Everywhere, you feel the experienced writer who manages to maintain the artistic feel all the way through the book because of the episodes that vibrate life and feeling. The caricatures are throughout the novel so clear and sharp that you surrender yourself to their accentuation and enlargement also because they are so dense and illuminated and raised above reality, straight into the truthful insanity of poetry. ” – Nordjyske Stiftstidende

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n a white lighthouse that for centuries has seen ships founder and sailors drown in the sea – a sea known for generations as the ‘Depths of Hell’ – lives a man with a peculiar secret. As he broods over his shipwrecked life, an old woman disappears from a prestigious care home in one of the country’s wealthiest districts. And this isn’t just any old woman. It is the Widow, mother to two of the nation’s most powerful men: the prime minister and the secretary of justice. The police find a number of clues in the Widow’s room that further their investigation into the missing woman, and as the evidence mounts up it becomes clear that the reason for her disappearance lies many decades in the past: something happened when her

sons were children, living on the same street as a group of five friends. One of them was the man in the lighthouse, and it emerges that what happened to him and his classmates back then is inextricably linked to the drama unfolding in the present.

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“The prize-winning journalist Erik Valeur who four years ago had his breakthrough as an award-winning fiction writer with “The Seventh Child” has done it again … Apart from the highly packed and elementary tension in the book, which guarantees an excellent reading cadence and appetite, the author clearly enjoys – and with him the reader – the persiflage even when he mocks the media’s management-journalism, the psychiatrics’ feel-good movement, the hypocrisy of power and all sorts of political nonsense in the ruling classes. It’s satire of the finest kind” – Berlingske

“Along the way, The Man in the Lighthouse changes time and place frequently—and refreshingly. The past leaves inescapable traces, recalling the childhood that gives life—and the story—direction and consistency. ” – JydskeVestkysten

Photo: Les Kaner

The Man In The Lighthouse is a fable, a chronicle of our age and a thriller all rolled into one. It is a story about children who grow up with idiosyncrasies that are impossible to escape; about spirits, death and the universe; about powerful politicians, management gurus and media stars; and about the secrets all of us try to hide from ourselves – and from each other.

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The Seventh Child

t 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-and-out 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 is made public, it brings 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.

Winner of The Danish Bank Debutant Price 2011, Winner of Weekendavisens Litteraturpris 2011, Winner of The Harald Mogensen Price 2012 The National Danish Broadcasting Company’s Best Novel Award 2012, The Glass Key Award 2012.

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

★★★★★★ – Vejle Amts Folkeblad

★★★★★ – Ekstra Bladet

RIGHTS SOLD: ESTONIA / Varrak GERMANY / Blanvalet GREECE / Utopia Publishing ICELAND / Draumsyn ITALY / Neri Pozza JAPAN / Hayakawa MORROCCO / Here & There NORWAY / Schibsted POLAND / Papierowy Ksiezyc

ROMANIA / RAO RUSSIA / AST Release SOUTH KOREA / Hyundaemunhak SPAIN / Maeva SWEDEN/ Forum AB THE NETHERLANDS / De Bezige Bij USA / Amazon Crossing

SPECIFICATIONS: 696 pages, August 2015

MORE THAN

163,000 COPIES SOLD IN DENMARK.

★★★★★ – Nordjyske Stiftstidende

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Erik Valeur (born 1955) is a Danish journalist. He and his colleagues have twice received the prestigious 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 Stop the Press (1993), The Power Book (2002), and 60 Rounds Fired (2007).

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nne-Marie Vedsø Olesen‘s Renaissance trilogy tells the riveting story of Madeleine de Montdidier, a young lady-in-waiting who has to battle her way through one of the most dramatic periods in European history. It is both an intense, female-orientated Bildungsroman and a largescale depiction of the Renaissance and the brutal religious wars between Huguenots, Catholics and Muslims. The trilogy elegantly weaves together the story of Madeleine’s emancipation with one of the most exciting periods in modern times. Vedsø Olesen’s meticulously researched historical facts serve as a backdrop to the exciting fictional story of how Madeleine grows into an independent, self-assured woman. Kill Bill meets Game of Thrones: intelligent, colorful and light reading.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen trained as a doctor, but is now a professional author. She debuted with the book Salerno’s Sun in 2000. In 1999 she came second place in the Royal Library’s competition by writing a novel set in the Middle Ages. Several of Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen’s novels belong to the fantasy genre, but others stick to factual historical events. Her latest publication, The Murderess, was published in January 2016. The book is the final installment in the trilogy. She is a keen fan of both classical music and heavy metal.

RIGHTS SOLD TO: BULGARIA / Matcom Ltd. CZECH REPUBLIC / Brana

Lady in Waiting

The Bastard

The Murderess

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SPECIFICATIONS: 318 pages, 2013

SPECIFICATIONS: 281 pages, 2015

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hen the evolutionary biologist and writer Emma van der Klein discovers that the man she had called granddad her whole life isn’t biologically related to her, her curiosity is aroused: perhaps, after all, there is an explanation for her introversion and her passion for science. She packs a bag and drives to Southern Jutland to meet the man responsible for a quarter of her genetic material, but it soon transpires that Harald Eskildsen isn’t the kind old granddad Emma had imagined. He is a go-getting entrepreneur with a somewhat

eccentric lifestyle, but he was once also remanded into custody for killing someone, and when he refuses to talk about it Emma begins to hunt for answers: what kind of person is he? Why did he disappear out of her father’s life?

And what happened that night almost fifty years ago, when his best friend lost his life? The White Darkness is a story about family secrets, about the way in which the past literally shapes our lives and about a young woman who chooses to plant her own family tree.

Photo: Les Kaner

★★★★ “A thoughtful novel ... At the same time you must rejoice Fredensborgs clear language, her ability to create psychologically believable characters and a plot well spun. ” – Kristeligt Dagblad

★★★★ “An original and certainly different novel. If you are into family secrets and relationships, then The White Darkness is a good choice for an entertaining spring read.”

– Bognørden “It is - excuse my language - damn well written and engaging in a whimsical way ... The language is refined, and I mean that in a positive sense, refined as in exquisite and elegant.”

– Vild med krimi

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eva Maria Fredensborg (1969) worked as a strategic planner in the advertising industry. In 2013 she debuted with the crime novel Once a Murderer, followed by My Lips Are Sealed (2014) and In the Dark (2015). These three crime novels make up a trilogy featuring the characters Robert Strand, Asta Qvist and Carl Pedersen. With The White Darkness Fredensborg embarks on a new chapter in her writing and a new genre.

SPECIFICATIONS: 328 pages, March 2016

RIGHTS SOLD TO: GERMANY / Goldmann ITALY / Atmosphere Libi TURKEY / A7

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THE HURRICANE SEASON AND THE SILENCE

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– Berlingske

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hen Beate wakes up in the morning, she turns towards the empty space in bed beside her, slowly remembering that Thomas is dead. Her sense of loss floods back, hitting her so hard that she’s almost pinned to the mattress. She pulls herself together before she goes into the office and focuses on her job as a defense lawyer. Her close friend Monica is a rather unusual priest, outspoken and with a no-nonsense approach to the

RIGHTS SOLD: NORWAY / Font Forlag FRANCE / Gaïa

SPECIFICATIONS: 344 pages, January 2016

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parishioners who seek her advice.

Monica travels to Guatemala, where she meets a mafioso, a Guatemalan teenage girl who grew up in a children’s home, and a young pot dealer whom Beate also encounters in her capacity as a lawyer. The book follows the two women as they weave in and out of people’s lives, grappling with issues of faith, justice, vigilantism, sorrow, infatuation, forgiveness of murder and – greatest of all – love.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 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 going 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 ”. Her first book The Women’s War in 2010, was a documentary about her work with Afghan women. The book was shortlisted for Weekendavisen’s Literature Prize. In 2012 she published her first novel, The Stolen Road for which she was awarded the Debutant Award. This was also nominated for Weekendavisens Literature Prize as well as for the DBC’s Novel of the Year Award. Slaughtered Pigs was published in 2013 and earned her the Golden Laurels and Politiken’s Novel of the Year Award.

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WHERE NOTHING THE STOPS WIND S even artists and scientists are invited on an all-expenses-paid retreat on an uninhabited Danish island by a mysterious benefactor.

They are looking forward to spending a peaceful month far from civilisation, but get more than they bargained for when they soon find themselves in a large glass house cut off from all communication with the outside world, and without any possibility of getting off the island.

The mood quickly becomes tense, and when one of them disappears in the forest and another falls to his death,

the remaining few are forced to admit that something is very wrong. Is there a murderer in their midst? And who will be the next victim? It soon emerges that their life stories and deepest secrets are closely interwoven with each other, and a broader picture of obsession, exploitation and personal responsibility begins to take shape.

Where nothing stops the wind is a contemporary thriller inspired by classic mysteries, and a portrait of seven very different people who are forced to face traumas they have long repressed.

Photo: Amalie Klougart

★★★★★★ Litteratursiden.dk

♥♥♥♥♥ Politiken

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leonora Christina Skov is a writer and literary critic. She has an M.A. in literature and has since 2006 worked as a critic and columnist at the weekly newspaper Weekendavisen.

Leonora Christina Skov has written several novels. She received the prestigious three-year scholarship from The Danish Arts Foundation in 2010.

★★★★★ Fyens Stiftstidende

SPECIFICATIONS: 312 pages, April 2015

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THE PLAN

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SPECIFICATIONS: 568 pages, November 2016

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THE AUTHOR Morten Pape (born 1986) grew up in the Urbanplan development in Copenhagen. He is currently studying scriptwriting at the alternative Danish film school Super16.

The Plan is his debut novel.

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he Plan is a coming-of-age story about being a child, growing up, falling in love and trying to find yourself in a multicultural microcosm. At the same time, it is a historical novel about the human cost of the failed integration policies of the 1990s and the hostile immigration debates of the 2000s.

Morten is growing up in Copenhagen’s Urbanplan ghetto, the worst conceivable start in life. He is intelligent, more talented than his schoolfellows, and dreams of making it as an actor. But he’s clinging to the dream under impossible conditions in a sleazy and culturally deprived environment characterised by violence and crime, surrounded by the lower classes’ self-perpetuating ‘who-do-you-think-youare’ attitude, which more than anything else reinforces his and his friends’ conviction that they’ll never amount to anything.

Photo: Rasmus Lind

When Morten’s parents get divorced, it sets off a chain reaction of disappointments that turns everything on its head, and gradually the quiet, nerdy boy starts to identify more and more with his immigrant friends and their hatred and rage towards society – and not least towards themselves.

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M AT I L D E K I M E R

T H E WA R IN S ID E

DR correspondent Matilde Kimer’s powerful and timely reportage from wartorn Ukraine

The War Inside is a story about the chaos of war. About trembling in fear, fainting with exhaustion, vomiting with disgust – and about the moments of human kindness, gratitude and fellowship that are also an inherent part of war.

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o Danish journalist has spent as much time covering the revolution and subsequent war in Ukraine as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s Russian correspondent Matilde Kimer. In The War Inside, set against the backdrop of large-scale political currents, she draws compelling portraits of a number of people trapped in a conflict that affects not only Ukrainians and Russians but Europe as a whole.

The War Inside begins with the peaceful student protests of 2013–14, which over the course of a few months developed into bloody street-fighting in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. It was a revolution led by Ukrainians who wanted emancipation from Russian dominance, which has deep roots in their history, language and self-perception.

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The book follows the Ukrainian housewife Anya, who works as a perfume seller, but who in the wake of the revolution finds a new life mission: helping Ukrainian soldiers.

It depicts the nineteen-year-old nationalist law student Bogdan, who developd a taste for blood during the street-fighting in Kiev and a few months later found himself in the trenches at the front lines as part of a voluntary militia. Kimer also offers the reader an in-depth look at her work as a war reporter, as well as at her personal journey into a war that makes her family and children back in Denmark wonder why she’s willing to risk her own life to cover it.

The book is a stark and timely piece of reportage, among others featuring powerful images by photographer Lau Svensson and Matilde Kimer herself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Matilde Kimer (born 1980) trained as a journalist at the University of Southern Denmark, graduating in 2007. She started learning Russian in St Petersburg in 2002, and has continued her studies in both Denmark and Russia. Since 2009 she has covered Russia and the former Soviet states as a correspondent for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. In 2015 she won DR’s Language Award, while the year before she was given an award for Reportage of the Year.

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"An outstanding and attentive book on the conflict in Syria."

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The dramatic story of Danish freelance photographer Daniel Rye, who was held hostage for thirteen months in Syria by ISIS, as told by award-winning writer Puk Damsgård.

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It also offers a rare glimpse into the secret world of the investigation launched to locate and free not only Daniel Rye, but also the American freelance journalist and fellow hostage James Foley.

The story follows Daniel Rye’s family and the nerve-wrecking negotiations with his kidnappers over the ransom, which the family had to gather in order to secure his release.

It traces their horrifying journey through impossible dilemmas, while they made sure only a few trusted people knew about the ordeal. In June 2014, Daniel Rye was the last hostage to leave the prison alive,

PUK DAMSGÅRD

The ISIS Hostage

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or the first time, this book offers a detailed insight into the ordeal suffered by the nineteen foreign male hostages who were held by ISIS in Syria - some of the time under control of their British guards, nicknamed the ‘Beatles’, and the murderer best known as Jihadi John.

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carrying a message from his fellow hostage James Foley to his family in the US. Two months later, ISIS began killing the remaining British and American hostages - Daniel’s former friends during their captivity.

The ISIS Hostage is a touching and terrifying story about friendship, torture and surviving in prison under extreme circumstances, focusing on one of the most spectacular and tragic international kidnapping cases in recent years. It offers an insight into the people who guarded and fed the hostages, some of whom were a product of the Syrian regime’s prisons, while others were from our own Western societies.

Drawing on European, American, and Arabian history, this book illustrates both how they are linked and how they feed into one of the greatest challenges the Middle East will face in the years to come.

CAVLING PRIZE 2016

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PORTUGAL / Platano Didacta SLOVAKIA / Ikar SWEDEN / Fri Tanke THE NETHERLANDS / De Boekerij UNITED KINGDOM / Grove Atlantic AUDIO (WORLD ENGLISH) / Audible

SPECIFICATIONS: 288 pages, October 2015

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God would like to make the world a nice place again. Unfortunately for God, he’s put the somewhat absent-minded, slightly too halfhearted, slightly too hungry Holy Ghost on the job.

The Holy Ghost ends up getting his wires crossed with the boy God wanted as a new saviour, accidentally choosing the main character, Albert Svensson. When he discovers his mistake, he grants Albert one wish, and Albert wishes his divorced parents were back together again. The book then traces seven days in Albert’s life, as what started as a pipe dream turns into a minor catastrophe.

The status quo turns into utter chaos, and over the course of the week Albert realises one thing: his parents need to get divorced again! So he sets off to have a chat with God, knowing that He’s the only one who can reverse Albert’s wish to bring his parents back together.

All ends happily, both children and adults learn something. Albert Svensson’s mum and dad decide to try a little bit harder – if not for their own sake, then for Albert’s.

Seven Divine Days in Albert Svensson’s Otherwise Rather Ordinary Life is illustrated by Rasmus Juul.

FLEMMING MØLDRUP ABOUT THE AUTHOR Flemming Møldrup, born in 1970, studied at the Writers’ School for Children’s Literature, is a creative director and a lifestyle expert on a popular lifestyle TV-programme, with more than 700,000 viewers.

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KIRSTEN SONNE HARILD & THOMAS SKOV

KIRSTEN SONNE HARILD

COME BACK, FELINA! After the summer holidays, eleven-yearold gymnast Felina has been promoted to the top team, which means shows and competitions. But at one of her first training sessions with the new squad, she gets the sad news that there may not be room for her on the team after all. In a heartbeat all her dreams are shattered, along with her self-confidence and her relationship with the friends she’s been doing gymnastics with for so many years. But, suddenly, help comes from an unexpected quarter, when a colourful,

unusual team of assorted misfits offers her a place. Felina regains her edge and her joy in gymnastics, and soon she gets the chance to come back stronger than ever.

The question is – will she?

Come Back, Felina! is Backflip volume 1 in Kirsten Sonne Harild’s new series about gymnastics.

The series is illustrated by Jan Solheim.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 112 pages, October 2016

THOMAS SKOV

THE BIG BOOB MISSION Thomas has a dream. He and his best friend are going on a mission that will turn the two boys into men. They’re going to see boobs. In real life. They feel like they’re the only two boys in year seven who haven’t seen them, and if they don’t get to see some before year eight they’re going to die as lonely, balding virgins.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 192 pages, September 2016

The Big Boob Mission takes place in the year 2000 in a small town in western Jutland, where everybody knows everybody and most people play badminton in the winter months and football in the summer. Thomas and Christian are the school’s two oddballs, with their own club in the basement where they plan their mission.

In The Big Boob Mission we follow Thomas as he tries to juggle friendship, love, angry parents, Bjarke from the other class – the bane of his life – and the new boy, who was kicked out of school in the neighbouring town and seems a little dangerous.

The Big Boob Mission is a story about friendship, and about realizing that saying something out loud doesn’t always make it right. The book takes place before the internet had been properly introduced in Jutland, but it nonetheless deals with issues that young people still face today.

The Big Boob Mission is illustrated by Jan Solheim.

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MAIBRITT LOURING ENGELL, IRENE BRØNDUM AND OLUF BORBYE PEDERSEN ○ NON-FICTION

MAIBRITT LOURING ENGELL, IRENE BRØNDUM AND OLUF BORBYE PEDERSEN

Keeping Your Gut Happy Inside your intestines around 100 billion bacteria are living side by side – bacteria that in recent years increasingly have been shedding their anonymity and stepping into the limelight. There’s plenty of research that indicates they have an impact on your waistline, your immune system and even your moods.

This book is the ultimate guide to how – with very little effort and completely ordinary food – you can pamper the bacteria that work with your body and make life tough for the ones that work against it. The result? A strong intestinal mucosa, which can absorb plenty of vitamins, regulate your blood sugar and your weight, send feel-good signals to your brain and keep dangerous bacteria in check.

The book contains sixty recipes, all of which use completely natural ingredients: everything from healthy breakfasts to lunches on the go, filling dinners and light treats. The principles of the diet are based on the latest scientific research, and are veggie-orientated, full of fibre and gluten-free.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Irene Brøndum is the author of the book’s theoretical sections. She is a trained and registered clinical dietician, and has worked with expectant mothers as well as patients with gastro-intestinal problems, heart disease and cancer. Additionally, Irene is trained as a journalist, and for the last eight years she has written for the health magazine I FORM, where she also works as a news editor.

Majbri Louring Engell has come up with the book’s fabulous recipes.

She holds a bachelor’s in nutrition and health and a master’s in training and fitness. Majbritt is a speaker, dietician and the co-author of several books on health, among them Eat Your Way to Be er Balance, The Diabetes Cure and Miss Skinny: The Ten-Week Booster Diet. She runs the lifestyle and nutrition clinic Miss Skinny.

Oluf Borbye Pedersen is a Danish professor and leading scientist within the area of intistines and bacteria.

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The bacteria in your gut will love you for eating: • • • • • • • • • •

ALL KINDS OF VEGGIES ALL KINDS OF BERRIES FISH AND SHELLFISH POULTRY NUTS, ALMONDS, SEEDS AND GRAINS CURD PRODUCTS AND CHEESE RICE, OATS, MILLET, BUCKWHEAT, QUINOA AND POTATOES PULSES AND LENTILS WATER, TEA AND COFFEE DARK CHOCOLATE

The bacteria in your gut will love you for reducing: • • • • • • •

GLUTEN SUGAR, AND FOOD AND DRINK SWEETENED WITH FRUCTOSE MEAT FROM FOUR-LEGGED ANIMALS LIKE BEEF, LAMB AND PORK CURED MEATS READY MEALS AND FAST FOOD FIRMING AGENTS SWEETENERS

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SPECIFICATIONS: 256 pages, September 2016

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DITTE INGEMANN

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Ditte Ingemann

V E G E TA R I A N Everyday Dishes for Veggies

“If you’re already a vegetarian or planning to introduce more greens and less meat into your diet, then this cookbook is for you. Going vegetarian might seem a bit overwhelming, but you can relax – it’s really not that hard. All my recipes are easy to make, no ma er whether you’re a dyed-inthe-wool veggie or simply curious about the world of greens,” – Ditte Ingemann

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SPECIFICATIONS: 296 pages, September 2016

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NON-FICTION ○ DITTE INGEMANN

Vegetarian offers everything from breakfasts and snacks to filling mains, salads and treats. What all the recipes – more than a hundred of them – have in common is that they are healthy and delicious, representing the latest modern vegetarian cooking in the year 2016.

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ody, soul and environment all benefit from meat-free days, so it’s chef, food writer and vegetable expert Ditte Ingemann’s mission to turn the lot of us into veggie lovers with a capital V. Use this book to help you reduce your intake of meat. Or, if you’re already vegetarian, as a source of fresh inspiration.

Maybe you’re just looking for good ideas for meat-free days – you don’t need to be a full-time vegetarian to benefit from the book.

It reflects the author’s own life, her cooking and the food she eats every day – she hasn’t gone 100% vegetarian, but meat takes a back seat to greens in her diet.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ditte Ingemann is passionate about food, engrossed in a love affair with good ingredients and taste but also with creativity and aesthetics. Nutrition, as well as cooking and eating, is an area of interest for her: she holds a bachelor’s in nutrition and health, specialising in human nutrition.

Ditte runs the blog The Food Club, which is about her great interest, passion and appetite for food. She works as a freelance food writer, food stylist, photographer and recipe developer. Ditte Ingemann has more than 230.000 followers on ther Instagram-account.

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MAJA VASE

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THE AUTHOR Thirty-year-old Maja Vase is a freelance recipe developer, food photographer, food stylist and food writer. She is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines.

She is also the driving force behind the digital magazine Magasinet LĂŚkkerier, which in future will also come out in print.

Maja has a strong presence on social media: 191,000 followers on Instagram, 7,300 followers on Facebook, and approximately 3,500 hits per day on her blog, www.chocolat.dk.

With Anne au Chocolat, Maja Vase is the author of two additional books: Happiness is Chocolate (2014) and Happiness is Ice Cream (2015).

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MAJA VASE

MAJA’S

DESSERTS

by Maja Vase

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aja’s Desserts is not only a book for keen amateurs who love simple, practical desserts – each recipe deliberately includes only a few ingredients to ensure that preparation is straightforward and easy – but also for the more ambitious dessert nerd. With recipes for all different kinds of ice cream, mousse, cream, ganache, jelly, tarts, cakes and sweets, you won’t be able to live without it. The book also offers loads of tips and tricks about handy techniques and essential gear.

Maja guides the reader through the process of using a few simple elements – and a pinch of raspberry powder – to create gorgeous desserts. Her beautiful, pared-down style and passion for sweet treats are evident throughout the book.

A love letter to desserts.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 152 pages, September 2016

Photo: Anne Kring

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ADAM AAMANN

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ADAM AAMANN

AAMANN’S

SANDWICHES Cook, chef, restaurateur and TV host Adam Aamann has given the humble sandwich a much-needed lift, bringing it back to the Danish culinary scene with plenty of affection and passion. With Aamann’s help, the Danish-style open sandwich has undergone a renaissance, and these days any self-respecting restaurant will have a selection of them on its lunch menu.

Aamann’s Sandwiches offers a comprehensive introduction to open sandwiches, Danish-style, featuring

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Adam Aamann-Christensen originally trained as a cook, opening the eatery and takeaway ‘Aamann’s’ in 2006. Since then he has been praised to the skies by reviewers, both in Denmark and abroad. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Danish Academy for Gastronomy’s Diploma of Honour in 2007 for his efforts in elevating sandwich-making to a culinary craft. Since the autumn of 2014, he has been a TV host on a popular, consumer-orientated food show on the Danish channel DR, and has also authored the cookbooks Aamann’s for Lunch (2009), Aamann’s Spiced Aquavits and the Dishes to Go With Them (2010) and Aamann’s Appetite (2012).

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SPECIFICATIONS: 232 pages, March 2016

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everything from popular classics to Aamann’s own modern versions, which mix up new combinations of flavours to keep your taste buds on their toes.

The book is thorough and detailed, including seventy different recipes for delicious sandwiches. The recipes have got everything covered, from toppings like red meat, poultry, fish and veggies to a wide range of crunchy, pickled, preserved, crispy and fresh sides – it’s everything you need to whip up the tasty open sandwiches so beloved in Denmark.

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ANNE HJERNØE

ANNE HJERNØE

GRILLS & GREENS Most people love the flavour of grilled food. Anne Hjernøe has been grilling for as long as she can remember, and in her new book she shows that there’s really no limits to what you can grill.

This book features all Anne’s favourites from the patio grill, and the recipes work equally well for coal grills as for gas grills.

A tender steak marked with the pattern left by the grill is a classic, but Anne also has plenty of suggestions for everything from ribs, sausages, pulled pork and porchetta to grilled chicken or prawn skewers,

sliders (small, homemade burgers), lamb chops, whole fish, smoked mussels and lobsters with citrus aioli. Something else that tastes delicious when grilled is fried pork belly with parsley sauce – in Anne’s version it’s transformed into tasty grilled pork belly with a cold parsley cream and new potatoes.

Anne also demonstrates how you can throw vegetables on the grill once you’ve got it going. The results are mouthwatering, providing the perfect side dish.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anne Hjernøe is a journalist and self-taught cook with her own company, AnneMad Aps, which focuses on TV production, product development and public speaking, among other things. Anne is also the author of a long series of cookbooks, including Anne’s Preserves, Politiken’s Book of Tapas, The Good Kitchen: Healthy Food to Fight Cancer, AnneMad, More AnneMad, Anne’s Christmas Calendar, Anne’s Pantry and, most recently, Healthy Salads and Healthy Vegetable Dishes.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 176 pages, April 2016

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METTE LØVBOM

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Mette Løvbom

SaladGirl A delicious book jam-packed with salads for every season, by the incredibly popular SaladGirl, who is known for her much-visited salad blog.

Photo: Columbus Leth

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aladGirl – alias Mette Løvebom – has great recipes and inspirational tips for new salads for all seasons and occasions. Whether you’re a fan of baked cauliflower with mustard cream, grilled pointed cabbage with leek pesto or kale coleslaw, you’re guaranteed to find tasty salads for day-to-day cooking or special occasions in this book.

The book is divided into sections according to seasonal ingredients, and the recipes are designed so that each one is balanced – sweet and sour, tenderness and crunchiness – and together the ingredients make up a delicious salad that covers all the bases. As well as the many salads, the book is also full of all kinds of dressings, pestos, herb mixes and tasty treats. The book includes about 150 recipes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mette Løvbom works in consultancy and communications with her company Løvbom Kommunikation. She is an entrepreneur and an editor with the specialist magazine Kantinen, for which she writes about food and the law, labelling systems and new developments and books within the food industry.

Mette Løvbom started www.salattoesen.dk in the spring of 2013 to create a forum where salad lovers could share their knowledge and be inspired to cook with vegetables that are often overlooked and forgotten.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 224 pages, April 2016

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○ ALICE APEL HARTVIG & MAJBRITT LOURING ENGELL

MISS SKINNY Miss Skinny: The Ten-Week Booster Diet is for anyone who wants results that last!

Are you looking for a simple yet effective ten-week diet that builds on the latest scientific evidence, turning it into practical advice? Then this is the book for you. You’ll begin by putting the right framework in place for healthy weight-loss, by testing whether you’re ready for the quick booster

diet or the slightly less quick version … and at the same time you’ll get the things that might stop you reaching your target weight under control. You’ll give your weight-loss the biggest possible boost by using simple menus, family-friendly recipes and workouts that don’t require either equipment or a

gym membership. The whole system is organised to make it easy to do.

Miss Skinny also helps you navigate periods where weight-loss gets tough, telling you how you can still lose weight and give yourself a mental boost.

Miss Skinny gives you: •

HEALTHY DIGESTION

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QUICK, LASTING WEIGHT-LOSS

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SIXTY-FIVE DELICIOUS AND SLIMMING RECIPES

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WEEKLY PLANS SETTING OUT RECIPES, SO IT’S EASY TO GET STARTED

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WORKOUTS THAT ONLY TAKE SIX MINUTES PER DAY AND CAN BE DONE EITHER AT HOME, AT WORK OR IN THE GARDEN

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MENTAL EXERCISES, SO YOU REACH YOUR GOALS

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HELP PLANNING YOUR FOOD SHOPPING AND ALTERNATIVES TO SNACKS

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SPECIFICATIONS: 272 pages, May 2016

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