Politiken Literary Agency 2014 catalogue

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2014 POLITIKEN LITERARY

AGENCY

Contents FICTION Jussi Adler-Olsen ........................................................................................................ 4 Jesper Stein ................................................................................................................. 8 Jens Henrik Jensen ................................................................................................... 10 A.J. Kazinski ............................................................................................................... 12 Eva Maria Fredensborg ............................................................................................ 16 Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen ...................................................................................... 18 Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky ..................................................................................... 20 Erik Valeur .................................................................................................................. 21 CHILDREN’S BOOKS Manu Sareen ............................................................................................................. 22 Lars Daneskov ........................................................................................................... 22 Peter Frödin and Line Knutzon ................................................................................ 24 Sigurd Barrett............................................................................................................. 25 NON-FICTION Scandinavian Star ..................................................................................................... 26 The White Buses ....................................................................................................... 28 Functional Training .................................................................................................. 30 Imperfection .............................................................................................................. 32 LCHF ........................................................................................................................... 34 Sky-high Metabolism ............................................................................................... 36 10 Years Younger with Training ............................................................................... 37 Razor-sharp ............................................................................................................... 38 Think Like a Winner................................................................................................... 39 Protein ........................................................................................................................ 40 Chilli Klaus ................................................................................................................. 41 Spanish Wines .......................................................................................................... 42 Appetite for Life ......................................................................................................... 42 Super Salads.............................................................................................................. 43 Under a Crying Sun................................................................................................... 44

POLITIKEN LITERARY AGENCY

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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friends and colleagues, I am excited and proud to present to you Politiken Literary Agency’s list for the autumn of 2014.

As always, you will find a very strong line of crime and fiction – and the next volume in Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q-series.

Also – as usual – we are presenting a list of illustrated non-fiction titles, best-selling, and outstanding books on health and nutrition.

A title that I am especially proud to include in our catalogue is Puk Damsgård’s Under a Crying Sun (Hvor solen græder). Travelling in the war zones of Syria and Iraq as a Middle East correspondent, she has seen both horror and hope and tells the story of a Syrian couple in the midst of revolution.

We are, of course, happy to help you with anything from sample translations, summaries, reviews and foreign sales – to information on translation grants and even co-operation on marketing plans and help with organizing visits and tours with the authors in your country.

If you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

I look forward to talking books and business with you!

Best regards

Nya Guldberg Head of Foreign Rights

Nya Guldberg Head of Foreign Rights nya.guldberg@jppol.dk Tel: +45 33 47 07 93

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

POLITIKEN LITERARY AGENCY

Raadhuspladsen 37 DK-1785 Copenhagen Denmark rights@jppol.dk

Helle Skov Wacher International PR Coordinator helle.s.wacher@jppol.dk Tel: +45 33 47 07 51

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The sixth volume of the Dept. Q

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THE BOUNDLESS

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the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap, with his legs on the desk in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague from the Danish island of Bornholm.

“Well, yes, I am sorry to bother you, but perhaps you have time to listen to me.” But Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, and in the other end the receiver is quietly put down. Only a few hours later, the consequences have become completely unpredictable and Carl’s headstrong assistant Rose is more furious than usually.

Under much pressure he leads Department Q into a seventeen year old and extremely tragic case of a young, fun-loving woman who disappeared from her school and was found killed hanging in a tree. The very down-to-earth Carl is now facing a difficult and mysterious case, while a skilled manipulator with an iron will protects itself and those around it by all available means and refuses to let anyone or anything get in the way. Throughout the investigation, encountering uncompromising, alternative environments, Rose, Assad, Carl and newcomer Gordon are challenged in all sorts of ways, while old cases and secrets threaten to topple the foursome.

Rights sold to 37 countries

About the author: The first five volumes in the crime thriller series about Department Q: The Woman in the Cage, The Pheasant Killers, Message in a Bottle, Journal 64 and The Marco Effect have made Jussi Adler-Olsen one of the most popular and widely-read authors both in Denmark and internationally. To this day, the series have sold more than 2 million copies in Denmark alone.

The series about Department Q are scheduled to be an ongoing story consisting of 10 very different individual novels. Together they tell a comprehensive story about the main characters.

The series have been sold for publication in over 40 countries and in many places printed in astronomical numbers of copies. The film rights for the first four novels have been purchased

by Zentropa. The first two are out now.

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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 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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‘The most boring day in the world’, a newspaper called 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.

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During World War II, two British pilots, James and Bryan, are shot down over Germany. They know that they will be executed if captured. With an enemy patrol in pursuit, they manage to jump aboard a train reserved for senior SS soldiers wounded on the Eastern Front. In a moment of desperation, they throw two patients off the train and take their places, hoping to escape later. Instead, they end up in the Alphabet House, a mental hospital located far behind enemy lines, where German doctors subject their patients to daily rounds of shock treatments and experimental drugs. Their only hope of survival is to fake insanity until the war ends. But soon James and Bryan realize they are not the only ones in the Alphabet House feigning madness.

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Under 2. Verdenskrig bliver to engelske piloter, James og Bryan, skudt ned over Tyskland. De ved, at de vil blive henrettet som spioner, hvis de tages til fange.

Det lykkes dem at komme om bord på et lazarettog reserveret højtstående SS-folk, der har mistet forstanden på grund af de barske oplevelser på Østfronten.

James og Bryan smider to patienter af toget og indtager deres pladser i håb om, at de senere kan flygte.

De to piloter havner på Alfabethuset, et sindssygehospital der ligger langt bag frontlinjerne. Deres eneste redning er at simulere sindssyge. Men kan man det?

I månedsvis? Uden at blive det? Og er James og Bryan de eneste, der simulerer?

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Alfabethuset har høstet unikke anmeldelser og placeret sig helt i top på bestsellerlisterne både herhjemme og i udlandet.

Det anerkendte hollandske tidsskrift Vrij Nederland har placeret romanen blandt de 300 bedste thrillere, der nogensinde er udgivet.

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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.

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En lille gruppe mennesker anført af Doggie Rogers, nu USA’s mest eftersøgte kvinde, klamrer sig dog til håbet og forsøger at afsløre det komplot, det amerikanske samfund er udsat for. Alt hviler på Doggies skuldre.

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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.

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Da Doggie Rogers træder ind på Hotel Splendor for at fejre den demokratiske præsidentkandidat Bruce Jansens historiske valgsejr, er det i forvisning om, at det er den rigtige mand, der har vundet. Doggie er lykkelig, forelsket og fuld af håb. Men mens den nyvalgte præsident hyldes af sine trofaste støtter, trækker en mand sin pistol og affyrer et dræbende skud. Det rammer Bruce Jansens højgravide hustru, og hverken hun eller det ufødte barn står til at redde. Doggie er i chok – ikke mindst fordi hendes far anklages for mordet.

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en har redet ham som en mare. viser sig hurtigt, at der er flere sager, som sløset politiarbejde, fejl og mistro til

gtsofre har forhindret sammenkædningen af. Men Axel steen ser mønsteret. Jagten

på en sadistisk og kynisk serievoldtægtsforbryder og drabsmand, som huserer på

ro, og Axel steen, som er tvunget i knæ af samværskonflikt om sit barn og et eskahashmisbrug, går længere end nogensinde før i sit forsøg på at få stillet gernings-

t og de værste forbrydelser: drab og voldtægt. som sin anmelderroste forgænger

oregår den i et nutidigt København og på nørrebro.

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Bye Bye Blackbird

dets slag som en ond blodrytme i øregangen. Han bad til Gud om, at ’noget’ ikke var Marie schmidt, men han vidste godt, at Gud ikke fandtes. slet

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på Nørrebro i 2007.

Den døde er iført sort elefanthue og militærstøvler, hvilket straks kaster mistanken

ikke her i Ørstedsparken, hvor de ledte efter liget af den 18-årige pige, der lige var blevet student.

stået på: Skal gerningsmanden findes blandt betjente, der i kampens hede er gået for vidt?

Eller har nogen forsøgt at lægge et røgslør ud?

tid tænkte Axel ikke på noget andet end pigen.

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n mand findes myrdet på Assistens Kirkegård natten efter rydningen af Ungdomshuset

mod politiet, der har haft kirkegården under skarp bevogtning, mens urolighederne har

Der gik to minutter, før dykkerne kom op. i den

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Den unge autonome Piver kommer i besiddelse af en videooptagelse, som viser, hvad

Han tænkte på det, han vidste om sagen. Marie

der i virkeligheden skete på kirkegården den nat, men da det går op for ham, at adskillige

schmidt var gået mod hjemmet. sandsynligvis

mennesker ønsker at få fingre i filmen, flygter han over hals og hoved.

beruset. fra nørreport. og så var hun havnet her.

efter alt at dømme voldtaget. og smidt i søen. for halvandet døgn siden. De måtte sammenstykke

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jøet på Blågårds Plads og elitestrømerne i PET-bunkeren i Søborg.

havde hun talt med? Hvem havde set hende? Var hun alene?

Uro er skrevet af den danske journalist Jesper Stein, der i otte år arbejdede som rets- og

Det rykkede i snoren, og serier af bobler steg op sammen med mudder og blade. Dykkernes

kriminalreporter. I dag skriver han om litteratur. Uro modtog Det Danske Kriminalakademis

hoveder med maskerne var det første, de så, så

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Drabsafdelingens problembarn, vicepolitikommissær Axel Steen – fraskilt far med

kærlighedsproblemer, et stigende forbrug af hash og udtalt dødsangst – sættes til at lede efterforskningen, der kommer til at trække tråde fra Balkans narkogangstere til bandemil-

hendes færden lige fra bellevue og herind. Hvem

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mmerdag kontaktes af Kriminalteknisk Center. Der er fundet dna i en ny voldtægts-

, som rystede København i 2004. nu – fire år efter – får Axel steen en ny chance for

den sag, der i sin tid kostede ham hans ægteskab og var ved at knuse ham. og som

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Unrest is a realistic police detective novel, set in 2007, in the week after the eviction of “Ungdomshuset”, a building which functioned as a home for the underground scene for music and also as rendezvous point for various autonomen and leftist groups in Copenhagen’s toughest district, Nørrebro. The eviction led to the worst street fighting in Copenhagen in modern times. The cast is drawn from Nørrebro’s multicultural and alternative scenes, major criminal gangs, the far-left autonomist scene and the area’s tens of thousands of ordinary residents.

Bye Bye Blackbird is a brutal Copenhagen thriller about victims, perpetrators, punishment, vigilance and the worst kinds of crimes: murder and rape. The enfant terrible of the homicide department, the loner and workaholic Axel Steen; 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. 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 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 this, 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. 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 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.

The protagonist is a 37-year-old detective superintendent, Axel Steen, who is investigating the murder of an unidentified man, which may be linked to the demolition of the Youth House. He soon finds out that a lot of people, both inside the police and outside, have an interest in the case – and in preventing it being solved. It is a book about a man undergoing a crisis in his personal life, who thrives on cases where nothing is as it seems. He never stops until the truth is revealed. This has implications for everybody – in this case, particularly for Axel himself.

Unrest is the first book featuring Axel Steen.

Bye Bye Blackbird is the second book in the series on Axel Steen.

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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.

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.

This is so well written that it is difficult to put down. Bestseller potential!

[...] a riveting and believable plot delivered with real professionalism.

– Nordjyske Stiftstidende

– Børsen

★★★★

★★★★★

– Politiken

★★★★★

[...] merciless descriptions of cruel acts are glaringly and beautifully contrasted by the glimpses of poetic descriptions of the city of Copenhagen.

★★★★★

Jesper Stein proves himself to be one of the best crime writers in the country.

The story and the plot works, the characters are more nuanced than is otherwise seen in most crime novels, and finally this book not only delivers suspense but also entertaining and intelligent social criticism.

Linguistically brilliant, well-turned and realistic.

– Jyllands-Posten

– Dagbladenes Bureau

– Berlingske Tidende

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★★★★★ The third novel in the series on the

tough and self-destructive cop Axel Steen is nothing less than infamously exciting and masterfully well-written.

– Jyllands-Posten

★★★★★ All the old ties are loosened and tied

again, all balls are up in the air, and the reader is led around in a maze of false leads and conjectures in a meshed and captivating plot. Not until the very end, is it clear what is up and down – and the disaster is looming.

The word ‘akrash’ is Arabic slang meaning “cop”, but it is pronounced like ‘a crash’, and that is exactly what this third volume in the series about Axel Steen also holds. A crash, a collision, an accident. An actionrelated crash and to the protagonist a personal meltdown, a harsh crimeliterary experience, a really good book.

★★★★★ ♥♥♥♥♥ In Akrash things are taken to extremes

Jesper Stein offers an excellent double plot with both undercover drama, butt kicking and trial procedures.

In addition, he delivers spectacular bodily action (...) He [writes] bloody well, tight when it comes to action, taut when it comes to both real and verbal duels between the good and the evil.

making this a crime novel that is impossible to put down once reading has commenced. Consider yourself warned, dear reader (...) Jesper Stein is particularly eloquent.

– Dagbladenes Bureau

“Stein [is] Denmark’s best at the moment. Therefore, the wait was almost unbearable and my expectations skyhigh ... And let me tell you: They were completely fulfilled. I rushed through the book, partly because of the language, but certainly also because the action goes head over heels at a breathtaking pace.

The language is fluent, easy to read and above all, all dialogues realistic and completely alive, whether it’s the lawyer, the criminals or the police – this is sublime narrative art.

– krimifan.dk

♥♥♥♥ Akrash supports the motive of declaring Jesper Stein one of Denmark’s leading writers of crime fiction with various city rats, slum fish and other city slickers disguised as cops, prostitutes and pickpockets.

– Politiken

– litteratursiden.dk

– Berlingske Tidende

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★★★★ Stein leads his knife with enormous linguistic and narrative elegance. Copenhagen has rarely been described more ‘noir’ than this.

– B.T.

★★★★★ Top-rating from readers on saxo.com If you are to read only one book this year, it should be this one.

– christinamelchiors.dk

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eputy Police Commissioner Axel Steen is on the descent of a lifetime when his boss, Jens Jessen, receives an embarrassing hint that the Russian mafia has managed to place a mole at the center of the Danish police department. Mastering complete discretion, Jens Jessen tries to locate the snitch and soon five names appear on his list of suspects. Among them is Axel Steen, whose increasing drug abuse and close contact with

ghe o slang for police

the gangs of Copenhagen only help make matters worse.

While Axel is spiralling to rock bottom with feverish haste, he exceeds all his personal boundaries fighting to clear his name and save his fragile reputation. And only too late, he realizes that his ex-wife Cecilie plays a pivotal role in the case.

Akrash is the third book in the series on Axel Steen.

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Jesper Stein on AKRASH: Akrash is a dark book of addictions and breakdowns. My ambition was to write a novel where the great finale actually spreads over 200 pages. I wanted the reader to be glued to the book. What is going on with Axel Steen? How low can you go? Who is the snitch within the police force? Akrash is completely different from Unrest and Bye Bye Blackbird: there is no murder and parts of the story are told by a woman. This is my first attempt at writing a novel with so much excitement, it will leave you sleep deprived.

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About the author:

Plus I wanted the story to be told from a completely different view. One of my life’s greatest reading experiences was Lawrence Durrell’s ‘Alexandria Quartet‘.

I was 20, when I read it for the first time and I was fascinated at the way its point of view shifts: nothing is true; people’s motives are so varied that what is love to one person is cold calculation for the other and abuse to a third. Without comparison, I would like to tell the story of Axel Steen’s ex-wife Cecilie, who is a source of longing, desire, loss, anger and frustration to Axel in the first two books.

I have had very differing reactions to her character and it made me want to explore her profile. She is certainly driven by something quite different than the reader is made to think in the first two books.

And then there is the missing murder. I have always loved classic crime stories where the main character receives a phone call in the first chapter and has to go to the crime scene. But it was time for me to try something new. I do not want my books to be too alike. And Akrash is a mix between a crime novel and a thriller: there are one or three mysteries you have to figure out, but there is also a tension curve, where you are fully aware who the bad guys are and who the good guys are, and the struggle between those is what drives the story. And there are plenty of killings in the book – eventually.

Jesper Stein has spent ten years working as a crime reporter in Copenhagen. As a journalist, Jesper Stein has travelled the world, covering wars in the Balkans in the ’90s as well as famine in Africa.

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JENS HENRIK JENSEN

hutler sig gennem tilværelsen i Køben-

g spise madaffald fra supermarkeder.

medlem af Jægerkorpset sammen med at leve det simple liv.

mistænkes han pludselig for drabet på lsesrig tænketank.

p, og inden den pressede krigsveteran rethe Franck fra efterretningstjenesten sager, der tilsyneladende kun har ét til

teranen Niels Oxen.

– JYLLANDS-POSTEN

– EKSTRA BLADET

TURKAPELLET

skrevne danske thriller.

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Hangdogs Niels Oxen scrapes through life in a gritty neighbourhood of Copenhagen. The traumatised war veteran makes ends meet by collecting bottles for change during the day and by dumpster diving at night. Hoping to escape his inner demons, the retired Elite Soldier relocates to Northern Jutland together with his dog, setting up camp deep in the forest in a bid to live completely isolated. 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 suddenly suspected of the murder of the castle’s owner, a former ambassador and founder of an influential think tank.

SPECIFICATIONS: 416 pages, September 2013

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service appears remarkably quickly, and within the blink of an eye the pressured Oxen 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 make 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 book in the trilogy on Niels Oxen.

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There has never been written a Danish thriller on such a high level as Jens Henrik Jensen delivers with Hangdogs.

– Jyske Medier

★★★★★

... you have to remind yourself it IS only a story, isn’t it?

– JydskeVestkysten

★★★★ – Ekstra Bladet

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JENS HENRIK JENSEN

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jens Henrik Jensen, writer and journalist, entered the literary scene with his trilogy The Hag From Krakow (1997), The Jester In Murmansk (1999) and The Wolf From Banja Luka (2002).

Following his breakthrough, Jens Henrik Jensen embarked on his much acclaimed trilogy about DI Nina Portland featuring The Axe Ship (2004), The Coal Man (2007) and The Ghost Prisoner (2010). The Dark Men and Hangdogs are the first two volumes in a series featuring the traumatized 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.

♥♥♥♥ I highly recommend Jens Henrik’s novel.

It is enticingly exciting.

– litteratursiden.dk

★★★★ It is a pleasure reading Jens Henrik Jensen’s novels.

– JydskeVestkysten

★★★★ 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

★★★★ Exquisite excitement; well-written and thoroughly researched – Nordjyske Stiftstidende

★★★★ The Dark Men is a good, solid tale where the author manages to build up the tension and spellbind the reader all along – Vejle Amts Folkeblad

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Niels Oxen, Danmarks højest dekorerede soldat nogensinde, bor og arbejder under rumænsk identitet på et afsides dambrug i Jylland.

Skjult for omverdenen slås krigsveteranen med sine traumer, samtidig med at han lever i konstant alarm­ beredskab. For han har en hemmelighed, som holder ham i live – men som også kan slå ham ihjel.

Da en museumsinspektør bliver myrdet på et slot, udløses en lavine af voldsomme begivenheder, som involverer Danmarks justitsminister.

Der er kun få, der kan skimte en forbindelse til Oxen. En af dem er hans gamle makker, Margrethe Franck fra Politiets Efterretningstjeneste. Hun har ledt forgæves efter ham i mere end et år. Da hun endelig finder ham, besegler hun også hans skæbne.

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HHHHH Jens Henrik Jensen har en eminent næse for at skrue et pålide­ ligt og troværdigt plot sammen. – JYDSKE VESTKYSTEN

De hængte hunde er ferm og effen underholdning, leveret i Jens Henrik Jensens solide realistiske stil. – POLITIKEN

The Dark Men is the second book in the trilogy on Niels Oxen.

Oxen ser pludselig sig selv som centrum i en menneskejagt. Nogle vil hjælpe ham. Nogle vil dræbe ham.

Men hvem er ven, og hvem er fjende?

Franck og Oxen slutter sig på ny sammen mod de mørke mænd, der har magten. For den jagede krigs­ veteran har kun to muligheder: gå til grunde – eller gå til angreb.

DE MØRKE MÆND er en fortsættelse af første roman med krigsveteranen Niels Oxen, DE HÆNGTE HUNDE.

HHHH ... en tankevækkende thriller om magt og modstand.

– BERLINGSKE

HHHH Det er befriende ukrukket fortælleglæde. – EKSTRA BLADET

HHHH Der er lagt op til en engagerende serie ...

– JYLLANDS-POSTEN

Den er velskrevet, intelligent, veldisponeret ...

– KULTURKAPELLET

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, forfatter og journalist, slog igennem med Kazanski-trilogien Kællingen i Kraków (1997), Hofnarren i Murmansk (1999) og Ulven i Banja Luka (2002). Han udgav derefter den anmelderroste bestsellerserie om kriminalassistent Nina Portland, Økseskibet (2004), Kulmanden (2007) og Spøgelsesfangen (2010).

I 2012 udkom De hængte hunde, første bog i en serie med krigsveteranen Niels Oxen.

finally manages to locate him, she seals his fate. Suddenly Oxen finds himself in the middle of a manhunt.

Some will help him. Some will kill him. But who is friend and who is foe? Franck and Oxen are reunited against the dark men who hold the power. For the haunted war veteran there are only two options: go get them or go down.

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iels Oxen, Denmark’s highest JENS HENRIK JENSEN decorated soldier ever, lives and works under Romanian identity at a remote fish farm in Jutland. The post-traumatic stress syndrome suffering veteran lives in a state of constant alertness: he has a secret that keeps him alive – but it might also kill him.

When a curator is murdered in a castle and the Danish Minister of Justice is involved, an avalanche of violent events is set in motion. Only few people spot the connection to Oxen. One of them is his old partner Margrethe Franck from the Police Intelligence Force. When she

SPECIFICATIONS: 476 pages, September 2014

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A captivating and entertaining story. The director’s ability to set scenes and cliffhangers has certainly been an advantage.

– Politiken

★★★★ The tension is intense in the new Danish crime thriller that seduces the reader into a plot that moves all known notions of ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

Winner of The Danish Crime Writers’ Association’s award for best debut

– JydskeVestkysten This is fast-paced excitement (...)

Lots of pace, drama and action – Ekstra Bladet The book’s plot is wonderful (...) The Last Good Man is written in an easy to read, nice language. It is simply a pleasure.

And the action is so tight and exciting, the pages fly through your fingers (...) It is brilliantly implemented.

The Last Good Man

is being adapted for the screen by Twentieth Century Fox

– Fredericia Dagblad Intense (...) Moments of rapid-fire suspense (...) A truly compelling and worthwhile journey.

– Associated Press

The Last Good Man In Beijing, a monk collapses in his chamber, dead. A fiery mark – a tattoo? a burn? – spreads across his back and down his spine. In Mumbai, a beloved economist dies suddenly.

The same symbol appears. Similar deaths are reported around the world – the victims all humanitarians, all with the same death mark. In Venice, a rogue Italian policeman links the deaths, tracing the evidence. Who is killing good people around the world?

In Copenhagen, the Interpol alert lands on the desk of veteran detective Niels Bentzon: Find the “good people” of Denmark and warn them. But Bentzon is a man who is trained to see the worst in humanity, not the good.

Just as Bentzon is ready to give up, he meets Hannah Lund, a brilliant astrophysicist mourning the death of her son. With Hannah’s help, Bentzon begins to piece together the puzzle of these far-flung deaths. A pattern 12

emerges – a perfectly executed plan of murder. There have been thirtyfour deaths – two more to come if the legend is true. According to the pattern, Bentzon and Hannah can predict the time and place of the final two murders. The deaths will occur in Venice and Copenhagen. And the time is now.

The first book in the series on Niels Bentzon.

A.J. KAZINSKI

★★★★★ A truly breathtaking crime novel.

- Dagbladenes Bureau

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Rønnow Klarlund and Weinreich tell a basically exciting and high-paced story that builds up a level of tension and the intensity lasts all the way.

- JydskeVestkysten Kazinski narrates exuberantly and intensely…They succeed at juggling soul and sorrow, life and seeking, without losing grip of reality, suspense, or nerve.

– Ekstra Bladet Entertaining and exciting. It’s well-written and imaginative, with a touch of pastiche perfectly suited to the Gothic storyline!

– Information With this original plot the authors have created a thriller that you won’t be able to put down.

– Le Courrier 500 pages of brilliant and intense thrills.

– Aftenposten A sickeningly good crime novel.

– VG

Near Death A dead woman lies sprawled across the rails, the back of her head crushed, a cryptic message written on her hand. Who was she? What drove her to jump off the bridge? Someone or something was after her – someone or something that made her prefer death to life. Niels Bentzon is the best in his field. Colleagues speak of his calm, his ability to talk to people.

He has no idea why he is so good at convincing desperate people not to do desperate things. Bentzon is in his mid-forties and looks fine on the outside, but on the inside he is falling apart. His second marriage is a prison of claustrophobia and repressed feelings. His wife, the ingenious astrophysicist Hannah Lund, has withdrawn into her own world.

SPECIFICATIONS: 504 pages, August 2012

Near Death is a frightening journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind. The novel challenges the boundaries between life and death and poses questions: Do we have immortal souls? When does life begin, when does it end?

The second book in the series on Niels Bentzon.

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About the authors: A.J. Kazinski is the pseudonym of authors Anders Rønnow Klarlund and Jacob Weinreich.

The duo debuted in 2010 with the bestseller The Last Good Man which has been published in 22 countries and won The Danish Crime Writers’ Association’s award for best debut and the prestigious French award Prix Relay.

Anders Rønnow Klarlund is a film director and screenwriter who has directed five feature films, including Strings, which was sold around the world, and his latest, The Secret Society of Fine Arts. Jacob Weinreich is the author of a long and well-received list of children’s books in Denmark.

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A Holy Alliance

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pointing straight to the heart of not only the Danish, but the old monarchies throughout Europe.

The same morning a dead body is found, former reporter Eva Katz begins her new job in a kindergarten. She wants this to be a fresh start on life and in regards to the terrible secret she is carrying. But on her meeting with a five year old boy, everything is changed. What is he trying to tell her with his bloodfilled drawing? Eva begins to suspect that the boy has witnessed a crime. The little boy is the son of the Danish Crown Princess’s lady-in-waiting and soon Eva realises that she is facing a gruesome crime,

A Holy Alliance is a thoroughly researched, fast paced thriller about the war between democracy and monarchy. It takes the reader behind the façade of Europe’s royal families and tells stories of secrets and scandals from the hundreds of years that the monarchy and the democracy have battled for power.

★★★★★

♥♥♥♥

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The Kazinski’s surpass themselves (…) A Holy Alliance is an intelligent, well-written and pungent Dan Brown-clone, at the same time unrealistic and realistic, conspiratorial and concrete.

In the preface to the new thriller, A. J. Kazinski wisely asks loyal royalist readers to stop reading.

They deliver a true beating of the monarchy in this book, which quite detailed puts its nose into scandals and sleazy details regarding the European dynasties. (...) What is right and wrong in this is impossible to know, but entertaining it is indeed.

– SAXO

Let the royalists falter!

A. J. Kazinski has written an amazing crime story slash thriller which in my honest opinion is actually also a book for debating (...) As a reader you are served scandals and secrets along with a highly thrilling plot (...) as a fiction reader, I am in it for the pace, excitement and plenty of drama.

– Berlingske Tidende

★★★★ – Ekstra Bladet

– Femina

– Politiken

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A.J. KAZINSKI

The Stalkers SPECIFICATIONS: 396 pages, May 2014

★★★★★

A.J. Kazinski’s The Stalkers is a riveting account of what stalking can cause on a personal level. Superbly, Kazinski orchestrates the reader’s dissociation of what is going on, while at the same time sympathizing with the characters’ motives. On a more fundamental level it is discussed whether what the characters are doing is fated or random, and this philosophical dimension is part of why The Stalkers is so very special in its genre.

– Dagbladenes Bureau

★★★★★ The couple behind Kazinski is in peak condition with their well designed measurement of common people’s envy, hate and thirst for revenge.

– Berlingske Tidende

★★★★ – Ekstra Bladet

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In the underwear department of a major store, Julie catches sight of the woman who destroyed her life. What to do? Walk on? Ignore her? Or follow the woman and get her own sweet revenge – revenge for stealing Julie’s husband? She starts stalking her as she has a rendezvous with a third man. A really close one. In a most intimate situation in the dressing room. It turns out, the man is not just any man, but that he holds a powerful position in Danish society. What will Julie do with the photo she took of him with the woman? How will she use this knowledge and what comes after?

As fate has it, she teams up with three of her neighbours. Like her, they are ordinary people too tempted to resist interfering with other people’s lives. As the story unfolds, covers are blown, lies are revealed and the scandals roll. But what are they really looking for? Soon the four of them are all involved in a byzantine intrigue in this crime story focusing on how much we can actually follow each other in these days of social media. This is a crime story meeting Desperate Housewives and as the character Julie says: “Don’t we all know someone we wish to stalk?”

Driven by obscure desires.

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EVA MARIA FREDENSBORG

SPECIFICATIONS: app. 350 pages, February 2015

Photo: Jens Peter Engedal

OPTION HOLDERS: ITALY / Atmosphere Libri

About the author: Danish Eva Maria Fredensborg (1969) was born in Sweden and lives in Denmark.

In 2006 she founded the publishing house Elg & Co., where she published Swedish fiction in Danish translation until her own debut in 2013. In 2014 Eva Maria Fredensborg joined Politiken Publishers.

MAKING THE CUT A major league soccer player is liquidated after the season’s final game. Carl Pedersen has known the victim as a boy, but denies it so he can participate in the investigation. Along with the profiler Robert Beach and sociologist Asta Qvist his task is to identify the perpetrator’s motive based on the many traces that pop up in the first days of investigation. The text, which lured the victim into an ambush, leads them to a weed dealer. An officer with the investigation is threatened to disclose information about the case, and the victim’s flat is ransacked.

Soon it turns out, the victim was in possession of a package that persons associated with the Copenhagen biker environment are brutally keen on getting back.

Who was the top scorer of the super league behind the facade? For Carl Pedersen the case is an unpleasant reminder that you never really know another person. When the hunt for 16

the missing package brings some of those dearest to Carl in danger, he has to admit that he barely knows himself.

This is the third book in the series on Asta Qvist and Robert Strand.

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Min mund er lukket er en uafhængig fortsættelse af Eva Maria Fredensborgs debutkrimi, Én gang morder (2013), som har fået en fin modtagelse i Danmark og som også er solgt til udgivelse i Italien.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 350 pages, February 2014

SPECIFICATIONS: 350 pages, May 2014

My Lips are Sealed

Once a Murderer A Danish psychiatrist comes to Småland, Sweden to teach a summer course, but when he wakes up the next morning, there is a white envelope on the doorstep of the rented house. It contains a photograph of a serial killer who took his own life while he was under the care of the psychiatrist twenty years prior. The next morning a woman is found murdered.

Was it loneliness that drove a female translator to take her own life or was someone literally leading her hand?

A strange post-it note on the fridge, a neighbour calling early in the morning, and a bracelet that does not fit with the smock and the cut-off rubber boots. Asta Qvist is convinced that Hannah Lundgren did not commit suicide, and when Robert Strand is put on the case, it turns out that Asta has had good reason to doubt the police findings.

What looks like an ideal case for the Danish profiler, Robert Strand, quickly develops into a nightmare, as it turns out that he only has five days to prevent the serial killer’s copy cat from striking again. This is Eva Maria Fredensborg’s debut.

♥♥♥♥♥ A masterful plot and a string of interesting characters. There are no quiet passages in the book, it is constantly evolving, keeping pace and power. And well written in a simple, unaffected manner. All in all a very good experience - a modern and captivating thriller.

- Politiken

Number two in the series on Asta Qvist and Robert Strand.

Great work by the eloquent Eva Maria Fredensborg.

– Weekendavisen

A number of Swedish authors have tried to write lucrative homeland novels without succeeding even half as good as Eva Maria Fredensborg.

– Weekendavisen

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Captivating read (..) a solid thriller that keeps its reader engaged and thinking. – Politiken

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If you liked the predecessor, there are plenty of good reasons to read this sequel!

– Alt for damerne

Eva Maria Fredensborg writes well and easily (...) an excellent and thorough crime debut.

– Femina

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ANNE-MARIE VEDSØ OLESEN

About the author:

The Bastard

Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen (born 1962) is a Danish novelist with a medical degree from the University of Copenhagen.

She made her debut in 2000 with award-winning Sun over Salerno, set in the time of the Second Crusade.

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pain 1569. Three quarters of a century after the Christians final victory over the Moors, a certain order and stability have settled under the rule of King Philip II. But under the surface, the country is still a sizzling powder keg of struggles and brutal intolerance against everyone who shows the slightest sympathies with Muslims or Jews. The Spanish Inquisition charges ahead with an iron fist, executioners and poisoners are busy, the stakes are burning fiercely and the fear of an Arab or Ottoman retaliation are never far away.

The Bastard is the second volume about Madeleine and an independent sequel to Lady-in-waiting (2013). It is an evocative and sensuous tale about a violent and epoch-making time in the history of Europe. First and foremost it is a tale about a woman in a world of pretense and fraud who must decide who and what is actually real.

Madeleine de Montdidier has arrived in Madrid, after a narrow escape from the wars of religion in France.

In Madrid she is whirled into a toxic game between powers of the king, the church and power-hungry intriguers.

Her secret relationship with the king’s flamboyant brother, Juan of Austria, is of vital importance and demands all of her vigour and clear-sight. Both for the safety of her and of her unborn child, that only she knows who has fathered.

SPECIFICATIONS: 320 pages, January 2015 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE Photo: Robin Skjoldborg

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ANNE-MARIE VEDSØ OLESEN

Lady-inwaiting

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i er wars of religion between Catholics and Huguenots are ravaging. King Charles IX of France may have been declared emperor, but his mother, Catherine de Medici, is still the real power behind the throne.

The young, beautiful and querulous Madeleine de Montdidier arrives in Paris and soon becomes one of Catherine’s ladiesin-waiting, but she also falls in love with the married leader of the Huguenots, Louis de Condé. As the country teeters on the brink of disintegration, Madeleine fights to survive the political and erotic intrigues of a cynical court.

SPECIFICATIONS: 320 pages, September 2013 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

Lady-in-waiting is both a fast-paced and colourful novel about one of the most dramatic periods of European history, and the timeless story of a young woman struggling to find her way through life and love.

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★★★★★

★★★★★

★★★★

“The Three Musketeers” meets “The Story of O” in Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen’s novel. (...) It’s a high-octane read…

Olesen’s descriptions are detailed and relevant to the story. They beguile the reader the way picture books do, and the book really is a kind of picture book, its images conjured through Vedsø Olesen’s knowledge, enthusiasm and artistic skill, through her refined and accomplished literary style.

Lady-in-waiting is fast-paced and thrilling; it is, as mentioned, colourful, but without being garish, and it encourages further exploration of a pivotal time in history; it is intelligent light reading.

Vedsø Olesen elegantly interweaves historical facts and fiction, painting a complex picture of Catherine de Medici as seen through the admiring eyes of a fictive young lady-in-waiting.

– Politiken

★★★★ – Berlingske

– Dagbladenes Bureau

– Fyens Sti stidende

Photo: Robin Skjoldborg

An opulent buffet of melodrama, illicit love, rapiers, plots and broken hearts... It starts with full percussion and ends with the entire orchestra!

– Nordjyske Sti stidende

– Kristeligt Dagblad

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ANNE-CATHRINE RIEBNITZSKY

★★★★★★ – Ekstra Bladet Photo: Les Kaner

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 to work as a soldier at first and then as advisor for the Foreign Ministry.

SPECIFICATIONS: 332 pages, September 2013

WINNER OF THE GOLDEN LAURELS IN DENMARK 2013

With more than 50,000 copies sold Slaughtered Pigs have been on the Danish bestseller lists since its publication.

Her first book was The Women’s War in 2010, which was a documentary about her work with the 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.

Politiken’s Novel of the Year Award 2013

Rights for The Women’s War are handled

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Slaughtered Pigs This is a novel filled with poetic brutality. It is a delicate picture of Denmark below the radar, a parallel society and an insight into the vulnerable souls who must navigate in a wounded family. All children deserve a happy childhood, but not all get to have it. This is the horrifying story of a childhood filled with violence, fright and small

★★★★★

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.

rays of light. Lisa and her three siblings live in a remote part of Denmark with their abusive parents. Mistreated and fearsome, their story is unfolded as an emotional tour de force through a brutal upbringing. It is the story of extremes, of surviving and finding a way through the voids. There are omnipresent dangers, a continued

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

The sensations of childhood, the unspoken premonitions, the trembling fear, the exact choreographed situation; the author masters it all.

– Weekendavisen

quest for recognition, love and security.

It is most touching – yet also a story of everything that makes life worth living.

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★★★★★

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– Alt for damerne

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 monstrosities.

With her background, Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky manages to put a face on Denmark’s participation of the war.

♥♥♥♥

– Politiken

– Nordjyske Stiftstidende

– Dagbladenes Bureau

– Jyllands-Posten

Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky has a unique duplicity between the weak and the violent (...) As a writer, Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky balances a double-edged sword. On the one hand, her stories are so colourful and tough, that they are close to brutal reality. On the other hand, her tone of voice is so low-key, the style so unpretentious (…) surprisingly genuine.

– Kristeligt Dagblad

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HANS DAVIDSEN-NIELSEN

ERIK VALEUR

★★★★★

Erik Valeur’s gripping and dramatic debut novel (...) is phenomenal!

– Berlingske Tidende

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★★★★

Valeur demonstrates great technical prowess and a sense for suspense as he unfolds his plot.

– Vejle Amts Folkeblad

★★★★★ – Ekstra Bladet

I have rarely read a book put together in such an exquisitely intricate mosaicpattern as this first novel.

– Nordjyske Stiftstidende

★★★★★★

– Jyllands-Posten

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

A novel so good that you’ll look forward to reading it again.

– Weekendavisen

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The Seventh Child

Sold more than 150,000 copies in Denmark

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t birth the seven children have only two things in common: They are all born at 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 somewhere has done everything possible to keep that secret hidden. When the story is made public, it has explosive consequences. Could it be that for the past

About the author: Photo: Kissen Møller Hansen

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 this person holds.

The Seventh Child is the story of how the 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 today.

SPECIFICATIONS: 696 pages, August 2011

The Debutant Award 2011 Weekendavisens Literature Award 2011

The Harald Mogensen Award 2012 The DBC’s Best Novel Award 2012 The Glass Key Award 2012

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Erik Valeur (born 1955) is a Danish journalist and media commentator. Along with his colleagues, he has 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.

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MANU SAREEN

Alvin’s Goodbye cannot sleep. What happens when you die? Do you turn into dust like Molly will in the garden? And if Molly can die so suddenly what about Granny – or Mom or Dad? Alvin’s Goodbye is a poetic and unsentimental story for children and their parents about the biggest and most difficult questions in life.

One day Alvin finds his bunny Molly lying totally still on the bottom of her cage. Molly with her long soft ears, which can point straight up like two antennas. Molly, who he can tell everything. She is dead. Daddy and Alvin put her in a box and bury her in the yard, down by the playhouse. By night Alvin’s head is filled with thoughts and he

LARS DANESKOV

SPECIFICATIONS: 152 pages, May 2013 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

Faith, Hope and Gorgonzola It is 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.

★★★★★

This is a madcap story about a kidnapping, a pizza guy with really hairy arms, a celebrity in high heels, a father who has been badly injured dancing the foxtrot – and about how grown-ups are generally quite weird grown-ups.

Faith, Hope and Gorgonzola is almost perfect in its intention with no ulterior motive: to entertain!

Daneskov knows how to write for children.

It’s as simple as that.

– Ekstra Bladet

♥♥♥♥♥ – Politiken

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013 IN DENMARK

Phot o: L es Ka

This is the first book in the “Cheese Series”.

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About the author:

Lars Daneskov (born 1963) is the father of four, a journalist and the author of many titles including the bestselling Dad on the Run, which has sold more than 45,000 copies. Lars Daneskov is currently writing the third book about Anton, Molly and all their friends.

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About the author: Manu Sareen is a father of three, Minister for Children, Gender Equality, Integration and Social Affairs and author to the renowned series about Iqbal Farooq for which he received The Danish School Librarian’s Award for Children’s Books in 2013.

Illustrated by Stine Rosenberg Schmidt.

SPECIFICATIONS: 32 pages, August 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

SPECIFICATIONS: 152 pages, June 2014

Cooties and Bingowings Anton’s mother is starting to get wrinkles. And her upper-underarm is starting to jiggle so it looks just like the dough Pappa throws when making pizza.

All in all, Mum is aware, she is not twenty any more, she says, and although Anton is not quite sure how old she really is, he is sure about one thing: Wrinkles are dangerous. Very dangerous. In fact, they are the worst and most dangerous thing that can happen to ladies.

Anton and his best friend Molly set up a plan so Mum will definitely not get old. But those kinds of things are not always easy to go about, and they will need a pair of cucumber glasses, a hat of cauliflower, an Egyptian cocoa bath, the arm of the statue cream king Walter Flottenheimer has and not least the clothesline with all the handkerchiefs

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from the man with the world’s worst cold. And they need it soon – before everything goes from bad to worse.

Cooties and Bingowings is the second book in the “Cheese Series” and can be read as an independent sequel to Faith, Hope and Gorgonzola.

★★★★★ Anton and Molly’s struggle to help Anton’s mother, partly with her cheese shop, partly with Pappa, is so divine that everybody will chuckle! It is certainly on par with the first book Faith, Hope and Gorgonzola,, so once again this is family entertainment at a high level.

– Ekstra Bladet The best thing was when they replaced the glasses in Mum’s spectacles with cucumbers (...) I think you should read the book, because it is exciting, it is fun and it is a bit like a fairy tale.

– Vita, 9 years old

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PETER FRÖDIN AND LINE KNUTZON

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Little Allan Little Allan lives with his father in a dreary apartment block inhabited by an assortment of odd people. His best friend is an old man living in the same block though never leaving the house. None the less, Allan becomes involved in some pretty unpredictable adventures including UFOs, doppelgängers and lots of quirky characters. Little Allan is a poetic, melancholic and life-affirming story about a boy trying to find his way in life.

SPECIFICATIONS: 152 pages, November 2012 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

SPECIFICATIONS: 128 pages, September 2013 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

Little Allan – The Human Antennae

Little Allan at the Doppelgänger School

Allan is at home, minding his own business and doing nothing in particular. 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 cannot get home without it. 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 it is now in the dark basement. Majken has to get home and Little Allan decides to help.

Little Allan is home alone feeling scared. When he looks out the window, it seems as if there is someone there, right behind the bushes, staring straight at him. And out in the square there is an all shiny, long, black car of the sort that would normally never park in this part of town. Little Allan goes to the hot-dog stand to buy some chips. “D’you want salt with that?” a man with long, thin fingers 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 by him. They look like him, all four of them. Little Allan is at the doppelgänger school.

Behind the book:

★★★★ It is divine – Ekstra Bladet

…sensitive and crazy and, of course, fun.

– Weekendavisen

The Illustrator: Illustrator 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 with more than two million hits on his website.

The Authors: Line Knutzon is an award-winning dramatist. Peter Frödin is a singer, actor and comedian.

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SIGURD BARRETT

igurd Barrett is one of Denmark’s most gifted narrators of children’s stories. Hosting his own TV-show, playing music, telling stories – children of all ages love him. His ability to convey even serious subjects to children has garnered him numerous awards.

He has written a huge amount of children’s books and music for children. Here is a brief introduction to three of the most amazing and recent ones from him – a trilogy on religion.

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SIGURD’S BIBLE STORIES

SIGURD’S STORIES ABOUT THE NORSE GODS

Bring your children on a tour to explore the biblical universe. A re-telling of 24 of the most popular stories from the Bible in the way that only Sigurd can: unpretentious, poignant and fun. Here you can read about the Tower of Babel, Jonah and the whale, Noah’s Ark, The Ten Commandments, Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and other celebrations and stories. Published in co-operation with Danish Church Media.

Here’s a book that whisks 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 words and pictures, allowing children to discover Viking lore and helping adults to become reacquainted with Thor, Odin, Loke and all the other Gods and of course the Jotuns, the Norns and the Vanirs.

SPECIFICATIONS: 288 pages, March 2010 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

SPECIFICATIONS: 224 pages, September 2013 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

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SIGURD’S STORIES FROM THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY Who was Zeus?

How did the Olympics come about?

And what happens if you fall in love with your own reflection?

In his usual ebullient narrative style, Sigurd welcomes children and their adults to the marvellous world of the Greek Gods where monsters, sea serpents and sphinxes are fought by heroes with courage and heart.

SPECIFICATIONS: 240 pages, October 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

LARS HALSKOV

SCANDINAVIAN STAR

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he arson aboard the ship the Scandinavian Star the night of 7 April 1990 is Scandinavia’s biggest unsolved crime.

159 people lost their lives in the blaze. 24 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. Scandinavian Star gives us the whole story from beginning to end.

Photo: Thomas Borberg

About the author:

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 on-board safety procedures 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 Johansen 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 clarified.

The story regularly features in the media in all the Nordic countries, whenever new information that could help solve the mystery emerges.

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 quest, 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.

For many years, the authorities of Norway, Denmark and Sweden refused to reopen the case; however, Norway has recently decided to do so.

Lars Halskov, 50, is an author and journalist who has covered the mystery of the arson aboard the Scandinavian Star. Lars Halskov is the co-author of three critically acclaimed documentary titles: Condemned Spring – The War in Kosovo (Det fordømte forår: om krig i Kosova) (2000), The Ship that Disappeared (Skibet der forsvandt) (2009) and A Country at War (Et land i krig)(2012).

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A summary of events Firm suspicions were cast on a Danish lorry driver, who died in the fire, at the early stages of the Norwegian police investigation. The case was duly closed and this remains the Norwegian police’s official explanation.

Subsequently, independent fire safety studies have shown that there were at least four separate fires on the ship and that two of them were started several hours after the lorry driver had perished.

These two fires were not included in the official investigation, which only covered the 90 minutes between 1.50 a.m. and 3.20 a.m., when the captain abandoned ship.

The book will be published in Denmark around 1 April 2015 in time for the 25th anniversary of the disaster.

SPECIFICATIONS: App. 352 pages.

The manuscript will be ready December 2014

RIGHTS SOLD: NORWAY / Norsk Gyldendal

Several witnesses – among others, Swedish Fire Chief Ingvar Brynfors, who led the effort to put out the fire – have claimed that efforts to extinguish the blaze were sabotaged by the crew and suspect that members of the crew were responsible for the arson.

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BO LIDEGAARD

Photo: Les Kaner

About the author: Dr. Bo Lidegaard is the editor in chief of Politiken, the leading Danish daily newspaper. He has published several best selling titles on contemporary history, most recently Countrymen (LandsmĂŚnd) (2013) on the escape of the Danish Jews in October 1943, which was published in 12 countries.

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In

1944 activists in occupied Norway and Denmark realized that their compatriots held in Nazi concentration camps faced extermination as the war was closing in on mainland Germany. Information was leaked that Hitler had issued orders for all prisoners to be executed and the concentration camps destroyed before Allied troops could seize them.

Appalled by this prospect, activists sought ways to register and eventually evacuate Scandinavian prisoners from the camps.

Despite orders from The Allied Supreme Command in September 1944 that no civilian prisoners held in

Germany was to be released before Allied forces had secured the entire country and established firm control, groups of civilian activist from Norway and Denmark continued their push for some kind of understanding with the Nazi leadership for a step-by-step release of prisoners.

Eventually, in February and March 1945, through a concerted effort, a major rescue operation building on these advance initiatives was planned and launched by Swedish Red Cross under the leadership of Count Folke Bernadotte. The operation was a unique humanitarian action. During the course of few weeks and driving hundred of white buses

through the scattered roads of the collapsing Third Reich, volunteers managed to rescue more than 10,000 prisoners.

The White Buses tracks the origins of this fascinating operation and reveals the details of the underlying diplomacy that made it possible. Based almost exclusively on contemporary accounts, the book gives a revealing insight into the SS-leadership in the last months, weeks and days of Nazi Germany.

With rich documentation and firsthand accounts from activists negotiating with leading Nazis and visiting the concentration camps to secure 29

the release of prisoners, the account is both compelling and moving.

The White Buses will be fully illustrated with contemporary photos documenting the operations and main participants.

SPECIFICATIONS: App. 300 pages incl. 40 photos and maps Publication: April 2015 RIGHTS AVAILABLE IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY

THOMAS RODE ANDERSEN

About the authors: Thomas Rode Andersen is one of Denmark’s best chefs, having worked at Michelinstarred restaurants throughout his career. Thomas Rode Andersen now focuses on his work as counsellor and frontrunner with the Paleo Diet and cross-fit performance. His life story is depicted in the autobiography In His Majesty’s Service (I kongens klæ’r) and he has written the bestsellers Paleo and The Stoneage Diet.

Power Dynamics Vitality Health

Thilde Jo Maarbjerg is restaurant manager, sommelier and co-author of the bestseller Paleo.

Dennis Frisch has worked many years as personal and physical trainer for athletes and teaches training for fitness instructors and personal trainers.

Photos from the book

Functional Training T

op tuned body? More muscles? Peaking metabolism, vitality and boost of energy? All this comes with Functional Training. The trio behind it featuring Thomas Rode Andersen, Thilde Jo Maarbjerg and Dennis Frisch is passionately devoted to and practising functional training – training, that mimic the movement patterns man originally used to run, jump, climb, and all in all, to survive.

The book presents ideas, inspiration and programs for functional training. Training that puts health in focus

and enables you to use your body at its best so you can embrace life’s challenges and stay powerful, free and effortless. Focus is also on the key to a daily habit of training: motivation or lack of same.

Functional Training describes a wide range of exercises and comes with proposals for putting together sets to be done anywhere, any time and without using machines. 20 protein-rich and easily accessible recipes will help rebuild the muscles after exercise and ensure that the body recovers quickly.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 224 pages, September 2014 OPTION HOLDERS: FINLAND / Atena HUNGARY / Scolar NORWAY / Lille Måne SWEDEN / Pagina

SPECIFICATIONS: 264 pages, October 2012

SPECIFICATIONS: 256 pages, October 2013

PALEO

THE STONEAGE DIET

In this sequel to the bestseller The Stoneage Diet, Thomas 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.

Gourmet chef Thomas Rode tells about the changes he has gone through as he has given up pasta, rice, wheat, and sugar. As a result his muscles are more toned than ever and he finds he has enough energy to work 14 hours a day without getting exhausted.

The point of the Paleo Diet is all about skipping the modern eating habits that ruin our bodies, and instead focus on healthy, natural food with the right balance of protein, fat and carbohydrates.

The book contains over 80 recipes; all structured on the principles of The Stoneage Diet also known as the Paleo Diet. This is food without artificial preservatives, cooked with modern techniques, and with flavours that delight the modern palate. The recipes’ primary ingredients are meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, fruits, berries, and nuts. All of which is natural and healthy food that our bodies are designed to eat.

The book contains 87 new recipes for everyday cooking as well as for dinner parties. The dishes are based on meat, fruit and vegetables, designed 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.

The book also contains the author’s best tips for physical training, a section explaining why this form of diet is so healthy, and instructions on how to try it out and experience for yourself the brilliant difference it makes for you and your body.

RIGHTS SOLD: NORWAY / Lille Måne

OPTION HOLDERS:

RIGHTS SOLD:

FINLAND / Atena HUNGARY / Scolar SWEDEN / Pagina

FINLAND / Atena HUNGARY / Scolar NORWAY / Lille Måne SWEDEN / Pagina

★★★★

Another inspiring book with super masculine and not least accessible recipes (...) the cookbook in itself is beautiful and very thorough.

♥♥♥♥♥

– gastromand.dk

Appetizing and inviting recipes.

With a book like Paleo at hand, it is a lot easier to eat appropriately – also for those of us who do not swear by the Paleo Diet.

– Politiken

– foodfanatic.dk

An eye-opener that provides inspiration, food for the brain and appeals to the aesthetic sense as it is truly a pleasure (…) a rarely found inspirational cookbook for anyone with an interest in healthy ingredients.

– HEALTH Magazine

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CHRISTIAN BITZ

SPECIFICATIONS: 240 pages, September 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

IMPERFECTION

A

re you dreaming of healthy eating habits, long runs in the woods, well-behaved children you have time and energy to be with? Are you dreaming of the perfect life? Then you might as well stop ... because as the author puts it: how wonderful is it really to be absolutely perfect? Imperfection does away with the myth of the per-

fect life and offers a realistic guide to a life without guilt and unattainable goals.

Christian Bitz pinpoints some of the most obvious questions that do not necessarily come with obvious answers: What is health? How healthy would you like to be? How to get started? And then, once and for all, he tells you how to keep your spirits up, 32

reach your goals and to be happy being imperfect! He provides an honest insight into his life and describes how he himself struggles to balance work, privacy and “skyr” – the Icelandic product which all nutritionists recommend these days.

And he explains why and how he himself prioritizes health, but at the same time keeps scores, so nothing is off-limits.

MORE THAN

80,000 COPIES SOLD

40,000 COPIES SOLD

SPECIFICATIONS: 272 pages, January 2012 SPECIFICATIONS: 272 pages, August 2012

RIGHTS SOLD: NORWAY / Cappelen Damm

RIGHTS SOLD: NORWAY / Cappelen Damm THE NETHERLANDS / Kosmos

OPTION HOLDERS: THE NETHERLANDS / Kosmos

THE WORLD’S BEST DIET 2.0

THE WORLD’S BEST DIET

This time, Christian Bitz and Arne Astrup have made a book for those dieting on their own. The scientific basis for the book is still Diogenes, however, the recipes, which are all measured in portions for just one person, are even simpler.

Information from the world’s most extensive scientific research project in diet and weight loss, Diogenes, forms the basis of the dietary principles and recipes in the book.

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.

The World’s Best Diet 2.0 guides the reader to healthier eating and living, which is the foundation for 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 on the quest for weight-loss.

Seven formerly overweight people each tell their story of success following the dietary rules and the reader gets concrete advice and knowledge that, once and for all, dispel any excuse for not losing weight and staying slim.

The World’s Best Diet is based on very simple principles with documented effect with tasty food, which will make your entire family healthier and slimmer.

– POLITIKEN

About the author: Christian Bitz holds an MA in Human Nutrition and was formerly research director at a major Danish hospital. He is known from several food and health programs on national TV. A former model, Christian Bitz is one of Denmark’s most popular presenters touring the country with health-realistic and motivational messages and he has won several prizes, including Danish Innovator of the Year 2011.

The World’s Best Diet Vol. 1 and 2 is written with Arne Astrup, MD, Dr. Med.Sci., who is in charge of the world’s leading obesity research groups. He is professor of Nutrition and Head of the Department of Human Nutrition at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Arne Astrup 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.

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THE

LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) diet is a huge success. The basic principle behind it is to avoid food that is rich on carbohydrates and with a low level of natural fats.

The food pyramid, as we know it traditionally, has been turned upside down. The principle is instead to eat lots of 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, rice and so forth. Eating LCHF gives you the chance to eat your fill of delicious food while gaining a new, healthy lifestyle with the added benefit of a more vigorous feeling and greater well-being.

SPECIFICATIONS: 184 pages, August 2014 Diet plan, 65 recipes ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

Slimming with LCHF Photo: Maria P

Slimming with LCHF is for all women and men who are eager to lose weight, but are looking for a diet where shedding pounds feels easy. The book offers practical advice on how to achieve an effective weight loss by eating a diet low in carbohydrates and with fat in filling amounts and how to turn LCHF into a lifestyle.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The book is written by a clinical dietician Diana Kaiser, who works with the LCHF principles on a daily basis at a renowned diet clinic.

SPECIFICATIONS: 61 recipes 142 pages, 2014

SPECIFICATIONS: 70 recipes 252 pages, February 2013

SPECIFICATIONS: 125 recipes 252 pages, 2014

LCHF Bread & Cakes

LCHF – Eat Your Way to Health and Happiness

Full and Slim with LCHF

35,000

15,000

copies sold in Denmark

copies sold in Denmark

More than

80,000 copies sold in Denmark

LCHF– Bread & Cakes is filled with delicious recipes for breakfast and bread, cakes, biscuits, cookies, crackers and other baked goods.

All recipes are without flour, gluten, sugar and yeast.

The book includes recipes for baked goods from Jane Faerber’s other two books on LCHF as well as 18 new recipes.

OPTION HOLDERS: ICELAND / Forlagid GERMANY / Christian Verlag NORWAY / Juritzen

This 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 those who would like to lose weight, but indeed also for people who might not need to shape up, but who suffer from inexplicable fatigue, restlessness and lack of energy during the day. It is also for those who are tired of watching and counting calories, and who longs for a life where the focus is not constantly on food.

Photo: Mew

RIGHTS SOLD: ICELAND / Forlagid GERMANY / Christian Verlag NORWAY / Juritzen

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jane Faerber (35) has worked for many years in the field of media. She is the bestselling author on LCHF in Denmark and she hosts a very popular Danish blog madbanditten.dk.

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For too many years, weight loss has been synonymous with deprivation, suffering and hunger. But with LCHF this is no longer true: The body’s machinery changes its use of fuel and you lose body fat instead of carbohydrates. LCHF offers a lifestyle that simultaneously regulates hormones, blood sugar and appetite. Including the weight.

OPTION HOLDERS: ICELAND / Forlagid GERMANY / Christian Verlag NORWAY / Juritzen

ANNA BOGDANOVA

SPECIFICATIONS: 248 pages, March 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

Sky-high Metabolism

A 7-week tested plan for smooth metabolism, stress-less body and curves like an hourglass. All it takes is 4x15 minutes of exercise a week.

This book will test the body’s ability to metabolize and lead the reader

About the author:

through a 7-week course which kickstarts and boosts the metabolism.

Once these factors work, it will be much easier to shed those extra pounds and get in shape. Without limitations neither to intake of food nor by militaristic training. In 7 weeks,

the body will be brought to a balance where it easily burns off fat. And by adjusting diet, training and restitution, the levels of energy and vitality will work together for the best.

Anna Bogdanova works as personal trainer, coach and health journalist specializing in body transformation through proven, down to earth strategies. With this book she passes on her extensive knowledge of human physiology in a clear and effective plan.

Anna Bogdanova’s knowledge of the neural and physiological stress mechanisms makes it possible to tailor training and lifestyle strategies to suit even the most hectic everyday lives, which strengthens the body rather than breaking it down.

Photo: Frederikke Heiberg

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LOTTE ARNDAL AND HANS SØNDERGAARD

YEARS YOUNGER

WITH TRAINING

Well-documented facts on how to become younger in both body and mind.

Not only will the exercises in this book get the heart and brain in a younger shape; muscles and bones will be stronger, and the skin much more beautiful.

But you will also get to look younger and feel younger if you follow the regime of this book and complete the workouts over a 9-week course.

10 Years Younger with Training offers: • A new body awareness • A young, lean and toned body • Significantly more energy in daily life • Better-looking skin In each of the six chapters of the book, it offers workout exercises on three different levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced. In other words, there is always a training program to go by – whether you are new at this or very fit. The exercises include strength and cardio training with and without weights – all thoroughly illustrated.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Lotte Arndal has more than 20 years experience in training and nutritional counselling and is highly renowned for her work with celebrities.

Hans Søndergaard (M.Sc.) has worked with and researched in physical exercise at University Hospital of Copenhagen for more than 10 years. He is special advisor for special units in the Danish military, business leaders and Olympic champions.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 224 pages, January 2015 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

Razor-sharp H

ow do you go about it if you want more physical strength, more endurance and a slimmer body? You change your diet and exercise. But what do you do if you want a sharper brain, a better memory and an increased ability to concentrate?

Probably nothing.

Most people reckon this is just how they are. However, new research shows that the brain can be strengthened. Our mindsets, attitudes and behaviour are not static traits, but (ingrown) habits, which can be changed.

SPECIFICATIONS: 264 pages, October 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

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With the right exercises you can optimise your brain permanently. In Razor-sharp, brain researcher Troels W. Kjaer and actor Mikael Birkkjær come together to demonstrate that the brain can indeed change due to training. Troels W. Kjaer describes how the brain is built and how it directs our thought and action patterns. At the same time, he presents a number of exercises that can strengthen your ability to stay focused, stay organized under pressure and to remember the most important while discarding unnecessary information.

From normal to brilliant: exercise your brain in 6 weeks

Many of the exercises are included in the 6-week training programme that Mikael Birkkjær has gone through.

We follow him throughout the process in which he is challenged both mentally and physically with e.g. words, numbers, and picture puzzles to be solved under time pressure, a number of social stress exercises in addition to physical exercise and ‘brain food’.

And to document the impact of the training programme, Mikael Birkkjær has been tested before, during and after the course of a neuropsychologist.

BEHIND THE BOOK: Mikael Birkkjær, actor, known from the TV-series The Killing and Borgen. Troels W. Kjaer, brain researcher and consultant doctor at the Neurophysiology Department at Roskilde Hospital, Denmark. Anne Mette Futtrup, freelance writer and editor.

Photo: Camilla Utke Schiøler

MIKAEL MIKAELBIRKKJÆR BIRKKJÆR, AND TROELS TROELS W. KJAER W. KJAER AND ANNE METTE FUTTRUP

Photo: Camilla Utke Schiøler

ESKILD EBBESEN

THINK LIKE A WINNER ESKILD EBBESEN

TÆNK SOM EN VINDER

POLITIKENS FORLAG

E

ver since the beginning of his career Eskild Ebbesen has worked intensively with the mental strategies that have been crucial for his success as the world’s most winning and successful rower. It requires focus, motivation, willpower and energy to win medals for twenty years in a row, and Eskild Ebbesen

About the author: Eskild Ebbesen has an MSc. in sports physiology and since 2001 he has worked as a consultant on mental strategies with a large number of companies.

is an expert in optimizing his own as well as that of others. Here he describes how, through research and personal experiences, he has found the most effective ways to reach his goals and help others do the same by means of mental focus and exercise.

The mental strategies are the main ingredients in Eskild Ebbesen’s

Rowing, Eskild Ebbesen was the only permanent man on board who up until 2012 won Olympic gold in 1996, 2004 and 2008, Olympic bronze in 2000 and 2012 and gold at the World

Championship in 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002 and 2003. Furthermore, he has won numerous awards in Denmark and is part of the team holding the current world record in the

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recipe for success, and the insights he has gained through elite sport is as effective in your private life and business, as it is on water. In Think Like a Winner, the best tools from Eskild Ebbesen are handed forward based on his personal experiences and as part of the most successful lightweight men’s four in world history.

lightweight men’s four.

In 2013 Eskild Ebbesen received the most prestigious rowing award the “Thomas Keller Medal”.

SPECIFICATIONS: 200 pages, ­ October 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

PIA ANDREASSEN

Protein Enjoy a protein rich diet and gain a higher metabolism, a steady level in blood sugar and a greater and longer-lasting satiety. This means a stable weight and firmer muscles; smoother skin as well as strong hair and nails.

In Protein, there are answers to everything from how much protein we need, and where the best sources of protein is to what exactly it is protein does to the body. There are also proposals for

5 or 10 day efficient efforts for those who need a quick response.

The 80 recipes make it easy to prepare delicious, tasty and protein-style dishes. None of the recipes contains white bread, potatoes, rice or pasta and there is almost no sugar. Most of them are well-known favorites simply combined with new ingredients, so there is more protein, less carbohydrate and a larger amount of healthy fats as well as dietary fibers.

Photo: Martin Tanggaard

SPECIFICATIONS: 224 pages, August 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

About the author: Pia Andreassen is trained in nutrition and works as a freelance food journalist. She has been affiliated with a leading Danish magazine for many years where she has been behind the very popular recipes that follow the Dukan regime.

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CHILLI KLAUS

R

eleasing his book in Denmark, Chilli Klaus invited 1,000 people to join him in the world’s largest chilli tasting so far. They came, they had their chillies, and then ... the chilli had its say.

The whole thing was caught on film and is broadcast via YouTube making the whole world follow this viral phenomenon: “1000 people eat 1000 ghost chillies”. So far, it has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube and shown on American, Brazilian and Italian TV.

SPECIFICATIONS: 152 pages, May 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

CHILLI KLAUS Chilli Klaus has an undying love of chilli peppers. Each one hotter than the next. In 2008 he planted his first chilli seed and today the chilli fills up his home. “It’s almost like being an explorer when growing chillies – they come in all sizes, colours and shapes,” says Chilli Klaus.

The many varieties are in stark contrast to the few chillies, you could get hold of merely a few years ago – before Chilli Klaus made his first video.

All supermarkets and garden centres in Denmark are reporting a huge interest in the strong fruit. Therefore, it seemed natural that the man, who started the chilli revolution in Denmark should write a book on the subject.

In the book, Chilli Klaus has gathered all his knowledge of chilli, chilli cultivation and of course chilli tasting. With its science-like layout, the book also contains information about the different species and varieties.

About the author: Millions of people follow Chilli Klaus and his chilli tastings on the internet where he has eaten some of the world’s strongest chillies accompanied by a range of celebrities. The result may not be pretty, but it sure is entertaining. Politiken Publishers soon picked up the trend and the result is this book. Chef Jimmy Holm who has worked at El Bulli in Spain is behind some of the recipes.

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THOMAS RYDBERG

KOCH BROTHERS AND BIRGIT SCHELDE

SPANISH WINES

APPETITE FOR LIFE

SPANSKE VINE T H O MAS RYD BERG

Delicious recipes for diabetics

POLITIKENS FORLAG

Spain is one of Europe’s leading wine producing countries, and over the last 10-15 years wine production in Spain has been modernized. This has changed the character of the wines from the heavy, dusty Rioja wines into modern and exciting wines that easily compete with the best wines from around the world. Many wine enthusiasts have spotted the famous wines from producers in Ribera del Duero, Priorat and Rioja, but there are even more top wines from Spanish wineries in the many new and exciting wine regions.

Appetite for Life is a cookbook for anyone who wants to eat healthy, but will not compromise on the taste. It is first and foremost a diabetes cookbook, but it is aimed at anyone who has the desire and appetite for food that is both healthy and scrumptious. The dishes are simple, tasty and easy to go about.

The book’s recipes for vegetables, fish, meat, baked goods and desserts are all part of the Koch brothers’ professional kitchen. Focus is on the healthy fats and lots of vegetables in perfect harmony. The delicious recipes can be enjoyed by everyone – including people with diabetes – without any negative effects.

Spanish Wines is a solid reference book with a brief introduction to the Spanish wines including history and an analysis of the Spanish Wine Law, most common grapes and the wine production.

In Appetite for Life, dietician Birgit Schelde explains the latest scientific knowledge of what is good for diabetics and she shares her long experience in translating knowledge into practice. E.g. how to replace the bad fats with the good; choose the right carbohydrates; and eat more fruits and vegetables. All recipes are nutritionally designed and indicated by the total caloric content per person in addition to a description of the percentagewise energy distribution of carbohydrate, fat and protein.

The main part of the book covers the areas of Galicia, Catalonia, Castille-Leon, northern Spain, central Spain, the Levant and Andalusia and the islands with a total of 69 additional districts. Each district is described in detail with regard to the area and the wine characteristics, the climate, and with a presentation of the best producers.

Furthermore, there is a description of some of the most prominent wine personalities such as Alvaro Palacio, Peter Sisseck, Miguel Torres and Telmo Rodriguez.

The book also contains rankings of the 100 best Spanish wines focusing on the very best, the different vintages and map of all the areas.

SPECIFICATIONS: 65 recipes 176 pages, October 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

SPECIFICATIONS: 368 pages, November 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE About the author: Thomas Rydberg holds a diploma degree in wine and spirits and he reviews wine for several major newspapers. He is the initiator of a large annual Spanish wine festival and is a very sought after teacher and lecturer on wine.

About the authors: The twin brothers Jesper and Michael Koch, who both have type 2 diabetes, own and operate a number of highly acclaimed restaurants. Birgit Schelde is a clinical dietician from Aarhus University Hospital, where she advises people with diabetes on how to change their dietary habits.

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ANNE HJERNØE

Super Salads SPECIFICATIONS: 272 pages, June 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

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ew inspiration and not too many calories. That is the basic idea behind this inviting cookbook. Classic and non-traditional salad ingredients have been put together criss-crossing to

fixing, or work as part of a larger meal of several small dishes.

serve 151 recipes for the most delicious hot and cold salads. They come either with or without meat, so they can be a complete and healthy meal filled with important vitamins and proteins, vitamin-filled

Thanks to Anne Hjernøe’s many culinary travels there are both Danish and Nordicinspired salads – and just

Healthy and inspiring

as many with a Southern, Asian or Latin American influence in ingredients and taste. With Super Salads there are plenty of easily accessible opportunities to try new dishes while staying healthy.

About the author: Anne Hjernøe is a journalist and self-taught chef. She is known from Danish television, where she has hosted her own food programs for many years. Anne Hjernøe is the author of numerous cookbooks.

Photo: Franne Voigt

Author sold more than

80,000 books

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“An outstanding and attentive book on the conflict in Syria.”

PUK DAMSGÅRD

WEEKENDAVISEN SPECIFICATIONS: 234 pages, September 2014 ALL RIGHTS AVAILABLE

“Excellent”

– POLITIKEN

UNDER A CRYING – a story SUN from Syria Leading Middle East correspondent Puk Damsgård takes the reader on a rare journey behind the front lines in a war where more than 150,000 people have been killed and millions have fled.

This book is her story of working as a reporter in a warzone, of being smuggled across the border to report from a country falling apart, and this is her story about human beings whose lives are lived in a permanent state of emergency.

FROM THE BOOK: I discovered the outline of my own reflection in the red puddle, a dark shadow of myself. For a moment I could not grasp it all, the powerlessness of watching two innocent girls killed on the street.

To people around me, war was a state of emergency, which their minds had become accustomed to over time - but not without consequences.

Thus the brutality of the rebels and the regime came into being. There were people to whom it had become everyday to kill, punish and humiliate.

In this chaos, millions of civilians were caught. It was their stories, I was here to tell. That was why I wanted to be here, even if my black shadow in the red blood was perhaps becoming a reflection of my mind.

in Damascus. She drove to work in her own car and drank cocktails with her girlfriends up until Syrians in 2011 began their revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. The revolution transformed Syria into a country at war and turned Nour’s life upside down. In her passion for freedom she became involved in the Syrian revolt, but it turned out to be a nightmare. Puk Damsgård tells the poignant and horrifying tale of fighting for freedom and pursuing your love of the revolution against all odds. It is also about what happens when the struggle to stay alive overshadows the longing for democracy.

She follows the Syrian woman Nour who lived a carefree city life About the author: Puk Damsgård (b. 1978) works as a Middle East correspondent for DBC, based in Beirut and now Cairo. She is the author of

Land of the Pure (De renes land) and Wolves’ Hearts (Ulvehjerter).

Puk Damsgård has received several awards for her work, including the Freedom of Speech

Award from Jyllands-Posten, the Journalistic Award from the Berlingske Foundation, and in December 2012 she was short-listed for the most prestig-

ious Danish journalistic award, the Cavling Prize, for her coverage of the Syrian Civil War.