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I Pantalones Hus 130 x 205 mm / 288 pages
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Hilde Rød-Larsen
IN THE HOUSE OF PANTALOON
In The House of Pantaloon is a novel about the destructive power of shame and how the silence that follows in its wake can ripple through generations.
The novel is set in Oslo, over the course of a few months. We follow Eva and Cornelia in alternate chapters, as Eva is dealing with widowhood, and Cornelia with a broken relationship and single parenthood. Through chance, Eva and Cornelia’s paths keep crossing. A tender and unexpected affinity develops between the two women, who at first seem to have little in common, and who find themselves in vastly different circumstances.
The story has a plot-driven narrative, with an existential nerve, slight satirical elements, and much warmth. By the end, the reader will realize how these two women‘s lives are intertwined through secrets of the past and “the sins of the fathers”, with Henrik Ibsen‘s Ghosts as a hinted-at backdrop.
«The novel's themes, such as longing and devotion, desire and hunger, across time and generations make it to that extent a novel from and by our time, and the sensitive depiction of ageing, women's skepticism and agency, as well as the considerate descriptions of the searching man resonates perfectly well with this reader.»
«The community, the warmth and the compassion make Hilde Rød-Larsen’s novel a terrific example of a feminine shift in a traditionally male-dominated world.»
KLASSEKAMPEN
«A character-driven drama which engages and entertains. […] Rød-Larsen has a good grip on the text with dialogue that flows well.»
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Rights sold to: Denmark (Gutkind)
Hilde Rød-Larsen (b. 1974) made her literary debut in 2019 with the novel Summer Time, and in 2022
Diamond Nights came out to critical acclaim in Norway, Denmark and Germany. In 2023 she was awarded the Bookseller's Author Stipend for her authorship. Hilde Rød-Larsen is also known as the Norwegian translator of authors such as Thomas Korsgaard, Elizabeth Strout and Sally Rooney. In the House of Pantaloon, the first book in a planned trilogy, came out in 2024. She has a Bachelor and a Master's Degree from The London School of Economics and lives in Oslo.
Photo: Oda Berby
Gjentakelsen 130 x 205 mm / 144 pages
Vigdis Hjorth
REPETITION
Repetition is a potent distillate of Vigdis Hjorth’s authorship.
She is a grown woman going for a walk in the dark woods, with her dog. She’s also a sixteen-year-old. The view the grown woman offers her younger self is tender and beautiful. It’s about being kissed for the first time, the incredibly clumsy, funny, and painful act of doing it for the first time, it’s about feeling the intoxication spread throughout your body at a party with some boys in a terraced house, about running through the woods to prepare for a marathon, about feeling a huge hunger and thirst in your young life. Her mother watches over her like a hawk, and excerts a control over her daughter that is normally unheard of, and all the while her father keeps his distance. As the first pages of the novel reveals, there is a large and dangerous secret in their house.
Anything you want to forget will come back to you, it will haunt you so vividly that it feels as if you are going through it all over again, often causing you the same overwhelming and unmanageable feelings as the first time; you fear you might die from the intensity and so you fight its return, you resist, but you are not able to prevent or shield yourself from the pain which follows and so you are forced to relive it. However, when it has been re-experienced and relived yet again, when the paralysing pain subsides, you will often find that you have gained a fresh insight into the significance of that particular memory; it was the reason it came back, in order to tell you something.
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«Ah. How she writes, Vigdis Hjorth. … Who can as Vigdis Hjorth write a novel in 143 pages, so hauntingly vivid about a 16-year-old girlabout her demanding life in a divided family.»
NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE 2023 NOMINATED TO THE BOOKSELLER AWARD 2023
Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Finland (Schildts & Söderströms), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), Italy (Fazi Editore), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Croatia (Naklada Ljevak), Germany (S. Fischer), United Kingdon (Verso Books - WEL)
Vigdis Hjorth (b. 1959) has over several decades been one of Norway’s most important authors. She published her debut in 1983 in form of the children’s book Pelle-Ragnar and the Yellow Building, for which she received the Norwegian Cultural Council’s Debut Prize. Since then, she has had a prolific and award-winning authorship, writing for both children and adults. She has won several awards in Norway, was longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize for Is Mother Dead, and has been nominated twice for the Nordic Council Literature Prize so far, for Will and Testament (2016) and Is Mother Dead (2020).
Hjorth writes existential books about human conditions and life choices, and throws a sharp gaze at current topics in the contemporary time. With novels such as Long Live the Post Horn! (2012) she has made her mark as a fearless political author. Her big breakthrough came in 2016 with Will and Testament, which became an instant favourite among literature critics as well as a huge sales success. In this novel Hjorth writes about complicated family relationships, about violation and liberation in close relationships, and the right to own one’s own story.
Will and Testament was nominated for the National Book Award and Millions Best Translated Book Award when it was published in the US and the UK in 2019. Hjorth’s novels have been translated into 30 languages.
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Om bare
130 x 205 mm / 320 pages
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Vigdis Hjorth
IF ONLY
Can passion be mistaken for love? When Ida meets Arnold, also married, at a conference, she impulsively invites him to share her bed. She returns home, already half-obsessed, and the dissolution of her marriage and break-up of her family pass almost without her noticing. Arnold has a more relaxed attitude toward the affair. But neither his coolness nor the alarming talk she hears about him can dampen her desire. When she finally has Arnold for herself, all the surface niceties and indulgences they enjoy – travel, sex, beers for breakfast and cocktails for dinner – can’t sustain the sweetness of the fantasy. Their mounting jealousies and insecurities metastasize, resulting in violence and addiction.
Rights sold to: Bulgaria (Aviana), Denmark (Turbine), Spain (Ediciones Trabe - Asturian), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), UK (Verso Books - WEL)
Vigdis
Hjorth
FIFTEEN YEARS
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There is a rhythm in Paula’s life – the meals at the table at home, the summers at the cabin in Østfold, the visits to grandma on the West Coast – a rhythm which offers her safety and clarity throughout her childhood. Mother, father, sister, and brother in their little house are the most important people in her life. And then there is Karen, her best friend. The calm is shattered the summer that Paula discovers the pile of letters her mother has written to grandma. The life her mother describes in the letters is unrecognisable, they are full of lies. Her mother’s pretense is a shock to Paula. How can she bear knowing what she knows? Paula is on the edge of becoming a teenager, and the world is opening up before her as both a terrible and wonderful place. She doesn’t want to start lying about her life.
«Fifteen years is [her] most well-written novel yet. » MORGENBLADET
Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), Italy (Fazi editore), Spain (Nórdica Libros)
Femten år. Den revolusjonære våren
130 x 205 mm / 192 pages
Vigdis Hjorth
IS MOTHER DEAD
The protagonist of Is Mother Dead is an acclaimed artist, Johanna, who has spent three decades in the US with her husband and child. When her husband dies, she returns to Norway, where she is invited to put on a major retrospective.
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023
What remains of the life she left behind in Norway several decades ago? What does she expect to find when she returns? How will she manage to build a bridge between past and present? We follow Johanna’s self-examination as well as her attempts to understand and come closer to her mother.
In this novel, Vigdis Hjorth digs deeper into the mother-daughter issue, once again writing compellingly and profoundly about a timeless theme.
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WILL AND TESTAMENT
A classic story of inheritance, centred on two summer cabins on Hvaler.
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019
Two children have been looking after the place and their parents for many years. They are due to inherit the cabins. But there are two other children, who have partly broken away from the family. How do they fit into the inheritance dispute?
During the inheritance discussions another story emerges which brings violent forces into play. It's all about family history.
Rights sold to: Azerbaijan (Qanun Publishing House), Bulgaria (Aviana), Croatia (Ljevak), Denmark (Turbine), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), Faroe Islands (Sprotin Forlag), Finland (Schildts & Söderströms), France (Actes Sud), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), Italy (Fazi Editore), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), Norway (Den Nationale Scene), Poland (Glowbook), Russia (EKSMO), Spain (Nórdica Libros), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Turkey (Siren Yayinlari), United Kingdom (Verso Books), United States (Verso Books), Brazil (Harper Collins), Egypt (Al-Karma), Greece (Habibbutz Publishers), Portugal (Porto Editora), Romania (Grupul Editorial Art), Serbia (STRIK Publishing House), South Korea (GU-FIC), Germany (S. Fischer Verlag), Greece (Potamos Publishers), Sweden (Yellowbird Entertainment), Iceland (Forlagi∂), Georgia (Sulakauri Publishing), Czech Republic (Argo), Albania (Muza Botime), Latvia (Satori)
Er mor død
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Vestersand 130 x 205 mm / 528 pages
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Ingeborg Arvola
THE KNIFE IN THE FIRE
The Knife in the Fire is a riveting historical novel about work and love, strong communities, carefree erotica, the individual and the community.
The year is 1859. Brita Caisa Seipajærvi straps on her skis and takes the long road from Finland to Norway with her two children. Brita Caisa has been disciplined by the church for having an affair with a married man. She can heal animals and humans. The destination for their journey is Bugøynes, where the sea is said to be brimming with cod.
NOMINATED TO THE BOOKSELLERS AWARD 2022 NOMINATED TO THE CRITIC’S AWARD 2022 WINNER OF THE BRAGE PRIZE 2022 NOMINATED TO THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE AWARD 2023
42.200 IN PRINT
Ingeborg Arvola
«Oh my, The Knife in the Fire is a good book ... All in all, Arvola writes really, really well. Insanely well, in fact. Like a dream you didn't know you were walking around with.»
BERLINGSKE (DENMARK)
VESTERSAND
What use is shame when he’s in it with me?
The year is 1862. Brita Caisa is released from prison in Pykeijä. Heavily pregnant, she trudges through the driving snow, unsure of where to go. Mikko is still serving time for their scandalous cohabitation. He still doesn’t know that Brita Caisa is carrying their child. She dreams of a tømmerpirtti, a log cabin, where they can live as a family, but there will be many obstacles on the road to making this home a reality.
Vestersand takes us to Neiden and Pykeijä, to whaling and log-cabin building, to snow and saunas, to fatal jealousy and deep love. It is an epic and dramatic tale from a unique environment that is rarely described in other literature – the surprisingly diverse Northern Norway of the nineteenth century, where Sámi, Kvens and Norwegians lived side by side with their languages and customs.
Rights sold to: Denmark (Gutkind), Sweden (Albert Bonnier), Germany (btb Luchterhand), Romania (Editura Univers), The Netherlands (Bezige Bij), The Faroe Islands (Sprotin), France (Paulsen), Finland (Gummerus), Egypt (Al Arabi Publishing & Distribution), Croatia (Naklada Iris Illyrica), Estonia (Eesti Raamat)
Kniven i ilden – Sanger fra Ishavet 130 x 205 mm / 448 pages
Ingeborg Arvola (b. 1974) grew up in Pasvikdalen and Tromsø in the far north of Norway. She made her debut with the novel The Korell House, published in 1999. She has since written a number of novels for children and adults. She has received the Cappelen Prize in 2004 and Havmannprisen in 2008. In 2019 she was awarded The Ministry of Culture Prize for Children´s Books for her novel Buffy By is Talented, a book she was also nominated to the Brage Prize for.
After being a critic's favourite for decades, Arvola's big breakthrough came in 2022 with The Knife in the Fire, the first book in her trilogy Songs from the Arctic Ocean. The novel was published to great acclaim and it reigned on the bestseller list for months. It won Best Fiction Novel at the Brage Prize, and was nominated for several more prizes: The Critic's Award, The Youth Critic's Award, The Booksellers Award and the Nordic Council Literature Award 2023. Language rights have sold to eleven countries.
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Lotta Elstad
XIANIA: KLARA
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The year is 1922. Klara takes the train from a country village to the capital Kristiania (Xiania) to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. She's 19 years old, and in her pocket she has a not with a name and an address: Madam Zavarella, Elvegata 2.
«A fantastic book.» – THOMAS KORSGAARD
After the abortion, which almost costs Klara her life, she becomes a part of Madam Zavarella's sphere in the slum in Vaterland. It's a smelly, poor, pulsing underworld, but at Madam Zavarella's stacks of money are hidden in cracks in the walls and under mattresses, there's a motor car in the backyard, connections to the rich villas on Bygdøy peninsula, and even though it's prohibition times, the alcohol is in free flow.
Xiania: Klara is a portrait of the jazztime in Norway. It's the burlesque, snappy and vividly feminist first novel in a planned trilogy.
Rights sold to: Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Hungary (Polar Egyesület)
Lotta Elstad
XIANIA: ADA
Ada is born around 1880. There is no birth certificate. At fifteen, Ada's mother bleeds to death giving birth to her younger brother. Shortly thereafter, their gambling father loses Ada’s hand in a card game. During her honeymoon, Ada runs away and flees to Xiania. She finds lodging and works as a cleaning lady at an “establishment”, fronted by a delicatessen, and run by a certain Madame Josefine. To earn some extra money, Ada kicks prostitutes in the stomach as an abortion method. Her services are high in demand.
This is the start of a journey that ends with Ada inheriting the delicatessen, cleaning out the anchovy smell and taking the alias Madam Zavarella. She opens a hat shop on the ground floor – and an abortion clinic in the basement. The story ends in 1923, when a young girl, Klara, knocks on her door.
Xiania 2 - Ada
Xiania 1 - Klara
130 x 205 mm / 320 pages
Lotta Elstad (b. 1982) is a writer, journalist, historian and non-fiction editor. She has since her debut in 2008 published several acclaimed books, both narrative non-fiction and novels. Xiania: Klara was nominated to the LO Literature Prize 2022/2023.
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Marie Kinge YOU CAN'T FOOL ME
The first time I found him dead, it was an ordinary Wednesday.
Being a veterinarian means deciding between life and death, knowing all about numbing pain and ending lives on a daily basis. To be a veterinarian’s daughter means assisting in surgeries and going on home-visits to the animal owners. It means diving for crabs in the summertime, insistently noticing all the nature and life that surrounds you. It means checking each day how big Dad’s pupils are, frightened that he’s done it for real this time, that he’s really dead. It means growing and learning to look at yourself through the eyes of others, while dad’s world is slowly shrinking.
Marie Kinge’s debut novel is a coming-ofage story from a childhood unlike most others. You can’t fool me is the story of a father and daughter, of how far or close the apple falls from the tree, about ending lives, about what you keep from your childhood, and what you leave behind.
Kinge’s writing is reminiscent of Tove Jansson in how she evokes the lightness of summer days and childhood curiosity, while her descriptions of the everyday life, marked by work, drugs, despair and suicide have more in common with Tove Ditlevsen.
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Du lurer ikke meg 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
Ida
Fjeldbraaten
THE LIVES
OF OTHERS
The Lives of Other is a merciless description of a society where everyone wants to be seen and heard, and where people will do anything to stand out from the crowd.
A young woman previously worked on a reality show that ended up never airing. She isolates herself at home while scrolling endlessly thought the antisocial corners of the web. While the bills pile up and social security makes their demands, the protagonist escapes into other people’s lives. But what is real, and what is staged? What was it that went so terribly wrong during the recording of the reality show, set in an old asylum, that filmed five contestants left to their own devices?
The Lives of Others is a poignant satire about the total domination of the reality genre, about loneliness, and about who will remain in the audience as everyone is clamoring to stand on stage. The novel ruthlessly depicts our contemporary times, where the need to be seen leads people into bottomless decay and total humiliation.
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De andres liv 130 x 205 mm / 160 pages
«… a raw illustration of reality-TV’s dark side. … Reading this book was like therapy for us internet addicts. I want to throw my phone in the sea and take a long shower.»
FRAMTIDA
«Ida Fjeldbraaten manages to let the reality characters both amuse us and make us wiser. That's a tried-and-true recipe for a good book.»
MORGENBLADET
«The novel is too credible to be pure satire and stretched too far to be pure realism. It is elegantly balanced …»
DAG OG TID
Ida Fjeldbraaten (b. 1984) works as a copywriter in the advertising industry and runs the small press publishing house Teori & Praksis. Her literary debut Wolverine came in 2020 to critical acclaim, and was nominated to the P2 Listener's Prize. Ida Fjeldbraaten received The Bookseller Stipend in 2021.
Birger Emanuelsen BLOOD CRIES OUT FROM THE GROUND
Tallak Nybuen wounds a reindeer buck, and in pursuit of the animal, he collapses. To survive the night, he seeks refuge in the lodge his father has rented out to a hunter from the coast.
The next day, the two men head into the mountains to find the buck together. The hike brings back memories from Tallak’s upbringing, his mother unexplained absence, him and his father alone on the farm, the feeling of being trapped in the narrow valley, the never ending labour. The night falls and snow makes the hike difficult, and as the two men search the open plain, it becomes clear that there is more than the wounded animal bringing them together.
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Blood Cries Out from the Ground is an abundant novel about family and inheritance, truth and lies, about the stories that shape our lives, and how everything could have been different.
«Remember this name, Birger Emanuelsen.»
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Birger Emanuelsen LOVE AND ANNA
Anna Bergseng works as a midwife and she has never had a day off sick in her life. She is the confident, the experienced one, the one that younger colleagues look up to. One evening, Anna goes to work with a fever. Outside the maternity ward, she meets somebody she once knew, and the memories set her reeling.
Love and Anna is a story about hope and change. About a life that once was and about how life could have been. Is it ever too late to forgive oneself?
«A literary tour de force, so elegant and gripping, a sheer performance of dramaturgy and prose... a warm embrace of a novel, about making the small great.»
ADRESSEAVISA,
« Love and Anna as a female portrayal will prevail in years to come.»
TARA
Anna og kjærligheten 130 x 205 mm / 204 pages
Fra jorden roper blodet 130 x 205 mm / 221 pages
Birger Emanuelsen (b. 1982) is a critically acclaimed, award-winning author. His debut came in 2012, and since then he has written many books. He has a background as a consultant for Doctors without Border, as a journalist, fiction editor and a speech writer for the Norwegian government.
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Lars Saabye Christensen
THE TROPHY ROOM
Ion Pauker is the son of a master glassmaker in a small village. His journey through life coincides with the emergence of the new regime. Like his peers, Ion Pauker is drawn to what is new. He proves to be adaptable and ends up in the People's Palace, responsible for the Omagiu room - the place where all official medals and orders are kept. There are many trophies to look after, and strict guidelines for which medals to display at different occasions. But there will come a time when the medals and their supervisor cease to serve a purpose.
The Trophy Room takes place in a bizarre regime of the past. The novel also serves as a mirror being held up to our world of today, with its authoritarian tendencies and desire for strong leaders. Under such a regime, what happens to people’s humanity? What happens to citizens when their minds are controlled, and "truth" is nothing but a means to keep that control? Where does one draw the line between survival and treason?
And under these contidions, it even possible to be a good person?
Lars Saabye Christensen (b. 1953) has published a number of novels, poetry and short story collections since his literary debut in 1976 with The Story of Gly. His breakthrough came with Beatles (1984), one of the greatest literary sales successes in Norway that, over the years, new generations continue to hold close to their hearts. He received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for The Half Brother in 2001. He has also received the Riverton Prize, the Critics' Prize, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, the Dobloug Prize and the Norwegian Reader's Prize. He has been published in 36 countries.
Omagiu
130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
Lars Saabye Christensen
MR. KNAPP'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Mr. Knapp had just discovered that his landline was dead. He hadn’t even been there when it happened. This was a telling example. When had he ever been present? Wasn’t he always blindsided, as they say? This was the end of an era, that much was certain. He felt depressed and significant.
Mr. Knapp is an old man. A lot of people prefer to use the phrase ‘getting up there’ when talking about old age: Mr. Knapp was getting up there. But old was never something to which Mr. Knapp had tried to get. Quite the opposite. Who rushes toward something like that? He’s still not done with his childhood. Or his youth. Or his family. Or with people. Or with love. Oh, to be in love! In Paris, the summer of 1959, visiting museums and galleries, or just walking along the streets, with his future wife, reading French poetry, especially Verlaine, “how did that poem go again, the one about rain in Paris and the heart?”
Herr Knapps uforrettede saker 130 x 205 mm / 144 pages Flamme forlag
Why can’t he remember? The rain is still falling.
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«Mr. Knapp's Unfinished Business is about becoming so old that one will soon die [...] it's a mix of quiet realism, a twinkle in the eye and absurd elements.»
ADRESSEAVISA
«Lars Saabye Christensen has written a charming novel about loneliness, old age and imminent death. [...] you'll want to laught, but will end up crying. [This is] Lars Saabye Christensen at his most engaging.»
DAGSAVISEN
«No other Norwegian author can squeeze in as much charm, sorrow, joy and ife wisdom in 143 small pages as Lars Saabye Christensen.»
DAGSAVISEN,
Torkil Damhaug
THE TRAITOR
At the death of his mother, the narrator of The Traitor is compelled to return to the notebooks of his youth that he always used to carry with him.
From the notebooks, a narrative springs forth, taking the reader to the dissection hall at the anatomical institute in Bergen, and to the not always working at the local brewery. To the life in the anarchist house share where everything is to be tried in the name of freedom, and to the island where something macabre seems to have disappeared down a hole in the memory of a friend. To wandering between the dead and the living in the mountains of Hardangervidda national park, and to the attempt of seizing control of a Danish Airbase. And, to the love that you fall into when you are completely unprepared for it.
The Traitor is a psychological novel that draws on several genres, including the absurd comedy. It circles around questions of power and freedom, and the secrets we carry with us. About the battle for our memories, and that which you cannot leave behind – even if you try.
The Traitor is the first novel in a planned series.
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Forræderen 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
Torkil Damhaug (b. 1958) has a degree in medicine with a specialization in psychiatry. His debut novel, Flee, Moon, caused a great stir when it appeared in 1996. His Norwegian and international breakthrough came with the psychological thriller Death by Water in 2009. The novel has since been optioned for a movie. He has been awarded the Riverton Prize for the novel Fireraiser in 2011, A Fifth Season in 2016 and Dog without a Grave in 2022, making him the only author to receive the prize thrice.
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Kjersti Halvorsen
SUPERUSER
Unn Eide is in her thirties and leads a solitary existence. She recently returned to work after a string of scandals at the hospital’s outpatient clinic where she worked as a psychologist. Given another chance, Unn has been asked to be the superuser for the AI therapist Gro, who offers digital counselling sessions. Cutting edge technology, with the purpose of streamlining services for ailing patients.
During superuser training, Unn meets Torjus, a doctor who, like Unn, has been reassigned after a video went viral of him fighting in a wrestling ring in a full doctor’s costume. His alter ego is Dr. Dropdead. Both Unn and Torjus are captivated by the new technology, and, most importantly, by each other. But Torjus is already in a relationship.
Lacking connection with real people, Unn turns to Gro, who provides her with questionable advice. Is she starting to lose herself again? Where can she turn for support when the ground beneath her is shifting? And what happens when Unn becomes too attached to the artificial therapist?
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«Dark and funny analysis of society at present. ... With this year's novel, she cements her position as one of Norway's most interesting young literary voices.»
D2
«Credible portrait of a person living on their knees – who, whatever it takes, works hard to get back on her feet. … There are no frills here, no attempts at poeticizing or covering anything up. Kjersti Halvorsen has written a proper good novel.»
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Superbruker 130 x 205 mm / 272 pages
Kjersti Halvorsen (b. 1993) grew up in Lier. She has attended author-studies at the college in Bø and studied psychology at the University of Oslo. She made her debut in 2019 with the novel Ida Takes Charge, a book that earned her a nomination to the Tarjei Vesaas debut prize. She is a prominent voice of her generation.
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Heidi Sævareid
XR UK
It’s been a year since Line moved to Bristol, UK, together with her mum who’s working as an editor at BBC Nature, and is active member of Extinction Rebellion (XR). The activist group’s methods for global fight for climate change are non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience; the members lie down, chain up, and refuse to move, to demonstrate that they are willing to die for the climate justice. When XR Bristol is planning to shut down the city centre and to block a bank, Line worries that her mum will get arrested for breaking the law. Line hangs out with Polly and Lexi, a friendship that’s not easy to handle when Polly gets jealous, and when Lexi prefers the one over the other.
A story about social justice, climate activism and immigration rights, but first and foremost, it’s a story about a fractious friendship between three young girls.
Heidi Sævareid LONGYEARBYEN
Set in the late 1950’s in Longyearbyen, the mining town on the Svalbard Archipelago, this novel is a dense and brilliant story of a troubled marriage. It is also the story of a completely isolated, small community under constant threat by the forces of nature and gradually also by one of its inhabitants’ mental illness.
Eivor arrives from Oslo with her husband Finn and their two small children. He will serve as one of the two doctors in town. Finn works long hours and Eivor feels as if the walls of the way too hot apartment are closing in on her. All alone, always armed with a rifle in case a polar bear should come too close, she skis further and further from the town, up the snowclad mountains to where she might see some daylight and find some solace.
Rights sold to: Germany (Suhrkamp), Israel (Ruth Books), Denmark (Grønningen1), Croatia (Oceanmore)
Longyearbyen
130 x 205 mm / 320 pages
Gyldendal forlag
XR UK
130 x 205 mm / 184 pages Flamme forlag
Heidi Sævareid POSES
Sunniva travels from Norway to the US to reunite with Michael and Kelly, two friends from her time spent in a yoga community during the 2010s. One decade later, much has changed. Both in society and in their three lives.
A road trip from San Francisco to Portland outlines the story of their shared friendship: a journey backwards in time, to the how and when of their first meeting, to what later happened between them, and the things they either confronted or left unsaid in the past. Their years spent at a yoga school, as students of the charismatic and boundless teacher Jasper, has left them all affected and changed. Yet each of them remembers the experience very differently.
Poses delves into questions surrounding the trauma and lasting effects of physical and psychological violations. It draws inspiration from recent revelations about well-known yoga gurus and the communities surrounding them, such as Bikram and Ashtanga. Importantly, the novel also explores the group dynamics that arise in spiritual communities with strong, charismatic leaders - and within friendships that are not quite what they once were.
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Positurene
130 x 205 mm / 256 pages Flamme forlag
«... Poses brings something new to the last years’ elegant and intelligent firstperson narratives on trauma.»
MORGENBLADET
«Poses by Heidi Sævareid sees right through the social masks [we wear] in an almost provocatively realistic manner. … Sævareid effectively describes how and why yoga communities are particularly susceptible to systematic sexual abuse …»
AFTENPOSTEN
Heidi Sævareid (b. 1984) is a highly acclaimed and award-winning author, translator and literary critic. She was awarded The Ministry of Culture’s First Book Prize 2013 and three times nominated for Brage Literary Prize for Children and YA. Heidi Sævareid has a degree in Nordic Literature from University of Oslo. She lives in Bristol, England.
Roy Jacobsen
THE UNWORTHY
In Roy Jacobsen’s latest novel, The Unworthy, we follow a gang of boys and girls from an apartment building on the east side of Oslo during the WWII German occupation. They live in poverty, but they manage by creatively swindling, stealing like magpies, falsifying documents and committing extensive burglaries. They don’t shy away from exploiting the Enemy, either.
With this pack of children, a lauded writer has rendered a brutally frank and warm portrait of a time, a place and an everyday life that thus far have been absent from the stories told of WWII.
The Unworthy is wise, raw and entertaining. A gem of a story, written by an author in his right element.
This is a Roy Jacobsen novel of the best mark.
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«Dramatic, interesting and exciting ... a fantastic picture of an environment and a time that not everyone knows today.»
NETTAVISEN,
«The Unworthy has to be one of Roy Jacobsen's best novels.»
KLASSEKAMPEN
«Roy Jacobsen impresses again, both as astoryteller and a portrayer of people … an organic and unpredictable literary universe, as asymmetric and restless as life itself.»
DN
NOMINATED TO THE BOOKSELLERS AWARD 2022
Rights sold to: Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Sweden (Norstedts), Czech Republich (Pistorius & Olšanská), Germany (C. H. Beck), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), Polen (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie sp. z o.o), Mexico (Tusquets Editores - World Spanish), UK (MacLehose Press - World English), The Netherlands (De Bezige Bij)
De uverdige 130 x 205 mm / 288 pages
Roy Jacobsen (b. 1954) is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary authors in Norway, and has since his sensational debut in 1982, with the short story collection Prison Life, which won him the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas’ Debutant Prize, developed into an original and daring author with a special interest in the underlying psychological interplay in human relationships. He has been nominated three times for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2017 he was shortlisted for both the Man Booker International Prize, as the first Norwegian author ever, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, for The Unseen
In 2013 Jacobsen’s authorship reached a new milestone with the publication of The Unseen, book one in his now completed Barrøy trilogy. It is set in the first half of the 20th century on an island on the North-Western coast of Norway, and is a monument over human courage and life-saving practical and social knowledge. White Shadow followed in 2015, The Eyes of Rigel in 2017 and Just a Mother in 2020. The Barrøy quartet became an immediate critically acclaimed sales success, it has been translated into 28 languages, and has sold nearly 500.000 copies in Norway alone. In total, Jacobsen has been translated into 36 languages.
Photo: Agnete Brun (Aller)
Linn Strømsborg NEVER, EVER, EVER
«I am 35 years old. I do not want children.
It’s not something I talk to other people about. It is something that I am ashamed of, a topic I avoid; take long verbal detours around. When my friends talk about having kids, I change the topic. I do not want to be too certain or unbending, because I might suddenly wake up one day and find that I have become one of them, an ordinary woman in her thirthies wanting to get pregnant, wanting a family, wanting to expand my life, my body and my heart to make room for more than myself. You are allowed to change your mind.»
The main character in Linn Strømsborg´s novel Never, ever, ever has never wanted children. She has been living with Philip for eight years, and they have agreed to not have children – up until now. Because maybe Philip might want to become a dad after all? And while her two best friends are expecting their first child, and her mother is constantly nagging about grandchildren, and her everyday life is full of parents with toddlers and births and the struggle of others to have enough time for it all, she is firm in her life and her choice about not having children.
Never, ever, ever is a novel about why we have children, and why we do not have children. It is the story about choosing something other than what is expected of you, but at the same time wanting a normal life.
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«The story is elegantly composed, at times cinematic. Strømsborg has written rare and energized prose about a timely and somewhat taboo topic.»
«Luckily the novel does not end up being an apology for the voluntarily childless. It is rather existential. And it is good literature.» FÆDRELANDSVENNEN
Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Serbia (Cigoja Stampa), Germany (DuMont), Poland (ArtRage Sp.), Germany (Olga film), Hungary (Libertine), Slovakia (Albatros Media), Czech Republic (Albatros Media), Turkey (Can Sanat Yayinlari)
Aldri, aldri, aldri 130x205 mm / 224 pages Flamme forlag
Linn Strømsborg DAMN, DAMN, DAMN
Britt is forty-three years old, married, and mother to a young daughter. All her life, Britt has done the right things. She has followed the rules, made everyone else happy. She been responsible, cleaned up after herself and others. But on this one day, on holiday in a summer house in Norway, she loses her temper and tells off her whole family and friends. And the only thing she regrets, is that she didn't do it a long, long time ago.
Together with Niko, the gorgeous freespirited woman in her husband's group of friends, Britt sets off. Just to get away, spend a night on the beach, to feel the freedom she never allowed herself. But at some point, the night is over, and Britt has to ask herself who she wants to be. As a woman, as a partner, as a mother. Damn, damn, damn is a novel about anger and defiance, about desiring a different life - and a different world. But it is also a novel about surprising yourself, about falling apart and picking yourself up again, and about everything that can happen when you dare to listen to yourself.
Faen, Faen 130 x 205 mm / 208 pages Flamme forlag
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«Great content. Well-written. Funny. Relatable. Spot on about contemporary issues. Oh yes, Linn Strømsborg delivers.»
ADRESSEAVISEN
«When there's a new book out by Linn Strømsborg, I have to have it right away. I don't care how empty my wallet is, I have to have it. And Damn, damn, damn did not disappoint.»
STUDVEST (GERMANY)
Linn Strømsborg (b. 1986) made her debut 2009 with the novel Roskilde, the story of a group of young people at a music festival, and followed up with the chap book The Øya Festival in the same year. She has since written two novels about the main character Eva; Furuset in 2012 and You're not gonna die in 2016. She is one of the most interesting young voices in contemporary Norwegian fiction today.
Rights sold to: Poland (ArtRage Sp.), Germany (DuMont), Hungary (Libertine Books)
Faen,
Heidi Furre
TECHNOTIKA
A grieving person looks for dead things in nature. She listens to the whisperings of the pine tree tops, looks up in vain at an unusually bright star. She collects stones and seashells to the gravesite, she plants things, she picks away leaves, and won’t leave the headstone to rest under the snow. Despite all this searching, nature appears just as mute. The stone remains a stone.
210 x 210 mm / 120 pages
Flamme forlag
A young student grieves for her brother, taken by cancer, while the ecosystem collapses around her. The unthinkable happens when she loses her brother, and the sense that nothing is normal anymore is confirmed when eagles lose their habitats and start attacking humans, animals escape zoos in droves, and strange new weather phenomena arise. Furre writes thoughtfully, humorously, sorrowfully, and with great emotional and intellectual depth about what it means to lose a sibling and how grief manifests when it is given free rein.
Praise for Heidi Furre:
«A thing that I value with Furre’s writing is how the feelings of her characters are taken seriously. Especially in her two latest novels the specific female experiences, that before might have been dismissed as overly sensitive, is given space and explanation.»
MORGENBLADET
«… wise and clear.»
DAGBLADET
«… precise sentences. A form that finds the reader.»
NRK Technotika
Heidi Furre (b. 1986) made her debut 2013 with the novel Parissyndromet, to critical acclaim. She has since written several novels. In addition to her writing, Heidi spends the majority of her time working as a photographer.
Victoria Durnak COMET GIRL
Thirteen-year-old Sol discovers that her parents have been sharing pictures of her on social media since she was born, without asking for her consent.
As a revenge of sorts, or perhaps an attempt to regain control, she decides to stop talking.
Soon afterwards, a voice addresses her. This gives Sol access to an inner, free world that soon interweaves with – and affects – her physical reality.
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Praise for Victoria Durnak:
«Victoria Durnak’s texts are unusually supple, charming and full of talent. … Durnak appears unafraid of broaching any subject whatsoever.»
STAVANGER AFTENBLAD
130 x 205 mm / 208 pages Flamme forlag
«What initially struck me, was how much fun I had reading the book – often an underestimated quality of literature. … Where many novels with young, aimless main characters themselves grow apathetic and inept, Durnak takes charge and pulls the reader into the game.»
KLASSEKAMPEN
«Durnak is reminiscent of the American multidisciplinary artist Miranda July, both in form and content. It’s playful, at times silly, and still gravely serious –which works … in addition to being a great humourist, Durnak is also inventive, straightforward and effortless in her wielding of language.»
AFTENPOSTEN
Victoria Durnak (b. 1989) debuted in 2010 with the poetry collection Stockholm Says (Stockholm sier). She has since released several poetry collections and novels. In 2023 she received the Bonnier Norsk Forlag literature prize for her authorship.
Kometjenta
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Eivind Hofstad Evjemo
THE NEW SEASON
The great new novel about Norway, love and life as a farmer, and moving into a new time.
Hans Junior is a farmer at a dairy farm. A single man in the house and a lot of animals in the barn. One day the agricultural inspector Sylvi stops by to inspect the farming and animal welfare. She gets a cup of coffee when she’s about to drive away, as well as an invite to return. Shortly after, she moves in.
The cows in the barn start changing their behaviour, the Sitka spruce between the farm and the sea grows tighter – the nature is changing in challenging ways, and Sylvi and Hans do what they can. Sylvi is affected by an unexplainable illness, and goes to their neighbour Siriporn, who and offers massages from a room at the farm.
«Eivind Hofstad Evjemo is an artist of language.»
STAVANGER AFTENBLAD
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Rights sold to: France (Editions Grasset)
Eivind Hofstad Evjemo MASTER OF NONE
Rakel runs a chicken farm where she lives alone in the main house. The barracks houses an ever-changing selection of 4-5 male workers, mostly foreigners. Krystof, Mustada, Arif, and the newly arrived Erwan at the moment. Each of them has their own place and task in the barracks.
Rakel sits alone at night and sometimes drinks too much wine, when the boys in the barracks both support each other and fight each other while trying to retain a private life in bunk beds, without any private space. What happens between people who have to live under the same roof? Who has to tackle literal and figurative crap and animal death together?
One night the four men gather around the table in their barrack for spiritualism: They call on the dead. Without considering who might then return to the farm.
Ingens Herre 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
Den nye årstiden 130 x 205 mm / 288 pages
Eivind Hofstad Evjemo (b. 1983) studied writing at Litterær Gestaltning in Gothenburg, Sweden. For his debut novel Wake me if I fall asleep from 2009 he won the Tarjei Vesaas’ First Writers Award, the most prestigious Norwegian Debut Prize. For his second novel, The Last You Will See is a Face of Love from 2012 he recieved The Young Critics Prize, the UT-award and Writer of the year from Trøndelag County. The novel We Welcome You from 2014 received wonderful reviews. Hofstad Evjemo is also the editor of the yearly debut anthology SIGNALER. In 2015 he was listed as one of the ten best norwegian authors under 35, by weekly newspaper Morgenbladet and Norsk Litteraturfestival. Rights to his books have been sold to Denmark, France and Austria.
Photo: Lina Hindrum
Fifty/Fifty
130 x 205 mm / 264 pages Flamme forlag
Morten Langeland FIFTY/FIFTY
Morten Langeland's authorship is perhaps Norwegian literature's best kept secret!
Fifty/Fifty is a novel about Alex, a teacher placed on indefinite leave, who is about to enter rehab. When he isn’t drinking, he sits in the library of the brand new National Museum of Oslo, struggling with the essay «On the peculiarly-Norwegian goodness in the works of Tarjei Vesaas». During a smoke break, he notices a skater trying to pull off a 50/50-grind down the rail outside the museum.
This is a novel about detoxification and skating, architecture and the public space, and the possibilities and limitations of art and humans.
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«If you dislike Jan Erik Vold, Dag Solstad, Norman Mailer or J.D. Salinger, you’ll hate Morten Langeland.» MORGENBLADET
«... I'm no longer just convinced that this is a great novel. I'm also moved, touched, and happy to have parttaken in this work of art. I'll carry this book inside me for a long time.»
FÆDELANDSVENNEN
Morten Langeland SWOOSH!
In November 1996, the workers of coalmine 3 at Svalbard were told that operations were being suspended. The workers put down their tools and left the mine in the middle of their shift. Trygve became an unemployed sole provider for his daughter, Mariane.
For years, Mariane has lived a successful and hectic life as a trend analyst. The international lifestyle brands have skyhigh expectations, which Mariane rarely fails to exceed. But when a pitch meeting for Nike suddenly goes awry, Mariane opts for a self-imposed break. As she attempts to analyze her new situation while licking her wounds, an important phone call knocks her further out of balance.
From multinational negotiations on the 27th floor in Tokyo office buildings, to hard manual labor in Coal Mine 3 on Svalbard: Swoosh! is a journey between generations, towards a new understanding of one’s own identity. Swoosh!
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Morten Langeland (b. 1986) is one of the most exciting literary voices of his generation. He made his debut with the critically acclaimed poetry collection Æ æ å in 2012. In 2016 he was awarded the Stig Sæterbakken Memorial Award for promising young writers. Langeland also works as a literary critic in the Norwegian left wing newspaper Klassekampen's weekly literary supplement Bokmagasinet, and he is a part of the editorial staff at the independent publishing house H//O//F. The well-read and respected daily Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten called him «one of our most exciting poets» in 2020. The same year, he was awarded the Sult prize for exceptional young authorships.
Nødutgang til dagen 130 x 205 mm / 272 pages Flamme forlag
Jævelunge 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages
Praise for Fredrik Svindland:
Frederik Svindland LITTLE
SHIT
Have you heard of this book? It's about me, Vito. I wrote it myself, since no one else will do it. No one else cares about us kids who grew up in Porsgrunn in the nineties. But I care, a lot, and now it's done, the story of the industry town with so many sad fates. But don't worry, this isn't a sad book, it's actually really funny.
Nineties Norway. Vito grows up in Porsgrunn with a Norwegian father and a Russian mother. The summer before he starts junior high, he discovers hiphop, but when the school year starts, he soon ends up in a sketchy environment characterised by substance abuse and crime. It is here he meets Alvarez, a boy from the neighbourhood, the only one of them with a heart, and together they try to find a way out.
Svindland’s novel is a tale of friendship, love and survival in a town full of drugs and hopeless souls. Surely there’s nothing funny about that? Well, then.
«Enriches the literary landscape with a sensibility capable of transforming private nostalgia into a universal expression of how our childhoods never ceases its workings inside us.»
KLASSEKAMPEN
«…an unusual literary talent.»
DAG OG TID
«… the best debut of 2016!» MORGENBLADET
Frederik Svindland (b. 1985) grew up in Porsgrunn. He has studied at the School of Creative Writing in Bø. He made his debut with the novel Pelargona in 2016, for which he was nominated to the Tarjei Vesaas First Writers Award. In 2017 he was awarded the Saabye Christensen Grant.
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Terapeutens jul
130 x 205 mm / 240 pages
Linda Sandbæk
THE THERAPIST’S CHRISTMAS
On the Limits of Love and Knowledge
You have no time to lose – your first patient is already sitting in the waiting room with a look that is depressed or anxious. He promised he wouldn’t kill himself over the weekend, and in exchange, you promised him an appointment as soon as the weekend was over.
Emma is a specialist psychologist at the psychiatric hospital in Oslo West, and she is starting to doubt whether her patients are actually making progress, whether the therapy she provides is helping them. Emma's elderly mother is being moved against her will from her house to a care home in the building next to the hospital. They meet on the bench in the garden outside.
The mother thinks about the orphanage where she lived as a child. Emma thinks about Christmas, which is fast approaching, and all that entails. She also thinks about her upbringing, with a mother who was always immaculate, but who was she, really? And what kind of mother is she herself to her two children? Should Emma quit her job because therapy only begets more therapy?
Linda Sandbæk is a little Nina Lykke, a little Helen Fielding, and first and foremost a debut author with a talent for both pain and comedy, preferably in combination. The Therapist’s Christmas examines human nature and psychology in entertaining and astonishing ways.
Linda Sandbæk (b. 1981) has written short stories for children and adults, and non-fiction on literature, trauma and psychoanalysis, examining Elfriede Jelinek and Annie Ernaux, among others. Sandbæk has previously worked as a psychologist in Norway and Singapore. The Therapist’s Christmas is her first novel.
Sunniva M. Roligheten & Daniel Akilimali Wilondja
IF YOU WERE HUMAN
a sorrow and a worry, a wave on Facebook and a question as to whether it was perhaps more painful than good to know you.
She is a student working on a project on the conditions in Congolese mines. He works in just such a mine. One summer, he comes to Norway in connection with the project. They become friends without speaking the same language, through an interpreter.
He returns home, telling her through Google Translate about sleeping in the mine, about people dying in the mine, about his strong desire to be educated. She has a good idea: if they write a book together, he’ll get money for an education, and she’ll help him get a place on a programme of study in Norway. It becomes much more difficult and painful than they could have anticipated.
This novel has a very unusual format, written by Sunniva M. Roligheten and Daniel Akilimali Wilondja, in Norwegian, French and Swahili, a lot of it with help from Google Translate. The book is political, poetic, funny and very sad.
Praise for Sunniva M. Roligheten:
«When Everything is Built of Paper shuts down Freud and sees childhood as a conglomerate of impulses and experiences.»
NRK
«... a merciless coming-of-age story.»
AFTENPOSTEN
Sunniva M. Roligheten (b. 2000) is a student. When Everything is Built of Paper was her debut novel, for which she earned a nomination to Tarjei Vesaas's Debutant Prize and was awarded the Saabye stipend.
Daniel A. Wilondja is from Congo, and has co-written If You Were Human with Sunniva M. Roligheten.
Om du var et menneske 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
Kristin Buvik Sivertsen BØ!
Marie is an artist whose career hasn’t taken off, and when her boyfriend breaks up with her, she decides to get her life together.
In Bø in Vesterålen, they have abolished wealth tax to attract the “fat cats” and create jobs. In the wake of welcoming Bjørn Dæhli, businessman and former cross-country skier, they have also decided that they need art and culture. On private initiative, they decide to establish a biennale – or Bøennial, as it will come to be known. Marie takes the job of managing the project. Sure, maybe she initially thought it was Bø in Telemark she was applying for a job in, but she looks on the bright side and takes the job regardless.
Bø! is a humorous and precise novel about regional Norway, Northern Norway and wealth tax.
Kristin Buvik Sivertsen (b. 1986) lives in Oslo. She holds a Master's Degree in comparative literature from the University of Copenhagen. Her debut novel, Omsorg (care), received the Saabye Scholarship.
Rannveig Fern Leite Molven VIRVEL STREET
A mother is left behind in pieces. She has lost her fouryear-old daughter, who stopped breathing one night, without warning. The loss happened many years ago now, and the woman has since had another daughter. Virvel Street is about grief, and about what it means for a child to grow up around such profound loss. How should parents manage their own grief, while at the same time show their new child that they love them?
Virvel Street stirs up powerful feelings in the reader. Blunt and brutal in her depictions of grief and loss, Molven writes about how grief can change a person over time, and the ripple effect it has on the people around them.
Rannveig Leite Molven (b. 1974) studied at The Academy for Creative Writing in Bergen. She made her literary debut in 2012 with The Word For What I Am Now Does Not Exist, and has since written several books.
Virvelgate
130 x 205 mm / 160 pages
Bø!
130 x 205 mm / 240 pages
Marte Qvenild
THE HOUSE OF EDEN
Miguel and Nora, father and daughter, live in opposite corners of the world, each striving to create Paradise on earth: an Eden. Miguel through political warfare in Mexico, or, revolution, if you prefer. His daughter, through a rainforest project in a greenhouse in Norway. Nora hasn’t seen or heard from her dad for several decades when she receives a call and is urged to come back. Her father needs her.
The House of Eden is a novel about bullets and seeds.
«Norwegian literature needs people who will raise their gaze. Marte Qvenlid does.»
NRK
«The novel's indisputable highlight testifies to an author who knows how to create and pursue an interesting plot – something which, undboubtedly, not many masters.»
KLASSEKAMPEN
«Qvenild writes precisely and soberly, while simultaneously vividly, about everything from the rush of traffic in Carl Berner's place to the subjugation of the Mexican riot police. The immersion in Nora, Astrid, Miguel and their student friends from 1968, Yatzil and Miguel's sneaky brother, Gabriel, forms luminous portraits of rounded-out people. Their personal story provides the seed for constantly new choices, which they also make. The universe that is being written is a frankly brilliant achievement by the second book author Qvenild.»
DAG OG TID
Marte Qvenild (b. 1977) made her debut in 2021 with the novel The Summer Party, a novel that has received great reviews and was awarded «Summer Book of the Year» by the paper Dagens Nærlingsliv.
Edens hus 130 x 205 mm / 240 pages Flamme forlag
Eivind
Sudmann
NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF
Thomas is a former psychologist but now works as a lecturer following the great success of his book, The Grammar of the Good Life. He and his family live in Oslo, within the secure framework of the garden city of Ullevål Hageby. Whereas everything went up in smoke in his childhood, everything is under control in garden city. Until one day he receives an audio recording of himself at the shop. Then a photograph. Someone is watching him, but why? These extraordinary events awaken something in Thomas, something he repressed that is now resurfacing. Little by little, the past comes back to him, this time in the shape of stranger.
The novel dives deep into the mind of a man who is gradually losing control over the life he is living and the life he has lived.
Eivind Sudmann (b. 1984) comes from Lillehammer and now lives in Bergen. He made his literary debut in 2014 with the novel Nobody misses Edward Niema. Since then, he has written both novels and poems.
Didrik Morits Hallstrøm
ANYWHERE BUT HERE
Anywhere But Here is an autobiographical novel about an adult son who is trying to get to know his sick father before it is too late. The novel depicts authorial ambitions versus family life. A hidden box of video cassettes in the attic. A child who never stops bawling. An erased childhood. A love letter. A self-defence. A forgiving.
Didrik Morits Hallstrøm (b. 1984) was born in Oslo, and is an Art Director educated at The Westerdals School of Communication. His debut You are not dead until I stop loving you (2011) was well received by both the critics and the readers. He has since written several novels.
Alle andre steder enn her 130 x 205 mm / 176 pages
Ingenting å være redd for 130 x 205 mm
Silje Bergum Kinsten
BEST KEPT
Best kept is a family portrait stretching over three generations. January 1945: The narrator's mother is born on the way the hospital, and carried the rest of the way, new-born, on horseback by her grandfather. The child has polio. She wears leg braces as a child. She needs a cane and crutches her whole life. She needs her daughter's hand at her back as they climb a hill. «Why does your mother walk with a cane?» a friend asks the narrator when they are still kids. The question confounds the narrator: Is that something to wonder at? Mum always walks with a cane. That's how it is. The mother isn't less in her child's eyes because of it. And so, Best kept becomes a novel about otherness and strength.
Everyone starts, everyone keeps going and everyone ends. This we know. This is how it is. But how do we best keep ourselves, and others?
Silje Bergum Kinsten (b. 1977) is born in Oslo, raised in Nittedal and now living on Nesodden. She made her debut with the chap book At School, in the water, behind the church (2017).
Vegard Sæteren TERRAIN
The novel starts with an advert promising vulnerable people a community where they will be valued. Oggy (the leader) promises that, as long as everyone come together and do as he says, they will, somewhere out there, find goodness, find community, find meaning and abundance. But who can really promise such a thing? And won’t we be there soon? Terrain follows a handful of somewhat tired, somewhat lonely people in a convoy into a desolate landscape. How do you think it will play out?
Terrain is a short novel about what might be the biggest question of all: the meaning of existence in each and every one of us.
Vegard Sæteren (b. 1982) grew up and still lives in Oslo. In addition to being a writer, he is an advanced child protections practitioner.
Vegard Sæteren Terrenget
Terrenget 130 x 205 mm Flamme forlag
Best bevart 130 x 205 mm / 144 pages Flamme forlag
Jonas Sundquist
THE COMPANY OF OTHERS
Balder and two friends leave the summer heat of Oslo for a luxurious summer house on Nøtterøy. But cracks soon start to appear in the idyll: the power generator is kaput, a forest fire is threatening the other side of the fjord, and they are not allowed to go up into the attic. Strange things happen at night, no one can sleep, and as the days pass, everyone seems to withdraw more and more into themselves. It is as if everyone has secrets that none of them dare confront. Not least Balder himself, who refuses to talk about where he has been in recent years. Instead the façade is maintained, because after all, what is worse than those closest to you seeing who you really are?
This is a novel about friendship, love and parties gone awry, about secrets, power and inadequacy, about young people with old money, but perhaps most of all about feeling alone in the company of others and oneself.
Jonas Sundquist (b. 1992) and lives in Oslo. He made his literary debut in 2021 with the critically acclaimed novel I Think You Would Have Liked Ulrik.
Kristian
Klausen
ALEKHINE'S DEFENCE
The Russian world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was found dead in a hotel room in Portugal in 1946. The post-mortem report claimed that he choked on a piece of meat while eating dinner. But is this the truth? The suspicion that he was killed and that the post-mortem report was falsified has intensified recently.
In this novel, we meet Alekhine in another town that could be Estoril but could also be a mid-sized city half an hour from Oslo. Over the course of the day or so, we encounter him penniless and intoxicated in a cheap hostel room and walking around as he recollects various events from his life and career. He decides to eat one last meal and commit suicide. But an encounter with a Norwegian chess player will change everything.
Kristian Klausen (b. 1971) is a freelance writer and art instructor. He made his literary début in 2008 with his critically acclaimed short story collection The Meal in Emmaus. In 2014 he was awarded The Norwegian Booksellers grant, and the same year he was also nominated to The NRK P2-listeners Novel Award for the novel My Life was a Hot Library
Alekhins forsvar 115 x 185 mm / 96 pages
Andres selskap 130 x 205 mm / 256 pages
Eirin Andresen Betten
THE THIRD MEMORY
Ada and Georg install the smart box Metis in their living room. Metis sees everything, hears everything and users can speak to it. One day, the company behind the technology is hacked and all visual data leaked, including Ada and Georg’s digital footprints. Metis forces Georg to confront the memory of his late parents, while Ada tries to get to the bottom of the ethical issues that arise from having a smart box installed. The presence of the box drives a wedge between Georg and Ada.
The Third Memory is an exploration of the digital versus the human mind, and what can happen when a new kind of consciousness invades your home.
Eirin Andresen Betten (b. 1988) is a literary scholar and journalist. She works as a lecturer and freelance writer. Her debut novel Tiden krever et annet bilde (Time Wants a Different Image) came out in 2021.
Aksel Selmer LANDING
Ottar Arne Andersen, failed poet and author of mediocre advertising texts, recently widowed and retired, has finally worked up the courage to move back to his hometown. For more than forty years he has longed to return home to the winter and ideal skiing conditions. But when he is sitting with his boxes of books in the house he has bought, he realises it was maybe something else he longed for, something he is struggling to get back.
Landing is a cheerful and melancholic story about coming home and then trying to remember what it was that what it was that you left and why you left it. It is also a tale of soaring over the landscape of your childhood and making a good Telemark landing on your skis.
Aksel Selmer (b. 1958) made his literary début with a poetry collection in 1992. Since then he has written poetry collections, and several novels for adults and young readers.
Nedslag
130 x 205 mm / 176 pages
Det tredje minnet 130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
Geir Angell Øygarden
KENTAUROMAKHI
Two men travel to Ukraine to write a book. The more distance they put behind them, the more often Albert’s memory fails him. The Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, who has got herself a job at Amazon’s memory warehouse, is gradually – yet spasmodically –draining him of memories.
What happens to our memories after they’ve been forgotten? What happens when you can no longer see the world in colour? When the gods are unemployed and get jobs at Amazon’s memory warehouse? Kentauromakhi is a literary journey to a country heading into blackout, where in the end only memories and chimney stacks will remain.
«As a writer of irony and satire, Øygarden is unparallelled, with a striking allegoric precision.»
KLASSEKAMPEN
Geir Angell Øygarden (b. 1968) has published several non-fiction books and novels. He lives in Skåne, Sweden.
Elektrolysesang
115 x 185 mm / 320 pages
Flamme forlag
Håvard J. Nilsen
ELECTROLYSIS SONG
Electrolysis Song is a novel about Mosjøen, about the beach town that became a seaport, and the seaport that became an industrial town. This is a novel about long days and aching muscles. About restoring the country and building a new Norway. About individuals and community. In a time when the Labour Party was at the helm. This is a novel about Johannes and Sivert. And about Sivert and Mia. This is a novel about hope and industry and darkness. Woven through an aluminium works.
Håvard J. Nilsen (b. 1980) grew up in Mosjøen and lives in Trondheim.
Kentauromakhi
130 x 205 mm / 304 pages Flamme forlag
Ola Innset MOSS
After the municipality’s second richest woman is found dead on the Bastø ferry, police investigator Are Nyquist is posted to his hometown of Moss, against his will.
The murder victim had inherited several cornerstone companies, all of which she sold and liquidated. Since then, she’d spent all her time on charity and voluntary work. Who wanted to kill her, and was there something more behind it? What happens to a small Norwegian industrial town when the industry disappears, but the town continues to grow? Why does the smoke from the town’s last factory chimney go straight up even as the south wind tears at the walls of buildings? Why are some things dying slowly and unnoticeably, while others are dying quickly and inexplicably?
Ola Innset (b. 1985) is a trained historian and an active musician in indie pop bands such as Making Marks, mylittlepony and Sunturns. Lisboa was his first novel. Innset writes as he plays: playfully, wittly and tenderly, but with serious undertones.
Ellen Mari Thelle BLINDERNVEIEN 4
Can the meaning of a person’s life change after their death?
In Blindernveien 4, we meet Agnes and Bernard, who get together late in life. You might almost say it is easy for Bernard: the last thing he did was love Agnes. His feelings were never challenged by the relentless march of time. For Agnes, it is different. She has to carry all they were for a while longer.
Blindernveien 4 is a novel about before and after. About how you protect and take care of someone who is no longer living. It is about love and survival, and about the ways in which we carry with us those we have lost.
Ellen Mari Thelle (b. 1977) lives in Oslo. She has published several books and won the Norwegian Youth Critics’ Prize in 2019 for her novel Bernard Comes Knocking (2018).
Moss
130 x 205 mm / 176 pages
Flamme forlag
Blindernveien 4
120 x 205 mm / 112 pages Flamme forlag
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Brynjulf Jung Tjønn
WHITE NORWEGIAN MAN
White Norwegian Man is a touching and important book about a subject many experience every day – namely racism. In this poetry collection the author Brynjulf Jung Tjønn depicts his own experiences of racism.
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn was adopted from South Korea to Norway as a child and has always known that he looks different, as he puts it himself. With the pandemic – and the awareness around racism and Asian hate – he got new and painful perspectives about his own background and upbringing.
White Norwegian Man is about Norway and the racism many ignore, both the hidden and the visible kind. And not to mention the lonely human who hopes for understanding and finding somewhere to feel at home.
«What a clenched fist of a book this is! … Among the most powerful things I’ve read. Everyone should read it.»
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn
NORWEGIAN LOVE
Was Brynjulf a child sold across borders? Can he still be glad he was bought by someone in Norway? All he wants is to be part of the country where he grew up, to acknowledge the painful, but also see what's beautiful.
At the time when White Norwegian Man came out, a story broke that there had been problematic aspects to the adoption industry. This shook the self-image and identity of many adopted people, including Brynjulf Jung Tjønn.
Even though you are born in another country and have dark skin colour, you still just want to belong. To be part of the Norwegian. Who has Brynjulf been? Who Who will he be or become? What does it mean to be Norwegian?
Norsk kjærleik 148 x 210 mm
Kvit, norsk mann 148 x 210 mm / 96 pages
From White Norwegian Man, translation by Rachel Rankin:
WINNER OF THE CRITIC'S AWARD 2022
if only i had had blonde hair if only i had had blue or green eyes if only i had been a white norwegian man what kind of problems would i have had then? i have thought about this every single day ever since i was little and stood in the mirror and wondered why i had such yellow skin why my hair was so black why my eyes were so narrow why i didn’t look like anyone i went to school with didn’t look like my cousins didn’t look like my parents why should i among five million norwegians look like i am chinese?
Brynjulf Jung Tjønn (b. 1980) made his literary debut with the novel I came to love in 2002. He has since published a number of books for both children and adults. His novel for Young Adults You are so Beautiful, won the Brage Prize in 2013. In 2023 his poetry collection White Norwegian Man came out, and was an instant bestseller, received rave reviews across the board and won several awards, including The Youth Critics Award in 2022 and The Critic's Award in 2023. Jung Tjønn received The Samlag Prize (Samlagsprisen) for his authorship in 2024.
Rights sold to: Denmark (Straarup & co), Serbia (Presing Izdavaštvo)
Herland Johnsen
CHRISTMAS AT GLITTER PEAK LODGE
An old mystery. A tragic accident. Secrets. Confessions. A new beginning.
After a traumatic climbing accident, well-known Alpinist Ingrid Berg has returned to the small Norwegian village that her family has called home for generations to take over the management of the Glitter Peak Lodge from her aging grandmother, who's no longer up to the task. With Christmas rapidly approaching, the Glitter Peak Lodge staff are busy baking kransekakeand saffron buns, decorating an enormous tree with tinsel, and enlisting guests to participate in their Santa Lucia celebration.
But within short order of Ingrid’s return, complications arise that seem out of the ordinary. Unexpected cancellations. An outspoken American guest who seems to unsettle Ingrid’s beloved grandmother. Leaking pipes that may imply sabotage. And then one day, Ingrid discovers a yellowed, decades-old newspaper clipping about an unsolved local mystery…
Will Ingrid be able to figure out what’s going on in time to save the inn—and her family’s legacy—from ruin?
«A
breath of lovely mountain air of a book: so delightful and charming!»
JENNY
COLGAN, AUTHOR OF MEET
ME
AT
THE CUPCAKE
CAFÉ AND LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY
«A
sweet story that rooms both christmas preperations, mystery and a dose of romance.»
HVERDAGSNETT,
Kjersti
Jul på Himmelfjell hotell 130 x 205 mm / 336 pages
(HarperVia), Denmark (Turbine), Germany (Hoffmann und Campe)
SUMMER AT GLITTER PEAK LODGE
In Summer at Glitter Peak Lodge we are reunited with Ingrid, a mountain climber who has taken over management of the family-run hotel. She has got together with her boyfriend Tor, a handsome sheep farmer, and finally rediscovered her passion for mountain climbing. Now she plans to run climbing courses at the hotel.
This summer also brings a special wedding celebration, as Vegard, her best friend, is marrying his beloved David. The Oslo couple, both friends of Ingrid, have decided on Glitter Peak Lodge as the setting for their grand wedding festivities. No wedding is without complications, however, and some uninvited guests will make an appearance…
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Kjersti Herland Johnsen has a degree in History from the University of Bergen and has worked in the Norwegian publishing industry since 1998. She lives in Oslo with her family.
Rights sold to: Germany (Hoffmann und Campe)
Kjersti Herland Johnsen
Sommer på Himmelfjell Hotell 130 x 205 mm / 336 pages
Adventskalenderen
130 x 205 mm / 352 pages
Siri Østli THE CHRISTMAS CALENDAR
During breakfast on a totally ordinary Tuesday, Fie's husband abruptly tells her that he wants a divorce and asks her to move out. He is a dentist, and for years Fie has, as well as being his wife, been his faithful assistant - without pay. Now she is banished to an impractical and uncharming attic apartment on the other side of the city. Dazed and in despair that her life has been turned up-side down, Fie tries to soften the blow with sedatives. Her grown-up son is embarrassed about his mother break's down and does not answer his phone.
Fie's sister Sara is the one who takes charge in the situation and demand that Fie get a grip. To speed things up, she gives Fie a challenging Christmas Calendar with new tasks every day leading up to Christmas. And with this, despair turns into an adventurous, at times overwhelming, but in the end pretty nice advent after all!
The Christmas Calendar is a charming and touching Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood!
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Rights sold to: Denmark (Turbine), Italy (Garzanti, Srl.), Germany (Bastei Lübbe), Finland (Bazar), Spain (Duomo)
Siri Østli
LAST CHRISTMAS
Finally a new Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood!
Christmas is drawing near, but the idyll and calm Kirsti longs for during the holiday season seems completely out of reach this year. She is single mother for her teenage daughter Iben, a challenge in itself, but this autumn the complications in Kirsti’s life is piling higher than gifts under the tree. She has always had a complicated relationship with her sister, Elisabeth, and her mother, but as they start to plan for Christmas their relationship sours more than usual. Kirsti’s romantic relationship with Tobias is also rocky, and still on thin ice due to it being so new. Then it’s Mathilde, Kirsti’s friend and business partner. Together they run a little store in Sagene neighbourhood in Oslo, but after a huge fight Mathilde disappears without a word. Then Kirsti discovers a lump in her breast.
With the breast cancer diagnosis, Kirsti must face the possibility of Iben having to grow up without her. Which means she also has the face the fact that Iben has a father. Iben was conceived during a one night stand, and no one but Kirsti knows who the father is. Or that also lives in Oslo…
Siri Østli’s new Christmas novel is about coming together during hard times, and longing for a Christmas miracle.
Siri Østli is married with five daughters and a university degree in French, Russian and Psychology. She debuted with Across Grønland in High Heels in 2009, and has since then received excellent reviews on a number of feelgood novels. She has been translated into five languages.
Et lys i desember 130 x 205 mm
Ann-Christin Gjersøe THE GIRL IN THE SNOW
Sommersholm is a feel good series set to the Norwegian estates in the 1860s, perfect for fans of Bridgerton!
Sommersholm is a venerable manor that has belonged to the Adler family for generations. Two young women with very different lives live there: the landowner's daughter, Rose, and Alise, a maid. The family history also houses a dark secret. As the story begins, the heir to Sommersholm, Birkthorn, has returned home. Alise was young when he left, but she has not forgotten how he saved her life on a freezing cold winter night many years ago.
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Ann-Christin Gjersøe THE KAMELIA BOX
Rose causes a scandal and infuriates her father at the Christmas ball, after inviting the horse groom Torkel. Meanwhile, Alise despairs over the engagement between Birk and Miss Aurelia Collett – the beautiful but unscrupulous merchant's daughter. She also stumbles upon a hidden story, left by her grandmother in Alise's kamelia box. It holds a testimony of her grandmother's life as a chambermaid at Sommerholm, decades ago. And the secret she discovered.
Ann-Christin Gjersøe BEFORE THE MAGNOLIA BLOOMS
Rose's parents hope that an educational stay in Denmark will help her forget the enchanting groom Torkel. Miss Aurelia Collett comes to live at Sommersholm, and with her comes Margrete, her mute chamber maid. Working with Miss Aurelia is not easy, but then Margrete meets Axel Adler. For her it is love at first sight, but could he ever love her back? Alise and Birk's relationship is still meeting resistance from all sides. Alise's father sticks to the promise he gave his dying mother: That no one in his family would be romantically involved with an Adler.
Ann-Christin Gjersøe (b. 1975) runs a 350-year-old farm in with her husband. She has written books for decades, and Sommersholm is her latest series.
Piken i Snøen 130 x 205 mm / 272 pages
Kameliaskrinet 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages
Før magnoliaen blomstrer 130 x 205 mm / 272 pages
Ann-Christin Gjersøe
WHERE THE LARKS SING
Rose is leaving for Denmark, filled with joy now that she knows Torkel will follow her. Well hidden in her luggage is a fateful letter and a forgotten diary, holding a secret that could ruin the Adler family. Birk leaves for Germany. Will his and Alise's love be able to survive the distance? At the same time, the conflict between Alise's father, and the land agent Captain Crossby will have fatal consequences. Miss Aurelia's boundless cunning and web of lies become a trial for the chamber maid Margrete, as she discovers that Aurealia has stolen one of Alise's letters from Birk.
Ann-Christin Gjersøe
THE LILY IN THE FIELD
The maid’s room in the manor has suddenly become Alise's new home. She mourns her father, and longs for any sign of life from Birk. Why isn't he writing? On top of this heartbreak and her pregnancy, Aurelia seems determined to complicate Alise’s life even further. In Denmark, the upcoming costume ball is the talk of the town. Only Rose's thoughts are elsewhere. She fears that Hugo will discover and expose Torkel. Hugo has shown there is no limit to how far he will go. Can he be stopped? Axel attempts to kiss Margrete, but she believes he is enganged to someone else and accuses him of taking advantage. He leaves, promising to leave her alone.
Ann-Christin Gjersøe
THE TIME OF THE ROSES
Alise leaves Sommersholm in dishonour, after being accused of theft. But where can she go? Soon the pregnancy will begin to show, and she won't be able to hide it any longer. Margrete is finally with Axel, but she is still struggling to be accepted by the rest of his family. She stumbles upon a key, which unlocks an old mystery. But perhaps it's for the better that the mystery stays unsolved? Rose, still in Denmark, is trying to find a way for the charges against Torkel to be dropped. She fears that if he's convicted, he will be hanged.
Der lerkene synger 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages
Liljen på marken 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages
Rosenes tid 130 x 205 mm / 352 pages
Elisabeth Hammer
THE FAMILY SECRET
A brand new series from Norway's answer to Tracy Rees!
The Family Secret is the first book in the gripping drama series Promises in Sand. The setting is the idyllic southern Norway in 1806, a historic turning point – with elegant dresses and romantic promises –where ships sailed the Seven Seas, and the consequences of the Napoleon wars were felt by rich and poor alike.
Amalie grows up poor, but she appreciates what little she has, and her heart beats for those with even less. In secret, she takes of her family’s limited stock of food to feed children who starve. She is living with her parents in a cosy, but draughty, shipper's room. Her father got badly injured as a seaman at a young age, and is struggling to get work that pays. Her mother grew up in a well-to-do family, and she wants better for Amalie. In secret, she tries to get Amalie into the upper-class circles, so her daughter can find a rich husband.
Blissfully unaware of her mother's scheming, Amalie keeps running into the town's finer gentlemen and ladies. As the clerk at a posh hat store, Amalie is all too familiar with how arrogant and superior they can be. When a beautiful comb disappears, Amalie gets the blame. Amalie is certain she knows who took it, but when she confronts the woman a Mr. Wickfall comes to the woman's defence. Amalie and Mr. Wickfall end up in a hefty fight. Although she cannot risk losing her small, but essential, income, he has nothing to lose. As their roads continue to cross, Amalie quickly understands that he has the power to ruin her future – and no scruples in doing just that.
All the while, dark secrets lay hidden in the past, and soon Amalie's life will take a drastic turn. What are her dear parents keeping from her? Who is she really?
This is the first of eight planned books in the series.
SYNOPSIS AVAILABLE Familiehemmeligheten
Elisabeth Hammer
WHEN THE WIND RISES
In 1807, a storm is brewing in the Danish-Norwegian kingdom. But far from the centre of action, in the charming coastal town of Christiansand, life goes on as normal. An evening a stately carriage with four magnificent horses rolls through the town. Inside sits a distraught young woman. Her whole life is based on a lie. Amalie Gren is now taken to her new guardian, the powerful Mr. Gyllenmark. He will say nothing about her past, but demands her absolute obedience when he marries her off.
Among the town's well-kept bachelors, Amalie meets again the handsome, but very condescending, Mr. Wickfall. The better option, surely, is the charismatic Captain Sjaaland, who likes her for who she is? But how well does she really know either them? It soon turns out that several of Amalie's new acquaintances have a hidden agenda - and that cynical power plays take place behind closed doors...
Elisabeth
Hammer
WINTER HEARTS
Christmas is approaching, and snow blankets the little coastal town of Christiansand. The holiday calm spreads through the streets, but not to the young Miss Amalie Gren. She was completely caught off guard by the proposal from Captain Sjaaland, but before she was able to give him her answer, the powerful Mrs. Gyllenmaark told him yes on her behalf! The Captain is certainly handsome and charming, but Amalie wants to follow her heart – and she is full of doubt.
In the serving girl Marte’s heart, however, there is no doubt. She knows who she loves, but she cannot have him. Jacob is the son of the Lord she works for, and far above her station. If the two were caught together, Marte could lose her job. And if that happened, her family would starve.
130 x 205 mm / 352 pages
Elisabeth Hammer (b. 1970) wrote her way into the hearts of many a reader with the series Maria av Svaneberg in 2011. Hammer is an extremely prolific author, and has written multiple romance series and has sold hundreds of thousands of books.
Vindkast 130 x 205 mm / 352 pages
Vinterhjerter
Merete Lien THE ORANGE TREES GARDEN
The Orange Trees Garden is the first book in a captivating feelgood trilogy set in Rome.
Spring 2015: Agnes travels from Norway to Rome to find her friend Alexandra, who's been reported missing by her suddenly ill husband. What's happened to Alexandra— has something befallen her, or has she gone into hiding? In Rome, Agnes accidentally runs into an old flame, and her feelings for him rushes back. But how accidental is it, really, that he is in Rome now?
The further into the mystery Agnes digs, the more confused she becomes. Who is Alexandra? Is her husband really ill? Soon, Agnes finds herself entangled into a cat-andmouse game revolving around an art scam. She is given lies disguised as the truth, until she no longer can tell friend from fiend.
Summer 1953: In one of the nicer areas of Rome, young, upper-class Francesca meets a man in a red sports car. The man is the famous American photographer Chris Henley, who's specialised in La Dolce Vita. Francesca falls heads over heels, but her parents are not thrilled by the match, convinced that Chris Henley is a gold digger.
The series Follow the Wind is full of heart, excitement, passion and love. It crosses multiple timelines, where hidden motives and seedy affairs create secrets that won't stay secret forever.
Merete Lien (b. 1952) is from Bergen, and is a teacher with a Master in history. Her first novel came out in 1996, and has since then had a long and prolific writing career. She is most known for the popular series The Rose Garden, which has also been published in Poland.
Appelsinparken 130 x 205 mm / 336 pages
WISTERIA
Because of the deal with Alexandra, Agnes can stay in Alexandra's apartment by The Orange Trees Garden for free. Springtime is perfect for wandering the many streets of Rome — and for spending time in front of the easel.
Agnes gets to know Gabriele, a handsome and kind Roman. He is quick to offer his help and gives her lots of attention, but Agnes is hesitant to let him all the way into her heart. She hasn't forgotten Stefan, and she doesn't know Gabriele's motives.
But another man frequently seeks Agnes out, and his motives she both knows and fears ...
ALEXANDRA
Rome, June 2014: During a fashion show where Alexandra is showing her own work, something happens that changes everything. An older man reaches out to her – and what he has to say shakes her to the core. If what he claims is true, Alexandra must see her entire life in a new light. And, if she chooses to trust him, he can offer her priceless help in the final settlement with her husband, Wilhelm.
Alexandra is the third and final book in Follow the Wind series.
Merete Lien
Blåregn 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages
Merete Lien
Alexandra 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages
Hilde S. Palladino HIDDEN
UNDER SNOW
Hidden under snow is a character-driven psychological crime fiction novel. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is witness to the brutal suicide of one of her former clients – Azora. Among Azora’s possessions was a photograph of Bjørk, with the words ‘I know why you have nightmares’ written on it. Bjørk has always had terrible nightmares – nightmares she’s never mentioned to anyone else. So how could Azora have known about them, and why did she have that photo of Bjørk? Both the police and Bjørk search for the link between them. A link that connects the two and their lives more closely than Bjørk was even aware of herself.
This work of psychological crime fiction is a fascinating dive into repressed memory and how the past and one’s upbringing can shape and impact them – even if they don’t remember it.
Exciting and well-written crime debut with plenty of drive '... many surprises and people who both interests and moves us. ... Palladino writes with great energy.'
STAVANGER AFTENBLAD
Efficient new Norwegian crime! '… an elaborate debut. … H. S. Palladino is a Norwegian crime writer debutant with a firm grip on her tools. … The revelations towards the novel’s end, regarding Azora’s fate and Bjørk’s own past, will likely surprise even the most alert of readers.'
Den som frykter snøen 130 x 205 mm / 400 pages
Hilde S. Palladino
BURDEN OF GUILT
It is a scorching hot summer. The heatwave has lasted for weeks. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is tasked by the police with looking for a middle-aged woman who has disappeared. It turns out that the missing woman had a daughter who disappeared without a trace, eighteen years ago. Bjørk quickly discovers similarities to the double-homicide case in which she made a fatal error three years ago. Where she caused the wrong person to be charged with the brutal murder of two teenage girls. He ended up taking his own life in his cell.
Together with her former partner at the National Criminal Investigation Service, Absalon Lund, Bjørk starts investigating the case. The girl who disappeared eighteen years ago may have been the actual perpetrator’s first victim. Bjørk and Absalon are likely hunting a killer who may have been active for two decades. A perpetrator who has become Bjørk’s nemesis. As the search for the missing woman intensifies, yet another young girl disappears from the neighbourhood. Bjørk is convinced that the serial killer is active again.
Burden of Guilt is an ambitious and well-written psychological crime novel that serves as a follow-up to H.S. Palladino’s explosive debut.
Hilde Palladino (b. 1968) is a former student of Norway’s Crime Writer’s School and lives between Oslo and Bali. Selfemployed, she runs various companies’ social media channels. Her debut crime novel Hidden under snow came out in 2022, and is translated into German, Swedish and Danish.
Den som bærer skyld 130 x 205 mm / 448 pages
Den ingen ser
130 x 205 mm / 384 pages
ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE
Terje Bjøranger THE ONE NO ONE SEES
Nazdar Gulli’s family discovers that studying law isn’t all she’s doing at university. She’s also seeing Julio. Soon after this revelation, Nazdar ends up in hospital as an obvious victim of honourbased violence. Police investigator Charlie Robertsen tries to get Nazdar to report her brothers and father for violence and attempted murder. But Nazdar drops the charges, scared of the consequences they could have for both her family and for herself. The investigation is put on ice, but Charlie can’t let the case go. He knows that Nazdar is in danger of being sent out of the country and disappearing, like so many other women who are victims of honour crimes. Can he help her in time?
At the same time, a young man calling himself Azad hides with a Kurdish single mother and her daughter in Sweden. Mother and daughter are brutally shot and killed by a criminal gang. Azad wants to avenge them, no matter the cost. Even if it costs him his secret identity.
The One No One Sees is a realistic and captivating thriller with deep insight into a highly topical social issue. It is the fifth book about PI Charlie Robertsen.
«... an engaging and gripping story – written in icey and controlled language. Terje Bjøranger is a brilliant author, who knows the art of structuring an intrigue. [...] one of the best and most relevant Norwegian crime novels I've read in a very long time.»
«Terje Børanger has in fact written his best book thus far. And the bravest. Which is why it’s this year’s most important crime fiction. »
STAVANGER AFTENBLAD
Terje Bjøranger (b. 1959) works as a Police Prosecutor for The National Criminal Investigation Service in Norway. He debuted in 2010 with The Third Sister (Den tredje søsteren). Bjøranger has also worked with The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration for several years in areas such as forced marriages and honour crimes.
YOU'RE GOING TO DIE
Winter 2019: The first weekend of December, Camilla Lund goes on a girl’s trip to Sweden. At least, that’s what she tells her husband. She never comes back home to Setesdal. Her husband’s suspicion that his wife is a completely different person than he believed grows stronger. Camilla didn’t have any old friends, no living parents –seemingly, she had no past at all.
In Oslo the leader of Kripos (NCIS), Agnete Ness, is ordered by the Attorney General to start a secret investigation of Camilla Lund’s disappearance. The Attorney General wants Agnete’s best detective, Ulf Sommer, on the case. After strict orders to not reveal its contains to anyone except Ulf, Agnete is given a folder of secret documents. In the folder is a photograph of a young girl. Twenty years ago, everyone in Norway knew her face. Three neo-Nazis, including a fifteen-year-old girl, were sentenced for the murder of two immigrant boys in Oslo. It was the most shocking murder case the country had ever experienced. To Agnete Ness, it’s personal. The black abyss that she thought was in the past, is suddenly her reality again.
Camilla Lund’s disappearance is the start of Agnete’s biggest nightmare. To Ulf Sommer, it’s a ticking clock: He is the only one who can save Agnete from her own past.
You're Going To Die is the first book in a new crime series about the detective duo Ulf Sommer and Agnete Ness.
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«One of the fall’s great highlights of crime.»
RANDABERG ‘24
«Psychological thriller at its best»
SANDEFJORDS BLAD
En dag skal du dø 130 x 205 mm / 368 pages Rights
Gard Sveen
MASS FOR A MURDERER
A hot Tuesday morning in August, Tom Schrøder is granted his first leave from prison. Three hours accompanied by two officers. He will be be back in the Kongsvinger prison by eleven o’clock. But Schrøder never comes back. He kills one of the prison officers and leaves town with the other. The most dangerous man in the country is on the lam. He is armed, and he has a hostage. The residents of the town are asked to stay indoors and lock their doors in the intense heat of the late summer.
Tom Schrøder, a feared criminal since his late teens, was convicted of a brutal double homicide twelve years ago. In recent years, however, he has been a model prisoner and earned a transfer to a low-security prison. In two years, he could have been a free man. He is fifty-two years old. If he’s caught now, he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars. Why run now?
In Sandefjord, Schrøder’s lawyer is on his summer holiday when he receives news of his most infamous client’s escape. By then, several hours have passed since the incident – Tom Schrøder could be anywhere. The lawyer’s greatest fear is that someone in the prison may have told Tom his big secret.
Then the worst thing possible happens. And the road to downfall has no end.
Gard Sveen (b. 1969) made his debut in 2013 with the book The Last Pilgrim. For the debut he won the Riverton Prize, the Glass Key, The Maurits Hansen Best Crime Debut Prize, and the Danish Palle Rosenkranz Prize in 2015. Since then he has written several books. The Bear (2018), the fourth book in the series about police officer Tommy Bergmann, was also nominated for the Riverton Prize.
Messe for en morder 130 x 205 mm
Sigbjørn Mostue
THE HEAVENS WILL WEEP BLOOD
The heavens will weep blood is a one-of-a-kind thriller journey.
Even Stubberud is a soldier in the Special Forces. But now he has fallen sick with cancer. Before he leaves the force he takes on one last mission: A simple escort of a terrorist to Somalia. The plane from Oslo is hijacked, and the terrorist is set free. The only one who can save the 245 passengers from certain death is an unarmed man, sick with cancer, with no knowledge about planes.
«In this thriller he effectively make a spin on that tiny bit of discomfort that we all feel when we fasten the seat belt and get ready for take off.»
AFTENPOSTEN
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Sigbjørn Mostue THE SILENT SAVANNAH
The Silent Savannah is the sequel to Sigbjørn Mostue’s nail-biting, Riverton Prize-nominated thriller The heavens will weep blood in which we met the series hero: Even Stubberud, leader of a top-secret, counter-terrorism unit.
The retired elite soldier is looking to start a new life in Kenya, where he plans on helping train the Savannah gamekeepers and bring about an end to the ruthless slaughter of elephants and other wildlife. However, strong forces lie behind the poaching activities – forces connected to some of the world’s most powerful nations.
With an evocative imperial backdrop, The Silent Savannah is an intense and exciting thriller that highlights one of the greatest disasters of our time: Nature’s extinction.
Himmelen skal gråte blod 130 x 205 mm / 240 pages
Taus savanne 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages
Rights sold to: Sweden (Modernista)
Rights sold to: Sweden (Modernista)
Sigbjørn Mostue THE SHADOW PEOPLE
Even Stubberud is on his way into the deep Amazonas rainforest, seeking The Shadow People. A mystical tribe that avoids contact with the rest of the world. With them a dead geologist has hidden maps showing huge riches hidden in the rainforest – information that Russia, the USA, the Venezuelan government and cartels wants their hands on. Even’s task is to find the maps first, and destroy them.
Simultaneously, Norway is trying to negotiate a peace treaty between the Venezuelan government and Andrés Palmero, the leader of the opposition. Russia launches a cyber attack on Norway, and the message is clear: Keep out of it. Russia wants Palmero dead. The consequences could be a full-scale war between the superpowers.
«There is no doubt that the author has the ability to keep the reader glued to the pages until the very last one is turned.» HVERDAGSNETT
Sigbjørn Mostue (b. 1969) has a degree in the History of Ideas and has worked as an editor. He is now a full time writer, having authored a number of bestselling books for young readers, including the trilogies The Elf Sign and The Last Magician. He also writes crime novels for adults together with Johnny Brenna. He has been both nominated for and won the UPRISEN award, won the ARK-Children's book prize, and been nominated for the Brage Prize and the Riverton Prize.
Skyggefolket 130 x 205 mm / 336 pages
Hans Olav Lahlum
THE MIST MURDER
The Mist Murder has, in the Sherlockian spirit of Hans Olav Lahlum, a subtle plot in a fashionable seventies colour palette with links to a long-unsolved murder.
“Firstly, I owe it to you to let you know that I was a national socialist during the war,” said the man sitting in the guest chair in my office.
The date is 16 November 1973. In his office in Oslo, private investigator K2 is sought out by a farmer who has travelled all the way from Telemark. The client says that for important personal reasons he needs to clear up the circumstances surrounding his brother’s dramatic death in the late autumn of 1943. The private investigator allows himself to be tempted by this lucrative challenge and travels to Telemark the same evening. There, he stays in the house where his client’s older brother, a front fighter recently returned home, was found shot one misty autumn day thirty years previously.
The house, the client and his family history make a fascinating and sometimes unsettling impression. In the strange local community, K2 discovers that events from the war years still cast long shadows over the lives of both young and older people. Patricia is far away at home in Oslo, but K2 soon realises that he will need her help to clear up an old murder mystery that he is finding increasingly confusing and disturbing…
Hans Olav Lahlum (b. 1973) is a writer and historian. He made his literary debut with the critically acclaimed biography Oscar Torp in 2007. He has since published a number of crime novels and non-fiction books. His crime novel are bestsellers in Norway.
Tåkemordet 130 x 205 mm
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I begynnelsen var mørket 130 x 205 mm / 288 pages
Karin Fossum
FIRST THERE WAS DARKNESS
All that's heard in the silence, is the knife when it's dragged over the steel in long motions.
First there was darkness is the fourth book about police detective Eddie Feber.
It's early August, and a dry wind is blowing. Ruben Kornell spends the night in an old community centre, hidden behind some chairs. He awakes to the sounds of voices, and overhears a conversation between two men. Ruben has a burning passion for true crime, and he's convinced the men are planning to commit a crime. He eyes the opportunity to become an important witness in a criminal case. If he can convince the police to take him seriously.
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Karin Fossum (b. 1954) made her literary debut in 1974 with the poetry collection Maybe Tomorrow, for which she won the Vesaas First Writer's Award. She has published books in several genres, but is best known for her crime fiction series about Inspector Konrad Sejer. Several of her books have been filmed for the screen and TV. She has received a number of prestigious awards, including an LA Times Book Award and The Brage Prize for her novel The Indian Bride (2000). In 2017 The Riverton Club named her Best Norwegian Crime Writer through the times. Karin Fossum's books are translated into 34 languages.
Praise for Farewell, Farah Diba:
«… at her best she writes psychological thrillers of world class. As this one is.»
DAGBLADET
«Elegant and intelligent crime […] fairy-tale like, gripping and almost surreal.»
BOK365
«Karin Fossum is close to her very best. And crime literature doesn’t get much better than that.»
ADRESSEAVISEN
«To deliver so strongly only a year after her previous publication, is an achievement few Norwegian crime authors will do after her.»
«Farewell, Farah Diba stands out as Karin Fossum at her most superb. It offers excitement, entertainment and wise reflections in a wonderful mix. [...] Karin Fossum proves once again that she belongs to the very top echelon of Norwegian crime.»
DAGSAVISEN
Rights sold to: Germany (Saga), Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof)
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Mally Marlene MY FRIEND, ALICE
Jessie and Alice have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, and shared a consuming interest in True Crime cases.
When Alice becomes obsessed with an unsolved disappearance case from the 90s – The Sleeping Baby Case – Jessie finds that her friendship with Alice becomes more and more threatening. Alice is very dominant, and Jessie finds it challenging to maintain a normal life.
Can Alice be trusted and is she the friend Jessie thinks she is?
«In the run-of-the-mill spring of Norwegian crime fiction, Mally Marlene emerges as a breath of fresh air, infused with a mix of lewd sexuality and Freudian terror.»
NRK
«I won’t be surprised if this novel, in a revised form, becomes the basis for a movie or a TV series.»
STAVANGER AFTENBLAD
«A solid debut well worth its 5/6 stars. »
VG
«Fiercely cinematic and international.»
ADRESSEAVISEN
Mally Marlene (b. 1992) is a Norwegian author and filmmaker. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film from Long Island University in New York and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in screenwriting at MetFilm School in London. In 2021, she debuted with the thriller novel Dr. Stravinsky, which was acquired by the Arts Council and was a semifinalist in the Unread of the Year competition.
Min venn, Alice 130 x 205 mm / 320 pages
Excerpt from My friend, Alice, translated by
Lucy Moffatt
She stood behind the flower stands, as close to the entrance and with as clear an exit route as possible. She took a carton of milk off the shelf of local dairy products and pretended to examine the contents before putting it back carefully and picking up another. And so she continued, keeping watch all the time.
Housewives with full shopping trolleys trundled past her slowly, chatting away eagerly, but she didn’t register a single word they said. Her gaze was fixed on the front of the shop, on a woman rocking a stroller back and forth by the steps outside. She’d seen her before, several times. With that adorable little girl, still just a baby. Tiny pouting lips, long lashes. The kind of child she longed for. The woman parked the stroller in the shade, pulled down the canopy so the baby wouldn’t be bothered by the sun and walked into the supermarket. She gave her baby one last glance as she picked up a shopping basket and hurried in among the rows of fruit and veg. When the woman had passed her, she sneaked along the aisles towards the exit. She avoided making eye contact with passers-by as the shop doors closed behind her. The autumn sun was high in the sky and dazzled her as she walked out onto the steps, and she tugged her headscarf down over her forehead to conceal her hair and eyes, then leaned over the stroller. Peered down at the little girl’s face, which protruded from the floral-patterned duvet. She cast a glance around the car park. A school bus rumbled past on the road below. Otherwise, no one was in sight. She gently reached down into the stroller and quietly lifted up the sleeping baby, clutched it to her chest, then disappeared around the corner of the shop.
