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Gyldendal Agency 2014 Fiction and Non-Fiction

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Gyldendal Agency 2014 ANNE CATHRINE ENG RIGHTS DIRECTOR ANNE.CATHRINE.ENG@GYLDENDAL.NO

HENRIK FRANCKE FOREIGN RIGHTS MANAGER, FICTION AND CHILDREN & YA HENRIK.FRANCKE@GYLDENDAL.NO

MIA TØNNESSEN FOREIGN RIGHTS MANAGER, NON-FICTION MIA.TONNESSEN@GYLDENDAL.NO

GYLDENDAL AGENCY IS AN IN-HOUSE LITERARY AGENCY

Gyldendal Agency Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS P.O. Box 6860 St. Olavs plass 0130 Oslo, Norway Tel: +47 22034112 http://eng.gyldendal.no/

Contents Fiction 4

Norwegian novels, short stories, crime fiction, essays

Non-Fiction 40

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Levi Henriksen’s cool, quirky and bittersweet Harp Song is his warmest - and funniest - novel yet.

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Olav W. Rokseth’s The Brother is an intensely suspenseful thriller of two brothers’ courage and about sibling love driven to its outer limits.

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Atle Næss paints a broad picture of Leonardo da Vinci and his times in this beautiful book, where the entire oeuvre of his paintings is reproduced.

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Biography, history, contemporary, outdoor activities, hobbies and crafts, cookery books

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38 years later I sat staring down at a dead sheep’s head.

Steam rose from the head lying on the plate, right through the brown, taut skin over the sheep’s skull, as if a visible emanation of the soul couldn’t restrain itself from rising.

I looked around me, saw that everyone, more specifically the faculty of Nordic languages and literature from Eitre University College, sat there with their glasses raised.

From Gunnhild Øyehaug’s novel Undis Brekke

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My Private Life Tomas Espedal Often mentioned in the same breath as Karl Ove Knausgård, Tomas Espedal has been hailed at home and abroad as one of Scandinavia’s most important writers for his radical and stirring mix of fiction and autobiography.

My Private Life is a photo-book, as well as a novel. The photographer is Tomas Espedal, and the pictures document his life and surroundings through the past fifteen years: There are pictures of Espedal’s friends and family, the houses he’s lived in, the desks he’s sat at while writing, hotel beds he has slept in. The accompanying text charts the development of an artist’s life and discusses the intimate relation between life and art, and how the two more or less become one, as Espedal has displayed in each book he has written since the turn of the century.

Espedal reveals himself as an eminent photographer, with a sharp eye for motifs where most of us wouldn’t even think of looking for them.

About the author Tomas Espedal (b. 1961) lives in Bergen and made his literary debut in 1988. He has written a number of novels and has been shortlisted for the Nordic Council’s Literary

Award three times. He has won the Brage Prize, the Critics’ Award and the Gyldendal Prize, and his books have been translated into 14 languages.

PHOTONOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: MITT PRIVATLIV // 133 PAGES

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Bergeners (2013) Nominated for the Nordic Council Literary Prize.

A unique mix of fiction, memoir, essay, poetry and travelogue. Dublin has Dubliners. For Bergen, there’s – Bergeners.

“Why is Norwegian literature so exciting these days? The answer may be found in Tomas Espedal’s new book about Bergen and books ... like many Norwegian writers he dares to be both naive and intellectual at the same time ... Espedal manages, effortlessly and without pretentions, to be at once very Norwegian and very international.”

POLITIKEN, DENMARK

Against Nature (2011) Winner of the Brage Prize 2011.

Against Nature is an examination of factory work, love’s labour, the job of writing. Working in order to live in compliance with society and nature. But what is natural, and why is the narrator drawn towards impossible, impossible love, books, myths, taboos? He reads the story of Abélard and Héloïse, about the young Marguerite Duras and her Chinese lover, and realizes that he too is turning into one of those who live against nature.

“A love story unlike any other ... a masterpiece of literary understatement. Everybody who has recently been thirsting for a new, unexhausted realism, like water in the desert, will love this book.”

DIE ZEIT, GERMANY

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Mother’s Gifts Cecilie Enger Winner of the Booksellers’ Prize 2013. 70,000 copies sold in hardback.

“Both an insightful piece of cultural history and a wonderfully beautiful portrait of a mother ... the most beautiful book this autumn?”

AFTENPOSTEN

“A powerful, gripping story. It is one of the most beautiful books I have read in a long time.”

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

When Cecilie Enger’s mother is admitted to a nursing home, with severe Alzheimer, the house Cecilie grew up in is emptied and sold in the space of one weekend.

Whilst clearing out the house Cecilie comes across her mother’s meticulous records of the family’s Christmas gifts over four decades.

Gifts given and gifts received, to and from people with very different lives. With the lists as a starting point Enger writes the history of her family from the late 19th century until today.

Parallel to this story runs another story. In the course of the two years it has taken Cecilie Enger to write Mother’s Gifts, we see the gradual eradication of her mother’s memory and personality.

This is a novel about gifts, memory and our yearning to hold on to time.

About the author Cecilie Enger (born 1963) is a writer and a journalist. Her first novel, Necessity, was published in 1994.

In 2013 she had a phenomenal

breakthrough with Mother’s Gifts, which ended up topping both bestseller charts and critics’ book of the yearlists.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: MORS GAVER // 272 PAGES FOREIGN SALES // Germany (DVA), Hungary (TYPOTEX), Netherlands (DUTCH MEDIA), Romania (UNIVERS)

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The Magdalena Fjord Kjartan Fløgstad Surviving is one thing, living is an entirely different matter.

Adi Enberg, Marina Noreg, Magdalena Freud Joyce: three enigmatic and complex women who set their stamp on – and are fatally marked by – their times.

Taking as its fulcrum the fateful years between 1939 and 1942, The Magdalena Fjord is a contemporary novel about our recent past, branching out in many directions. The story stretches from northern Narvik via the fjord community of Lovra to a Spain darkened by the clouds of Fascism.

While the world is being ravaged by war, the young shipping heir Conrad Tandem embarks on a business trip that will lead him straight through Europe, from south to north. A couple of decades later the adolescent sailor Frank ”Keu” Tverrli is denied shore leave in the US. He compensates by turning into a giant who moves cars with his bare hands, chews knife blades and spits nails.

He is also acquainted with The Prince of Asturias and the Catalan writer Josep Pla, not to mention a multitude of women, some fictional, some historical, some faithful and some faithless.

About the author Kjartan Fløgstad (born 1944) is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential Norwegian writers today. He has

“Razor sharp wit ... a new high point in Fløgstad’s writing” DAGBLADET

“Fiction and truth in perfect union” VÅRT LAND

About Crossing The River Jacob (2012): “The work of a fantastic novelist ... a new look at the outer limits of World War II. A success.”

LE MONDE, FRANCE

been translated into 11 languages and won the Nordic Council Literary Prize, the Brage Prize and the Critics’ Prize.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: MAGDALENAFJORDEN // 312 PAGES

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Seven Days in September Jørgen Gunnerud An intense war drama set in the vast fjords of Northern Norway.

Seven Days in September takes place during World War II. Three separate story lines cross each other at the end of a deep fjord in western Finnmark. A German aircrew takes off from France to join the attack on the Russian convoy PQ 18 in Finnmark.

We become acquainted with the members of the crew, their personalities, desires and hopes for the future. The second story is about the local fisherman Gustav Henriksen, a war hero from the battle of Narvik, about his family, his work and the society he lives in. The third person to stumble into the novel is Kristian Kolseth, a young ethnography student from Oslo’s wealthier quarters, who has travelled north in order to document building customs among the coast Sami in Finnmark.

The novel is packed with suspense, and the outcome is uncertain all the way to the final page.

Characters and environments are drawn with great realism. This is a powerful story about how the war affected people’s daily lives, their work and their social relations.

About the author Jørgen Gunnerud, born 1948, lives in Oslo. His first published work of fiction was the crime novel Raymond Isaksen’s Exit (1994). Since then he has published a number of highly acclaimed crime novels. He

was awarded the Riverton Prize for Autumn Shoot (2007). Seven Days in September is a historical drama and represents a new turn in Gunnerud’s writing.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: SJU DAGER I SEPTEMBER // 307 PAGES

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All My Contempt.

The Story of a Love Berit Hedemann Is it possible to love someone for who they are, and still despise what they do?

It all starts so well. He simply bowls her over. Every morning she walks to work in her own personal bubble of sunlight.

She is 55 years old and afraid of being tricked.

And she is tricked. Her beloved turns out to be a pathological liar. He lies about where he bought milk, about which ladies he meets, about important things, about trivial things, about absolutely everything. Is it possible to love someone for who they are, and still despise what they do?

Achieving a happy ending becomes increasingly difficult. The newspaper headlines were meant to read: Wild, Rollicking Senior Sex. But they don’t.

All My Contempt. The Story of a Love. Poppies, Internet porn and a thorough dissection of human nature. Tremendous, furious love prose.

NEW WRITER

“A furious, painfully resigned debut novel which intelligently dissects the emotional life of a woman who falls for an inveterate, lying drunkard ... far more successful than an average first novel” DAGSAVISEN

“A powerful attack on the male artist’s myth ... sharp humour and rich, juicy prose” KLASSEKAMPEN

About the author Berit Hedemann (b. 1949 in Trysil) has won several international awards for her radio documentaries and radio theatre productions.

Her first book, the children’s book

Melinda’s Mysterious Mystery, was published in 1990. All My Contempt. The Story of a Love is her first work of fiction for adults.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: ALL MIN FORAKT. EN KJÆRLIGHETS HISTORIE // 368 PAGES

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The Five Seasons Gaute Heivoll Heivoll brings back a lost world, which despite its modest size lacks nothing in terms of abundance and wealth.

“Touches the reader’s heart and whispers something about what’s important in life ... powerful” FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

“Heivoll at his very best ... a successful, bittersweet and stirring novel” VG

“Heivoll creates magic out of his grandfather’s life after retirement” DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

He wants to paint. When he retires, he shall finally have time. He has spent 34 years working as a train conductor on the Oslo-Stavanger line, during which period he has covered a distance equal to 59 circumnavigations. But now he is heading home. To his painting. To his garden. To her. But the coming year turns out quite differently than he expected.

In the autumn of 2012 Gaute Heivoll gets to see his grandfather’s many film recordings from the spring and summer of 1978. He sees his grandmother, his young parents and, not least, himself as a newly born baby. The most prominent feature of the films, however, is the garden, which his grandparents cultivated with great love and tenderness.

In The Five Seasons Heivoll brings back a lost world that is small in circumference, but which lacks nothing in terms of abundance and wealth.

This is a novel about love and companionship. about life and death – about the fragility of life, about holding on to life, about trying to find and create meaning even as death approaches.

About the author Gaute Heivoll (born 1978) made his debut in 2002 and has written poems, short stories, children’s books and novels. In 2010 he

broke through with Before I Burn, for which he also won the Brage Prize. This novel has since been sold to more than 20 countries.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: DE FEM ÅRSTIDENE // 201 PAGES

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Across the China Sea (2013) Nominated for the Booksellers’ Prize. 25,000 copies sold.

A deeply humanistic novel about defenceless individuals, the ties between brothers and sisters and a mother’s lifelong love for her child.

A married couple sets up a home for the “mentally weak” in the forest. Their permanent residents are five young siblings and three broken men. Their own two children grow up in this unusual community. Then one day, tragedy strikes.

“Again Heivoll shows his brilliance as a storyteller ... a powerful, original, deeply moving story ... beautiful and disturbing” DAGSAVISEN

Before I Burn (2010) Winner of the Brage Prize. 80,000 copies sold.

A pyromaniac runs amok in a small rural community. People are panic-stricken, fearing their house will be next. At the same time a boy is christened in the local Church. The boy’s name is Gaute Heivoll. Blissfully unaware of the drama around him, he will nevertheless later be haunted by the story.

“A thrilling and poetic novel. In this dark and powerful examination of two men’s obsessions, Heivoll’s introspection and attention to detail are unparalleled.”

BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW

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Harp Song Levi Henriksen Cool, quirky and bitter-sweet, Harp Song is Levi Henriksen’s warmest – and funniest – novel yet.

“Permanent goosebumps ... an absolutely wonderful novel” HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD

“Powerful” VG

“Great comedy ... Henriksen weaves the three dramatic life stories of love and death elegantly together with the present-time story, which is also full of drama” NRK

Suffering from a severe hangover, record producer Jim Gystad visits Vinger Church and hears divine singing. The voices from the pew behind Jim practically lift him into eternity and away from the dreary, soulless blues he ordinarily spends his working hours trying to breathe life into. And for the first time in ages, his life doesn’t feel completely meaningless.

The voices he has heard belong to The Singing Thorsen Siblings. There was a time when the trio, two brothers and a sister, toured the US and sold hundreds of thousands of records like “It’s My Cross to Bear” and “Thirty Silver Coins on Our Father’s Bible”. Then the three siblings found love.

And then they lost it. And they don’t perform any longer.

From now on Jim’s life only revolves around one thing: a firm decision to make the Thorson Siblings return to singing. He is about to be severely tasked.

And the hardest challenge of them all: to bring love back into their lives.

About the author Levi Henriksen made his literary debut in 2002 with the short story collection Fever, followed up by Down, Down, Down the following

year. His breakthrough came in 2004, when he he was awarded the Booksellers’ Prize for the novel Snow Will Fall on Fallen Snow.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: HARPESANG // 328 PAGES FOREIGN SALES // France (PRESSES DE LA CITÉ)

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Riding the Blue Wind (2011) How much wrong are you willing to do in order to finally do something right?

Mikael is forced to take care of thirteen year old Daniela, his brother’s unwanted daughter.

But first he has to shake off a few debt collectors riding heavy motorbikes. They want all the money he doesn’t have … and they know where Daniela lives.

A captivating and suspenseful novel about family secrets, rivalry between brothers and about opting to give love a second chance.

“Irresistible” BERGENS TIDENDE

Snow Will Fall on Fallen Snow (2004) Winner of the Booksellers’ Prize. Rights sold to 8 countries.

Levi Henriksen’s first novel is a magnificent story of mystery, love and of two brothers who were very close and lost each other.

“A matchless reminder of realism’s vitality, particularly if it is coupled with linguistic and psychological sensitivity such as this writer displays.”

DAGSAVISEN

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The Path Over the Cliffs Gøril Emilie Hellen A young woman travels to a Ligurian village to bury her mother. She soon uncovers the dramatic truth about her mother’s past - and discovers herself in the process.

NEW WRITER

“A beautiful book of secrets and love ... riveting” TINE SIN BLOGG

Lucia lives in London with her fiancé Jack, and she is only going home for a brief holiday. Home to her windblown childhood island off the northern Norwegian coast, where she grew up with an Italian mother and a Norwegian father, in a community where the economy is based on curing cod and gathering eider down.

Suddenly and quite unexpectedly, her mother dies when she comes home. Lucia has no other option than to comply with her mother’s final request and bury her urn where she was born, somewhere on the Ligurian coast that Lucia has never been and that her mother seldom spoke of.

Lucia’s reluctant trip to Italy becomes not only a journey towards the truth of what happened when her mother left her home village but also a quest to find herself.

About the author Gøril Emilie Hellen (b. 1966) grew up in Trondheim. She has worked as a freelance journalist for some years. Hellen lives in Sandefjord with her husband and three

children, and the idea for The Path Over the Cliffs came when she was on honeymoon to the Italian Ligurian coast in 2006.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: VEIEN OVER KLIPPENE // 304 PAGES

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Where the Savannah Ends Gunnar Kopperud A family finds itself at the centre of an intense hostage drama on the African savannah.

Erik Ødegård is a Norwegian engineer on a mission in South Sudan. On a car trip to Kenya, he and his family experience the modern nightmare: They are taken hostage by a group of armed men. The family is videotaped kneeling and crying at gunpoint, the video is uploaded onto the Internet, and Norwegian authorities have to fight against the clock to locate them and identify their kidnappers.

Meanwhile, the kidnapped family is slowly dissolving – Erik Ødegård has a secret, and it turns out that they weren’t picked out by coincidence.

When a truckload of soldiers drives up to the house where they are being held, they think they are saved. Instead the Norwegian family is sucked further into a whirlpool of conflicting desires among people who don’t have enough to lose.

About Under a Colder Sky (2012): “Gunnar Kopperud writes lightly and elegantly about post-war mysteries.”

VG

“Under a Colder Sky is a political thriller written with a novelist’s temper.

It is a knowledgeable novel, and language and period colouring are nicely adjusted to its content.”

DAGBLADET

About the author Gunnar Kopperud (b. 1946) has a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Oslo and a theatrical education from London and Strasbourg, and he has travelled

extensively in Africa. His novels The Time of Light and Longing have been published in England and received excellent reviews.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: DER SAVANNEN ENDER // 270 PAGES

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Self Portrait by Gravestone Thomas J.R. Marthinsen About the right to write your own life. And what the consequences can be.

About You (2010): “You is a stylish debut with great ambience.”

AFTENPOSTEN

“I am impressed. He is a full-fledged writer already.”

TØNSBERGS BLAD

“Here we have anger, curiosity, desire.

Repulsive humanity and touching compassion.”

A young man dies in an accident, leaving his older brother stricken with grief. In an attempt to reconcile himself with his unfathomable loss, he writes a novel, about his life and how his childhood with his siblings was. His father is furious when he reads the manuscript, and cuts him off completely.

Now he is approaching thirty. His wife is pregnant and due to deliver any time. He hasn’t spoken to his father for two years.

Self Portrait by Gravestone is a novel about brothers, sons and fathers. About who you resemble – and who you want to be. A novel about loneliness and family love. About the right to write about one’s own life and about the people who have influenced it.

But more than anything else, Self Portrait by Gravestone is a novel about male family members that disappear abruptly. And a new one on its way.

DAGBLADET

About the author Thomas J.R. Marthinsen (b. 1984) grew up in Sandefjord and lives in Denmark. His first book, the short story collection You, was published in 2010 and acclaimed

by Dagbladet’s critic as “One of this year’s finest fiction debuts”.

Self Portrait by Gravestone is his second book and his first novel.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: SELVPORTRETT VED GRAVSTØTTE // 304 PAGES

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In His Sleep He Resembled a Child Jan Chr. Næss Three generations. Two cultures. Two love stories.

A chauffeur at the Royal Palace is assigned the task of escorting the Shah of Iran’s glamorous, photogenic wife Farah Diba on the royal couple’s official visit to Norway. A Norwegian archaeologist travels to Iran in search of a crypt in the desert outside Shiraz and unwittingly finds himself caught up in post-election revolts. A rapper from Haugerud makes his way into unexplored urban territory and a date with the daughter of a carpet salesman.

Through close to half a century we follow three generations of Norwegians, each of whom acquires a certain relation to Iran or Iranian matters. These meetings form turning points in their lives.

Three touchdowns in time, two cultures, two love stories. This is a story of fathers and sons, of silence and suppression, of apathy and courage, a story of how your most intimate relations tear you apart. And yet, it is possible to change.

In His Sleep He Resembled a Child is a comprehensive novel about individuals living in an age that is windswept by global forces.

About the author Jan Chr. Næss (b. 1964 in England) lives in Oslo. Once a teacher, he now earns his living as a translator and writer. His first novel was published

About Facing the Moon (2010): “Great artistic writing, delivered with a wry smile and mild despair on love’s behalf.”

ARNE HUGO STØLAN, VG

“A captivating tale of the tumultuous powers of love.”

SMAALENENES AVIS

in 1999. In addition to novels he has written a number of children’s books. In 2007 he received Riksmålsforbundet’s Literary Award.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: I SØVNEN LIGNET HAN ET BARN // 384 PAGES

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Winter Stories Ingvild H. Rishøi A new collection of short stories from the winner of the P.O. Enquist prize 2013

“An outstanding short story writer.”

DAGBLADET

“Three stories which alone offer enough warmth to last all through the winter. Read this.”

It is impossible to remain unscathed by Ingvild H. Rishøi’s writing. No other writer produces better depictions of the vulnerability and fragility of humankind, of how unpredictable a grey everyday life can be. Her short stories have the capacity to deeply move a reader without compromising any of their literary quality or psychological depth.

Winter Stories are about fleeing on a train, about karaoke, shopping malls and snow, and about how immensely difficult buying a pillow can be. But first and foremost, Winter Stories are three tales of love. Three stories about people who mean well, who do their best, but don’t always succeed.

DAGSAVISEN

“Rishøi writes short stories of the highest order.”

KLASSEKAMPEN

About the author Ingvild H. Rishøi (born 1978) made her literary debut in 2007.

Her second book, the short story collection, The Story of Mrs. Berg (2011), was nominated for the

Brage Prize and has been a great success with critics in Denmark.

In 2013 Rishøi won the prestigious P.O. Enquist Prize. She has also won the Hunger Prize.

SHORT STORIES // ORIGINAL TITLE: VINTERNOVELLER // 136 PAGES FOREIGN SALES // Denmark (BATZER)

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Zombie Nation Øystein Stene Is life possible – even for the dead?

In the middle of the Atlantic lies an island that American and European authorities have strived to keep secret ever since World War 1. All official drafts have been manipulated, and any merchant vessel that approaches is sunk, the ocean floor has been restructured – they’ll do anything to make sure no one ever learns about the island.

One day, late in the winter of 1989, Johannes van der Linden arrives on the island. He is not quite sure where he was transported from or where he has arrived. He has come to work in the settlement’s archives. It rains endlessly, the food is flavourless, sleep eludes him, everything seems to be drained of value or meaning. Slowly it dawns on Johannes that the island is populated by the living dead. And also that he appears to be one of them. Is there a way out of this non-existence?

Entertaining and endlessly fascinating, Zombie Nation is a different conspiracy theory, a gothic horror story and an existential zombie tale. It is about our own inertia, about our lack of concern for one another, about the death of culture.

“An allegorical novel of international class ... inventive and clever” DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

“[Stene] has succeeded incredibly well ... an original and fascinating work ... solid research, great imagination, boldness and fresh conspiracy theories make this an entertaining novel” DAG OG TID

“Remarkable ... a smart and original depiction of the living dead ... written in fine, vivid prose, without a single dull point.”

VG

About the author Øystein Stene (born 1969) is a writer, a playwright and a film director. Zombie Nation is his fourth novel.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: ZOMBIE NATION // 308 PAGES FOREIGN SALES // France (ACTES SUD), Poland (ZYSK)

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Rachel’s Book Sissel Værøyvik Third print run in Norway, German rights preempted by Ullstein

NEW WRITER

“A powerful family drama ... a book which will find, and move, many readers” DAGBLADET

“A novel which will appeal to those who enjoyed Sarah’s Key and The Book Thief” ADRESSEAVISEN

“A gripping and successful debut where themes like betrayal, longing and a mother’s love take center stage”

When Ella’s parents die under dramatic circumstances, she leaves New York and goes back to Bergen to sort out their belongings. Their old villa also houses a tenant, an elderly lady called Rachel, whose odd behaviour Ella finds offensive, but also rather curious.

Soon she is drawn into Rachel’s remarkable life story, a life that spans many decades and several countries, ever since she was sent as a young child from Bratislava to Norway in order to escape the nazis’ persecution of the Jews. Do these two women have anything to offer each other?

Rachel’s Book is a novel about getting back on your feet, again and again, even after the unfathomable has occurred. About knowing oneself, one’s past and one’s roots, about friendship and solidarity, betrayal and love – and not least about a loving mother’s boundless struggle for her children.

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About the author Sissel Værøyvik (born 1959) lives in Bergen. Rachel’s Book is her first novel.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: RAKELS BOK // 392 PAGES FOREIGN SALES // Germany (ULLSTEIN), Poland (MEDIA RODZINA), Czech (MOBA)

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If Only We Had All Day Anne Kyong-Sook Øfsti Who would I have been if everything had been different?

Rebekka mourns her deceased sister, Marion. They were both adopted from Korea and were never told anything about their biological mothers. Rebekka decides to search for her roots.

In Korea she meets I-Sook, a woman who is burdened with a dark, pent-up past. And she encounters the ”Comfort Women”, young girls who were abducted and sexually abused by the Japanese forces during the war, only to be rejected by their own families when they finally returned to Korea.

The characters in this novel ask themselves: Who would I have been if everything had been different? It is a story about how memories are forgotten and about what happens when you suddenly decide to remember. If Only We Had All Day is a novel about mothers, sisters and daughters. And about belonging.

NEW WRITER

“A beautiful and easily read book that makes you think” MOSS AVIS

“A finely tuned, tender and captivating story that you can believe in”

About the author Anne Øfsti (born 1962) works as a family therapist. If Only We Had All Day is her first novel.

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: SI AT VI HAR HELE DAGEN // 224 PAGES

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Undis Brekke Gunnhild Øyehaug Sharp, stirring and full of black humour, Gunnhild Øyehaug’s long awaited second novel is an unforgettable read.

About Wait, Blink (2009): “A great, talkative, thoughtful, original and unreasonably funny and self-ironic novel” WEEKENDAVISEN, DENMARK

“A perfect novel for our time” DAGENS NYHETER, SVERIGE

Undis Brekke is about 37-year-old Undis Brekke who returns to the farming community she grew up in, in order to teach Norwegian at the local college, even though she is thoroughly fed up with students. She arrives just in time for the annual Christmas dinner at the faculty for Nordic studies, where she is forced to confront various scraps and pieces of her own childhood and adolescence that she has attempted to sweep under the carpet.

Betrayal, hope and anxiety, writer’s block, male and female exes, pre-menstrual syndrome, childhood friends and parents are all potent ingredients in this portrait of a woman who is struggling to keep her head above water. How can you defend your own values, how can you see your own retina, how can you approach your own mother and how can you eat a whole, charcoaled sheep’s head … the novel addresses all these issues.

About the author Gunnhild Øyehaug was born in 1975 and lives in Bergen. Her first work of fiction was a book of poems titled Slave to the Blueberry (1998). She has also published a book of short stories, an essay collection, and the novel Wait,

Blink (2008), which became her big breakthrough. She has received several awards for her writing, including The Hunger Award (2009), The Dobloug Award (2009) and Nynorsk Literary Award (2009).

NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: UNDIS BREKKE // 128 PAGES

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The Merciful Terrorist Jan Ove Ekeberg When the worst thing imaginable happens...

A group of Norwegian elite soldiers in Afghanistan participate in a mission to assassinate the Taliban’s supreme leader. The operation ends in disaster: A school is blown up, more than a hundred children are killed. The Norwegian authorities put a lid on the whole affair.

Then the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) receives intelligence that an internationally wanted terrorist may have entered the country.

Shortly after that, a member of parliament is found nailed to the main entrance of the Norwegian Parliament with a bomb belt strapped round his waist.

When the police move in, the outcome is worse than anyone could have imagined.

PST Police Inspector Asbjørn Krag is assigned to the case. Bound to a wheel chair, the crippled war hero must battle the clock to track the terrorist down. He comes across an old monochrome photo that sends the hunt hurtling towards his own past, to his father and his family. The solution may lie right in front of his nose, but is Krag willing to pay a high personal price to find it?

“A real pageturner, ending in an adrenalin-marinated shootout of the vintage kind.”

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

“A well-written and credible thriller ...

In a way befitting a master Ekeberg manages to keep the nerve up in the parallel stories.”

TVEDESTRANDPOSTEN

Om forfatteren Jan Ove Ekeberg (b. 1954) is a journalist and a writer. He has written a number of non-fiction books, as well as the thrilling historical trilogy The Time of the Sword. The Merciful Terrorist is his fourth book.

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Doctor Fredriki’s Cabinet Jørgen Brekke A sleepwalker with prophetic gifts. A mysterious cabinet. An unsolvable murder.

“A well-crafted and entertaining treat” VG

“Brekke’s fourth crime novel is another piece of blood-stained, suspenseful history, but he is becoming increasingly interesting and literarily ambitious as a writer.”

ADRESSEAVISEN

“The time portrait is so vivid that you feel like you’re taking part in the story” TRØNDER-AVISA

Trondheim in the year of our Lord 1769: Chief of Police Nils Bayer has taken a vow to abstain from alcohol in an attempt to win the heart of the tavern wench Ingrid Smeddatter. On top of that, his health is ailing, but he has no time to lie in bed.

The first disturbance occurs when the bloody corpse of a young girl is found in a copse outside the city. Then the city’s previous Chief Medical Officer, Doctor Fredriki returns after having spent a year abroad. He brings with him a mysterious cabinet and a sleepwalker with prophetic gifts. Before long, Bayer has other concerns than numb limbs and extensive urinating, and he soon finds himself whisked into a spiral of events that may prove more fatal than the disease he is labouring under.

Jørgen Brekke here takes a break from his popular series about Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker, but readers of those books will still recognize the grumpy but shrewd Chief of Police Nils Bayer from the Singsaker story Dreamless.

About the author Jørgen Brekke (born 1968) had a sensational debut as a crime writer with The Realm of Grace, which is being published in 14 countries.

Doktor Fredriki’s Cabinet is his fourth novel.

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Dreamless (2012) In 1767 a poor troubadour flees Stockholm after offending the daughter of one of the city’s mightiest men. That same year the naked, unidentified body of a man is found on the breakwater outside Trondheim. The bulimic and cantankerous constable Nils Bayer has a difficult case on his hands.

In the winter of 2011 a young woman is found murdered in Trondheim. The killer has removed the victim’s larynx and placed a music box that plays an unknown melody on top of the body. Odd Singsaker has few leads to go on. When a sixteenyear-old girl disappears, Singsaker fears the worst.

These crimes are committed nearly 250 years apart. But they appear to have one thing in common: a mysterious lullaby that promises eternal sleep.

The Realm of Grace (2011) In 1528 a young, travelling Fransiscan monk stays for a short period in Bergen before he goes north.

His luggage contains a large assortment of knives and a piece of untreated hide.

Almost five hundred years later, a flayed corpse appears in a museum in Richmond, Virginia, and another crops up in a book vault in Trondheim.

Both incidents seem to be tied to to a strange old text written on parchment, The Book of John.

This is the first novel featuring the Norwegian police inspector Odd Singsaker and the American murder investigator Felicia Stone. It is a story of dissection, ancient books, gruesome murders and wounds that need time to heal.

“A killer debut, in every sense of the word” BOOKPAGE, US

“Grim and tense” KIRKUS, US

“Extraordinarily well done and almost unbearably suspenseful ... Brrrr” BOOKLIST, US

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Coat of Arms Thomas Enger Fourth book in five-part series. 300,000 books sold in 24 countries

“Two tragic mysteries are elegantly woven together ... Brilliant!”

ROMERIKES BLAD

“His best so far ... should be one of this autumn’s bestsellers ... makes the reader already look forward to the next and final novel” TVEDESTRANDSPOSTEN

Deep in the Swedish forests, on the first day of the autumn hunt, an elderly man is shot and killed. It was not an accidental shot.

Hedda Hellberg left her small children and went to Italy for three weeks to mourn her father. She never checked into her hotel, and all traces end at Gardermoen Airport.

Journalist Nora Klemetsen was a childhood acquaintance of Hedda, and she becomes personally involved in the case. She just can’t accept that Hedda would ever leave her husband and children of her own accord. The whole affair becomes even more of a riddle when Hedda’s name appears in connection with the Swedish murder case.

Henning Juul’s whole life revolves around one question: Who set fire to the apartment block where his and Nora’s young son Jonas was killed? The clues Henning is following seem to point in the direction of the case Nora is working on, and soon they both find themselves in a threatened position.

Someone is willing to commit murder in order to guard his secret, a secret that has branches to a dark chapter in European history.

About the author Thomas Enger (b. 1973) has worked as a journalist. He made his literary debut in 2010, with the crime novel Burned, drawing considerable attention abroad even

before it was published. Burned was the first, autonomous volume in the series about journalist Henning Juul. Thomas Enger lives in Oslo.

CRIME NOVEL // ORIGINAL TITLE: VÅPENSKJOLD // 390 PAGES FOREIGN SALES // Bulgaria, Czech Rep., Denmark, Germany

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Pierced (2011) If you find out who set me up, I’ll tell you what happened the day your son died. That is the message crime reporter Henning Juul receives from the incarcerated former extortionist Tore Pulli. He is convicted for a murder he claims he did not commit and he wants Henning to find the real killer.

Truth has never meant more for Henning Juul. And in order to find the truth he has to dive deep into an impenetrable world surrounded by a haze of myth.

Uncovering more questions than answers, Henning wonders whether Pulli is to be trusted. Soon he realizes that he has to find not one but several killers. Killers who have never been more dangerous than they are now.

Burned (2010) A solitary tent on Ekebergsletta contains the body of a half-buried woman. She has been stoned to death, there are marks from lashing across her back and one of her hands has been chopped off.

Two years earlier the Internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son in a fire. Now he is back at work and told to cover the murder. The police soon find a suspect, but Juul senses straightaway that there is more to this case than meets the eye.

His hunt for answers brings him to the attention of some very nasty people. When another murder takes place, Juul realises he must discover the truth before more lives are lost, including his own.

UK critics on Burned “New Stars of Nordic Noir: [Enger is] one of the most unusual and intense talents in the field.”

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Dark Branches Nikolaj Frobenius An intense, eerie psychological thriller, nominated for the Riverton Prize and the P2 Listeners’ Novel Prize.

“Frobenius is a master when it comes to creating a disturbing atmosphere.

And here he is at his very best” HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD

“Very suspenseful, and the book is difficult to put down” DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

Jo Uddermann’s childhood friend Georg had a disconcerting fascination for disaster and death. But he was also a boy who drew a lot of attention and caused people to wonder. Was he a victim? Or a “child with no soul”? As an adult Jo learns that Georg died while he was in prison, and he writes a documentary novel in an attempt to discover who his childhood friend really was.

The novel creates a stir, but in the wake of a television interview inexplicable things start to happen to Jo. Car doors that are wide open, an unsettling mms from an anonymous sender, a burglary where nothing is stolen. Slowly a pattern evolves: Someone is watching Jo’s every move and is invading his life – by increasingly drastic means.

“Impressive ... Read and shudder with Dark Branches in the darkness of autumn.”

VÅRT LAND

About the author Nikolaj Frobenius (b. 1965) had his great breakthrough both in Norway and abroad in 1996 with his novel Latour’s Catalogue. I Will Show

You the Fear (2008) was awarded the Jean Monnet Young Europeans’ Prize. His books have been translated into 17 languages.

PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER // ORIGINAL TITLE: MØRKE GRENER // 288 PAGES FOREIGN SALES // Bulgaria (DERETA), Czech Rep. (DOPLNEK), France (ACTES SUD), Turkey (MIKLAGARD), UK /US (SANDSTONE)

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The Venus Passage Merete Junker On the night of the 17th of May 1968 Gunnar Eie abandoned his car on the wharf of Skien with the key still in the ignition. He left a wife and three teenage daughters and was never seen again.

One spring day in 2007 Eie’s great grandson, 13 year old Stian, stumbles across a corpse in the lake close by the smallholding where he lives. The autopsy reveals that the deceased is none other than the disappeared Gunnar Eie, and that he was brutally murdered only three years previously. He has twelve red cross-stitches across his chest.

Stian lives in a desolate place together with his mother and grandmother, he is a lonely child, a weirdo, and he feels the burden of a great responsibility on his shoulders. What actually happened when his great-grandfather disappeared? Where has he been holed up all these years? And why was he killed?

In his search for answers, Stian comes closer to the truth than he ought to. It is a truth that makes enemies of everyone, not only outsiders, but even his own family members.

About the author Merete Junker (b. 1959) lives in Skien. Her first crime novel, The Girl with the Balloon, was published in 2008. It brought her the Maurits Hansen Award for best Norwegian

On The Girl with the Balloon (2008): “Oh, how I enjoyed this book!

Fantastic characters and greatly tuned suspense” CAMILLA LÄCKBERG

crime fiction debut. The Twin (2010) and Cougar Summer (2012) followed. Her books are being published in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.

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The Caveman Jørn Lier Horst More than 100,000 copies sold in Norway.

“The Cave Man is a high intensity thriller from page one. It will stand as one of this year’s best crime novels.”

TVEDESTRANDSPOSTEN

“Jørn Lier Horst demonstrates that he is one of our finest crime fiction writers. [Horst] is the new Nesbø.”

TORBJØRN EKELUND, DAGBLADET

This time, death pays a visit to Wisting’s own neighbourhood.

Only three houses away from the policeman’s home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months. There are no indications that anything criminal has taken place.

Viggo Hansen was a man nobody ever noticed, even though he lived in the midst of a community.

His death doesn’t make any headlines, but there is something about the case that catches Wisting’s journalist daughter’s attention. She decides to write a new kind of newspaper article: a portrait of a completely unknown person.

While Line starts her investigation, the police are notified about a new death. A male corpse has been found in a forest glazing, apparently after lying there for quite some time. A highly unusual find on the deceased person triggers one of the most extensive manhunts in Norwegian police history. The only thing that can hinder the police in their work, is if the media find out what’s brewing.

About the author Jørn Lier Horst (b. 1970) has several years of experience as police officer. He made his debut as a writer of crime fiction in 2004 and has published nine crime novels featuring police officer William Wisting.

Horst’s crime books have sold more than 500,000 copies at home and abroad, and are currently being published in 14 countries.

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The Hunting Dogs (2012) The Glass Key 2012. Riverton Prize 2012.

William Wisting is suspended from duty pending the outcome of an investigation into his alleged planting of evidence. He led the investigation of one of the nation’s most widely publicized criminal cases, when the young Cecilia Linde was killed.

Now, 17 years later, it has been uncovered that the evidence that convicted the killer had been planted. William Wisting has spent his whole career hunting down criminals, but this time he must work alone and undercover in order to reveal who construed the false evidence and what really happened back then. He is assisted by his journalist daughter Line, but he also gets help from unexpected quarters. Then a new disappearance of a young woman triggers a nerve-racking race.

Closed for Winter (2011) Bookseller Prize 2011.

Autumn fog covers the coastal landscape like a blanket and the cabins gaze with blind windows towards the leaden sea. Ove Bakkerud intends to spend a last, quiet weekend at his summer cottage before closing the place up for winter. But when he arrives he ďŹ nds the place a shambles, rummaged by burglars. And in the neighbouring cottage: A man who has been mangled to death.

Detective chief inspector William Wisting has seen grotesque killings before. But the desperation he witnesses this autumn is new to him. Therefore he is not very pleased when his daughter Line settles down in a cabin out at the mouth of the fjord. His concern increases as they come across more badly mutilated corpses in the skerries.

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Point Zero Bjørn Olav Nordahl The great game.

The brutal men pulling the strings.

The insane profit.

And finally: the revenge.

“A real finance thriller ... the story has speed and pace.”

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

“With Point Zero, Nordahl takes the step into the first division of Norwegian thriller writers ... excellent summer read for rainy days. The pace and tempo of the book is so high that the hours just fly by!”

The year is 2006, the investors’ sun shines like a diamond and the financial crisis isn’t even a cloud on the horizon.

An overly ambitious stockbroker receives a beating and flees to London in panic. A well-meaning Norwegian civil servant disappears without a trace into the African night. And when the journalists Bjørnar Nergård and Magdalena Mellomstrand start digging, the vipers come crawling out of their nest.

But Point Zero is not only a story about astronomical sums and brutality behind the scenes. It is also about revenge. Distilled, freshly bottled and personal.

TVEDESTRANDSPOSTEN

About the author Bjørn Olav Nordahl (born 1963) worked for many years as an investigative journalist. He has won a number of awards for his

journalistic writing. He made his literary debut in 2010. His first work of crime fiction, Shadowland, was published in 2012.

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The Girl with No Heart Marit Reiersgård A suspenseful and intelligent follow-up to the acclaimed, haunting debut Tall Snow.

Police Detective Verner Jacobsen can’t sleep. Tomorrow he has to bury his only child, a son who died of cancer. The phone calls. 15 year-old Idunn Olsen has been found murdered in the snow near the large obelisk outside the quarry in Lier. While Verner inspects the scene, he receives notice that the hearse with his son’s coffin has been stolen and is missing. The first questionings are held. Idunn was returning home from a party where someone had called the police and complained of the disturbance. The other kids seem strangely reluctant to talk about what happened.

But the police have more on their hands this winter morning. A house not far from the murder scene has been burned to the ground, and an elderly woman was incinerated in the fire.

Two mysterious, cruel intrigues and a conflict of intense emotions, a case where detectives Verner Jacobsen and Bitte Røed will have to summon all their courage and deep insight into the labyrinths of the human mind.

“Crime that moves ... writing a followup to a good debut isn’t easy. But Marit Reiersgård does so splendidly.”

DRAMMENS TIDENDE

About Tall Snow (2012): “A wise and clearsighted crime novel ... quiet intensity and finely tuned prose” AFTENPOSTEN

“So deep and at the same time so revealing, that it approaches the literary novel. I want more ... and I want it fast” MOSS AVIS

About the author Marit Reiersgård (born 1965) made her debut with the haunting, atmospheric crime novel Tall Snow in 2012. The Girl with No Heart is her second novel..

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No One Is So Safe in Danger Gunnar Staalesen Another smasher in one of Norway’s most popular and thrilling crime series

“A Norwegian Chandler” JO NESBØ

“One of the finest Nordic novelists in the tradition of Henning Mankell” INDEPENDENT

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One early morning private investigator Varg Veum is arrested by the police and thrown into a security cell. They have found electronic traces on his computer that link him to a large Internet community that shares and distributes hard child porn.

How was this material planted in his computer?

And why?

From his prison cell Veum has to sift through everything he has done the past three years, three years where his grief over the loss of his great love has led him into a self-destructive downward spiral. His plight turns into a race against time. He faces two great challenges: He has to get out of jail.

And he has to find out who it is who is trying to destroy him.

Veum is about to take on his hardest and most personal case ever.

About the author Gunnar Staalesen was born in 1947 in Bergen. His great breakthrough came with the first Varg Veum novel, The Fox Takes the Goose (1977). In addition to the 17

Veum books, he has published a bestselling historical trilogy from Bergen spanning the entire 20th century, and an action-packed thriller series for children.

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Where Roses Never Die (2012) Almost 25 years have passed since a three year old girl disappeared from a sand pit in a tranquil residential area. Now her mother wants Veum to make a final attempt to solve the case before it is obsolete.

“A Veum classic” TRØNDER-AVISA

“There is a darkness in Where Roses Never Die that Staalesen rarely has approached” ADRESSEAVISEN

Cold Hearts (2008) On a frosty January day in Bergen,Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn´t been seen for days.

“An intriguing exploration of the darker side of Norway ... a stunning piece of fiction” THE MAD HATTER, UK

”An action-packed detective story on a serious subject” BERGENS TIDENDE

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The Brother Olav W. Rokseth An intensely exciting story of two brothers’ courage and about sibling love driven to its outer limits. And then a bit further.

“Hits the bull’s eye ... packed with entertainment, suspense, wonderful character portraits and occasionally the true ferociousness of reality” MOSS AVIS

About A Matter of Protection: «A highly accomplished thriller ... a genre product of rare quality … thoughtful and adrenaline-provoking at the same time.»

5-year-old Daniel is ill with an aggressive strain of leukaemia. Chemo therapy has no effect, and he will be dead within four weeks unless he gets a bone marrow transplant from his father Alex, a Norwegian elite force soldier gone missing on a mission in Afghanistan.

Alex’s brother Jonas is a former sniper, who also served in Afghanistan. During a military operation he shot and killed a 13-year-old boy, an experience he has never recovered from. Now Jonas returns to a country he never imagined he would see again.

He must locate his brother and save Daniel. Together with his Afghan guide Omaid he ventures into a mountain region teeming with bandits and rivalling Taliban groups, populated by a people torn between an age-old tradition for hospitality and a fresh desire for revenge against the foreign occupants.

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About the author Olav W. Rokseth (b. 1955) is from Trondheim. He has studied social science and has travelled extensively in Latin America and Asia.

He currently resides in Oslo, where

he works as a journalist. He made his literary debut in 2011, with the critically acclaimed thriller A Matter of Protection.

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The Bird Catchers Eirik Wekre When a ruthless union leader is killed in a fire, an ice-cold drama in December Oslo is set in motion.

Oslo, mid-December: A union leader and onetime State Secretary dies under mysterious circumstances. Police Security Service special advisor Theo Hannover discovers that the victim had secrets that ran several layers deep, and he finds himself sucked deeper and deeper into hidden and dangerous circles of power.

At the same time a mole somewhere in the national administration is leaking state secrets to the media, which leads to a public revealing of the Norwegian State’s system for executing unofficial financial transactions. The revelations trigger widespread political intrigues, and Hege Tønnesen, who heads the Police Security Service is ordered to identify the mole and put a stop to the leaks.

The two cases demand new victims, and their paths start to cross each other. We begin to discern the outline of a mighty and ruthless enemy. Theo’s and Hege’s lives are at stake. In the course of a few nightmarish days they have to save each other and guard the safety of the nation.

About the author Eirik Wekre (b. 1966 in Oslo) has military and business experience.

He made his debut with the thriller Game Without Rules in 2005. His breakthrough came with Operation

“A furiosuly fast-paced drama! ... difficult to put down ... The Bird Catchers will undoubtedly be among the best novels this autumn in the thriller genre.”

TVEDESTRANDSPOSTEN

Snow White, with 30 000 copies printed so far. Both that title and its two successors received enthusiastic reviews in Norway and in Denmark.

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He describes his beauty as beyond praise, and that the light radiating from his impeccable exterior could lift even the most downcast soul. He adds that Leonardo was so strong that he could straighten a horse shoe of iron with his bare ďŹ sts.

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The Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci Atle Næss

FOREIGN SALES MUNCH. A BIOGRAPHY (2004): OTAVA, Finland, POLITIKENS FORLAG, Denmark, VES MIR, Russia, WYDAWNICTWO W.A.B., Poland, TÄNAPÄEV, Estonia, ÉDITIONS HAZAN, France, DANIELA STILZEBACH, Germany (E-BOOK) WHEN THE EARTH STOOD STILL. GALILEO GALILEI (2001): LEOPARD FÖRLAG, Sweden, SPRINGER VERLAG, Germany (ENGLISH WORLD RIGHTS), PANDORA PUBLISHING, Romania, JORGE ZAHAR EDITOR LTDA, Brazil

This is the first Norwegian-written biography of Leornado da Vinci (1452–1519), the most gifted European ever and one of very few people who deserve the appellation a universal genius.

Atle Næss paints a broad picture of Leonardo da Vinci. He follows his journey through Renaissance Europe – from the Medici’s court in Florence to the Sforzas of Milan, the Roman Pope and finally to Europe’s most powerful man, Francis 1 of France.

Leonardo da Vinci is primarily known as a painter and creator of masterpieces like Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but he was also one of his age’s most prominent sculptors, engineers and scientists.

He left a vast volume of notes and sketches, and many of these are quoted in the biography. That is the format that best expresses his talent and his unbounded imagination. His entire oeuvre of paintings is also reproduced in the book.

About the author Atle Næss (b. 1949) is a writer and a philologist. He has published a number of novels and documentary books. His biographies of Edvard Munch and Galileo Galilei have been translated into several languages.

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Jonas Erik Aasheim Nina Stensrud Martin Charismatic. Loved by the media. A master of rhetorics. Jonas Gahr Støre is capable of making war sound like a humanitarian project. But who is this seducer of the masses really?

At the age of fifteen Jonas was aggravated when the Soviet Union wouldn’t allow Andrej Sakharov to travel to Norway to collect his Nobel Peace Prize.

Ten years later we find him smuggling information into dissidents behind the Iron Curtain, on behalf of the secret circle “Committee of the fifteen”. An international conscience has been awakened.

The writers follow Jonas from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (IEP) in Paris and summers spent at the Brundtland family’s holiday cottage to the shots fired at the Serena Hotel in Kabul and his Uriah’s post as Minister of Health. On a private plane, however, he insists on keeping everything the way it has always been.

The writers use their access to Gahr Støre and his closest circle to draw a surprising portrait of a political super star.

About the authors Nina Stensrud Martin is a journalist and radio voice.

Erik Aasheim is communications advisor for the Ministry of Climate and Environment. He also has journalistic experience.

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Born a Feminist Marta Breen

“Marta Breen asks good questions. And she answers them even better. This is funny. And light. (...) The book makes you nod with recognition. It makes you angry. And it makes you laugh out loud.”

ANETTE OS, FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

“Well observed, well summarized, well written.”

DAGSAVISEN

We hear it all the time: Norwegian women have taken up needlework again, they are baking cookies and cultivating the role of “housewife”. Seven out of ten young women think “it would be nice to be kept by a man”, and the number who choose to take their husband’s surname is on the rise. Talk about waving a red cloth in front of Marta Breen!

Are we the first generation ever that is more conservative than its parents? she asks. Back in the seventies, her mother fought for more kindergartens, economic independence and abortion rights.

Young women of today have turned that struggle into a Little Miss Goodie Two-Shoes contest.

Equipped with ample doses of humour and a generous inclination to share her own personal experiences with us, Marta Breen addresses phenomena such as couples’ holidays, pornography and pink tulle dresses. Modern parents who overindulge their children; women who yearn for the fifties; men who are full of themselves: None of those are left off the hook either.

About the author Marta Breen (b. 1976) is a journalist, a commentator and a writer.

This is her fourth book.

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Armfeldt’s Army A Tale of a Disaster

Geir Pollen In August 1718 general Carl Gustaf Armfeldt had 10,000 men under his command in Jämtland, Sweden. The Swedish king Charles 12 had ordered him to take the Norwegian city Trondheim, in a desperate bid to retain Sweden’s position among Europe’s most powerful nations.

Nothing went according to plan. Only five months later, 3,000 of Armfeldt’s poorly equipped soldiers had frozen to death in a blizzard on the mountain border between Sweden and Norway – Scandinavia’s worst mountain disaster ever.

This book tells the whole, dramatic story of this final campaign of the Great Nordic War. It’s a story of megalomania and power struggle, demotivated soldiers and belligerent Norwegians. Despite large Swedish casualties, Armfeldt’s invasion cost even more Norwegian lives. They died of starvation and diseases the war carried with it. This is a dramatic chapter of Norwegian and Swedish history, efficiently told by one of the masters of the trade.

“A masterpiece. To be read of every one.”

ROY JACOBSEN

About the author Geir Pollen (b. 1953) is a prizewinning author and translator. He was chairman of the Norwegian Writers’ Association from 2001 to 2005.

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Dovre crumbles Norway 1814–2014 Espen Søbye, Harald Berntsen, Kjartan Fløgstad, Jon Langdal This is Norway’s history the last 200 years, written in a way it has never been written before. A writers’ collective on the offensive combines industrial history, political satire, the struggle of the working class, powerful leader figures, music and literature. Globalization, sports, oil and the press are also key elements in the broader picture these writers draw.

Dovre is about to crumble! (The motto of the delegates to the constitutional gathering at Eidsvoll in 1814 was: “United and loyal till Dovre mountain crumbles”). The farmers, once the backbone of Norwegian society, are no more. The fishers have become a red-listed species. And with The Progress Party (FrP) Norway got its first truly right wing party. Where shall it end? One possible dystopia the writers indicate is that the entire nation will be swallowed up by the health services and go into oblivion as a chronically ill patient.

The writers have taken off their silk gloves. This is uncompromising historical writing from the left side. Read, laugh and learn!

About the authors Kjartan Fløgstad (b. 1944) is an award-winning writer of fiction and documentaries, Espen Søbye (b. 1954) is a philosopher, writer

and literary critic, Harald Berntsen (b. 1945) is a historian and writer, Jon Langdal (b. 1945) is a university-trained teacher and writer.

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The Game of 1814 Bård Frydenlund 1814 was the year that Norway took its first steps from absolute monarchy towards democracy. It was an eventful year – three kings governed the nation, two national assemblies were convened to decide Norway’s future, the nation suffered from war, famine and chaos.

The legacy from 1814 is formidable – the Norwegian Constitution is one the oldest constitutions still in use, and the Parliament (“Stortinget”), the Supreme Court (“Høyesterett”) and the first ministries were established that year. The reverse side of the medal was an abundance of plotting, threats, abuses of power and opportunism. Many were the victims that lay slain on the battlefield of politics after 1814. The game of Norway did have a price.

Bård Frydenlund shows how the struggle for Norway’s future developed in 1814. It is the tale of a series of fortunate coincidences and bold decisions taken by wise and brave individuals. The book is based on diaries, letters and confidential reports from spies, the combined sum of which serves to give us an understanding of the many phases the game went through in 1814.

“Colourful and exciting insight into one of the most turbulent years in Norway’s history.”

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About the author Bård Frydenlund (b. 1972) does historical research at the University of Oslo. He has published several books and articles on Norwegian and Nordic pre-1814 history.

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The Ultimate Crime Victims and Perpetrators in the Norwegian Holocaust

Marte Michelet October 1942. In an operation to escort Norwegian Jews into safety in Sweden a Norwegian policeman is killed. Shortly after, Minister of Justice Sverre Riisnæs writes the following: “it’s time to get rid of the Jews – and do it properly.”

But the story does not start there. Early in the 20th century a young Jewish couple named Braude settles down in Oslo’s East End. They have four children. Elsewhere in the same city Stian Brech Jr. comes of age. His father is a barrister with heavy anti-Semitic leanings, and young Bech is desperate to live up to his father’s expectations.

Stian’s and the Braudes’ paths will cross one day, when the war comes.

The Ultimate Crime is a shocking tale of resistance fighters, the state police and the Nazi bureaucrats who paved the way for the Holocaust. On November 26, 1942, the victims and the perpetrators came face to face, when 532 Norwegian Jews were led aboard the cargo ship DS Donau and shipped off to Auschwitz.

About the author Marte Michelet (b. 1975) is a journalist with her own column in Dagbladet, one of Norway’s largest newspapers. She often writes about feminist issues, migration and Norwegian refugee politics.

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Norwegian War Profiteers Nazi Germany’s Eager Collaborators

Anette H. Storeide In the spring of 1941 German producer of lethal gases IG Farben, Nordag and the Norwegian producer Norsk Hydro join forces and establish the company Norsk Lettmetall (Norwegian light metals). The new company’s task is to supply Herman Göring’s Luftwaffe with materials for the aircraft they need in order to secure the Thousand Year Reich. Norsk Hydro’s participation in the project demands a substantial capital, so a group of influential and wealthy Norwegian, known as the Oslo consortium, cough up millions of kroners. While many conscripted workers lose their lives, the members of the consortium receive many-doubled returns on their investments.

Where do you draw the line between keeping the wheels spinning and helping the enemy? Anette Storeide sheds a critical light on the Norwegian war profiteers and describes internal conflicts even among the Germans. In the post-war trials, all the blame was pinned on the deceased Hydro director Axel Aubert, and no other central actors were punished. In fact, they made a lump sum of money from the war, and they got to keep it.

About the author Anette H. Storeide (b. 1976) is assistant professor at NTNU’s Institute for Languages and Literature. She has a degree in Germanistics and has previ-

ously published the book Time Witnesses, co-written with Jakob Lothe (2006) and Hitler’s Legacy (2010).

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Female Eyewitnesses Stories from the Holocaust

Jakob Lothe

“These are eyes that belong to ten women who demonstrate great courage in telling their stories, and who live on — despite all the evil and suffering they have been witness to.”

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“If we had observed a minute of silence for each of the six million Jews that were murdered, we would have stood still for twelve years,” says 87 year old Blanche Major from Oslo. In Female Eyewitnesses.

Stories from the Holocaust, Major and nine other Jewish women talk about their horrifying experiences from Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, BergenBelsen and other Nazi concentration camps.

Surrounded by soldiers, dogs and electric fences, the young girls had one goal in common: to survive. In this book they tell about the humiliation, hunger and despair they experienced. But here are also stories of dignity, solidarity and hope. Each fate is unique, but taken together they display an unbreakable will to live and an astonishing lack of bitter feelings.

Female Eyewitnesses is a book that tells the story about what happened and what must never happen again.

About the author Jakob Lothe (b. 1950) is a writer, a literary scientist and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oslo. Lothe has written a number of important publications, including Time’s

Witnesses. Stories from Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen (2006). It was elected Book of the year by the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet’s readers.

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The Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage Asgeir Ueland In the winter of 1942 the young agent Einar Skinnarland was dropped by parachute over Hardangervidda, the huge mountain plateau in central southern Norway. His mission was to gather intelligence on the Germans’ heavy water production at Norsk Hydro’s plant in Vemork. Later, he was joined by the rest of the sabotage team, and they started the long process of planning an attack on the plant.

This is a story about an isolated life on meagre rations in the mountains, nerve-racking preparations and the final minutes before the explosives detonated in the plant. However, the explosion didn’t mark the end of the operation, not by far.

With German soldiers on their heels, the saboteurs had to flee for their lives. And the Germans soon resumed their production of heavy water.

For the first time, a Norwegian author has written the full story of the heavy water sabotage. Ueland has consulted foreign archives and sheds new light upon the sabotage team and the political tug of war between the Norwegian government in exile and their allies. But first and foremost, this is a unique story of patriotism, sacrifice and heroism.

About the author Asgeir Ueland (b. 1974) is a historian and writer. He was educated at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has

“A thorough presentation of a spectacular story ...”

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“The author has obviously searched through all existing archives, and the result is very impressive.”

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written feature journalism for several Norwegian newspaper and periodicals. This is his first book.

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Norwegian America Norwegians in the US and Canada 1900–1975

Sverre Mørkhagen This is the third and final volume of Sverre Mørkhagen’s magnificent work on Norwegian emigration to America.

The Norwegian-American diaspora was a thriving community in the early 20th century. Its members were united by their desire to guard Norwegian traditions, and their patriotism peaked in 1925, at the centennial for Norwegian immigration to America. Then the global financial crisis set in, and things got tougher. The US set restrictions on immigration, and all of a sudden the American dream seemed harder to realize, and people grew homesick.

Sverre Mørkhagen writes with great authority and empathy of Norwegian Americans like Thorstein Veblen, a misaligned social economist known as “the American Karl Marx”, the nurse Elisabeth Fedde, who helped decrepit Norwegian immigrants in New York and Knut Rockne, the football player Life magazine listed as America’s third most influential immigrant.

About the author Sverre Mørkhagen (b. 1949) has a cand.philol. degree from University of Oslo. He has worked as a journalist, a communications advisor and a publisher. Today he is a fulltime writer.

“An easy-flowing love of telling lifted to an epic scale.”

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“Sverre Mørkhagen’s work is a treasure trove for anyone who has a relative in America. Which means most of us.”

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“A major work.”

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Backlist Farewell Norway. Emigration to America 1825–1975 The American Dream. Immigration from Norway 1825–1900

HISTORY // ORIGINAL TITLE: DET NORSKE AMERIKA. NORDMENN I USA OG CANADA 1900–1975

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The President’s Daughter Olga Wilson’s Double Life

Bjørn Erik Thon In the autumn of 1892, 20-year-old Anna Wilson decided to leave her home in Indre Østfold, Norway, and seek happiness in America. She returned alone. In April 1894 she gave birth to a daughter, Olga. Rumours of who the father might be, spread like wildfire in the local community. Several things indicate that he could be William Taft, the man who, fifteen years later, would become the United States’ 27th president.

Olga grew up on a simple smallholding, but already as a young girl she was taken on trips to America. She and her mother spent every winter in Washington D.C. During these years mother and daughter feed a growing obsession with William Taft. Every summer back home in Hærland they work hard in order to scrape together enough money for their next trip to America, where they are free to stand “Dad’s” portrait on the night table without having to explain themselves to anyone. A gnawing uncertainty nags Olga: Should she try to contact “Dad”? Is he aware of her existence? And would he turn his back on her?

About the author Bjørn Erik Thon (b. 1963) is a lawyer and director of The Norwegian Data Protection Authority.

He has been consumer ombudsman and has published books about consumer issues as well as crime fiction.

HISTORY // ORIGINAL TITLE: DEN AMERIKANSKE PRESIDENTENS DATTER. OLGA WILSONS DOBBELTLIV

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Thor Heyerdahl The Man and the Sea The Man and the World The Man and the Myths

Ragnar Kvam Jr. This magnificent work on Heyerdahl is complete.

In November 1977, at the age of 63, Thor Heyerdahl launched his papyrus ship Tigris I in the Persian Gulf. Half a year later, he set fire to Tigris and bid the ocean farewell. But the adventure and journey started many years before.

When the Kon-Tiki foundered on a reef by the South Pacific atoll of Raroia in August 1947, Heyerdahl had completed the voyage of his life and started on his real journey towards recognition and fame. This was very much due to the fact that the movie Kon-Tiki won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1951.

Thor Heyerdahl was hungry for recognition from the academic world, whereas he at the same time refused to submit to scientific methodological demands. His insatiable curiosity drove him to pursue his greatest passions. The price Heyerdahl paid for a life dedicated to controversial theories was a turbulent domestic situation and consistent negation from the scientific community.

About the author Ragnar Kvam Jr. (b. 1942) is a historian, a journalist and a writer.

He has published a number of critically acclaimed documentary books.

FOREIGN SALES THE MAN AND THE SEA (VOLUME I) VES MIR, Russia, DAUGAVA, Latvia, KARRUP PUBLISHING HOUSE, Estonia, MARE, Germany THE MAN AND THE WORLD (VOLUME II) VES MIR, Russia, MARE, Germany THE MAN AND THE MYTHS (VOLUME III) VES MIR, Russia

HISTORY // ORIGINAL TITLE: THOR HEYERDAHL. MANNEN OG HAVET, THOR HEYERDAHL. MANNEN OG VERDEN, THOR HEYERDAHL. MANNEN OG MYTENE

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Countries of the World Gunnar Kagge What is the difference between The Republic of Congo and The Democratic Republic of Congo?

How is it that San Marino is stuck in he middle of Italy? Is there any connection between the Caribbean island Saint Lucia and the annual celebrations of Saint Lucia on 13 December?

The UN has almost 200 member states. This is an overview of all of them, in addition to a few nations that are not members. The book consists of short texts summarizing the essential history of every nation in the world, tables showing area, population, capital city and other useful information. In addition, the author has written an outline of each continent’s history. In the end section of the book you will find an overview of the world’s longest rivers, highest mountains, largest cities and lots of other things.

This is a useful book for travellers, quiz participants and those who are generally curious.

About the author Gunnar Kagge (b. 1960) has studied history and has 35 years experience as a journalist and writer

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The Expeditioner’s Handbook Børge Ousland Was Hell’s Week too short for you? Børge Ousland has more to offer. Lots more! A series of pioneering expeditions in the 1990’s – including solo expeditions to the North and South Poles – have made Børge Ousland Norway’s leading authority on polar expeditions. Here, for the first time, he shares his mass of experience with us. He goes through all the ways to prepare for an expedition, both mentally and physically. He writes about the necessary equipment and its uses, how to dress, how to stock up on provisions and how to carry out an extensive expedition.

Ousland used to be a Special Operations Force soldier and has adapted much of what he learnt as a soldier to how to survive under extreme conditions. Even though the material of this book focuses on expeditions, its content is relevant for anyone who enjoys outdoor winter activities.

About the author Børge Ousland (b. 1962) is our most prominent polar explorer and a popular lecturer. He has published nine books before. In 2009 he was awarded First Price

“Børge Ousland is arguably the most accomplished polar explorer alive!”

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in the category Adventure Travel at Banff Mountain Book Festival for The Great Polar Journey: In the Footsteps of Nansen.

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An Outdoor Life Cecilie Skog

“Her achievements as a mountaineer and a polar explorer are unique and without comparison.”

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Cecilie Skog is one of the world’s most prominent female adventurers. She is the only person who has climbed the Seven Summits, walked to the South Pole and the North Pole – and crossed Antarctica using only her own muscle power and the supplies she was able to transport herself. Now all these adventures and some more are gathered in one volume. Cecilie has also crossed Greenland five times, climbed five 8,000 meter peaks and attempted to make it to the North Pole in the summer season.

But there are gaps. There is grief. This is also a book about the K2 disaster in 2008, when she lost her husband, Rolf Bae. This is a book about her very first mountain experiences, her childhood – and about feeling different. Cecilie tells about panic attacks, about dancing on TV, running marathons, sleeping under the open night sky – and about sailing off in her latest dream, the sailing boat “Fryd” (“Joy”).

About the author Cecilie Skog (b. 1974) is one of Norway’s most highly profiled adventurers and lecturers and has previously published three books about her adventures and journeys.

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Top Notch Mountainbiking Rune Høydahl Retired professional cyclist Rune Høydahl is a two time Olympic contestant and has won the Norwegian long distance mountain bike race, Birkebeinerrittet, seven times. In this book he shares his unique knowhow and gives you all you need to succeed as a mountainbiker. In an uncomplicated and lucid manner he explains how to organize your workout sessions with regard to pulse control, periodization, basic fitness, peak performance and muscle building.

Høydahl discusses the best techniques for different terrain types, diet, how to choose the right bike and equipment and how to prepare for races.

His exercise programmes are differentiated so that cyclists on any level can benefit from them. He also runs you through the most popular races and gives you expert tips for what to do before, during and after the race.

About the author Rune Høydahl (b. 1969) is a retired Norwegian professional off-road cyclist and founder of Team United Bakeries. Høydahl is one of only two cyclists who have won world

cup races in both of the two offroad categories – cross-country and downhill.

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A Nose for Everything Dogs – Man’s Handiest Friend

Frank Rosell Being a highly able pen, a fount of knowledge and a man of great passion, Frank Rosell has written the ultimate book about dogs and their sense of smell, for a general audience.

A dog’s nose is somewhere between 100,000 and a hundred million times as sensitive as ours. That is what makes this four-legged creature man’s handiest friend. Some dogs protect us from criminals, smugglers and terrorists. Others sniff their way to missing people, flush mountain grouse or detect various forms of cancer at a very early stage.

Rosell writes about the beaver dog team Mie and Tapas, the killer whale excrement dog Tucker, the rutting dog Elvis and many more. He tells us why dogs aim for the groin when they meet a stranger, how the genetic make-up of a dog is 99.6% wolf and why felons who feel tempted to flee through water ought to refrain from doing so. This is the perfect gift book for every dog lover!

Om forfatteren Frank Rosell (b. 1969) is a professor of behavioural studies at Telemark University College. When he has twelve years old, he got his first dog, a Shetland

sheepdog named Tinka. That was the beginning of a lifelong fascination for dogs and their olfactory capabilities.

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A Healthier Life and a Slimmer Waist in Twelve Weeks Berit Nordstrand Learn how to change your diet following Berit’s method Berit Nordstrand is quite an educator when the topic is diet and nutrition. She is a trained doctor, mother of six and a true epicurean who has worked with drug rehabilitation, as a therapist and as a chief physician in pharmacology.

In the book A Healthier Life and a Slimmer Waist in Twelve Weeks she leads us through a transformation, a change of diet and attitude that will ultimately enable us to lose that dangerous belly fat.

Stage by stage the book tells us what to eat and what to avoid. This diet is not based on calorie counting, but on making a plan for how you can change your diet and fill your stomach with food that will increase your metabolism and safeguard your health. In the book you will find more than 60 mouth watering recipes to help you establish a new diet based on Berit’s key principles.

This is the way to lose 5-10 kilos and increase your energy level in only twelve weeks.

About the author Berit Nordstrand is a pharmacological specialist and has years of experience in changing people’s habits and establishing new ones.

She has published two books about diets and health benefits.

HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE // ORIGINAL TITLE: 12 UKER TIL ET SUNNERE LIV OG EN SMALERE MIDJE PAGES: 208 // WORDS: 45,000 // BINDING: PRINTED LAMINATED COVER // FORMAT: 205 X 255MM FOREIGN SALES // WSOY, Finland, BONNIER FAKTA, Sweden

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Just Juice It! Vibeke Blomvågnes Juice for breakfast, after school, before and after workout, and as a snack.

There is no better way to stock up on your body’s most important building blocks than by drinking juices based on vegetable, fruits and berries. Regardless of age or life situation, home made juices containing the right ingredients work wonders for your mental and physical health. Learn how to make breakfast juices, juice snacks, juices for before and after workout sessions, detox juices and dietary supplements.

The book contains more than 60 recipes for super healthy juices, as well as a table showing the nutritional content of all the ingredients that go in the juices.

About the author Vibeke Blomvågnes is a certified juicer and juice therapist. This is her first book.

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90 Courses for Ingrid The Best Three Course Dinners

Arne Hjeltnes The best chefs pay tribute to Norway’s grand old lady of cooking.

Ingrid Espelid Hovig turns 90 this year. She has taught several generations of Norwegians to cook real food. Ingrid has been a source of inspiration and a second mother for our very best chefs.

In this book master chefs prepare the very best dishes they would like to serve to their beloved culinary mother. The book is a celebration of fantastic Norwegian raw materials, fine flavours and the same culinary joy that Ingrid has always shared with us.

This is a unique recipe book for a unique lady.

Bon appetit!

About the authors Arne Hjeltnes is a writer and board member of Bocuse d’Or Norway.

Among the chefs who have contributed are Jamie Oliver, Bent Stiansen, Eyvind Hellstrøm,

Tom Victor Gausdal, Arne Brimi, Lise Finkenhagen, Karla Siverts, Terje Ness.

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Soup Classics and Favourites

Elisabeth & Jannicke Isachsen Soup is wonderful. It is a food to share, it works equally well on weekdays and dinner party days.

The Isachsen sisters have made a living of soup.

Here they share their best recipes, some classic and some simply great: meat broths, chowders, fresh soups, French onion soup, pumpkin-soup and borsch. A hot soup is soul food.

About the authors Elisabeth and Jannicke Isachsen are two sisters who followed their dream and started making soups and marketing them under their own brand. Their motto is: “Real, wholesome and tasty.” This is their first book.

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Food on the Table Culinary Classics

Ina-Janine Johnsen Ina is one of Norway’s most popular food bloggers (www.matpaabordet.no). In this book she has gathered some of her very best recipes, and the result is a feast for eyes and tongue alike. Learn how to add a little something extra to your everyday cooking. Become acquainted with a few basic recipes that you will never tire of and which you in time will turn into your very own classics. Just to name a few: a no-knead bread, a manageable pie, the best Italian pizza, soups that taste of Italy and some simply delicious stews. Why shouldn’t you eat good food every day!

About the author Ina-Janine Johnsen is a food blogger and columnist. She also writes for a culinary magazine. She has studied interior architecture and lives in Oslo. She has previously published No-Knead Bread and Divine Cakes.

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Soccer Food Food for Exercisers

Mette Elisabeth Møller Soccer Food is an inspiring cookery book for sporty families. The 90 recipes focus on healthy and tasty food, covering everything from dinners and wise things to eat before training to lunch boxes and breakfasts. Enjoying sports and enjoying food are two aspects of the same thing. Children and adolescents that exercise on a daily basis, need lots of food – and they need nourishing food that is easy to prepare.

Soccer player Mats Møller Dæhli (19) is a soccer player from Manchester United’s Football Academy, the Premier League team Cardiff, and the Norwegian National football team. He has always been fond of food, and he uses it for enjoyment and relaxation as well as restitution. Mats is always very particular about what he eats before and after a soccer match.

About the author Mats’s mother, the photo journalist Mette Møller, has published several cookery books. She has a food column in one of Norway’s largest newspapers, and she is a soccer mum.

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Sweet Gifts from Ida’s Kitchen Ida Gran-Jansen Ida charmed everybody when she won the first season of The Great Norwegian Bake Off. This is her second book, and this time she focuses on trendy cakes, the best bread loaves and great sweets that make a wonderful gift in the right wrapping.

In Sweet Gifts from Ida’s Kitchen the author has compiled the best gifts her own kitchen can offer.

She makes delightful party cakes, small cookies that make great gifts, breads and rolls for Sunday breakfast, sumptuous chocolates and other baked sweets that you can either wrap up and give away or enjoy on your own. Ida’s easy-to-follow recipes and creative ideas make this book a dream even for novices in the kitchen.

About the author Ida Gran-Jansen (b. 1987) won the first season of The Great Norwegian Bake Off and has therefore already published a book. She is a student at BI Norwegian Business School and is more than averagely interested in baking.

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Tone Oraini’s Temptations Tone Oraini Selfors Small cakes for all occasions!

Allow yourself to be seduced by Tone Oraini Selfors’s little culinary temptations. Baking small cakes is more popular than ever, and in this colourful and inspiring book Tone Oraini presents 66 new recipes for cookies, cake pops, pie pops, donuts and cupcakes. In addition to the tasty recipes she provides step-by-step instructions on how to make and decorate the cakes.

Small cakes are perfect for children’s parties and wedding parties alike, and here you will find the whole range – cute cupcakes for your little daughter’s birthday party, frolicky cake pops for a girls’ night, succulent pie pops that are excellent for picnics. The book also contains 25 different cookie decorations. Tone Oraini’s Temptations has something to offer for every occasion!

About the author Tone Oraini Selfors (b. 1980) is Norway’s unofficial cupcake queen. Tone loves baking and gives popular baking courses.

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Summer Food Paul Løwe, Nina Dreyer Hensley, Jim Hensley SUMMER! Most of us associate summer with long, warm evenings with meals based on fresh, good ingredients. In summer we have more time to make food from scratch, and we love simple, light summer meals that are easy to make and can be enjoyed with family and friends.

15 years ago the trio Paul Løwe, Nina Dreyer Hensley and Jim Hensley wrote their first cookery book, called … Summer Food. It has been a great source of inspiration and joy. The years that have passed since then, have seen great changes in food habits and ingredient accessibility. Therefore, they decided to spend a new summer together and make a new book on summer food.

About the authors Paul Løwe is a craft and food stylist, who lives in New York. He is the man behind Sweet Paul Magazine, well-known for its inspirational food and craft. Nina Dreyer Hensley and Jim Hensley are photographers.

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Grown-Ups Stay Out! Fun Knitting Instructions for Babies and Kids

Heidi Grønvold Anna Enge This enjoyable knitting book is a tribute to the playful world of children. Here, even the most stubborn little wool-hater will find something he or she wants you to knit. The book contains instructions for 50 garments for children between 0 and 12 years, spanning from fairy dresses to stable outfits, from suitors’ jumpers to knights’ hats. The garments are inspired by children’s games and are designed for weekdays as well as holidays.

The authors design clothes with smart solutions that require a minimum of montage, which means there is more chance of them being completed.

They aren’t afraid of colours, and they think children look best with grass stains on the knees.

About the authors Heidi Grønvold (b. 1976) and Anna Enge (b. 1976) are the women behind pickles.no, which has become a popular website for knitters all over the world. They have uploaded knitting instructions there since 2009.

They sell their own, handpicked wool. Previously they have published three knitting books on their own publishing label.

HOBBY AND CRAFTS // ORIGINAL TITLE: VOKSNE INGEN ADGANG // PAGES: 178 // WORDS: 51,000 // BINDING: PRINTED LAMINATED COVER // FORMAT: 190 X 245MM

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Knitting Clothes for Small Children Eli Østgård og Mette Harbo This book contains more than 50 patterns for young children’s outfits. Here you will find instructions for exciting, pretty and practical garments of all kinds, whether you are an inexperienced knitter sweating over your first creations or of the more professional type who can enjoy a French movie while their knitting pins effortlessly do all the work on their own.

Some of the garments are inspired by a classical style, others have a slightly retro feel, while others again are of a more modern cut. The patterns are marked for difficulty level – to ensure that you don’t embark on a project you’ll never finish.

This charming book is well suited for all mothers, grandmothers, friends and aunts – anyone who either has a child of her own or knows someone who has.

About the authors The sisters Eli Østgård (b. 1969) and Mette Harbo (b. 1975) run a popular blog called GustavogBerta. blogspot.no. Between the two of them, they have eleven children, which may explain their inclination towards children’s fashions and knitting. Eli is an auxiliary nurse, Mette is a goldsmith.

HOBBY AND CRAFTS // ORIGINAL TITLE: STRIKK TIL SMÅROLLINGER // PAGES: 168 // WORDS: 26,000 // BINDING: PRINTED LAMINATED COVER // FORMAT: 200 X226MM

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Strikkesida’s Favourites Aase Lynne Kari-Anne Dal-Pedersen Torill Strand Strikkesida is one of the Facebook’s most popular handicraft sites, counting more than 60,000 members. The discussion forum is open and active 24/7, and members can upload pictures of their own projects. This book is the result of a contest where the members were encouraged to send in their own knitting patterns and instructions.

The response was overwhelming, and the jury has picked out the 60 finest contributions. The book contains exciting and inspiring instructions for mittens, hats, scarfs, jumpers, pillows of all sizes, bags, purses, etc. The instructions come in different sizes and a professional consultant has tested all of them.

About the authors Aase Lynne (b. 1954), KariAnne Dal-Pedersen (b. 1950) and Torill Strand (b. 1957) are the women behind the Facebook page Strikkesida.

All three are passionately devoted to knitting.

HOBBY AND CRAFTS // ORIGINAL TITLE: STRIKKESIDAS FAVORITTER // PAGES: 224 // WORDS: 40,000 BINDING: WIRE-O // FORMAT: 205 X 260MM

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Knit Like the Wind Kristin Wiola Ødegård An inspiring knitting book for new and experienced knitters.

2012 will go down in history as the year when knitting again became trendy in Norway, and more and more people are discovering its joys – also among the younger generation. Knit Like the Wind upgrades a number of easily made jumpers and other small and large items for women, and gives them a more stylish twist. Several of these projects can feasibly be completed in a single evening or weekend, without intricate casting off or complicated joining.

In Knit Like the Wind Kristin Wiola Ødegård has collected 44 of her most popular patterns: cardigans, jumpers, ponchos, dresses, skirts, hats, finger mittens and leggings. Her aim was to make a knitting book that would inspire readers to create simple garments suited to a modern taste.

The book also contains an extensive knitting school and a unique and useful stitch table to be consulted when your knitting tension is off the mark.

About the author Kristin Wiola Ødegård (b. 1970) is an autodidactic designer. She works in a wool shop and has created patterns for wool producers

and magazines for many years.

In 2007 she participated in the Norwegian version of “Project Runway”.

HOBBY AND CRAFTS // ORIGINAL TITLE: STRIKK MED RASKE PINNER // PAGES: 168 WORDS: 23,000 // BINDING: PRINTED LAMINATED COVER // FORMAT: 205 X 260MM FOREIGN SALES // BASSERMANN INSPIRATION, Germany

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Crocheting for Fun Bente Myhrer Lilly Secilie Brandal An “entire” nation of Norwegians reached for their crocheting needles after seeing the light blue, crocheted hats worn by Norway’s National Olympic Team last winter. Crocheting for Fun gives you the authors’ version of the popular hat, in addition to almost a hundred projects of varying difficulty. The contents cover a wide range of articles, spanning from clothes for children and grown-ups, and interior decoration projects such as beautiful plaids, pillows, baskets, potholders and tablecloths, to accessories like bags, cuddly toys and princess crowns. The authors also blow new life into the toilet roll doll that used to be very popular some decades ago.

Crocheting for Fun is simply a colour explosion, a no-holds-barred fireworks display! If you didn’t feel like crocheting before, you certainly will now!

The book also includes a logically ordered and detailed crocheting school. Thus it is guaranteed to inspire novices to the art of crocheting and old hands alike.

About the authors Bente Myhrer (b. 1946) and Lilly Secilie Brandal (b.

1964) run wool shops in Oslo. They have previously published the bestsellers Crocheting (Hekling), Knitting (Strikking) and Knitting for Fun (Strikkelyst).

HOBBY AND CRAFTS // ORIGINAL TITLE: HEKLELYST PAGES: 256 // WORDS: 58,000 // BINDING: PRINTED LAMINATED COVER // FORMAT: 190 X 245MM

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Knit for Children Marte Helgetun Charm in every stitch!

Do you love knitting? Do you have children or know anyone who does? Do you like beautiful garments that combine classic lines and utility? If so, then this is the book for you.

Writer and designer Marte Helgetun has spent her whole life experimenting with knitting needles and wool, and in this charming and practical book on knitting she presents a total of 50 patterns for sweaters, jackets, trousers, dresses, skirts, hats and scarves in sizes 0-6 years. All the patterns are presented in a simple manner, shunning abbreviations and difďŹ cult technical terms.

Knit for Children is thoroughly illustrated with pictures of kids in soft garments and ought to belong in any knitter’s collection.

About the author Marte Helgetun shares her patterns via her own company Design by Marte Helgetun. She has worked as a web designer, and now she runs the knitting blog and net shop www.martehelgetun.no.

HOBBY AND CRAFTS // ORIGINAL TITLE: STRIKK TIL BARN // PAGES: 176 WORDS: 45,000 // BINDING: PRINTED LAMINATED COVER // FORMAT: 205 X 255MM FOREIGN SALES // LEGIND, Denmark, MASSOLIT, Sweden, FREIES GEISTESLEBEN, Germany

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