Politiken Literary Agency 2015 catalogue

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Contents FICTION Morten Pape ............................................................................................................... 4 Jussi Adler-Olsen ....................................................................................................... 6 Erik Valeur ................................................................................................................. 10 Jesper Stein ............................................................................................................... 12 A.J. Kazinski .............................................................................................................. 14 Leonora Christina Skov ........................................................................................... 16 Christian Mørk .......................................................................................................... 18 Jens Henrik Jensen ................................................................................................. 20 Henriette Rostrup ..................................................................................................... 22 Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen ..................................................................................... 23 Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky...................................................................................... 24 Eva Maria Fredensborg ........................................................................................... 26 Thomas Rathsack .................................................................................................... 27 NON-FICTION Puk Damsgård .......................................................................................................... 28 Ulrik Langen ............................................................................................................ 30 Nils Thorsen ............................................................................................................. 32 Kim Kristensen .......................................................................................................... 33 Erland Leth Pedersen ............................................................................................... 34 Carsten Norton og Miki Mistrati ............................................................................. 35 Jacob Søndergaard .................................................................................................. 36 Anna Bogdanova ..................................................................................................... 37 Jane Faerber ............................................................................................................. 38 Sarah Galán .............................................................................................................. 40 Katrine Klinken ......................................................................................................... 41 Martine Renden Børding ......................................................................................... 42 Mads Heitmann & Rasmus Brøchner Hansen ..................................................... 43 Bo Lidegaard ............................................................................................................ 44

POLITIKEN LITERARY AGENCY

Politiken Literary Agency is part of JP/Politiken Publishers, one of the largest Danish publishing houses of trade books and the home of Politikens Forlag, Jyllands-Postens Forlag, and Ekstra Bladets Forlag. The publication line includes fiction, children’s books, non-fiction, current affairs, documentary and travel guides. The publishing house also runs a fullstore bookshop in Copenhagen.

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

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Dear friends and colleagues It is my privilege and pleasure to present Politiken Literary Agency’s list for the autumn of 2015.

You will find crime, literary fiction, narrative non-fiction and illustrated fiction. It features Erik Valeur's new novel Logbook from a Lifewreck (Logbog fra et livsforlis), Jesper Stein's fourth title about Axel Steen, Aisha (Aisha), and, of course, Jussi Adler-Olsen. Among these strong and bestselling authors I would like to direct your attention to a first novel: The Plan (Planen) by Morten Pape. It is a story about coming of age in a multicultural microcosm, in a culturally deprived environment characterized by violence and crime, the result of the failed integration policies of the 1990s. It is powerful, moving, gripping and has a fantastic drive to it – read it.

The second title is Bo Lidegaard's The White Buses (Redningsmænd), the extraordinary account of a group of Scandinavian activists who saved more than 20,000 prisoners from German concentrations camps, mobilizing politicians, finding a mode of transport and obtaining the necessary consent from leading Nazis. Its approach speaks directly to the current debate on humanitarian relief efforts.

Please let us know your needs: sample translations, reviews, information on translation grants, collaboration on marketing plans, organizing visits with our authors in your country – we will be happy to help you!

I am looking forward to talking books and business with you.

On our narrative nonfiction list, two titles stand out. The first is award-winning writer Puk Damsgård's The ISIS Hostage (Kan du se månen, Daniel). It offers a detailed insight into the ordeal of the hostages who were held by ISIS in Syria, and a rare glimpse into the secret world of the investigations launched to find them. Drawing on European, American and Arabian history, the book illustrates both how they are linked and how they feed into one of the greatest challenges the Middle East will face in the years to come.

Best regards

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

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

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

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

MORTEN PAPE

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he Plan is a coming-of-age story about being a child, growing up, falling in love and trying to find yourself in a multicultural microcosm.

At the same time, it is a historical novel about the human cost of the failed integration policies of the 1990s and the hostile immigration debates of the 2000s, which culminated in caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, gang warfare and a capital city that was set aflame.

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

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

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

THE PLAN RIGHTS:

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SPECIFICATIONS: 535 pages, November 2015

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JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

THE AUTHOR The first five volumes in the crime thriller series about Department Q – The Woman in the Cage, The Pheasant Killers, Message in a Bottle, Journal 64 and The Marco Effect – have made Jussi Adler-Olsen one of the most popular and widely read authors both in Denmark and internationally. Thus far, the series has sold more than two million copies in Denmark alone.

The series about Department Q is planned as an ongoing narrative consisting of ten very different individual novels. Together they tell a comprehensive story about the main characters. The series has been sold for publication in over forty countries, and in many places has printed in astronomical numbers. The film rights for the first four novels have been purchased by Zentropa. The first two are out now.

The previous books in the series have won The Golden Laurels (De Gyldne Laurbær), The Readers’ Book Prize (Læsernes Bogpris), The Harald Mogensen Award, The Glass Key and The Ripper Award among other accolades, as well as a number of highly prestigious international awards.

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235.000 copies sold in Denmark

★★★★★ – B.T. ★★★★★ – Jyllands-Posten ★★★★★ – Dagbladenes Bureau ★★★★★ – Ekstra Bladet

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the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap, his legs resting on his desk in the basement of the police headquarters in Copenhagen, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, gets a call from a colleague on the island of Bornholm. ‘I’m very sorry to bother you, but do you have a moment to listen to me?’ Carl is dismissive, however, when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, and on the other end the receiver is quietly put down. Only a few hours later, however, the consequences have spiralled out of control, and Carl’s headstrong assistant Rose is even angrier than usual. Under immense pressure, Carl gets

Department Q involved in an extremely tragic seventeen-year-old case, in which a young, funloving woman who disappeared from her school was found hanging in a tree, murdered. The down-to-earth Carl is now facing a difficult and mysterious case, while a skilled manipulator with an iron will protects himself and those around him by all available means, refusing to let anyone or anything get in the way. Throughout the investigation, Rose, Assad, Carl and newcomer Gordon are challenged in all sorts of ways, finding themselves thrust into an uncompromising world of countercultural groups, while old cases and secrets threaten to topple the foursome.

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

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

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

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On the night of the American presidential election, the wife of the Democratic frontrunner Governor Bruce Jansen is assassinated. Suddenly, the US finds itself in a situation where the new president will do whatever it takes to change American society – immediately and at any cost. Doggie Rogers, the governor’s trusted employee, is in the middle of it all when Jansen’s controversial decree cancelling American citizens’ constitutional rights is passed and all hell breaks loose.

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”Adler-Olsen har haft stor succes med sine hidtidige thrillere, der er udgivet i flere lande, og Washington Dekretet har da også indiskutabelt bestseller-potentiale.”

”Højspændt og dybt foruroligende thriller” – Lars Ole Sauerberg, Jyllands-Posten

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

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

Da Bruce Jansen indtræder i præsidentembedet, er han en dybt bitter mand.

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

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”6 ud af 6 bogorme. Fordi Washington Dekretet er en uhyggelig tankevækkende og realistisk højspændingsroman, som man bare ikke kan lægge fra sig.”

– Ruth Blichfeldt, Bookworm

bethuset har høstet unikke anmeldelser og placeret sig helt i å bestsellerlisterne både herhjemme og i udlandet. anerkendte hollandske tidsskrift Vrij Nederland har placeret anen blandt de 300 bedste thrillere, der nogensinde er udgivet.

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ERIK VALEUR

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The Debutant Award 2011

Weekendavisens Literature Award 2011

The Harald Mogensen Award 2012

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

– Berlingske Tidende

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

– Nordjyske Stiftstidende

The DBC’s Best Novel Award 2012

★★★★★★ – Vejle Amts Folkeblad

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

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

– Jyllands-Posten A novel so good that you’ll look forward to reading it again.

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a white lighthouse that for centuries has seen ships founder and sailors drown in the sea – a sea known for generations as the ‘Depths of Hell’ – lives a man with a peculiar secret. As he broods over his shipwrecked life, an old woman disappears from a prestigious care home in one of the country’s wealthiest districts.

And this isn’t just any old woman. It is the Widow, mother to two of the nation’s most powerful men: the prime minister and the secratary og justice.

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The police find a number of clues in the Widow’s room that further their investigation into the missing woman, and as the evidence mounts up it becomes clear that the reason for her disappearance lies many decades in the past: something happened when her sons were children, living on the same street as a group of five friends. One of them was the man in the lighthouse, and it emerges that what happened to him and his classmates back then is inextricably linked to the drama unfolding in the present.

Logbook from a lifewreck is a fable, a chronicle of our age and a thriller all rolled into one. It is about children who grow up with idiosyncrasies that are

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LOGBOOK FROM A LIFEWRECK impossible to escape; about spirits, death and the universe; about powerful politicians, management gurus and media stars; and about the secrets all of us try to hide from ourselves – and from each other.

THE AUTHOR Erik Valeur (born 1955) is a Danish journalist and media commentator for, among other institutions, the Danish national broadcasting corporation DR and the newspapers Berlingske Tidende, Politiken, Jyllands-Posten and Information. In 1995 he and two other colleagues at DR were awarded the Cavling Prize, the most prestigious danish award for outstanding journalism.

He was also a co-founder of the monthly magazine PRESS, which received the Cavling Prize in 1987. His books on topical issues include Stop the Press (Stop Pressen) (1993), The Book of Power (Magtens Bog) (2002) and Sixty Sharp Shots (60 skarpe skud) (2007). The Seventh Child (Det syvende barn) (2011) was Erik Valeur’s debut novel.

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en forsøgt at lægge et røgslør ud?

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

heden skete på kirkegården den nat, men da det går op for ham, at adskillige

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

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

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student, som rystede København i 2004. nu – fire år efter – får Axel steen en ny chance for at løse den sag, der i sin tid kostede ham hans ægteskab og var ved at knuse ham. og som lige siden har redet ham som en mare.

Det viser sig hurtigt, at der er flere sager, som sløset politiarbejde, fejl og mistro til voldtægtsofre har forhindret sammenkædningen af. Men Axel steen ser mønsteret. Jagten går ind på en sadistisk og kynisk serievoldtægtsforbryder og drabsmand, som huserer på

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nørrebro, og Axel steen, som er tvunget i knæ af samværskonflikt om sit barn og et eska-

er journalist på Jyllands-Posten og har i otte år arbejdet som rets- og kriminalreporter i København. i dag skriver han om litteratur.

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bæst og fanger et menneske sammen med bent isager-nielsen. i 2012 udkom hans

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

skønlitterære debut Uro, der fik fremragende

U RO foregår den i et nutidigt København og på nørrebro.

anmeldelser, og som allerede før udgivelsen

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Det rykkede i snoren. en. to. tre gange. ”Han har fundet noget,” sagde frømanden ved hans side.

Axels hjerte trak sig sammen. Han kunne høre dets slag som en ond blodrytme i øregangen. Han bad til Gud om, at ’noget’ ikke var Marie schmidt, men han vidste godt, at Gud ikke fandtes. slet ikke her i Ørstedsparken, hvor de ledte efter liget af den 18-årige pige, der lige var blevet student.

Der gik to minutter, før dykkerne kom op. i den tid tænkte Axel ikke på noget andet end pigen.

Han tænkte på det, han vidste om sagen. Marie schmidt var gået mod hjemmet. sandsynligvis

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beruset. fra nørreport. og så var hun havnet her. efter alt at dømme voldtaget. og smidt i søen. for halvandet døgn siden. De måtte sammenstykke hendes færden lige fra bellevue og herind. Hvem havde hun talt med? Hvem havde set hende? Var hun alene?

Det rykkede i snoren, og serier af bobler steg op sammen med mudder og blade. Dykkernes hoveder med maskerne var det første, de så, så en utydelig hvid skygge mellem dem, som blev til en krop, en død pigekrop.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 416 pages, June 2012

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SPECIFICATIONS: 368 pages, June 2013

JESPER STEIN ★★★★★

★★★★★

♥♥♥♥♥

★★★★★

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

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

– Nordjyske Stiftstidende

– Børsen

★★★★

★★★★★

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

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

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

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

– Politiken

★★★★★

★★★★★

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

– Jyllands-Posten

– Berlingske Tidende

Linguistically brilliant, well-turned and realistic.

– Jyllands-Posten

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to the grave, and when another former intelligence services operative turns up dead, Axel realises that the key to the murders lies in a three-year-old terrorism case that involved not only the two dead men, but also his new girlfriend and his former boss.

The investigation becomes a race against time as Axel tries to prevent further deaths.

Deputy Inspector Axel Steen has returned to the job after a long period of sick leave. He's making a fresh start: no drugs or alcohol, and no conflicts or clashes with his colleagues. Axel hopes to build a better life for his nineyear-old daughter, who suffers from anxiety.

THE AUTHOR Jesper Stein spent ten years as a legal and crime reporter in Copenhagen. He is the author of the 2008 bestseller You Hunt a Beast and Catch a Human, a biography of the head of Unit One – Denmark’s answer to the FBI – which has sold 30,000 copies.

As a journalist, Jesper Stein has travelled the world, covering wars in the Balkans in the 1990s and famines in Africa.

This is his first murder case in a year, and he's been assigned a new partner who proves to be a challenge to his hard-won sense of calm. The victim took certain secrets about Denmark's counter-terrorism activities with him

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n the island Amager, near Copenhagen, a shipping company's chief of security is found murdered. There were numerous women in his life, so jealousy is an obvious motive.

But in the past he also worked for the national security and intelligence service, where he was involved in all the big terrorism cases.

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SPECIFICATIONS: 368 pages, June 2013

★★★★★

– Jyllands-Posten

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★★★★★

– Berlingske Tidende ★★★★★

– Dagbladenes Bureau

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♥♥♥♥ – Politiken

“Stein [is] Denmark’s best at the moment [...] The language is fluent, easy to read and above all, all dialogues realistic and completely alive, whether it’s the lawyer, the criminals or the police – this is sublime narrative art.

– litteratursiden.dk

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SPECIFICATIONS: 440 pages, October 2015

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A. J. KAZINSKI

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

Winner of the French award

Prix Relay

58,000 COPIES SOLD IN DENMARK

The Last Good Man ♥♥♥♥ – Politiken

This is fast-paced excitement (...) Lots of pace, drama and action. – Ekstra Bladet

★★★★

The book’s plot is wonderful (...) The Last Good Man is written in an easy to read, nice language. It is simply a pleasure. And the action is so tight and exciting, the pages fly through your fingers (...) It is brilliantly implemented. – Fredericia Dagblad

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

– JydskeVestkysten

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

RIGHTS SOLD: SPECIFICATIONS: 496 pages, October 2010

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Near Death

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

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– Dagbladenes Bureau A truly breathtaking crime novel.

★★★★★

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

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

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

– Information

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THE BORN-AGAIN KILLER "This summer's best crime novel " F F F F F F – Femina

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arly one morning Niels Bentzon, a hostage negotiator with the Copenhagen police, is taken to Sikringen, a high-security mental hospital where the country’s most dangerous criminals are kept locked up indefinitely. Handcuffed, he's escorted by four officers in riot gear. His wife, astrophysicist Hannah Lund, is leaving the very same day for a much-needed holiday in South America. Niels should have been going with her – they’re supposed to be spending more time together. Instead, he’s going undercover in the nation’s most secure prison. Getting him in there took some doing, and that's only part one of the plan.

Part two – the difficult bit – is to solve the murder of Christian Paludan, Sikringen’s chief psychiatrist. Niels owes Paludan his life, and he’ll do whatever it takes to unravel the circumstances behind his apparently inexplicable death.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ – Politiken ★★★★★ – Bognørden

– Litteraturanmeldelser.dk

No one can know that he isn’t an inmate, neither the staff nor the inmates, but they’re the ones that are most difficult to fool. They know he’s coming, and he finds himself fighting with his back to the wall – literally – in a deadly and far-reaching case whose poisonous thread runs all the way from a rented room in Copenhagen six years earlier to a London hotel in 1939 and back to Socrates’ prison cell in 399 BC. Help comes from an unexpected quarter, almost ten thousand kilometres from Niels Bentzon’s lonely cell. But will it arrive too late?

T he Born-Again Killer is, like all A. J. Kazinski’s thrillers, both an intelligent riff on the idea of rebirth and a profoundly tense novel about revenge plots so far-reaching that they might, perhaps, be carried over into new lives.

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– Krimifan.dk

SPECIFICATIONS: 434 pages, June 2015 RIGHTS SOLD: NORWAY / Norsk Gyldendal GERMANY / Heyne Verlag

16,000 COPIES SOLD IN DENMARK

WHERE NOTHING THE STOPS WIND

LEONORA CHRISTINA SKOV

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even artists and scientists are invited on an all-expenses-paid retreat on the uninhabited island by a mysterious benefactor. They are looking forward to spending a peaceful month far from civilisation, but get more than they bargained for when they find themselves living in a glass house cut off from all communication with the outside world, and without any possibility of getting off the island.

The mood quickly becomes tense, and when one of them disappears in the forest and another falls to his death, the remaining few are forced to admit that something is very wrong. Is there a murderer in their midst? And who will be the next victim? It soon emerges that their life stories and deepest secrets are closely interwoven with each other, and a broader picture of obsession, exploitation and personal responsibility begins to take shape. shape Where nothing stops the wind is a contemporary thriller inspired by classic mysteries, and a portrait of seven very different people who are forced to face traumas they have long repressed.

★★★★★★ – Litteratursiden.dk

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– Politiken

312 pages, April 2015

★★★★★

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THE AUTHOR Leonora Christina Skov is a writer, literary critic and public intellectual living in Copenhagen. She has an M.A. in literature and has worked since 2006 as a critic and columnist at the weekly newspaper Weekendavisen. She is also a regular panellist on the topical culture show ‘The Cultural Peer Review’ (Smagsdommerne) on the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Leonora Christina Skov has previously

written the novels The Backstroker (Rygsvømmeren), Good Time Girl (Champagnepigen), Silhouette of a Sinner (Silhuet af en synder) and Death of a Ladies Man (Førsteelskeren), the rights to which have been sold to Norway/Piratforlaget, Spain/ Ediciones B (World rights) and Germany/BTB Verlag. She received a prestigious three-year scholarship from The Danish Arts Foundation (Kunstfonden) in 2010.

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CHRISTIAN MØRK

THE BOY WHO VANISHED A suspense novel by Christian Mørk

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artin, 12 years old, hides in the tall grass by his Vermont home, drawing everything he sees.

When someone burns the house down with his mom inside, Martin vanishes, too. Everyone thinks he's dead. Gordon, Martin's uncle, finds his drawings near the ruins:

The Boy Who Vanished exists in the same universe as True Detective, in which the most frightening is what is gradually uncovered, rather than gruesome violence.

It's a thriller with supernatural overtones, but told in a way that makes the ghosts seem like flesh-and-blood, with human desires. These living ghosts aren't zombies, but look and feel normal.

Martin has drawn a skinny man waving from the woods. Martin's dad, Harold, has been sketching the same image. When a road crew is attacked by a thin man looking like Martin's drawings, Harold joins Gordon, and the clues lead to a small town in the forest: Its inhabitants were killed in a church fire in 1861, but they prayed so hard that ever since, they come to life only while the sun shines on them, and return to the dirt at night.

Since then, they have attacked anyone coming too close – including Harold and Gordon, who work on building roads, too.

Martin is alive, they find. But without knowing what he was doing, he led the ghosts to burn down his own home. Now he hides from his dad.

The hidden town is split in two: one group wants peace with the living and the other wants a war with our modern world. Gordon and Harold must rescue Martin and bring peace between our world and the town. They succeed, in the end. But at a terrible price.

RIGHTS: All rights available

SPECIFICATIONS: 320 pages, October 2015

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THE AUTHOR Christian Mørk was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He moved to Vermont at 21. He's worked as a reporter for The New York Times and Variety and as a film executive at Warner Bros. Pictures on films like Devil's Advocate, Outbreak, and Michael Collins. He's written 8 previous novels, notably Darling Jim, which sold in more than 20 countries. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, far from the people hiding behind the trees.

WHY ARE YOU SO DRAWN TO THE FARAWAY STATE OF VERMONT? We lived primitively, with no internet. In winter, snow often cut off the roads. This meant everyone had to trust the others to make our small community work. This made me want to write a story of a rural town where survival depends on each member's abiding by the rules and taking their violent punishment if they break them.

Vermont is the perfect place to imagine what would happen if these people felt threatened by the outside world.

C

hristian Mørk went to college in the American state of Vermont where this story takes place. The school lay in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by woods and ancient revolutionary war cemeteries with sunken headstones. A perfect setting for ghost stories.

YOUR VILLAINS AREN'T WRITTEN AS SIMPLY EVIL. WHY NOT? As the Rolling Stones once suggested, you must have sympathy for the devil, otherwise it gets boring to read. Each of my books has had a worthy antagonist in it. Who always drives the narrative forward in a suspense story: Is it the hero?

No, it's the villain. That role cannot be a mustache-twirling cliché. In The Boy Who Vanished, each villain has an inner moral code that makes as much sense to him as it must to the hero – and to us.

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DO YOU CONSTRUCT A STORY USING THE PLOT OR THE CHARACTERS? Always around the characters, to start.

Otherwise, the surrounding action becomes a loud, empty shell, which you cannot easily insert a living character into afterwards. I actually developed the inner life of The Boy Who Vanished 15 years ago: I wrote a screenplay where two brothers must seek in the forest for something meaning life or death for them both. Not long ago I revisited Vermont and saw the old graveyards hiding behind tall grass and trees, and I thought: what if I rewrite the whole thing and change the brothers' goal? And only then did I invent both the vanished boy and the villains in the woods.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE PAST THAT FASCINATES YOU SO MUCH? That it isn't over. It's all around us, still.

Each time I walked around the headstones up on the old mountain, I never felt that the people underneath belonged in the past, before America was even born. I felt them around me. In several of my previous books, I've used the past as a backdrop to the point where it became an invisible, living character. In The Boy Who Vanished, the past is made more living and insistent than ever. It refuses to die. It reaches out from the forest. I don't dare to do anything but listen to what it wants.

JENS HENRIK JENSEN

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

It is enticingly exciting.

– litteratursiden.dk

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

★★★★

★★★★★★

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

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

– Jyllands-Posten

– Jyske Medier

★★★★

★★★★★ ... you have to remind yourself it IS

Exquisite excitement; well-written and thoroughly researched

only a story, isn’t it?

– Nordjyske Stiftstidende

– JydskeVestkysten

★★★★

★★★★

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

– Ekstra Bladet

– Vejle Amts Folkeblad

SPECIFICATIONS: 416 pages, September 2012

HANGDOGS The most highly decorated soldier in Danish history, Niels Oxen, scrapes through life in a gritty neighbourhood of Copenhagen.

The traumatised war veteran makes ends meet by collecting bottles for change during the day and dumpster-diving by night. Hoping to escape his inner demons, the former elite soldier relocates to Northern Jutland with his dog, setting up camp deep in Rold Forest in a bid to live the simple life. But the dream turns into a nightmare. After a night-time visit to a medieval castle on the edge of the forest, he is suddenly suspected of murdering the castle’s owner, a former ambassador and the founder of an influential think-tank. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service shows

RIGHTS SOLD:

SPECIFICATIONS: 416 pages, September 2014

HOLLAND / A.W. BRUNA NORWAY / SCHIBSTED ROMANIA / EDITURA RAO

up remarkably quickly, and in the blink of an eye the war veteran, under intense pressure, has been sucked into investigating a string of mysterious murders – murders that seemingly only have one thing in common: hanged dogs…

The unorthodox intelligence agent Margrethe Franck assists Oxen. Deliberate omissions of the truth and a general mistrust make their partnership extremely difficult, but gradually they learn to work together on the hunt for the murderers, even as the motive for the crimes remains obscure.

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

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THE DARK MEN Niels Oxen, Denmark’s most highly decorated soldier, lives and works under a Romanian identity on a remote fish farm in Jutland. Suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, the veteran lives in a state of constant alertness: he has a secret that keeps him alive – but it might also kill him.

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

When she finally manages to locate him, she seals his fate.

Suddenly Oxen finds himself in the middle of a manhunt. Some people want to help him. Some want to kill him. But who can he trust? Franck and Oxen are reunited against the shadowy men who hold the reins of power. For the haunted war veteran there are only two options: go get them or go down. The Dark Men is the second book in the Niels Oxen trilogy.

MOVIE RIGHTS SOLD TO:

Sold to Good Company Films. The producers behind, amongst others: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, The Wallander-series, The Team-series, Lars Von Trier’s and Susanne Bier’s movies, The Irene Huss-series and the Beck-series.

THE AUTHOR Jens Henrik Jensen, writer and journalist, entered the literary scene with his trilogy The Cow in Krakow (Kællingen i Krakow) (1997), The Jester in Murmansk (Hofnarren i Murmansk) (1999) and The Wolf in Banja Luka (Ulven i Banja Luka) (2002). Following this breakthrough series, Jens Henrik Jensen embarked on his much acclaimed trilogy featuring DI Nina Portland.

A number of Jens Henrik Jensen’s books have been sold for publication in Sweden, Norway, Germany and Italy.

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HENRIETTE ROSTRUP

HENRIETTE ROSTRUP

DET ÅR VI GIK TIL BEGRAVELSER ROMAN

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SPECIFICATIONS: 320 pages, October 2015

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ewel Temper heads off to New York with vague dreams and no plan beyond simply being somewhere other than her home town. Her real name is Julie, and she grew up in small town Denmark.

She establishes herself as a ghostwriter for popular but burned-out authors, also writing about her own childhood memories, which were anything but picture-perfect. When she gets pregnant, she doesn’t tell the baby’s father. Instead she moves to a slightly shabby part of town full of colourful characters, where she grows especially close to Mr Velázquez, a transvestite who becomes a kind of one-stop-shop – mum, dad, grandma and granddad – for her and her daughter Nadia.

After ten years in New York she receives a packet of letters from her now dead mother, who wrote them to her over the years but never sent them.

A Year of Funerals is about being homeless in your own family, about finding yourself in a new community and putting an end to running away from life. It is a wide-ranging

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A YEAR OF FUNERALS

and intricate tale of love, family and identity are forced to face traumas they have long repressed.

THE AUTHOR Henriette Rostrup was born in Copenhagen in 1970. She has a degree in Comparative Literature from University of Copenhagen, 1998. Since the late eighties she has lived, studied and worked in several places around the world: Copenhagen, Odense, Orléans, Boston and New York City.

Having worked in Danish and international publishing for many years, among other things as literary agent in New York City, she quit her job in 2002 and started working freelance as a translator of fiction. In May 2007 Bazar Forlag published Henriette’s first collection of short stories Afkom / Offspring. The novel I dag og i morgen / Today and tomorrow was first published by Bazar and republished by Rosinante in 2010. The novel Skygger / Shadows was published by Rosinante 2011.

The Murderess M adeleine de Montdidier is taken captive by a Turkish sea-captain, who sells her as a slave in Constantinople. The Grand Vizier discovers her skill in sword- and knife-fighting, and decides to have her trained as an assassin within the Janissaries. Through a year’s tough training she gradually learns more about the court’s intrigues, and in particular the rivalry between Sultan Selim’s sister Mihrimah and his favourite wife Nurbanu. Unable to avoid this she gets sucked into the conflict, making powerful enemies. A romantic relationship develop between Madeleine and the older Grand Vizier, who is married to Nurbanu’s daughter, earning Madeleine yet another enemy.

Madeleine has to flee after a failed assassination attempt on Nurbanu’s son, and ends up on a warship on its way to Cyprus. Sailing onwards they take part in the naval

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The Lady in Waiting

battle of Lepanto (October 1571), and Madeleine can at long last return home to France, to reunite with the daughter she had to abandon at the end of the second book The Bastard.

The three historical novels span the years 1567–1572, offering a broad political overview of the power struggles and religious battles of the Renaissance. Lady in Waiting focuses on the French Wars of Religion between the Catholics and the Huguenots, The Bastard on Catholic Spain’s problems with its Moorish heritage, while The Murderess gives an Ottoman, and therefore Muslim, perspective on the conflicts.

THE AUTHOR Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen (born 1962) is a Danish novelist with a medical degree from the University of Copenhagen. She made her debut in 2000 with award-winning Sun over Salerno.

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“The Three Musketeers” meets “The Story of O” in Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen’s novel. (...)

It’s a high-octane read…

– Politiken

Olesen’s descriptions are detailed and relevant to the story.

They beguile the reader the way picture books do, and the book really is a kind of picture book, its images conjured through Vedsø Olesen’s knowledge, enthusiasm and artistic skill, through her refined and accomplished literary style. – Nordjyske Stiftstidende

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

– Dagbladenes Bureau

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

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

– Kristeligt Dagblad

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ANNE-CATHRINE RIEBNITZSKY

THE AUTHOR Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky was born in 1974 and graduated from the Copenhagen Writers’ School in 1998. Having completed her Foreign Language Officer training in Moscow in 2003, she worked at the Danish embassy in Russia before going to Afghanistan in 2007, first as a soldier and then as a Foreign Ministry advisor. In 2010 she was awarded the Anders Lassen Award for ‘significant military and civilian achievements during deployment’.

Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky’s first book was The Women’s War (2010), an account of her work with Afghan women.

The book was shortlisted for Weekendavisen’s Literature Prize in 2010.

In 2012, she published her first novel, The Stolen Road, for which she was awarded BogForum’s Prize for FirstTime Authors. It was also nominated for Weekendavisen’s Literature Prize and for Danish Radio’s Novel of the Year Award.

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WINNER OF THE GOLDEN LAURELS IN DENMARK 2013

HURRICANE SEASON AND SILENCE

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hen Beate wakes up in the morning, she turns towards the empty space in bed beside her, slowly remembering that Thomas is really dead. Her sense of loss floods back, hitting her so hard that she’s almost pinned to the mattress. She pulls herself together before she goes into the office and focuses on her job as a defence lawyer.

Her close friend Monica is a rather unusual priest, outspoken and with a no-nonsense approach to the parishioners who seek her advice. Monica travels to Guatemala, where she meets a mafioso, a Guatemalan teenage girl who grew up in a children’s home, and a young pot dealer whom Beate also encounters in her capacity as a lawyer.

The book follows the two women as they weave in and out of people’s lives, grappling with issues of faith, justice, vigilantism, sorrow, infatuation, forgiveness of murder and – greatest of all – love.

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POLITIKEN Fredensborgs debutkrimi, Én gang morder (2013), som har fået en fin modtagelse i Danmark og som også er solgt til udgivelse i Italien. „Et utal af svenske forfattere har forsøgt at skrive indbringende hjemstavnskrimier uden at gøre det bare halvt så godt som Eva Maria Fredensborg“ WEEKENDAVISEN

E VA MARIA F REDENSBORG (f. 19 69) debuterede i 2013 med krimien Én gang morder.

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kommer til Småland for at under vi se på et sommerkursus, men da han vågner næs te morgen, ligger der en hvid kuver t på dør trinnet til den lejede ødegård. Den indeholder et fotograf i af en seriemorder, der tog sit eget liv, mens han v ar i beha nd l i ng hos psykiateren tyve år tidliger e.

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Once a Murderer

My Lips are Sealed

Making the Cut

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

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

This is Eva Maria Fredensborg’s debut.

Was it loneliness that drove a female translator to take her own life, or did someone literally guide her hand?

There’s a strange post-it note on the fridge, a neighbour who called early in the morning, and a bracelet that doesn’t fit with her smock and wellington boots.

Asta Qvist is convinced that Hannah Lundgren did not commit suicide, and when Robert Strand is assigned to the case, it turns out that Asta has good reason to doubt the police’s findings.

This is the second book in the series featuring Asta Qvist and Robert Strand.

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Great work by the eloquent Eva Maria Fredensborg.

– Weekendavisen

Joachim Rahn, a premier-league football player is found dead; executed with a single shot to the forehead. The police suspect the victim’s best friend and teammate Alexander Karlsen, who disappeared immediately after the murder of Joachim as he hindered Alexander’s opportunities to sign with a major foreign club and has apparently stolen Alexander’s girlfriend. The case has personal consequences for the investigators, who all have a vested interest in solving it. Especially Carl Pedersen, as he has coached both the suspect and the victim, who was once good friends with his son Emil. The murder leads the police down a complex trail of organized crime, bikers, steroids, hippies and match-fixing.

A masterful plot and a string of interesting characters.

There are no quiet passages in the book, it is constantly evolving, keeping pace and power. And well written in a simple, unaffected manner. All in all a very good experience – a modern and captivating thriller.

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

– Weekendavisen

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Captivating read (..) a solid thriller that keeps its reader engaged and thinking. – Politiken If you liked the predecessor, there are plenty of good reasons to read this sequel!

– Alt for damerne

Great work by the eloquent Eva Maria Fredensborg.

– Weekendavisen

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Captivating read (..) a solid thriller that keeps its reader engaged and thinking. – Politiken If you liked the predecessor, there are plenty of good reasons to read this sequel!

– Alt for damerne

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

– Femina

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DEAD MAN'S BAY G

reenland is in the grip of the harshest winter in a decade. Special forces soldier Michael Plessner has settled down in the capital city, Nuuk, after a personal tragedy. A unit from the elite Sirius Patrol is reported missing, presumed frozen to death in a violent snowstorm. One of the missing men is a former special forces soldier, and Plessner’s best friend.

Maliki, a female geologist and

leader of an expedition, comes into possession of information that indicates he is still alive, and that the snowstorm wasn’t the true cause of the unit’s disappearance. Determined not to let down his friend, Plessner travels with Maliki to the world’s largest national park to look for him – but soon discovers that someone is intent on sabotaging their rescue mission at any cost. He and Maliki are sucked into a murky world

of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, a crime syndicate and a foreign intelligence agency, all of which turn out to be controlled by the same cynical and greedy power.

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THE AUTHOR Puk DamsgĂĽrd (born 1978) has been DBC's Middle East correspondent since 2011, having previously lived for many years in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As a journalist and writer she has won various awards, most recently the National Press Club of Denmark's Storytelling Prize

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and the 2015 Readers' Book Prize for her previous book, the bestselling Where the Sun Cries (Hvor solen grĂŚder, Politiken, 2014), about the war in Syria.

Her other books include Wolves' Hearts (Ulvehjerter, Politiken, 2011) and Land of the Pure (De renes land, JP's Forlag, 2009).

PUK DAMSGÅRD

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

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The ISIS Hostage

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

In June 2014, Daniel Rye was the last hostage to leave the prison alive, carrying a message from his fellow hostage James Foley to his family in the US. Two months later, ISIS began killing the remaining British and American hostages - Daniel’s former friends during their captivity.

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

The ISIS Hostage is a touching and terrifying story about friendship, torture and surviving

this book illustrates both how they are linked and how they feed into one of the greatest challenges the Middle East will face in the years to come.

Drawing on European, American, and Arabian history,

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The story follows Daniel Rye’s family and the nerve-wrecking negotiations with his kidnappers over the ransom, which the family had to gather in order to secure his release. It traces their horrifying journey through impossible dilemmas, while they made sure only a few trusted people knew about the ordeal.

in prison under extreme circumstances, focusing on one of the most spectacular and tragic international kidnapping cases in recent years. It offers an insight into the people who guarded and fed the hostages, some of whom were a product of the Syrian regime's prisons, while others were from our own Western societies.

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"An outstanding and a entive book on the conflict in Syria."

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FLEMMING ROSE

ULRIK LANGEN

Christian 7

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The Powerless Autocrat

Christian VII has largely been portrayed as a rather comical minor figure in Danish history.

But the story of his dramatic life offers much more than ridicule.

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★★★★★ "A well-written, thorough and – not least – surprising portrait of Christian VII." – Jyllands-Posten

★★★★★ "Never have we been given such a vivid insight into this dramatic and spectacular piece of Danish history as in Ulrik Langen’s dazzlingly well-written biography Christian 7th: the Powerless Autocrat."

– Berlingske

"… a first-class piece of historical writing."

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"Powerless is a pleasure to read – a wonderful piece of work."

– Kristeligt Dagblad

Christian VII was not yet seventeen when he ascended the throne in 1766. Behind him lay an upbringing marred by cruelty and abuse, while ahead lay life as the absolute ruler of a complex kingdom. His greatest challenge was to keep a cool head in a court riven by power struggles, intrigues and animosity. In the space of a few short years, a series of dramatic events changed the course of the young king’s life, the affair between Queen Caroline Mathilde and the royal physician Struensee being only one of them.

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In 2010 he received, in collaboration with Peter Henningsen, the 2010 History Book of the Year prize for The Dog-Killer of Vimmelskaftet, and Other Stories from Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen (Hundemordet i Vimmelskaftet – og andre fortællinger fra 1700-tallets København) (2010). Ulrik Langen is also well known for hosting ‘The History Quiz’ for The Danish National TV and in 2012 he worked as a consultant on the hugely successful Oscar and Golden Globe nominated movie A Royal Affair (2012) which was sold to almost 80 countries.

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"An impressive biography of the eccentric Christian VII."

Christian 7 th The Powerless Autocrat is the first book to offer a vivid insight into the life of the highly gifted and quick-witted monarch, as he spiralled from dazzling beginnings and great promise into loneliness and fear.

THE AUTHOR Ulrik Langen, PhD, is a professor of history at the University of Copenhagen. His books include Shadows of the Revolution: French Emigrants and Other Peoples in Copenhagen, 1789–1914 (Revolutionens skygger: Franske emigranter og andre folk i København, 1789–1914) (2005), which was awarded the History Book of the Year prize.

THE THIEF

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE MAN WHO STOLE THE GOLDEN HORNS The Golden Horns were stolen in 1802 and melted down.

But who was the man who, out of pure greed, cynically destroyed this unique relic of the past?

His name was Niels Heydenreich, and he was the son of an alcoholic parish clerk in Jutland. The family’s lot worsened after his parents got divorced: his mother was heavily in debt, and had to take her children and move to another part of the country.

Trying to save his family, Niels began to print fake banknotes, but was caught and thrown into jail in Christianshavn, a district of Copenhagen. Here he taught himself to work with gold, and after being released he set up shop as a goldsmith, but once again things began to go wrong for him.

Ulrik Langen’s The Thief is a gripping tale of gold, pawnbrokers, prisons, counterfeiters, inventors, honour, self-obsession and

much more. Depicting the most famous thief in Danish history, it traces a unique story set during Copenhagen’s Golden Age, written by one of Denmark’s best-known, most authoritative and popular contemporary historians.

SPECIFICATIONS: 364 pages, August 2015

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★★★★★ –Berlingske Tidende

★★★★★ –Ekstra Bladet

★★★★★ –Bogfidusen

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NILS THORSEN

The Genius A

THE AUTHOR

ll Danish people know Lars von Trier. At least, they think they do: he is Denmark's most famous and infamous artist, with his phobias, camper van and almost ritualised provocations. In the world at large he is admired as an original filmmaker, while in Denmark he is notorious as a professional neurotic. As for the man himself, he says he's the world's greatest film director. For the first time, Lars von Trier talks in detail about his life, his fears, his films and his thoughts. For the best part of a year, Politiken journalist Nils Thorsen shadowed and interviewed the director and his friends, family and colleagues, bringing us closer to him than ever before.

Nils Thorsen is a journalist at the Danish national newspaper Politiken, where he has become well respected for his biographical interviews, among other pieces. He has twice been nominated for the Cavling Prize for his series of interviews: in 1999 for the series Angels and Demons (Engle og DĂŚmoner) and in 2003 for To: On Becoming and Being (Til: Om at blive og vĂŚre). He is the author of a number of books, including the critically praised collection of interviews RoundAbout (OmVeje) and, in 2010, The Genius: Lars von Trier's Life, Films and Phobias (Geniet: Lars von Triers liv, film og fobier).

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KIM KRISTENSEN

Follow Me:

Leading from the Front As a leader, you need to have the courage – especially at difficult moments – to put yourself on the front lines, choose a way forward and say, 'Follow me!'

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Kim Kristensen has been in the most demanding situations a leader can experience. As an officer, he led Danish soldiers into battle many times, where decision-making is literally a matter of life and death. Since then he has applied his leadership experience to the worlds of industry, local government, diplomacy and the Danish Royal Household, where today he is the Master of Ceremonies.

The power of leading by example is clear and compelling, writes Kim Kristensen. You have to lead from the front. You have to go first, inspiring trust and confidence in your staff, so that they know you'll always be there – not just when the going's good, but also when things are at their worst.

Building on his own experiences, Kristensen offers a variety of effective tools to create a unique strategy, with a constant focus on hard graft and the will to put together a dream-team. This is fundamental to world-class leadership. The book also lambasts Rambo-style leadership and harsh discipline. 'Love your employees' is his provocative message. In the end, they are the ones who have to get things done, and only when they realise you care about them will they be willing to follow you through fire and water.

THE AUTHOR Kim Kristensen (born 1964) is Master of Ceremonies at the Royal Danish Court. He has previously served as adjutant for Her Majesty the Queen, and has led military operations in Croatia (1995) and Kosovo (2005). In 2007 he was promoted to the rank of colonel, and put in charge of Danish forces in Afghanistan.

Kim Kristensen was chosen as Leader of the Year in 2009 by the Danish Association of Managers and Executives, and he holds lectures on leadership around the world.

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THE DANISH WEREWOLVES A DANISH POLICEMAN INVESTIGATES A LITTLE-KNOWN PIECE OF HISTORY DURING THE OCCUPATION, UNCOVERING A STORY OF WICKEDNESS AND TREASON. The Danish Werewolves is the tale of Inspector Erland Leth Pedersen, a retired Copenhagen policeman, who made an unusual discovery in a dusty attic at the Copenhagen Police Headquarters one early summer’s day in 2012. In the attic he found a package, the contents of which led him to an under-explored corner of the Second World War – the story of the Danish Werewolves.

movement’ gain foothold in Denmark.

The idea of the Werewolves originated in high-ranking Nazi circles in Germany and consisted of a number of underground groups that operated behind enemy lines.

Their purpose was to further the cause of Nazism using violence, terror and propaganda, continuing even if Germany was defeated.

This is the dramatic account of a group of traitors who, in 1944 and 1945, attempted to help the so-called ‘Werewolf

It was equal parts stubbornness and curiosity that compelled Erland Leth Pedersen to spend several years researching and analysing this piece of Danish history

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" A Danish inspector has been digging through both earth and archives seeking new information on the Danish Werewolves, who were preparing to commit terrorist attacks in the wake of the Occupation. The result is a comprehensive and well-written book on everything we were lucky enough to avoid. Inspector Erland Leth Pedersen has been hard at work, digging through the archives and – quite literally – the soil, detailing the Werewolves’ many hidden stashes in the book. His excellent account tells the whole story, including images and descriptions of the Danish terrorists, several of whom were executed in 1945. No one is forgotten – not Henning Brøndum, for instance, whose gang was behind a whole string of murders.

He wears a characteristically broad smile in nearly all the pictures of him in this rogues’ gallery."

"[Erland Leth Pedersen], a self-described amateur historian, offers a colourful account of the hunt for the Danish Werewolves, arguing convincingly that there genuinely was a network of Werewolves, and that they buried a large number of weapons caches.

But first and foremost the book should be read as an entertaining description of the hunt for the old Nazis’ network."

– Jyllands-Posten

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– Berlingske

"The book draws on a wealth of source material and background information from historical works on the Occupation, but it is not an academic work. It is an account of treason and wickedness during the final phase of the Occupation and the period that followed."

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that, until now, has been largely ignored.

His painstaking police work enabled him to uncover an extraordinary tale of treason and wickedness in 1940s Denmark, and The Danish Werewolves recounts this sensational story in an accessible, journalistic style.

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ow do you earn the money needed to sustain a life of luxury, complete with expensive cars, Harleys and kilos of drugs? And just how strong is the brotherhood between bikers when it really counts?

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For the first time, a Danish biker president speaks out, giving a unique insight into life in a hermetically sealed world – a world where silence is golden and talk can end in death.

Where black money, drugs, weapons and fast cars are the norm, and where young men are recruited and tested as potential members in the bikers’ often unscrupulous world.

His name is Mick. He is fifty years old and until recently was a high-ranking figure in the Nordic biker community. As a former president of the Outlaws and Bandidos gangs, he has now decided to break their rule of silence by talking about his criminal past in public.

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WHAT’S IT LIKE BEING THE PRESIDEN T OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S L ARGEST BIKER GAN GS?

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In this book, Mick recounts decades of violence, extortion, drug crimes, arms trafficking, substance abuse, and weeklong binges with endless lines of coke, wild sex and much more. But he also explains the meaning of the distinctive markings on the back of his leather waistcoat, which have cost him so dearly, and describes the price he paid for his life as a top biker – one that might still cost him his life.

THE AUTHORS Carsten Norton, MA (born 1972), is senior editor of the Danish national newspaper Ekstra Bladet’s crime section. His previous publications include the non-fiction book Extradited: The Story of Camilla Broe (2010), the thriller Without a Face (2012) and the short eBook The Idealist: Niels Holck, the Arms Drop and the Case That Will Not Die (2013).

Miki Mistrati (born 1968) is a journalist, director and writer. He is senior editor at Ekstra Bladet and has produced more than forty documentaries for TV2 and DR. He has also produced documentaries for various international television stations, including in Germany, Sweden, Norway, the USA, France, Belgium, Japan and China. Has won nine journalism awards, including the News Award, the Nils Ufer Prize, the Victor Award, the Documentary Award of the Year, the Cavling Prize and, most recently, the international World Television Award in 2014. He has written three novels: Solo (2008), Spin (2011) and Power (2012), as well as the biography Dan Lynge: My Double Life and The Book of Power.

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JACOB SØNDERGAARD

Work Out Like a Man J

acob Søndergaard is one of Denmark's most experienced personal trainers and well known on national television, with over one million viewers regularly tuning in to watch his show. He specialises in training everybody from top executives to elite athletes, and in the winter of 2015 became famous as the man who got five workmen, all of whom had previously been living unhealthily, to drastically change their lifestyle on television.

In this book, Jacob Søndergaard gets his readers off to a flying start with their exercise programme, so they can strengthen their body and attain a greater sense of pride in themselves.

Everything begins with recovery: only once you're getting enough sleep and all those sore joints and old warwounds are gone is your brain ready for change. Next you can get to work developing a -pack and large biceps. The book plunges the reader into a tough, masculine training regime, complete with sweat and locker-room banter. It introduces a tried-and-tested

A new exercise concept for men who aren’t used to working out, and who have been forced to admit that their hips are now wider than their shoulders, they have packed on a few pounds around the chest and stomach, they get out of breath far too easily, and – not least – they find it difficult working up the enthusiasm to live more healthily, so they can become real men.

meal plan that allows you to eat until you're full every day, even as you drop kilo after kilo in weight.

Jacob Søndergaard's philosophy is straightforward: you've got to work if you want to see results – but you come to enjoy the challenge.

THE AUTHOR Jacob Søndergaard is a personal trainer who for the last thirteen years has specialised in lectures, courses, health weeks and bespoke workshops for companies, organisations, management teams and networking groups.

He has given more than 2,000 one-to-one training/coaching sessions to leading figures from the worlds of business and sport, and most recently has featured as a trainer on Real Men (Rigtige Mænd), a television programme broadcast on the channel DR1, with over a million viewers tuning in per episode.

REAL MEN WORK OUT

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SPECIFICATIONS: 232 pages, August 2015

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TONED + SKY-HIGH METABOLISM Get a strong body and a toned figure in only one hour of high-intensity exercise per week.

Toned SPECIFICATIONS: 240pages, August 2015 RIGHTS: All rights available

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oned is the new, efficient programme from the author of the popular exercise blog Sky-High Metabolism. In her new book she shows the reader how, in one hour of focused exercise per week, supplemented by good nutrition, she can create an attractive silhouette with strong, feminine curves, a slim waist and a beautiful, well-toned bum.

Short bursts of high-intensity strength training are the path to lasting results. The book offers an insight into the mysteries of the human metabolism and ways to redesign your body, as well as an understanding of the psychological and physiological mechanisms that control our relationship with food and exercise.

Anna Bogdanova guides the reader towards losing weight and honing a naturally beautiful figure with: • • • • •

A nine-week programme that redesigns and reshapes your body into the most toned and flexible version of itself Instructions about how to make your muscles work together, so that your body becomes a harmonious whole Help in exercising safely and effectively without becoming exhausted or injured Advice about eating a nutritious diet that will support your training A test to determine your metabolism type and advice about eating habits and dietary supplements for the five types

The book also includes testimonials about the fabulous results eight women achieved with Toned.

Sky-high Metabolism SPECIFICATIONS: 216 pages, May 2014 RIGHTS: All rights available

THE AUTHOR Anna Bogdanova is a personal trainer, coach and health journalist with a unique cognitive approach to change and physical transformation. She has already helped more than 15,000 women attain a happier, stronger and better-toned body, and a relaxed, natural relationship with food and exercise. Among her other qualifications, Anna has studied processes of change at the Copenhagen Business School, obtained her certification as a nutrition coach specialising in sports and exercise nutrition at Precision Nutrition, and studied as a movement specialist at Z-Health Performance, a full-length course focusing on applied neurology and movement.

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JANE FAERBER

LCHF LOW

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o you feel like there's always a birthday, Easter weekend, summer holiday or Christmas season getting in the way of eating healthily? If so, then this is the book for you.

Let Jane Faerber show you how to navigate your way through the many events and holidays of the calendar year and combine the Low-Carb-High-Fat way of living with family, friends and parties, steering you away from your old habits. She offers sound advice on how to turn new healthy habits into a lifestyle that will help you succeed in achieving your goals, both in terms of weight and health.

Faerber begins in January, with suggestions on how to survive the dark months with warming winter food. This chapter focuses on how to let go of the idea that

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you have started a new, restrictive diet and instead succeed in making those healthy habits long-lasting, so that you can keep your weight permanently under control. Then comes spring, bringing hot cross buns and loads of delicious Easter lunches with the family.

The book acknowledges that it can be difficult to stick to the diet in a world where comfort food often means bread. In the summer we’re used to having barbecues on the patio and plenty of green food, and Faerber discusses how to get through the summer holidays without falling back into old habits. Autumn is a time for going mushroom-picking in the woods, cooking lovely, warming dishes and hosting children’s birthday parties – without sugar.

Then December is upon us, and Faerber suggests all sorts of tasty LCHF treats,

THE BOOK FEATURES: • ways to stop thinking about dieting, yet still lose weight • inspiration for a life without sugar and cereals • hands-on ideas for summer barbecues, holidays and celebrations • suggestions for a sugar-free birthday party • ways to make it through the Christmas season and New Year celebrations without making sacrifices, yet without piling on extra pounds • more than eighty new recipes tailored to seasonal holidays and ingredients

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demonstrating that it is still possible to have a good time at Christmas while being a little healthier. She comes up with a strategy for getting through seasonal events and parties without piling on the pounds. Finally, she helps you to round off the year in style with a celebratory bash, suggesting a four-course menu so you can host a delicious New Year’s Eve dinner for friends.

JANE FAERBER

LCHF

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Bread & Cakes SPECIFICATIONS: 136 pages, March 2014

Eat your Way To Health and Happiness SPECIFICATIONS: 216 pages, April 2013

Full and Slim with

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LCHF: Bread & Cakes is jam-packed with delicious recipes for breakfast, bread, cakes, biscuits, cookies, crackers and other baked goods. All the recipes are flour, gluten, sugar and yeast free.

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

This book is for those tired of mood swings, sugar cravings, poor appetite control, and losing weight only to gain it back again. It is for those who would like to lose weight, but also for people who, though they might be in good shape, still suffer from inexplicable fatigue, restlessness and lack of energy during the day. It is also for those who are tired of counting calories, and long for a life where they’re not constantly focusing on food.

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THE AUTHOR Jane Faerber (born 1977) has worked in the media for many years. She is Denmark’s bestselling author writing on LCHF, and has a very popular Danish blog, madbanditten.dk

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For too many years, weight loss has been synonymous with deprivation, suffering and hunger. With LCHF, however, this is no longer the case: the body’s machinery changes the way it uses fuel and you burn body fat instead of carbohydrates. LCHF offers a lifestyle that regulates your hormones, blood sugar and appetite as well as your weight.

SARAH GALÁN

Mum and Baby getting fit This new book on post-natal exercise in the home or while taking your baby for a walk helps new mothers regain a strong body and fill the first twelve months with health, happiness and increased energy.

The book includes a wealth of simple exercises that can help mothers get back in shape the easy way after giving birth – both physically and mentally. They have been carefully designed to suit women’s bodies each month after the birth, taking both mother and child into account.

Many can be practised with or next to your baby, turning it into a game for them while stimulating their development.

Each section of the book begins with chapters on you and your baby, offering background information on the developments taking place during the relevant period and serving as a foundation for the subsequent exercises, which very slowly become a little more demanding with the passing months.

THE AUTHORS The reader is in safe hands. The professional guidance offered in the book comes from Sarah Galán, a new mother, qualified fitness instructor and journalist specialising in health. Sarah has teamed up with Lene Raadkjær Jørgensen, a physiotherapist who specialises in children’s motor development and sensory stimulation, and provided the tumbling activities in the book, along with Rikke Holm-Nielsen and Lærke Rau, who work as personal trainers in the fitness industry, specialising in post-natal exercise, among other areas.

WORK OUT WITH YOUR BABY

SPECIFICATIONS: 256 pages, August 2015 RIGHTS: All rights available

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a Children's Baking Book A Children's Baking Book is intended for children who want to learn to bake.

It is a clear and simple book with seventyfive recipes for delicious baked goods, aimed at children and other beginners.

Featuring classics like sourdough rye bread, traditional, quick-bake

birthday buns, layer cakes, hamburger buns, pretzels, Danish wreath cakes, Christmas biscuits and recipes with variations so that the same dough can be used for different cakes, A Children's Baking Book also includes a section with new, popular recipes for raspberry slices, cake pops, macaroons, rye-

bread rolls with chocolate and hazelnuts, and more.

The book features helpful tips as well as clear, step-by-step instructions explaining some of the techniques. Each recipe is clearly marked as easy, intermediate or difficult to make.

SPECIFICATIONS: 240 pages, October 2015 RIGHTS: All rights available

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traditions, and is sustainable and seasonal.

She is passionate about eating with other people and about food that’s made well from pure ingredients – with big flavours, zest and passion. Katrine Klinken is also a member of the Slow Food International Council, representing the Nordic countries.

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Katrine Klinken is a trained chef and has a degree in nutrition and home economics. She works freelance and has authored a series of cookbooks for children and adults. She lectures and teaches courses, both for children and for people who work professionally in the food industry, on, among other things, how to cook food that tastes good, maintains local culinary

MARTINE RANDEN BØRDING

GIRLS ONLY

SPECIFICATIONS: 144 pages, October 2015 RIGHTS: All rights available

@pige_tips_dk

Fifteen-year-old Martine has created her own unique combination of blogging and Instagramming on her Instagram profile, aimed at girls aged ten to sixteen, on a daily basis she posts new and exciting things relevant to teenage girls' lives.

She covers everything from friends, fashion, beauty, boys and cake recipes to how to get your homework done, what to do in your summer holidays and how to sort out your exercise routine.

In recent months the number of people following Martine at pigetips.dk has tripled, and she now has more than 15,000 followers, who like and comment on her posts and make suggestions about what they'd like to hear more on.

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The book reuses none of the material from Martine's profile, instead it features new tips, advice, pictures and recipes in the style her followers know and love.

THE AUTHOR Martine Randen Børding is fifteen years old.

She loves drawing and spending her free time with friends. She has also loved to write ever since she was little, which comes in handy for her Instagram profile. Martine sings in a choir and likes taking photographs.

MADS HEITMANN & RASMUS BRØCHNER HANSEN

RUM BOOK R

umbook was written by two rum nerds who tell you everything worth knowing about this new favourite drink. It is aimed not only at beginners, but also at seasoned rum-drinkers, and it’s the book the writers themselves wish they could have read when they were first getting interested in the golden liquor. The days when rum was associated exclusively with rum-and-coke or other such dubious beverages are long gone. Today, rum is considered a premium spirit, on an equal footing with whisky and cognac. This book therefore focuses on aged rum, which is drunk neat. It features a general introduction to rum, as well as the authors' take on forty different kinds of aged rum, all of which are highly recommended, guiding the reader through all the important rum-producing countries, styles and types of rum.

In addition to a fascinating historical account, the book includes a description of the production process, with sections on sugar cane, fermentation, distillation, aging, blending and the different styles of rum.

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Drinking rum is now incredibly popular among both men and women, rum having become the country’s best-selling licquor in record time.

SPECIFICATIONS: 264 pages, September 2015 RIGHTS: All rights available

THE AUTHORS Mads Heitmann (born 1988) has been interested in rum since 2007. He loves rum, and today it is his greatest passion. Mads studied E-Concept Development and has previously worked in the field of online marketing via social media. In 2010 he set up Romhatten. dk, where he reviews and writes about rum. Today he is a fulltime rum advocate: he holds rum tastings, among other events, for both private individuals and businesses nationwide, and writes articles about rum for Whisky & Rum Magazine. Rasmus Brøchner Hansen studied finance and holds a graduate diploma in management and organisation from the Copenhagen Business School.

He has worked with rum and other spirits for over ten years, originally becoming interested in it during the four years he lived and worked in Cuba.

Today he is a co-owner of the Danish spirits whole-saler CRT Spirits.

BO LIDEGAARD

SPECIFICATIONS: 464 pages, April 2015 RIGHTS SOLD: NORWAY / Cappelen Damm

★★★★★ – Jyllands-Posten

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♥♥♥♥♥ - Politiken

THE AUTHOR Bo Lidegaard, MD is the editor in chief of Politiken, the leading Danish daily newspaper. He has published several bestselling titles on contemporary history, most recently Countrymen (Landsmænd) (2013), about the escape of the Danish Jews in October 1943, which was published in twelve countries.

The White Buses

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1944, activists in occupied Norway and Denmark realized that their compatriots held in Nazi concentration camps were facing extermination as the Allies closed in on Germany. Information was leaked that Hitler had issued orders for all prisoners to be executed and the concentration camps destroyed before Allied troops could seize them. Appalled by this prospect, activists sought ways to identify and eventually evacuate Scandinavian prisoners from the camps.

Despite orders from the Allied Supreme Command in September 1944 that no civilian prisoners held in Germany were to be released before Allied forces had secured the entire country and established

firm control, groups of civilian activists from Norway and Denmark continued their push to reach some kind of understanding with the Nazi leadership over a gradual release of prisoners. Eventually, through a concerted effort, a major rescue operation building on these initiatives was planned and launched in February and March of 1945 by the Swedish Red Cross, under the leadership of Count Folke Bernadotte.

It was a unique humanitarian operation.

Over the course of a few weeks, volunteers driving hundreds of white buses through the scattered roads of the collapsing Third Reich managed to rescue more than 10,000 prisoners.

The White Buses traces the origins of this fascinating operation and reveals

the details of the diplomacy that made it possible. Based almost exclusively on contemporary accounts, the book offers a revealing insight into the SS's leadership during the final months, weeks and days of Nazi Germany.

Richly documented and featuring firsthand accounts from the activists who negotiated with leading Nazis and visited the concentration camps to secure the release of prisoners, the story is both compelling and moving.

The White Buses is fully illustrated with contemporary photographs documenting the operation and its main participants.