JP/POLITIKEN PUBLISHERS 2012
CONTENTS FICTION
Jussi Adler-Olsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 Erik Valeur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 A. J. Kazinski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 Ander Rønnow Klarlund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Leonora Chrstina Skov . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13
Jesper Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15
Øbro & Tornbjerg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17 Jens Henrik Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19 Mathilde Walter Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21
NON-FICTION / COOKBOOK Europe’s Crown Princesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The LEGO micracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 UNBOSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25 The Worlds Best Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-27 The Paleo Cookbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-29
The Hot Flash Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Free Me From These Hot Flashes . . . . . . . . . 31
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS JP/Politiken Publishers Ltd. is 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. JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS LT D. www.politikensforlag.dk
Mette Blomsterberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-33 Spectacular Salads… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-35 The Green Kitchen Basics . . . . . . . . . . . 36-37
P LEASE CONTACT
Knit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Nya Guldberg Foreign Rights Manager E-mail: nya.guldberg @ jppol.dk Tel.: +45 30 38 28 40 www.jppolfr.dk
I ♥ Vegetarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Little Allan The Human Antenna . . . . . . . 40-41
Mummy Has a Baby In Her Tummy . . . . . . . . . 42
The Hug-Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
HUMOUR
Wulffmorgenthaler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Why Are Men Smarter Than Women? . . . . . . . . 45
Morten Ingemann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Handbook For Oldish Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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Rudi Urban Rasmussen Agent E-mail: rudi.u.rasmussen @ jppol.dk Tel.: +45 20 89 31 88 www.jppolfr.dk
JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
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THE MARCO EFFECT
ABOUT THE BOOK ‘The most boring day in the world’, a newspaper called the day of April 11, 1954. But for the boy Marco it was the day that delivered the worst thing that could ever happen to him: the birth of his uncle Zola. Decades later, Zola coldly and cynically destroys and abuses people and forces the members of his clan into crime.
know is that his family are not the only ones who want him dead. But Department Q knows, and slowly Carl, Assad and Rose become entangled in a case which has deadly leads connecting it to corruption and serious crimes all the way up through the higher echelons of government ± and which leads straight into the deepest, darkest reaches of the African jungle.
Marco is forced to use his bright mind for begging, pick-pocketing and burglaries. He is skilled, but loathes his life and everything that Zola stands for. And when he finds out that the family intends to maim him and turn him into a cripple, he has no other alternative than to run away and get as far away as possible. The horrible reality of what he has been part of crashes down on Marco when he, months after his escape, sees a poster of a missing man. A man, whose dead body he has seen close to his old home. From then on Marco is not only fighting to eke out an existence for himself, he is also fighting for his life as Zola and his henchmen close in on him. Should Marco use his knowledge to take on Zola and the rest of the clan, including his father? Should he involve the police? Does he have any proof of what happened? What Marco doesn’t
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR The first four volumes in the Crime Thriller series about Department Q: The Woman in the Cage, The Pheasant Killers, Message in a Bottle, and Journal 64 have made Jussi Adler-Olsen one of the most popular and widely-read authors both in Denmark and abroad. To this day, the series has sold over 1,200,000 copies in Denmark alone. The series about Department Q is made up of very different individual novels, but together they tell a comprehensive story about the main characters.
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countries
The series has been sold for publication in over 30 countries and in many places printed in astronomical numbers of copies. The film rights have been bought by Zentropa, who are preparing to start filming. The previous books in the series have won The Golden Laurels (De Gyldne Laurbær), The Readers’ Book Prize (Læsernes Bogpris), The Harald Mogensen Award and The Glass Key to name a few, as well as a number of awards in other countries. Specifications 400 pages November 2012
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JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
FICTION
DEPARTMENT Q-SERIES
SALES FIGURES COPIES 270,000 SOLD
JOURNAL 64 – VOL. 4 Until only 40 years ago “maladjusted” or simply unlucky Danish women were deported to a little island where malice, mistreatment and torture-like methods were employed to maintain order. Nete Hermansen came here and was also able to escape – or so she thought. The day the past caught up with her became the start of one of Department Q’s most complicated cases. What was concealed in her past? What became of her? Where did the people around her disappear? And who was behind it? MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE – VOL. 3 In a remote corner of Scotland, a bottle was forgotten in a windowsill for a long, long time. Inside the bottle was a barely readable note; the only two things that were certain were that the first word was the Danish word for HELP and that it was written in blood. Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad find themselves drawn into a scary case of cults and disappearing siblings, whose parents have never reported them missing. THE PHEASANT KILLERS – VOL. 2 In 1987, a brother and sister are found brutally killed in a summer house in the north of Denmark. The police investigation suggests that the killer is to be found within a group of young boarding-school pupils from some of the wealthiest families in the country. But the evidence is not strong enough and the case is shelved until one of the suspects turns himself in and confesses that he is responsible for the killings. Thus, the mystery is apparently solved. THE WOMAN IN THE CAGE – VOL. 1 On a beautiful winter's day the young, progressive politician Merete Lynggaard disappears without a trace. The media are all over the story with their headlines suggesting anything from murder and suicide to a planned voluntary disappearance. The police immediately commence a large-scale investigation, alas with no result. Merete Lynggaard has vanished from the face of the earth. Not until Carl Mørck, the deputy detective superintendent who has been through a lot in his time, is put in charge of the new department for "cases of special focus" is there a major breakthrough in the investigation.
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JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
FICTION
INTERNATIONAL THRILLERS BACKLIST
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a versatile author who masters the elements that make up a suspenseful thriller to perfection. This he has already proven in his first three novels, the bestsellers The Alphabet House, The Company Basher and The Washington Decree. All three novels have already far exceeded the magic sales figure of 150,000 copies in Denmark and have been sold for publication in a number of other countries. THE COMPANY BASHER The wealthy, cynical businessman Peter de Boer is head of a firm in Holland which specializes in bringing down major corporations. He hires the exotic Nicky Landsaat as a marketingtrainee and soon he profits from the ambitious woman. Trouble starts when the Iraqi intelligence service wants him to bring down a great Western corporation.
THE WASHINGTON DECREE A horrible assassination attempt on the night of the American presidential election kills the wife of the Democratic frontrunner, Governor Bruce Jansen. Suddenly, the US is in a position where its new president will do whatever it takes to change the American society ± immediately and at any cost. Doggie Rogers, the governor’s trusted employee, is in the middle of it all when Jansen’s controversial decree, cancelling American citizens’ constitutional rights, is passed and all hell breaks loose.
THE ALPHABET HOUSE During World War II, two British pilots, James and Bryan, are shot down over Germany. They know that they will be executed if taken hostage. Pursued by German dog patrols, they manage to escape by jumping on to a German hospital train transporting mentally deranged German SS-officers away from the front.
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ERIK VALEUR
THE SEVENTH CHILD
PRAISE FOR THE SEVENTH CHILD
WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY
2012
“A novel so good that you’ll look forward to reading it again.” Weekendavisen
★★★★★ “Erik Valeur’s gripping and dramatic debut novel... is phenomenal!” Berlingske Tidende
★★★★★ “Seldom have I read a book put together like such an exquisitely intricate mosaic as this first novel.” Nordjyske Stiftstidende
COPIES SOLD Specifications 692 pages August 2011
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JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
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ABOU T THE BOOK At birth the seven children have only two things in common: They all come into the world in Maternity Ward B at the National Hospital in Copenhagen, and they are all given up for adoption. In the following months, the women who run Kongslund, the famed orphanage, find new families for the children in different parts of Denmark. They grow up without the slightest clue about their past. Many years later an anonymous letter is sent to a down-andout journalist at a failing newspaper. The letter reveals that one of the seven children carries a secret, and someone has done everything possible to keep that secret hidden. When the story is made public, it brings explosive consequences. Could it be that for the past fifty years the prestigious orphanage has been covering up the love affairs of wealthy and famous Danes, hiding scandalous liaisons that took place at the highest levels of society?
The Seventh Child is the story of how this mystery is unraveled ± a nd about the bond between the seven children, whose lives end up inextricably linked during the decades when the social welfare system was established in Denmark, from the 1960s until the present. THE AU THOR Erik Valeur (born 1955) is a Danish journalist who works for Berlingske Tidende, Danmarks Radio, Information, and Tænk. He is also a media commentator for Politiken and Jyllands-Posten. He is co-founder of Månedsbladet Press, and the promoter for Magtens Galleri in Galerie Asbæk. He and his colleagues have twice received the Cavling Prize. In 1994, he was awarded the Publicistklubben Prize, and in both 1994 and 1999, he won the Kryger Prize. He is the author of Stop the Press (1993), The Power Book (2002), and 60 Rounds Fired (2007).
The seven adopted children, now adults, are swept up in the search to uncover their past. At the same time, they are desperately trying to figure out which of them is the seventh child, and what could be the nature of the secret that person holds.
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AST-RELease / Russia Maeva / Spain Forum / Sweden Blanvalet / Germany Amazon Crossing / WER
DANISH BANK WEEKEND NEWSPAPER’S DEBUTANT PRIZE LITERATURE PRIZE
2011
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“Entertaining and exciting. It’s well written and linguistically imaginative, with a touch of pastiche perfectly suited to the Gothic storyline!” Information
2011
DR’S NOVEL PRIZE
2012
HARALD MOGENSEN AWARD
2012
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A. J. KAZINSKI
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
FICTION
THE LAST GOOD MAN ABOU T THE BOOK In Jewish scripture, there is a legend: There are thirty-six righteous people on earth. The thirty-six protect us. Without them, humanity would perish. But the thirty-six do not know they are the chosen ones. In Beijing, a monk collapses in his chamber, dead. A fiery markÐa tattoo? a burn?Ðs preads across his back and down his spine. In Mumbai, a beloved economist, a man who served the poor, dies suddenly. His corpse reveals the same symbol. Similar deaths are reported around the worldÐt he victims all humanitarians, all with the same death mark. In Venice, an enterprising Italian policeman links the deaths, tracing the evidence. Who is killing good people around the world?
“How does one find two exceptionally - and genuinely-good people - and then protect them? The fear that question provokes ± b ecause what if there are no really good people left? Or what if there’s no protection to offer the few who do remain? ± i s what makes this book so terrifyingly compelling. The answers it offers, however, make for a quietly inspiring read.” Oprah.com
In Copenhagen, police are preparing for a world climate summit when they receive the Interpol alert. The task falls to veteran detective Niels Bentzon: Find the “good people” of Denmark and warn them. But Bentzon is a man who is trained to see the worst in humanity, not the good. One by one, people are crossed off his list. He senses their secrets and wrongdoings. Just as Bentzon is ready to give up, he meets Hannah Lund, a brilliant astrophysicist mourning the death of her son and the implosion of her marriage. With Hannah’s help, Bentzon begins to piece together the puzzle of these far-flung deaths. A pattern emerges. It is, they realize, a perfectly executed plan of murder. There have been thirty-four deathsÐt wo more to come if the legend is true. According to the pattern, Bentzon and Hannah can predict the time and place of the final two murders. The deaths will occur in Venice and Copenhagen.
“With a rich brocade of charged emotion and a hero with grit and determination, The Last Good Man never disappoints. This one has everything I look for in a thriller ± history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, and international settings. Check this one out, you’re going to love it.”
Steve Berry, New York Times-bestselling author of The Amber Room and The Columbus Affair
“The Last Good Man is a vivid, powerfully written adventure, where religion and science are melded into an impassioned brew.” Juan Gómez-Jurado, author of
The Moses Expedition and The Traitor’s Emblem
“Intense…. Moments of rapid-fire suspense… A truly compelling and worthwhile journey.” Associated Press “A mind blowing novel . . . with a spectacular ending.”
Pleine Vie (France)
“Breathtaking.” Ekstra Bladet (Denmark) “So tight and exciting that the pages fly through your fingers.” Fredericia Dagblad (Denmark) “The buzz thriller of the season.” L’indépendant (France)
Specifications 496 pages October 2010
“A.J. Kazinski spins the web of suspense even tighter, and the reader becomes irrevocably trapped in its web… An unbelievably good ending.” Hamburger Abendblatt (Germany) 8
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The Sleep and the Death
Abou t the book Niels Bentzon, the astrophysicist Hannah Lund and other characters from The Last Good Man return!
The Sleep and the Death is the explosive follow-up to the award-winning bestseller The Last Good Man written by the Danish A.J. Kazinski and published in more than 18 countries.
Hostage negotiator with the Copenhagen Police, Niels Bentzon, should have talked her out of it; should have been able to talk her out of throwing herself off the bridge and to her certain death. But he couldn’t and now she is down there on the train tracks, the back of her skull crushed and a cryptic message written on her hand. But who is she? What drove her over the edge? Somebody or something was haunting her – sombody or something that made her choose death over life.
The Authors A.J. Kazinski is a pen name for the joint authorship of film director and author Anders Rønnøw Klarlund and the author Jacob Weinreich. The duo A.J. Kazinski debuted in 2010 with the bestseller The Last Good Man that has been published in over 20 countries and won The Danish Crime Writers’ Association’s (Det Danske Kriminalakademi) prize for best debut in 2010 and the prestigious French award: Prix Relay in 2011.
Soon Niels Bentzon realizes that the woman is not some sad mentally ill wretch, but a prima ballerina from The Royal Danish Ballet, and she went missing two days before her death. While Copenhagen slowly melts in the heat, making it almost impossible to breathe, the autopsy report drops another bomb on the investigation: the woman was apparently drowned and then resuscitated just before she jumped.
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Kazinski narrates exuberantly and intensely… He actually succeeds to juggle soul and sorrow, life and seeking, without losing grip of reality, suspense, or nerve. And that is really well done. Ekstra Bladet
It dawns on Niels that he is facing a case where the works of the famous Danish sculptor Thorvaldsen as well as an ancient Greek mystery play a vital role. And that this case throws long deep shadows across the threshold of death.
One of the most interesting Danish suggestions for a new departure within a genre that seems to flood the market … Death introduces all crime novels. And sleep is what you will probably lack of when you begin reading this novel. Kulturkapellet.dk
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It is penned elegantly and scarily exiting, and has even a foundation course in Greek philosophy incorporated. Berlingske Tidende
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”…a really breathtaking crime novel. Besides a superior composition technique, relevant character sketches, a high speed narrating, and a plot in which the reader gets helplessly caught, it furthermore provides intellectual vitamins.” Flensborg Avis
Specifications 494 pages August 2012
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KAZINSKI
ANDERS RØNNOW KLARLUND
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
FICTION
WHY I LEF T
ABOUT THE BOOK It’s a winter evening in 1979. The boy tells the police what he saw: a car ran over his father. The people in the car did it on purpose; they drove up on the sidewalk to run him over. And then they backed up and drove off, he says. No one believes the boy, who is ten years old. They tell him it might have been a drunk driver, that the street was slick, a lot of people lose control of cars in snow that high. The boy visits his father at the hospital. His father insists on talking to him in private, and he bequeaths to his son a verse. It’s a type of oath – a promise his son must keep. A promise that he gave to his own father, a promise that has been handed down through generations, as far back as anyone can remember, always from father to son. A promise to stand on Mt. Washington in the U.S. on October 3rd, 2000, at dawn. Then his father dies. Twenty years later, the boy is now a man to whom life has not been kind. He’s in a European prison, an ocean away from his destination. His woman waits outside prison. She’s pregnant, only a few weeks away from giving birth. And a few weeks from when he must be on the mountain at daybreak. But if he flees prison and enters the U.S. illegally, he may never see his child. Who knows, he could be shot trying to escape, drown on his way across the Atlantic, freeze to death on the mountain. But go he must – he has to find out who killed his father on that winter night and what lies behind that cryptic oath, why Europe’s dark history has chosen him and his family to play a special role.
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My beloved unborn child, this is the story of why I deserted you. THE AUTHOR Anders R. Klarlund (b. 1971) is a former film director and scriptwriter. He has directed five feature films, including Strings, which was sold across the globe, and his last, The Secret Society of Fine Arts. He debuted as an author in 2009 with a partly autobiographical novel, The Affectionates, in which he murders his film director self. Under the pen name A.J. Kazinski, he and Jacob Weinreich have written two best-seller novels, The Last Good Man (2010) and The Sleep and The Death (2012) Why I Left is his second novel. Klarlund lives alone with his children in Copenhagen but are open to suggestions. Women who are not completely bonkers are more than welcome.
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Anders Rønnow Klarlund
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He’s not a man who has wasted his life on long speeches and fine words. But now he needs them. Words. If he must leave the one he loves and his unborn child, he has to explain to them why. The night before he breaks out, he begins his story:
Specifications 400 pages March 2013
Politikens Forlag
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
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ANNE-CATHRINE RIEBNITZSKY
THE STOLEN ROAD
“A book so good it’s not necessary to be interested in Afghanistan to read it; you just need to like to read about human destinies. Read, read, read!” Weekendavisen
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”“A topical and necessary novel.”
♥♥♥♥ Politiken
★★★★★ ★★★★★ Femina
Fyns Amts Avis
ABOUT THE BOOK In the autumn of 2008 three Afghani lives intertwine in the war. Malika is the daughter of a famous mullah, and a modern woman trapped in a traditional world. She is secretly running reading-courses for a number of Afghan women in the town of Gereshk, but she is also looking out for the interests of women and children in other ways. One day she finds a boy living the streets, who has been raped by the police. Malika makes a stand against the corrupt police officers of the town, but it’s a cause most people consider to be lost before Malika has even begun.
Jyllands-Posten
THE AUTHOR Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky, born 1974, was educated at the Danish School of Creative Writing in 1998. She is a Language Officer, specialised in Russian (trained in 2003). She worked among other places at the Danish Embassy in Moscow before being sent to Afghanistan in 2007, first as a soldier and later as the advisor to The Danish Foreign Ministry. Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky debuted in 2010 with the biography The Women’s War, which is an account of her work with Afghan women. The book was long listed for Weekendavisen’s Literature Prize 2010. The Stolen Road is her second book and her first novel.
Photo: Sara Skytte
At the same time a group of Taliban soldiers capture the engineer Khan. The Taliban wants to kill him in order to stop him building a tarmac road between Kandahar and Gereshk. Khan invokes the help of Allah Himself and challenges the Taliban. Armed with theological arguments and an extensive knowledge of Islam, Khan manages to shift the Taliban soldiers’ perception of Islam. The novel is based on real events.
”Well told and fascinating”
Specifications 320 pages May 2012
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LEONORA CHRISTINA SKOV
DEATH OF A LADIES’ MAN
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ABOU T THE BOOK Throughout the 90s and well into the new millennium, Nat Kaminski was the unrivalled king of novelists and famous around the world for his self-exposing erotic trilogy. But now inspiration and the readers have left him. When his punk-rocker girlfriend, Veronica Lake, also leaves him, he heads straight towards his own personal nuclear meltdown in Berlin. At the airport he chances upon the possibility of a pity fuck, but the woman neither wants to pity nor fuck him. Maybe she is dangerous and wanted by the police. Or maybe she’s just a jinx with a penchant for Hermès brand goods. While Nat rants and raves against the feminists, the publishing business and his fellow writers, Veronica is tracing the life of her long lost grandmother, who was shut up at the State Hospital for years.
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Death of a Ladies’ Man is a story about family, ruin, sex and love. A hard-hitting, touching and witty portrait of four people too disillusioned to live and too self-obsessed to die. THE AU THOR Leonora Christina Skov is a writer, literary critic and public intellectual living in Copenhagen. She has a Master of Art in Literature Science; worked as a literary critic at the newspaper Politiken between 2004-2006; and has worked since 2006 as a critic and columnist at Weekendavisen newspaper. She is also a regular panellist on the topical culture show ‘The Cultural Peer Review’ (Smagsdommerne) on the TV-channel DR2. Leonora Christina Skov has previously written the novels The Backstroker, Champagne Girl and Silhouette of a Sinner, the rights to which have been sold to Norway, Spain and Germany. In 2010 she received the 3 year scholarship from The Danish Art Foundation (Kunstfonden). Previous titles sold to: Piratforlaget / Norway Ediciones B/ Spain BTB Verlag / Germany Specifications 406 pages September 2012
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JESPER STEIN
UNREST
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★★★★★
”[...] merciless descriptions of cruel acts are glaringly and beautifully contrasted by the glimpses of poetic descriptions of the city of Copenhagen.” Jyllands-Posten
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”So well written that it is difficult to lay the book aside. This story has bestseller potential.” Nordjyske Stiftstidende
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”[...] a riveting and believable plot delivered with real professionalism..” Børsen
ABOU T THE BOOK
UNREST is a realistic police detective novel, set in 2007, in the week after the eviction of Ungdomshuset, a building which functioned as a home for the underground scene for music and also as rendezvous point for various autonomen and leftist groups in Copenhagen’s toughest district, Nørrebro. The eviction led to the worst street fighting in Copenhagen in modern times. The cast is drawn from Nørrebro’s multicultural and alternative scenes, major criminal gangs, the far-left autonomist scene and the area’s tens of thousands of ordinary residents. The protagonist is a 37-year-old detective superintendent, Axel Steen, who is investigating the murder of an unidentified man, which may be linked to the demolition of the Youth House. He soon finds out that a lot of people, both inside the police and outside, have an interest in the case ± and in preventing it being solved. It is a book about a man undergoing a crisis in his personal life, who thrives on cases where nothing is as it seems. He never stops until the truth is revealed. This has implications for everybody ± in this case, particularly for Axel himself. For all the readers who misses The Killing, Unrest is the answer. Specifications 412 pages June 2012
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”He can write up a storm and if he continues as he has started then we now have a new crime novelist solidly placed within the big leagues.” Lokalavisen
♥♥♥♥ ”There should be plenty of meat left on this bone and for a second round with Alex. Maybe Jesper Stein is even to be seen as a ‘rival’ to Jussi AdlerOlsen?” Flensborg Avis
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THE AU THOR
Has spent ten years as a legal and crime reporter in Copenhagen. Together with Bent Isager-Nielsen, Jesper Stein wrote the 2008 bestseller You Hunt a Beast and Catch a Human, which has sold 30,000 copies, the biography of the leader of Unit One – Denmark’s answer to the FBI. As a journalist, Jesper Stein has travelled the world, covering wars in the Balkans in the ’90s and famine in Africa.
Photo: Morten Holtum
”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.” Berlingske
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JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
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THE DEVIL’S FACE ABOU T THE BOOK
The Devil’s Face is the second title in the series about Katrine Wraa and her police officer colleague Jens Høgh. The Devil’s Face begins with the discovery of the charred body of a woman in Copenhagen’s Sydhavn area. Katrine Wraa is a psychologist and profiling expert who received her training in England. She and her partner, Jens Høgh, from the police homicide division have joined a special task force to deal with gang violence, and they are assigned to the case. It quickly develops that the victim had a close relationship with a
notorious biker known as “Smithy.” Suddenly the case takes an explosive turn in connection with the raging gang war, since it’s very likely that the biker gang is planning revenge. During the course of their investigation, Katrine Wraa and Jens Høgh must explore the world of prostitutes, bikers, and extraordinarily wealthy businessmen who are involved in money-laundering for the biker gangs. The distressingly rampant gang war becomes the springboard for a story involving sibling traumas, repression, shame, and deception, which all end up destroying lives.
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THE AUTHORS
Jeanette Øbro Gerlow was trained as a midwife and as a multimedia designer. Ole Tornbjerg is a communication specialist and film producer.
Specifications 508 pages November 2011
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ØBRO & TORNBJERG
SCREAM UNDER WATER
ABOU T THE BOOK
Katrine Wraa is a trained psychologist and profiler, educated in England. After having worked a number of years for the British police she is headhunted by Danish police and joins the Copenhagen Homicide Division. She is quickly being put through the hoops when investigating a cruel murder with her new partner Jens Hoeg; a young obstetrician is stabbed to death in his own front yard. When the body is discovered on a chilly winter morning, it is covered in snow. It has been lying there overnight. Katrine and Jens begin to track down an unusual killer, and come upon a number of unsolved murders; murders that have remained unsolved because until now no one has realized
that the deaths were homicides. Over the course of a few nerve-racking winter days Katrine Wraa must face her own deepest fear when it turns out that the killer is an unscrupulous psychopath who, suddenly, is getting too close. Screams Under Water is the first book in an ambitious trilogy featuring profiler Katrine Wraa ± a trilogy that investigates the very nature of evil. Each book is an independent story in which the protagonist solves a brutal homicide by means of her knowledge and her special talents.
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The baby in the bathwater no longer screams. She savours the silence. Yet the sound has an echo, reverberating and whining inside her head. She really needs some peace and quiet. Is that too much to ask? Just a bit of silence. And some sleep. During the day, she sits on the sofa, covering her ears. The child bawls around the clock, driving her insane. The shrieks are like a constant accusation; you're not good enough, you're not adequate, you can't care for me properly. The child has turned against her. Rights to SCREAM UNDER WATER have been sold to: Prometheus / The Netherlands Insignis / Poland Gyldendal / Norway Fischer Verlag / Germany
"It starts out well, growing better and better, the plot reaching a climax so thrilling that you end up reading with your eyes half covered" ★★★★★ politiken "A polished crime-novel at high speed."
★★★★★ jyllands-posten "A cleverly executed, flawless crime-novel debut with an unnerving parallel narrative cursing through the book like a devilish under-current" ekstra bladet
Specifications 312 pages June 2010
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JENS HENRIK JENSEN
HANGDOGS
ABOU T THE BOOK Hangdogs is the first volume in a new series featuring the traumatized war veteran Niels Oxen. The first three volumes in the series have individual story lines – but are tied together by an overreaching plot: the veteran’s struggle for rehabilitation, and his battle with a secret power elite that have roots stretching all the way back to the Danes Court, the medieval Danish parliament.
Photo: Red Star Photo
The most highly decorated soldier in Denmark’s history, Niels Oxen, scrapes through life in a gritty neighbourhood of Copenhagen. The traumatized 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 retired Elite Soldier relocates to Northern Jutland together 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 for Niels Oxen. After a nighttime visit to a medieval castle on the edge of the forest, he is suddenly suspected of the murder of the castle’s owner, a former ambassador and founder of an influential think tank. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service appears remarkably quickly, and before the pressured war veteran has time to blink, he has been sucked into the investigation of a string of mysterious murders. Murders that seemingly only have one thing in common: hanged dogs… The cool and unorthodox Intelligence agent Margrethe Franck, who lost a leg after an accident when she was a young officer, is to assist Oxen. Deliberate omissions of the truth and a general mistrust makes their partnership extremely difficult, but slowly they fall into step in the hunt for the murderers, even as the motive for the crime remains completely in the dark. Oxen and Franck witness more murders, before they track down the names of three Lithuanian women who were guests at the castle. Oxen goes to Vilnius, only to find that two of the women are now dead. The third one is missing. Her sister has gone to Denmark to investigate her disappearance with the help of a cousin, who is a former Russian elite soldier. The two of them instantly become the main suspects. In parallel with the investigation, Margrethe Franck starts to dig deeper and deeper into the past of the mysterious and stubbornly silent Niels Oxen as she suspects he is not telling her the truth. It is revealed that five prominent members of the Danish political and business elite have stayed at the castle at the same time as the Lithuanian women. Among them the Danish Justice Minister, who apparently killed the missing woman during a sex game. 18
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★★★★★ “Jens Henrik Jensen has a terrific flair for using reality in his stories.” JydskeVestkysten The woman’s sister and cousin discover what happened and blackmail the Minister ± j ust to end up dead themselves; killed by an unknown force going to great lengths to ensure that all traces of the Minister’s crime are eliminated. Oxen and Franck are left unconvinced by the deaths of the prime suspects ± it just seems too easy. They search every nook and cranny of the castle of the dead ambassador, inspired by a new lead which points to the powerful medieval Danish parliament Danes Court. They find evidence suggesting that this power elite still exists and is extremely well organized ± a nd has killed several times. Their hunt for the shadows of the past almost costs Oxen and Franck their lives before Danes Court manages to erase all traces and leads in the case ± a nd the investigation is declared a success and shut down.
Previous titles sold to: Piper / Germany A.W. Bruna / Holland
A new series with war veteran Niels Oxen
Despite their mutual attraction, Niels Oxen turns his back on Margrethe Franck and instead hits the road as a lonesome drifter once again. The evidence he holds against the Minister is his life insurance, but even so, he senses that he has not heard the last of the powerful forces from the medieval elite. Danes Court is out there… THE AU THOR Jens Henrik Jensen is an author and journalist. He had his breakthrough with the trilogy The Old Hag of Krakow (1997), The Court Jester of Murmansk (1999) and The Wolf of Banja Luka (2002). His second series featured the Detective Inspector Nina Portland in Ship of Axes (2004), The Coal Man (2007), and The Ghost Prisoner (2010).
Specifications 416 pages September 2012
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MATHILDE WALTER CLARK
CAST
ABOU T THE BOOK
“I’m a trouble maker. That’s what I’ve always been. I make trouble. There is no reason to believe that it will ever change.“ This voice belongs to Nete Plum, 35. She lives in a Copenhagen suburb with her husband, Jan. One day she ‘accidentally’ pours boiling water on Jan and receives a mystic revelation. A few days later she loosens a board on the basement staircase. Small steps. But nevertheless suggesting some form of systematization. And it doesn’t get any better as the weeks go by.
CAST is about Nete, who sometimes accidentally hurts her husband. It is about working in something called ‘The Agency’ ± and about longing to stare the Great Mystery of Life straight in the face. It all sounds very serious. And the title CAST is not a coincidence. Yet the novel is a funny take on relationships, work and friendship. And like Mathilde Walter Clark’s other books, CAST is about the quest for the only thing that really matters in life: your own soul. Along the way we meet a colourful gallery of characters: bikers who will happily assist Nete for money; drunken Finns who are more interested in Copenhagen’s red light district than Jan’s business ideas; and ‘The Agency’s’ leg-dragging but tango-dancing icelander, Haldor, who teaches Nete about the Andalusian spirit, duende. As Nete’s friend, Pusle, likes to remind her: „Life is an eternal rain of opportunities for wisdom and enlightenment“. THE AU THOR Mathilde Walter Clark (1970) grew up spending winters with her mother in Denmark and summers with her father in the US. She has a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Roskilde University and New York University. In 2004 she published her first novel, Thorsten Madsen’s Ego. She was awarded the Carlsberg Foundation “Discovery of the Year” and the prestigious Three Year Scholarship from the Danish Art Foundation. She has been a visiting writer at the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, and at the International Writer’s Workshop (IWW) at Hong Kong Baptist University. She writes critical essays, discusses current cultural matters in a weekly talk show, and has written and hosted a philosophical tv-series for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. She has published five works of fiction, her most recent being the novel CAST from 2012. Her short stories have appeared in The Literary Review, Iowa Review and Absinthe. She lives in Copenhagen.
Specifications 172 pages August 2012
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“A funny, idiomatic and rhythmic novel.” Femina “It’s entertaining and sharp, and you are in excellent company with CAST.” Dagbladenes Bureau
“Mathilde Walter Clark masters the art to describe situations that are so absurd that you are suddenly overpowered by helpless laughter.” Weekendavisen “Hissing scorn and crass humor.”
Foto: Pernille Ringsing
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ABOUT THE BOOK The book tells the story of seven very different women: Victoria from Sweden, Mette-Marit from Norway, Maxima from the Netherlands, Letizia from Spain, Mathilde from Belgium, British Catherine and Denmark’s own Mary. They are hard-working, intelligent women, who do not silently sit at the top of a pedestal while being catered to on hand and foot. Most of them are not afraid of speaking on matters close to their hearts, and they have
EUROPE’S CROWN PRINCESSES
KAREN SENECA & JIM LYNGVILD a professional attitude towards their works and their roles. A role which is relatively new in the history of the European monarchies. All of them are extremely popular members of the royal families in their countries. Despite their individual differences, they have one thing in common: they are the future queens of Europe. The many pictures throughout the book show the princesses in both formal and more private situations.
Specifications 288 pages October 2012
NYT OMSLAG + bill fra bogen
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áxima har fejret tiårsjubilæum som kronprinsesse af Holland, men selvom den argentinskfødte prinsesse taler flydende hollandsk og er kongehusets mest populære person, er hun stadig en sydamerikaner i sit hjerte: ’Jeg er latiner, og jeg vil fortsætte med at være latiner af respekt for min kultur. Jeg danser, jeg synger – og jeg vil blive ved med at danse og synge’, erklærede hun selvbevidst overfor den hollandske presse, da hun blev forlovet. Og hun har holdt sit ord. Blandt andet satte hun sig spontant til klaveret og begyndte at spille med orkesteret, da hun deltog i åbningen af et nyt beboerhus i Utrecht i 2010. Hollands kommende dronning bliver den første sydamerikaner, der er dronning i et europæisk land – ligesom kronprinsesse Mary bliver den første australskfødte dronning i Europa. Máxima er vokset op i Buenos Aires som Máxima Zorreguieta. Hendes fars rødder er et miks af italiensk og spansk – eller baskisk må vi hellere kalde det, da hans familie kom fra Baskerlandet, og han selv
er meget bevidst om sin tilknytning til lige netop den region i Spanien. Faren Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta har endda været præsident for det argentinsk-baskiske handelskammer i flere år. Máxima er ud af en politisk interesseret familie. Hendes farfar var borgmester i byen Mendoza, hendes far landbrugsminister under diktatoren Videlas regering – noget der i øvrigt har været en belastning for hende lige siden, men det vender vi tilbage til. Den hollandske kronprinsesse har bevaret en stor interesse for politik. Da hun blev gift med prins Willem-Alexander, indførte hun blandt andet en tradition for at invitere hollandske politikere til privat middag i parrets hjem, og flere af hendes aktiviteter er langt mere politiske end mange af hendes prinsessekollegers. Alt i alt får Holland en dronning, som nok smiler og ler mere end kongelige har for vane, men som også rummer dybde og intelligens. Og frem for alt mod. For eksempel er hun den første kongelige, der aktivt er engageret i homoseksuelles rettigheder.
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NIELS LUNDE
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NON-FICTION
ABOU T THE BOOK The LEGO Miracle tells the incredible story of a world-famous Danish company that managed to haul itself back from the brink of collapse and which is now even more successful than before. It is the story of the owner’s son Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, who turned LEGO into a booming success while fighting his father for control of the company. It is the story of his lifelong ambition to lift the business to serve a higher purpose. And about his painful defeat when LEGO was struck by a life-threatening crisis and he had to surrender the reins to the 35-year-old Jørgen Vig Knudstorp. It is also the story about this young executive who understood, that the only way he could rescue LEGO was to dig deep into the soul of the business and find the answer to the crucial question: why does LEGO exist? He accomplished that feat and LEGO’s socalled ‘turn around’ has attracted international attention.
THE LEGO MIRACLE
The book also unveils some of LEGO’s projects for the future, where the company wants to achieve what Apple achieved in the world of electronic devices: revolutionize how we look at children’s play and learning. The book is written by Niels Lunde, Editor-inchief for the buisness newspaper Børsen, who has carried out over a hundred interviews with key figures in and outside of LEGO. THE AU THOR Niels Lunde (born 1962) has a Master’s degree in Political Science (cand.scient.pol). For more than 20 years he has been a sharp observer of trades and industries as he worked for the Danish Employers’ Association as Business Editor, Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director at Berlingske Tidende newspaper, and as a Business Commentator at Politiken newspaper. Niels Lunde has written a number of books on management and business ± the latest two being the critically acclaimed biography ‘Mr Møller’s New Man’ about Maersk executive Nils Smedegaard Andersen, and ‘100 Top Executives ± A G uide to the Danish Business Life’.
Specifications 312 pages September 2012
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UNBO UNBO LARS KOLIND & JACOB BØTTER
UNBOSS
The company of the future will be an unlimited movement.
★★★★★★
“One of the best management books written this year.” Berlingske Buisness
♥♥♥♥♥ “Get used to it: The future is called unboss.” Politiken
“This is Gary Hamel and Tom Peters when they are best – in Danish.” Børsen
Specifications 312 pages May 2012
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ABOU T THE BOOK UNBOSS is a book about work and management unlike any other you have ever read. It questions everything you ever thought you knew and what you took for granted: Did you think that the goal of companies was to make money? No, first and foremost they have to be useful. They have to become movements, which change the world
You are no longer an employee hired to do a job. You are partner in a team. Your manager does not have all the answers, but she asks the good questions. You are not working in order to earn money for company owners you do not know. You are working for a cause. And you yourself get a fair share of the profits you create. You do not work 9 to 5 in the office. You work when it fits your schedule and where ever you want. The company you work for does not sell products to the customers; it creates value together with the customers. And if you work in the public sector, it is not the budget that determines the bottom line, but instead the value you create for the citizens. UNBOSS is written with the cooperation of 100 visionary people from all over the world. They provide new ideas and concrete examples tied together into a whole by Jacob Bøtter and Lars Kolind. The result is a book that is not satisfied with stirring up debate, it wants to create a revolution.
THE AU THORS Lars Kolind (born 1947) has a Master’s degree in Mathematics and a Business School Diploma degree (HD) in Business Organisation. Kolind has, amongst other things, worked as a management consultant, assistant director at Risø National Laboratory and Director of Finance at Radiometer. Lars Kolind especially made an impact with his re-organisation of Oticon, where he was CEO from 1988 to 1998. He is a board member for the World Scout Foundation, Grundfos, Wemind, and Unimerco. He is the author of the bestseller The Kolind Cure ± fr om Bureaucracy to Growth and is an adjunct professor at Aarhus University. Jacob Bøtter (born 1986) is self-taught management consultant. Bøtter ran a virtual design bureau employing more than 300 designers in over 50 countries during his high school years. In 2005 he started the consultancy Wemind through which he has, up till now, advised more than 100 firms, including two Prime Ministers, on how to radically improve their organisation through inspiration drawn from how the internet has developed during the last 15 years. He has previously written the bestseller NQ and is today a sought-after lecturer, both nationally and internationally.
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CHRISTIAN BITZ OG ARNE ASTRUP
THE WORLD’S BEST DIET
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Specifications 262 pages January 2012
ABOU T THE BOOK Information from Diogenes, the world’s largest scientific research project in diet and weight loss, which was headed by Arne Astrup, forms the basis of the dietary principles and recipes in the book. It will help shedding all those unwanted pounds and never putting them on again. The unique programme is based on the Nordic cuisine and begins with a detailed four-week meal plan, which guarantees a weight loss of 1-2 kilos (2,2-4,4 lbs) a week. After the initial four weeks, you move on to phase two where you cook delicious meals based on the 80 healthy and delicious recipes in the book, designed to help you lose extra weight. Phase two is the lasting lifestyle change, which is essential to a successful and enduring weight loss.
purtsA enrA & ztiB naitsirhC fa
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Politiken
The World’s Best Diet is based on very simple principles with documented effect. So you don’t have to worry about calories, extreme nutritional advice or strange foods. You just have to enjoy tasty food, which will make your entire family healthier and slimmer. A book full of balanced facts, and with many juicy recipes this is a healthy weight loss-bible. THE AU THORS Nutritional-experts Christian Bitz and Professor Arne Astrup are two of Denmark’s most experienced experts in the field of weight loss.
Arne Astrup is MD, DrMedSci, Professor of Nutrition and Head of the Department of Human Nutrition at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. He has build up one of the world’s leading obesity research groups and he is no. 5 on the Thomson Reuters list of internationally most productive obesity scientists (H-index: 60). He was the chairman of Danish Nutrition Council 1992-2003, President for International Association for the Study of Obesity 2004-2009, Editor in Chief of Obesity Reviews 1999-2010, and since 2011 he has been Associate Editor of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Christian Bitz is MSc Human Nutrition and is well known in Denmark as, among other things, nutrition expert on the Danish national TV2. He is head of clinical nutrition research at Herlev Hospital, and has sold more than 15,000 copies of his two books Bitz Your Health and Bitz Your Kitchen. Bitz has won several prizes, including Danish Innovator of the Year 2011. Rights sold: Cappelen Damm / Norway
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CHRISTIAN BITZ OG ARNE ASTRUP
WBD 2.0
bestseller
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ABOU T THE BOOK This time, Christian Bitz and Arne Astrup have made a book for those who are dieting on their own. The scientific basis for the book is Diogenes, the most extensive research study on diet and weight loss ever conducted.
”Ulrik Langen rister en grundig og vellykket rune over to jævne danskere, der betalte en høj pris for at ytre sig i enevældens København.” U F F E Ø S T ERG Å R D, W EEK EN DAV I S EN
This research also formed the basis of their bestseller The World’s Best Diet and with the experiences drawn from that book, they have created a collection of tasty food that is also healthy and will help the reader lose weight. And this time the recipes, which are all measured in portions for just one person, are even simpler. WBD 2.0 guarantees a weight loss of 1-2 kilos (2,24,4lbs) per week with a 4-week meal plan. After the initial weight loss, the reader is guided onwards with the more than 80 easy recipes designed to inspire healthier eating and living, which is the foundation of a change of lifestyle. And a lifestyle change is essential to enduring weight loss. Sometimes it takes that little bit extra to reach your ideal weight, but Bitz and Astrup highlight seven ‘slimming sins’ to look out for on your way towards the magic number. The book presents seven formerly overweight people, who have each conquered their ‘slimming sin’ that had tripped them up in their quest to lose weight for years. They tell of their success with following the dietary rules, and the reader gets concrete advice and knowledge that, once and for all, dispels any excuse for not becoming and staying slim.
The sequel to the
Specifications 272 pages August 2012
bestseller ‘the world’s best diet.’
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THOMAS RODE
Paleo c
THE PALEO COOKBOOK
The
The paleo diet contains the kind of food that we are designed to eat by our genes. The cornerstones in the paleo diet are meat, fish, seafood, vegetables, roots, egg, fruit, berries and nuts. All of these are cultivated with a minimum of processing, and are of a very high quality standard. Furthermore, the principles behind the paleo diet are all simple and easy to follow, and the foods are available to a normal buyer. The paleo diet avoids grain, dairy products (Thomas Rode uses a few dairy products though, namely butter and cream), white sugar and margarine… and of course all kinds of colorants and additives.
ABOU T THE AU THOR Thomas Rode Andersen has worked at one- and two-starred Michelin restaurants in Germany and Austria. In Denmark he was Sous-Chef de Cuisine at Fakkelgaarden and Falsled Kro before getting his dream job as Chef at restaurant Kong Hans Kælder in Copenhagen in 1996. Among Thomas’ mentors are bigwigs such as Jean-Louis Lieffroy, Christian Bind, and Daniel Letz, and during his time as Chef at Kong Hans Kælder he himself has mentored a row of talented cooks and scous-chefs who have gone on to make names for themselves within the restaurant business. In 2008 Thomas started to change the menu at Kong Hans Kælder to reflect the healthy lifestyle he himself now adheres to. Thus visitors today can enjoy a gourmet meal based on the paleo-principles guaranteed to thrill their palates, stomachs and bodies.
Specifications 264 pages October 2012
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cookbook ABOU T THE BOOK Gourmet chef Thomas Rode tells about the changes in his diet, where he has given up pasta, rice, wheat, and sugar in favour of the caveman diet. As a result his wobbly bits have disappeared, his muscles are more toned, and he has enough energy to work 14 hours a day without getting exhausted… The book contains over 80 recipes; all structured on the principles of the Caveman Diet also known as the Palaeolithic Diet. This is food without artificial preservatives, cooked with modern techniques, and with flavours that delight the modern palate.
The recipes’ primary ingredients are meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, fruits, berries, and nuts. All of which is natural and healthy food that our bodies are designed to eat. The book also contains the author’s best tips for physical training, a section explaining why this form of diet is so healthy, and the possibility to try it out and experience for yourself the brilliant difference it makes for you and your body.
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THE HOT FLASH DIET
- 96 RECIPES THAT CAN FREE YOU FROM THE NUISANCES OF MENOPAUSE
ABOU T THE BOOK Menopause does not have to be spent in a raging sea of hormones, hot flashes, sudden onsets of profound sweating, mood swings, headaches, fatigue and weight gain. With the help of changes to our diet and lifestyle, we can do a lot ourselves to ease these symptoms and nuisances. The Hot Flash Diet is filled with delicious and tempting recipes containing ingredients that have a proven effect on the classic symptoms and nuisances associated with menopause. A short introduction describes the physical and mental changes that take place when we enter menopause and how we can influence our hormone balance ourselves through the food we eat. The recipes in the book cover all meals of the day, and besides breakfast, lunch and dinner there are also recipes for power tinctures and tonics as well as a 6 week symptom-relieving super diet. A symptom-scale is shown with each recipe, showing which symptoms the recipe is specifically designed to relieve. Likewise the key ingredients in the recipe are described; what they contain, and how they affect the body. The recipes have been developed by doctor and alternative practitioner Søs Wollesen, nutritionist and cookbook writer Louise Bruun and reflexologist and chef Birdie Bjerregaard.
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Specifications 176 pages November 2012
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FREE ME FROM THESE HOT FLASHES
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SØS WOLLESEN
ABOU T THE BOOK Help worth knowing to relieve symptoms during menopause. Do you know what the typical symptoms of menopause are? Do you know what treatments are available? Do you know what might trigger or aggravate many of the reactions in your body, and what you yourself can do to create a new harmonious hormone balance? If the answer is no, then you should read this book, which focuses on the physical and mental changes that take place in connection with the female menopause. And your husband’s menopause is also described.
THE AU THOR The author, Søs Wollesen, goes over the chief hormones, how they work and how it might feel when their balance is off in an easyto-understand manner. With her extensive knowledge of medical science and the alternative holistic approach, she discusses the pros and cons of both conventional and more unconventional treatments, just as she gives advice and suggestions for what you can do yourself to relieve the symptoms through your diet, supplements, exercise, and lifestyle changes. The book gives you all the knowledge you need to prepare yourself and get through menopause unscathed, so that you can welcome this vital stage of your life ± without the hot flashes.
Søs Wollesen is a doctor, reflexologist, acupuncturist, and psychotherapist. For more than ten years she has advised companies as well as individuals on the use of supplements and natural remedies. She is also a successful lecturer giving presentations on menopause and metabolism. She teaches, gives lectures and writes about supplements and health in the Danish magazine Psykologi.
Specifications 224 pages August 2012
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METTE BLOMSTERBERG
B
BLOMSTERBERG’S SWEET TREATS
ABOU T THE BOOK In this book, Mette Blomsterberg presents 90 cake and dessert recipes, covering everything from the classics to new variations, including some of her own creations published for the first time here. From lavish desserts for the special occasion to simple cakes for afternoon tea, Blomsterberg’s Sweet Treats gives readers a plethora of selections ± inc luding recipes that are particularly well-suited to make with children.
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T h e book
Specifications 192 pages April 2011
has sold
55,000 copie s
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COOKBOOK
METTE BLOMSTERBERG
Blomsterberg’s
BLOMSTERBERG’S SWEET AND SAVOURY CHRISTMAS
Christmas
e by Mett berg Blomster
ABOU T THE BOOK Blomsterberg’s Sweet and Savoury Christmas is homemade, and in this book the author has gathered all the recipes for the food, cakes and assorted sweet nibbles that makes up her own Christmas and which she loves to enjoy together with her family. When it comes to Christmas, there are just some things that you can not mess with ± like the recipe for the roast duck, the butter biscuits and the homemade paˆté. This book gives you delicious recipes from the author’s own family guaranteed to get you and your family into the Christmas spirit. As the recipes are collected through many years, there are also some newer and different takes on traditional staples; such as almond-cranberry nibbles and ginger-marzipan ring-cake. With this book the author shares her own personal view on how you enjoy your Christmas wholeheartedly. The 90 recipes include recipes for lunch and dinner and of course for all the sweet things to nibble on in between.
THE AU THOR Mette Blomsterberg is Denmark’s uncrowned queen of baking and enjoys enormous popularity in her home country. She is a trained confectioner, and for many years she ran the renowned Café Glyptoteket in Copenhagen. Today she has her own store in the city. She regularly appears in television programmes where she sweetens the life of the nation. And last but not least, she is the author of numerous books, amongst others the bestsellers ‘Blomsterberg’s Sweet Treats, ‘Blomsterberg’s Delectables’ and ‘Politiken’s Book on Desserts’. Specifications 224 pages October 2012
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TINA SCHEF TELOWITZ
SPECTACULAR SALADS ALL YEAR ROUND
r a l u c a t Spec d n u o R r a e Y Salads all ABOU T THE BOOK Tina Scheftelowitz invented the concept of Spectacular Salads 15 years ago, together with Sonja Bock. Together they made Danes eat more vegetables years before it became hip to do so. Their popular Spectacular Salad books have sold hundreds of thousands copies, and along with their other cookbooks have been such an inspiration that their fantastic recipes have become classics in many Danish homes. Just as new exciting products keep on being introduced, a steadily increasing awareness of the benefits of eating in accordance with the seasons and eating more vegetables is growing. With her 90 new spectacular and easy recipes Tina puts Scandinavian vegetables and fruits to the forefront Âą without excluding all the goodness that comes from abroad, such as aubergine or mango. She emphasizes which vegetables are at their ripest and most flavourful for each season, and makes it easy for you to remember.
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The recipes include all kinds of salads; crunchy salads, creamy salads, green salads, baked salads, snack salads, filling salads, cold salads and warm salads, salads with and without meat and fish, as well as other ideas for healthy side dishes from the oven or the stove. The book ensures a continuous influx of inspiration and healthy solutions for regular meals, party dinners and celebrations all year round. Spectacular Salads all Year Round is a joy and a relief to have in your kitchen.
TINA SCHEF TELOWITZ
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BACKLIST
IN TOTAL THE BOOKS HAVE SOLD CLOSE TO
1,000,000
THE AU THOR Tina Scheftelowitz originally trained to become a kitchen manager and was the woman behind and partner of Floras Kaffebar as well as the Amokka coffee company and café. Today she regularly features as food columnist in the newspaper Politiken. Since ‘Spectacular Salads and Brilliant Buffets’ was published in 1997, Tina Scheftelowitz has, together with Sonja Bock and on her own, written several cookbooks, many of them in the Spectacular-series. In total the books have sold close to one million copies.
COPIES
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THE GREEN KITCHEN BASICS
NIKOLAJ KIRK & MIKKEL MAARBJERG
SERIOUS VEGETABLE cookbook ♥♥♥♥♥♥
“Green basic kitchen“ has all the qualities to become a standard work.“ Politiken
ABOU T THE BOOK This book will provide you with more than 400 pages of inspiration with 230 recipes. The main chapters cover: Salads; Soups; Drinks and Wild Herbs; Starters; Pies, Pate and Flan; Pasta and Noodles; Eggs and Cheese; Main Courses; Rustic Cooking; Side Dishes; Sauces, Dips and Purées, Snacks and Baking, and each individual chapter includes a wide variety of dishes: casseroles, salads, pies, pasta and noodle dishes, risottos, omelettes, falafel, spring rolls, pizzas and more. There are dishes with tofu, beans, and lentils, as can be found in traditional vegetarian cookbooks, but these are not the key ingredients here. Instead Kirk and Maarbjerg focus on cabbage and different types of Nordic root vegetables. They have also ensured that the collection of recipes is equal parts Danish food and recipes from all over the world, as there are countries - like India - where vegetables play a predominant role in the kitchen. Last but not least, The Green Kitchen Basics has a large encyclopaedic section, where the reader can learn more about individual vegetables, including different types of lettuce, and how to clean, cut and prepare them. The book is beautifully illustrated by photographer Christian Kjær.
Specifications 432 pages June 2012
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THE AU THORS Mikkel Maarbjerg, celebrated chef, gastronomic advisor, course manager and lecturer. Nikolaj Kirk, cook, gastronomic adventurer and advisor. Together they run the company Kirk + Maarbjerg, which specialises in food and gastronomy consultancy, teambuilding, catering, cooking courses etc. In 2010 they wrote the book Kitchen Basics (Politiken Publishers).
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
COOKBOOK
A Masterful Achievement
“…over 230 stimulating recipes using all the green goodness of vegetables presented in the book. For once, the recipes are not repeats of already rehashed dishes or slightly tweaked copies of previous recipes. I for one am very much looking forward to trying the beet ravioli with horseradish-milk and dill. …The 400 pages are bursting with a combination of generous amounts of knowledge and gastronomic imagination. We get the history behind and gastronomic insight into each vegetable and fruit category, and the book is also f illed with easy-to-use practical advice … ‘The Green Kitchen Basics’ has everything to make it a kitchen standard …”
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KATRINE KLINKEN
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
NON-FICTION
I ♥ VEGETARIAN
THE RECIPES ARE DESIGNED FOR TWO PEOPLE
Specifications 192 pages August 2012
ABOU T THE BOOK When you eat a vegetarian diet, it’s not enough to just eat a lot of veggies and forsake all meat and fish. The food has to be more substantial and it’s very important to make sure that your diet is varied, so your body gets the nutrients and protein it needs. Besides vegetables, it is good to eat pulses, different kinds of grains and a wide variety of nuts. Despite the many options and possibilities it is easy to get stuck in a rut making the same dishes over and over again. The number of people who choose to become vegetarian due to animal ethics is steadily increasing, along with the number of families who decide to have one or more meat-free days a week. I Love Vegetarian is full of inspiration for delicious dishes and tips and tricks on shortcuts to simple and good food for everyday life. As over 1/3 of the Danish population live as singles, the healthy everyday recipes are for 2 persons. This makes it easy to use the book for those who have just moved away from home or 38
who is the only vegetarian in the family. The book contains 80 recipes divided into Real Fast Food, Solid Salads, Soups, Killer Casseroles, Not So Fast Food, and Warm Bread. The focus in all recipes is on making tasty food with few ingredients. Some examples of recipes are: Asparagus with poached egg, orange-butter and rye bread croutons; Curried lentils with cabbage, onions, carrots, and peas; Fresh green and dried beans marinated with garlic, shallot and marjoram; Potato salad with peas, sweetheart cabbage, cucumber, seaweed and pesto; Pumpkin soup with brown lentils, tomato and roasted pumpkin seeds; Crunchy potato-celery pancakes with sesame seeds and cheese; Moroccan aubergine salad
with bread; and Burger with mushrooms, tomato and cheese. THE AU THOR Katrine Klinken is a trained chef and domestic science advisor. She is the regular contributor to newspaper Information’s food column and to magazine Hjemmet. She is also chairman of the board at Oprør for Maven as well as for the København-Nordsjælland division of The Slow Food-Movement. Katrine Klinken has written and sold more than 75,000 cook books for children and adults, among them Nem mad/Easy Food, Lutter lagkage/Nothing but Cakes, Sovs/It takes a good Sauce, Børnenes køkken/The Children’s Kitchen, Børnenes verdenskøkken/The Children’s World Kitchen, Skaldyr/Shellfish. And most recently Meals Meals Meals.
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
NON-FICTION
KNIT – PONCHOS, CAPES, SCARVES & SHAWLS ABOU T THE BOOKS Ponchos are back in fashion, and KNIT ± Ponchos, Capes, Scarves & Shawls gives you a variety of patterns so that you can knit different pretty ponchos ready for use all year round; for example a soft, chunky poncho knitted in thick wool, a striped poncho knitted in the softest Alpacawool and a light knitted and crocheted poncho that can be used with a summer dress. The book also features pretty small capes, fantastic shawls with lace knitting, cowls, neck warmers, cosy scarves and much more. The book contains 33 patterns including easy ones for the beginner and more complicated ones for the experienced knitter. In KNIT ± hats, mittens, socks & ear-warmers you get more lovely patterns for warm ear-warmers ± some of them so easy that you can knit an ear-warmer in just one evening. It also has patterns for smart hats, among them a hat with ear flaps and decorated with stars, oversized hats, and a hat with a fur pompom; as well as patterns for luxurious socks, leg warmers, mittens and gloves. All in all, 35 patterns of varying degrees of difficulty.
Specifications 128 pages September 2012
Both books also have a number of crocheted items, among them a crocheted neck warmer in a muslin pattern, a scarf made of big soft crocheted squares, and mittens. Finally, both books have a chapter explaining techniques and giving tips and tricks. THE AU THORS The patterns are designed by designers from big yarn companies such as Garnstudio and Sandnes Garn along with some of Denmark’s best knitting designers such as: Rachel Søgaard, has previously written: Homemade, On Hooks & Needles ± More Favourites, Yarn Crazy. Louise Klindt, has previously written: Politiken’s Big Book on Knitting. Stine Hoelgaard Johansen, has previously written: 40 Super Scarves, 27 Fun Socks, Hip Hats, Hats and Caps for Him (and Her), On Hooks & Needles, On Hooks & Needles ± More Favourites, Wild about yarn, Homemade.
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PETER FRÖDIN & LINE KNUTZON
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
LITTLE ALLAN – THE HUMAN ANTENNA
ABOU T THE BOOK Little Allan ± The Human Antenna is a poetic, melancholic and lifeaffirming story about a boy trying to find his way in life. Allan lives with his father in a dreary apartment block inhabited by an assortment of odd people. Then out of the blue, the alien Majken with her close-set eyes and a robotic sounding voice shows up in her UFO. Majken has lost her monkey wrench and cannot get home without it, and what started out as a boring summer holiday suddenly becomes something much more dramatic and dangerous. Because it is almost certain that the wrench has been stolen by the mysterious janitor, and that he is now hiding it in the dark basement. But Majken has to get home and Little Allan decides to help. THE AU THORS Peter Frödin (1964) is a well-known Danish comedian and actor and has appeared in a number of films and TV-series aimed at children. Line Knutzon (1965) is a successful award-winning playwright. Little Allan ± The Human Antenna is their first book. Illustrated by John Kenn. Specifications 144 pages November 2012
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CH I LDREN’S BOOKS
Little Allan
The Human Antenna
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LARS DANESKOV
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
CH I LDREN’S BOOKS
MUMMY HAS A BABY IN HER TUMMY
ABOU T THE BOOK Mummy Has a Baby in Her Tummy is a book for the child that is soon to become a big brother or sister. Through factual information and imaginative descriptions, the book describes all the incomprehensible, completely crazy, and utterly amazing things that happen week by week, when a little brother or sister is on the way. Is it really true that the baby pees in the same water as it swims around in in there? Is it true that the baby’s body is covered with hair? And why is mummy all of a sudden so tired all the time and eats weird things? All aspects of pregnancy are explained, so the child can understand what is happening and make sense of its own role in the big change that is taking place in the family. The book has delightfully humorous illustrations in bright colours drawn by Claus Bigum, cartoonist at the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende.
Pregnancy in children’s height!
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THE AU THOR Lars Daneskov (Born 1963) is a Danish journalist and writer. He has also previously written a book on becoming a father and a collection of read-aloud stories for children. He has four children himself. Mummy Has a Baby in Her Tummy is his tenth book. Rights sold to: Klett Kinderbuch / Germany
Specifications 48 pages March 2012
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
CH I LDREN’S BOOKS
GITTE LØKKEGAARD THE HUG CLUB 1-4
4TH BOOK IN THE SERIES
ABOU T THE BOOK The Hug Club is a realistic and moving series for girls about friendships, falling in love, little white lies, and big secrets. The books are written almost as a TV-series in paper format; with fast paced plots and quick changes of scene ± and not least filled with characters that quickly become like good friends to the reader. The four friends Mille, Ursula, Kamilah and Selma have no secrets from each other. Or, that is to say, almost no secrets. But the others do not know that Ursula’s mother stays at home every day, hiding under the duvet with a depression. They also do not know that the gifts Ursula always have for them, are things that she steals in H&M. Selma does not know that Kamilah is in love with the same boy as her, and nobody knows that Mille’s parents are on the brink of divorce… THE AU THOR Gitte Løkkegaard (1963) is a journalist and for many years worked for Danish State Radio (DR), where she, amongst other things, made youth radio programmes. She has written several books for children and youngsters through the years.
Specifications 112 pages October 2012
”Great series for cool girls“ NORDJYSKE STIFTSTIDENDE
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WULFFMORGENTHALER
ABOU T
Wulffmorgenthaler cover everything that the two human beings Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler do together. They’ve created the comic strip “Wulffmorgenthaler”, which runs in national newspapers in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany. Wulffmorgenthaler have also developed a highly successful sketch show for Denmark’s national TV which ran for three seasons from 2005 to 2008, and was awarded twice as “Best Comedy Show of the Year”!
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JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
HUMOUR
Wulffmorgenthaler have published tons of immensely popular books with their magnificent strips ± and on top of that, every year they send out a calendar with 365 strips. Besides doing Wulffmorgenthaler, both Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler are active on their own. Wulff as a stand-up comedian and Morgenthaler as a director of feature films.
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
NON-FICTION
VIDENSKAB.DK
WHY ARE MEN SMARTER THAN WOMEN?
What hurts the most? – Giving birth, or a kick in the groin?
Why are Men Smarter than Women? Life is full of small and big questions. It is rare to be able to get a scientific answer, but Why are Men Smarter than Women? from Videnskab.dk offers just that. The questions here are real questions sent to the popular correspondence column Ask Science (Spørg Videnskaben). The questions have been submitted by readers, who ask just about snything. Are the white trails in the sky made by airplanes dangerous to humans? Where does dust come from? Can men breastfeed? And how come you never see white dog pooh anymore? Last year, the book ‘Why do my own farts smell better?’ collecting all the best answers from scientists on the funniest and most pressing questions about everyday phenomena ended up on Politiken’s bestseller list. The questions keep coming in, and so Videnskab.dk has chosen to pick out another 77 questions and answers and collect them in a book that will make a perfect gift for curious souls of all ages. Do you want to become smarter, win in quiz games, or excel at parties with your extensive knowledge? Then there is lots of knowledge to be found in this new book, where science gives the answers. For instance, do you know why the stars shine? Why mosquitoes go straight for some people and ignore others? Or why all windmill wings rotate in the same direction? The answer is not blowing in the wind, it is to be found in the new book from Videnskab.dk
last year’s
bestseller!
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MORTEN INGEMANN
STRIBER
MORE THAN
1,000,000 BOOKS SOLD!
THE AU THOR Morten Ingemann’s big breakthrough came in 2004 when he won Ekstra Bladet’s comic contest. Since then he has delivered a daily strip of Og det var Danmark on the paper’s last page. Morten Ingemann is also an excellent painter and satirist.
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JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
HUMOUR
BJARNE SCHILLING GORM VØLVER
JP/POLI T I KEN PUBLISH ERS 2012
HUMOUR
HANDBOOK FOR OLDISH MEN 1-2 ABOU T THE BOOKS Have you started calling your wife ‘mummy’? Do your speeches contain one or several Piet Hein-quotes? Have you started driving a motor cycle because you miss the feeling of having something between your legs? In that case, you have truly become an oldish man, and in this book you will be able to discover which type you belong to. An indispensable work of reference for all you men, who have passed forty years of age. Test your mental condition and get good advice on how you can share your incredibly large knowledge about almost everything in a considerate manner. The books also contain a catalogue of inspiration on several subjects about which you can complain. Ranging from public opinion poll firms that call you in the middle of your favourite TV-show to ask you about
your attitude towards liquid margarine, to the wellness-hysteria, where even the smallest sink on a roadside inn is appointed “luxury spa”. In other words, enough material for several weeks of grumbling. THE AU THORS Bjarne Schilling, born 1959, is a journalist at the Danish paper Politiken. With executive analyst Harriet Goktoft, he wrote Denmark’s only book about the employment of poultry in leading posts in trade and industry, ‘Sole hen in the basket’. Gorm Vølver, born 1954, is a journalist at the Danish paper Politiken. He has published the books ‘Elvira’ (with Ole Rasmussen) and ‘Car Crazies’ (with Søren Østergaard). He owns two different types of hammer drills and an ice-cream machine. Rights sold: Heyne / Germany
the sequel to
‘handbook for oldish men’
Specifications 144 pages May 2012
Specifications 160 pages June 2010
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KAZINSKI again does it
Niels Bentzon, the astrophysicist Hannah Lund and other characters from The Last Good Man return!
The Sleep and the Death is the explosive follow-up to the award-winning bestseller The Last Good Man written by the Danish A.J. Kazinski and published in more than 18 countries.
★★★★★★
”…a really breathtaking crime novel. Besides a superior composition technique, relevant character sketches, a high speed narrating, and a plot in which the reader gets helplessly caught, it furthermore provides intellectual vitamins.” Flensborg Avis
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