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Cappelen Damm Agency

FICTION

Representing some of Norway’s leading contemporary authors.

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CAPPELEN DAMM AGENCY

Cappelen Damm Agency is the in-house agency of Norway's largest publishing house. Cappelen Damm publishes approximately 1000 titles a year within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, educational books and children's books. Cappelen Damm is owned by Egmont.

Cappelen Damm Agency represents the rights of all of the authors in this catalogue, in addition to a rich backlist. This includes titles from Flamme forlag, an imprint of Cappelen Damm.

The agency is responsible for all foreign book rights, as well as rights for TV, film, radio, anthologies, electronic media, etc. We are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding our authors and the sales of foreign rights.

Kjøkken

130 x 205 mm / 480 pages

Ŭ New masterpiece by one of Norway's most prominent authors

Ŭ Chronicles the loneliness and longing in the small cracks of everyday life

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Lars Saabye Christensen KITCHEN

Kitchen is a warm, wistful and piercing novel about the Minde family in Vika in the 1970s – a district where Oslo's slums are still close to everyday life. When her son Kaj moves out, Gerd Minde is left in a home where silence reveals more than words ever did. Life goes on as before, but something has moved in between the walls: the question of who we are when the roles around us fall away. With precise humor, dark undertones and an eye for the small cracks in the ordinary, Saabye Christensen writes a story about loneliness, about who we are and everything that happens when the dice are rolled – and no one quite dares to see where it lands.

Praise for Saabye Christensen:

«One of Norway’s finest writers» THE GUARDIAN, UK

«On par with Stefan Zweig and Marcel Proust.» POLITIKEN, DENMARK

Lars Saabye Christensen is one of Norway’s most beloved and prolific authors. Despite being known for his long novels, his debut book was the poetry collection History of Gly (1976), for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas prize. His first novel, The Amateur, was published in 1977 and Saabye Christensen often says all his novels could’ve had this title. Humans who struggle with inner insecurities and lack of a directory of their own lives, who are not professionally well-prepared in all of life’s situations, but instead make wrong choices and appear clumsy – these are the people he has an ever-recurring love for in his books.

His big breakthrough novel was Beatles (1984), which is one of the bestselling literary titles in Norway ever and which new generations of youth keep falling in love with. In 2001 his epic major work The Half Brother was published, an extraordinarily generous and moving novel, which follows a family over a period of many years and through all stages of life. The Half Brother became an international success and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Between 2017 and 2021 the series Echoes of the City was published, which was met with exceptional criticism and reached a large readership. Saabye Christensen has written over 70 titles, won numerous prizes and awards, and has been translated into 36 languages.

130 x 205 mm / 544 pages

Ŭ Eggen has one of Norway's sharpest pens

Ŭ Based on true events from the author's own family history

Ŭ Explores the legacy of family and war through generations

Ŭ A story of moral gravity and unsettling parallels to our own time

Comparative titles:

Ŭ Keep Saying Their Names by Simon Stranger

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Torgrim Eggen BLOOD

What makes two teenage brothers from Ringebu, a small village in Norway, enlist in Waffen-SS?

Oddmund and Sigurd grow up in the small Norwegian village Ringebu in the 1930s, surrounded by competing ideologies and political tensions. Dark clouds loom over the valley. Europe is on the brink of war, and soon everyone must choose a side. The brothers align themselves with the Germans in the fateful struggle against Stalin.

At just seventeen years old, they both become soldiers in Waffen-SS. While Oddmund fights at Leningrad, Sigurd is sent to Finland. They survive the war, but when they return to a liberated Norway, they must face the consequences of their choices. How will their lives unfold? And what marks do they leave on their descendants and family?

In the novel’s final part, the author himself steps forward—as their nephew and descendant—in an attempt to understand the legacy of Sigurd and Oddmund. The result is a novel of moral gravity, linguistic precision, and emotional force.

Blood is a story about heroes and traitors, the dream of honour and the nightmares that follow, and it portrays a time that bears an unsettling resemblance to our own.

«Eggen’s most ambitious, most personal, and certainly his best novel. [...] Eggen’s prose is razorsharp, full of historical detail and fascinating observations.»

ADRESSEAVISEN,

«Well-written nightmare» AFTENPOSTEN

Torgrim Eggen (b. 1958) is a jouranlist, musician and author. His debut novel Debt was published in 1992. In 2019, he received the Brage Prize in non-fiction for Axel. He has since written trendsetting and critically acclaimed contemporary novels, and been awarded the prestigious Gullpennen award. Eggen also writes regularly for the major newspapers Klassekampen and Dagens Næringsliv.

Ŭ A tender, nostalgic comingof-age novel set in 1990s Northern Norway

Ŭ Captures the raw emotions of first love, friendship and loss

Ŭ A warm, beautifully written story for fans of literary upmarket fiction

Comparative titles:

Ŭ One Day by David Nicholls

Ŭ The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky

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Mari Andreassen

OH, WHAT A JOY!

Oh, what a joy! is a luminous novel about youth, friendship and first love set in a small coastal town near Tromsø in the 1990s.

Do you remember? The fumbling hands, the smell of cheap perfume and bad breath. Slow dances. Notes passed across the classroom. Vodka and orange juice. The first kiss, the first heartbreak. The friends who carried you through it and the ones who didn’t.

This is the story of a circle of friends growing up in the north: Ajjo with a scar from a fishing hook, Krissa with the gap-toothed grin, Ørjan in his army cap and June and Petter, whose love burns brightest of all.

Now, decades later, Petter is forty-five, divorced, and struggling to connect with his teenage son. When he attends the funeral of his old teacher, memories surge back with disarming force – of friendship, desire, shame and the moment everything changed.

Told with tenderness, warmth and piercing honesty, this is a radiant portrait of adolescence, that fleeting time when we feel everything for the first time, and think it will last forever.

Mari Andreassen (b. 1983) is from Tromsø. She works with drama and the performing arts, and has studied creative writing. Her author debut came in 2019 with the short story collection How Long Will We Last, which was nominated to the Brage Prize, the Youth Critics Prize and the Subjekt Prize.

Ida

Hegazi

Høyer THE NEW HEART

The New Heart is a warm and honest story about being someone's next of kin – about alienation and longing for freedom.

Ever since she was a child, she has been preparing for her father's weak heart to stop. She doesn't want to be there when it happens, but she's also afraid every time he leaves the house, or the country. Ever since she was a child, she has thought: don't go don't go don't go. Her Egyptian father almost dies, time and time again. And when she has become an adult, he needs her in new ways.

What responsibility do you have as a child, as offspring?

Ŭ Explores father-daughter bonds across cultures

Ŭ A warm, honest and intimate novel of kinship and freedom

Ŭ Critically acclaimed and original voice in contemporary Norwegian fiction

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Father and daughter travel between different countries, and swivel between closeness and distance. Does it have to do with their cultures, Egyptian and Norwegian, or is it who they are?

«Unlike many books based on the author's own life, The Second Heart actually has something important to say. The result is a reflective and moving story about a father-daughter relationship (...) Analytical and inquisitive, the author creates a nuanced portrait of a complicated man. (...) Precisely this dual movement – between closeness and distance, tenderness and resistance – elevates the book from an ordinary portrait to a work of insightful prose, drawing its threads together towards the end. With The Second Heart, Ida Hegazi Høyer has written a moving account of responsibility, belonging, and loving an imperfect human being. It's damn well done!» VG

Ida Hegazi Høyer (b. 1981) has written a number of critically acclaimed novels. She was named one of Norway's ten best young authors (Morgenbladet, 2015) and has received the Bjørnson Scholarship and the EU Prize for Literature.

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Vigdis

Hjorth REPETITION

Will and Testament meets Fifteen Years in this new novel by Vigdis Hjorth.

She is a grown woman going for a walk in the dark woods, with her dog. She’s also a sixteen-year-old. The view the grown woman offers her younger self, is tender and beautiful. It’s about being kissed for the first time, the incredibly clumsy, funny, and painful act of doing it for the first time, it’s about feeling the intoxication spread throughout your body at a party with some boys in a terraced house, about running through the woods to prepare for a marathon, about feeling a huge hunger and thirst in your young life.

All while her mother watches over the young girl like a hawk, her father keeps away and holds a low profile. The father’s distance is notable, the mother’s close watch involves control that is normally unheard of. Aabig and dangerous secret resides in their house.

Vigdis Hjorth

FIFTEEN YEARS

There is a rhythm in Paula’s life – the meals at the table at home, the summers at the cabin in Østfold, the visits to grandma on the West Coast – a rhythm which offers her safety and clarity throughout her childhood. Mother, father, sister, and brother in their little house are the most important people in her life. And then there is Karen, her best friend. The calm is shattered the summer that Paula discovers the pile of letters her mother has written to grandma. The life her mother describes in the letters is unrecognisable, they are full of lies. Her mother’s pretense is a shock to Paula. How can she bear knowing what she knows? Paula is on the edge of becoming a teenager, and the world is opening up before her as both a terrible and wonderful place. She doesn’t want to start lying about her life.

NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE 2022

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Vigdis Hjorth (b. 1959) is one of Norway's most outstanding, contemporary writers. She has won a number of Norwegian and international prizes and awards, including multiple Critics Award, The Honorary Brage Award (2014), and the Dobloug Prize (2018). She was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023 for Is mother dead, and shortlisted for the National Book Award for Will and Testament in 2019. Her work is published in over 30 countries.

Vigdis Hjorth

IS MOTHER DEAD

The protagonist of Is Mother Dead is an acclaimed artist, Johanna, who has spent three decades in the US with her husband and child. When her husband dies, she returns to Norway, where she is invited to put on a major retrospective.

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023

What remains of the life she left behind in Norway several decades ago? What does she expect to find when she returns? How will she manage to build a bridge between past and present? We follow Johanna’s self-examination as well as her attempts to understand and come closer to her mother.

In this novel, Vigdis Hjorth digs deeper into the mother-daughter issue, once again writing compellingly and profoundly about a timeless theme.

Er mor død

130 x 205 mm / 368 pages

Ŭ Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

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Vigdis Hjorth

WILL AND TESTAMENT

A classic story of inheritance, centred on two summer cabins on Hvaler.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019

Two children have been looking after the place and their parents for many years. They are due to inherit the cabins. But there are two other children, who have partly broken away from the family. How do they fit into the inheritance dispute?

During the inheritance discussions another story emerges which brings violent forces into play. It's all about family history.

Arv og miljø

130 x 205 mm / 352 pages

Rights sold to: Azerbaijan (Qanun Publishing House), Bulgaria (Aviana), Croatia (Ljevak), Denmark (Turbine), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), Faroe Islands (Sprotin Forlag), Finland (Schildts & Söderströms), France (Actes Sud), Hungary (Polar Egyesület), Italy (Fazi Editore), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Netherlands (Ambo Anthos), Norway (Den Nationale Scene), Poland (Glowbook), Russia (EKSMO), Spain (Nórdica Libros), Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Turkey (Siren Yayinlari), United Kingdom (Verso Books), United States (Verso Books), Brazil (Harper Collins), Egypt (Al-Karma), Greece (Habibbutz Publishers), Portugal (Porto Editora), Romania (Grupul Editorial Art), Serbia (STRIK Publishing House), South Korea (GU-FIC), Germany (S. Fischer Verlag), Greece (Potamos Publishers), Sweden (Yellowbird Entertainment), Iceland (Forlagi∂), Georgia (Sulakauri Publishing), Czech Republic (Argo), Albania (Muza Botime), Latvia (Satori)

Kniven i ilden – Sanger fra Ishavet 130 x 205 mm / 448 pages

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Rights sold to: Denmark (Gutkind), Sweden (Albert Bonnier), Germany (btb Luchterhand), Romania (Editura Univers), The Netherlands (Bezige Bij), The Faroe Islands (Sprotin), France (Paulsen), Finland (Gummerus), Egypt (Al Arabi Publishing & Distribution), Croatia (Naklada Iris Illyrica), Estonia (Eesti Raamat)

Vestersand 130 x 205 mm / 528 pages

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Ingeborg Arvola THE KNIFE IN THE FIRE

The Knife in the Fire is a riveting historical novel about work and love, strong communities, carefree erotica, the individual and the community.

The year is 1859. Brita Caisa Seipajærvi straps on her skis and takes the long road from Finland to Norway with her two children. Brita Caisa has been disciplined by the church for having an affair with a married man. She can heal animals and humans. The destination for their journey is Bugøynes, where the sea is said to be brimming with cod.

NOMINATED TO THE BOOKSELLERS AWARD 2022 NOMINATED TO THE CRITIC’S AWARD 2022 WINNER OF THE BRAGE PRIZE 2022 NOMINATED TO THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE AWARD 2023

42.200 IN PRINT

«Oh my, The Knife in the Fire is a good book ... All in all, Arvola writes really, really well. Insanely well, in fact. Like a dream you didn't know you were walking around with.»

BERLINGSKE (DENMARK)

Ingeborg Arvola

VESTERSAND

What use is shame when he’s in it with me?

The year is 1862. Brita Caisa is released from prison in Pykeijä. Heavily pregnant, she trudges through the driving snow, unsure of where to go. Mikko is still serving time for their scandalous cohabitation. He still doesn’t know that Brita Caisa is carrying their child. She dreams of a tømmerpirtti, a log cabin, where they can live as a family, but there will be many obstacles on the road to making this home a reality.

Vestersand takes us to Neiden and Pykeijä, to whaling and log-cabin building, to snow and saunas, to fatal jealousy and deep love. It is an epic and dramatic tale from a unique environment that is rarely described in other literature – the surprisingly diverse Northern Norway of the nineteenth century, where Sámi, Kvens and Norwegians lived side by side with their languages and customs.

Ingeborg Arvola WOLF TRACKS

Is it better to be free and starving or fed but restrained?

In the 1860s, famine ravages Finland. Brita Caisa Seipajærvi and Mikkel Aska have fled across the border and settled in a turf hut by Lake Iijærvi with their daughters Marja and Annie. Mikko is skilled in many things, but surviving in the wilderness is not one of them. He fails to set the snares properly. Brita Caisa has to reset them. She cuts bark and bakes bread. The family has barely enough to eat. Hunger does something to the heart, head and body. Mikko wants to return to the coast, where he knows how to fish. But Brita Caisa wants to stay in the forest, where they are free to be a family.

Wolf Tracks is a raw and tender story about facing hardship, hunger and predators. It is the riveting end to Ingeborg Arvola’s epic historical series Ruijan rannalla / Songs from the Arctic Ocean.

Ulvespor

130 x 205 mm / 336 pages

Ŭ Final instalment of the awardwinning and internationally bestselling Songs from the Arctic Ocean trilogy

Ŭ A raw and tender portrait of love, hunger and survival

Ŭ Blends historical realism with timeless, descriptive storytelling

Comparative titles:

Ŭ Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

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Ŭ Denmark (Gutkind)

Ŭ Germany (btb Luchterhand)

Ŭ The Netherlands (Bezige Bij)

Ŭ France (Paulsen)

Ŭ Finland (Gummerus)

Ŭ Estonia (Eesti Raamat)

Ingeborg Arvola (b. 1974) grew up in Pasvikdalen and Tromsø in the far north of Norway. She made her debut with the novel The Korell House, published in 1999. She has since written a number of novels for children and adults. She has received the Cappelen Prize in 2004 and Havmannprisen in 2008. In 2019 she was awarded The Ministry of Culture Prize for Children´s Books for her novel Buffy By is Talented, a book she was also nominated to the Brage Prize for.

After being a critic's favourite for decades, Arvola's big breakthrough came in 2022 with The Knife in the Fire, the first book in her trilogy Songs from the Arctic Ocean. The novel was published to great acclaim and it reigned on the bestseller list for months. It won Best Fiction Novel at the Brage Prize, and was nominated for several more prizes: The Critic's Award, The Youth Critic's Award, The Booksellers Award and the Nordic Council Literature Award 2023. Language rights have sold to eleven countries.

I Pantalones Hus

130 x 205 mm / 288 pages

Ŭ A powerful story of female friendship amidst loss and loneliness in Oslo

Ŭ Blends satire and existential depth in a story of vulnerability, liberation, and breaking free from the chains of the past

Ŭ A feelgood story with literary elements

Comparative titles:

Ŭ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

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Ŭ Denmark (Gutkind)

Ŭ Poland (Czarna Owca)

Hilde Rød-Larsen

IN THE HOUSE OF PANTALOON

In The House of Pantaloon is a novel about the destructive power of shame and how the silence that follows in its wake can ripple through generations.

The novel is set in Oslo, over the course of a few months. We follow Eva and Cornelia in alternate chapters, as Eva is dealing with widowhood, and Cornelia with a broken relationship and single parenthood. Through chance, Eva and Cornelia’s paths keep crossing. A tender and unexpected affinity develops between the two women, who at first seem to have little in common, and who find themselves in vastly different circumstances.

The story has a plot-driven narrative, with an existential nerve, slight satirical elements, and much warmth. By the end, the reader will realize how these two women‘s lives are intertwined through secrets of the past and “the sins of the fathers”, with Henrik Ibsen‘s Ghosts as a hinted-at backdrop.

«The community, the warmth and the compassion make Hilde Rød-Larsen’s novel a terrific example of a feminine shift in a traditionally male-dominated world.»

KLASSEKAMPEN

«A character-driven drama which engages and entertains. […] Rød-Larsen has a good grip on the text with dialogue that flows well.»

ADRESSEAVISA 

Hilde Rød-Larsen (b. 1974) made her literary debut in 2019 with the novel Summer Time, and in 2022 Diamond Nights came out to critical acclaim in Norway, Denmark and Germany. In 2023 she was awarded the Bookseller's Author Stipend for her authorship. Hilde Rød-Larsen is also known as the Norwegian translator of authors such as Thomas Korsgaard, Elizabeth Strout and Sally Rooney. In the House of Pantaloon, the first book in a planned trilogy, came out in 2024. She has a Bachelor and a Master's Degree from The London School of Economics and lives in Oslo.

Hilde Rød-Larsen

IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE

Summer 2025. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is still ongoing. Donald Trump's trade war is shaking global markets. In Gaza, children are being starved to death. In Europe, forests are burning. In Norway, autumn's parliamentary elections are approaching.

In the blank white spaces at the edges of print, Norwegians live their lives.

In mid-July, newly divorced Jonas Sverdrup travels from Bergen to his hometown of Oslo, after his ex-wife has gone on holiday with their son. For three weeks, Jonas is borrowing a friend's flat, and he wants to spend the time following the impulse method. But the impulses fail to materialise, in a city abandoned by family and friends.

Maud Elvebakken has no need to travel from her hometown of Oslo. She likes change of atmosphere that July offers, the opportunities it provides. She wants to gather friends and acquaintances who are left in the city around a long table in her backyard, and see what happens. Also Jonas, whom she hasn't seen since they were children in the teeming garden of her father.

These summer weeks will open up to new human connections, but also to a past that Jonas and Maud in their adult lives have tried to shield against.

In the Belly of the Whale is a standalone sequel to In the House of Pantaloon.

«Like the previous novel pointed to the meaning of solidarity between individuals, the message from Rød-Larsen seems to be that it’s only when we, with our small lives, join forces, that the larger history can be challenged. The new generation represented by the passive Jonas and the obstinate Maud, has a golden opportunity to cry out on behalf of the victims of their forefathers’ cruelty.»

VÅRT LAND

I Hvalens Buk

130 x 205 mm / 272 pages

Ŭ A story where a personal, problematic past is contrasted with the current turmoil of wars, politics and climate change

Ŭ A feelgood story with literary elements

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Ŭ Denmark (Gutkind)

Ŭ Original suspense novel that examines the toxic profiles in the cultural sphere

Ŭ Touches on the struggle of being an involuntarily single and childless woman in her forties

Ŭ Debut by a journalist and literary critic

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Ŭ Denmark (Turbine)

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen

MEN FALLING

Men Falling is a suspenseful novel about power, truth and the fine line between justice and revenge, which blends psychological intrigue, MeToo revelations, and crime elements.

Journalist Selna Bru wakes up on her fortieth birthday to surprising news: the renowned author RT Remi is dead. He collapsed on the street and died instantly. To Selna, this is an unexpected –and satisfying – birthday present.

It is because of Remi that Selna hasn’t left her shitty flat in months, after having been accused of plagiarism in an article that was supposed to be her big break. She’s at rock bottom, without a job, without a boyfriend, without a future. All she has is her cat, Boris.

For many years, RT Remi ran an exclusive literary club in Oslo known as The Cave. There, in a back room, he allegedly drugged and raped five women. Despite protesting his innocence, Remi was convicted of the crimes and sentenced to prison – before he appealed and was acquitted of all charges.And now, he’s dead.

Selna is contacted by the legendary editor Beatrice James with an offer: to write a true crime about Remi’s life and death, and about the side of the culture industry that Remi belonged to – that allowed these crimes to happen, and which we, according to Beatrice, are still living in post-MeToo. But there is a tight deadline: according to Beatrice, Remi’s unfinished memoir about the accusations, Victim, will be published posthumously by a competing publisher.

This is Selna’s second chance, and her opportunity to have her revenge on Remi. But she will soon discover that RT Remi wasn’t who he purported to be. And perhaps Selna herself isn’t so innocent, either.

«The novel is an entertaining depiction of a dusty, romanticised environment and an industry who in the end answers to the bottom line, and where everyone are ruled by approval, love and money.»

KLASSEKAMPEN

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen (b. 1985) is a journalist and a literary critic, and has also worked in the publishing industry. She has written a non-fiction book and a children’s book, and made her fiction debut in 2025 with Men Falling.

Kukene/kukane

120 x 180 mm / 256 pages

Ŭ Investigation into modern masculinity

Ŭ One of Norway's funniest writers

Ŭ Cheeky and absurd, with undertones of extensialism and warmth

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Ŭ Denmark (Gyldendal)

Ŭ Sweden (Piratförlaget)

Erlend Loe COCKS

A short novel about losing your manhood by Norway's funniest writer

NOMINATED TO THE BOOKSELLERS AWARD 2025

One morning, while taking a shower, Tander's penis simply falls off. It’s awkward. It’s inconvenient. It’s quite a problem, to say the least.

He places it carefully in a box marked "Raspberries" and stores it in the freezer before cycling to the emergency room. Surely, someone must be able to reattach it? The doctors are fascinated, but uneable to help. One even offers to buy it. Tander declines. He returns home without answers — and with some difficult questions. Should he tell his wife? Can he keep his job at the motor magazine? Has this happened to other men?

Cocks is a sharply funny story about loss, identity, and modern masculinity. With Erlend Loe’s signature absurdism and satire, it explores what it really means to be a man — and to be whole.

«When did a novel last make me laugh out loud? I mean, outright hooting with laughter? […] it's the outrageously original connections Erlend Loe makes between the important and the unimportant that make the laughter burst forth.»

NRK, FIVE/SIX STARS

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Erlend Loe (b. 1969) is one of Norway's bestselling authors. His work has been published in 41 territories so far. He made his literary debut with Frankly my dear in 1993. His breakthrough both in Norway and internationally came with the publication of his second novel Naiv. Super. in 1996. His 2004 novel Doppler was critically acclaimed for its depiction of the modern man and has become an international success. Erlend Loe also writes books for children and has had great success with the Kurt series.

De uverdige

130 x 205 mm / 288 pages

Ŭ A raw yet tender portrayal of survival and morality amongst teenagers during the WW2 occupation

Ŭ Another masterwork by one of Norway’s foremost authors

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Rights sold:

Ŭ UK (MacLehose Press - World English)

Ŭ Mexico (Tusquets EditoresWorld Spanish)

Ŭ Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof)

Ŭ Sweden (Norstedts)

Ŭ Czech Republich (Pistorius & Olšanská)

Ŭ Germany (C. H. Beck)

Ŭ Estonia (Eesti Raamat)

Ŭ Polen (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie sp. z o.o)

Ŭ The Netherlands (De Bezige Bij)

Ŭ France (Gallimard)

Roy Jacobsen THE UNWORTHY

In Roy Jacobsen’s latest novel, The Unworthy, we follow a gang of boys and girls from an apartment building on the east side of Oslo during the WWII German occupation. They live in poverty, but they manage by creatively swindling, stealing like magpies, falsifying documents and committing extensive burglaries. They don’t shy away from exploiting the Enemy, either.

NOMINATED TO THE BOOKSELLERS AWARD 2022

With this pack of children, a lauded writer has rendered a brutally frank and warm portrait of a time, a place and an everyday life that thus far have been absent from the stories told of WWII.

The Unworthy is wise, raw and entertaining.

This is a Roy Jacobsen novel of the best mark.

«Dramatic, interesting and exciting ... a fantastic picture of an environment and a time that not everyone knows today.»

NETTAVISEN, '

«The Unworthy has to be one of Roy Jacobsen's best novels.»

KLASSEKAMPEN

«Roy Jacobsen impresses again, both as a storyteller and a portrayer of people … an organic and unpredictable literary universe, as asymmetric and restless as life itself.»

DN

«... the narrative offers surprising, humerous and cheeky touches that show Roy Jacobsen at his best.»

DAGSAVISEN

Roy Jacobsen (1954–2025) is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary authors in Norway, and has since his sensational debut in 1982, with the short story collection Prison Life, which won him the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas’ Debutant Prize, developed into an original and daring author with a special interest in the underlying psychological interplay in human relationships. He was nominated three times for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2017 he was shortlisted for both the Man Booker International Prize, as the first Norwegian author ever, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, for The Unseen

In 2013 Jacobsen’s authorship reached a new milestone with the publication of The Unseen, book one in his now completed Barrøy trilogy. It is set in the first half of the 20th century on an island on the North-Western coast of Norway, and is a monument over human courage and life-saving practical and social knowledge. White Shadow followed in 2015, The Eyes of Rigel in 2017 and Just a Mother in 2020. The Barrøy quartet became an immediate critically acclaimed sales success, it has been translated into 28 languages, and has sold nearly 500.000 copies in Norway alone. In total, Jacobsen has been translated into 36 languages.

Linn Strømsborg NEVER, EVER, EVER

«I am 35 years old. I do not want children.

It’s not something I talk to other people about. It is something that I am ashamed of, a topic I avoid; take long verbal detours around. When my friends talk about having kids, I change the topic. I do not want to be too certain or unbending, because I might suddenly wake up one day and find that I have become one of them, an ordinary woman in her thirthies wanting to get pregnant, wanting a family, wanting to expand my life, my body and my heart to make room for more than myself. You are allowed to change your mind.»

Ŭ Explores the challenges of not wanting children as an adult woman

Ŭ Arthur Schopenhauer meets Sheila Heti

Ŭ A strong young female voice breaking taboos about women's problems

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The main character in Linn Strømsborg´s novel Never, ever, ever has never wanted children. She has been living with Philip for eight years, and they have agreed to not have children – up until now. Because maybe Philip might want to become a dad after all? And while her two best friends are expecting their first child, and her mother is constantly nagging about grandchildren, and her everyday life is full of parents with toddlers and births and the struggle of others to have enough time for it all, she is firm in her life and her choice about not having children.

Never, ever, ever is a novel about why we have children, and why we do not have children. It is the story about choosing something other than what is expected of you, but at the same time wanting a normal life.

«The story is elegantly composed, at times cinematic. Strømsborg has written rare and energized prose about a timely and somewhat taboo topic.»

«Luckily the novel does not end up being an apology for the voluntarily childless. It is rather existential. And it is good literature.»

FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

Linn Strømsborg (b. 1986) made her debut 2009 with the novel Roskilde, the story of a group of young people at a music festival, and followed up with the chap book The Øya Festival in the same year. She has since written two novels about the main character Eva; Furuset in 2012 and You're not gonna die in 2016. She is one of the most interesting young voices in contemporary Norwegian fiction today.

Linn Strømsborg

DAMN, DAMN, DAMN

Britt is forty-three years old, married, and mother to a young daughter. All her life, Britt has done the right things. She has followed the rules, made everyone else happy. She been responsible, cleaned up after herself and others. But on this one day, on holiday in a summer house in Norway, she loses her temper and tells off her whole family and friends. And the only thing she regrets, is that she didn't do it a long, long time ago.

Together with Niko, the gorgeous free-spirited woman in her husband's group of friends, Britt sets off. Just to get away, spend a night on the beach, to feel the freedom she never allowed herself. But at some point, the night is over, and Britt has to ask herself who she wants to be. As a woman, as a partner, as a mother. Damn, damn, damn is a novel about anger and defiance, about desiring a different life - and a different world. But it is also a novel about surprising yourself, about falling apart and picking yourself up again, and about everything that can happen when you dare to listen to yourself.

Damn good

«Great content. Well-written. Funny. Relatable. Spot on about contemporary issues. Oh yes, Linn Strømsborg delivers.»

ADRESSEAVISEN 

«When there's a new book out by Linn Strømsborg, I have to have it right away. I don't care how empty my wallet is, I have to have it. And Damn, damn, damn did not disappoint.»

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Faen, Faen, Faen

130 x 205 mm / 208 pages

Flamme forlag

Ŭ Explores female rage in modern society

Ŭ A strong young female voice breaking taboos about women's problems

Ŭ A novel about having had enough, as a modern mother

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Jeg lengter etter skipskatastrofer og plutselig død

130 x 205 mm / 186 pages

Ŭ Raw and unflinching memoir

Ŭ Unique Historical Lens

Ŭ Complex Mother-Daughter Dynamic

Comparative titles:

Ŭ I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy

Ŭ Educated by Tara Westover

Ŭ Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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Hilde Charlotte Blomberg I LONG FOR SHIPWRECKS AND SUDDEN DEATH

The journalist, film critic, author, researcher, and left-wing radical activist Wenche Blomberg left many imprints on Norwegian society. She also left her mark on her only child, her daughter Hilde Charlotte. This is a novel about what it was like to grow up as a so-called "ml-kid" (child of Maoist-Leninist activists) in the 70s. The author tells, both poetically and realistically, about a dominant mother and an unusual and difficult childhood and youth.

After her mother's death, Hilde Charlotte seeks out Wenche's private archive at the National Library. There she finds, among other things, her mother's diaries dating back to 1963. The weeks she spends going through the archival material give Hilde Charlotte new insight. Her mother emerges with her whole self and her entire background.

I long for shipwrecks and sudden death is a shocking, yet also a reconciling novel about a different kind of mother/daughter relationship.

«A crass and poetic piece of luterature concerning a mother-daughter relationship. ... The biggest strenght of the book is its language.»

DAGBLADET

Hilde Charlotte Blomberg (b. 1970 in Oslo, lives in Ørje) is a cand. mag. and social worker – and has studied writing in Tromsø. Blomberg also works as a photographer. My Dotted Sister (2023) was her literary debut.

Marte Qvenild

WE GLOW UNTIL WE DIE

This powerful story follows Liv, a woman shattered both physically and psychologically after a climbing accident. As she desperately seeks healing, she finds an unexpected solace in artificial intelligence. But is this modern-day salvation truly helping her recover?

Exploring themes of relationships, consequences, and the challenging path to redemption, Qvenild delivers a deeply moving and thought-provoking tale about finding footholds in life's most challenging moments.

Vi gløder til vi dør

130 x 205 mm / xx pages

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Vi gløder til vi dør

130 x 205 mm

Flamme forlag

Ŭ A unique AI premise

Ŭ Philosophical Depth & Emotional Resonance

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Marte Qvenild (b. 1977) made her debut in 2021 with the novel The Summer Party, a novel that has received great reviews and was awarded «Summer Book of the Year» by the paper Dagens Nærlingsliv.

Magnus Aasdalen WILD THING

or how Sirius still lights up space

There is something distinctly unreal about Magnus Aasdalen's upcoming novel. If you find the title dizzying, it is merely a foretaste of the story it contains.

Ŭ Surreal and Original Narrative Voice

Ŭ Hailed for writing a «prose like nothing else»

A first-person narrator lives alone on a farm. He is eight years old, on sick leave, an alcoholic, and newly divorced. From this premise, we follow a couple of days in his life, which can be summarized as a dark odyssey by bicycle. Childhood fantasy and pitch-black reality coalesce into a higher unity in this novel. Here you will find trees that become dragons, parents whose whereabouts are unknown, carousels at the local pub Bull-in, high school flirtations, and bike rides under a dark, starry sky. Not least, and perhaps most importantly, there is a "you". Wild Thing is also a love story, of the impossible kind, from which the narrator cannot escape. The past seeps into the present. And thus, there is evoked a vulnerability and longing.

Magnus Aasdalen (b. 1986) grew up in Gvarv in Telemark. He made his debut with Approaching Something Real

Ellen Mortensen SJURA

Amanda, or Sjura (magpie) as her mother calls her, grows up in a small town in Northern Norway in the 1960s. She discovers early on that she is queer, and "intuitively understands that this is something she must not reveal to others". In the autumn of 1973, she moves to the city of Bergen to study. She feels awkward and insecure; she is the only one who comes from the North. The novel follows Amanda through her education, which culminates in a facutly position in literary studies in Bergen. This path is not unlike the author's own life; Ellen Mortensen has been a dr.philos. and professor of general literary studies at the University of Bergen since 1999.

The novel aims to fill a void in Norwegian literature, by giving voice to queer characters from the period 1958-1998, stories the author herself missed during her upbringing. Through complex and nuanced portrayals of distilled, fictional characters, including the main character Amanda, who is related to the author's own experiences, the book seeks to correct previous absences and stereotypical representations of queer lives.

Vi gløder til vi dør

130 x 205 mm / xx pages

Flamme forlag

Sjura

130 x 205 mm

Flamme forlag

Ŭ Offers a unique look at Norwegian society and queer experiences during a pivotal, underrepresented era.

Comparative titles:

Ŭ The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

Ŭ Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Ŭ The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk

Ellen Mortensen (b. 1953) is a professor of Literature at the University of Bergen. She is a strong voice in the field of feminist research in Norway.

God natt, Nosferatu 130 x 205 mm / 270 pages

Ŭ A sophisticated and unique novel that fuses classic "Dracula" mythology with compelling sci-fi elements and profound literary depth

Ŭ Protagonist is a modern Clark Kent with the timeless mystery of Nosferatu

Ŭ A mirror of women’s changing roles in society

Comparative titles:

Ŭ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Ŭ How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

Lina-Marie Ulvestad Halås GOOD NIGHT, NOSFERATU

A superhero universe meets 1930s horror meets kitchen-sink realism.

Karl Eliassen is immortal, but he keeps it hidden from the world. Instead, he moves and changes jobs after a while so that no one he works with will discover that he doesn't age.

At the same time, he starts appearing in several videos and pictures, reviewed by a certain police investigator Hejer, in connection with a mysterious incident outside the Parliament building. Soon enough, the question arises: how can the same man be in recordings from such different time periods?

Lina-Marie Ulvestad Halås (b. 1991) is born and raised in Eide, but lives in Oslo. She has a Bachelor in Nordic languages and literature from the University of Oslo, and has studied writing. Her debut Randhav was published in 2019.

Rune F. Hjemås

UNATTENDED LUGGAGE

Unattended Luggage is a novel about three grown men: Henrik, Jonathan and Andreas. Who played in a band together at upper secondary school. Who were supposed to hit it big. Supposed to make it. And who didn’t make it. And who are now meeting up again. Because they’re all turning forty. Andreas’ idea.

The band was called, or is called, Unattended Luggage. And in this lies a lot of the novel’s nerve and food for thought. Everything we set aside, of ourselves, in every imaginable and unimaginable place. All our components, strewn around, abandoned, unattended. What will it be like to reunite when half a lifetime has passed for all three of them? When they have become what they are all by themselves, become something other than what they perhaps should have.

Ŭ A story of male friendship, lost ambition and midlife reckoning

Ŭ Subtle humour and emotional depth in the spirit of Scandinavian realism

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Klara has become pregnant and travels north to her childhood cabin. There, she finds a father who sets nets and curses the poor catch, but otherwise says little. And a mother who has developed a heart condition. An old family sorrow surfaces during the week Klara is home, forcing its way through the silence. The North Norwegian nature and its people are seen through Klara's eyes. Behind the camera, she pauses, sees everything more clearly, with calm and openness. Can she let go of the past, open herself up, and accept love and intimacy?

Ŭ A profound and insightful exploration of family grief, unspoken secrets, and the enduring power of the past, as a daughter confronts her history.

Ŭ Utilizes photography as a unique and powerful motif, allowing the protagonist to process trauma and gain clarity through the lens

Ŭ Delves into the complex and challenging mother-daughter relationship

Line Merethe Nyborg (b. 1969) was born in Narvik. She is trained at the Westerdals School of Communication and has studied Nordic Languages at the University of Oslo. Her day job is working with communication in Tønsberg. Bare mamma som er gud (2010) was her first book.

IF I WERE AGNES

Astrid is 12 years old when her mother walks out the door, never to return. Astrid lives with a father who can be violent. Some weekends she gets to stay with her grandmother and the dog Buster, other weekends she has to stay with her father's friend Frank, who doesn't treat her the way an adult man should treat a young girl. Astrid finds ways to survive; she studies nature and ants to see how they manage.

If I Were Agnes is at times a somber and bleak story, but also one of hope.

Hvis jeg var Agnes

130 x 205 mm

Ŭ A raw exploration of violence, abuse, and resilience

Ŭ A powerful, incisive debut

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Ŭ On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Nicoline Riis Lindahl (b. 1996) is journalist and writer. She has spoken openly about coercion and anorexia in the Norwegian public sphere, and is an ambassador for Mental Helse Ungdom (Mental Health for Youth). She holds talks across Norway on mental health, coercion and how to help youths in vulnerable situations. In 2025 she received the Prize for Promotion of Freedom of Expression. If I were Agnes (2026) is her fiction debut.

SMALL KEYS, BIG ROOMS

Elsi Lund is four years old when the war breaks out in Norway. She grows up in Oslo in a tenement building that is poor and overcrowded, yet rich in stories. With an unparalleled ability to capture scents, moods and small moments, Bjørg Vik portrays an environment and an era unlike any other writer. Here there is both toil and struggle, but also dreams, secrets and longings that shape people's lives.

Small Keys, Big Rooms is the first volume in the critically acclaimed Elsi Lund trilogy, which together offers a uniquely powerful portrait of post-war Oslo as seen through the eyes of a young girl.

Ŭ A Norwegian classic from a pioneering feminist voice

Ŭ Unpretentious, accessible prose with enduring relevance

Ŭ A mirror of women’s changing roles in society

Ŭ Vik writes in a feminist tradition that includes authors like Cora Sandel, Nini Roll Anker and Torborg Nedreaas, and more recently Vigdis Hjorth and Hanne Ørstavik

Comparative titles:

Ŭ Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

Ŭ Lillelord trilogy by Johan Borgen

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«Bjørg Vik was a pioneering woman; it is impossible to imagine Norwegian literature today without her crucial role in breaking boundaries. And because she writes so accessibly, so unpretentiously, she has not only influenced Norwegian literature, but the entire Norwegian people when it comes to openness about gender roles, love and sexuality in all their nuances, about longing and hope in the face of a harsh reality.»

VIGDIS HJORTH

Bjørg Vik (1935–2018) made her mark on Norwegian literature over a period of more than 30 years. She published 25 books, including novels, short stories, plays, and radio-plays. Her work has been translated into a number of languages. During the 60’s and 70’s, Bjørg Vik’s writings presented an unusual and provocative image of the erotically active woman, including Tales of Freedom (1975), and Two Acts for Five Women (1974). At the end of the 80s she published the Elsi Lund trilogy, which made her work popular among readers of a new generation. In many ways, Bjørg Vik’s literary career is a mirror-image of the developing debate on women’s issues in Norwegian society. The work of Bjørg Vik is a true record of love and its various conditions.

Bjørg Vik

THE POPLARS ON ST. HANSHAUGEN

In the years after the war, Elsi Lund is a young girl facing confirmation, friendships, infatuations, and the first tentative steps toward adulthood. She moves between new environments and crossroads — from the cramped tenement building on St. Hanshaugen to secondary school and gymnasium and experiences both the freedom and the limitations that come with them. Through Elsi, post-war Oslo is reflected: a city in transition, marked by class divisions, dreams, and the emergence of a new era.

With her distinctive eye for detail, and with warmth, humour, and precision, Bjørg Vik portrays how small events can have big ripple effects in a young person’s life. The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen is both a historical portrait and a gripping coming-of-age novel — a story about longings, coincidences, and the struggle to find one’s own way.

The Poplars on St. Hanshaugen is the standalone continuation of Small Keys, Big Rooms, and the second volume in Bjørg Vik’s unforgettable trilogy about Elsi Lund.

Bjørg Vik

ELSI LUND

In the third book in the series about Elsi Lund, she has reached womanhood. We follow Elsi through the mid1950s: from graduation and domestic science college to engagement, break-up, and mental collapse, before she finds the key to her own life and her own voice at the Journalism Academy.

With warmth, precision, and sensuality, Vik portrays the transition from youth to adulthood in a time marked by conventions and narrow frameworks for how women were expected to live their lives. The Elsi Lund trilogy today stands as a major work of Norwegian post-war literature and demonstrates why Bjørg Vik is considered one of our most central authors.

Datingdagboken

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Ŭ A witty and relatable rom-com about modern love and selfdiscovery

Ŭ A Bridget Jones for the next generation

Ŭ Perfect for fans of romantic comedies and feelgood fiction

Comparative titles:

Ŭ Happy Ending by Anne Louise Morseth

Ŭ How to lose a guy in 10 days

Ŭ First Time Caller by B. K. Borison

Ŭ Modern Love Series by Alisha Rai

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THE DATING DIARY

After yet another bad Tinder date, Ingrid deletes the app and decides it's time to try something new…

Ingrid is single, obsessed with romantic comedies and works with digital marketing for a lifestyle magazine in Oslo. She dreams of finding love like in the movies, to meet the Tom Hanks to her Meg Ryan. But after numerous disastrous dates, she decides such a man is not to be found on the apps. Why can't it work like in the films, being swept off her feet with the perfect meet cute? With her colleague and best friend Solveig, they come up with the idea to create a dating diary on social media for the magazine. A Bridget Jones’s Diary for the digital generation – with Ingrid in the lead role.

The concept is simple: To put herself in situations with meet cute potential, where she can meet men out in the wild. This means Ingrid's calendar is suddenly filled up with speed dates, running club, and Pitch a friend events. The implemation, however, is not as simple. Is Ingrid ready to be the main character of her own life? Will all the awkward conversations, confused feelings, unwanted dickpics and absolute misunderstandings lead to Ingrid finally meeting her Hugh Grant?

The Dating Diary is a witty, relatable modern rom-com about love, friendships and the search for something real.

Victoria Larsen Stø (b. 1994) is has studied literature, creative writing and publishing in the UK. She worked for several years in the publishing industry before starting freelance translating and subtitling series and films. The Dating Diary (2026) is her first book.

[...] the elevator doors open, and inside stands a man with his eyes closed, singing enthusiastically and swaying from side to side. Insanely loud music is pouring out of his AirPods, and for a moment I consider, for both of our sakes, just letting the doors close and waiting for the next elevator. As he hasn’t noticed me yet.

Instead, I stand frozen, observing him, looking at the dark, curly hair, the closed eyes behind thick glasses, the light blue shirt with dress pants, the sleeves rolled up and the top buttons undone, a wool coat thrown over his arm.

The doors begin to close, and in a Sliding Doors moment I have to make a decision. On instinct, I reach a hand forward to stop the doors. The movement makes him jump, open his eyes – dark blue, sparkling – and stare at me in shock and embarrassment. I smile kindly.

«Shit,» he mutters and pulls out one of his AirPods, fumbling with it.

«Sorry,» I say and step into the elevator, «I didn’t mean to startle you.»

«No, no,» he says, “it’s just that there’s usually no one else here this late, you just…»

«Scared you?» I’m about to press the button for the first floor but see that he’s going there too. Of course.

«Surprised me,» he says and smiles. “Sorry you had to see… and hear that…» He gestures at himself as he says it, a hint of blush in his cheeks.

«What? I neither saw nor heard anything,» I say, glancing sideways at him with a conspiratorial smile.

He laughs, still clearly embarrassed. «Thanks.»

I shrug. «Good taste, though. Shania Twain, right? I also find it hard not to scream along to most of her songs, so I totally get it.»

He laughs again and runs a hand through his hair. “Yeah, she’s good. And definitely scream-worthy.»

I can’t help but notice that he’s quite attractive. Okay, that’s a lie, he’s insanely attractive. Does he really work here? Where has he been hiding for the last four years?

«Ingrid,» I say, extending my hand toward him. «I work in marketing.»

He smiles at me and takes my hand. «I know who you are, Ingrid,» he says, looking me straight in the eye before clearing his throat and looking away, «I mean, I’ve seen you around the office. Erm. Henrik. I officially work in IT, but I'm responsible for a little bit of everything, if I'm being honest. Started six months ago..»

I nod. «And you often listen to loud music in the elevator at night and give intimate concerts to other employees?»

He laughs again. «I have to admit that this is the first time anyone has caught me.»

We arrive on the first floor and he looks at me, smiles. «But I'd be happy to do it again.»

I feel a twinge in the pit of my stomach, like a butterfly fluttering its wings in preparation to start flying around in there. Is he flirting with me, or is he just really, really nice? I've unfortunately fallen for the former only to discover that the latter was the case a little too often for me to trust my own judgment now.

[...]

That’s when I see it.

The ring on his left hand.

It glints in gold, a thick ring, as he puts one of the AirPods back in his ear. Fuck.

Ŭ A thrilling, poignant, and darkly humorous debut

Ŭ Set in the high-octane world of the 80s rally racing in rural Norway

Ŭ Story blends a quirky comingof-age with a thrilling cold case

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Elisabeth Sørdal RALLY

Thirty years ago, Beth's father, legendary rally driver "Biggen," vanished to Argentina, leaving behind a ten-year-old and a mother reeling from a mysterious breakdown. Now, a death in the family forces Biggen's return, and Beth must confront the man who abandoned her to uncover the dark secrets buried in their past.

Flashback to 1985: Biggen is the king of the rally circuit, chasing a fortune for his dream farm, with his adoring "rally princess," young Beth, by his side. But the arrival of a charismatic new driver, Rafael, ignites a volatile mix of jealousy, desire, and suspicion that ensnares Biggen, his wife, and a captivated Beth. When tragedy strikes, a devastating question remains: was it fate, or did Biggen's ambition push him to an unforgivable act?

Unravel a poignant tale of family, abandonment, and the shocking consequences of desire that will keep you guessing until the very end!

Elisabeth Sørdal (b. 1967) is a marine engineer and has worked in risk analysis for 25 years before deciding to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. She lives in Oslo, and when she is not sitting in the gazebo in the garden writing, and riding through the forest. Rally is her debut novel.

The car accelerates. Her head is pressed against the back of the seat. Cars, trees and poles speed past at breakneck speed. Dad leans against the headrest, his long arms on the steering wheel, his gaze fixed on where the road disappears. Beth shouts loudly as they take the first bend. Her body is pushed sideways. This way and that. The road comes at them like a runaway conveyor belt. They fly over a bump in the road, and Beth squeals. Now they are approaching the most dangerous part. With a swish they pass the dark intersection that is simply called The Wall. She doesn't have time to blink. And it wasn't as scary as they say. They are at the finish line right away. No cars ahead of them. Bubbles of joy grow inside Beth. Are they leading?

Then they pass the finish line. Dad steers towards the service area and shouts so that she is pressed against the harness, before everything stops.

"Wait here, Beth."

He jumps out. Takes off his helmet. Beth stays seated. Sees how he checks the board. Then he turns with both thumbs up. Victory is theirs. Then Beth jumps out too. Runs around the car and throws herself into his arms.

Dad, the rally king, receives congratulations from all sides. Guys patting him on the shoulder. Impressed looks.

One of them says: “And with the rally princess as a co-driver, even.”

She stands next to him. Warm and happy.

A tall, thin guy asks: “Are you going to be a rally driver, little miss? When you’re big enough, I mean?”

Some of the guys laugh, because it’s a long time yet. She’s so small and thin, but Beth doesn’t take any notice of it, just answers yes.

Mord i bokhandelen

130 x 205 mm / 368 pages

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Mord på biblioteket

130 x 205 mm / 400 pages

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Ŭ Synopsis

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Gunn Helene Arsky MURDER IN THE BOOKSHOP

When Minna Gabler is found dead at the bottom of the stairs in her alternative bookshop, everyone assumes it was a tragic fall. For Angel it means suddenly inheriting the bookshop. But, was Minna's death really an accident?

Angel decides to move to the charming town of Halden to start over, with Luna, her Siamese cat. The bookshop needs more than just a little love and good marketing. Angel soon discovers that Minna has left behind an unsolved mystery that leads her into a world of secret documents, old love stories and the town’s eccentric personalities.

With help from bubbly cupcake maker Camilla, who is convinced that baking reveals the truth, and the irresistible Adam, who makes her heart pound, Angel embarks on a nerve-racking search for answers. Can she find out who killed Minna, and why? What is hiding between the pages in the old bookshop?

Gunn Helene Arsky MURDER AT THE LIBRARY

During Angel's six months in Halden, the library has become one of her favourite places. It proved invaluable when she was searching for clues in the murder that took place at her bookshop. The library also hosts a reading circle, which Angel joins in an effort to get to know more people in her new town.

At one of the reading circle meetings, the head librarian suddenly falls ill – and a few hours later, she is dead.

Several members of the reading circle know that Angel previously solved the mystery of her Aunt Milla's death, and they turn to her for help. Although Angel by no means considers herself a professional detective, she quickly decides to investigate the case. She is joined by her trusted new crew: Luna the cat, Camilla the confectioner, Adam the journalist, and her sister Isa-Linn.

This time, Angel not only wants to find the murderer –she also needs to clear her own name...

Gunn Helene Arsky MURDER AT WRITING CLASS

Book 3 in the Angel & Luna series!

In the deep January darkness, Engel is running a writing course in her offbeat bookshop in the small town of Halden. The local bestselling author, Fabian Svartskog, is leading the class. But on the second evening, the tutor fails to show up under mysterious circumstances – just as an icy winter settles over town.

What happened to Fabian? Has he had an accident? Fled his responsibilities? Or has someone brought his story to an end?

Before long, Engel realises she must solve the mystery and find Fabian – dead or alive. Drawn into a world of technology, literary ethics, love and betrayal, she sets out to uncover the truth. With help from her wise cat Luna, an overenthusiastic cupcake baker, her journalist boyfriend and a sister who hacks her way to answers, Engel follows the clues to the bitter end.

Murder at Writing Class is the perfect blend of feelgood and cosy crime. It is definetely for readers who’ve devoured mysteries set in English villages and on Scottish isles – and are now ready for a Norwegian small town where murder, and a charming cat, lurk behind the bookshelves.

Mord på skrivekurset

130 x 205 mm

Ŭ A cozy mystery with books, cats, and a dash of suspicion in smalltown Norway

Ŭ Engaging mystery, with all the ingredients of a feelgood mixed in

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Comparative titles:

Ŭ Death at the Second Hand Shop by Anna Grue

Ŭ The Coroner's Cats Series by Laurie Cass

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Ŭ Denmark (Lindhard & Ringhof)

Gunn Helene Arsky (b. 1968) is a qualified nutritional physiologist and has a Master of Science from the University of Oslo. She has published several books about health and nutrition and is the nutrition expert in Bedre Helse, a Norwegian health magazine. Her literary debut came in 2025 with Murder in the Bookshop, the first book in a series of feelgood crime set in idyllic Halden – where Arsky also lives.

Ensomme hjerters bar

130 x 205 mm / 416 pages

Ŭ A festive novel about abandoning the corporate ladder for new beginnings and a genuine community

Ŭ Can be read as a Christmas calendar

Ŭ Each day gives the recipe for a drink recipe, crafted by chef and drink expert Arnt Steffensen

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Kjersti Herland Johnsen & Arnt Steffensen THE LONELY HEARTS BAR

Welcome to The Lonely Hearts Bar – a place for old secrets, new beginnings, and the perfect drink for every occasion!

On the 1st of December, Lisa's boyfriend Martin gets down on one knee and proposes. He’s a baron and heir to a grand estate in England, and Lisa quickly realises that marrying into his family will come with strict rules and heavy expectations. Is that really what she wants? When she’s passed over for a long-anticipated promotion at work, she decides to take a break and travels to Oslo to deal with a surprising inheritance. There, she discovers she has inherited an old apartment building and with it, a charming cocktail bar with deep roots in the bohemian heyday of 19th-century Kristiania.

At The Lonely Hearts Bar, Lisa meets a warm and eccentric community: the wise bartender Henri, the quirky lawyer Brenden, the fiery Astrid, and the passionate chef Trond. The bar is under threat of closure, but Lisa and the gang set out to save it – with PR stunts, cultural events, and Christmas festivities. At first, she keeps running into problems with Trond but is there more to him than she first realised? Lisa is also relentlessly approached by the gruff businessman Erik Rud, who wants to buy up the entire apartment building. But Lisa is discovering that her own history is more intertwined with Oslo and the bar than she realised.

In the midst of the pre-Christmas snow, gingerbread, concert plans and the threath of losing her job, Lisa finds something she didn't know she needed in the bar. It will be a December filled with old family secrets, risky decisions, warm drinks – and perhaps love.

Told as a Christmas calendar, the novel unfolds one chapter for each day of December, and every chapter includes a drink recipe from The Lonely Hearts Bar.

Kjersti Herland Johnsen has a degree in History from the University of Bergen and has worked in the Norwegian publishing industry since 1998. She lives in Oslo with her family.

Arnt Steffansen (b. 1968) is a chef and President of the Norwegian Diet and Nutrition Association in Delta, a trade union for chefs and kitchen staff working in the public sector. He is a former canteen manager and Norwegian master of the institutional culinary arts. Knowledge of drinks, wines and spirits is an important part of a chef’s training, and Steffansen has written several books about spirits and food culture.

Excerpt from 3rd of December:

«But I don't even know if I want to marry Martin,» Lisa shouts in frustration, taking a deep sip of the champagne glass Vanessa hands her. «And certainly not as a white bride in a blasted cathedral,» she snorts. She puts the glass down on the table and puts her face in her hands. «I don't know what to do!» she sighs desperately.

«Take a few more days off work, then,» Vanessa suggests, pouring champagne into her own glass. «Didn't you say you have several weeks of holiday left? Treat yourself to a couple of days in Paris, or a week in Tenerife. A little sun and warmth can't possibly hurt in December. Or... go to Oslo and find out what this lawyer really wants!»

Lisa realises that Vanessa is right. She is stressed, desperate, furious and exhausted, and needs to get away from everything. She simply can't bear the thought of meeting Martin in the office now, and certainly not of going to Bretley. Oslo? Why not?

A decision takes shape.

Jul på Himmelfjell hotell

130 x 205 mm / 336 pages

Ŭ Recommended by Oprah Daily

Ŭ Classic feelgood set against a traditional Scandinavian Christmas

Ŭ Can be read as a Christmas calendar

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Ŭ Full English translation available

Ŭ Synopsis

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Ŭ United States (HarperVia)

Ŭ Denmark (Turbine)

Ŭ Germany (Hoffmann und Campe)

Kjersti Herland Johnsen

CHRISTMAS AT GLITTER PEAK LODGE

An old mystery. A tragic accident. Secrets. Confessions. A new beginning.

After a traumatic climbing accident, well-known Alpinist Ingrid Berg has returned to the small Norwegian village that her family has called home for generations to take over the management of the Glitter Peak Lodge from her aging grandmother, who's no longer up to the task. With Christmas rapidly approaching, the Glitter Peak Lodge staff are busy baking kransekakeand saffron buns, decorating an enormous tree with tinsel, and enlisting guests to participate in their Santa Lucia celebration.

But within short order of Ingrid’s return, complications arise that seem out of the ordinary. Unexpected cancellations. An outspoken American guest who seems to unsettle Ingrid’s beloved grandmother. Leaking pipes that may imply sabotage. And then one day, Ingrid discovers a yellowed, decades-old newspaper clipping about an unsolved local mystery…

Will Ingrid be able to figure out what’s going on in time to save the inn—and her family’s legacy—from ruin?

«A breath of lovely mountain air of a book: so delightful and charming!»

JENNY COLGAN, AUTHOR OF MEET ME AT THE CUPCAKE CAFÉ AND LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY

«Johnsen’s novel provides plenty of character development along with details of fresh spruce branches, fireplaces filled with birch logs, and hearty meals featuring local sausage and saffron buns.»

OPRAH DAILY

«This gentle romantic mystery, set amid the incomparable beauty of Norway, makes for a delightful literary vacation.»

SHELF AWARENESS

Kjersti Herland Johnsen

SUMMER AT GLITTER PEAK LODGE

In Summer at Glitter Peak Lodge we are reunited with Ingrid, a mountain climber who has taken over management of the family-run hotel. She has got together with her boyfriend Tor, a handsome sheep farmer, and finally rediscovered her passion for mountain climbing. Now she plans to run climbing courses at the hotel.

This summer also brings a special wedding celebration, as Vegard, her best friend, is marrying his beloved David. The Oslo couple, both friends of Ingrid, have decided on Glitter Peak Lodge as the setting for their grand wedding festivities. No wedding is without complications, however, and some uninvited guests will make an appearance…

Sommer på Himmelfjell Hotell 130 x 205 mm / 336 pages

Ŭ An entertaining uplifting read perfect for summer vacation reading

Ŭ Classic feelgood set against a stunning Norwegian mountain wedding

Ŭ Breathtaking scenery meets heartwarming relationships and unexpected drama

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Ŭ Sample translation

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Ŭ Germany (Hoffmann und Campe)

Kjersti Herland Johnsen has a degree in History from the University of Bergen and has worked in the Norwegian publishing industry since 1998. She lives in Oslo with her family.

Adventskalenderen

130 x 205 mm / 352 pages

Ŭ Charming Christmas story from Norway's Queen of feelgood

Ŭ International bestseller

Ŭ Written with wit and humour about getting back on your feet after hitting rock bottom

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Ŭ Germany (Bastei Lübbe)

Ŭ Italy (Garzanti, Srl.)

Ŭ Denmark (Turbine)

Ŭ Spain (Duomo)

Ŭ Finland (Bazar)

Siri Østli

THE CHRISTMAS CALENDAR

During breakfast on a totally ordinary Tuesday, Fie's husband abruptly tells her that he wants a divorce and asks her to move out. He is a dentist, and for years Fie has, as well as being his wife, been his faithful assistant - without pay. Now she is banished to an impractical and uncharming attic apartment on the other side of the city. Dazed and in despair that her life has been turned up-side down, Fie tries to soften the blow with sedatives. Her grown-up son is embarrassed about his mother break's down and does not answer his phone.

Fie's sister Sara is the one who takes charge in the situation and demand that Fie get a grip. To speed things up, she gives Fie a challenging Christmas Calendar with new tasks every day leading up to Christmas. And with this, despair turns into an adventurous, at times overwhelming, but in the end pretty nice advent after all!

The Christmas Calendar is a charming and touching Christmas book from the Norwegian queen of feelgood!

Siri Østli is married with five daughters and a university degree in French, Russian and Psychology. She debuted with Across Grønland in High Heels in 2009, and has since then received excellent reviews on a number of feelgood novels. She has been translated into five languages.

LAST CHRISTMAS

A Christmas full of secret, surprises and – hopefully – a miracle

Christmas is drawing near, but the idyll and calm Kirsti longs for during the holiday season seems completely out of reach this year. This autumn the complications in Kirsti’s life is piling higher than gifts under the tree. Her teenage daughter Iben is having mood swings, Kirsti's mother and sister has decided to spend Christmas on the Canary Islands without them, and her new boyfriend Tobias is spending all his time as a climate activist.

Then, Kirsti gets a phone from her doctor. Breast cancer. Suddenly, she must face the possibility of Iben having to grow up without her. Which means she also has to face the fact that Iben has a father, who doesn't know about his daughter. As Kirsti grapples with everything, her neighbourhood rallies around her while Tobias practically evaporates from her life, blaming his absence on a phobia of diseases.

Is this Kirsti’s last Christmas? Or can a Christmas miracle happen?

Et lys i desember

130 x 205 mm / 320 pages

Ŭ Can a Christmas miracle heal a fractured life?

Ŭ Explores disease and single parenthood during a holiday where everything should be idyllic

Ŭ Classic Scandinavian Christmas feelgood from Norway's feelgood expert

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Ŭ Finland (Bazar)

Ŭ Italy (Garzanti)

Pulekalender

130 x 205 mm / 352 pages

Ŭ Erotic Christmas comedy in 24 calendar slots

Ŭ Can sex every day save a faltering marriage?

Ŭ A warm, relatable and humorus look at the time crunch of modern family life

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Ŭ Sample translation

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Jack

Hardnes & Lea Sommero

THE XXX-MAS CALENDAR

Erotic Christmas comedy in 24 calendar slots

Christmas is approaching: gifts must be bought, cookies baked, parties attended, ribs prepared. Everything must be perfect. But things are far from perfect at home for editor Tor and teacher June. A classic couple in their forties, they barely have time for anything beyond work and their children. Sex? Forget it. Since the summer’s renovation, they haven’t even managed to hang the bedroom door back in place.

Then comes a shift: Tor’s newly divorced colleague turns into a living warning sign about single life, and June ends up at a sauna party with graduating students, where not only stiff bulges brush against her, but also the thought of exploring fantasies she’s never dared to share. The couple realise something has to change, the spark must be reignited. A typo on the to-do list becomes a XXXmas calendar. Sex every day leading up to Christmas. Maybe it’s a disaster. Maybe it’s their last hope.

With a colourful cast of characters and poking fun aimed at everything from the publishing industry to parenthood, lakeside cruising, and the grass that may— or may not—be greener on the other side, one question towers above all: Will Tor and June still be together when the church bells ring on Christmas Eve?

JUNE 17:43:

A's going to a birthday party on Sat, sorted the gift. Plus something small for the XXX-mas calendar Sorry!!! X-mas calendar

TOR 17:44: XXX-mas calendar! Incredible typo! We could need that. There hasn't been much XXX for us lately.

JUNE 17:44: YOU are the one who's never here!

TOR 17:45:

XXX-mas calendar sounds perfect. Something to look forward to every day!

JUNE 17:47:

Seriously??? I can't cope with sex every day. Don't I do enough?

JUNE 17:50: answer me!!!

TOR 17:53:

Sorry, at the till at the grocery store. The kids are getting small gifts in December. Why not some fun for the adults too?

Der hvite liljer vokser

130 x 205 mm / 288 pages

Ŭ Inspired by the Blood Road in Northern Norway from WW2

Ŭ Classic feelgood with strong female characters, intertwining destinies and multiple timelines

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Ŭ Germany (Insel verlag)

Ŭ Denmark (Alpha forlag)

Ŭ The Netherlands (De Fortein)

Jorid Mathiassen

WHERE WHITE LILIES GROW

After a devastating break-up, Linnea is aching to get out of Oslo and start over someplace else. When Linnea’s best friend offers to let her stay in an old house in Northern Norway, set on a small island, Linnea finds herself packing her bags. The big house with a beautiful garden belonged to her friend’s great-aunt Marie, who lived there in solitude until her recent death.

Linnea has no idea what awaits her when she arrives on the windy little island in the pitch-black of a stormy winter evening. But one day, she stumbles upon a small clock that leads her to discover a dramatic story. It has to do with Marie’s past, and why she lived all by herself for so many years.

The storyline plays out across two periods of time, but as Linnea discovers more about Marie's dramatic past, her own life will also take a new turn.

Where White Lilies Grow is a beautiful, breathtaking story about the brutality of war and the power of lifelong love.

Jorid Mathiassen (b. 1965) grew up on the coast in Northern Norway, and now lives in Oslo. She has a major in Nordic language and literature from the University of Oslo, and is a senior acquiring editor at Bonnier Norsk Forlag. She made her author debut in 2022 with Where White Lilies Grow.

Jorid Mathiassen

ANEMONE BLUE

Three women, two countries, one hidden past – a novel about love, legacy, and resistance.

What happens when the past surfaces and casts new light on everything you thought you knew?

On a warm day at the end of August, TV photographer Birthe Johannessen travels to Hjartøy, a weather-beaten island off the coast of Northern Norway. She’s there on assignment – but also in search of answers about her own origins. An old letter has revealed an unexpected family connection, and living on the island is a woman who has kept the truth buried for decades: Erle Christensen.

For Erle, Birthe’s arrival forces long-suppressed memories into the open. She came to Norway alone, a child refugee from Latvia after the Second World War, and has never dared to look back. Now she must face what she left behind. Could family still remain in Riga? Who was she before she arrived?

And what really happened in Latvia, spring 1939?

We meet young Agate, living a privileged life in Riga’s cultural bourgeoisie. She falls in love with the idealistic architecture student Andris, but as war approaches and the Soviet grip on the Baltics tightens, both love and liberty are under threat. The decisions she makes will reverberate across borders and generations.

Anemone Blue is a sweeping and emotionally charged drama of fate, silence, and rediscovery – a story of women’s lives, lost histories, and the long echoes of war and migration.

With scenes set on Norway’s wild and beautiful coastline, in a haunting rural community, and in the shadowed streets of an occupied Latvia, the novel spans decades –from the trauma of war to the present day.

Blå som anemonen

130 x 205 mm / 320 pages

Ŭ Classic feelgood with a story spanning across several generations

Ŭ Inspired by the true events of refugee children from Latvia coming to Norway

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Ŭ Sample translation

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Ŭ The Netherlands (De Fontein)

Ŭ Compelling, flawed protagonist

Ŭ Dual cold case myster

Ŭ Atmospheric and nostalgic setting

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Merete Lien

VILLA LUPIN

Childhood friends Johanna and Kristine once shared secrets in their playhouse, Villa Lupin, but drifted apart. Years later, Johanna returns home to care for her ailing sister, only to find Kristine brutally murdered, the case unsolved, and their playhouse demolished. Johanna possesses knowledge the police overlooked, yet she hides her suspicions, instead channeling her theories into a private novel that she knows can never be published. She also dedicates herself to documenting the destruction of old gardens and historic villas by developers, preserving memories and nature.

However, everything changes when Kristine's son, Lukas, is also found dead, an apparent accident at the family's country estate. Fearing for Lukas's sister, Elise, and feeling a deep sense of responsibility, Johanna realizes it's time to stop merely playing with a manuscript and actively unravel the past. Kristine's talent for making enemies provides many leads: the mysterious women at Lukas's funeral, the enigmatic Anna with her black dog, and the secrets hidden at the desolate country house.

Merete Lien (b. 1952) is from Bergen, and is a teacher with a Master in history. Her first novel came out in 1996, and has since then had a long and prolific writing career. She is most known for the popular series The Rose Garden, which has also been published in Poland.

Merete Lien

THE ORANGE TREES GARDEN

Spring 2015: Agnes travels to Rome to find her friend Alexandra, who has disappeared. She is soon entangled in a dangerous game of cat-andmouse where she is fed lies disguised as truths – and doesn’t know who is friend and who is foe…

Summer 1953: The young upper-class woman Francesca meets the American photographer Chris Henley. She falls head over heels in love – but her parents write him off as a simple fortune hunter…

Merete Lien

WISTERIA

Because of the deal with Alexandra, Agnes can stay in Alexandra's apartment by The Orange Trees Garden for free. Agnes gets to know Gabriele, a handsome and kind Roman. He is quick to offer his help and gives her lots of attention, but Agnes is hesitant to let him all the way into her heart. She hasn't forgotten Stefan, and she doesn't know Gabriele's motives.

But another man frequently seeks Agnes out, and his motives she both knows and fears ...

Merete Lien

ALEXANDRA

Rome, June 2014: During a fashion show where Alexandra is showing her own work, something happens that changes everything. An older man reaches out to her –and what he has to say shakes her to the core. If what he claims is true, Alexandra must see her entire life in a new light. And, if she chooses to trust him, he can offer her priceless help in the final settlement with her husband, Wilhelm.

Alexandra is the final book in Follow the Wind trilogy.

Rights sold to: Denmark (Fioranello Books), Sweden (Fioranello Books)

Ann-Christin Gjersøe THE GIRL IN THE SNOW

Sommersholm is a feel good series set to the Norwegian estates in the 1860s, perfect for fans of Bridgerton!

Sommersholm is a venerable manor that has belonged to the Adler family for generations. Two young women with very different lives live there: the landowner's daughter, Rose, and Alise, a maid. The family history also houses a dark secret. As the story begins, the heir to Sommersholm, Birkthorn, has returned home. Alise was young when he left, but she has not forgotten how he saved her life on a freezing cold winter night many years ago.

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Ann-Christin Gjersøe THE KAMELIA BOX

Rose causes a scandal and infuriates her father at the Christmas ball, after inviting the horse groom Torkel. Meanwhile, Alise despairs over the engagement between Birk and Miss Aurelia Collett – the beautiful but unscrupulous merchant's daughter. She also stumbles upon a hidden story, left by her grandmother in Alise's kamelia box. It holds a testimony of her grandmother's life as a chambermaid at Sommerholm, decades ago. And the secret she discovered.

Ann-Christin Gjersøe BEFORE THE MAGNOLIA BLOOMS

Rose's parents hope that an educational stay in Denmark will help her forget the enchanting groom Torkel. Miss Aurelia Collett comes to live at Sommersholm, and with her comes Margrete, her mute chamber maid. Working with Miss Aurelia is not easy, but then Margrete meets Axel Adler. For her it is love at first sight, but could he ever love her back? Alise and Birk's relationship is still meeting resistance from all sides. Alise's father sticks to the promise he gave his dying mother: That no one in his family would be romantically involved with an Adler.

Ann-Christin Gjersøe (b. 1975) runs a 350-year-old farm in with her husband. She has written books for decades, and Sommersholm is her latest series.

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

WHERE THE LARKS SING

Rose is leaving for Denmark, filled with joy now that she knows Torkel will follow her. Well hidden in her luggage is a fateful letter and a forgotten diary, holding a secret that could ruin the Adler family. Birk leaves for Germany. Will his and Alise's love be able to survive the distance? At the same time, the conflict between Alise's father, and the land agent Captain Crossby will have fatal consequences. Miss Aurelia's boundless cunning and web of lies become a trial for the chamber maid Margrete, as she discovers that Aurealia has stolen one of Alise's letters from Birk.

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

THE LILY IN THE FIELD

The maid’s room in the manor has suddenly become Alise's new home. She mourns her father, and longs for any sign of life from Birk. Why isn't he writing? On top of this heartbreak and her pregnancy, Aurelia seems determined to complicate Alise’s life even further. In Denmark, the upcoming costume ball is the talk of the town. Only Rose's thoughts are elsewhere. She fears that Hugo will discover and expose Torkel. Hugo has shown there is no limit to how far he will go. Can he be stopped? Axel attempts to kiss Margrete, but she believes he is enganged to someone else and accuses him of taking advantage. He leaves, promising to leave her alone.

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

THE TIME OF THE ROSES

Alise leaves Sommersholm in dishonour, after being accused of theft. But where can she go? Soon the pregnancy will begin to show, and she won't be able to hide it any longer. Margrete is finally with Axel, but she is still struggling to be accepted by the rest of his family. She stumbles upon a key, which unlocks an old mystery. But perhaps it's for the better that the mystery stays unsolved? Rose, still in Denmark, is trying to find a way for the charges against Torkel to be dropped. She fears that if he's convicted, he will be hanged.

Familiehemmeligheten

130 x 205 mm / 336 pages

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Elisabeth Hammer

THE FAMILY SECRET

A new series from Norway's answer to Tracy Rees!

The Family Secret is the first book in the gripping drama series Promises in Sand. The setting is the idyllic southern Norway in 1806, a historic turning point – with elegant dresses and romantic promises – where ships sailed the Seven Seas, and the consequences of the Napoleon wars were felt by rich and poor alike.

Amalie grows up poor, but she appreciates the little she has, and her heart beats for those with even less. In secret, she takes of her family’s limited stock of food to feed children who starve. She is living with her parents in a cosy, but draughty, shipper's room. Her father got badly injured as a seaman at a young age, and is struggling to get work that pays. Her mother grew up in a well-to-do family, and she wants better for Amalie. In secret, she tries to get Amalie into the upper-class circles, so her daughter can find a rich husband.

Blissfully unaware of her mother's scheming, Amalie keeps running into the town's finer gentlemen and ladies. As the clerk at a posh hat-maker’s shop, Amalie is all too familiar with how arrogant and superior they can be. When a beautiful comb disappears, Amalie gets the blame. Amalie is certain she knows who took it, but when she confronts the woman a Mr. Wickfall comes to the woman's defense. Amalie and Mr. Wickfall end up in a hefty fight. Although she cannot risk losing her small, but essential, income, he has nothing to lose. As their roads continue to cross, Amalie quickly understands that he has the power to ruin her future – and no scruples in doing just that.

All the while, dark secrets lay hidden in the past, and soon Amalie's life will take a drastic turn. What are her dear parents keeping from her? Who is she really?

Hammer (b. 1970) wrote her way into the hearts of many a reader with the series Maria av Svaneberg in 2011.

is an extremely prolific author, and has written multiple romance series and has sold hundreds of thousands of books.

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Gard Sveen

YOU'RE GOING TO DIE

Winter 2019: The first weekend of December, Camilla Lund goes on a girl’s trip to Sweden. At least, that’s what she tells her husband. She never comes back home to Setesdal. Her husband’s suspicion that his wife is a completely different person than he believed grows stronger. Camilla didn’t have any old friends, no living parents –seemingly, she had no past at all.

In Oslo the leader of Kripos (NCIS), Agnete Ness, is ordered by the Attorney General to start a secret investigation of Camilla Lund’s disappearance. The Attorney General wants Agnete’s best detective, Ulf Sommer, on the case. With strict orders to not reveal its contents to anyone except Ulf, Agnete is given a folder of secret documents. In the folder is a photograph of a young girl. Twenty years ago, everyone in Norway knew her face. Three neo-Nazis, including a fifteen-year-old girl, were sentenced for the murder of two immigrant boys in Oslo. It was the most shocking murder case the country had ever experienced. To Agnete Ness, it’s personal.

Gard Sveen MASS FOR A MURDERER

A hot morning in August, Tom Schrøder is granted his first leave from prison. He will be be back in the Kongsvinger prison by eleven o’clock. But Schrøder never comes back. He kills one of the prison officers and leaves town with the other. The most dangerous man in the country is on the lam.

Tom Schrøder was convicted of a brutal double homicide twelve years ago. In recent years, however, he has earned a transfer to a low-security prison. In two years, he could have been a free man. He is fifty-two years old. If he’s caught now, he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars. Why run now?

Denmark (Klim))

In Sandefjord, Schrøder’s lawyer is on his summer holidays when he receives news of his most infamous client’s escape. By then, several hours have passed since the incident – Tom Schrøder could be anywhere. The lawyer’s greatest fear is that someone in the prison may have told Tom his big secret.

Gard Sveen

THE SCALP HUNTER

October 2022. Ulf Sommer is contacted by the popular crime author Jan Inge Farstad. Farstad runs the podcast Unknown Murderer, which in recent weeks has focused on the unsolved 2013 murder of student Linda Tollefsrud. Ulf led the original investigation, and the case has haunted him ever since. Now, Farstad has received a message from an anonymous source claiming to possess a key piece of information about Linda’s murder: she was scalped.

Ulf knows that only the killer, and the police officers involved in the investigation, could know this. Has the murderer reached out to Farstad? Just days later, the inevitable happens: a Ukrainian refugee, Irina Melnik, and her daughter are found murdered. Both have been scalped.

The hunt for the Scalp Hunter pulls Ulf and Agnete into a labyrinth of lies, in a small town where secrets are guarded with eerie determination in a setting reminiscent of Twin Peaks.

Skalpjegeren

130 x 205 mm

Ŭ Atmospheric Nordic noir set in western Norway

Ŭ A thriller with envorinomental elements

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Ŭ Polar Circle series by Liza Marklund

Gard Sveen (b. 1969) made his debut in 2013 with the book The Last Pilgrim. For the debut he won the Riverton Prize, the Glass Key, The Maurits Hansen Best Crime Debut Prize, and the Danish Palle Rosenkranz Prize in 2015. Since then he has written several books. The Bear (2018), the fourth book in the series about police officer Tommy Bergmann, was also nominated for the Riverton Prize.

Ŭ New thriller by Norway's Queen of Crime

Ŭ Fifth book in the series about Eddie Feber

Ŭ An intense and atmospheric novel exploring the devastating consequences of a childhood trauma

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Ŭ Sweden (Saga Lindhardt & Ringhof)

Karin Fossum

COME HOME, AMADOU

In the fifth book about Chief Inspector Eddie Feber, Karin Fossum lets the past strike back.

At Store Gaupen farm, the late summer silence is broken by a violent roar from the sky. For farm owner Nancy Nesbit, the sound is an ominous echo of something far more threatening, of an event she experienced as a ten-year-old, when a white van stopped by the roadside and changed everything.

When she, in a magazine, reads about the unsolved disappearance of eight-year-old Sonia Sanningen in 1987, the memories come back in full force. The information she has may be what finally solves the case, or what tears up everything she has tried to bury.

Eddie Feber must dig into a 36-year-old mystery, where repressed memories, old clues and new threats are woven together. Come Home, Amadou is an intense crime novel about guilt, silence and about how one observation can change everything.

Karin Fossum (b. 1954) made her literary debut in 1974 with the poetry collection Maybe Tomorrow, for which she won the Vesaas First Writer's Award. She has published books in several genres, but is best known for her crime fiction series about Inspector Konrad Sejer. Several of her books have been filmed for the screen and TV. She has received a number of prestigious awards, including an LA Times Book Award and The Brage Prize for her novel The Indian Bride (2000). In 2017 The Riverton Club named her Best Norwegian Crime Writer through the times. Karin Fossum's books are translated into 34 languages.

KARIN FOSSUM'S INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING KONRAD SEJERSERIES, NOW 15 NOVELS

Ronny

Faret Tønnessen

SECRET ROYAL AGENT

A secret agent and a police officer are drawn into the conflict from different sides when the royal family is exposed to a serious threat. Can they save the monarchy before it's too late?

When a member of parliament is shot and killed, it's just the beginning of what turns out to be an attack on Norway's royal family and system of government. In the member of parliament's apartment, highly decorated ex-military Hauk agent Jonas Holm and police officer Ragne Holm meet for the first time.

They soon realize that someone has set out to abolish the monarchy in Norway, and that those behind it have both the power and the means to get what they want. A terrifying network of alliances and enmities unfolds, where loyalty to the royal family and the country is put to the test. Who is behind it, and who can they really trust?

In their search for answers, Jonas and Ragne are thrown into breakneck car chases, spectacular hostage operations – and an undercover operation on stage during the Eurovision semi-final in Oslo Spektrum.

An action-packed thriller with a twinkle in the eye.

Ronny Faret Tønnessen is the winner of the Frid Ingulstad writing grant in 2025. Secret Royal Agent (2026) is his debut novel.

Hans Olav Lahlum

THE PACT

“Closed on account of celebration!” reads a sign in a shop window in Oslo on Liberation Day, May 8, 1945. At Youngstorget, four young idealists with ties to the labour movement gather. Josef, Kristine and Martin are children of the working class and share a background in the Labour Youth Party, while Maud, from an upperclass family, has thrown herself into communist activism. The four are relieved that the war is finally over and full of hope for a new and better life.

Only weeks after the liberation, the four survive a lifethreatening event together, which forces them to keep a dark secret. The pact they make that summer will shadow their lives for decades to come, even as each of them follows different political and personal paths in a rapidly changing Norway.

The Pact is the first installment in a gripping trilogy that follows Josef, Kristine, Martin and Maud into adulthood and through the post-war decades. Combining drama, social realism and elements of crime, it portrays both the turbulent private lives of its characters and the wider story of Norway’s political development in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Pakten 130 x 205 mm / 464 pages

Ŭ Historical, political thriller

Ŭ New trilogy that blends sosial realism and crime

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Ŭ Polar Circle series by Liza Marklund

Hans Olav Lahlum (b. 1973) is a writer and historian. He made his literary debut with the critically acclaimed biography Oscar Torp in 2007. He has since published a number of crime novels and non-fiction books. His crime novel are bestsellers in Norway.