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Birøkterens år 130 x 205 mm
NARRATIVE NON-FICTION / NATURE & WILDLIFE /
Ŭ A poetic and reflective journey into modern beekeeping
Ŭ Combines nature writing, personal narrative and ecological insight
Ŭ For readers seeking meaning and connection to nature
Comparative titles:
Ŭ The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Ŭ A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Markus Lohne Hustad
THE
BEEKEEPER'S
YEAR A Year With Bees
Early spring. The sun breaks through the clouds over a quiet landscape. In the grass stands a green beehive, wrapped like a gift, ready to be opened. This is how the beekeeping season begins – with hope, anticipation, and a touch of reverence.
The Beekeeper’s Year is not just a book about bees. It is about nature, belonging and change. After leaving a busy office life behind, Markus Lohne Hustad sets out to understand the fragile harmony between humans and the natural world one hive, one season at a time.
Through personal reflections, small triumphs and quiet setbacks, Hustad offers a portrait of a life lived close to the rhythm of the land. From winter’s silence to the first hum of spring, this is a story of renewal, community and the search for meaning in a changing landscape.
Markus Lohne Hustad (b. 1988) has worked with sustainable agriculture in the Norwegian Farmers' and Small Farmers' Association, Organic Norway and Framtiden i våre hender (The Future in Our Hands), and as a gardener in Tveten Andelslandbruk in Tveita. He is educated at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and the University of Innlandet, and grew up in Hønefoss. He is a beekeeper in his seventh season.
The bees have started to stir after a long winter. I’ve already been out to the hives several times in the first months of the year. First, I’ve carefully leant an ear against the side of the hive, trying to catch a faint hum, unsure if the bees were still alive. Later, I’d sit outside and wait, to see if any brave little souls ventured out into the spring air. The very first thing these fuzzy, charming creatures do after all that time inside the hive is to relieve themselves. They’ve held it in all winter to prevent diseases from spreading within the hive, but when the warmth arrives, the opportunity finally presents itself. The bees are easily given away – small brown spots are scattered on the snow still lingering on the ground in front of the hive entrance. Now, at last, the warmer winds and glimpses of sun in spring entice bees, coltsfoot, and beekeepers alike.
[...]
Now we stand there together, peering into the middle hive. We glimpse life and activity through a small hole in a wooden board, and the transparent plastic sheet beneath it. The polystyrene, wooden board, and plastic are there to retain warmth and calm. They also allow us to peek in without letting in the cold. Winter has been long, and the bees have stayed inside the hive for many months. I see the tops of the frames where the bees reside. Soon, eggs will be laid there to develop into larvae, and then into bees, which will crawl out of cells that will later be filled with honey. Between the frames, towards the centre of the hive, bees are crawling up and down. None of them immediately seem to notice that the roof of their house has been removed and the light let in. They’re alive! Hurrah!
Født fri 198 x 272 mm / 104 pages
WOMEN'S FIGHT / INSPIRATIONAL / COMIC BOOK
Ŭ Vital book on the role of religion in society and its consequences on women
Ŭ Written by internationally known feminist Marta Breen
Ŭ Comic format with gorgeous illustrations by Sunniva Fluge Hole
Comparative title:
Ŭ Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Material in English
Ŭ Full English PDF (sample)
Rights sold to:
Ŭ Danmark (Turbine)
Marta Breen/ Sunniva Fluge Hole (ill.) BORN FREE
Religious control and women's fight for freedom
Born Free is a fascinating and thoughtprovoking graphic novel about the impact religion has had, and continues to have, on women's freedom. It explores how religious practices have restricted women’s rights and shaped their lives across different cultures and societies.
A NORLA SELECTED TITLE 2025
In the wake of the women-led uprising in Iran and the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, religious control over women’s lives has become more visible than it has been in decades. Acclaimed feminist and author Marta Breen places these current events in a broader historical and global context, showing how religious fundamentalism continues to threaten women’s rights even in Western societies.
Based on thorough research, Born Free tackles topics such as forced marriage, education bans, dress codes, and female genital mutilation in a respectful yet direct manner. The book’s core message is clear: everyone has the right to decide over their own life, while also respecting freedom of religion, as long as it does not violate basic human rights.
This is a vital book that encourages reflection and conversation about the role of religion in society and the position of women within the world’s faiths.
Marta Breen (b. 1976) is a writer, journalist and one of Norway's most profiled feminists. She made her debut in 2006 with the book Girls, Wine and Song, about Norwegian women through times in Music. She has since established her self as a notable non-fiction author. Her book Women in Battle (2018), illustrated by Jenny Jordahl, has been sold to over 20 territories.
Sunniva Fluge Hole (b. 1994) is a creative and experienced illustrator and character concept designer, with many years experience within visual storytelling and design.
Marta Breen and Johanne Hjorthol (ill.)
IF I CAN'T DANCE, I DON'T WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR REVOLUTION
And Other Feminist Quotes
Are men wiser and funnier than women, since they are quoted more often? Of course not, it's just that the microphone has been easier for men to grab. For years, feminist and author Marta Breen has collected quotes from authors, artists, activists and politicians – all which are now gathered in this book.
There are classic quotes and old favourites from the first women rights activists, and apposite comments by current politicians, pop artists, activists and more. A well-formulated phrase inspires action. Perhaps best said by actress Phyllis Diller: «Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.»
"THE MORE OF US THEY LOCK UP, THE STRONGER WE BECOME."
Får jeg ikke danse, er det ikke min revolusjon 202 x 135 mm / 128 pages
FEMINISM / INSPIRATIONAL / GIFT ITEM
Ŭ Features famous activists, politicians and celebrities
Ŭ Perfect gift book
Mohammadi, human rights activist and Nobel laureate
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Rights sold to:
Ŭ Germany (btb Luchterland)
Marta Breen (b. 1976) is a writer, journalist and one of Norway's most profiled feminists. She made her debut in 2006 with the book Girls, Wine and Song, about Norwegian women through times in Music. She has since established her self as a notable non-fiction author. Her book Women in Battle (2018), illustrated by Jenny Jordahl, has been sold to approximately 30 territories
Narges
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226 mm/ 720 pages
MEMOIR / HISTORY / FAMILY HISTORY
Ŭ Critically acclaimed
Ŭ Epic family chronicle
Ŭ «Exceptional in both scope and content – with an absolutely impressive source material.»
Dagbladet
Rights sold to:
Ŭ Da Cap Film & TV (Movie Rights)
Anders Heger WANDA
A Family History
NOMINATED TO THE CRITICS AWARD 2025
When she was 21 years old, Wanda Heger and her family were interned in Germany. There they ended up in a castle not far from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On her own initiative, with no other motivation than a vague desire to help, and without having any clear idea of what a concentration camp was, Wanda equipped herself with some Norwegian jars of boiled potatoes and went up to the camp gate, knocked on it and asked for the jars to be given to the prisoners.
This in itself unheard of act became the starting point for a long and dramatic series of events that culminated in one of the most fascinating operations of the Second World War: the White Buses, which saved over 15,000 prisoners in the final phase of the war. It also involves a very special, and initially unthinkable, love story.
Wanda's story has historical, political and interpersonal aspects that extend directly into the Nazi top leadership, the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish governments, the International Red Cross and a wide range of individual actors at the international level. For Wanda and Bjørn Heger (the author's parents) and the civilian internees in Berlin, it was nevertheless the contact on the ground level, that is, the illegal and very dangerous collaboration with the prisoners, that was the focus.
Wanda tells the story of The White Buses, but also puts Wanda's own life in a larger perspective with the underlying question: «what guides the choices we make, even when there is no external pressure or stimulus to do the right thing?» This story highlights a woman's life from the twentieth century that in many ways deserves attention, not least in a time when female protagonists are important.
Exeptional family chronicle
«Incredibly good and diverse family tale about German nobility, hard-bolied Nazis, prisoners of war and war heroes. … Exceptional both in scope and content – with a simply impressive source material. »
DAGBLADET,
Wanda
x
Anders Heger (b. 1956) is a Norwegian literary journalist, author and publisher with Cappelen Damm. In 1991, Heger became the head of the fiction department at the Norwegian publishing company Cappelen, i.e. before the merger with N.W. Damm & Søn. His literary production under several pseudonyms is extensive. As a translator into Norwegian of more than twenty years standing, he has to his credit titles such as Hanen Hasses frierferd and various other books for children, including Tove Janssons classical Mumin troll cartoons.
Photo: Maria Kleppe Vihovde
Samuel og Bestefar 130 x 205 mm / 304 pages
NARRATIVE NON-FICTION / TRAVEL WRITING / MEMOIR
Ŭ A book where every page is steeped with the joy of living
Ŭ An original, larger than life story
Ŭ A unique journey from tragedy to triumph – a singular and inspiring story about the joy of living and staying hopeful
Ŭ A poignant reminder that it is never too late to change your life and chase your dreams
Ŭ A perfect feelgood story for turbulent times
Comparative titles:
Ŭ The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Ŭ Jack Whitehall: Travels with my Father (Netflix)
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Rights sold to:
Ŭ South Korea (DongYang Books)
Ŭ Germany (Piper)
SAMUEL AND GRANDPA: THE ART OF VIVID LIVING
What happens when a grandfather who has put all his dreams on hold gets a new chance because his grandson refuses to let his life fade away in silence?
When his grandfather is about to move into a nursing home, tired in body and lonely in his home, renowned adventurer Samuel Massie fears it will mark the beginning of his grandfather’s final chapter. So Samuel decides to give him one last journey. A true bucketlist expedition: riding a motorcycle through South America, skydiving over Australia, and diving deep into old memories. It becomes the start of a journey where Grandpa not only rediscovers the world but also himself.
Samuel and Grandpa is a gripping, wise, and deeply human story about daring to live, even when it seems too late.
With a narrative that balances humour and solemnity, action and reflection, Massie explores both generational gaps and unexpected closeness, delivering a deeply moving story of life’s final phase and all the possibilities that still remain.
Samuel and Grandpa is a book that makes readers laugh, cry, and want to live more fully. Because it isn’t just about one man’s dreams. This is about all of us.
Samuel Massie (b. 1992) is an author, TV host and expeditionist who is known, among other things, for his expedition to Antarctica with the sailboat Berserk.
Samuel Massi
Excerpt from the first chapter:
«Grandpa! Are you alright?» I try to drown out the roar of the engine. My voice trembles, but I try not to show my nerves. It's his choice, after all. The old man, who normally has poor hearing, sits seemingly undisturbed with his familiar smile and gazes out across the lush Australian landscape. He looks satisfied. I wonder if he knows this will be his last experience. Or maybe he has just experienced so much mastery over the past few months that he feels immortal? I don't know, but he's not scared. I, on the other hand...
It was my idea that we should embark on this adventure, and it's not the first time on the trip that I think our last moment has arrived. We have been stranded with a motorcycle in the Andes Mountains, almost been eaten by coyotes, and almost been kidnapped by Argentinian robbers. And all those times Grandad has gripped his chest, and I have thought that this is when his heart will finally burst, whether it's been in a sleeping bag in the middle of the pampas or in the middle of an attempt to dive on the Great Barrier Reef. Almost everyone was negative about us embarking on this adventure. How could I take a cancer-stricken man in his eighties on an expedition around the world? He needed peace and care. Why didn't I agree with that? What kind of confidence did I have that thought the trip of a lifetime was better for him than all the medicine in the world?
Ŭ Universal themes of perception, limitation, and attention
Ŭ Turns the ordinary into the extraordinary through close observation
Comparative titles:
Ŭ Wolverine Tracks by Dag O. Hessen
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Rights sold to:
Ŭ Germany (Knesebeck)
Torbjørn Ekelund
A YEAR OF BIRDS
Ornithological Field Notes from My Immediate Surroundings
Sometimes you discover something new, or see something familiar in a new way. The space expands. The world gets bigger. A curtain is pulled aside, and you see into a parallel universe.
A NORLA SELECTED TITLE 2025
With these words, a journey begins. Not across continents, but into the small things that surrounds us. When epilepsy forced journalist and amateur ornithologist Torbjørn Ekelund to abandon his plans for a globe-spanning bird book, his world shrank to the local woods of Maridalen, his garden, and a small cabin by the sea. But in that shrinking, something expanded.
Told through a series of diary entries over the course of a year, A Year of Birds follows Ekelund’s growing awareness of the birds around him. At the beginning of the year, he knows almost nothing about birds. By the end of the year, he knows a little more. He watches blackbirds and bullfinches, observes gulls and geese, and lets the ordinary transform into the extraordinary through simple, sustained attention.
This is a book about birds but also about perception, limitation, and the beauty of staying still. It is about discovering nature not in far-off landscapes, but right where you are. With warmth, humour, and a quiet existential undertone, A Year of Birds invites us to look more closely, live more attentively and see the world anew.
Torbjørn Ekelund (b. 1971) is a writer, author and part owner of the online magazine Harvest. His books have been translated into ten languages, including English, German, Spanish and Mandarin. He was awarded the The Banff Mountain Adventure Travel Award for A Year in the Woods.
Ŭ A unique story of two centuries seen through the context of migratory birds
Ŭ Blends science, history, and personal narrative
Ŭ A powerful reminder of nature’s beauty and vulnerability
Comparative titles:
Ŭ The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Ŭ Forests by Anne SverdrupThygeson
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Dag O. Hessen
BIRD'S-EYE VIEW
The Conquering of Nature
Bird's-Eye View is a fascinating journey through two centuries of landscape changes and human intervention, seen through the eyes of migratory birds. By following their routes from 1825, 1925 and 2025, we get a unique and dramatic insight into how the landscape has changed over time, into the fragility and durability of nature, and how humans have shaped life on earth.
Written by award-winning author and biologist Dag O. Hessen, the book combines scientific facts with gripping stories about bird species and their incredible migrations, and gives us a deeper understanding of nature's beauty and vulnerability. With a focus on European landscapes and birds of paradise, as well as personal stories from the rugged west coast of Norway, this is a book that informs and inspires.
Bird's-Eye Viewis a tribute to the world of birds and a reminder of the importance of preserving our natural landscapes for future generations.
«Well-written, easy to read and fascinating ... Hessen has a warmth for nature, this time the migratory birds, and it’s written with love, nice memories, recognizable depictions of bird noises around us, bird houses, the hunt for beautiful bird eggs. Writes so well that we get carried away, we google names and places, use an atlas to find the massive ocean areas the birds have crossed. »
Dag O. Hessen is a Professor of Biology at the University of Oslo. He has written a number of scientific works and popular science books on topics like ecology, evolution and the environment. His work is found at the crossroads of biology and philosophy. He has received several awards for his promotion of popular science, among them The Honorary Brage Prize in 2022.
Det jeg leste i bølgene
130 x 205 mm / 210 pages
NARRATIVE NON-FICTION / TRAVEL WRITING / MEMOIR
Ŭ A unique perspective from a young woman who sails the Arctic oceans alone
Ŭ Poetic travel writing
Ŭ A young voice with many more stories to tell
Comparative titles:
Ŭ Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Ŭ The Whale by Philip Hoare
Material in English
Ŭ Full translation
Ŭ Synopsis
Right sold to:
Ŭ World English (Akoya)
Ŭ Germany (Delius Klasing)
Veronica Skotnes
NORTH OF THE WINTER SUN
What I Heard in the Waves
Only by travelling the sea way can you truly understand the coast. For three years, Veronica Skotnes has sailed along the coast of Northern Norway, searching for people stories and nature experiences from the country's most remote and windswept region.
North of the Winter Sun depicts a journey by boat, as well as an inner journey. Veronica Skotnes travels through polar nights and under the midnight sun, on the calm sea and through storms. She's all by herself on the deck of an old sailing boat.
The book emphasises a beautiful and dwindling part of Norway's coastal culture, alongside the author's own reflections, experiences and challenges from sailing in the Arctic.
«A fantastic travel report that strongly touches on the challenges of life and the present.»
DAGBLADET
«The travel depiction I Read It In The Waves is a tribute to the sea, and a declaration of love to all who live along our northernmost coast.»
FRILUFTSLIV
«This is a book completely out of the ordinary. Poetic texts about the sea and the sea people in the eyes of the furthest north. Warm human encounters, with honest texts. Anyone who is interested in the coast and coastal culture should get this book.»
NORSK FYRFORENING
Veronica Skotnes (b. 1998) took to the sea at the age of seventeen, as crew on a schooner in the North Sea. Since then, the wind and the ocean currents have taken her north of the Arctic Circle, where she now steers her own ship. For the past three years, she has been sailing and living in a boat along the coast of Finnmark, in the very north of Norway. Skotnes has a bachelor's degree in Arctic Outdoor Activities.
40 uker, en menneskegraviditet og
81 andre måter å få barn på 148 x 210 mm / 248 pages
POPULAR SCIENCE / NATURE & WILDLIFE / BIOLOGY / PREGNANCY
Ŭ «The most amazing stories about mating, pregnancy, gender and sexuality.» –Dagbladet
Ŭ A fascinating and unique insight into reproduction in the animal kingdom, interwoven with the personal story of the author
Comparative titles:
Ŭ Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Ŭ Synopsis
Rights sold:
Ŭ United Kingdom (MacLehose Press – UK Commonwealth excl. Canada)
Ŭ Germany (Westend Verlag)
Ŭ Colombia (Rey Naranjo – Latin and USA Spanish)
Ŭ Hungary (Figura)
Ŭ China (Unread Sky Culture Media)
Ŭ South Korea (Miraebook)
Anna Blix
40 WEEKS, A HUMAN PREGNANCY AND 81 OTHER WAYS TO REPRODUCE
It takes 40 weeks to grow a human baby, and along the way the relationship between the foetus and the pregnant woman bears resemblance to that of a parasite and its host. One takes and takes, while the other one almost dies in the process. Why do we as humans carry our babies inside our bodies for so long, and is there a reason that we are throwing up and feeling nauseous? Are there any better ways to reproduce? Does any living being reproduce in a stranger way than us humans?
Throughout the 40 weeks of a human pregnancy we meet another being who’s finished reproducing each week. The spotted hyena gives birth after only 16 weeks, but she has to give birth through a penis-shaped clitoris, which cracks open during labour. Do they have it easier? The common Surinam toad doesn’t have a uterus, but instead has evolved to have a swollen piece of skin on their backs where the eggs sink in. This way she can carry the offspring with her, instead of leaving the eggs in the water. Are there any signs that it’s actually quite clever how the human body handles it?
This book gives evolutionary comfort throughout the troubles of pregnancy and an explanation as to how we ended up here, as the smartest species with the most tiresome, but nonetheless not such a stupid way to reproduce.
«There is no better literature than great nonfiction. Written by specialists who are unbound by strict terminology or publication pressure, but in a liberal and relaxed language. The biologist, journalist, writer and columnist Blix is incredibly good here. […] the most amazing stories about mating, pregnancy, gender and sexuality.»
Anna Blix ANIMALS WHO ARE WORSE PARENTS THAN YOU
As a parent, it’s not always easy to be the best version of yourself. We’ve all been there; scrolling on the phone instead of joining in with the four-year-old’s roleplay, serving the kids plain pasta for dinner several days in a row, and who hasn’t let them have a bit too much screen time in exchange for a sneaky lie-in?
It might be a relief to know that there are worse parents out there. You probably haven’t tricked anyone else into thinking that your child is theirs so that you can skip the whole child-rearing thing. You haven’t rolled over and accidentally squished your distraught youngsters, or let them fight their way out of a rotting corpse. Your kids didn’t come out of an egg, to discover that you had already abandoned them for the rest of their lives. You haven’t killed their half-siblings, or simply left them because the job of looking after them became too exhausting. You haven’t let a youngster starve to death. And not least: you’ll be surprised how many species actually eat their own children.
Animals Who Are Worse Parents Than You, gives an insight into the strange and often disturbing ways that some animal species relate to their offspring. Ultimately their strategies work, just like ours, but it must be said that human children have a lot to thank us for.
Dyr som er verre foreldre enn deg 130 x 205 mm / 160 pages
POPULAR SCIENCE / NATURE & WILDLIF / BIOLOGY
Ŭ Humorous and fascinating take on how other animals raise their young
Ŭ A perfect – and beautifully illustrated – gift book for tired parents plagued by guilt
Ŭ Written by an critically acclaimed biologist and author
Comparative titles:
Ŭ Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Ŭ Synopsis
Rights sold: Ŭ Italy (Casa Editrice Longanesi)
Anna Blix (b. 1985) is a biologist and author. She has long experience as a writer and communicator, and writes a regular column about science for the newspaper Klassekampen. She is now an advisor for WWF.
Flokken
130 x 205 mm / 224 pages
CULTURE / HISTORY / ANTHROPOLOGY
Ŭ Reveals how animals helped shape human civilisation and culture
Ŭ Blends archaeology, mythology and storytelling into accessible cultural history
Ŭ For readers of Sapiens and Entangled Life
Comparative titles:
Ŭ The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell
Ŭ The Animals Among Us by John Bradshaw
Kristin Armstrong-Oma THE HERD
The History of Animals and Humans from the Ice Age to the Viking Age
The story of humankind is inseparable from the story of animals – together we forged civilisation, faith and the very idea of culture.
From the Ice Age to the Viking Age, The Herd explores how animals have shaped human life not only through hunting and agriculture, but through imagination, craft, ritual and myth. Drawing on archaeology, artefacts and ancient texts, archaeologist Kristin Armstrong-Oma reveals a world in which humans and animals lived side by side, bound by cooperation, reverence and necessity.
We encounter creatures both real and symbolic – from the reindeer and oxen that sustained us, to wolves and ravens that populated our stories and gods. Through these connections, Armstrong-Oma uncovers how animals helped build the material, spiritual and emotional fabric of society itself.
Beautifully written and richly illustrated, The Herd is a cultural history of coexistence – a journey through time showing how the lives of animals and humans have always been intertwined.
Kristin Armstrong Oma (b. 1974) is an archaeologist and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo. The horse is the focus for her archaeological study of the way our ancestors lived and thought; following this lead takes you back through strange myths and rituals.
Bjørn Roar Vassnes
THE DINOSAUR MOMENT
History's Roll of the Dice
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs and cleared the path for mammals, and eventually, us. But that cataclysm was only one of countless turning points that have shaped humanity’s improbable rise in the universe’s greatest survival game. From natural disasters and pandemics to the fall of Rome and the birth of civilisation, our story is one of astonishing luck and remarkable resilience.
Today, as we search for intelligent life elsewhere, the evidence suggests that we ourselves are an extraordinary accident: both unique and fragile. But a new “dinosaur moment” may already be upon us. Across disciplines, from cosmology and biology to psychology, politics and technology, scientists are beginning to trace the outlines of a coming shift. A new kind of intelligence stands waiting in the wings.
Can we rely on luck once more, or is it finally time to understand the rules of the cosmic game we’re playing?
130 x 205 mm
HISTORY
Ŭ A grand narrative of chance and survival
Ŭ Bridges science, history and philosophy
Ŭ A visionary look at humanity’s next turning point
Comparative titles:
Ŭ Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Ŭ The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Bjørn Vassnes grew up in the Norwegian Arctic, one of the coldest places on Earth. He is one of Norway’s leading science journalists, has won national and international writing prizes including the Fritt Ord Honorary Award and the Golden Pen. He has a science column in one of Norway’s top daily newspapers and has written several popular books and produced television programs with scientific and environmental theme. His book Frostens rike (The Kingdom of Frost - The Cryosphere and life) was published in 2017 and sold for translation in several territories.
Dinosaurøyeblikkene
HISTORY / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Ŭ A story about setting goals –and creating peace
Ŭ What can we achieve if we work together?
Ŭ Looks at what the Apollo expedition can teach us about leadership, cooperation and communication
Henrik Syse & Jenny Helene Syse
BECAUSE IT IS A CHALLENGE
About Mans Incredible Journey to the Moon
This is a unique story of courage, friendship, competition, defeat and seemingly impossible victories. It is a story about setting goals, and about creating peace – and about how people who work together can achieve the seemingly impossible.
In 1961, a human being traveled into space for the first time. Just a few years later, in 1969, two people landed on the surface of the moon. Both events were the result of an intense struggle and the competition between superpowers. Then the unexpected happened: In 1975, the arch-rivals the USA and the USSR met in space in an unprecedented demonstration of peaceful, interpersonal cooperation.
Henrik and Jenny Helene Syse tell the story of the Apollo missions and the conquest of space. The scientific and the philosophical, the concrete and the visionary, go hand in hand in one of the most exciting stories of all time. We meet famous persons such as Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell. But we also meet a large gallery of notable, but far less well-known, women and men who contributed to the fact that humans were able to leave their footprints on another celestial body.
«... impressively dense with facts about the US's space race.»
DAGBLADET
Henrik Syse (b. 1966) is a philosopher who has focus on ethics. He is the senior researcher at the Institute for Peace Studies (PRIO) and a sought-after speaker.
Jenny Helene Syse (b. 2001) is a student of human geography at the University of Oslo and a member of the Oslo City Council. She has also worked on a large dialogue project for the Nobel Peace Center.
Fordi det er vanskelig 151 x 226 mm / 396 pages
It is the story of the moon missions, or at least a piece of it, that you now hold in your hands. While working on it, we have met several of the astronauts, flight controllers, and engineers who created the Apollo program. We have spoken to specialists on both the US and the Soviet Union's impressive programs from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. We have been given a glimpse into a unique time in world history, where superpower stood against superpower, but where nonetheless a remarkable willingness to cooperate and seek peace based on science emerged.
The story you will read in this book actually ends with genuine fellowship in the spirit of peace, when two legendary astronauts from the US and the Soviet Union meet in space in July 1975 and exchange their famous handshake for peace, as part of a space mission in which the two arch-enemies, each with their own crew of renowned astronauts, conduct scientific research together.
All this happened at a time when the US, partly despite and partly because of a dramatic civil rights struggle and a violent war in Vietnam, wanted to show itself to the world as a nation and leader that valued freedom, friendship, and openness, with the best interests of the whole world at heart. It was always emphasized—no matter how much it was about national prestige and power—that the real goal of the great space program was peaceful coexistence among all people. The rhetoric was far from “America First”, even though a key goal was precisely that: to come first and secure the US's role as a superpower.
This is the story of one of the most exciting journeys of all time, told by a father and daughter who, with stars in their eyes, have attempted to investigated thoroughly what actually happened.
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO
The series A Brief Introduction To provides an engaging and easily accessible introduction to various themes, eras, countries, conflicts and individuals that have left their mark on the world we live in. The books are written by prominent historians in their field and are aimed at both students and generally interested readers.
Each volume in the series acts as a door-opener to a limited part of history, and helps bring historical phenomena and contexts to life. In an easily understandable way, the authors summarise the most important research literature within the topics they write about, without compromising on the professional quality. What do we know about democracy in Athens? Why did the Roman Empire collapse? Who were the Vikings? In what way did World War I contribute to the outbreak of World War II? Why were the Americans unable to win the Vietnam War? What was the background to the disintegration of the former state formations of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia? How did the EU come into being?
Common to all the books in the A Brief Introduction To series is that they are characterised by:
• Academic weight: The books are written by renowned researchers, with up-to-date knowledge.
• Understandable and concise presentation of history: The books are written for readers without prior knowledge of the subject.
• Wide range: Thematically, the series covers everything from central state formations, empires and eras, to important historical phenomena such as the Crusades, neo-imperialism, globalization and international conflicts.
• Maps and illustrations: The books are richly illustrated, and the accompanying maps can be included with the sale as open files.
A Brief Introduction To is your guide to understanding history. Explore, learn, and be inspired by the living presentation of history from Cappelen Damm Academic.
Anne-Britt Harsem LINNEA'S STRUGGLE
A Child Protection Services Case
Linnea is fourteen years old, and Adam sixteen, when they become parents to a baby boy. They are too young to care for the baby on their own, but they have resourceful family members who are willing to step in and help.
Linnea's family has previous experience with Child Protection Services. Therefore, it feels right to accept a stay at a family center where Linnea will receive guidance in motherhood.
DOCUMENTARY / SOCIAL COMMENTARY
Ŭ Based on true events
Ŭ Harsem is one of Norway's most-streamed authors on audio
Material in English
Ŭ Synopsis
Rights sold:
Ŭ Romania (Editura Creator)
At the family center, problems arise immediately. The center reports all findings to Child Protection Services in the form of reports and the counselors' conclusions. Who does Child Protection Services trust more? Linnea and her family, or the counselors? Decisions made by Child Protection Services are based on the reports they receive from the family center. Five weeks after Linnea moves into the center, Child Protection Services arrives to take her son, accompanied by police equipped with batons and handcuffs.
Linnea's struggle begins.
Anne-Britt Harsem (b. 1961) is the author of Mammas svik (Mum’s Betrayal, 2013) and the Alvdal trilogy. She works on a freelance basis for the office of the County Governor of Oslo and Viken as a temporary guardian during the facilitated questioning of children and young people.
Linneas kamp
130 x 205 mm/ 224 pages
TRUE CRIME / JOURNALISM / POLICE INVESTIGATION
Ŭ Explores a controversial undercover police operation against Norway's «most dangerous woman.»
Ŭ Created debate and lot of buzz in Norwegian media
Magnus Braaten and Kenneth Fossheim
THE LIE
The Police Chase for «Norway's Most Dangerous Woman»
The Lie is a gripping tale of murder, deception, and controversial investigative methods. Award-winning crime journalists Magnus Braaten and Kenneth Fossheim challenge readers to consider how far the Norwegian police should be allowed to go when faced with serious, unsolved mysteries. What happens when the very person tasked with uncovering the truth is a notorious liar?
Elisabeth Aaslie does not like being called Norway's most dangerous woman, yet that is how the media described her when she became the first woman in Norwegian history to receive the country’s maximum sentence – 21 years in prison.
The police began pursuing Aaslie in the spring of 2014, when her ex-boyfriend was found dead in a hotel room. Pills were scattered around him. The doctor at the crime scene believed it to be suicide, but in the following days, increasingly suspicious information reached the police.
This marked the beginning of an investigation unlike anything Norway had ever seen. Undercover police agent Anna Andersen used extraordinary methods to become best friends with Elisabeth, a mother of seven and the suspect in a double homicide.
Based on the police agent's secret recordings, investigative case files, and extensive interviews with Elisabeth Aaslie herself, journalists Braaten and Fossheim tell a story of deception and self-deception. The reader is brought face-to-face with the perpetrator, and given a unique insight into a murder investigation that defies all expectations.
Magnus Braaten (b. 1995) is a crime reporter with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He has covered a number of high-profile crime cases and made his debut as an author with The Lørenskog Mystery (2021).
Kenneth Fossheim (b. 1991) is a crime reporter with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He is specialised in crime journalism and made his debut as an author with The Lørenskog Mystery (2021).
Løgnen 130 x 205 mm / 287 pages
Simen Sætre
THE UNLIKELY SERIAL KILLER
Arnfinn Nesset and His 31 Confessions
In The Unlikely Serial Killer, one of Norway's leading feature journalist, Simen Sætre, delivers the first comprehensive, investigative account of Norway's most talked-about serial killer. In 1983, Arnfinn Nesset was convicted of poisoning and killing 22 elderly people at the nursing home he managed in the small town, Orkdal. Nesset is not only the worst serial killer in Norway, but he also regularly appear on lists of the worst serial killers in the world. Yet today, fifty years later, the case has never been explained or never truly solved.
When Adresseavisen revisited the case in 2002, they concluded that “no one has solved the Arnfinn Nesset riddle.” Despite years of speculation, the mystery remains: what could have driven a respected nursing home director to commit such horrific crimes?
During the investigation, Nesset confessed, describing an eerie “urge to kill” that triggered physical symptoms like sweating and heart palpitations. He even claimed responsibility for far more deaths than he could realistically have committed. But before the trial, he retracted every confession, stating he had been pressured during interrogations and felt he had no choice but to comply.
Perhaps most baffling of all, Nesset was convicted entirely on circumstantial evidence. He was found in possession of the poison used but claimed it was intended to euthanize a dog. No technical or forensic evidence ever proved his involvement in the 22 murders.
While researching the book, Sætre has had access to all the investigation documents of the Nesset case. This is material that the public has not had access to before, and which brings new insight into the case and puts it in a different light.
This is not just true crime — this is an attempt to finally solve one of the most enduring riddles in Scandinavian criminal history.
Den usannsynlige seriemorderen 130 x 205 mm / 416 pages
TRUE CRIME / JOURNALISM / SERIAL KILLER
Ŭ The first comprehensive account of Norway's most infamous serial killer
Ŭ Investigative journalism meets true crime
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Ŭ Synopsis
Simen Sætre (b. 1974) is an investigative reporter published in many languages. He has written six books, on topics like the international chocolate industry, oil states, and a spy in the Norwegian army. His thoughtprovoking books are highly acclaimed and has been nominated for several prizes.
Kvinnehjernen
151 x 226 mm
WOMEN'S HEALTH / POPULAR SCIENCE
Ŭ Presents new peer-reviewed brain research directly linked to women's life experiences.
Ŭ Highlights female life stages that have long been overlooked and taboo.
Ŭ The author is an internationally renowned brain researcher specializing in the female brain, holding a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and trained as a clinical psychologist.
Comparative titles:
Ŭ Music and the Brain by Are Brean and Geir Olve Skeie
Ŭ The Brain is the Star by Kaja Nordengen
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Ŭ Synopsis
Ann-Marie de Lange THE FEMALE BRAIN
A brain researcher's perspective on women's life stages
Science built the model of the human brain on one assumption – that it was male.
Our brains are shaped by hormones, yet science has long ignored how profoundly this affects women.
In The Female Brain, cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Ann-Marie de Lange explores how hormonal rhythms sculpt the female brain across every stage of life, from puberty and the menstrual cycle to pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. Drawing on new research and personal stories, she reveals the astonishing adaptability of the female brain: how it grows stronger, more complex and more resilient through change, loss and transition.
Why do so many women experience brain fog, mood shifts or changes in memory and focus? What really happens inside the brain during pregnancy or menopause? De Lange challenges the long-standing medical bias built on male physiology, offering a new, evidence-based perspective on women’s neurological health.
Both enlightening and empowering, The Female Brain combines cutting-edge science with lived experience to show that women’s biology is not a limitation — it is a source of strength.
Ann-Marie de Lange (b. 1986) is a neuroscientist and clinical psychologist specialising in population neuroscience and applied machine learning. With over ten years of research experience from the University of Oslo, the University of Oxford in the UK, and Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, she has a solid and internationally recognized academic background. As head of the research group 'FemiLab', she focuses on how biological, genetic, and environmental factors influence women's brain health throughout life. De Lange has published a number of influential articles and secured funding from research councils both in Norway and Europe. She has also worked actively to make research results available to a wider audience through podcasts, participation in a BBC documentary, and popular science talks such as TEDx.
When I was a graduate student in psychology, I held a preserved woman’s brain in my hands. It could be studied, weighed, measured. Every groove and fold mapped. But none of these measurements could tell us anything about who she had been, what she had thought, what she had felt. Even though life experiences, especially aging, had left physical traces in her brain, the context was missing: How had she experienced life? How had she handled different phases of life? What had she found joy in, and who had she grieved for?
I also began to think about all the women around me. The experiences that had never been turned into data. The experiences that no one had asked about or researched. Because the brain is more than a physical structure; it contains our life history in the form of thoughts, feelings, impressions, and memories. And it shapes itself in step with what we experience throughout our lives.
Puberty, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriage, menopause – these are experiences that bind women together across generations. The mood swings that come and go with the cycle. The intense alertness of a newborn baby—or the lonely grief of losing a fledgling life. The brain fog or anxiety that suddenly appears in your 40s, without warning or explanation. This is not imagination, it is neurobiology—the brain’s response to hormonal changes.
In recent years, a field of research has finally emerged that takes women’s symptoms and experiences seriously. But it has been a long road. For centuries, everything from nervousness and depression to chronic pain, too little or too much sex drive—even the desire to read, write, or get an education—was explained by a single diagnosis: hysteria.
That’s where this book begins.
HEALTH / POPULAR SCIENCE / NEUROSCIENCE
Ŭ In a society that sleeps too little, it's more imporant than ever to understand how it affects your health and your life
Ŭ Contains all the latest research on sleep by Norway's sleep expert
Comparative title:
Ŭ Why we sleep by Matthew Walker
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Dr. Bjørn Bjorvatn
THE AMAZING SLEEP
A sleep scientist's guide to better sleep hygiene
A groundbreaking book that will transform the way you think about sleep and reveal how deeply it shapes your health and everyday life.
Norway’s leading sleep scientist, Bjørn Bjorvatn, takes you on a fascinating scientific journey to show how the hours you spend on the pillow directly influence your brain, body, and long-term well-being. Drawing on the latest research, he explains how chronic sleep deprivation can disrupt cognitive function, weight regulation, immunity, and even increase the risk of serious disease, while good sleep can literally extend your life expectancy.
In a time when many struggle to get a good night’s rest, and others underestimate just how essential sleep really is, Bjorvatn offers clear, evidence-based advice to help you understand your own sleep needs, overcome sleep problems, and create the best conditions for deep, restorative rest. He also uncovers the powerful role sleep plays in mental health, learning, memory, and creativity.
Through specific examples, the scientist and doctor reveals the many ways sleep shapes our lives: from how it influences critical political decisions made in the dead of night, to how it impacts exhausted parents in important moments, and even how technology changes our perception of sleep quality.
You spend a third of your life asleep. This book gives you the knowledge you need to finally understand what happens in your body and brain while you sleep – and what really happens when you don’t.
Bjørn Bjorvatn (b. 1963) is Norway's leading sleep scientist, leads the National Centre for Sleep Medicine, and is a physician/sleep specialist at the Bergen Sleep Centre. He is also a professor of general practice. For many years, Bjorvatn has researched sleep and sleep problems, held numerous lectures and courses around the country about sleep, and has written multiple books on the subject.
Den utrolige søvnen 130 x 205 mm / 208 pages
Cathrine Abrahamsen DIAGNOSIS UKNOWN
From Fatigue to Freedom
Do you live with long-term, unexplained symptoms or pain, trapped in a body ruled by exhaustion, discomfort or fear?
Diagnosis: Unknown helps you reclaim control of your health. With compassion, science and practical insight, Dr. Cathrine Abrahamsen offers clarity for the confused mind, concrete tools for daily coping, and, perhaps most importantly, proof that your symptoms are never your fault.
A specialist in general medicine and researcher, Abrahamsen has developed a groundbreaking approach called ICIT (Individual Challenge Inventory Tool), based on mind-body science and thoroughly tested in clinical studies published in eClinicalMedicine, a journal from The Lancet.
Through ICIT, Abrahamsen teaches how stress and life strain can trigger the immune, nervous, and hormonal systems causing pain, fatigue and anxiety. You’ll learn to understand your body’s alarm signals, calm your system, and rebuild joy and participation in everyday life.
Whether you live with chronic pain yourself or want to support someone who does, this book opens the door to understanding, healing and hope.
Diagnose: Ukjent
148 x 210 mm
Ŭ Groundbreaking mind-body method, proven in The Lancet
Ŭ Practical tools to reduce pain and fatigue
Ŭ Empathetic, science-based guide to recovery
Comparative title:
Ŭ The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Ŭ When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté
Cathrine Abrahamsen (b. 1973) is a GP and specialist in general medicine, as well as a researcher at the University of Oslo. She is passionate about helping people understand the connection between life stress and health, and strengthening their coping skills in everyday life and at work.
Johanne Nordby Wernø AUTISTIC DIARIES
Autistic Diaries is a deeply original exploration of neurodiversity and society's view of otherness.
DIARY FORM / AUTISM / MEMOIR
Ŭ Nominated to the Brage Prize 2025
Ŭ On receiving a late autism diagnose
Ŭ Received rave reviews from multiple major newspaper
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE 2025
Author Johanne Nordby Wernø takes us on a deeply personal and professionally in-depth journey that sheds new light on high-functioning autistic women while simultaneously challenging our general perceptions of neurodiversity and women's health.
Autistic Diaries combines up-to-date academic material with the author's own experiences over 42 years as an undiagnosed autistic person. It takes us through the challenges and joys associated with childhood, work, relationships and parenthood. The author discusses how masking autistic traits can lead to anxiety, depression and burnout. She puts this in context with the broader debate about women's health.
With its diary format, this book appeals to a general audience interested in psychology, mental health, societal issues, as well as gender equality issues. It not only gives a voice to invisible high-functioning autistic women, but also raises important questions about how we as a society encounter and deal with minds that react in a different way. It opens up a broader question about mental health, gender equality, and how diversity can enrich our lives and our communities.
Johanne Nordby Wernø (b. 1980) has written about visual arts and related subjects since 1999. For several years she ran her own communications agency, focused on the art field; today she works as a curator. Autistic Diaries (2025) is her debut book.
Kaninen har stått opp 130 x 205 mm
Brage Jury's Statement:
«How does receiving an autism diagnosis as an adult affect one's self-image and relationships with others? Wernø received her autism diagnosis at the age of 42, and in the book, she combines her own experiences with professional insight, alternating between journal entries, essays, and literary techniques. The form is open and shifts between genres, yet the text maintains both coherence and direction. Wernø is an excellent storyteller, conveying knowledge in an engaging and original manner.
[...] The result is a poignant and thought-provoking book with strong communicative power and significant literary qualities, which is also witty and entertaining.»
Kul i brystet 130 x 205 mm / 369 pages
MEMOIR / WOMEN'S HEALTH / MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP
Ŭ A unique memoir about mother and daughter batteling breast cancer simultaneously
Comparative title:
Ŭ The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Material in English
Ŭ Sample translation
Rights sold:
Ŭ Denmark (Turbine)
Ŭ Turkey (Siren)
Ŭ China (Flower City Publishing)
Vigdis
Hjorth & Line Norman Hjorth LIKE IT OR LUMP IT
The Year We Got Cancer
Like It or Lump It is a book about the sudden upheaval and change a serious diagnosis can cause.
In the spring of 2023, mum-of-two Line Norman Hjorth was diagnosed with breast cancer. Barely six months later her mother – author Vigdis Hjorth – received the exact same diagnosis. In this book, where the narrative switches between mother and daughter, we follow the two women through their treatment as both patient and next of kin. Two roles that were completely new for them both, and two roles which can be difficult to balance - and which mother and daughter manage in very different ways. They go through the highs and lows, both in terms of medical treatment and their parent-child relationship. But at least they both got new boobs as part of the process!
This is an exceptionally moving story – unsentimental and poignantly narrated.
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.
Line Norman Hjorth is an associate professor in general literature at the University of Bergen. She also holds a master's degree in film studies from the University of Copenhagen. She made her debut as an author in 2021 with the non-fiction book Credibility in the courtroom, and has co-written books with her mother Vigdis Hjorth.
Excerpt from p. 105, in translation by
Charlotte Barslund
Line:
I have always feared cancer. I have imagined hundreds of times what it would be like to get the diagnosis, how I would react, how awful that life would be. I have cancer now. And the reality turned out to be very different to my imagined scenarios. Now I know how multifaceted the diagnosis is and that it is not an automatic death sentence as the words had previously equated in my mind. I have decided to have faith, that life goes on.
Tidligere frisk mann 130 x 205 mm/ 224 pages
MEMOIR / ILLNESS
Ŭ Groundbreaking mind-body method, proven in The Lancet
Ŭ Practical tools to reduce pain and fatigue
Ŭ Empathetic, science-based guide to recovery
Comparative title:
Ŭ The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Ŭ When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté
PREVIOUSLY HEALTHY MAN
On 5 January 2014, the writer Tore Rem collapsed while playing football. His life was saved by his teammates, but it turned out he was suffering from a rare disease, a disease that attacks the heart, causing life-threatening heartbeat rhythm disturbances. Suddenly, Rem was a citizen in the realm of the sick.
In the years that have passed, Rem had to learn how to live with uncertainty, while undergoing a tough treatment regime with countless medicinal side effects. Not least, he has felt the effects of cortisone transforming his body, including his face. Several times, death has brushed against him.
This is a story of illness, the story of what transpired. By searching out a new, personal voice, the awardwinning writer comes unusually close to the experience of being ill. At the same time, Previously Healthy Man consists of a series of reflections about what being ill does to a person, about how it can give you a sharper look at everyday life, a new consciousness about being in the world, and about how our illness is necessarily something we share with people around us. It’s about trust, loneliness and community, pain and near-death experiences, about meetings with the public health-care system and medical language, about vulnerability, and about our fundamental human frailty. Along the way, the reader gains insight into fascinating aspects of medical history, and Rem shows how literature and reading may be resources when facing critical illnesses.
Previously Healthy Man has become an unusually powerful story about life seen from the perspective of the sick.
Tore Rem (b. 1967) is a writer, critic and literary scholar working at the University of Oslo. He has previously published books about Kielland, Ibsen and Dickens.
«Previously Healthy Man is so well-written that it had been worth reading even if it was solely about Tore Rem’s rare heart condition. (…) I wish the book would become a bestseller. »
BOK365
«One of the most beautiful passages in the book is when Rem describes and reflects on how he’s now more dependent on the people near him … Previously Healthy Man should absolutely be read. It will do you good.»
MORGENBLADET
«Previously Healthy Man should be read by as many as possible, both on the inside and outside of the public healthcare system … The book offers no quick solutions, but conveys experiences that lays foundations for politics. … The book is a daredevil’s act, also in the sense that one of Norway’s most prize-receiving non-fiction writers shows weakness and vulnerability. »
KLASSEKAMPEN
«Through narrative, the author explores illness, life, and death in a way that extends beyond his personal microcosm, opening onto a larger human experience which the reader can recognize, relate to, and ultimately gain from. The literary references are a goldmine!»
HALLDÓR GUDMUNDSSON
Lev, spis, nyt
195 x 250 mm / 236 pages
FOOD / DESSERTS / HEALTHY EATING
Ŭ The next big kitchen craze after the air fryer
Ŭ Real-ingredient recipes for guilt-free indulgence
Ŭ Healthy, protein-rich and family-friendly
Comparative title:
Ŭ The Healthy Air Fryer Cookbook by Dana Angelo White
Ŭ Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz
Maria Haugland THE NINJA CREAMI ICE CREAM BOOK
Eat ice cream every day
Tired of choosing between healthy and delicious? In The Ninja Creami Ice Cream Book, bestselling author and nutrition enthusiast Maria Haugland invites you into a playful world where flavour meets wellness – one frozen spoonful at a time.
With her trademark: warmth and creativity, Maria transforms everyday ingredients into velvety ice creams, refreshing sorbets and protein-packed treats. It is all made with real food, no refined sugar, no additives and no guilt.
Living with type 1 diabetes, she brings unique insight and precision to every recipe, proving that balance and indulgence can happily coexist. From classic vanilla and dark chocolate to pistachio, mango, matcha and tahini brownie, this is pure ice-cream joy for every craving and every diet.
Packed with step-by-step tips for mastering your Ninja Creami machine, The Ninja Creami Ice Cream Book is more than a recipe book. It’s a joyful and simple guide to everyday indulgence.
Maria Haugland shares her passion for everyday magic, clean eating, good health and an active lifestyle on her popular instagram profile. She lives in Randaberg with her husband, three children and their dog.
Salat
148 x 210 mm / 128 pages
FOOD / SALADS / HEALTHY EATING
Ŭ The next big kitchen craze after the air fryer
Ŭ Fresh, family-friendly recipes for everyday green meals
Ŭ Simple, affordable and full of flavour
Comparative titles:
Ŭ Salad Freak by Jess Damuck
Ŭ Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi
Gitte Witt & Filip Loebbert
SALAD - SO SIMPLE!
A burst of inspiration for greener, tastier everyday meals!
Salad – So Simple! celebrates the joy of eating more plants, less meat and fewer ultra-processed ingredients without sacrificing flavour or satisfaction. With three young boys at home, Gitte and Filip know what real family life looks like: hectic, hungry and always in need of something quick, healthy and good.
This beautifully compact and affordable book offers more than recipes. It’s a new way of thinking about dinner. From easy side salads to hearty main courses, every dish is full of colour, balance and bold taste. You’ll also find twelve delicious base recipes for dressings, sauces and pestos that make healthy cooking effortless.
Accessible, nourishing and full of ideas, Salad – So Simple! is the cookbook you’ll actually keep on your kitchen counter.
Gitte Witt & Filip Loebbert have run the food universe Gitte & Filip for ten years, first as a blog now on social media. This is their second cookbook.
Sommer
210 x 250 mm / 240 pages
FOOD / SEASONAL RECIPES & PRODUCE
Ŭ Part of a series that focusses on seasons
Ŭ Fresh, seasonal and locally sourced ingredients
Ŭ Modern, Norwegian cuisine
Lise Finckenhagen SUMMER
The Four Seasons
Summer is a new cookbook that celebrates the warmest and sunniest season. The book includes recipes for small and large occasions, all built around fresh and healthy local produce.
You will find delicious food for barbecues and outdoor eating, everything from fried mackerel with sour cream sauce and fresh potatoes, to grilled chicken and the best white pizza.
There will be recipes for warm days when you just want something light, fresh and quick. Asparagus salad, carrot hummus, baked leek and open lasagne.
Comfort food for the rainy, gloomy days. A delicious creamy fish soup, butter-fried chanterelle toast, schnitzel of happy pig and a delicious tarte flambée.
There are also recipes with vegetables you may grow in your garden, or berries and plants that you can forage while out for a walk. Rhubarb soup, elderflower syrup and veiled plums. And, not to be missed of course, the food for this summer's festive team, with July ribs, birthday cake for summer children and a delicious whole grilled turbot. All that and much, much more.
With a total of 56 recipes, summer has never tasted better! Summer is the first in a series of cookbooks focused on each season.
Lise Finckenhagen is one of Norway's best-known chefs. She was awarded the Chef of the Year-prize in 2009. She has worked in several reputable restaurants in France and Spain, and was the first Norwegian chef to have worked at El Bulli.
Lise Finckenhagen WINTER
The Four Seasons
Winter is a new cookbook that guides you through the coldest, darkest season with hearty, comforting food. Inside, you’ll find recipes for everything from an ordinary snowy Thursday to the big holiday celebrations – all built around fresh, healthy, locally sourced produce.
Enjoy delicious ragouts, steaming soups, wonderful tarts, and even some forgotten heroes from the eighties. Discover the best classic recipes for Christmas breakfast and dinner, as well as adventurous ideas for giving the big family feast a modern twist. A whole chapter is dedicated to sweet temptations which is a specialty of Finckenhagen, who began her career as a dessert chef.
Winter is also the season when food from the sea is at its very best, and this book offers recipes that make the most of the ocean’s bounty during these cold months.
As always, the recipes are simple to follow, making it easy to deck the halls with dishes bursting with fantastic flavour!
Vinter
210 x 250 mm / 212 pages
FOOD / SEASONAL RECIPES & PRODUCE
Ŭ Part of a series that focusses on seasons
Ŭ Fresh, seasonal and locally sourced ingredients
Ŭ Modern, Norwegian cuisine
Fra mormors kjøkken
195 x 250 mm / 224 pages
FOOD / TRADITIONAL NORWEGIAN CUISINE
Ŭ Traditional Norwegian recipes with a modern touch
Ŭ Focus on preservation and old cooking techniques
Ŭ Heartfelt tribute to culinary heritage
Live Krangnes Edvardsen FROM GRANDMA'S KITCHEN Rediscover Old Recipes
Get inspired to make delicious traditional Norwegian food!
Chef Live has worked in gourmet restaurants both in Norway and abroad, but one of her favourite culinary experiences is to come home to her grandmother Ella's traditional food, made from scratch. These are dishes Ella has made throughout her long life, based on highquality ingredients, often sourced from the nature around her.
In this book, you will find recipes for traditional griddle baking, such as flatbread, lefse and more. You’ll learn how to juice and pickle everything from redcurrants and blackcurrants to crowberries, sea buckthorn, and cloudberries. Make your own vinegar from gooseberries and fireweed, preserve the season’s fruit and berries, and brew garden teas from flowers and herbs.
From time-honoured cakes and desserts to classic everyday dinners like meatballs, stews, cabbage rolls, fish balls in curry sauce, pollock cakes, and herring— this is a heartfelt tribute to Norwegian culinary heritage, inviting a new generation to taste, treasure, and pass it on.
Live Edvardsen is a chef and has worked in gourmet restaurants both at home and abroad. Most recently as head chef at the restaurant Credo in Trondheim. She has also been a judge in the TV success Masterchef Young Talents.
BEVERAGES
Ŭ Cozy recipes for hot drinks with and without alcohol
Ŭ Mix of classics, forgotten traditions and new creations
Ŭ Includes history and cultural context of drinks
Arnt Steffensen
WARMING WINTER DRINKS With and Without Alcohol
Warming Winter Drinks is the book that will make those cold seasons a little cozier and a lot warmer! The recipes are a mix of well-known classics, forgotten classics, and exciting innovations. The most gorgeous hot chocolates both children and adults will love. The best recipe for gløgg. Hot toddies which will cure your winter cold. Warm punches to make even the coldest January nights nice and soft. And a long list of other exciting warm drinks you may have never heard of before, but which you’ll definitely be tempted to try out. How about an Aperol punch, the recipe for King Olav’s hot chocolate or a Harry Potter-inspired Butterbeer? Or could we maybe tempt you with a Mexican Atole with peanut butter?
Something warm and tasty will help you through the dark winter times. Whether it’s a delicious drink around the campfire with good friends, in front of the fireplace on a groggy and dark winter’s night, or on a sunny ski trip with your whole family. As well as recipes, you’ll also learn about the history behind several of the warm drinks: how did Bosse Bergstrøm make Hot Shot a Swedish hit? Does a 300-year-old drink recipe still hit the spot? What is a bouillon pair? And which warm drink put Gwyneth Paltrow on everyone’s lips in 2015?
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.
Varme Vinterdrikker 151 x 226 mm / 152 pages
Thea Engvik HOW TO PAIR WINES
A Beginner's Handbook
Which wine should I pair this with? is a regular question Thea Engvik, chef, sommelier and author, receives. In this book, Engvik teaches you what you need to know to find a perfect wine for every occasion.
She'll help you understand what wine you love, and what you dislike. Thea gives you a useful introduction to ten different wine styles, and advice on the food that goes with it. The goal is that after reading the book, you will walk to the wine shelf with a relaxed air, and no longer run to the bathroom to hide when the wine list is handed out at the restaurant. After reading this book, you will know what you like and know how to put that into words.
Engvik also shares her 22 best recipes for simple, delicious dishes that go perfectly with the wines you are learning about.
Hvilken vin til hva
148 x 210 mm
EASY GUIDE / WINE AND FOOD
Ŭ Beginner-friendly guide to wine pairing
Ŭ Explains wine styles and matching principles
Ŭ Includes 22 recipes paired with wines
Rights sold to:
Ŭ Denmark (EC Edition)
Thea Engvik is a trained chef and sommelier. She has worked as a chef at Noma in Copenhagen and Maaemo in Oslo, both restaurants with three stars in the Michelin guide. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge of food and wine.
Strikk din egen fashion-garderobe
210 x 277 mm / 176 pages
FASHION / KNITTING
Ŭ Fashion-inspired knitting patterns
Ŭ Designs from everyday to statement pieces
Ŭ Encourages creativity and personal style
Camilla Dingsøyr KNIT YOUR OWN FASHION WARDROBE
Knit your own statement pieces and accessories and elevate your wardrobe to new heights!
In Knit Your Own Fashionable Wardrobe, one of Norway’s leading knitting designers, Camilla Dingsøyr, presents patterns inspired by some of her favourite fashion icons. These include Katie Holmes, Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Lauren, Princess Anne, Britney Spears, Neneh Cherry and, of course, Carrie Bradshaw. You'll find designs to elevate your everyday look, as well as pieces perfect for dressing up. With this book, you can even knit an entire wardrobe if you wish.
The author encourages you to get creative and add your own personal twist, making each piece uniquely yours. Alongside the patterns, she shares insights from her own style journey and offers tips on how to style your new handmade garments.
Camilla Dingsøyr has created one of the most popular and groundbreaking knitwear brands in Norway, by focusing on creativity, style, genre, colours and playful cuts. She has a unique ability to spot trends before anyone else and creates unique designs based on her own fashion sense. Her designs are simple, cool and classic. This book is suitable for knitters of all levels.
Camilla Dingsøyr (b. 1975) is an art director and graphic designer trained at Westerdals School of Communication and the Norwegian School of Creative Studies. In the last 14 years, she has worked as a freelance designer, with assignments in the culture sector for clients including Astrup Fearnley and Det Norske Teater. She also runs her own knitwear studio where she designs and sells knitting patterns.
Strikk din egen basisgarderobe
195 x 250 mm / 184 pages
FASHION
Ŭ Timeless wardrobe staples in knit form
Ŭ Focus on sustainability and longevity
Ŭ For knitters of all levels
Rights sold to:
Ŭ Denmark (Turbine)
Camilla Dingsøyr KNIT YOUR OWN WARDROBE ESSENTIALS
Knit Your Own Wardrobe Essentials teaches you to knit the garments you never tire of. Here you will find patterns for beloved essentials, wonderful knits from innermost to outermost layer, timeless classics and chic fashion knits. In other words, everything you need to make wardrobe essentials—all year round!
Author Camilla Dingsøyr designs simple, delicate and classic garments, often with a twist—on several occasions creating new trend garments in the Norwegian knitwear landscape.
The book is jam-packed with both new and classic knits that you can make for years to come—and perhaps pass on to the next generation.
Camilla Dingsøyr (b. 1975) is an art director and graphic designer trained at Westerdals School of Communication and the Norwegian School of Creative Studies. In the last 14 years, she has worked as a freelance designer, with assignments in the culture sector for clients including Astrup Fearnley and Det Norske Teater. She also runs her own knitwear studio where she designs and sells knitting patterns.
Strikk til barn
195 x 250 mm / 184 pages
Ŭ Playful, colourful knits for children aged 2–12
Ŭ Includes accessories like hats and mittens
Ŭ By one of Norway’s most popular designers
Rights sold to:
Ŭ Denmark (Turbine)
Ida Wirak Trettevik KNITS FOR KIDS
One of Norway’s most famous and beloved knitting designers, Witre Design, has launched her very first collection of knitting patterns for children.
The garments are playful and colourful, designed for the everyday life with small children throughout the year. For the summer you can knit dresses and tops, and for the colder months there are patterns for short and long jackets, thick and thin jumpers, and much more.
There are also patterns for accessories, such as balaclavas, mittens, scarves, and hats. Most of the patterns are unisex and are therefore suitable for both boys and girls. The patterns are designed for children aged 2 to 12.
Ida Wirak Trettevik (b. 1989) is the woman behind Witre design,one of Norway's most popular knitting patterns. The first patterns launched in 2018, and from the start, Witre design has focused on a modern expression for knitted garnments and designs, creating patterns that will inspire to knit one's own wardrobe – piece by piece. A strong motivation behind the concept is also to help knitters create pieces of good quality and longevity, adjusted to the individual knitter's own preferences.
Witre design
210 x 297 mm / 208 pages
Ŭ 30 patterns covering all seasons
Ŭ Focus on sustainability and slow fashion
Ŭ Beloved Norwegian knitting brand Witre Design
Rights sold to:
Ŭ World English (Search Press
Ŭ Denmark (Turbine)
Ŭ Finland (Tammi)
Ŭ Germany (Frech Verlag)
Ida Wirak Trettevik A KNITTER’S YEAR
Knitting is not just for the colder seasons, as knitting designer Ida Trettevik proves with the 30 patters found in A Knitter’s Year.
Knitted clothing has become important for many people in a time of increasing focus on slow fashion and sustainability. Because we take extra good care of clothes we make for ourselves, choosing materials and colours we are fond of and will want to wear for a long time. And because a person who knits knows how much work goes into every single piece of clothing. A Knitter’s Year is a result of this: the desire to knit your own wardrobe, with clothing for every season.
The book covers a whole year, and the photos show Ida and her family in well-known locations in Oslo and eventually at their new home on the island of Engeløya in Nordland, Northern Norway.
Ida Wirak Trettevik (b. 1989) is the woman behind Witre design,one of Norway's most popular knitting patterns. The first patterns launched in 2018, and from the start, Witre design has focused on a modern expression for knitted garnments and designs, creating patterns that will inspire to knit one's own wardrobe – piece by piece. A strong motivation behind the concept is also to help knitters create pieces of good quality and longevity, adjusted to the individual knitter's own preferences.
Babystrikk
195 x 250 mm / 160 pages
Ŭ Patterns for ages 0–2, including accessories
Ŭ Focus on comfort and practicality
Ŭ Encourages use of leftover yarn
Ane-Karine Mørk BABY KNITS
Gorgeous patterns for jackets, bodysuits, suits, bonnets, rompers, socks – and much more
Baby Knits offers a charming collection of warm, comfortable, and practical knitted garments for babies aged 0–2 years. The book includes patterns for everything from jackets, hats, and suits to a small teddy bear. With a strong focus on functionality, the author ensures that all garments are easy to put on and take off without having to be pulled over the baby’s head.
Each pattern comes with yarn alternatives in various price ranges and qualities, allowing you to adapt the projects to both the season and your budget. Many of the designs also encourage the use of leftover yarn you may have at home. Several patterns are available in premature sizes as well, making the collection even more versatile.
The book also features a small selection of patterns for mothers. Both expectant and new mums will appreciate soft cardigans and warm, protective nursing pads.
Ane-Karine Øvrum (b. 1988) is a mid-wife and designer of children's clothing. She is known on Instagram as @littleandloop. She lives in Sandefjord with her husband and three kids.
Vottestrikk
195 x 250 mm / 160 pages
Ŭ 34 mitten patterns inspired by tradition
Ŭ Each design named after a pioneering Norwegian woman
Ŭ Combines history, feminism and practical knitting
Nina Granlund Sæther
NORWEGIAN MITTENS
34 patterns inspired by traditional Norwegian knitting
In this inspiring collection, acclaimed designer Nina Granlund Sæther presents 34 exquisite mitten patterns, all grounded in the rich heritage of traditional Norwegian knitting. Using pure Norwegian wool yarn, each design features elegant, contemporary colour palettes that are fresh, muted, and beautifully balanced.
What sets this book apart is its subtle feminist thread: each mitten is named after a remarkable Norwegian woman—trailblazers like Aasta Hansteen, Betzy Kjelsberg, Camilla Collett, and Gina Krog. Alongside each pattern, you’ll find a short introduction to their lives and legacies, celebrating their contributions while keeping their stories quite literally in your hands.
The book is also a practical treasure trove for knitters. It addresses the most common questions and challenges: covering yarn and colour selection, needle types, gauge, sizing, picking up stitches for the thumb, how to read and mirror pattern diagrams, correcting mistakes, decorative techniques, and final finishing. Whether you’re an experienced knitter or a beginner eager to learn, you'll find expert support and inspiration on every page. All patterns are available in both women’s and men’s sizes.
The mitten is close to designer Nina Granlund Sæther's heart – it is one of her favourite items to knit and design, and she is perhaps our foremost designer of knitted mittens in Norway. There is no one better to help you keep your hands warm through the colder seasons.
Nina Granlund Sæther is a journalist and editor. She trained as an arts and crafts teacher and has written several books on handcraft. She contributes patterns to the weekly press and gives lessons on knitting.
