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FICTION

The Female Friendships series: Witty, wise,

and wonderfully human

Heidi Linde

A series about sisterhood, resilience, and the messy beauty of growing up – together.

It all began in the fall of 1993, when four young women – Petra, Therese, Solvår, and Dagny – met at a renowned drama school outside of Oslo, dreaming of art, meaning, and a place in the world.

Only one of them would go on to become an actress, but their bond would last a lifetime.

The Frontline (spring 2026) takes place thirty years later, as the friends prepare for their annual pre-Christmas reunion. Dagny – a survivor of a difficult childhood, now a childless doctor – faces a demanding day at the hospital. When a severely injured six-year-old is rushed in, she’s forced to confront memories she thought she had mastered – as well as the lingering question of how we become the people we are.

The upcoming novel, Next of Kin (spring 2027), follows Therese – a newly divorced actress and mother of three – as she navigates the chaos of midlife with both vulnerability and grace.

PETRA THERESE SOLVÅR

Across four novels, Heidi Linde tells the story of these four women – their friendship, their failures, and their fierce loyalty to one another.

HEIDI LINDE (b. 1973) is one of Norway’s most beloved contemporary authors, known for her sharp wit, emotional insight, and masterful storytelling.

Over the years, she has written a number of highly praised novels for both adults and children, and her books have been translated into numerous languages.

Her breakthrough came with What she’s complaining about when she’s complaining about the housework (2020) – a witty, honest and deeply relatable portrayal of modern womanhood that cemented her position as a leading voice in contemporary Nordic fiction.

Linde’s novels are engaging, funny, and full of compassion, written with a keen eye for the everyday dramas and quiet braveries of human relationships. Critics have called her “a Norwegian Nick Hornby,” “a Jonathan Franzen with a female gaze,” and “a kindred spirit to Lars Saabye Christensen.”

In My Cozy Lair

Helene Uri

Number of pages: 288

Year of publication: 2026

A taut and unsettling story of exploitation and power

A solitary middle-aged man decides to rent out the basement apartment in his house. A young single mother moves in with her daughter. Soon the three of them form a kind of family unit: he helps them with day-to-day matters, she brings life and vitality into his existence. They go for walks in the forest and celebrate Christmas together; he looks after her daughter.

Fifteen years later, they find themselves in a courtroom. He is in the dock; she reels from the devastating realization that her sense of safety was an illusion. How did they end up here?

In My Cozy Lair is an elegant, seductive, and deeply disturbing portrayal of two people who overstep boundaries in each other’s lives. A story of self-deception and transgression, inspired by real events.

“Always light on her feet and sharp of pen. Entertaining and incisive, yet always rooted in empathy […] Even after the crime is revealed, the novel holds its grip on the reader through Helene Uri’s psychologically astute portrayals. In My Cozy Lair has become suspenseful entertainment with keen observations of the explosive potential hidden in everyday life.”

DAGSAVISEN

“Exceptionally rich in perspective, this is a novel about two lonely people who move into the same house […] The book is marked by deep psychological insight. As always, Uri’s linguistic precision and vitality help convey a difficult theme. I delight in imagery that also carries real substance.”

ADRESSEAVISEN

HELENE URI (b. 1964) holds a PhD in linguistics and worked for twelve years at the University of Oslo before leaving academia to write full-time. She made her literary debut in 2001 with the novel Deep Red 315, and in addition to her fiction she has published numerous non-fiction works in the field of linguistics. Uri’s books have been translated into several languages.

No One Has Seen Your Story

Maren Elise Skolem

Number of pages: 304

Year of publication: 2026

No One Has Seen Your Story is a novel about who we become when what we do no longer aligns with who we thought we were – and about everything we do for those we belong to, whether we want to or not.

Two hundred years ago, the first Norwegians left their homeland to try their luck in America. Now one of their descendants is travelling in the opposite direction. Jamie, an ambitious publisher from Los Angeles, escapes to Oslo with a podcast idea about his enigmatic great-grandfather – and a secret motive he would rather not talk about. Back in the US, a looming scandal threatens to tear his career to shreds.

In Oslo, Jamie stumbles into a family who had no idea they had an American relative – and who already have more than enough on their plates. Ylva is a mother of two in the midst of her own midlife crisis, trying to ignore the fact that she is dreaming of another man than the one she's married to.. At the same time, her teenage son Øystein is trying to save his twin sister – who has no intention of being saved.

MAREN SKOLEM (b. 1991) is a screenwriter educated at the Norwegian Film School and has attended creative writing programmes in Bø and Tromsø. She primarily works in film and television. Skolem made her literary debut in 2022 with the young adult novel What I Did with the Money No One Has Seen Your Story is her second novel for adults.

Drought Summer

Steinar Opstad

Drought Summer is Steinar Opstad’s first novel.

It tells the story of twelve-year-old Snorre Buvin, who lives through a dramatic summer, both inwardly and outwardly. The village of Vestre Spån is suffering from drought, and his father, along with the other farmers, fears the consequences. Snorre’s mother becomes mentally ill and is eventually hospitalized. The neighboring farmer Rolleiv becomes important to Snorre, until something happens between them that should never have happened.

Snorre feels different. At times, he does not know whether he is a boy, a girl, or an elf.

Drought Summer is written in a vivid, poetic language with a distinctly literary orality to it.

Number of pages: 247

Year of publication: 2026

STEINAR OPSTAD (b. 1971) is a Norwegian poet based in Oslo. He has studied German, history of religions, and literary studies at the Universities of Oslo and Bergen. Drought Summer is his first novel.

“Steinar Opstad makes his fiction debut with a deeply moving story that stays with the reader. […] Drought Summer is not a dark novel. It is filled with light: a beautiful and tender story of close friendships, first love, and the courage to be yourself.”

DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

“Steinar Opstad’s debut novel is an intense and exceptionally strong portrayal of youthful desire.”

KLASSEKAMPEN

Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach!

Johan Harstad

Number of pages: 976

Year of publication: 2024

Foreign Sales:

Denmark, Gutkind

Germany, Ullstein

The Netherlands, Podium

Croatia, OceanMore

Poland, Wydawnicza

Relacja / Mamania

Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach! is a novel about the discovery of a paving-stone-shaped object which, when touched, is said to create the illusion of having lived an entire life within the span of seven minutes.

Centered around a group of teens in Stavanger in the late nineties, taking numerous historical and geographical detours to the Soviet Union, Berlin, Warsaw, small-town Iceland, Shanghai and, last but not least, the remote island Tristan da Cunha in the sixties, featuring suburban youth on the hunt for the next industrial exhaust fan to warm themselves by in the evenings, Cold War spies with multiple and shifting loyalties, Zapatistas who keep things local, marijuana wholesalers of questionable mental caliber, young people in love, amateur radio dads who are all widowers, old-school and new-school sailors, Icelandic ecoterrorists, suicidal single moms, self-tormenting clinical directors, psychiatric patients (and some who probably should’ve been), an adventurous local meteorologist from Stavanger, an astrophysicist with an urgent need to explain himself about nonacademic topics, and with guest appearances from figures like Andrei Tarkovsky and Erich Mielke, the novel explores the idea that time might never really have been on our side after all.

This is an epic story about waiting; for life to begin, for things to pass, waiting for the right one, waiting for death, waiting in vain. It is a novel about Ingmar, Jonatan and Peter. And Ebba.

JOHAN HARSTAD (b. 1979) is a Norwegian author and playwright. He made his debut in 2001 with the short prose collection Herfra blir du bare eldre (From Here on in You Just Get Older) and has since published collections of short stories, plays, a YA novel, as well as the novels Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? (2005), Hässelby (2007) and Max, Mischa & The Tet Offensive (2015). The latter, which has received overwhelming acclaim in Norway, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, was awarded the Dutch Europese Literatuurprijs in 2018. The production of the play Osv. (Etc.) at the National Theatre, where Harstad was the inhouse playwright in 2009, was awarded the Ibsen Prize. He has also been awarded the Hunger Prize for his «younger, eminent» literary work, and the prestigious Svenska Akademiens Dobloug Award for his authorship. His books have been published in over 30 countries. Harstad lives in Oslo.

Nominated for the 2025 Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Author Photos: John Erik Riley

"A LITERARY MASTERPIECE.

A homage to the world’s raging realities and amazing opportunities. "

VG

"Under the Paving-Stones, the Beach! is a massive achievement from a man with an extraordinary knack for storytelling and an affinity both for horror movies, spy thrillers and cowboy classics. The best of the best in this enormous novel is the coming-of-age story set to Forus and Stavanger in the 90s, a heartfelt and at the same time carefree story of friendship, love and the youthful restlessness of waiting for something wonderful to happen"

NRK

"This is the biggest novel of the year. A triple album of a novel, it elegantly weaves together different genres: sci-fi, spy thriller, nonfiction and coming-of-age. It all results in a tremendous read, a harrowing and highly relevant novel of our time."

ADRESSEAVISEN

A Sudden Appeal of the Jungle

Nikolaj Frobenius

A bold and deeply personal novel that is sure to spark debate.

In this raw and gripping story, acclaimed author Nikolaj Frobenius explores a man’s descent into crisis and his desperate search for meaning. At midlife, V. realizes he has lost control over his substance use. Though he has long appeared functional in both work and family life, he now finds himself overwhelmed by anxiety and alienation. Traditional therapy fails him, and he turns instead to literature, philosophy, and the frontiers of consciousness research.

His journey ultimately leads him deep into the Peruvian jungle, and to the ancient psychedelic brew ayahuasca.

A Sudden Appeal of the Jungle is a fearless exploration of mental health, addiction, and the blurred lines between science and mysticism.

NIKOLAJ FROBENIUS (b. 1965) is an author and screenwriter whose novels have been published in over 15 countries. He debuted in 1986 with the poetry and prose collection Virvl, and gained international recognition with Latour’s Catalogue in 1996. Frobenius studied film at The London Institute and has written several screenplays, including Insomnia (1997), later remade in Hollywood, and Sons of Norway (2011), based on his own novel Theory and Practice.

NIKOLAJ FROBENIUS

EN UvENtA dRAgNINg mOt JUNgELEN

Roman

Number of pages: 280

Year of publication: 2025

Deathwork

Kjersti Anfinnsen

Number of pages: 108

Year of publcation: 2025

A powerful and unflinching novel about the final chapter of life.

In a private care home outside Paris, Birgitte Solheim lies on her deathbed. Blind, fully depenent, and nearing the end, she drifts between memories and moments of lucidity, visited by caretakers, ghosts, and fragments of her past. The days are long, the loneliness unbearable, and death feels like the only remaining relief.

Deathwork is a stark and lyrical meditation on aging, mortality, and the slow unraveling of self. It is the third and final novel in Kjersti Anfinnsen’s acclaimed trilogy about retired heart surgeon Birgitte Solheim, following The Last Signs of Love and Moments for Eternity —both widely praised and sold to 13 countries.

With quiet intensity and emotional precision, Anfinnsen gives voice to a woman facing the inevitable, from a place deep in the dark.

KJERSTI ANFINNSEN (b. 1975) lives in Oslo. She has taken a Creative Writing course at the Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and works as a dentist. Deathwork is the third and final book in the trilogy about Birgitte.

Awarded the Havmann prize 2020.

Foreign Sales: The books about Birgitte are sold to 13 countries.

«Touching and wise from the deathbed. Birgitte can be eccentric and unsympathetic, but also fierce, insightful and at times unintentionally funny. The language is precise, grounded, and focused. The author doesn’t overuse metaphors; those she does employ feel carefully chosen. Through short chapters resembling diary entries, Birgitte reflects uncompromisingly, often with biting sarcasm, on life’s highs and lows. She carries grief, loss, and longing and a wealth of life wisdom.

Anfinnsen never falls into the trap of caricature. Instead, she inhabits Birgitte’s experience and her gradual loss of self in a completely unsentimental way that feels deeply authentic. Birgitte comes across as profoundly human. I found myself thinking about her long after finishing the book.»

NRK

«With every page and every passing day, I suffer alongside the dying Birgitte, who can do nothing but wait. The question of how we best support someone during this time continues to echo long after the final word is written and the last breath is taken.»

VÅRT LAND

«With this third and final novel about the Norwegian heart surgeon who has lived and worked in Paris, Anfinnsen has completed a trilogy about aging and death. The result is three slender novels, each containing a surprisingly powerful narrative. Seemingly light and seductive, yet sharp, sorrowful, moving, and darkly humorous. It is a bold undertaking to depict a person’s final days. But Kjersti Anfinnsen balances this impressively.»

DAGSAVISEN

Exchanges

Hanna Stoltenberg

Number of pages: 190

Year of publication: 2025

A new novel from the Tarjei Vesaas Prize–winning author.

When Alma arrives in Beirut with her boyfriend Eivind, who has taken a job with a humanitarian aid organization, she finds herself adrift in a city that feels both vibrant and impenetrable. While Eivind tries to make a difference in the lives of others, Alma spends her days wandering or alone in their rented apartment. Her only real conversations are with their landlord, Paul, who is full of unsolicited advice.

Everything changes when she meets Lisbet, the magnetic wife of a Norwegian diplomat. In Lisbet’s presence, Alma’s days take on a new intensity. But Lisbet’s attention is hard to hold, and when Eivind also begins to slip away into a larger world, Alma must fight not to be left behind.

Exchanges is a sharp, emotionally resonant novel about the roles we play and the ones we’re given, about guilt, authenticity, and what it means to live fully and truthfully.

“The relationships in Hanna Stoltenberg’s second novel resonate with a fascinating, discordant intensity. [...] The novel balances between the intellectual and the emotional, the raw and the sensual. It moves effortlessly back and forth in time in an accessible yet charged prose. … Exchanges is a highly readable novel about loneliness and alienation, identity and experience, intimacy and betrayal. And, at its deepest level, about the events that shape us for life.”

MAYA TROBERG DJUVE, DAGBLADET

HANNA STOLTENBERG (b. 1989) was born and raised in Oslo. She has worked as a freelance journalist for Aftenposten K, D2, and Morgenbladet. Her debut novel Nada earned her the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas’ Debut Prize. En positiv forskjell (Exchanges) is her second novel.

The Light Beyond

Levi Henriksen

A powerful new Skogli novel from one of Norway’s most beloved storytellers.

In this moving sequel to the award-winning Snow Will Fall on Fallen Snow, Levi Henriksen returns with a heartfelt story about grief, fatherhood, and the long shadows of the past.

Daniel Kaspersen’s life is turned upside down when Mona, the woman he found happiness with twenty years ago, passes away. Left to care for her son Sebastian and their daughter Jakobine, Daniel struggles to hold on to the man he was with Mona. As he battles sorrow and self-doubt, he must also navigate the challenges of single fatherhood in the house his great-grandfather built at the foot of Brattberget.

The Light Beyond is a deeply human novel about love, loss, and the quiet strength it takes to build a future when the past refuses to let go.

“A brilliant sequel. […] A powerful novel about grief and a slippery serial offender, and a cleverly suspenseful continuation of the story from the successful debut. […] Levi Henriksen’s novel truly sings, but with a serious undertone.”

ADRESSEAVISEN

LEVI HENRIKSEN (b. 1964) is an award-winning author known for his short stories and novels, with a strong and loyal readership. He made his literary debut in 2002 with the short story collection Fever, followed by Down, Down, Down in 2003. His breakthrough came in 2004 with the bestselling novel Snow Will Fall on Fallen Snow, which won the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize. Henriksen’s writing blends a rugged, masculine tone with emotional depth, often set in rural landscapes where traditional and modern values collide. His hometown of Kongsvinger frequently appears in his work.

Number of pages: 304 Year of publication: 2025

The Sister Bells Trilogy

Lars Mytting

Spanning 1500 pages, 80 years and 3 generations, the Sister Bells Trilogy is an epic tale that combines Norwegian folklore and mythology with the drama of the modern novel – a story rich with hardship, faith, war, passion and technical evolution. Already considered a modern classic, and with more than 400 000 copies sold, it’s the bestselling trilogy in Norway over the past 70 years.

The Bell in the Lake

The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 1

As long as anyone could remember, the Sister Bells had rung over the narrow valley, with a sound so rich and powerful that three masses were all it took to render the bell-ringer deaf. The bells were forged in remembrance of the twins Halfrid and Gunhild Hekne, who were conjoined from the hips down. There was always an air of something greater about the twins, as if they belonged to a different, more powerful world altogether, and one of the tapestries they wove was said to foretell the future.

In 1879, a young pastor, just graduated, moves into the rectory where nineteenyear-old Astrid is in service. From Germany a young stranger arrives with grand visions for the parish. The old stave church that has housed the bells for centuries faces an uncertain future, and soon the village is subjected to sudden changes and unyielding wills.

LARS MYTTING (b. 1968) made his debut with the novel Horsepower (Hestekrefter) in 2006. Norwegian Wood (Hel ved, 2011) became an international bestseller and won the British Book Industry Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 2016. In 2014, he received the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for the novel The Sixteen Trees of the Somme (Svøm med dem som drukner), which has been published in 17 languages and appeared on The Times’ bestseller list. In 2018, The Bell in the Lake (Søsterklokkene), the first book in the Sister Bells trilogy, was published. It was followed by The Reindeer Hunters (Hekneveven) in 2020, and in 2023, The Night of the Scourge (Skråpånatta), the final installment, was published. Mytting’s books have sold over one million copies worldwide and have been published in 23 languages. In 2022, he was awarded the Dobloug Prize.

The Reindeer Hunters

The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 2

The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since parish pastor Kai Schweigaard returned to Butangen in Gudbrandsdalen with Astrid Hekne’s newborn son Jehans on his lap. Facing a well-kept grave outside the new church, he is tormented by his old betrayal, which led to several deaths and the separation of the two powerful church bells. The bells were cast in memory of two conjoined sisters in Astrid’s family, two mythical weavers. Schweigaard becomes obsessed with finding the ancient Hekne tapestry, made by the sisters and lost for centuries, hoping it will show how he can atone for his misdeeds and reunite the bells.

Jehans has grown up and lives in modest conditions on a homestead farm, ostracized by his own family. He instead seeks the mountains, where he enjoys freedom, fishing, and reindeer hunting. One August morning, Jehans kills a massive reindeer bull, and in the same moment encounters a mysterious hunter.

The Reindeer Hunters is a grand story of a country headed for a new era, of land clearing and futile toiling, of taming waterfalls and lighting the first electrical spark in the deep, dark, rural nights, and about the great European war where brother faces brother.

The Night of the Scourge

The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 3

The Night of the Scourge is an epic novel about a village community and a country at large headed into war, about the passing of generations, about betrayal, and about an aging pastor caught in the prophecy of his own death. A new generation at Hekne has inherited the obsessions of their ancestors and senses that the warnings of the Hekne tapestry will soon be fulfilled, among them the warning of the night of the scourge; a doomsday night that, according to old village beliefs, will be the last day of the world as they know it.

The Sister Bells Trilogy is translated into 18 languages, with more to come.

«Sensuous and at the same time systematic about local legend, jealousy and grief.»

STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

«As a whole, it is an amazing story, so deep and intense that it surpasses most recent Norwegian novels. And the intensity drives both the reader and the characters from one extreme to another.»

HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD

Beneath the Danish King’s Flag

Bjørn

Andreas Bull-Hansen

Number of pages: 480

Year of publication: 2025

The epic Viking saga continues.

Set in the year 1021, the seventh installment of the bestselling Jomsviking series delivers sweeping historical drama from the final golden age of the Viking era. As Europe shifts toward centralized power and new alliances, the legendary brotherhood of the Jomsvikings faces extinction.

Torstein Jarl travels to Wales for the funeral feast of Sigurd Buesson, while in England, Cnut the Great now rules with the support of the Saxon nobility. Yet Torstein still dreams of reclaiming Vingulmork and driving Olaf the Stout out of Norway. In Sweden, Prince Anund prepares to seize power and seeks an alliance with Torstein’s clan.

Battles loom, loyalties are tested, and honor is at stake, but Torstein is no longer a young man. Will Norway’s noblemen rise against Olaf before it’s too late?

Beneath the Danish King’s Flag offers a vivid portrait of a Europe in transition, where ancient loyalties clash with emerging power structures, a gripping historical tale with striking relevance to our own time.

BJØRN ANDREAS BULL-HANSEN (b. 1972) debuted with his short story collection Seven Stories From the Western Forest in 1996. Since then, he has written a number of books across a variety of genres. He had his international breakthrough with his novel Jomsviking (2017), which is the first in a sweeping historical series from the Viking Age. Throughout his authorship, Bull Hansen has become known for his gripping stories and powerful tales of human destiny.

Foreign Sales: Netherland, Meulenhoff Boekerij Poland, Virtualo Spain, Editorial Planeta Sweden, Lind & Co. Germany, Penguin Verlag Hungary, Central Kiadói Csoport Russia, AST Bulgaria, Uniscorp Publishing House

Fading Light

Kristin Vego

Number of pages: 144

Year of publication: 2024

Foreign Sales:

Denmark, Turbine

Germany, Suhrkamp/Insel

How do I go about describing this time? The small pockets of time where there were no other witnesses: These are the ones I want to pick up, like jellyfish, and hold to the light. See the filaments inside.

Johanne rents a room in a white house in the countryside. Almost without noticing, she slips into a relationship with Mikael, the man who lives there. It develops into a love lasting a lifetime. With the relationship comes Mikael’s daughter, his ex-wife, and the characteristic landscape surrounding them. Seventeen years later, Johanne sits in the house alone, beginning to pen down their story as the days grow shorter and autumn turns to winter.

Fading Light is a novel about the cycles of the female body, about the fear of losing the one you love, and about appreciating the here-and-now fully; a delicate and powerful exploration of the threads that tie us to a place and to each other.

«Danish-Norwegian Kristin Vego was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas Debut Prize for her debut collection of short stories, Look Your Last on All Things Lovely, in 2021. When she now publishes her first novel, she lets the stringency and concentration of the short story form carry over. […] Vego’s way of conveying and putting feelings into words is through lovely, almost lyrical images that feels like they are experienced through the body.»

ADRESSEAVISEN

«A remarkably good novel. […] especially the ability to write forth a characteristic atmosphere and mood, a mellow elegy of a time and a relationship that has faded to dust, makes an impact. Descriptions of the ways that humans and nature interact is another literary vein that makes Vego’s novel stand out.»

MORGENBLADET

Maybe It Is My Heart

- On Literature and Motherhood

Kristin Vego

Perhaps this is the true sorrow of motherhood, that we lose our children day by day. They never return.

When Kristin Vego became a mother, she found herself unable to write fiction for a long time. Instead, she turned to the novels and short stories she loves, trying to understand what makes them so exceptional. What makes a literary text good? What is the writer’s method? Woven into Vego’s own reflections on writing and reading are the experience of motherhood, from birth through her child’s first year. In a long essay, she explores the relationship between mothers and daughters as it is written by authors such as Marlen Haushofer, Elena Ferrante, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Rachel Cusk.

Maybe It Is My Heart is an exploration of what literature can be, and at the same time an intimate portrayal of a mother’s first year of life with a small child.

Number of pages: 208 Year of publication: 2026

KRISTIN VEGO (f. 1991) is a DanishNorwegian author from Aarhus, Denmark, living in Oslo. She made her debut in 2021 with the short story collection Look Your Last on All Things Lovely. The book was published in Danish in 2022. For her debut, she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas Debut Prize in Norway and the Bogforum Debut Prize in Denmark. Vego is a former editor of the literary magazine Vagant and a literary critic in Dagbladet Information. Maybe It Is My Heart is her first collection of essays.

FEELGOOD

Under the Midnight Sun

Kaja Nylund

Under the Midnight Sun marks the beginning of a sweeping new historical series set in Lofoten, with two planned releases per year. Each novel follows one member of the Frost family, weaving together love, family ties, and social change at the turn of the century.

The series combines dramatic landscapes, heartfelt romance, and the sweeping changes of a society on the brink of modernity.

Number of pages: 350

Year of publication: 2026

Foreign Sales:

Sweden, Gyldendal Astra

Denmark, Gyldendal Astra

Finland, Gyldendal Astra

Lofoten, 1890s. Norway is changing at a breathtaking pace. Sailing ships are replaced by steamships, the labor movement is gaining ground, industrialization is transforming society, and the first women’s rights organizations are being formed. Yet the sea remains a powerful force, connecting and dividing lives alike. Surrounded by Lofoten’s sharp mountains and unforgiving currents lives the large Frost family. Ludvig and his French wife, Amélie, have one son and five daughters. The heir, Lucien, along with Clara and Florence, still live at home in the family trading post, while Helena has settled in Bergen, Elodie lives in Brittany in France, and Hedvig resides just across the strait in Lofoten.

Each of the Frost siblings will have their own novel. In this first book, readers are introduced to six siblings and the beginning of six unforgettable love stories, set against the dramatic landscape of northern Norway.

KAJA NYLUND (b. 1982) is a bestselling series author in Norway and abroad, with more than one million copies sold in Norway and over 150,000 audiobook streams in Denmark and Sweden. Known for her evocative settings, strong female characters, and emotionally rich storytelling, she writes for readers who love immersive, romantic historical fiction.

The Summer Fjord Series

Dorthe Erichsen

The Summer Fjord Series (Sommerfjorden) is a warm and lighthearted series set in Lillevik, a fictional town nestled in a Norwegian fjord. This is Norwegian feelgood at its best!

Number of pages: 336

Year of publication: 2025

Strawberry Days

The Summer Fjord Series Vol. 1

For Emma – a middle school teacher in her midthirties – life takes an unexpected turn when Andreas, her long-term partner, suddenly breaks up with her and moves to the U.S. Along with him, the future she had carefully planned vanishes. What now?

Her friends – Charlotte, a glamorous housewife, and Mari, a customs officer – send Emma on a holiday to a rented cabin in Lillevik by Sommerfjorden. Here, she is supposed to work in a strawberry field and take some time for herself. But the peaceful solo retreat she envisioned doesn’t quite go as planned – especially when her well-meaning but overbearing grandmother insists on coming along. Emma soon realizes she must learn to set boundaries, even with those closest to her.

DORTHE ERICHSEN (b. 1961) is a well-known Norwegian author and translator. She has previously written three historical romance series, which have been successful both nationally and internationally. The Sommerfjord series marks her debut in the feelgood genre and her first publications with Gyldendal.

Foreign Sales:

North/Denmark – Swedish digital rights

North/Denmark – Danish digital rights

North/Denmark– Dutch digital rights

The Angel in the Tree

The Summer Fjord Series Vol. 2

Charlotte, a 35-year-old housewife and yoga enthusiast, is married to finance broker Wilhelm and mother to nine-year-old twins. She gave up a promising sales career to manage the household full-time. But her marriage is faltering, Wilhelm is distant and secretive. Is he hiding something?

A call from her friend Jenny, who works at Havblikk Hotel by Sommerfjorden, offers Charlotte a chance to escape. Jenny needs someone to house-sit and fill in at the hotel over Christmas. When Charlotte uncovers Wilhelm’s secret, her world collapses. She decides to take Jenny’s offers, she’ll be the stand-in herself, leaving Wilhelm to handle Christmas.

But when Charlotte arrives, she notices something strange: the angel is missing from its usual spot. Why today? And was Jenny’s call really a coincidence?

Number of pages: 300 Year of publication: 2025

Midsummer

The Summer Fjord Series Vol. 3

Life as a customs officer can be stressful, and it doesn’t get any easier when your live-in partner is controlling and manipulative. One day, Mari has had enough, and the way she handles a suspected drug smuggler could, to put it mildly, have gone better. Long story short, she ends up being suspended from her job.

But every cloud has a silver lining. The enforced break leads Mari to a campsite by the Summer Fjord, and to a summer that promises to become the most intense and romantic she has ever experienced.

Number of pages: 332 Year of publication: 2026

CRIME FICTION

The Night Flyers

Lotte Eigeland

The Night Flyers is the first book in a planned crime series featuring Bunty and Jack. The series will take readers on a historical journey through 1930s America and a Europe on the brink, filled with intricate murder mysteries, high tension, steamy romance, and irresistible charm.

Number of pages: 340

Year of publication: 2026

A charming and fast-paced crime novel.

The Atlantic Ocean, April 1930

A glamorous Hollywood actress is found murdered at the Polaris seadrome, one of three landing platforms for transatlantic flights located far out at sea. The seadromes are a favored playground for the upper classes, where alcohol flows freely despite the Prohibition era.

Young stunt pilot Bunty Thorvaldsen is tasked with flying out homicide investigator Jack Tarkowski, who has been assigned to solve the case. Bunty has a troubled past and prefers not to talk about her upbringing in the Norwegian-American community of Minnesota. She could also do without her bad habit of flirting with men. Jack, for his part, is struggling both mentally and physically after being seriously wounded in the line of duty. As he interviews witnesses and suspects, he soon realizes that he needs Bunty’s help, as she is sharpwitted and observant.

There is no room for mistakes or missteps in the intense investigation, which increasingly takes on the character of a locked-room mystery. The only problem is that they both, quite simply, want each other far too much.

LOTTE EIGELAND (b. 1977) is an archaeologist and a researcher at the University of Oslo. She grew up in Bleik, a small fishing village on the outer edge of the ocean on the island of Andøya in the Vesterålen archipelago. With family ties to the Norwegian Armed Forces and a close connection to Andøya Air Station, she developed an early interest in aviation history and the interwar period. Eigeland has worked, among other places, at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo and has published, translated, and edited academic literature on prehistoric periods in Norway and Northern Europe. The Night Flyers is her debut novel.

The Living Darkness

Ørjan

N. Karlsson

Number of pages: 336

Year of publication: 2025

The fourth installment in the bestselling crime series featuring Jakob Weber from Bodø.

During an unusually hot summer week in Bodø, a gruesome discovery is made at a local waste facility—human body parts scattered among the refuse. At the same time, a half-naked, bloodied, and threatening man is spotted in the scenic tourist area of Gildeskål, 100 kilometers to the south. Chief investigator Jakob Weber is quickly drawn into a complex and high-pressure case.

As both incidents attract national media attention, the investigation is plagued by leaks, and Weber must juggle limited resources while haunted by the feeling that something crucial is slipping through his fingers.

Meanwhile, far from the public eye, a farmhand named Abraham experiences a series of disturbing and inexplicable events on a neighboring farm: a wolf that comes and goes, a mysterious beekeeper, and a corpse that vanishes without a trace.

The Living Darkness is a chilling and atmospheric crime novel that blends psychological tension with the raw beauty of Northern Norway. Ørjan N. Karlsson once again delivers a gripping story where nothing is quite as it seems.

Foreign Sales:

Netherlands, Uitgeverij Marmer

Germany, Pendragon

UK, Orenda Books

Bulgaria, Izida

Denmark, Gads

Sweden, Lind & co

ØRJAN N. KARLSSON (b. 1970) grew up in Bodø and has published numerous thrillers, science fiction books, crime novels, and two audio originals. He has worked for the Ministry of Defence and is currently head of a department at the Directorate for Civil Protection. The Living Darkness is the fourth book in the series about police investigator Jakob Weber.

Out of Control

Agnes Lovise Matre

Number of pages: 312

Year of publication: 2026

Foreign Sales: Denmark, Straarup & Co.

Book six in the Dark Fjord series.

It is early summer in Hardanger. A young woman is found murdered in the woods overlooking the ferry quay in the idyllic village of Tørvikbygd. The crime scene is eerily clean, with no blood or other traces, and it is clear that the body has been placed there. At this time of year, Hardanger is flooded with tourists passing through, and there is an urgent need to map the crowded field of possible suspects.

When the police begin to suspect that the victim is a young Ukrainian woman involved in prostitution, talk of dropping the case quickly emerges. Police chief Bengt Alvsaker and his local team find themselves more or less alone in insisting on justice for the young woman. The investigation leads into human trafficking and prostitution rings, towards wealthy financiers and unidentified accomplices.

Then attention turns to a fourteen-year-old Norwegian boy from the area.

AGNES LOVISE MATRE (b. 1966) debuted in 2012 with Stroke

My Hair and has since published several novels. Her first crime novel, Looks Can Be Deceiving (Gyldendal, 2017), launched the Dark Fjord series.

In 2020, she received the Silver Dagger Award for her novel Ice Cold.

Hush, Little Doll

Ingrid Berglund

Number of pages: 304

Year of publication: 2026

Foreign Sales: Switzerland (French rights), OMBUDFILMS Sàrl

The fourth novel featuring estate lawyer Oda Krohg and her assistant Reidar Simonsen.

Estate lawyer Oda Krohg and her unqualified assistant, Reidar Simonsen, have just wrapped up yet another demanding case and are looking forward to a quiet autumn. But Oda is filled with unease. She has a persistent feeling that someone has been inside her house, and fears she is being watched.

Ghosts from the past begin to resurface: her foster homes, her years of homelessness—but above all, the childhood nightmare that has shaped her entire life, and which she has almost managed to suppress. After many years living under a secret identity, Oda realises that her past may be catching up with her.

There is a man.

And he wants revenge.

INGRID BERGLUND (b. 1966) holds a Master’s degree in economics and finance. Her background spans from working as a bartender in London and an auxiliary nurse in Australia to being a financial analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank and Norsk Hydro. She has written several crime fiction books.

Even If the Sky Falls

Inger Johanne Øen

Number of pages: 304

Year of publication: 2026

Sequel to the critically acclaimed debut What’s Yours to Keep.

It is Christmas Eve. Two men are found bound and shot beneath a Christmas tree at a cabin, and with that, police investigator Silja Frost’s family holiday is abruptly cancelled. The two men are wellknown cultural figures who once dominated Oslo’s nightlife, marked by lavish spending, drugs, and young women. They had status, they had power, and they used it.

Silja soon realizes that the murders must be driven by revenge. But revenge for what, and carried out by whom?

Working alongside colleagues from Kripos and the local police station, she embarks on a nervewracking investigation that will lead her to carefully guarded secrets and give her an unexpected opportunity to confront her own past.

INGER JOHANNE ØEN (b. 1971) comes from Åsa and now lives in Hallingby, Ringerike. She made her debut with What's Yours to Keep in 2024. It received excellent reviews both domestically and in Sweden, where it was published in 2025. The sequel, Even If the Sky Falls, will be released in February 2026.

All Shall Turn to Dust

Jørgen Brekke

God created most people to populate hell.

Odd Singsaker has long since settled into retirement and spends much of his time at his new cabin in Oppdal. He finds happiness in the company of his daughter Anne and his dog, Snusen. These days, it is his partner Felicia who heads to Singsaker’s former workplace, Trondheim Police Station, every morning.

The harmony is shattered when the neighbouring cabin suddenly goes up in flames—an event

Singsaker witnesses, helplessly, from a distance. After the fire, the owners of the cabin, a small family of three, are found dead. Everything points to a case of domestic murder-suicide.

Singsaker, however, is not convinced, and begins to conduct his own investigation in collaboration with the independent-minded librarian Siri Holm.

Together they enter a labyrinth of dark desires, dominance and submission, and pure evil.

All Shall Turn to Dust is a crime novel about close relationships, transgression, and a patient yet limitless killer. This is the ninth title in the Singsaker Series.

Number of pages: 304

Year of publication: 2026

JØRGEN BREKKE (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 2011 with Where Monsters Dwell, which was selected as a main title in two book clubs and sold to numerous countries. Since then, Brekke has written a wide range of crime novels for both adults and young readers and has received several awards for his writing.

NON FICTION

Norwegian Wood II –

Revised & Expanded Edition

Lars Mytting

Number of pages: 339

Year of publication: 2025

A major new edition of Norwegian Wood. Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever.

We’re delighted to announce the release of a fully revised and significantly expanded edition of Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting, already a global publishing phenomenon and the definitive reference on firewood. With over 600,000 copies sold, film rights sold and translations in 22 languages, this classic returns at the perfect moment: when environmental awareness, energy self-reliance, and timeless crafts are more important than ever.

This new edition is twice as comprehensive as the first Norwegian edition, has a completely new layout, 30 new photographs and 8 hand-drawn illustrations. Every chapter has been meticulously updated based on 12 years of new research and feedback from readers worldwide.

Mytting retains the voice and soul of the original while enriching it with practical innovations, deep cultural insights, and cutting-edge environmental knowledge. It is still the book that inspired readers to stack, split, and burn more wisely—but now, it does even more.

LARS MYTTING (b. 1968) made his debut with the novel Horsepower (Hestekrefter) in 2006. Norwegian Wood (Hel ved, 2011) became an international bestseller and won the British Book Industry Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 2016. In 2014, he received the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for the novel The Sixteen Trees of the Somme (Svøm med dem som drukner), which has been published in 17 languages and appeared on The Times’ bestseller list. In 2018, The Bell in the Lake (Søsterklokkene), the first book in the Sister Bells trilogy, was published. It was followed by The Reindeer Hunters (Hekneveven) in 2020, and in 2023, The Night of the Scourge (Skråpånatta), the final installment, was published. Mytting’s books have sold over one million copies worldwide and have been published in 23 languages.

In 2022, he was awarded the Dobloug Prize.