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Let Them Come
Literature and Fiction2026 · 203 pp

Let Them Come

Jens M. Johansson

Let Them Come paints a fascinating portrait of a mother and woman. It is a brutal but beautiful novel about death, about the big and small things that make up a life. About being two and the fear of being left behind. Tom goes into the forest. In this place, his mother has moved into an overgrown house by a lake. They have not seen each other for two years, and now she has become seriously ill. As death slowly circles in, Tom looks back on the life that has been: hers, his, theirs. Through memories, two lives marked by restlessness, love, and a certain talent for misfortune are conjured. And now one of the characters in this narrative is about to be lost, in the forest that is slowly closing in around them. What do you do with the last piece of time you have together? Should Tom tell her where he has been for the last two years? And why? Reviews: Johansson possesses an insight into human nature and an ability to portray a life's course that is rare (…) This has become a beautiful, powerful, personal, and wonderful little novel that can easily be read multiple times (…) Johansson confirms once again that he belongs right at the very top among our foremost living fiction authors.Nettavisen It does not pile on catastrophes and loud cries of neglect, but it shines through clearly enough that here we are dealing with two lives that were far from smooth sailing. Yet neither of the two main characters is condemned because of it. That is also part of the novel's strength: the absence of moralizing qualms. Here we mostly encounter simply lived life, not accusations about who did what wrong.Fri Fagbevegelse … the book reveals itself as a mosaic of information, giving the impression that the final piece of information is still only the penultimate one. Something remains. Many of the glimpses of memory are very good, in that they open up something for the reader (…) the reader is convinced without even thinking about it.Dag og Tid Unsparing on mother and son. Jens M. Johansson’s eighth novel is among his very best.Dagens Næringsliv With precision, the past is revealed bit by bit, giving depth and fresh realization to the novel’s present (…) The book is both tender and tough. That is a great combination.NRK Just Let Them Come is a good book and a liberating expermination with genre. (…) a truly great portrait of a mother …Aftenposten

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Battery
Literature and Fiction2026 · 288 pp

Battery

Charlotte Glaser Munch

For Gina, life is on an upswing. She has met Tim, gotten married, had children, and is pursuing a promising writing career.One day, she loses her balance. Gina laughs it off—after all, it's a party. But later, when she is unable to get out of bed, Tim urges her to see a doctor. The doctor sends Gina straight for neurological examinations. The diagnosis splits her life in two. From now on and forever, Gina has MS: multiple sclerosis. What happens when life suddenly turns out completely different from what you had planned? CG Munch writes honestly and warmly about a family looking life straight in the eye.

Brotherhood
Literature and Fiction2026 · 256 pp

Brotherhood

Eskil Skjeldal

Gabriel is a monk of the Dominican Order. He lives in a monastery in Bergen and lives a routine life in the name of God. He prays Lauds every morning, knits socks for his fellow brothers, gives lectures in theology, but also plays Playstation, falls in love and has a beer every now and then. The brotherhood in the monastery is tight knit, and Gabriel feels he has cracked the code to a deeply religious life. Yet, outside the monastery walls is the person who is closest to him: his little brother Jonas. They share a traumatic event in their childhood, a trauma that led them on very different paths in life. While Gabriel is treading along the narrow path, his little brother speeds off on a highway in the wrong direction. Their contact is turbulent and sporadic, and when Jonas suddenly appears in Bergen after a year of silence, Gabriel is pulled out of his blissful existence. The questions soon begin to spin. Why did he retreat to the monastery? Who is God and Jonas in his life? And can devotion turn into addiction? Brotherhood provides a fascinating insight into modern monastic life, and shows how conflicting forces can tear apart the most devoted. It is a story about faith, doubt and the many forms a brotherhood can take.

The Dating Diaries
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2026 · 368 pp

The Dating Diaries

Victoria Larsen Stø

Bridget Jones's Diary meets How to lose a guy in 10 days After yet another bad Tinder date, Ingrid deletes the app and decides it's time to try something new… Ingrid is single, obsessed with romantic comedies and works with digital marketing for a lifestyle magazine in Oslo. She dreams of finding love like in the movies, to meet the Tom Hanks to her Meg Ryan. But after numerous disastrous dates, she decides such a man is not to be found on the apps. Why can't it work like in the films, being swept off her feet with the perfect meet cute? With her colleague and best friend Solveig, they come up with the idea to create a dating diary on social media for the magazine. A Bridget Jones’s Diary for the digital generation – with Ingrid in the lead role. The concept is simple: To put herself in situations with meet cute potential, where she can meet men out in the wild. This means Ingrid's calendar is suddenly filled up with speed dates, running club, and Pitch a friend events. The implementation, however, is not as simple. Is Ingrid ready to be the main character of her own life? Will all the awkward conversations, confused feelings, unwanted dickpics and near disastrous misunderstandings lead to Ingrid finally meeting her Hugh Grant? The Dating Diary is a witty, relatable modern rom-com about love, friendships and the search for something real.

A witty and relatable rom-com about modern love and self-discovery
Delirium
Literature and Fiction2026 · 189 pp

Delirium

Roy Jacobsen

Posthumous novel by one of Norway's greatest contemporary writers. What really goes on in a human mind? And what remains when those around you disappear? Two men are walking on familiar paths in Oslo. They are the last remnants of a group of eight friends who grew up under a maple tree in a courtyard in Eastern Oslo. Now they are trying to clean up their own stories. But a long life has left inexorable traces. Delirium is a story about friendship and loneliness, love and loss, the forgotten and the remembered. "Candid and free on what matters most (...) Delirium is full of sentences that stand up to being read more than once (...)Moving, but also witty. Warm, wise, and sharp. And told with a certain reckless flair in a jazzy, improv style."NRK "A dark and moving tale of death and decay that warms the heart – and reminds us of the author's greatness (...) a joy to read, with subtext bubbling with reflections, philosophical musings, and, not least, subtle humor."Bok365, 6/6 stars "A great farewell address on old age, grief, and loneliness."Nettavisen, 6/6 stars "Even though the finale came too soon, Delirium will stand as a breath of fresh air in Jacobsen's solid body of work (...) Linguistically, it is sharper and tighter than the realistic novels (...) Existentially, the book probes deeply without feeling heavy-hearted."Aftenposten "Form and content work hand in hand in this novel, which borrows elements from detective fiction as well as the essay."Dagsavisen "… a brilliant book about ageing. … The different perspectives on old Norwegian wealth, immigration, and societal change weave long threads throughout the novel. The alternation between these perspectives is one of its greatest strengths, not least in the dialogues with site manager Zbigniew and café host Ibrahim. I would have loved to quote the dialogues, or the narrator’s intricate, insightful reflections (...) they are outstanding—on par with Jacobsen’s best."Klassekampen "This is a wistful and dark novel, one of Jacobsen’s darkest. Yet, the author still manages to bring forth a warmth within this universe."HK NYTT

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The Last Valkyrie
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2026 · 408 pp

The Last Valkyrie

Hanne Eik

How far would you go to save the one you love most? Set in modern-day Oslo, The Last Valkyrie is a pulse-pounding mix of enemies-to-lovers romance, Norse mythology and a deadly competition for wealth, fame, life and death. Every girl in Oslo who turns 18 this year is invited to compete in the mysterious competition The Valkyrie. The prize is 3 million kroner, a sum that for Ava would change everything. But joining the contest means declaring war on her powerful stepfamily — the ambitious twins Kamilla and Lukas. Their mother, Helene Threshow-Spilberg, is amongst Norway's wealthiest, and the twins are known to be ruthless in order to get what they want. The twins also team up with a stranger, someone whose connection to The Valkyrie runs deeper than he will admit. And he will stop at nothing to keep Ava out of the competition. As the competition unfolds, Ava realises The Valkyrie is more than a contest. It’s a divine trial that could awaken forces older than time itself. To survive, she must solve the riddles of the Norse gods, uncover who her true allies are, and face the terrifying possibility that not all myths are fiction. With the emotional depth of Twilight, the fierce survival energy of The Hunger Games and the secretive intrigue of The Da Vinci Code, The Last Valkyrie launches a new YA trilogy where epic love collides with Norse legend — blazing with mystery, passion, and power.

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No One is Looking Out for Us
Literature and Fiction2026 · 228 pp

No One is Looking Out for Us

Linn Strømsborg

It's New Year's Eve and Iris is celebrating with her boyfriend and old friends. The mood is good, midnight is approaching and the sky has already started to pop a little. Then she receives a message from her ex. He was once her very first boyfriend. An ex she hasn't seen in years. Iris doesn't want to open it, but she opens it. The message is only one sentence long: "Do you remember if I was ever violent towards you?" No One is Looking Out for Us is a novel about physical as well as psychological abuse in close relationships. About the absolute insecurity that women live with. Because they don't know. Because they can't know. If they're really with him, safe in their own home, safe in their own bed. Strømsborg also shows us how the responsibility for the truth is all too easily relaxed from the abuser to the victim, when he asks if she can remember what it was like, and if he really did something wrong. It's harrowing and everyday, and harrowing because it's so everyday. "No One is Looking Out for Us is an easy-to-read, airy, and engaging novel where timely questions about violence, power, sex, and consent are never far away, and where its use value is indisputable."Dagens Næringsliv

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It's Ringing
Literature and Fiction2026 · 160 pp

It's Ringing

Evgenia Bektasova

In It's Ringing, we meet people on the fringes of the safe and understandable: lonely souls who reach out for contact, care and meaning – often in ways that seem both strange and disturbing. Here, the uncomfortable lurks beneath the surface, in short stories about relationships, especially between mother and child – about distance, expectations and what is never said. The mothers in these short stories are not just caregivers, but strange and disturbing people who challenge what we think we know about closeness and responsibility. These are stories about what lives within us all: hidden fears, repressed trauma and an almost desperate search for meaning. With a unique language, Evgenia Bektasova shows how inner life can break out – unexpectedly, raw and without mercy. "The newcomer thus manages what many debut authors struggle with, namely under-explaining rather than over-explaining (...) The darkness lies lurking in several of the short stories and must be opened up by the reader (...) Bektasova has created nine portraits that are witty, sad, and deeply human"MORGENBLADET

This is Where it Changes
Literature and Fiction2026 · 112 pp

This is Where it Changes

Martin Revheim

"No suspects are convicted if the only witness can only describe what has happened by smells or sounds. But I have seen you get beaten up and remember it best with my nose and ears. Sour milk and crushed hopes mix in the stew I'm writing, brown and thick, with a stale skin on top and potato pieces that have already turned black at the edges. I want to be seen. I want everyone to hear the screams inside. I want everyone to see my invisible disability. I want a hug without having to ask for it. I want to avoid having to apologize for everything I can't help. I want to be held while I try to break free. I want to be held so tightly in place that I don't make any more choices I'll regret." This is Where it Changes is a novel about faith, revenge, and love.

Unattended Luggage
Literature and Fiction2026 · 160 pp

Unattended Luggage

Rune F. Hjemås

Unattended Luggage is a novel about three grown men: Henrik, Jonathan and Andreas. Who played in a band together at upper secondary school. Who were supposed to hit it big. Supposed to make it. And who didn’t make it. And who are now meeting up again. Because they’re all turning forty. Andreas’ idea. The band was called, or is called, Unattended Luggage. And in this lies a lot of the novel’s nerve and food for thought. Everything we set aside, of ourselves, in every imaginable and unimaginable place. All our components, strewn around, abandoned, unattended. What will it be like to reunite when half a lifetime has passed for all three of them? When they have become what they are all by themselves, become something other than what they perhaps should have.

A story of male friendship, lost ambition and midlife reckoning
Togetherness Monster
Literature and Fiction2026 · 99 pp

Togetherness Monster

Eira Søyseth

Togetherness Monster presents the reader to questions of urgent matter in our time. In a chaotic world where one crisis follow the other, where can we turn our heads and find hope? The poems ask what hope is and where we can find meaningful and productive collective arenas in our time. Furthermore, the poems alternates between a fierce and vehement belief in togetherness, but also resignation and disappointment. It´s time to wake up your inner togetherness monster!

Flicker
Literature and Fiction2026 · 192 pp

Flicker

Heidi Sævareid

Spouses Lucy and Martin go on one of their many camping trips to Dartmoor National Park in England. At night they experience an intense and inexplicable light phenomenon, which in different ways will affect both them and their relationship.What actually happened? Can it be explained rationally, or did they experience something supernatural? And why do they have such different perceptions of the incident? Not least – why has the light phenomenon apparently made Martin acutely ill, with strange marks on his body? Over the spring and summer, it is as if a sinister, paranormal infection spreads through both their relationship and their surroundings, where ordinary logic ceases and uncertainty and suspicion prevail. How do two people who are this close go on living together when their widely different experiences of reality are repeatedly put to the test? Flicker is a novel that operates on several levels, also beyond what can be rationally explained. The novel's mix of the paranormal, folk beliefs, body horror, and psychological realism draws the reader into a reality where the boundaries between the inner and the outer gradually break down.