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Unkissed Shoes
Literature and Fiction2025 · 192 pp

Unkissed Shoes

Arild Stavrum

The year is 1937. Albert Svendsvik is twenty-two years old and works at the clipfish quay in Kristiansund. His girlfriend, Emilie, does the same. More than anything, Albert is a wrestler, and the Workers' Olympics in Antwerp is his goal. But Albert's coach has gone to Spain, where a bloody civil war is being fought. Europe is at a breaking point, and so is Albert. He feels like a loser both on and off the wrestling mat; he's tormented by thoughts of Emilie, and jealousy is taking over. Albert must push himself to the extreme and risk his life for what he wants to achieve. Unkissed Shoes is a compelling historical novel about sport, class, jealousy, and love.

Wolf Tracks
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Literature and Fiction2025 · 336 pp

Wolf Tracks

Ingeborg Arvola

Is it better to be free and starving or fed but restrained? In the 1860s, famine ravages Finland. Brita Caisa Seipajærvi and Mikkel Aska have fled across the border and settled in a turf hut by Lake Iijærvi with their daughters Marja and Annie. Mikko is skilled in many things, but surviving in the wilderness is not one of them. He fails to set the snares properly. Brita Caisa has to reset them. She cuts bark and bakes bread. The family has barely enough to eat. Hunger does something to the heart, head and body. Mikko wants to return to the coast, where he knows how to fish. But Brita Caisa wants to stay in the forest, where they are free to be a family. Wolf Tracks is a raw and tender story about facing hardship, hunger and predators. It is the riveting end to Ingeborg Arvola’s epic historical series Ruijan rannalla / Songs from the Arctic Ocean. «The sensual and precise language of Ingeborg Arvola shows a life right on the edge of livability.»Dagsavisen «The last volume about Arvola's Kven trilogy is a strong testimony of living in borderline conditions.»Dag og tid

A raw and tender portrait of love, hunger and survival
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Alekhine's Defence
Literature and Fiction2024 · 96 pp

Alekhine's Defence

Kristian Klausen

The Russian world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was found dead in a hotel room in Estoril, Portugal in 1946. The post-mortem report claimed that he choked on a piece of meat while eating dinner in the room. But is this the truth? Alekhine was a wanted man. He was on Soviet hit lists after the war due to his collaboration with the Germans. He played in well-paid chess tournaments in Germany from 1940–43 and allowed himself to be used in Nazi propaganda. The suspicion that he was killed and that the post-mortem report was falsified has intensified as the years have passed. In this novel, we meet Alekhine in another town that could be Estoril but could also be the mid-sized city of Drammen half an hour south of Oslo. Over the course of the day or so in which the action takes place, we encounter him penniless and intoxicated in a cheap hostel room and walking around as he recollects various events from his life and career. He decides to eat one last meal and commit suicide. But an encounter with a Norwegian chess player will change everything.

Alexandra
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 320 pp

Alexandra

Merete Lien

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

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The Company of Others
Literature and Fiction2024 · 256 pp

The Company of Others

Jonas Sundquist

Balder and two friends leave the summer heat of Oslo for a luxurious summer house on Nøtterøy. But cracks soon start to appear in the idyll: the power generator is kaput, a forest fire is threatening the other side of the fjord, and they are not allowed to go up into the attic. Strange things happen at night, no one can sleep, and as the days pass, everyone seems to withdraw more and more into themselves. It is as if everyone has secrets that none of them dare confront. Not least Balder himself, who refuses to talk about where he has been in recent years. Instead the façade is maintained, because after all, what is worse than those closest to you seeing who you really are? This is a novel about friendship, love and parties gone awry, about secrets, power and inadequacy, about young people with old money, but perhaps most of all about feeling alone in the company of others and oneself.

The Orange Trees Garden
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 336 pp

The Orange Trees Garden

Merete Lien

The Orange Trees Garden is the first book in a captivating feelgood trilogy set in Rome. Spring 2015: Agnes travels from Norway to Rome to find her friend Alexandra, who's been reported missing by her suddenly ill husband. What's happened to Alexandra—has something befallen her, or has she gone into hiding? In Rome, Agnes accidentally runs into an old flame, and her feelings for him rushes back. But how accidental is it, really, that he is in Rome now? The further into the mystery Agnes digs, the more confused she becomes. Who is Alexandra? Is her husband really ill? Soon, Agnes finds herself entangled into a cat-and-mouse game revolving around an art scam. She is given lies disguised as the truth, until she no longer can tell friend from fiend. Summer 1953: In one of the nicer areas of Rome, young, upper-class Francesca meets a man in a red sports car. The man is the famous American photographer Chris Henley, who's specialised in La Dolce Vita. Francesca falls heads over heels, but her parents are not thrilled by the match, convinced that Chris Henley is a gold digger. The series Follow the Wind is full of heart, excitement, passion and love. It crosses multiple timelines, where hidden motives and seedy affairs create secrets that won't stay secret forever.

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Blackberry Path
Literature and Fiction2024 · 240 pp

Blackberry Path

Eskil Skjeldal

Blackberry path is Fight Club meets life in a Norwegian satellite city. In 1971, a massive development project was begun in Rykkinn, half an hour outside of Oslo. Tower blocks, terraced houses and green spaces emerged, all with picturesque names like Lingonberry path, Raspberry path and Blackberry path. It was a social experiment and the residents on benefits all lived on Blackberry path, all the cases, as they used to be called. Fast forward to the eighties: Johannes lives in one of the tower blocks. His father is a violent drunk, his mother keeps to the background and his little brother hasn’t developed language yet. And then there’s Karl, Johannes’ mate. The two of them sell a little weed, party, cause trouble and love getting into fights. Johannes is a caring and responsible older brother and does everything for Magnus. This is a far cry from the Johannes that buries his fist in faces, stashes weed and money in the woods and breaks into his childhood friend’s home. I grew to love Johannes, but by the end of the novel I’m afraid of him too. Eskil Skjeldal has written compellingly about violence before, and this is no exception.

Wisteria
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 320 pp

Wisteria

Merete Lien

Wisteria is the second book in Follow the wind -- the captivating feelgood trilogy from Rome. Because of the deal with Alexandra, Agnes can stay in Alexandra's apartment by the Orange Trees Garden for free. Springtime is perfect for wandering the many streets of Rome — and for spending time in front of the easel. Agnes gets to know Gabriele, a handsome and kind Roman. He is quick to offer his help and gives her lots of attention, but Agnes is hesitant to let him all the way into her heart. She hasn't forgotten Stefan, and she doesn't know Gabriele's motives. But another man frequently seeks Agnes out, and his motives she both knows and fears ...

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The Lives of Others
Literature and Fiction2024 · 160 pp

The Lives of Others

Ida Fjeldbraaten

The Lives of Others is a merciless description of a society where everyone wants to be seen and heard, and where people will do anything to stand out from the crowd. A young woman previously worked on a reality show that ended up never airing. She isolates herself at home while scrolling endlessly thought the anti-social corners of the web. While the bills pile up and social security makes their demands, the protagonist escapes into other people’s lives. But what is real, and what is staged? What was it that went so terribly wrong during the recording of the reality show, set in an old asylum, that filmed five contestants left to their own devices? The Lives of Others is a poignant satire about the total domination of the reality genre, about loneliness, and about who will remain in the audience as everyone is clamoring to stand on stage. The novel ruthlessly depicts our contemporary times, where the need to be seen leads people into bottomless decay and total humiliation. «… a raw illustration of reality-TV’s dark side. … Reading this book was like therapy for us internet addicts. I want to throw my phone in the sea and take a long shower.»FRAMTIDA, six/six stars «Ida Fjeldbraaten manages to let the reality characters both amuse us and make us wiser. That's a tried-and-true recipe for a good book.» MORGENBLADET «The Lives of Others drips of bitter satire. Occasionally, the observations are funny and precise.»DAGBLADET «The novel is too credible to be pure satire and stretched too far to be pure realism. It is elegantly balanced …»DAG OG TID «… a piece of well-written, entertaining gluttony in misery and suffering.»KLASSEKAMPEN

Burden of Guilt
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2024 · 448 pp

Burden of Guilt

Hilde S. Palladino

It is a scorching hot summer. The heatwave has lasted for weeks. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is tasked by the police with looking for a middle-aged woman who has disappeared. It turns out that the missing woman had a daughter who disappeared without a trace, eighteen years ago. Bjørk quickly discovers similarities to the double-homicide case in which she made a fatal error three years ago. Where she caused the wrong person to be charged with the brutal murder of two teenage girls. He ended up taking his own life in his cell. Together with her former partner at the National Criminal Investigation Service, Absalon Lund, Bjørk starts investigating the case. The girl who disappeared eighteen years ago may have been the actual perpetrator’s first victim. Bjørk and Absalon are likely hunting a killer who may have been active for two decades. A perpetrator who has become Bjørk’s nemesis. As the search for the missing woman intensifies, yet another young girl disappears from the neighbourhood. Bjørk is convinced that the serial killer is active again. Burden of Guilt is an ambitious and well-written psychological crime novel that serves as a follow-up to H.S. Palladino’s explosive debut. The first book in the series, Hidden Under Snow, was sold to Germany, Sweden and Denmark on publication. «Vibrating and mystified crime where the author keeps the reader in doubt until the last sentence»RANDEBERG 24, six/six stars

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The Absence
Literature and Fiction2024 · 144 pp

The Absence

Susanne Mørk

Every day we live is as fateful as it is destined. Anything can happen. In The Absence people meet people, often in an unusual way. People with unclear desires. People who don't really understand themselves. Who follow after one another. People who disappear. People who never leave. People left behind, without closure. It's as if there is a curse upon us as we read. Often, the author folds the lives of their characters together, like freshly laundered clothes, and the perception of time changes, as does truth, meaning, and all those things. They are understood as folded, rather than chronological. The stories in The Absence confirm that we live tragic lives, which we don't really have control over - but it doesn't make us condemned creatures.

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The Third Memory
Literature and Fiction2024 · 224 pp

The Third Memory

Eirin Betten

Ada and Georg install the smart box Metis in their living room. Metis sees everything, hears everything and users can speak to it. The box soon becomes a digital conversation and sparring partner for both Ada and Georg, who both struggle with and have their own misgivings about their relationship. One day, the company behind the technology is hacked and all visual data leaked, including Ada and Georg’s digital footprint. Metis forces Georg to confront the memory of his late parents, while Ada tries to get to the bottom of the ethical issues that arise from having a smart box installed. The presence of the box drives a wedge between Georg and Ada, revealing a relationship that seems to be built on porous ground. The Third Memory is an exploration of the digital versus the human mind, and what can happen when a new kind of consciousness invades your home.