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King Olav
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 544 pp

King Olav

Tore Rem

The Warrior deals with the 1940-45 period. After struggling to find his feet as the crown prince, Olav finds a role at last. The second volume in the great story of Olav V offers an intimate portrait of the crown prince at war, and the vital contribution he made to Norway’s wartime history. During these years, Olav will have a chance to put himself to the test and make himself useful in totally new ways. Without an understanding of the war and his role in it, it is impossible to grasp King Olav V of Norway – who he was and who he became. The tale of the wartime years of the Norwegian crown prince’s family takes in everyday life, military and political work, love, loss, illness and shopping, and even a touch of humour.

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The Fall of the Patriarchy
Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 104 pp

The Fall of the Patriarchy

Marta Breen / Jenny Jordahl

Through history feminists have been ridiculed and harassed all around the World. In the 18th Century well-known feminists where decapitated in the guillotines, and in the 19th Century the Suffragettes were thrown in jail. In our time feminist activists are imprisoned in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia. Feminists are labelled as moody, angry and unattractive. Still, new generations are daring to proudly call themselves feminists. Author Marta Breen and illustrator Jenny Jordahl have through a number of books proved themselves as great communicators when it comes to the history of women. In this book they take the reader for a joyride through the cultural history of the patriarchy. With a good dose of humour the tell the stories about how men from Aristoteles to Woody Allen has described the world through the male gaze. They tell the stories of the women who through history has fought the oppression – and they rank the world’s worst sexists through times. Join us in finally taking down the patriarchy!

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On Edge
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 576 pp

On Edge

Helge Ryggvik

Maintaining the momentum in Norway’s most important industry is a major objective for the Norwegian state, and the pressure for the government to increase allocations of new exploration regions towards the ice edge in the north is greater than it has been for a long time. But the conflict surrounding the oil industry in the Barents Sea has been going on for a long time. From Stoltenberg’s red-green administration to the Solberg government that followed it, the oil industry has been allocated a steady stream of exploration blocks in the Barents Sea.

Secrets of the Art of Writing
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 296 pp

Secrets of the Art of Writing

Niels Christian Geelmuyden

How do you go about becoming a good writer? This critically acclaimed, award-winning author shares his best tips on how to write lively texts, including checklists and common pitfalls. The book is written in a personal style, and bubbles with narrative joy and smart tips, offering plentiful example texts from participants on writing courses, from Geelmuyden’s roughly 40 publications and from other established writers.

Out of the Crisis
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 384 pp

Out of the Crisis

Marte Spurkland

The past year has given us a totally new insight into and understanding of what a social crisis is. But what does a cataclysmic crisis look like to people who have experienced it close up – when everything they have falls apart and they have to rebuild their entire life from scratch? The mother who had to come to terms with her daughter’s death at the hands of terrorists and the mother who had to cope with the fact that her son was a terrorist; the wife who suddenly discovered that her husband had condemned their family to a life of poverty through online gambling; the man who lost all use of his limbs and was written off by medical science until his wife found out that he was capable of communicating, albeit slowly and using just one finger; the man who wrote off the world and locked himself into his man-cave – for good. With warm empathy and wisdom, award-winning journalist and author Marte Spurkland offers us a series of stories about collapse and apparent hopelessness, but also about the courage and unknown strength that lives in all of us.

Winter Swimming
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 168 pp

Winter Swimming

Cecilie Thunem-Saanum

Why are more and more people choosing to submerge themselves in ice-cold water in midwinter? To don mittens and bobble hats and feel chunks of ice sloshing against their naked flesh? The author, who’s in her eight year of year-round bathing, tells you what you need to know before, during and after winter bathing, and uses science and her own experience to answer questions like: Is it safe? Can anyone go for a dip when it is freezing cold? What happens inside your body? In Winter Bathing, Cecilie Thunem-Saanum invites you to join her in the open channels between the ice when the temperatures are well below freezing and long after the frost has taken hold. In the water, an experience of profound peace, a clarified mind and great wellbeing await you. On land, an energy boost, a rush of joy and a sense of achievement is the award – along with a towel and dry clothes.

Viruses on the Loose
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 352 pp

Viruses on the Loose

Eystein Hellstrøm Hoddevik

What is a virus? Even experienced microbiologists need to stop and think before answering this simple question. Viruses are tiny. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has a width of no more than one hundred nanometers. Ten thousand such viruses lined up after each other will barely have the width of a pinhead. But an invisible enemy like this can bring a whole world to its knees, just as it did in spring 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic. Through carefully selected stories, the author shows you what a virus is, what it consists of, how it is transmitted and how it produces disease. Viruses and humans have coexisted forever, so this journey covers biological evolution, our own bodies, historical events, diagnostics, global politics, genetic material, ethics and biological warfare. The book is also about vaccines, one of our most important weapons in the war against viruses. The making of vaccines is in itself a science which is based upon our knowledge of how viruses are constructed and cause disease. Viruses are bred to spread and don’t hesitate to set off on intercontinental journeys, like the travel-loving stowaways they are. In this book, you’ll get to know different kinds of viruses: some of the most common, some that are extremely cunning and some that are so dangerous their fatality rate is close to 100%. Viruses cause contagion by travelling, just as we do, but their journey doesn’t stop there. The way in which they produce disease inside us can also be viewed as a microscopic travelogue. We shall therefore follow some viruses as they travel through our bodies to reach the cells they both hijack and harm. If you are prepared to face what fear of viruses you might have, you’ll discover that knowledge of viruses is extremely helpful. In certain situations, it may help you survive and avoid diseases like warts, cold sores, shingles, blindness and even cancer.

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ZOLO KAROLI
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 208 pp

ZOLO KAROLI

Maria Schwaller Rosvoll

A European History ZOLO KAROLI is an account of the fate of Norway's Romani people in the years preceding World War II, as described in documents and police reports. Maria Rosvoll was co-author of the disturbing An Unwanted People (2017), which documented the longstanding persecution of "gypsies" in Norway. In this year's book, she looks at a family who were hounded from country to country, in a Europe that wouldn't recognize them, until their journey ended in the gas chambers.

Living in Tune with Mother Earth
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 240 pp

Living in Tune with Mother Earth

Grethe Nordhelle / Ujagar Singh Sakhi

Humans are part of nature. We are utterly reliant on it. If we distance ourselves too much from its terms and premises, we create an imbalance – in nature, in society and, not least, in ourselves as individuals. Living in Tune with Mother Earth aims to serve as a supplement – and counterweight – to knowledge creation in our specialised society. The more fragmented society becomes, the greater the need for more people to be concerned about integral thinking and knowledge. Integral knowledge creation is a scarce commodity in modern society, the author claims. This is where integral therapy can make a vital contribution, by looking at the process of human development in its entirety – physical, psychological, environmental and spiritual. The book aims to raise people’s awareness of the genuine need to understand themselves as individuals, in relation to themselves, nature, the family, society and the entire universe. It’s about creating and maintaining a natural balance between the internal and the environment. How can we function in an integral way – physically, psychologically and spiritually – in relation to our immediate environment and wider society? And what hinders us at all these levels? The knowledge offered in this book can be used to both repair and protect. Living in Tune with Mother Earth is anchored in a value system that views humans as having a particular place in the natural order, just as plants and animals do. Because humans have the potential for far-reaching development – not just in positive but also negative directions – we are at risk of becoming remote from our positive, harmonious rhythm, growth and development. If we breach the principles of nature in the way we live, we risk creating physical and psychological discord. The one thing that can bring us peace, within us, between us, in relation to elements in nature with which we come into contact and in wider society, is an integral understanding of what it means to be human – and an integral practice in our interaction with our environment.

All the Songs are About You
Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 228 pp

All the Songs are About You

Sondre Lerche

All the Songs are About You consists of enthusiastic and personal essays about music, some of them reaching as far back as into childhood days in Bergen, and the young Lerche´s almost self-effacing obsession for the band a-ha and vocalist Morten Harket. In other texts he writes about other heroes like Prefab Sprout, Fiona Apple and Milton Nascimento. There is also room for concert experiences from the United States, with amongst others St. Vincent, Beyoncé and Kygo. And there is also long distance running, in Los Angeles, with ambient in his ears. According to Lerche there are no guilty pleasures in music. There is only pleasure. And just as important as the music we know and love are the more coinsidential musical meetings, those who take us well outside our comfort zone. Music that some might find useless can have powerful meaning for your neighbour - or millions of people. The texts of this book embrace that fact.

Borgia’s Forbidden Book
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 224 pp

Borgia’s Forbidden Book

Jørn H. Hurum / Torstein Helleve

Precious gems, corrupt popes, incest, impotence, massacre, plagiarism, the forbidden books of the Vatican, the French Revolution, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli. There’s room for all these elements in a little book that is, above all, about the love of ancient books and stones. Jørn H. Hurum and Torstein Helleve have written about an extremely rare book and its incredible journey through 500 years of European and scientific history.

Brev til en sønn
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2020 · 320 pp

Brev til en sønn

Kristin M. Hauge / Kristine Gølin Haddal / Simen Knudsen / Hakim Lindland-Rahimi / Einar Norbakken / Trygve Skaug

Boys are the extreme sex. The fastest and the ones that come last. The most robust and the most vulnerable. In this book, you’ll find timely and touching messages for the boys of today from the poet, the refugee, the military chaplain, the environmental warrior and the mother of a world champion. Five compelling stories about the power of relationships; about winning, losing and finding your place and values in modern, multicultural, egalitarian Norway.