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SENIOR LIFE
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2019 · 352 pp

SENIOR LIFE

Guro Hoftun

Senior Life is all about being old in Norway today, and about being the next of kin. The book offers humorous, serious and honest stories about Knut Erik (78) and Randi (78) for example, who found each other when they were adults; Vesla (82) and her friends on the Costa Blanca; Astrid (83) who has received a death sentence; Rukhshana (66) who demands that her children take care of her; and newlywed Olav Thon (96) who never watches TV without riding an exercise bike.

ONE FOR THE TEAM
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Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 224 pp

ONE FOR THE TEAM

Øyvind Alsaker / Atle Nielsen

Solskjærs United-Legacy In his first term as manager of Manchester United, Ole Gunnar Solskjær has gone from God-given-savior to despairingspectator of a team in crisis. One For The Team is a book about the world's biggest football club and its Norwegian coach. It's the story about what happened when the old idea of United was confronted by the reality of today, and what the team means in the age of the superstar.

A SAMI WORLD HISTORY
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 496 pp

A SAMI WORLD HISTORY

Hugo Lauritz Jenssen

The Sami people and what constitutes Sami identity have always been seen as functions of their geographical territory at the extreme northern edge of Europe. A Sami World History however does not focus on the people living in Sápmi– Samiland – but follows the Sami who travelled and discovered the rest of the world. They allowed themselves to be put on display in American and European ‘World Exhibitions’. Entrepreneurial Zoo owners such as the German Carl Hagenbeck showed off Sami people in zoological gardens. The new style of commercial publicity reflected industrialisation and international capitalism and, for as long as the public on many continents were showing a tremendous interest, the Sami – as well as several other aboriginal peoples – became energetically exploited in advertising. The exotic was profitable. The Sami were active participants in the heroic era of polar exploration, when the last white regions on the world map were investigated by expeditions led by famous explorers. Quite rightly, the Sami were regarded as experts on survival in an extremely cold and inhospitable climate. Their role in charting the Arctic clearly belongs in a ‘world history’ of this people. A Sami World History is a unique book – nothing like it has been written before.

GIDDY-UP
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 264 pp

GIDDY-UP

Tor Åge Bringsværd

The follow-up to last year's critically acclaimed anthology Woof. This time, the book focuses on the horse as it manifests in myths, legends and fairytales. The horse has been looked up to, admired and respected – as a friend and helper, as the animal of the gods, as a creator and savior, but first and foremost as our indispensable companion. Giddy-up is a fantastical journey through four thousand years and over five continents, written in quiet literary trot or tremendous canter – always spurred on by the curious and exploratory storytelling that is particular to Tor Åge Bringsværd.

Unrestrained
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 224 pp

Unrestrained

Ola Henmo / Torstein Lerhol

What is the value of a life, what price are we willing to pay to include everyone, what makes life worth living, and do people with disabilities receiving benefits have a an obligation of paying back?According to the doctors’ judgement, Torstein Lerhol suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, SMA, would not pass two years of age. He is now 32 years old, weighing 20 kg and his breathing capacity is 11%. He spends his life lying in a wheelchair, he can move only one finger, and he’s dependent on assistance 24/7. However, this does not prevent him from working as a politician, being a business leader and lecturer, nor from traveling around the world. The book describes how he manages it all, and acts as a breaking rod to different dilemmas related to otherness.‘Unrestrained is not only well written but also impressing in it´s narrative. Ola Henmo has written an exceptionally wise book about Torstein Lerhols indomitable will to live and the good helpers he is surrounded with. Highly recommended!’ DAGBLADET 6/6‘An impressive portrait of a very special man. This is a book that is both interesting and smart.’ AFTENPOSTEN

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The Four Hills Tournament
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 160 pp

The Four Hills Tournament

Thomas Karlsen

The Four Hills Tournament (Hoppuka) is a crocked and enjoyable travelogue from the German-Austrian ski jump tournament towns. It is a journey into a peculiar and colourful universe that is seldom caught by the TV-cameras, with oompa bands, Polish tourists and talkative Russian sports journalists. But it is also a bitter sweet travel in time, back to the golden age of ski jumping. A time when all of Norway sat glued to the TV screen on New Years Day waiting for hours for the first Norwegian jumper, only to see him fail. Thomas Karlsen, the writer behind the critically acclaimed and bestselling autobiography of Claus Lundekvam, is back with a new book!

INSPIRING NORWEGIAN KNITTING PATTERNS
Crafts and Hobbies / Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 272 pp

INSPIRING NORWEGIAN KNITTING PATTERNS

Wenche Roald / Annichen Sibbern Bøhn

Modern colors and cuts meet classic Norwegian knitting patterns! In this magnificent knitting book you will find patterns for beautiful and modern garments, based on the charts in Annichen Sibbern Bøhn's classic Norwegian knitting patterns from 1929. The book was the country's first collection of traditional, Norwegian knitting patterns and has since become a collector's item and an inspiration for keen knitters and designers domestic and abroad. Based on these classic patterns, knitting designer Wenche Roald has created new patterns for varied and beautiful knitwear for the whole family - from cardigans and sweaters to hats, mittens and baby blankets. Overall, this is an inspiring work for both new and advanced knitters, and for those who want to think creatively in their own knitting projects!

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Myself, I am no longer living
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 240 pp

Myself, I am no longer living

Hovda Kristine

The pin code for the credit card of fifteen-year-old Kristine is 6220. The numbers represent verse 20 of the second chapter of Galatians in the New Testament of the Bible. "I am crucified with Christ. I no longer live a life alone. Christ lives in me.", the Apostle Paul writes. This is a sentence that Kristine takes literally. Twenty years later we find journalist and musician Kristine Hovda at the beach of Ogna, the same place where she was baptized as a teenager. She wonders if she can ever use anything of the things she learned about God. Or if she will have to learn how to live on her own.

HUNTERS
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 192 pp

HUNTERS

Reidar Andersen / Espen Søilen

From the Dordogne to Namdalen Homo sapiens have an almost 300,000 year long history strongly linked to our use of nature’s various resources. Of course, our ancestors can trace their history even further back. Hunters is the story of the sapiens’ hunting-history, starting at the point when our species began. And on the way, readers are given an insight into how we conquered the hunting grounds from other species, and ventured across the sea to Norway.

The King
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 512 pp

The King

Tor Bomann-Larsen

With this volume Tor Bomann Larsen ends his monumental biography of king Haakon VII and his time. A work of 8 volumes that is the greatest biographical work in Norwegian literature history. Working with unique and up until now unknown material, the writer sheds light on the life and works of King Haakon. The highly awarded books are also a rendition of Norwegian history in the 20th Century, told from a highly original angle.Volume VIII tells the story of the time after WWII and up to the death of the King in 1957. The greatest time in Norwegian history for the Labour Party, with a royal head of state that had a surprisingly great understanding for the philosophy of Social Democracy, as well as a close relationship to Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen. The debate around a Norwegian membership in NATO, Norwegian leadership in the UN, the death of Crown Princess Märtha, the literary debate around writer Agnar Mykle, the nuclear crisis and finally the illness and death of the king.

Art and Life
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 280 pp

Art and Life

Kjetil Røed

Who does art have meaning for, and why? Art is a unique tool to work the question about who we are, and therefore also what a good life can be. In this book Kjetil Røed looks at ten different virtues - attention, judgement, withdrawal, curiosity, acknowledgement, hope, ambivalence, craftsmanship, love and solidarity - through works of art, with the ambition to exercise values using art as a platform. The result is a draft for "working with virtues", in this trying to show how it is to work with values. How the question about how we should live thinking about art also can be a way to understand ourselves - to partake in the wish to see a clearer connection, direction and whole - in our own life.

LARS MONSEN
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 248 pp

LARS MONSEN

Lars Monsen / Kjetil Stensvik Østli

Outdoor adventurer Lars Monsen has achieved his own place in Norwegian folklore with millions of Norwegians following his extreme lifestyle and daring expeditions on his TV series and in his books. In this personal and open-hearted biography, from the pen of the Brage-prizewinning Kjetil Østli, Monsen talks about the amazing experiences from his countless expeditions, about near-death experiences, the childhood which shaped him, his heroin-addicted brother, and an alcohol intake that could have sent his life in another direction. Monsen made a choice, early on, to live on the fringes of society's demands and expectations. Now, for the first time, Norway's most fabled outdoorsman talks about what shaped him, what drives him – and what life has done to him.