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Most Beloved
Mystery and Crime2026 · 185 pp

Most Beloved

Karin Fossum

The sixth book about Eddie Feber by Norway's Queen of Crime A young boy on a bicycle is hit by a car in the roundabout at Borgestad Church. He does not survive. His three friends believe the car was a gray Audi and that the driver was a woman. The clues lead investigator Eddie Feber and his team to the house where designer Bella Lundin lives with her German Shepherd Jon. But the story is not so simple, it is like a game of dominoes where the fall of one piece constantly leads to new falls in the lives of more and more people. Most Beloved is an obsessive book about the fight for the inalienable, the most precious. «Most Beloved is short, but never feels sparse. This is likely due to both Fossum’s extensive experience and her background as a poet. Every sentence has a purpose.(…)Fossum demonstrates that it is entirely possible to write a complete crime novel—with complex characters and intense suspense—in under 200 pages. I wish more authors shared that ambition.»Morgenbladet «It is like a game of dominoes where the fall of one tile constantly leads to new falls in more and more people's lives. And with Fossum as a confident guide, Most Beloved becomes a psychological thriller that captivates, and where towards the end, the author ties the threads together as expertly as she does elegantly.»BOK 365 «(...) extremely powerful and unforgettable scenes»NRK »Most Beloved offers surprising twists until the very last page (...) Victims, perpetrators, and law enforcement are treated with finely honed irony and empathy. The language fits as tightly as a well-tailored glove." «(...) In Most Beloved , Karin Fossum shows that she belongs in the master class.»Dagsavisen «I never cease to be impressed by Karin Fossum, who must be the best writer we have when it comes to creating eerie psychological thrillers.»Dagbladet, five/six stars «She is a master at creating environments that are simple, often set in the outskirts of big cities that most of us will quickly recognise. This makes the texts existential in a very intimate way. (...) Life is inscrutable, and Karin Fossum tries to find out why life is exactly that. The unease spreads to the reader, and it stays there long after the last page has been read.»Fri fagbevegelse

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New thriller by Norway's Queen of Crime
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Besieged
UpLit2026 · 336 pp

Besieged

Elisabeth Hammer

Besieged is the seventh book in the historical drama series Promises in the Sand by Elisabeth Hammer. Amalie and Mr. Wickfall have finally found security in their love for each other and are enjoying life as husband and wife. But external forces threaten their happiness. In the late summer of 1807, the British besiege Copenhagen. They intend to attack the city unless the Dano-Norwegian realm hands over all the ships in its grand fleet. Wickfall is in despair, knowing that the Crown Prince is obstinate and will never yield. He therefore attempts to send Amalie out of the city, but fails—and there is nowhere to hide. Soon, Amalie is exposed to new dangers as incendiary bombs rain down upon the capital. Jacob has been forced to leave Marte behind in Christiansand. When he returns to Copenhagen, the city is surrounded by enemies, and he is thrown straight into the hostilities of war. As a result, he is unable to help Marte when she encounters his father once again and must handle the consequences of a brutal confrontation.

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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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The Christmas Promise
UpLit2026 · 352 pp

The Christmas Promise

Elisabeth Hammer

Alone in the world, she has nothing but a flimsy promise to cling to. The falling snow is creating a peaceful blanket over the charming southern town of Christiansand. The year is 1810, and Christmas preparations are in full swing. Runners hurry through the streets so that slush splashes, maids rush from one errand to the next, and the turf traders try to outdo each other in a cacophony of sales pitches. The city is buzzing with expectations for the holiday season. In the midst of the chaos, a little girl cautiously pushes forward through the crowd. She is cold and wet, and hunger gnaws at her stomach. Her father left her with a promise to return soon, but Ella has not seen him again. She carries with her homemade Christmas wreaths through the narrow streets, desperately trying to sell them for a few coins to buy food and firewood. But no one seems to see her. She is completely alone in the world. On a ship sailing to Christiansand, a young woman loses her hat on deck. Julia wanted to feel the cold kiss of the snowflakes on her face, but she shouldn't be out there alone. It is not appropriate for a woman of her class. But her father's money is new and unexpected, and Julia isn't yet accustomed to being and behaving as one of the wealthy. So when a tall stranger retrieves her hat from across the deck, Julia forgets to guard her honour. As their gazes meet, time and place disappear – and the only thing she feels is a new and strange trembling feeling. The Christmas Promise is a historical novel about heartbreaking fates, heartfelt love and fragile hope during a time when Christmas highlighted the difference between poor and rich. The novel is a standalone, but set in the universe of Promises in Sand.

From the Promises in Sand universe
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Kitchen
Literature and Fiction2026 · 480 pp

Kitchen

Lars Saabye Christensen

Kitchen is a warm, wistful and piercing novel about the Minde family in Vika in the 1970s – a district where Oslo's slums are still close to everyday life. When her son Kaj moves out, Gerd Minde is left in a home where silence reveals more than words ever did. Life goes on as before, but something has moved in between the walls: the question of who we are when the roles around us fall away. With precise humor, dark undertones and an eye for the small cracks in the ordinary, Saabye Christensen writes a story about loneliness, about who we are and everything that happens when the dice are rolled – and no one quite dares to see where it lands. Kitchen is Saabye of best mark«It fills me with joy to read Lars Saabye Christensen. [...] The author's new novel Kitchen contains one of the finest portraits of women I have read in a very long time.»VG, six/six stars «Yes, there are many good Norwegian authors. But when Saabye Christensen is at his best, as in parts of the series Echoes of the City (Byens spor) and as in the short story The Hare (Haren) and as in the hot-off-the-press novel Kitchen (Kjøkken), then he is, in my opinion, in a class of his own.»NETTAVISEN, six/six stars «Christensen manages to create an atmosphere that fills the reader to the brim, time and time again.»NRK, five/six stars Saabye is a superb storyteller«Lars Saabye Christensen is a wonderful storyteller, with a particual ability to portray the unique in ordinary lives and the tragic in the trivial.» Dagbladet, five/six stars «As writes, as always, so well.»Adresseavisen Unstoppable Christensen«I don't know where Lars Saabye Christensen gets his drinking water from, but someone should immediately examine the source to see what it contains. How else can you explain his churning out works of such high quality every year after he passed 70?»Aftenposten «I don't know where Lars Saabye Christensen gets his drinking water from, but someone should immediately investigate the source to see what it contains. How else can you explain the fact that he keeps churning out works of exceptionally high quality every year after passing the age of 70?»Hammerfestningen «Kitchen is a novel where the dramatist Lars Saabye Christensen truly gets to show off his talent, through scenes, situations, and dialogue that are exceptionally well-crafted and believable.»Stavanger aftenblad «It's a fine [...] novel that Lars Saabye Christensen has written, and the portrait of Gerd is strong and convincing.»Dag og tid Lars Saabye Christensen tendlerly writes the "silent" women's histories«Gerd Minde is fictional. But she will live on for a long time.»Dagsavisen

Instant bestseller and critically acclaimed
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Murder at Writing Class
UpLit2026 · 383 pp

Murder at Writing Class

Gunn Helene Arsky

Book 3 in the Angel & Luna series! In the deep January darkness, Engel is running a writing course in her offbeat bookshop in the small town of Halden. The local bestselling author, Fabian Svartskog, is leading the class. But on the second evening, the tutor fails to show up under mysterious circumstances – just as an icy winter settles over town. What happened to Fabian? Has he had an accident? Fled his responsibilities? Or has someone brought his story to an end? Before long, Engel realises she must solve the mystery and find Fabian – dead or alive. Drawn into a world of technology, literary ethics, love and betrayal, she sets out to uncover the truth. With help from her wise cat Luna, an overenthusiastic cupcake baker, her journalist boyfriend and a sister who hacks her way to answers, Engel follows the clues to the bitter end. Murder at the Writing Course is the perfect blend of feelgood and cosy crime. It is definetely for readers who’ve devoured mysteries set in English villages and on Scottish isles – and are now ready for a Norwegian small town where murder, and a charming cat, lurk behind the bookshelves.

Engaging mystery, with all the ingredients of a feelgood mixed in
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Propriety
UpLit2025 · 336 pp

Propriety

Elisabeth Hammer

The tobacco wholesaler's lavish masked ball is the social highlight of Christiansand in the spring of 1807. Elegant ladies, fine young women and stern gentlemen toast with fizzy drinks and twirl to merry music on the dance floor, while poor maids hurry between the kitchen and the ballroom. But it all comes to an abrupt end as the mighty Mrs. Gyllenmark falls lifeless to the floor. In the chaos that arises, young Miss Amalie Gren is helped by the mysterious Mr. Nabel – and it has disastrous consequences. As she understands his evil intentions, it is too late. Amalie wakes up locked up on a ship far out at sea. As powerful waves throw the ship back and forth, she becomes more and more desperate. No one knows where she is, no one can hear her cries for help – and she can't swim.

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Anemone Blue
Literature and Fiction2025 · 320 pp

Anemone Blue

Jorid Mathiassen

Three women, two countries, one hidden past – a novel about love, legacy, and resistance. What happens when the past surfaces and casts new light on everything you thought you knew? On a warm day at the end of August, TV photographer Birthe Johannessen travels to Hjartøy, a weather-beaten island off the coast of Northern Norway. She’s there on assignment – but also in search of answers about her own origins. An old letter has revealed an unexpected family connection, and living on the island is a woman who has kept the truth buried for decades: Erle Christensen. For Erle, Birthe’s arrival forces long-suppressed memories into the open. She came to Norway alone, a child refugee from Latvia after the Second World War, and has never dared to look back. Now she must face what she left behind. Could family still remain in Riga? Who was she before she arrived? And what really happened in Latvia, spring 1939? We meet young Agate, living a privileged life in Riga’s cultural bourgeoisie. She falls in love with the idealistic architecture student Andris, but as war approaches and the Soviet grip on the Baltics tightens, both love and liberty are under threat. The decisions she makes will reverberate across borders and generations. Anemone Blue is a sweeping and emotionally charged drama of fate, silence, and rediscovery – a story of women’s lives, lost histories, and the long echoes of war and migration. With scenes set on Norway’s wild and beautiful coastline, in a haunting rural community, and in the shadowed streets of an occupied Latvia, the novel spans decades – from the trauma of war to the present day.

Classic feelgood with a story spanning across several generations
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Lonely Hearts Bar
UpLit2025 · 416 pp

Lonely Hearts Bar

Arnt Steffensen / Kjersti Herland Johnsen

Welcome to The Lonely Hearts Bar – a place for old secrets, new beginnings, and the perfect drink for every occasion! On the 1st of December, Lisa's boyfriend Martin gets down on one knee and proposes. He’s a baron and heir to a grand estate in England, and Lisa quickly realises that marrying into his family will come with strict rules and heavy expectations. Is that really what she wants? When she’s passed over for a long-anticipated promotion at work, she decides to take a break and travels to Oslo to deal with some surprising news. There, she discovers she has inherited an old apartment building and with it, a charming cocktail bar with deep roots in the bohemian heyday of 19th-century Kristiania. At The Lonely Hearts Bar, Lisa meets a warm and eccentric community: the wise bartender Henri, the quirky lawyer Brenden, the fiery Astrid, and the passionate chef Trond. The bar is under threat of closure, but Lisa and the gang set out to save it – with PR stunts, cultural events, and Christmas festivities. At first, she keeps running into problems with Trond but is there more to him than she first realised? Lisa is also relentlessly approached by the gruff businessman Erik Rud, who wants to buy the entire apartment building. But Lisa discovers that her own history is more intertwined with The Lonely Hearts Bar and the bar than she imagined. In the midst of the pre-Christmas snow, gingerbread, concert plans and the threat of losing her job, Lisa finds something she didn't know she needed. It will be a December filled with old family secrets, risky decisions, warm drinks – and perhaps, love. Told as a Christmas calendar, the novel unfolds one chapter for each day of Advent, and every chapter includes a drink recipe from The Lonely Hearts Bar.

Can be read as a Christmas calendar
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The Good Person of Sandvika
Literature and Fiction2025 · 160 pp

The Good Person of Sandvika

Vigdis Hjorth

The Good Person of Sandvika is a tragic and comic novel about economy, gambling, beer, fate, and class. She brings her laptop and sits down at the local pub in Sandvika. She orders a beer, lets the dog sleep under the table, and writes. It's quiet enough to work, but not empty. Over time she begins to recognise the regulars: the young woman who comes in with a lottery ticket every Saturday, the elderly couple who never exchange a word, the quarrelsome man with a handlebar moustache, the world-weary drunkard who ends up crying by the bar. Many of them are waiting for their monthly social security payment. The pub fills up the day the money arrives and empties again when it is all spent. But one evening something happens that turns everything upside down. The Good Person of Sandvika is a novel about differences that aren't always visible from the outside. About drinking alone, yet in fellowship with others. About economic margins and social exclusion, and about a gradual tenderness that grows in silence. Vigdis Hjorth writes personally about life as it is lived, with a precision and nerve that makes the ordinary extraordinary. The pub becomes a place where life stories intersect, dignity is negotiated, and the question of who people can be for each other is asked with greater importance than first assumed. Reviews "A beautiful little novel (…) It is a thought-provoking book by Hjorth, one that is deeply moving." VG, six/six stars The Good Person of Sandvika demands so much of me and touches upon so many sensitive spots. I am shaken and happy to be struck by this novel. It feels good to realize how powerfully literature can impact one, at its best.” BOK365, six/six stars "There can be a lot of life wisdom in a three-minute pop song, but there can certainly also be in a tightly composed and seemingly simple novel." ADRESSEAVISEN, five/six stars “The Good of Author of Sandvika: Amidst all the misery, Hjorth is simply fun to go to the pub with. She definitely has command of language, and a clear, easily recognizable, original voice” DAGSAVISEN "Compassionate with people struggling with big problems. There is something archaic and captivating about the landscape, the station building, and the characters Hjorth evokes in her successful and unsettling modernization of Brecht." MORGENBLADET

Hjorth is one of Norway's most significant contemporary writers
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