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All the Little Birds
Mystery and Crime2020 · 320 pp

All the Little Birds

Hanne Gellein

Pathologist Silje Andersen has left behind a difficult past and moved to Trondheim. During the autopsy of a young boy, she discovers a fateful connection. Judge Ingeborg Witsøe Berg is still grieving the loss of her daughter Maja, killed in an accident. But as she prepares for an important trial, Ingeborg finds a bird, a great tit, inside her house. This prompts two questions: how can her daughter’s favourite bird have found its way into a closed room? And what really happened the day Maja drowned in Nid River? All the Little Birds is a thriller with a terrifying premise. Two women are united in their quest to seek out the truth and the people who are hiding in the shadows. Because nothing is as it should be in Trondheim.Promising Debut The writer succeeds with creating believable characters and keeps the thrill up to the very last page. We are very much looking forward to reading new crime novels from this author. *****TRØNDER-AVISAGellein's debut is bloody and promising.ADRESSEAVISA

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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.

Everything That Is New
Literature and Fiction2020 · 104 pp

Everything That Is New

Anna Fiske

Everything That Is New is a picture book for adults. We meet a young woman and follow her over several weeks in texts and illustrations. She has a job, a husband and child, and lives in an apartment block but now has to move. To a new place, to a new home. The main character in the story is due to start a new job and her child will start at a new nursery school. Everything is new and strange. A cosy, intimate and poetic book about problems everybody can relate to.

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The Anti-feminist
Literature and Fiction2020 · 144 pp

The Anti-feminist

Rune Salvesen

Damned anti-feminist, Stine says to her husband Fillip. But she doesn’t know a thing. Because Fillip hasn’t told her about what happened when he was a child. When he has to clear out his mother’s house after her death, the smell of cheap perfume and cigarettes still lingers. Among all her belongings, Fillip finds his old diary – where he wrote about everything. Now he must face how the experiences of his childhood home has affected him and his family.Salvesens painful little novel deals with raw masculinity, depicted with tenderness and understanding instead of condemnation. It positions Salvesen as an author with a big heart as well as a something important to say. And we are not exactly spoilt with writing like that. KLASSEKAMPEN

Lovely Creature
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2020 · 384 pp

Lovely Creature

Karin Fossum

A single mother finds a disturbing drawing in her son’s room. A young man and a teenage boy meet by chance on the shores of the deep lake in Svartland Forest. The next day, sixteen-year-old Gritt Zeeland is found dead in the same forest. There are so many reasons why a pretty young girl might be in danger. Police inspector Sejer finds himself dealing with a distressing murder mystery that has many possible solutions. Gritt Zeeland let almost nobody get close to her, but there were plenty of people –young and old – who had noticed her. Lovely Creature is a profoundly penetrating crime novel about beauty and ugliness, tenderness and violence, great lies and painful realities.Reviews: Masterful! An extremely actual and masterly performed crime novel. Everything is so well done that you feel like immediately reading the book again just to see how all the dots are connected. ******VGSurprising and straight forward elegant. *****DAGBLADETFossum at her best ******TRØNDERAVISASo realistic and strong, just straight forward remarkable writing - no matter the genre. (...) Karin Fossums psychological reflections are impressive, and the progress of the narrative is impeccable. The book has plenty of surprises and the occasional twist that made me think: I did not see that coming. It does not get much better than that. ******NETTAVISENMore than an ordinary crime novel. ******TØNSBERGS BLADOne of Karin Fossum´s very best crime novels. ******ADRESSEAVISAOne of Karin Fossum´s very best!DAGSAVISEN

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Just a Mother
Literature and Fiction2020 · 272 pp

Just a Mother

Roy Jacobsen

After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has finally returned to Barrøy. Life has become more stable, but the war still casts its long shadows across the country. Former collaborators face cold shoulders or obscured retaliation. Others simply wish to leave the painful years in the past. One day a boy arrives on the island. Shortly thereafter, his father disappears. Ingrid assumes responsibility for the boy, and adopts him. As such, Mathias becomes a central part of the Barrøy community, together with Kaja, Ingrid’s daughter by birth. Life on the island is demanding, but the letters from friends in Oslo and Trondheim tell of a Norwegian society undergoing dramatic changes. Which stories should Ingrid keep to herself, and which ones should she bring to light? What kind of future is she imagining? Just a Mother is the fourth book in a series of novels that have delighted readers in Norway and abroad. It’s a novel about being a parent, being a part of a community, and about living under conditions that require hard labour. It is also a story about parts of our near past that have stayed in the dark. And it’s about an unusual woman, who has to navigate painful experiences in a rough, weather-beaten, and diverse society on the coast of Northern Norway.REVIEWSI demand that this book be read […] Roy Jacobsen writes truthfully, tenderly and sharply about the everyday heroes of toil and care.STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, NORWAYThe middle-aged woman and the sea […] sparkling depiction of coastal life […]ADRESSEAVISEN, NORWAYRoy Jacobsen has added a new chapter to his masterpiece. […]NETTAVISEN, NORWAYIt is a pure pleasure to read Roy Jacobsen’s novel Just a Mother. […] Just a Mother is a novel that keeps the reader captivated from the first to the last sentence.DAGBLADET, NORWAYRoy Jacobsen has written a beautiful and intense novel. […] poetic, virtuoso, warm and beautiful. […] No one describes the coastal and cultural history of the Helgeland coast as Roy Jacobsen.VG, NORWAYRoy Jacobsen raises the bar in the last volume […] Jacobsen stands out with a luminous mother portrait […] the best Roy Jacobsen has written about life on the Helgeland coast […]AFTENPOSTEN, NORWAYThe past as a mirror for the present […] Roy Jacobsen’s stories about the islanders on the Helgeland coast gradually resemble a magnificent saga about the basic human conditions in the struggle with nature. […] Roy Jacobsen’s own words that “a historical novel should be a contemporary novel” feel true. The author is a master of dialogues where secrets and trivialities form minefields and tensions.DAGSAVISEN, NORWAY With emotion, the reader follows the fate of these modest people. What separates us, and what unites us? For Roy Jacobsen, this is the essential question of this novel. A vast and passionate subject!LE JOURNAL DE LA HAUTE-MARNA, FRANCE

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The Bastard
Mystery and Crime2020 · 304 pp

The Bastard

Øistein Borge

A Jewish man searching for justice. Two Romanian siblings fleeing hopelessness. A Norwegian policeman on his first overseas mission. All meet their fate, just hours after arriving on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca. The temperature on the island is approaching 40 degrees – a heatwave appropriate for the hell that awaits Bogart Bull in this holiday paradise. And as befits a hell, there is also a devil here, pulling the strings.

The Third Angel
Mystery and Crime2020 · 288 pp

The Third Angel

Gert Nygårdshaug

KRIPOS investigator Skarphedin Olsen has moved to Røros and become the town's police chief. Then a macabre discovery is made: a human arm is sticking out of an anthill. The arm is examined by pathologists, while it turns out no one has been reported missing or involved in an accident. The mystery attracts major attention as it gradually emerges that the arm belongs to a very prominent person. "Once again, the author proves he is among our finest crime writers. The author is just as enigmatic, sending chills straight down your spine (...) a reading experience truly out of the ordinary, a page-turner brimming with boundless suspense. This is truly a crime novel you should read."Randaberg 24 "(...) a novel with room for the mystical, the imaginative, and the enigmatic (...) A crime story bearing the true Nygårdshaug trademark (...) This is a piece of authentic Drum, so sharp and varied that no one else carries on this exact form with this formula."Hamar Arbeiderblad "Entertaining and thrilling crime fiction (...) Nygårdshaug writes crime novels unlike anything else"Stavanger Aftenblad "Skarphedin Olsen is fascinating, and the story is captivating. Nygårdshaug has his own distinct style, and the plot is constructed with many small detours that constantly pull the reader into the world of gastronomy(...) Nygårdshaug is so thorough that once you get a taste for it, this becomes a delightful spice on the way to a surprising conclusion and solution."Trønder-Avisa "This is book number 13 in a delightful and utterly unique crime series (...) a well-written and elegant book."Adresseavisen

Dis
Literature and Fiction2020 · 160 pp

Dis

Kjersti Kollbotn

Dis has left home to study, but it soon becomes clear that something is bothering her. She refuses contact with her mother, and her father doesn’t seem to be in the picture. Marginalised from social life, she seeks out her brother – a brother who is on his way to establishing himself, with his own life. What’s up with Dis, and why doesn’t she want to have contact with her own mother? We follow a questioning young woman seeking solid ground in an existence gone awry.

You and Me, Alfred
Literature and Fiction2020 · 112 pp

You and Me, Alfred

Edgar Burås

Norway, far off in the future. Elias lives in a house and the house is called Alfred. Alfred can think and speak, and provides shelter against the dangerous yellow rain that falls from the sky at irregular intervals. But Alfred also knows that Elias has a criminal past. Will his secret come out one day? And what happens when a robot refugee turns up outside the house? Must he take care of her? What is Elias to do?

The Dove Lanterns
Literature and Fiction2020 · 128 pp

The Dove Lanterns

Rannveig Fern Leite Molven

Astrid is in Amsterdam with her boyfriend Isak and a couple of friends. After an evening of heavy drinking, she heads out into the night alone, as the others discuss the climate crisis and oil drilling. The great catastrophe awaits us all, but in Astrid’s little life it has already happened. Her child went to sleep, never to wake again. The death of her child has made Astrid into the person she is today, a person incapable of fully connecting with others. Her friends return to the hotel as Astrid roams the snowy streets of Amsterdam. There she meets Mark, a homeless man. With a kind of speechless comprehension, he appears to grasp more about the baggage Astrid is carrying than her friends. In a sensuous and poetic prose, her tragic past story unfolds and memories mingle with the present in ways that Astrid finds difficult to cope with. The Dove Lanterns is an intense novel about grief, loss and memories. It powerfully shows how destructive it is to lose a child and how difficult it can be to reconnect to the world after the worst has happened.

Stupid Naked
Literature and Fiction2020 · 184 pp

Stupid Naked

Ane Barstad Solvang

Stupid Naked is a novel about the relationships people have with themselves and others, about being lonely but finding your own autonomy; about Porsgrunn, Oslo, London and herpes.