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If I Were Agnes
Literature and Fiction2026 · 256 pp

If I Were Agnes

Nikoline Riis Lindahl

Astrid is 12 years old when her mother walks out the door, never to return. Astrid lives with a father who can be violent. Some weekends she gets to stay with her grandmother and the dog Buster, other weekends she has to stay with her father's friend Frank, who doesn't treat her the way an adult man should treat a young girl. Astrid finds ways to survive; she studies nature and ants to see how they manage. If I Were Agnes is at times a somber and bleak story, but also one of hope. «If I were Agnes is not a book you finish, put down, and forget. It's the opposite.»Framtida, six/six stars «Nikoline Riis Lindahl (30) makes a smash debut with a tender and strong portrait of a childhood in an environment which lets you down.»Dagbladet, six/six stars

A raw exploration of violence, abuse, and resilience
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White Drin
Literature and Fiction2026 · 200 pp

White Drin

Leonard Karahoda

The narrator in White Drin is a history graduate student who has just been abandoned by his partner. When he unexpectedly receives word that his Uncle Mon has died, he leaves Oslo for his family's homeland, Kosovo – not just to escape, but to understand. Through meetings with relatives, strangers and stories that have long been buried, a family history marked by division, ideology and war is uncovered. The choices made by one generation – between Hoxha's Albania and Tito's Yugoslavia – cast long shadows over the next. At the same time, the landscape opens up: the White Drin river, the villages, the people, the memories – everything and everyone carries stories that refuse to be silent. In his debut book, Leonard Karahoda depicts a journey through grief, identity and heritage. White Drin is about searching for belonging in what has been lost, and about finding a way forward when the past cannot be revived. «An impressive linguistic vitality. This is a talented debut author (...) The book is a pleasure to read. There are so many great passages that it is futile to try to single out the best (...) linguistically powerful elegy about Kosovo, family memories, diaspora, and the search for identity»Samtiden «...one of the best debuts I have read in a long time (...) White Drin is a brilliantly crafted novel based on classic motifs (...) this kind of debut is a rarity»Klassekampen “A smashing debut (...) brimming with distinctiveness, splendid imagery, and lingering, beautiful passages about time and history, landscape, identity, and memories (...) rich in sensory, original descriptions that evoke spontaneous enthusiasm.”Aftenposten

Intention and Innocence
Literature and Fiction2026 · 158 pp

Intention and Innocence

Eike Aalen Øi

The fantastic and fabulating stories in Intention and Innocence are populated by extraordinary characters. The much-loved bullfighter Pamodoro, for example, or the longing austronaut Ne, and the twin kings Claus and Yve who decide to dig the world's deepest hole. The seven stories in this collection all revolve around loneliness, community, and the sorrow over something lost, and thus say something essential about what narratives we need in our lives, as individuals and as a society.

I Long for Shipwrecks and Sudden Death
Literature and Fiction2026 · 186 pp

I Long for Shipwrecks and Sudden Death

Hilde Charlotte Blomberg

The journalist, film critic, author, researcher, and left-wing radical activist Wenche Blomberg left many imprints on Norwegian society. She also left her mark on her only child, her daughter Hilde Charlotte. This is a novel about what it was like to grow up as a so-called "ml-kid" (child of Maoist-Leninist activists) in the 70s. The author tells, both poetically and realistically, about a dominant mother and an unusual and difficult childhood and youth. After her mother's death, Hilde Charlotte seeks out Wenche's private archive at the National Library. There she finds, among other things, her mother's diaries dating back to 1963. The weeks she spends going through the archival material give Hilde Charlotte new insight. Her mother emerges with her whole self and her entire background. I long for shipwrecks and sudden death is a shocking, yet also a reconciling novel about a different kind of mother/daughter relationship. «It is so heartbreaking, so devastatingly gruesome and at the same time so cleverly put together, with many beautiful, poetically striking, but at the same time modest formulations. The text is an achievement.»Dagbladet, six/six stars «Hilde Charlotte Blomberg moves you when she writes about her mother Wenche Blomberg.»Klassekampen Neglect under red banners«We need this book.»Morgenbladet «A sharp and poetic piece of literature about a mother-daughter relationship.»Dagsavisen

Raw and unflinching memoir
Iron Curtain
Mystery and Crime2026 · 336 pp

Iron Curtain

Per Arne Totland

A novel from the Cold War In a war-torn Germany in 1948, Henri Wenner is the intelligence officer in the Norwegian German Brigade. Henri is deeply affected by his war experiences, his marriage has broken up and he fears that World War III will break out right where the Norwegian soldiers are. At the same time that Joseph Stalin imposes the Berlin Blockade, Henri's closest associate is found shot. While Henri tries to solve the murder, a Soviet intelligence officer appears. He has a mysterious relationship with the murdered Norwegian. The Russian offers to become a Norwegian mole in Moscow, and tells Henri that the KGB has a spy with the code name RYBAK high up in the Norwegian government apparatus. He knows no more. Thus begins Henri and the Russian's hunt for RYBAK. While it takes Henri to Moscow and later to London, RYBAK carries out his espionage at Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen's office. A lonely and nervous spy sends messages to Moscow about the inner workings of the government and Norway's path towards NATO membership. And he receives instructions from Moscow on how to influence government policy. As a former musician, Henri treats his PTSD and his longing with pills and jazz. Eventually, none of these things work, and in a winter-cold Moscow, Henri must try to save both himself and the Norwegian mole at the KGB headquarters. Iron Curtain is a story about a soldier destroyed by war, about dreams that are crushed, about a cold war that descends on Europe, the cynicism it brings with it and the drama that befalls those who fight it. It is the first novel in a planned series about the Norwegian intelligence agent Henri Wenner.

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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Camera
Literature and Fiction2026 · 208 pp

Camera

Line Nyborg

Klara has become pregnant and travels north to her childhood cabin. There, she finds a father who sets nets and curses the poor catch, but otherwise says little. And a mother who has developed a heart condition. An old family sorrow surfaces during the week Klara is home, forcing its way through the silence. The North Norwegian nature and its people are seen through Klara's eyes. Behind the camera, she pauses, sees everything more clearly, with calm and openness. Can she let go of the past, open herself up, and accept love and intimacy?

Delves into the complex and challenging mother-daughter relationship
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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Koster
Literature and Fiction2026 · 224 pp

Koster

Ida Fjeldbraaten

Koster is a sharp and intense novel about truth, literature, and botany—and not least, a love letter to the Bohuslän summer. Oda Bakken loses her job as an advertising copywriter and is contacted by a former client with a proposition: she is to write a biography of Lina Ebbel, a multi-millionaire and the founder of the natural cosmetics brand "Linné AS." Oda travels to the island of Koster, where the elderly woman lives. But the writing assignment proves far more difficult than first anticipated, as her subject has a highly unconventional relationship with reality. The Swedish archipelago idyll of Koster frames the story with its perfect Swedish summer. But as the holidaymakers head home, the restaurants close, and the sea turns white, an unsettling underworld of unexplained phenomena, human experimentation, and jealous husbands begins to creep in.

Kiss Mark
Literature and Fiction2026 · 198 pp

Kiss Mark

Agnes Nordvik

Ella washes until her skin burns, runs every night, doesn't dare to go to the bathroom. She loses track of the days and doesn't understand why her body is on constant alert. Something is about to unravel. Ella's grief runs deep; she lost her mother to cancer when she was a child. But there is also something else that is pushing its way forward – something she has long kept hidden, also for herself. Through glimpses of a childhood marked by loss and an adolescence where trust was betrayed, a story of abuse, shame and a body that remembers what the mind tries to repress is revealed. Kiss Mark is an in-depth account of what happens when repressed memories break the surface, and of the path towards understanding oneself in order to become whole again. "Nordvik shows both courage and distinctiveness as she depicts how the attempt to say ‘no’ is drowned out by an overwhelming physical experience [...] The scenes in which Ella receives help from caring women to overcome the shame that has settled in her body are beautiful—both edifying and moving. In this way, the book pays tribute to maternal care, while the message remains clear: Women must protect one another [...] It is a task of literature to put into words what is taboo and to foster community based on shared experiences. Nordvik does so in a language that is simultaneously childishly innocent and mature enough to lay bare sexually inflicted shame.”Klassekampen "I read on with a mixture of dread and curiosity (...) impresses and moves the reader."Adresseavisen "Debut author Agnes Nordvik deserves to be widely read. I am already eagerly awaiting her next book (...) Moving in an unusual way (...) Kiss Mark, this puzzle-like narrative, leaping between different pasts and a present, has touched me as a reader."Samtiden "Agnes Nordvik's debut novel Kiss Mark left me gasping for breath (...) What elevates this text is that even though Nordvik pushes hard against the clichés, she maintains a clear focus and an open, inquiring gaze as Ella's 'bad guy' walks into the narrative."Aftenposten “a real page-turner [...] Kiss Mark is not for the faint-hearted. The novel tackles heavy themes such as death and abuse in a very graphic and painful manner. But that is precisely what makes the novel so good. By writing about the protagonist’s experiences in such a genuine and raw way, the story leaves a lasting impression on the reader.”Framtida

The Witch Cave
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2026 · 406 pp

The Witch Cave

Vegard Vinsjansen

Welcome to Balnesvik, a place in Western Norway. It's a small village, a small town so strangely familiar that it could have been where you grew up. But there's more to Balnesvik than meets the eye. Sondre is 16 years old and about to finish middle school. His big dream is to work in film, and he hopes to get into a sought-after media study programme in the city. He can't wait to get away from «the fucked-up farming country», but before he gets that far, a mysterious illness begins to spread in the village. It starts with the family cat Pelle, who has a nasty wound that smells bad and is behaving strange. And then there's Sondre's younger brother, Robert, who gets a flock of ants to commit collective suicide in a puddle. And who is the mysterious Julia, who appears everywhere? Together with his friends Lasse and Maryam, Sondre must navigate through various threats to unravel a conspiracy that stretches back through the village's history and is linked to the legendary closed mine – often called The Witch Cave – and where Sondre's family find themselves at the center of something that could affect the entire world.

Murder Between the Lines
UpLit / Mystery and Crime2026 · 368 pp

Murder Between the Lines

Gunn Helene Arsky

In Murder Between the Lines, bookseller Angel is contacted by a small, alternative publishing house and invited to Hessdalen in Trøndelag. The area is known for its mysterious and unexplained light phenomena, and in addition to Angel there will be editors, authors and other speakers at the event. While she's away, her boyfriend Adam will cat sit Luna for her. Soon after arriving in Hessdalen, a suspicious death occurs. Angel is no stranger to a murder case, but this time it's different: no one has phone coverage and everyone is casting suspicious glances in all directions. But one message is able to reach Angel: Luna has run away from home! Angel is caught in a web she cannot seem to untangle. To solve this mystery, there is only one thing to do: Read between the lines. Murder Between the Lines delivers charm, suspense, and small-town coziness – with a dash of humour and a cat that never fails to impress. Perfect for readers who adore cozy mysteries with a twist!