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First there was darkness
Mystery and Crime2024 · 288 pp

First there was darkness

Karin Fossum

All that's heard in the silence, is the knife when it's dragged over the steel in long motions. First there was darkness is the fourth book about police detective Eddie Feber. It's early August, and a dry wind is blowing. Ruben Kornell spends the night in an old community centre, hidden behind some chairs. He awakes to the sounds of voices, and overhears a conversation between two men. Ruben has a burning passion for true crime, and he's convinced that the men are planning to commit a crime. He eyes the opportunity to become an important witness in a criminal case. If he can convince the police to take him seriously. Bloody crime with poetic elements«Lean back and let yourself be enveloped by the Fossum universe [...] A surprising, recognisable and magnificent novel by Karin Fossum.»Dagsavisen No one writes crime like Fossum«Her tone of voice and character gallery set her apart from all other Norwegian crime.»Stavanger Aftenblad «Karin Fossum, currently, is our unrivalled Queen of Crime, and she is showing no sign of abdicating.»NRK, five/six stars «Unforgettable crime, which meets all my expectations.»Randaberg24, six/six stars «First there was darkness has several highlights, and is far above what many other Norwegian crime writers publish.»VG

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Master of none
Literature and Fiction2024 · 224 pp

Master of none

Eivind Hofstad Evjemo

Rakel runs a chicken farm where she lives alone in the main house. The barracks houses an ever-changing selection of 4-5 male workers, mostly foreigners. Krystof, Mustada, Arif, and the newly arrived Erwan at the moment. Each of them has their own place and task in the barracks. Chicken Herd Number 88 has just been sent to the slaughterhouse. Erwan joins in on the prep to receive a new herd with hundreds of chickens who will be raised to shortly become thighs, breasts, wings and minced meat. Author Eivind Hofstad Evjemo writes a beautiful and messy drama. A mini society where Rakel is the boss who sits alone at night and sometimes drinks too much wine, where the boys in the barracks both support each other and fight each other while trying to retain a private life in bunk beds, without any private space. As always, Evjemo’s forte is found in the relationships – what happens between people who have to live under the same roof, who have to live alone in a big house, who has to tackle literal and figurative crap and animal death together, who work in the same rhythm, who need to earn money and create a meaningful life. One night the four men gather around the table in the barrack for spiritualism: They call on the dead. Without considering who might then return to the farm. This is the second book in Eivind Hofstad Evjemo’s trilogy of books about agricultural life and the farmer.

Nothing To Be Afraid Of
Literature and Fiction2024 · 176 pp

Nothing To Be Afraid Of

Eivind Sudmann

Thomas is in control. A former psychologist, he now travels the country holding the lecture «The Grammar of the Good Life» for large audiences. He teaches them how they too can turn hardship and pain into insight and peace of mind. Now, it is Thomas who decides what to keep, and what to discard. During his childhood, everything went up in smoke. Presently, in the safe family environment he has built for himself, everything is at it should be. Until one day he receives audio recordings and photographs of himself and his family. Why is someone watching him? This unresolved situation awakens something in Thomas, something he repressed is resurfacing. Little by little, the past comes back to him, this time as a stranger. Nothing To Be Afraid Of is a captivating novel about the haunting power of the past, and about everything you have to push away to live well in the present. Is it possible to build a good future if your past was truly terrible?

I'LL COME GET YOU
Literature and Fiction2024 · 192 pp

I'LL COME GET YOU

Gine Cornelia Pedersen

I’LL COME GET YOU is a love story, as heavenly as it might be impossible, with a pulse that leaves you gasping for air. I’ve found love, what now. She’s about to start drama school, lives in a shared house and has big dreams. Harald is a musician, a free spirit without a fixed address, a drugged-up romantic, a suspect known to the police. When it’s just the two of them, it’s bliss, but in public she’s sometimes ashamed of him, a thought that also makes her ashamed of herself. She thinks, but doesn’t say: I have a future, but you might not. He disappears after a party, and no one has heard from him for five days. She searches desperately amongst friends and acquaintances, hasn’t slept in fifty, seventy hours, more than that now. We follow her for a frantic twenty-four hours, all over Oslo, on what might be a rescue mission, or a search just moments too late. A SLIPSTREAM OF A NOVEL«The last part of the book is one of the most exciting things I've read. […] I’LL COME GET YOU goes into something absolutely essential in the meeting between humans: the individual limits of what is acceptable, the potential disgust and contempt. This makes the novel an insightful read.»NRK, five/six stars THE DEVIL COME GET ME «… a story, written with command of form and style, about bringing out the best in both oneself and others.»KLASSEKAMPEN «Gine Cornelia Pedersen has written hectic and gripping about strong feelings.»DAG OG TID

Damn Kid
Literature and Fiction2024 · 304 pp

Damn Kid

Frederik Svindland

Nineties Norway. Vito grows up in Porsgrunn with a Norwegian father and a Russian mother. The summer before he starts junior high, he discovers hip-hop, but when the school year starts, he soon ends up in a sketchy environment characterised by substance abuse and crime. It is here he meets Alvarez, a boy from the neighbourhood, the only one of them with a heart, and together they try to find a way out. Svindland’s novel is a tale of friendship, love and survival in a town full of drugs and hopeless souls. Surely there’s nothing funny about that? Well, then. «Svindland himself hits the bullseye with this intimate, rough and jargon-filled novel.»DAG OG TID

Comet Girl
Literature and Fiction2024 · 208 pp

Comet Girl

Victoria Durnak

Thirteen-year-old Sol discovers that her parents have been sharing pictures of her on social media since she was born, without asking for her consent. As a revenge of sorts, or perhaps an attempt to regain control, she decides to stop talking. Soon afterwards, a voice addresses her. This gives Sol access to an inner, free world that soon interweaves with – and affects – her physical reality. «It is a strong novel, which uncompromisingly follows Sol's gaze. It is not just beautiful, what she sees. (...) It is easy to see that Durnak is also a visual artist. Sol's imaginations literally explode in color, which makes the text lively and tactile. (...) It is a touching book, and one that will probably resonate particularly with young readers.»NRK, five/six stars «... a nuanced exploration of how adult society can (mis)interpret teenage rebellion in a public that is literally overflowing with discussion about possible connections between young people's screen use, privacy and mental health. Durnak's story about Sol invites us to wonder what might be lost if children and young people's possible forms of resistance are understood exclusively through the lens of diagnoses.»Morgenbladet

The Lily in the Field
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 320 pp

The Lily in the Field

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

Summer 1867. Sorrow and joy go hand in hand at Sommersholm this season. The maid’s room in the manor has suddenly become Alise's new home. She mourns her father, and longs for any sign of life from Birk. Why isn't he writing? On top of this heartbreak and her pregnancy, she must work as Aurelia’s chambermaid, and Aurelia seems determined to complicate Alise’s life even further. At Hasselskovgaard, the upcoming costume ball is the talk of the town. Only Rose's thoughts are elsewhere. She fears that Hugo will discover and expose Torkel. Hugo has shown there is no limit to how far he will go. Can he be stopped? The tension between Margrete and Axel is still palpable. In the fruit garden he attempts to kiss her, but Margerete believes he is engaged to someone else and accuses him of taking advantage. He leaves her there, promising to leave her alone from now on.

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Mass for a Murderer
Mystery and Crime2024 · 400 pp

Mass for a Murderer

Gard Sveen

A hot Tuesday morning in August, Tom Schrøder is granted his first leave from prison. Three hours accompanied by two officers. He will be be back in the Kongsvinger prison by eleven o’clock. But Schrøder never comes back. He kills one of the prison officers and leaves town with the other. The most dangerous man in the country is on the lam. He is armed, and he has a hostage. The residents of the town are asked to stay indoors and lock their doors in the intense heat of the late summer. Tom Schrøder, a feared criminal since his late teens, was convicted of a brutal double homicide twelve years ago. In recent years, however, he has been a model prisoner and earned a transfer to a low-security prison. In two years, he could have been a free man. He is fifty-two years old. If he’s caught now, he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars. Why run now? In Sandefjord, Schrøder’s lawyer is on his summer holidays when he receives news of his most infamous client’s escape. By then, several hours have passed since the incident – Tom Schrøder could be anywhere. The lawyer’s greatest fear is that someone in the prison may have told Tom his big secret. Then the worst thing possible happens. And the road to downfall has no end.

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My Friend, Alice
Mystery and Crime2024 · 320 pp

My Friend, Alice

Mally Marlene

Jessie and Alice have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, sharing a consuming interest in True Crime cases.When Alice becomes obsessed with an unsolved disappearance case from the 90s – The Sleeping Baby Case – Jessie finds that her friendship with Alice becomes more and more threatening. Alice is very dominant, and Jessie finds it challenging to maintain a normal life. Can Alice be trusted and is she the friend Jessie thinks she is? My Friend Alice is a psychological thriller exploring disturbed human minds and the fatal consequences of them. The storytelling is visual and captivating, and it will for sure make you question yourself along the way. The pieces of the puzzle in this psychological thriller fits perfectly together in the end.5/6 stars - Adresseavisa In the run-of-the-mill spring of Norwegian crime fiction, Mally Marlene emerges as a breath of fresh air, infused with a mix of lewd sexuality and Freudian terror. This psychological thriller is a demonstration of power. 6/6 stars – NRK I won’t be surprised if this novel, in a revised form, becomes the basis for a movie or a TV series.Stavanger Aftenblad

Landing
Literature and Fiction2024 · 176 pp

Landing

Aksel Selmer

Ottar Arne Andersen, failed poet and author of mediocre advertising texts, recently widowed and retired, has finally worked up the courage to move back to his hometown. For more than forty years he has longed to return home to the winter and ideal skiing conditions. But when he is sitting with his boxes of books in the house he has bought, he realises it was maybe something else he longed for, something he is struggling to get back. Landing is a cheerful and melancholic story about coming home and then trying to remember what it was that what it was that you left and why you left it. It is also a tale of soaring over the landscape of your childhood and making a good Telemark landing on your skis.

The Most Prominent Thomas Mann-expert in Norway
Literature and Fiction2024 · 208 pp

The Most Prominent Thomas Mann-expert in Norway

Fredrik Lilleby

Fredrik Lilleby’s novel The Most Prominent Thomas Mann Expert in Norway is a novel about sexual and romantic relationships, the possibilities and limitations of literature, lives, lived and unlived, desire and gratification, transgression and regret. Helge Kaspersen is the chief district judge at Fløtterud court, well into his fifties and married to Randi. Thomas Mann has been his favourite author his whole adult life, largely due to Mann’s supressed homosexuality, desires that Helge Kaspersen has realised he shares. He is looking forward to a two-month sabbatical from his position as district judge, during which time he plans to write a 150-to-200-page book about Thomas Mann. To also try to “do something about” his own homoerotic desires, he creates a profile on the dating app Grindr and eventually meets someone he likes. The sabbatical doesn’t turn out quite like he had envisioned.

Norwegian love
Literature and Fiction2024 · 128 pp

Norwegian love

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

Was Brynjulf a child sold across borders? Can he still be glad he was bought by someone in Norway? All he wants is to be part of the country where he grew up, to acknowledge the painful, but also see what's beautiful. At the time when White, Norwegian man came out, a story broke that there had been problematic aspects to the adoption industry. This shook the self-image and identity of many adopted people, including Brynjulf Jung Tjønn. Even though you are born in another country and have dark skin colour, you still just want to belong. To be part of the Norwegian. Who has Brynjulf been? Who will he be or become? What does it mean to be Norwegian? "(...) poems that vibrate with quiet, understated tension.”Marius AspVG, Five/six stars “He is often satirical and has an undeniable talent for pinpoint phrasing.”Espen GrønlieDagbladet, Five/six stars “… a poetic commentary on the ongoing news landscape.”Gro Jørstad NilsenBergens Tidende, Five/six stars “Brynjulf Jung Tjønn finds a finely tuned balance between the despair of identity and reconciliation.”Ingunn ØklandAftenposten “Brynjulf Jung Tjønn’s new poetry collection plays on ‘Norwegian’ as a hallmark of identity, values, and tradition, while also capturing the experience of alienation, racism, and the loss of self.”Sigrid Elise StrømmenVårt Land

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