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Oh, what joy!
Literature and Fiction2026 · 237 pp

Oh, what joy!

Mari Andreassen

Nominated for the Brage Prize and the Youth Critics’ Award for her debut How Long Do We Last, Mari Andreassen returns with a luminous novel about youth, friendship and first love set in a small coastal town near Tromsø in the 1990s. Do you remember? The fumbling hands, the smell of cheap perfume and bad breath. Slow dances. Notes passed across the classroom. Vodka and orange juice. The first kiss, the first heartbreak. The friends who carried you through it and the ones who didn’t. This is the story of a circle of friends growing up in the north: Ajjo with a scar from a fishing hook, Krissa with the gap-toothed grin, Ørjan in his army cap and June and Petter, whose love burns brightest of all. Now, decades later, Petter is forty-five, divorced, and struggling to connect with his teenage son. When he attends the funeral of his old teacher, memories surge back with disarming force – of friendship, desire, shame and the moment everything changed. Told with tenderness, warmth and piercing honesty, this is a radiant portrait of adolescence, that fleeting time when we feel everything for the first time, and think it will last forever. «... a tiny miracle.»KLASSEKAMPEN «A solid novel about being stuck in the past, about loneliness in adulthood, about first love and a teenage body that howls with longing.»DAGBLADET

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A tender, nostalgic coming-of-age novel set in 1990s Northern Norway
The Living Grave
Mystery and Crime2026 · 317 pp

The Living Grave

Ellen Gustavsen

Ellen Gustavsen's new thriller continues the story of teacher Johanna Brekke and police officer Lars Lukassen. Johanna investigates the discovery of a dead woman in the fjord, unearthing secrets tied to the disappearance of a boy, Benjamin, more than two decades ago. Meanwhile, the local community faces a dry summer, environmental disputes over a unique bog, and deep-seated family feuds, creating a backdrop of tension and suspicion. As Johanna digs deeper, she exposes a web of lies and hidden motives, where some are determined to keep the past buried. The novel blends climate change, social inequality, and village life into a psychological thriller, reminiscent of Liza Marklund's work. The Living Grave is a suspenseful psychological thriller with climate change, social inequality, and village life as a bleak backdrop, where the Western Norwegian village becomes a character in itself.

Weeds and Asphalt
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2026 · 278 pp

Weeds and Asphalt

Aon Raza Naqvi

A young rapper is going to get his own studio, and the way to get there goes through Larvik's underground environment. Weeds and Asphalt is the sequel to the critically acclaimed and award-nominated novel Angry Youth. Noh has found his crew: David on the DJ desk, Adam on vocals, Jonas as manager. Together they will conquer hip-hop Norway from Kongegata 1, Larvik's newly opened cultural center with a free studio. But when marijuana is discovered, the access to the studio is restricted and Noh's dream is in danger. The solution? Noh needs to raise 10,000 kroner – quickly. The plan is simple: sell marijuana, earn money, buy equipment, build a studio. But nothing in Larvik is easy when you're fifteen years old, live at home, have strict parents and a secret life that grows bigger every day. From the attic of Børre, the city's safe haven for beanies, to meetings with dealers, from desperate customers to dangerous credit purchases, Noh navigates life between school, sales and musician ambitions. While the rappers who inspire him live thug lives in American ghettos, Noh must find his own language in a Norwegian reality. What do you rap about when you grow up in the small city of Larvik? How do you stay true to art when your family argues about money, your father has three jobs, and morality becomes increasingly unclear? Weeds and Asphalt is a raw, warm and hilarious coming-of-age story about artist dreams and everyday crime. Blooming Weeds: "With Noh, Naqvi has created a youthful voice that both entertains and hits hard. Ugress og asfalt (Weeds and Asphalt) is funny, painful, and accomplished (...) a young adult novel that succeeds on multiple levels at once. Naqvi writes humorously and accessibly about substance abuse, racism, and alienation (...) What is most compelling, however, is the trust Naqvi places in both the character and the reader. (...) Weeds and Asphalt shows rather than tells, and that is precisely why it lingers long after the final page."BOK365, 6/6 stars

Ultima Thule
Literature and Fiction2026 · 176 pp

Ultima Thule

Andreas Tharaldsen

Capitalism has eaten up the Nordics. At the far end lies Ultima Thule, a city created by greedy dollar eyes. It is not a place, but a tourist destination, a Disneyland created by communication agencies, politicians and dubious research communities in geomatics. The main character himself sits on a mountain outside the city with an impossible project in front of him, in the form of a red book. He is to continue the work of the political writer Ellisif Wessel and translate Das Kapital into Sámi. A long time has passed since he presented the project to the capital's foundations and scholarship committees, and they are now demanding their money back. His nerves are fraying. He simply has no choice but to look for Ellisif Wessel's translation in progress. Thus begins what will become a wild journey around the North Calotte, with sleigh rides across the wide-stretching arctic plateaus, flying reindeer and illegal revue performances. It is an adventurous novel in the carnival tradition, with clear humorous and political features.

Ulysses II
Literature and Fiction2026 · 224 pp

Ulysses II

Kristian Klausen

The Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani was killed in a bomb attack in Beirut in 1972. Israeli intelligence claimed responsibility; they had placed an explosive device under his car, which detonated when Kanafani turned the key in the ignition. This novel imagines a universe in which Kanafani escapes, flees to Norway and rents a dormitory with the Alsaker couple in Drammen. Living with them, and wandering around the small town, he gets the idea for an epic novel about his Palestinian people. Ulysses II is an ambitious literary experiment, which examines what would happen if the Jewish protagonist in James Joyce's Ulysses were rewritten as a Palestinian.

Villa Holzinger
Literature and Fiction2026 · 137 pp

Villa Holzinger

Mats Michael Sandstad

Villa Holzinger is currently used as a party venue and the house is run by a lonely man and a drug addicted mink. In the garden there is a gardener, and in the kitchen there are two industrious Turks, a pair of brothers who together constitute a two-headed troll of culinary expertise. With the exception of the noise from the mink's attic room, everything is going smoothly at Villa Holzinger. Until the day a double booking occurs. Villa Holzinger is a thought-provoking farce about living a life in a civilised world. This is a wild and captivating novel told in seductive language. It's a novel that probes deeply, but is also astonishingly entertaining. Mats Michael Sandstad's third novel is a funny book with the potential to excite both literary snobs and casual readers.

Villa Lupin
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2026 · 256 pp

Villa Lupin

Merete Lien

Childhood friends Johanna and Kristine once shared secrets in their playhouse, Villa Lupin, but drifted apart. Years later, Johanna returns home to care for her ailing sister, only to find Kristine brutally murdered, the case unsolved, and their playhouse demolished. Johanna possesses knowledge the police overlooked, yet she hides her suspicions, instead channeling her theories into a private novel that she knows can never be published. She also dedicates herself to documenting the destruction of old gardens and historic villas by developers, preserving memories and nature. However, everything changes when Kristine's son, Lukas, is also found dead, an apparent accident at the family's country estate. Fearing for Lukas's sister, Elise, and feeling a deep sense of responsibility, Johanna realizes it's time to stop merely playing with a manuscript and actively unravel the past. Kristine's talent for making enemies provides many leads: the mysterious women at Lukas's funeral, the enigmatic Anna with her black dog, and the secrets hidden at the desolate country house.

Compelling, flawed protagonist
Wild Thing
Literature and Fiction2026 · 133 pp

Wild Thing

Magnus Aasdalen

There is something distinctly unreal about Magnus Aasdalen's upcoming novel, Wild Thing. Or, as Sirius still shines over the armory. If you find the title dizzying, it is merely a foretaste of the story it contains. A first-person narrator lives alone on a farm in Gvarv, Telemark. He is eight years old, on sick leave, an alcoholic, and newly divorced. From this premise, we follow a couple of days in his life, which can be summarized as a dark odyssey by bicycle. Childhood fantasy and pitch-black reality coalesce into a higher unity in this novel. Here you will find trees that become dragons, parents whose whereabouts are unknown, carousels at the local pub Bull-in, high school flirtations, and bike rides under a dark, starry sky. Not least, and perhaps most importantly, there is a "you". For Wild Thing is also a love story, of the impossible kind, from which the narrator cannot escape. The past seeps into the present. And thus, amidst all this unreal, fantastic, but often very humorous matter, there is evoked a vulnerability and longing, that linger long after the book is closed. Aasdalen's prose resembles nothing else. Told in a direct, yet poetic stream of consciousness, this is a highly original novel about addiction and loneliness, which no-one else could have written.

Surreal and Original Narrative Voice
Anywhere But Here
Literature and Fiction2025 · 176 pp

Anywhere But Here

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

Anywhere But Here is an autobiographical novel about an adult son who is trying to get to know his sick father before it is too late. The novel depicts authorial ambitions versus family life. A hidden box of video cassettes in the attic. A child who never stops bawling. An erased childhood. A love letter. A self-defence. A forgiveness.

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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The Astronaut Monologue
Literature and Fiction2025 · 144 pp

The Astronaut Monologue

Terje Dragseth

The Astronaut Monologue Kafka meets Star Trek in a mythic space odyssey On the spaceship Seahorse, in a galaxy far, far away, Astronaut #9950 records solar energy while drifting through deep space. When he's not alone on his spaceship, he's in the White City where he meets Dora Diamant, the woman of his dreams. The Austronat is hunting for a mysterious super sonic sound: A U M. but he is not the only one looking for it. But so is Molok, an artificial intelligence sent by the All-Machine, the dominant force in the universe. Together, the Astronaut and Dora must defy a cosmic power that wants to control the vibration that moves all things. A surreal, poetic, and genre-defying novel about memory, myth, and machinery told in a language as visionary as the cosmos it describes. This is the Astronaut's story.

Behaviour Letter
Mystery and Crime2025 · 272 pp

Behaviour Letter

Andrine Bruland

Elementary school student Jonas just wants to play football with his friends, but his teacher, Hufsa, is always on his case. His mother is patient and does everything she can to steer him through everyday life with love, despite all the behaviour letters from the school, about disruption, vandalism and violence. Then, one day, Hufsa is found dead at the bottom of some stairs at the school. Six months earlier, psychologist Luna wakes up at home with her partner and their one-year-old son. Luna struggles with an intense need to control everything from her wardrobe and unsolved murders to her partner’s comings and goings. One morning, she is due to have a meeting with Alexander Cohen – the city’s hottest youth worker and lecturer. He has invited her to discuss a collaboration but doesn’t turn up. The following day, news breaks that Alexander has been found brutally murdered. Police officer Katja is Luna’s best friend and anchor in life, and she becomes even more crucial now she is to investigate Alexander’s death. Behaviour Letter is a well-written, solid and exciting crime novel about our search for acceptance, and the dramatic consequences of a school system that doesn’t accommodate everyone.