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Grandma Poems
Literature and Fiction2025 · 160 pp

Grandma Poems

Gro Dahle

Grandma Poems is for grandparents of all kinds, and for everyone who remembers, knows about, misses a grandmother or grandfather, and everyone who longs for grandchildren, to cradle in their arms, mash bananas, feed with a spoon, stroll through the forest. These poems are meant to be shared and cherished. There are those who believe in old desert godsI myself believe in grandmothers.That they truly exist.That they are out there.That they stand there with their hands ready.

Page Monkey
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Literature and Fiction2025 · 160 pp

Page Monkey

Mats Michael Sandstad

In Page Monkey, we meet a young man breaking free from his usual existence. He would generally refer to himself as a pianist, but today, as on so many other days, he is just asked to turn the pages for someone giving a concert. Unfortunately, he messes up. He turns a page too quickly, fumbles and struggles as the sheet music becomes increasingly crumpled, and following this he is forced to look for work outside of the institutions. Ugh. That’s how he ends up in the archipelago, working as a piano teacher for a family of four. Sure, the cabin has a jetty, boat and solar panels, but strangely enough, it has no piano. And so he finds himself waiting for both a piano and restitution – until an unexpected guest stops by for dinner. Page Monkey is the story of a docile musician who is out for revenge. And about his strange friend, Florian. Page Monkey is a clever and unseemly story about classical music, being amenable, and about recovering from a fall.

Bloodbank
Literature and Fiction2025 · 144 pp

Bloodbank

Sarah Zahid

In a metaphorical sense, blood can mean everything from life and passion, to desire, anger and inspiration. But perhaps first and foremost it means family. Family is your own blood. And it follows you, and fills you, your whole life. In the first poem in the collection Bloodbank, the poet's mother dies. In all the subsequent ones, she lives anyway. Bloodbank is, like the world, both merciless and full of mercy. It is a collection about a skinny and harsh teenager, who is trying to become a big and strong adult. Trying to win the eternal battle with their own blood.

Blood
Literature and Fiction2025 · 544 pp

Blood

Torgrim Eggen

What makes two teenage brothers from a small village in Norway, enlist in Waffen-SS? Oddmund and Sigurd grow up in a small Norwegian village in the 1930s, surrounded by competing ideologies and political tensions. Dark clouds loom over the valley. Europe is on the brink of war, and soon everyone must choose a side. The brothers align themselves with the Germans in the fateful struggle against Stalin. At just seventeen years old, they both become soldiers in Waffen-SS. While Oddmund fights at Leningrad, Sigurd is sent to Finland. They survive the war, but when they return to a liberated Norway, they must face the consequences of their choices. How will their lives unfold? And what marks do they leave on their descendants and family? In the novel’s final part, the author himself steps forward—as their nephew and descendant—in an attempt to understand the legacy of Sigurd and Oddmund. The result is a novel of moral gravity, linguistic precision, and emotional force. Blood is a story about heroes and traitors, the dream of honour and the nightmares that follow, and it portrays a time that bears an unsettling resemblance to our own. «Eggen’s most ambitious, most personal, and certainly his best novel. [...] Eggen’s prose is razor-sharp, full of historical detail and fascinating observations.»Adresseavisen, six/six stars «Eggen delivers a gripping story.»Dag og Tid «Well-written nightmare»Aftenposten «As a war novel, Blood contains most of the genre’s typical elements such as cold, dirt, venereal diseases, waiting, explosions, blood and misery. [...] Torgrim Eggen is a classic golden pen, agile and light and elegant, even when the subject matter is as grim as here. It is dramatic and eventful.»Dagens Næringsliv

Eggen has one of Norway's sharpest pens
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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Bø!
Literature and Fiction2025 · 240 pp

Bø!

Kristin Buvik Sivertsen

Marie is an artist whose career hasn’t taken off, and when her boyfriend breaks up with her, she decides to get her life together. In Bø in Vesterålen, they have abolished wealth tax to attract the “fat cats” and create jobs. In the wake of welcoming Bjørn Dæhli, businessman and former cross-country skier, they have also decided that they need art and culture. On private initiative, they decide to establish a biennale – or Bøennial, as it will come to be known. Marie takes the job of managing the project. Sure, maybe she initially thought it was Bø in Telemark she was applying for a job in, but she looks on the bright side and takes the job regardless. Bø! is a humorous and precise novel about regional Norway, Northern Norway and wealth tax.

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
Rights soldSold to Bulgaria
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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The Second Heart
Literature and Fiction2025 · 268 pp

The Second Heart

Ida Hegazi Høyer

The Second Heart is a warm and honest story about being someone's next of kin – about alienation and longing for freedom. Ever since she was a child, she has been preparing for her father's weak heart to stop. She doesn't want to be there when it happens, but she's also afraid every time he leaves the house, or the country. Ever since she was a child, she has thought don't go don't go don't go. Her Egyptian father almost dies, time and time again. And when she has become an adult, he needs her in new ways. What responsibility do you have as a child, as offspring? Father and daughter travel between different countries, and swivel between closeness and distance. Does it have to do with their cultures, Egyptian and Norwegian, or is it who they are? «Unlike many books based on the author's own life, The Second Heart actually has something important to say. The result is a reflective and moving story about a father-daughter relationship (...) Analytical and inquisitive, the author creates a nuanced portrait of a complicated man. (...) Precisely this dual movement – between closeness and distance, tenderness and resistance – elevates the book from an ordinary portrait to a work of insightful prose, drawing its threads together towards the end. With The Second Heart, Ida Hegazi Høyer has written a moving account of responsibility, belonging, and loving an imperfect human being. It's damn well done!»VG , five/six stars «... a powerful, brave, and reflective narrative about the relationship between a father and a daughter. [...] Sometimes, narratives can emerge that both illuminate and surprise us about these complicated and difficult relationships we call family.»DAGSAVISEN «The Second Heart shows the interaction between two people who need a certain mixture of distance and closeness to one another. It shows what it means to experience being a child and then become a parent oneself. I think that is what makes this book both necessary and disturbingly powerful.»VÅRT LAND «The Second Heart is at times deeply personal and unflinchingly revealing, bordering closely on the painful and rootlessness. This makes the book's descriptions of the tender and intimate aspects of the father-daughter relationship carry even more weight, and reinforces its credibility as a project of personal reckoning within Ida Hegazi Høyer's own emotional core.»KLASSEKAMPEN

Explores father-daughter bonds across cultures
Double Fault
Mystery and Crime2025 · 304 pp

Double Fault

Gudmund Skjeldal

Double fault opens with a murder… or does it? The surface is orange-brown clay, and behind protagonist Paul Dalby, Casper Ruud’s star is rising. Just like Ruud, Paul thinks that persistent and patient training will pay in the long run. At the same time, he lacks something important – the ability to say no. Or the urge to speak out. The ability to resist temptation. He is ambitious enough, but he is also young and has a lust for life. We follow Paul and his coach, Edgar, through both highs and lows in the professional tennis circuit, to an intense and unexpected climax in Marbella. Along the way, the footsteps of the two Norwegians are dogged by stringers, or perhaps we might call them spiders that want to trap tennis stars in their webs. On one level, The Stringer is a novel about the rise and painful fall of a young person. Deeper down, it is a story about a friendship spanning two generations. Even deeper, it is a gripping novel about how we try to absolve ourselves. What do you do when you’ve painted yourself into a corner – and when you also know that you need to fumble a match against an opponent who is much worse than you? Is there a way out?

A fairly troubled novel about women and men and war and peace and tea and terror
Literature and Fiction2025 · 176 pp

A fairly troubled novel about women and men and war and peace and tea and terror

Agnes Kippersund Frogner

A young woman travels to Ireland and Northern Ireland— Dublin and Belfast. She has no job and has not finished high school. She goes to explore the legacy of the conflict between North and South, between the Kingdom and the Republic. She wants to listen to people on both sides. She wants to understand. And in the five days her journey lasts, she believes she can save the world. Have you ever heard anything like it? Agnes K. Frogner’s debut novel is a defence of critical naivety, clear thinking grounded in empathy and altruism. It gives you permission to hope for the best in all people. And that is exactly what nineteen-year-old Agnes does in Ireland: she walks with her backpack, and she sees. She sees that she has landed on the right planet and that it is strange, yes, but still worth fighting for.

The Financial Variations
Literature and Fiction2025 · 176 pp

The Financial Variations

Nils Gullak Horvei

Immediately after the pandemic, interest rates in Norway were very low. To avoid having to work part-time at Vinmonopolet, the author buys some flats he can rent out so he can spend his time walking his dog in the forest and focusing on his writing. But when inflation comes knocking, our hero finds himself under pressure. His wife, the manager of the central bank, wants to raise interest rates to counteract raising prices, while he, of course, wants the interest rates to remain low. The future doesn’t look good. He risks suffering a major blow. The Financial Variations is a funny, frenetic and smart novel with a topical and non-traditional plot.