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DO YOU WANT TO HEAR A SECRET?
Children's Books2014 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 9

DO YOU WANT TO HEAR A SECRET?

Kaia Linnea Dahle Nyhus

Just imagine how many secrets there are! There are little secrets and big secrets. There are painful secrets and secrets you must never, ever tell anyone. Dad has a secret about Granddad. Granddad thinks that he has a secret, but I know what it is. Even animals have secrets. And I also have a very secret secret. Vil du høre en hemmelighet? is the clever and inquisitive debut picture book from Kaia Dahle Nyhus. A book which looks, perceives and thinks from a child’s perspective. ‘Kaia Dahle Nyhus is an important newcomer among Norwegian creators of children’s books. [...] She received the Norwegian Ministry of Culture's illustration award for her work on Håpe, sa gåsa by Gro Dahle. She continues to impress after creating both the text and illustrations for her new book. The illustrations that carry the story, but the text is also beautifully stripped down to the bare essentials. [...] Kaia Dahle Nyhus has delivered a unified and beautiful picture book, which, although written from a child's perspective, is also wonderful for adult readers.’HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD ‘It is the world of children that provides the setting for this simple yet clever story of a first-person narrator who is exploring the world and, in particular, what it means to have secrets. The concept of secrets is elaborated on with child-like cunning... And then there is the book’s punch line, the final secret that the first-person narrator has, her greatest personal secret that she dares to share with us.’TØNSBERG BLAD ‘This concept book’s strength is its open, playful and inquisitive handling of many different secrets. It will fascinate both those reading and those being read to. [...] The secret that is told on the last page is not just any secret. There is something appealingly reckless about it. [...] The texts are simple, the illustrations are stylised and expressive, the colours are vivid and the characters are clearly characterised through the use of patterns and shapes.’BARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO

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Window onto Another World
Self Help2014 · 320 pp

Window onto Another World

Anne-Kristine Augestad

This is the gripping story of a woman who thanks to helpers on the other side, finds her identity as a clairvoyant.Anne-Kristine Augestad has heard voices and seen inner visions for as long as she can remember. For many years she tried to suppress them, worried that she might have a psychological illness. As the signs that she will have to change the course of her life grow steadily more disturbing, she begins reluctantly to believe in her own talents and that there is life on the other side. Through conversations with the people there, whom she calls the soulful beings, she slowly but surely changes her attitude towards herself and understands how she can use her gift to help herself and others.The author suffers a series of traumatic events which nearly kill her and which challenge her understanding of what it is to be human. Conversations with the people on the other side convince her that despite the incomprehensible challenges, there is a future for her. The reader is taken through 24 years of Anne-Kristine's life, from an existence weighed down by powerlessness, doubt, fear and sorrow to a world filled with awe, humility, thankfulness and love.

VOLCANO ISLAND
Children's Books2014 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 9

VOLCANO ISLAND

Jill Moursund

Growing up isn’t easy. Especially when you get old enough to be away from your mum and dad. There’s a lot to gain and a lot to lose. And it’s kind of sad. This is what Lara discovers when she travels with her parents to a tropical island where they are working as volcanologists. While they climb the volcano to do their research, Lara has to stay put with her babysitter – an older, local woman who can’t speak a word of Norwegian. Lara sneaks out one night to find her parents, but loses her way. Luckily, a huge monster shows up who is also looking for his mother! Jill Moursund has written and illustrated a wonderful story about growing up and the first tiny yet very difficult steps towards independence. ‘The illustrations are beautiful and clever, put together as a hand-painted collage and with colours that change from dark to light and delicate. I particularly like the atmospheric night pictures: the dark forest with the strange animals and starry sky that has exciting, almost luminous details.’MAGIFABRIKKEN.NO

Our World Is Dew
Literature and Fiction2014 · 352 pp

Our World Is Dew

Tor Åge Bringsværd

When Tarak loses his mother to the feared sorrow eaters and his father disappears soon afterwards, he is looked after by his grandfather, Elmer, who teaches him to make shadow birds and tell stories.When Tarak turns fourteen, he leaves Ulu and sets out into the great wide world. On his travels he learns a lot about love and responsibility and what it is to be 'human'. And in the course of hislife he becomes an important pawn in the fight between good and evil.Tor Åge Bringsværd calls forth a world which is strange to us. A world where people make up only a small minority dominated by other races. Where scrap metal is the most valuable commodity and the desire for oblivion keeps people in check.This is a delightful and fanciful fable kept alive by great stories and words. An exciting and gripping tale of what it is to be human. ‘Vår verden er dugg is a gift for those who want their books to write our world and ways of living and thinking into a broader context… Bringsværd lets Tarak’s educational journey show us the dangers of the world we live in. It’s also a joyous novel, rich in colours, hope and destruction. And the language! Who wouldn’t want to climb an ike and have a tame kirrrva as a companion? The novel also shows the value of seeing things from the clown’s perspective. It is not always a bad idea to turn the world on its head.’VÅRT LAND Vår verden er dugg can be read as a classic educational tale with several elements that are critical of society and civilisation.’AFTENPOSTEN

A Year in the Woods
Narrative Non-fiction2014 · 208 pp

A Year in the Woods

Torbjørn Ekelund

As a boy he used to dream of hazardous expeditions to unmapped regions. Thirty years later he came to understand that the dream would never come true. He did not have the guts. And besides, there were no unmapped regions left. But nature was still there. He decided to make his dreams real, just downscale it a bit. He packed his backpack and spent twelve lonesome nights in the woods, and the result is this book. A Year in the Woods is the antitheses of great expeditions. There is no hunger or famish, no dangerous predators, no fighting for life and death. But it is a book about seeing nature and about our idea of being outdoors. It is a book about the changing of the seasons, about finding the closer parts of nature and about how little it actually takes to experience an adventure. But first and foremost, it is a book about one man trying to find the way back to the forest where he spent so much time as a child. The era of great expeditions is over. Now is the time for micro expeditions.A refreshingly modest style with liberating little observations in an appealing low tempo about occasional escape from the daily grind.DAGBLADET Thorbjørn Ekelund has written a little pearl of a book about twelve micro expeditions. It is incredibly inspiring to read about how a need to be outdoors has resulted in twelve nights under the stars, one in each of the years twelve months. Ekelund is a true inspiration to all of us who are in a time clinch and would want to spend more time out in nature.NRK

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THE ISLAND
Children's Books2014 · 64 pp · Age 3 - 9

THE ISLAND

Eli Hovdenak

Bettina and Bertil are going fishing. They’re really looking forward to it. They row around at sea and find themselves in the most bizarre situations without even realising. The sea is full of large and small animals such as elephants, crocodiles and sea trolls. When they fall into the crocodile’s mouth they think they are in a Cave full of stalactites. The elephant’s trunk is just a bridge to them, and when they head back without any fish, Bertil says: ’At least that will please the fish, Bettina.’ The funniest thing about this book is that the reader sees things completely differently from Bertil and Bettina, and feels both powerful and worried about them. But everything Works out and everyone is happy. Bertil and Bettina are two very sweet, scruffy birds of uncertain origin, with large beaks and caps. The text comprises only dialogue between them. Eli Hovdenak’s illustrations and writingare both surreal and funny. ‘Funny, imaginative and a joy to behold [...] The way in which the illustrations and text contradict each other is effective on many levels. It will appeal to a child’s sense of critique and elevate the young reader. They will understand that the good-natured animals are misinterpreting everything and take great delight in correcting them! The disparity between the text and illustrations is very funny indeed.’DAGBLADET ‘This new picture book by Eli Hovdenak radiates assurance and trust in the art of living. [...] A story about how everything tends to work out despite all of the dangers. And that is undoubtedly what life is like for many of us: we live in fear yet are unaware of most of the dangers, and things generally work out for the best. [...] [The illustrations], with their diffuse contours and pale colours are perfect for this story.’VÅRT LAND‘After 30 years as a painter, artist Eli Hovdenak has finally found her niche as a creator of children’s books. This is a lavish picture book that can be read by children of all ages: as a comic adventure story in a sort of Lilliputian tradition, as satire on the topic of marriage or as a highly entertaining and humoristic story – a cheerful piece of “music” in the finest watercolours. She is also in the process of creating new picture books.’BARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO

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27 402 letters with blank spaces
2013 · 116 pp

27 402 letters with blank spaces

Audun Mortensen

27 402 letters with blank spaces (27 402 tegn med mellomrom) marks the end of Audun Mortensens Arial Trilogy, that started with Everyone Tells me how Good I am, in case I become it (Alle forteller meg hvor bra jeg er i tilfelle jeg blir det). In this collection contains works refined over time. They are complete, firm, sufficient, individual, known, disclosing, available, obvious, influenced, effective, directed, addicted, distinct, planned, controlled, whole, limited, isolated, confirming, systematic, established, predictable, explainable, remarkable, evident, understandable, allowed, natural, harmonious, singular, varied, interpretable, discovered, persistent, multifarious, collected, tidy, flexible, partible, bendable, influential, public, reasoned, repeatable, comprehensive, impractical, searchable, actual, woven, active, describable, situated, recognizable, analysing, limited, unavoidable, sustainable, changeable, defined, provable, consequent, lasting, realized, unique, complex, specific, rational, regulated, uniform, lone, given, involved, maintained, coherent, arranged, restrictive and presented.

Anna's Heaven
Children's Books2013 · 48 pp

Anna's Heaven

Stian Hole

On a day in which everything aches and spikes fall from the skies, Anna turns the world on its head. She takes her daddy on a fantastic journey all the way to the bottom of the sky where the invisible ones live. Daddy is careworn and quiet, and Anna helps both herself and her daddy through the most difficult of days. Annas himmel is an exceptionally beautiful book about overcoming grief, succeeding in this without becoming an overly sad or sentimental tale. Stian Hole is one of our foremost picture book artists, and Annas himmel is a work of art, both in terms of text and illustrations. ‘Stian Hole communicates the great life-changing questions with huge creative seriousness and moving poetic lightness of touch. ... These are images which one can never finish with, so multi-layered that one could read this book hundreds of times, one after another, and constantly discover new meanings... Hole combines wonder, unease and love in an utterly readable way. Always, with precisely measured amounts of humour and gravity. ... Hole brings the children along on a brave and poetic journey and takes them seriously as thoughtful, inquiring human beings. This is a curriculum for growing up. ... Let all children have a share in Hole’s universe.’VG ‘An exceptionally beautiful work by Stian Hole. ... One of our most frequently awarded writers of picture books and one who doesn’t worry about pleasing others. That attitude makes for good literature. An outstandingly beautiful as well as meaningful picture book. ... the visual and verbal contents of Annas himmel fuse as the sense of the words and the images are seen together.’ Dagbladet ‘Hole’s masterly way of addressing you through his images offers comfort about the resting-place of the dead. ... readers who want to study the details will have many happy hours ahead and will also find visual references to Alice in Wonderland. Hole’s work is rich in both emotional and visual symbolism but, above all, his picture books are exciting and interesting.’ Aftenposten ‘Awesomely beautiful … Few Norwegian creators of picture books have ever reached Sian Hole’s recognition. His books about Garmann come close to being modern classics. Now, with Annas himmel, Hole has delivered another masterpiece. ... Stian Hole has never created anything more colourful. And he has never let his imagination as free as he has here, even though the recognisable links to ordinary life constantly run through the illustrations. Also, Hole’s text has never been sparser, as he offers more and more freedom to us who look and read; he challenges the imaginative capacity of both young and old and points to new routes into the most marvellous experiences. ... Everything hangs together and is so neatly done that it is a pleasure to be one of his readers and so constantly discover new links, new possibilities of interpretation, new details.’ NRK P2 ‘Stian Hole’s easily recognisable world of images as seen on book covers or in children’s books is often so beautiful that I gasp. The great stories about the boy called Garmann with the intensely detailed illustrations that children and adults value so highly – far beyond the borders of this country. ... When the world becomes so absurd that it feels as if someone “makes nails rain from the sky”, the child attempts to guide the adults away from the dangerous reality. ... Together, they travel floating in the air and swimming through the world of Anna’s imagination. Like Alice and the author [Lewis] Carroll in Wonderland, like Tinker Bell and Peter Pan in Neverland. Young and old will find endless discoveries and opportunities to think things over.’ Drammens Tidende ‘Miraculous, wildly imaginative and fantastic … The book is rich in symbolism and strikingly lovely to look at – and amusing. ... Everything is fitted into an exquisite colour range, allowing each new page to present its own world while at the same time the unity, visual as well as narrative, is always maintained. ... For children, Annas himmel will offer an adventure to enjoy and for adults, a unique opportunity to travel with them on a journey of the imagination.' Vårt Land‘Norway’s Stian Hole does it once more. He has written and illustrated a philosophical and seductive picture book for children of all ages. His new picture book strikes just that special Hole note. … Much has been written about death in books for children. But no one writes and creates picture books like Hole does. Also, about death. … Hope is there on every page. Both in words and images.’ Nordhyske Stiftstidende – Six out of six ‘Stian Hole’s breathtakingly beautiful picture book is about the mother who has died and left behind her restless daughter Anna and her father who has grown rigid with grief. The detailed illustrations are unrivalled – like Edward Hopper images with added northern light. The book is not easy-going and not recommended for readers with weak nerves, but on the other hand, is utterly visionary.’ Politiken ‘Stian Hole’s lovely picture book Annas himmel shines a light into the tempting darkness of grief ... Despite the wealth of detail in the collages and the texts there is not one ounce of the accidental or superfluous in Annas himmel.’ Information

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Berlin
Narrative Non-fiction2013 · 448 pp

Berlin

Torgrim Eggen

This book is a portrait of a city and a work of modern Cultural history. Torgrim Eggen follows the fate of Berlin from the fall of the Kaiser in 1918 to the present day. In the 20th century, Berlin was the world's focus – from the Revolution through Nazism and the Cold War to a reunited city. There is still no European capital that concerns us more. This book portrays the city's brutal history, but also some of its extraordinarypersonalities like Marlene Dietrich, Rosa Luxemburg, Berthold Brecht, Willy Brandt, Albert Speer and David Bowie. The modern history of Berlin is a tale of many new beginnings, both in politics and in architecture. And the vision for the city is always the same, whether its origins are in the empire, the national socialist or the communist period: to control and overcome the changeability of Berlin and show it off as stable and lasting, indeed, eternal.From a personal point of view, Torgrim Eggen gives us an insightful and nuanced account of an irresistible city.‘The spectacular and quaint prevail in this book, but the new journalism style is actually quite fitting to Berlin's temperament and dramatic history. ... It is essentially a well-written and knowledgeable book. … Eggen is one of Norway’s few golden pens, an author who neither is capable of nor willing to write in a boring fashion.’Klassekampen ‘An interesting book, with emphasis on a Western perspective. ... He writes so well and thoroughly about the creation of Bowie's masterpiece ‘Heroes’ (both the song and the album) that tears appear in the corner of my eye.’Dagbladet

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Guardian of the Gate
Literature and Fiction2013 · 168 pp

Guardian of the Gate

Aksel Selmer

Bomvokteren is the tale of a young girl who inherits the job of gate guardian when her grandfather grows older and falls ill. The job involves watching the gate at a mountain pass, and the girl must live alone in a miserable cabin at the side of the road. It is a restricted and strange universe that is depicted; surrounded by the foggy and barren natural landscape around her, she continues her toil alone at the gate station as the cars come and go, occasionally making a stop. There are familiar elements within this story, but reality doesn't necessarily resemble what we know. The tale could as easily be set in the 1950s or 60s as it could in the near future. The living conditions differ from our own, and survival in the harshest of environments is key. ‘Norwegian Aksel Selmer surprises with a story about the conditions for goodness in an evil world that is equal parts beautiful, strange and grim. This is outstanding.’6/6,JYLLANDSPOSTEN‘Fascinating story about a young, naïve girl appointed to look after a turnpike on a lonely mountain. ... Publisher Jensen & Dalgaard found this hypnotising story by Norwegian Aksel Selmer, ... a small publisher that finds and publishes translated quality literature from abroad. And that is precisely what Bomvogtersken is.’WEEKENDAVISEN‘Myth and realism combine in Aksel Selmer’s fascinating Bomvogtersken. A world that is both mystifying yet familiar.’BERLINGSKE TIDENDE ‘Aksel Selmer has written a great novel. High time that the reading public discovered this author’s works.’DAG OG TID ‘It is what remains elusive and unresolved in Bomvokteren that attracts you. That you can never be quite certain elicits a mixed feeling of repulsion and enchantment – and that is what stimulates in new writing.’DAGSAVISEN ‘Bomvokteren is a fascinating novel that, among other themes, deals with how to survive, face up to challenges, be poor and totally under control of others and how to live at the intersection between two worlds.’FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

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Build Muscles!
Self Help2013 · 176 pp

Build Muscles!

Martin Norum / Benjamin Christensen

This is the book for all men who want a more muscular body, yet who haven't met their aim in spite of training at the gym. This book tells you everything you need to know about effective and correct weight-training, such as getting your diet right and how best to burn fat in order to look after your newly trained muscles. This is a book that takes advantage of the author's extensive knowledge to look at relevant theory, but is presented with practical use in mind in such a way that the reader is motivated to carry out the recommended exercises and improvements to diet suggested by the author. The book is supplemented with online video material, which the reader can access using the QR codes provided.

The Drowned Boy
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2013 · 224 pp

The Drowned Boy

Karin Fossum

Konrad Sejer is back! In Carmen Zita og døden, Sejer is very present indeed, not only as the thoughtful, incisive crime investigator but also the human being Konrad Sejer, with problems of his own to deal with. The picture of his beloved Elise hangs on the wall of his sitting room and, every day, he shares some thoughts with her. The dog Frank Robert, a Chinese Shar- Pei, is always at his side. His evenings usually end with a whisky with water and a lonely cigarette. This time, Skarre arrives at the scene first. A small child has drowned in a pond. One unguarded moment and the very worst thing has happened. The young parents are devastated and everything indicates that the death was an accident. But Skarre is taken aback by something about the mother, and tells Sejer of his impressions. As always in cases of sudden death, an investigation is begun and Carmen, the child’s mother, proves to be somebody rather special. Selfish, shallow, spoilt and crazily vain. This novel has everything you have come to expect from Karin Fossum’s crime fiction; a terrible incident and well-drawn, exciting pictures of the people involved, solid police work and a surprising turn of events. And, as ever, literary writing at a high level. ‘Karin Fossum is among our foremost authors, regardless of genre. This because of her unique ability to create real people and her deep understanding of the human soul. She has always mastered this, but never better than in Carmen Zita og døden.’Drammens Tidende‘As usual, Fossum shines with her descriptions of her characters and unpleasant exploration of the human soul. And no other couple of investigators have left such a mark in the souls of crime fiction readers than Konrad Sejer and Jacob Skarre.’Trønderavisa‘Among Fossum’s finest novels … another novel from Karin Fossum with a strong literary quality all the way, wisely distributed portions of revealing details and quivering suspense.’Dagsavisen‘Karin Fossum shows us how the crime novel can be more than sheer entertainment literature. … Well-written and gripping about the hidden murders.’Dagbladet ‘Around the fascinating Carmen character a room for reflection opens up, related to the much debated sorting society. To this comes Sejer’s and Skarre’s not entirely coordinated religious contemplations. … Karin Fossum always gives the reader the solid pleasure of being in good hands, simply because she has something to tell which exceeds the mastery of this genre’s machinery.’Aftenposten

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