Rights catalogue

All this is Tokyo

Ina Strøm

‘To me, Tokyo is still mysterious and new. And there's still no other place I'd rather be,’ writes journalist Ina Strøm in this fully-illustrated book. Since her first visit to Tokyo ten years ago, Strøm has spent over ten thousand hours exploring this metropolis. Her book is divided into 12 chapters based on each district. And as a reader, you'll be surprised at how different these districts are – in architecture, tempo, demographics, history and green spaces.

All is childhood

Fredrik Hagen

I was suddenly alive. The first sentence of Fredrik Hagens second poetry collection, All is childhood (Alt er barndom), underlines the simply crazy and involuntary act of being born. First growing, like a seed, inside the body of someone else, as if the body was fertile soil. After that being pushed out, fed and tended and all that. And then, not so much later, the merciless expectation of becoming something on your own. Something about will. Something about survival. Something about warm feelings. Where did it all come from? The seed? The female soil? From the child we have all been? Fredrik Hagen´s collection is unusually rich and riveting. The writer has an open eye to the most simple conditions of live, those we do not even take for granted; I was suddenly alive. It happened in the summer.

ALL THAT REMAINS

Rannveig Fern Leite Molven

Rannveig Leite Molven has previously published the novels The Word for what I am now does not exist (2012) and Where the Shadows form (2015). In her third novel, All that remains, her language has a suggestive effect on the reader. We follow a young woman with a young daughter waiting for results from her doctor following a cancer checkup. In poetic prose with long, meandering sentences she brings us close to her state of mind and sensory experiences for a few intense weeks. All that Remains is a novel about how severe illness affects life on many levels. Even if you have recovered, everything has changed and the illness continues to have consequences for your relationship with yourself and the people around you, with children and with love.

The Handyman

Øyvind Torseter

Mule boy has got a job as a handyman. And not any handyman. He even does work at the president’s house . If Mule boy does a good job, he may even be allowed to look after the nuclear suitcase one day! But problems emerge due to a lookalike. The handyman is an international political thriller. Or, not quite, then. However the book contains many amazing drawings.

Just play ball

Michael Stilson

Fredrik is facing the most important game in his life. As long as he rages the side-lines of the field, like he usually does, the dream of becoming a professional soccer player is within reach. But things that take place in the days before the final changes everything.Just play ball is a book about loving the game of football, but not being prepared for the hard realities. It is about trying to forget about a girl, and getting on without a father. And it is about winning – without loosing yourself. Winner of Trollkrittet and Uprisen 2018

Bernard comes knocking

Ellen Mari Thelle

– Is it dead now? I whisper. I hunch down. – I think it is dead, you answer and bend over. I put the newspaper over it, pushing it slightly. – It is dead. I lift the bird, carrying it over to the garbage room. You follow, holding the door for me. I throw the dunlin in one of the grey binges. – Coffee? I ask, as I leave the room. Bernhard Comes Knocking is a novel about hoping and waiting. About it never being to late. And that it suddenly might be to late after all.

Book Singles, Fº4–Fº60

10 years of Flamme Forlag = 10 years of book singles = more or less 100 book singles in total. This is a collection of the first texts published in the singles series - for those of you who never got around to buying them before they where sold out, or those of you who lost a single or three that you really loved and maybe miss, or those of you who just now became curious about what a collection of book singles may actually be all about. This collection contains 19 book singles written by Norwegian authors, published in the time between June 2008 and July 2010.

Echoes of the City

Lars Saabye Christensen

This is the second part of the Echoes of the City trilogy. In this book Maj – and not least her struggle to bring up her children, Signe and Jesper – is in focus. Jesper and his best friend, Jostein the butcher's son, grow from children into young men in each their own way. ‘Sometimes the author's language resembles poetry, other times it flows with cascades bringing to mind great authors like Agnar Mykle... top-class literature.’FÆDRELANDSVENNEN 6/6 ‘It's a book filled with sorrow and wistfulness for a time torn between faith in the future and the community's need for social control. It's Lars Saabye Christensen on home turf. It's the author at his best.’BOK365 6/6 ‘In this magnificent novel Lars Saabye Christensen delivers quoteworthy and goldlike sentences, vigorous word play and surprising associations.’VG 6/6 ‘Among all this year’s fiction, Lars Saabye Christensen’s novel Echoes of the City is, for me, in a class of its own.’DAGEN The curator of the city’s cultural heritage‘In an extension of this book’s affectionately realistic portrayal of Oslo, both preservation and renewal remain open to possibilities for the attentive curator of the city’s cultural heritage.’KLASSEKAMPEN 'I just have to repeat how impressed I am with Lars Saabye Christensen. It's like he's just sitting there, almost improvising on his keyboard and suddenly he's composed yet another masterpiece, in a trilogy I predict will be as successful as The Half Brother.'DAGBLADET ‘It is so elegant, it is so light and there is such a drive in his language, which leaves me, the reader, sitting there, smiling over his skilful phrasing… Now we have reached the end of the 1950s and the countdown to volume three of this fantastic section of Lars Saabye Christensen’s enormous body of work has already begun. Can somebody out there please tell one of the greatest authors in the history of Norway that we want a lot more books? I want to follow these people and this place all the way – no matter where it ends. NETTAVISEN, 6/6 ‘Saabye Christensen's writing is rich and elegant, and is always easy to read. Burlesque humour verging on farce is counterbalanced by the underlying melancholy. At the outset, one may feel that the book flows too smoothly, but the author gradually tightens his grip to the nth degree… is it really another year until the next book?’ADRESSEAVISEN Master storyteller 19/10/2018‘Eminent is a big word. Even so, it comes to mind assessing the second volume of Lars Saabye Christensen’s memoir novel, Echoes of the City.’ ‘It is hardly news that Lars Saabye Christensen is a master storyteller who is both sharp and affectionate. He showed that with The Half-Brother, now 17 years old, which rapidly acquired classic status. Already, after only two volumes, the new trilogy is well on its way into the same league.’WEEKENDAVISEN Saabye sucks the reader into 1950s Oslo, 19/10/208.‘The reader breathlessly follows, into and under the skin of the novel’s protagonists; we hear what they hear, see what they see, while the Oslo of days gone by rises out of the mist with its zeitgeist of small shops and events, humility and crushed dreams.’ ‘We look forward to the third part of the Oslo trilogy. It’ll be hard to wait.’INFORMATION Bright Maj and dark Oslo, 06/10/2018‘Echoes of the City is one of the most absorbing, intimate and warm stories I have read.’KRISTELIGT DAGBLAD

Cassandra's Finger

Gert Nygårdshaug

This time, Gert Nygårdshaug’s crime hero Fredric Drum finds himself on familiar home turf in Oslo. But around Drum, the strangest things are happening: a giant statue miraculously moves from the National Gallery to a living room in Lommedalen, a medieval bishop appears, and a punk collective worships a mysterious mother figure. On top of that, a magicians' convention is taking place in the capital. While attempting to solve the murder of a friend, Drum is swept into a seemingly absurd drama—one that Nygårdshaug elegantly brings to a logical, yet deeply surprising conclusion.

DIARIES 1996–2018

Kristian Klausen

The narrator in this novel is a librarian who has kept a diary for 22 years. He is also a writer of obscure novellas, but not a particularly successful one. One day he decides to fine-tune the most poetic parts of his diaries and make them into a small work of prose. But his editor wants something else: why not publish all of his diaries, unedited and uncensored? The narrator's ex-partners, ex-girlfriends, colleagues, friends, relatives and neighbours are all exposed in the worst possible light in the diaries. But the editor is persistent: literary quality no longer plays a part, all that matters is the ability to make waves in the media.

The Blue Wolves

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Pelle’s dad has finally made a breakthrough as an artist, but with the success the family is beginning to shatter and he runs off with a young woman. At the same time, Prof’s aunt is attacked on the street. Nothing is stolen, but as Pelle and Prof visit her at the hospital they see a large blue X spraypainted on her fur coat. Then she receives a bouquet of roses, adressed from The Blue Wolves. More women are attacked in the same way, and Pelle and Prof decide they need to find out who The Blue Wolves are. But sometimes, it’s not so easy to spot who the enemy is.