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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.

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Classic feelgood with a story spanning across several generations
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The Book Devourer: Back Home to the Stars
Children's Books2025 · 168 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Book Devourer: Back Home to the Stars

Bjørn Ousland

Nasty smugglers have heard rumours of the magical creature known as The Book Devourer.One day, both the creature and November are missing from Sana, August, and Ella’s beloved book club. They begin to worry something has happenend to them. Determined to find them, the kids spring into action. Their search leads them to November’s secret island, where they’re drawn into an action-packed adventure. Their courage and sense of justice are put to the test as they face fierce storms, outsmart dangerous smugglers, and uncover the truth about The Book Devourer’s mysterious origins.

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The Breaking Point
Self Help2025 · 185 pp

The Breaking Point

Jørgen Flor

The cup overflows. You start seeing red. It can happen when the dog won't stop barking or the six-year-old refuses to get dressed. It can happen in the car on the way to work when yet another idiot runs a red light, or it can happen in the evening after four glasses of wine, during what was supposed to be a nice time watching TV with the spouse. Most of us have experienced different variations of losing control. Maybe you've seen a colleague who suddenly cries in a meeting without understanding why? Sometimes the breaking point comes in a way that's visible to the outside. Other times the breaking happens hidden inside us, and can manifest itself in burnout, depression, addiction disorders and much more. People break down in different ways. For some, the temper rises fast without having time to think, while for others it slowly bubbles over. Why do some people break down in a certain situation, when they managed to remain calm during a seemingly more stressful moment? Is it true that some people never lose their grip? In this book you will learn to understand yourself and your own emotional life better, in addition to gaining better insight into what the breaking point of the people around us may be. Psychologist and author Jørgen Flor writes passionately about strong emotions and how they manifest in us. He helps you to better understand when enough is enough, and how to avoid acting rashly and thus prevent the negative consequences that can have. The Breaking Point is about understanding how different situations in life affect you and your relationships, and about the importance of talking about feelings, and that vulnerability and violence are connected.

The Letter-snatching Troll
Children's Books2025 · 64 pp · Age 3 - 6

The Letter-snatching Troll

Bjørn F. Rørvik

Fantastic rhyming fun with the Billy Goats Gruff and the troll! What happens if you take away a letter from a word? Rice can turn into ice and reel into eel. And what if you add a letter? Read can turn into bread. The Letter-Snatching Troll is full of crazy rhymes that will spread laughter and love of language, and stars the colourful characters you already know from the Billy Goat Gruff books. A fun and original introduction to letters and reading.

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
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The Bad Fairy
Children's Books2025 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 6

The Bad Fairy

Kim Fupz Aakeson

Everyone’s heard of the good fairy that can grant your wishes and give you whatever you want. But how many people know about the bad fairy? Hardly anyone at all! The bad fairy gets cross when a boy moves into the flat next door to him. The boy only makes wishes that are impossible to grant, and won’t stop visiting! One day the boy asks the bad fairy what HE wants – but of course the bad fairy can’t grant his own wishes. What if the boy can, though? And what if they actually want the same thing? A touching tale about wanting a friend – perfect for reading aloud.

The Unlikely Serial Killer
Narrative Non-fiction2025 · 416 pp

The Unlikely Serial Killer

Simen Sætre

In The Unlikely Serial Killer, one of Norway's leading feature journalists, Simen Sætre, delivers the first comprehensive, investigative account of Norway's most talked-about serial killer. In 1983, Arnfinn Nesset was convicted of poisoning and killing 22 elderly people at the nursing home he managed in the small town, Orkdal. Nesset is not only the worst serial killer in Norway, but he also regularly appear on lists of the worst serial killers in the world. Yet today, fifty years later, the case has never been explained or never truly solved. When Adresseavisen revisited the case in 2002, they concluded that “no one has solved the Arnfinn Nesset riddle.” Despite years of speculation, the mystery remains: what could have driven a respected nursing home director to commit such horrific crimes? During the investigation, Nesset confessed, describing an eerie “urge to kill” that triggered physical symptoms like sweating and heart palpitations. He even claimed responsibility for far more deaths than he could realistically have committed. But before the trial, he retracted every confession, stating he had been pressured during interrogations and felt he had no choice but to comply. Perhaps most baffling of all, Nesset was convicted entirely on circumstantial evidence. He was found in possession of the poison used but claimed it was intended to euthanize a dog. No technical or forensic evidence ever proved his involvement in the 22 murders. While researching the book, Sætre has had access to all the investigation documents of the Nesset case. This is material that the public has not had access to before, and which brings new insight into the case and puts it in a different light. This is not just true crime — this is an attempt to finally solve one of the most enduring riddles in Scandinavian criminal history. «The book is exceptionally well-written, and the author demonstrates a writing style and capacity for reflection not all too often seen in documentary literature [...]. The Unlikely Serial Killer has become an exceedingly successful book. And at times, it's as thrilling as a crime novel. Documentary literature doesn't get much better than this.»Adresseavisen, six/six stars «It's superbly done. The Unlikely Serial Killer is, all in all, exceptionally well handled, and confirms Simen Sætre's position as one of our foremost writers of documentary literature.»Morgenbladet

Investigative journalism meets true crime
The Amazing Sleep
Self Help2025 · 208 pp

The Amazing Sleep

Bjørn Bjorvatn

A groundbreaking book that will transform the way you think about sleep and reveal how deeply it shapes your health and everyday life. Norway’s leading sleep scientist, Bjørn Bjorvatn, takes you on a fascinating scientific journey to show how the hours you spend on the pillow directly influence your brain, body, and long-term well-being. Drawing on the latest research, he explains how chronic sleep deprivation can disrupt cognitive function, weight regulation, immunity, and even increase the risk of serious disease, while good sleep can literally extend your life expectancy. In a time when many struggle to get a good night’s rest, and others underestimate just how essential sleep really is, Bjorvatn offers clear, evidence-based advice to help you understand your own sleep needs, overcome sleep problems, and create the best conditions for deep, restorative rest. He also uncovers the powerful role sleep plays in mental health, learning, memory, and creativity. Through specific examples, the scientist and doctor reveals the many ways sleep shapes our lives: from how it influences critical political decisions made in the dead of night, to how it impacts exhausted parents in important moments, and even how technology changes our perception of sleep quality. You spend a third of your life asleep. This book gives you the knowledge you need to finally understand what happens in your body and brain while you sleep – and what really happens when you don’t.

Contains all the latest research on sleep by Norway's sleep expert
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
The Detective Club and Mystery Number 100
Children's Books2025 · 168 pp · Age 6 - 12

The Detective Club and Mystery Number 100

Caisanne Lund / Maiken Nylund

Norvald and Sara run the school’s most famous detective club – with both a solution guarantee and a time guarantee. If they hurry, they might just solve their 100th case before the summer holidays. But then disaster strikes. The class’s trip money is stolen and their beloved janitor, Vetle, is being blamed.Norvald and Sara are sure he’s innocent. They have no choice but to solve this case to clear Vetle’s name and save the class trip to the waterpark! This is a fun, fast-paced mystery filled with suspense, humour and friendship but also something more.This story stands out because: – It has been specially developed to be inclusive for children with hearing impairments– Sign language is naturally woven into the story and illustrations– One of the main characters is deaf, and inclusion is seamlessly integrated into the plot– Created in collaboration with experts in accessibility, and co-written by a sign language storyteller A detective story where everyone gets to take part and where communication, trust and clever thinking solve more than just mysteries.