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Zombie Bjarne
Children's Books2013 · 208 pp · Age 9 - 12

Zombie Bjarne

Sigbjørn Mostue

Not all neighbours are equally nice. Emma and Emil’s neighbor is the headmaster of their school. What’s more, he’s the kind of headmaster you need to look out for – strict and scary. This Christmas, Bjarne is taking a cruise to the Caribbean. But when he returns home, something has happened to him. Emma and Emil discover that their own headmaster has become a reallife zombie – a member of the living dead, with an enormous appetite for childrens’ brains! But Bjarne also has a powder which turns him into Emma and Emil’s docile servant! What can you accomplish when you have full control over the school headmaster? Free lessons and sweets galore! But Bjarne’s hunger for child brains is voracious, and no pupil is safe with a zombie loose around school! Emma and Emil have their hands full keeping Bjarne under control, to say the very least. Get ready for an adventure that is just as riotous and hilarious as it is hideous and hair-raising!

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Scavenger
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2013 · 448 pp

Scavenger

Eystein Hanssen

In an old earth cellar in Vika, a homeless drifter finds the remains of a child. Or is it? Elli investigates the site and discovers more remains. Slowly, the site is further excavated and claustrophobic tunnels and forgotten bunkers are uncovered. It is a world apart, where animals are mistreated and people killed. Only the murderer knows all the exits. But Elli must get in there. She has several lives to protect. Do we really know what exists under the ground in Oslo? This is the fourth book about Elli Rathke, the half Norwegian/half Thai investigator with a black belt in karate. ‘This time, Eystein Hanssen takes us down into very unpleasant tunnels and bunkers underneath the roads and pavements of the city. An interesting journey, as many of them actually exist. In the plot itself, the author also shows us something real, a special environment unknown to many which I have not seen discussed in a novel so far. And the reader does not only get a trip down into the dark spaces under Oslo, but also a trip into the darkest corners of the human mind. … exciting throughout.’ VG ‘Eystein Hanssen is socially engaged and looks at contemporary issues. This time he touches upon various issues such as fauna crime, illegal adoption and the abuse of au pairs. These themes are handled in an interesting way. ...I expected excitement in book number four about Elli and was not disappointed. I think Eystein Hanssen has done it again. He has a unique ability to create thrillers from contemporary issues. This makes for both frightening and exciting reading. There is no shortage of action, and the end in particular is breathtaking. All the loose threads are tied up and solutions are found.’ OPPLAND ARBEIDERBLAD ‘Frightening and brilliant … He keeps the excitement going for 448 pages. You just want to keep reading, and it is almost sad when it’s over.’ STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

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Bella Blu
Literature and Fiction2012 · 272 pp

Bella Blu

Terje Dragseth

Bella Blu: A Space Handbook is something as rare as a collection of sci-fi poetry – a voice from the future. In this work, Terje Dragseth explores a lyrical language that can encompass knowledge about the world from the natural sciences.‘This volume of epic poetry breaks all the constraints that you usually associate with the genre … Bella Blu is an open text and the reader is free to wander, enter and leave.’ FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

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The Five Matches
Mystery and Crime2012 · 272 pp

The Five Matches

Hans Olav Lahlum

A sober school master is violently upset when, during the week after Christmas, he receives an envelope containing five matches. The next morning, he is found in the snow, killed by a gunshot. This is one of three murder mysteries set in 1971, and the fourth book in the successful series about K2 and Patricia.

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The Last Magician 3
Children's Books2012 · 320 pp · Age 9+

The Last Magician 3

Sigbjørn Mostue

Belz the cat is trapped in Gnosis Hollow, whilst Ebub remains on the loose. Gregers' globe has disappeared, and now Simen and Benedicte discover that Gnosis Hollow is being guarded by Nimrod, the magician hunter. There's only a certain amount of time before Nimrod finds the secret entrance to the hollow. Should that happen, all will be lost! But there is a magic that remains preserved in the most magical place on earth: Disney World in Florida. In one way or another, Simen and Benedicte must make their way there. Ebub lies in wait behind the scenes, and before long Benedicte is captured by Nimrod and taken to their headquarters in London. Simen realises that he faces his life's greatest and most dangerous mission. Is the magic really worth risking his life for? This is the final book in the trilogy about the magician's apprentice, Simen.

Suburban Volume 1
Children's Books2012 · 80 pp · Age 12+

Suburban Volume 1

Øyvind Holen / Mikael Noguchi

He calls himself ”Deks” and has just moved to the Oslo suburb of Grorud with his mother, after his parents' divorce. It's 1994, and the suburb is a culture of graffiti, drugs and teenagers loitering at the mall. Deks meets Camilla, whose boyfriend is “Senc,” alias Victor, who neither goes to school nor works. He deals drugs, and tags at night. A triangular drama develops in secrecy and only waits to be unveiled. The problems continue to build for Deks when drugs go missing, and the sinister types they belong to are willing to do anything to balance their books. Suburban vol 1 is the first in a series of short graphic novels about a brutal and fierce upbringing in Oslo's suburbia. Øyvind Holen and Mikael Noguchi have previously collaborated on the books Hiphop and Hip-Hop Faktaløve. This is their first work of fiction. Foreign rights sold: Legioncomix, Mexico and Turbine, Denmark. 'It is a good sign when the only complaint is that your wish there was more. The story is angled toward a sequel and I hope it will materialise.’BERGENS TIDENDE ‘I have read Drabant and I love it [...] it is a comic strip that deserves to reach as many readers as possible.'SERIENETT.NO 'Stylish writing and drawings about the suburban young [...] a steely comic strip story about growing up on the edge of a city.’DRAMMENS TIDENDE ‘Very readable’GUDBRANDSDØLEN DAGNINGEN ‘Journalist, comic book expert and author Øyvind Holen collaborates for the third time with Mikael Noguchi, illustrator and computer game graphic designer, to create Drabant. Whilst the first two books also explored hip-hop culture, this is the pair’s first foray into graphic novels. In spite of both being new to the genre, there is very little to hint at their amateur status with this project. It is clear that they both possess a thorough knowledge of the culture that they outline.’DAGBLADET ‘Author and journalist Øyvind Holen has first-hand knowledge of hip-hop culture. Mikael Noguchi produces fantastic illustrations revealing a real feel for graffiti art.’BERGENSAVISEN

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You are not dead until I stop loving you
Literature and Fiction2012 · 160 pp

You are not dead until I stop loving you

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

«We can get some bad coffee at 7-eleven. We can rent a DVD where the narrative does not take place under water. I can warm your hands with my breath. We can look at the snow. I can stop biting my nails. Even if never is a great word and love an even greater one, I will put bith of those words in a sentence and I will press your chest against mine. I will look down into your light, open face. Pull your hair back. Kiss you where your nose becomes your forehead. And you will tell me to make sure that the wind does not catch you and make you fly away. And I will put my weight on you and tell you that it is impossible for you to fly away.» You are not dead until I stop loving you is a love story from Oslo. A novel about having it all and nothing, all at the same time. But first and foremost it is the story about Iben and Daniel. Love in the time of chaos«A tight, poetic and street-smart saga from the night side of Oslo, about a troubled mind adrift. Believable and feverish at the same time.»VG Hate, death and love«The novelist has a story to tell and the ability to tell it. It is a gripping literary work.»DAG OG TID «The prose is simple and held in a low tone, with almost episodically impressions, moments of sensing that effectively illustrates the short distance between having it all and then being left with nothing.»STAVANGER AFTENBLAD «In quick strokes he draws observant pictures of places and environments that can be both close and recognizeble and at the same time surprisingly strange.»AFTENPOSTEN

You Don't Know Who I Am
Literature and Fiction2012 · 192 pp

You Don't Know Who I Am

Line Nyborg

It is like there is another girl inside me, one that does not want to listen to the voice in the darkness, who wants to tease is, who believe that she can do more, that is drawn to the darkness, forcing it even closer, like she wants it, like she wants to pull the fear out of the shadows and take a look at it face to face, do everything it does not like, the worst, there is another girl inside that wants something more. It is that girl that the fear is there to watch over. You do not know who I am is the stand alone sequel to the debut novel Only Mother, who is God. Elin is twenty years old and has moved from the north of Norway to Oslo to attend school. As the novel begin, she is alone with a new-born baby.

The Angel in Devil’s Gorge
Children's Books2012 · 208 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Angel in Devil’s Gorge

Levi Henriksen

Astrid Baros is forced to accept that she can't be a child forever. She's forced to accept that she is growing and that things are changing. Plus, she has to accept that her parents are divorcing. No, actually, cross out that last part. THEY WILL NEVER DIVORCE! Astrid makes a naughty but also rather nice plan to reunite Mum and Dad. Ever so astutely she tricks them into returning to Devil's Gorge, the small Swedish island where they once camped back when they were a proper family. What she doesn't know is that on the same island a group of inconsiderate hostage takers have brought their kidnapped victim – a millionaire heir. Astrid places herself and her parents in a predicament so critical that only an angel can save them…‘…the plot in this children’s book, well suited to be read aloud, is fascinating because Levi Henriksen has chosen a sad subject – a child with divorced parents – and he lets Astrid tell us about it with power, hope and humor.’Politiken, Denmark ‘Top class action for children … At the bottom of this exciting and dramatic book lies the trauma that the divorce creates for Astrid … Most impressively, in addition to an imaginative, strong and action driven plot, is the description of the resourceful, sensitive and stubborn girl who invests everything in making her parents come together again.’Fædrelandsvennen‘…Engelen i Djevelgapet is exciting to read for old and young alike … I do not know how Henriksen has worked in his research phase, but he reveals an admirable insight into the child’s temper and mind.’Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen ‘Good children’s crime fiction … it might well be that Engelen i Djevelgapet is the start of a series of children’s books from Levi Henriksen – within the classical tradition. Because this book shows that there’s room for him there.’Hamar Arbeiderblad ‘A fresh addition to the literary children of divorced parents … [Astrid] is a competent child à la Lindgren, but at the same time a modern manipulator who lies and borrows without asking if necessary. She really is a delightful acquaintance. … A controversy with armed criminals makes for a mix of genres which satisfies everyone with a hunger for suspense.’Bergens Tidende

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Selected Essays
Literature and Fiction2012 · 304 pp

Selected Essays

Stig Sæterbakken

Stig Sæterbakken (1966-2012) was known as an author that would not shy away from painful subjects under debate. He was also one of our foremost essayists. In this book we have selected some of the highlights from almost 20 years of exploring the possibilities of the genre. Here you find critical and enthusiastic studies of writers like Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, Søren Kirkegaard and Louis-Fernand Céline, artists like Emanuel Vigeland and Joel-Peter Witkin, a wide essay discussing the post-war use of Adolf Hitler as a metaphor for evil, as well as specializing in topics like ethics, anxiety, having a death wish, holiness, melancholia, tenderness, obscenity, beauty, identity and being well dressed. The selection is gathered from the collections Aesthetic Bliss (Estetisk salighet - 1994), The Evil Eye (Det onde øye - 2001) and Dirty Things (2010), and the bonus track "Sacred Tears" that is published in a book for the first time. The afterword is written by Anders Johansson, PhD in Literature at the University of Umeå and critic in Swedish Aftonbladet.

The Studio Apartment
Literature and Fiction2012 · 168 pp

The Studio Apartment

Lotta Elstad

One man. One woman. One more woman. A humid week in late summer – a studio apartment – a kitchen worktop – a teacup – a basket of lemons – a caress – a data cable – a cashmere sweater – a blue day pass – a warm breeze – a light yawn – a warrant for an arrest. You know the story. The Studio Apartment (Ettromsleiligheten) is a novel inspired by leaked interview reports from the Julian Assange scandal that took place in Sweden. The plot concentrates on the Wikileaks founder’s visit to Stockholm in the late summer of 2010; a visit that resulted in an accusation of rape by two Swedish women. The novel does not delve into whether the accusations were lawful, but instead draws attention elsewhere and asks more fundamental questions about betrayal, double-dealing and the relationship between “edited” and “unedited” reports of reality. In the same way it questions the Wikileaks project itself, as well as the wave of documentary literature that this novel itself forms a part of. ‘Elstad’s ambition to portray Assange’s days in Stockholm in the same fragmented, documentary style as dominates on Wikileaks’ own web pages succeeds in grabbing the reader’s attention.’ DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV ‘Lotta Elstad writes about Julian Assange without heroic facts and draws on the relationship between readers and the media … By neglecting to assign a name to the characters or organisations to which they belong, Elstad makes it possible to include a wealth of information in a format digestible for readers.’ MORGENBLADET

The Nightman's Daughter
UpLit2012 · 256 pp

The Nightman's Daughter

May Lis Ruus

Bergen, 1701 Lucie Tønnisdatter husker sin far, som ble ført bort av fremmede menn da hun var liten. Han sa at han alltid skulle ta vare på henne. Likevel måtte hun vokse opp blant andre fattige og foreldreløse barn på det fryktede Tugt- og manufakturhuset. Det er strengt ulovlig, men Lucie sniker seg ut på bosshaugen midt på natten. Hun vil prøve å finne en bursdagsgave til lille Tilly. Lucie ser noe som glitrer - en ring! Men ringen sitter på en hånd, som tilhører en død kvinne. En ung kvinne Lucie kjente så altfor godt...

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