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Harvest Outdoor Handbook

This book is about enjoying the outdoors with children and all the enjoyable, exciting and educational activities you can find there. It comes to us from the editors who publish the magazine Harvest on the internet: Torbjørn Ekelund, Simen Tveitereid, Kjetil Østli and Anders Aakre. Like many others, they have learned by experience that it is often better to be outdoors than in. All age-groups find that crossing the threshold is the longest mile, but once the bags are packed and the troops assembled and the whole family is trotting into the woods, along the shore or up into the mountains, a type of calm settles. Everybody suddenly feels content to be there, and it seems that the children have long forgotten that just a short time ago they were insisting on staying indoors. The aim of this book is to inspire families with small children to go out more – or at least give it a try.

Terror of the Sea

Jan-Kåre Øien

This is a real pirate book! Hedgehog has found a note in a bottle from someone asking for help. It is just as well that Rabbit is building a pirate ship. Together the two friends build a great ship that they christen Terror of the Sea. They dress up as pirates and embark on a sea voyage. But Hedgehog is worried. He cannot swim and doesn't like water, and when a huge pike tries to capsize the boat, things look bleak. But they have to get to the island where they think that the person who wrote the note is, and eventually they make it to shore unscathed. They search and search, but find no one. They also feel like someone is watching them. Eventually they decide to head home again. But there is a surprise waiting for them back on the ship. Terror of the Sea is the fifth book about Rabbit and Hedgehog, two charming friends that have exciting adventures. Jan-Kåre Øien's illustrations are lively, colourful and full of funny details that will amuse both children and adults.

Hellfire

Karin Fossum

Inspector Konrad Sejer is called to investigate the double murder of a mother and her young son. They have been found, knifed repeatedly, in a worn-out caravan on a remote piece of land. A bloody footprint is discovered. Meanwhile, another mother, dying of cancer, confesses to her 21-year-old son that he is adopted. The man who abandoned them, whom the boy has become obsessed by, is not his real father.Delving deep into the vagaries of family and why we lie, Fossum expertly intertwines their stories, forcing us to question what drives people to commit the most horrific of crimes. This is the twelft book about Inspector Sejer. Hellfire is one of Karin Fossum’s best crime stories. … In her writing, Fossum expertly captures the nuances of everyday life and the way in which living people struggle to make sense of life. She does it with a subdued tone and an unwavering dedication to her characters. … In Helvetesilden, the story approaches a point which is heartbreaking rather than thrilling. This novel shows that Karin Fossum is in a class of her own as a crime writer.DAGSAVISEN Here she delivers what must be one of her most penetrating and moving novels. An author at the height of her creative ability. … The composition is almost a stroke of genius in itself, as for a long time we are at a complete loss as to how Fossum intends to fuse the parallel storylines. … The way she does it demonstrates both her mastery of her trade and her formidable ability to portray tormented minds without diminishing them through inconsequential platitudes about insanity and other dissociative diagnoses.AFTENPOSTEN The opening scene showcases Fossum at her best – the dank camper van, the heat and the brutal murders. The detailed, subdued tone; the grotesque in the middle of the everyday.DAGBLADET Karin Fossum is the most literary of the Norwegian crime writers ... The novel is skilfully composed, and several of the characters from Hellfire will remain with the reader long after the final page has been turned.ADRESSEAVISEN

Home-sewn

Trine Bakke

Do you have a sewing machine standing idle? Get to know it, and do easy sewing with beautiful fabrics! All the ideas in Trine Bakke's new book have step-by-step illustrations. You can begin with the easy things and progress gradually. Teach yourself to sew cushions, netting, wine-carton coolers, Christmas stockings, patchwork quilts, iPad covers, spectacle cases, key rings and much more besides. There are four parts to the book, following a natural progression: For those who want to play with fabric; For those who want to sew something easy and neat; For those who want to learn to sew patches; For those who already do quilting. Hjemmesydd has a playful and informal approach to the subject. You will find cheerful fabrics, simple designs and, hopefully, few careless stitches. The patchwork sewing is mostly based on squares. This is easy sewing made exciting by the choices of fabric and colour.

White Shadow

Roy Jacobsen

This is the stand alone sequel to the successful novel The Unseen. White Shadow is a dramatic love story from the small island Barrøy in the year 1944–45. Ingrid thinks she is alone on the island, but experiences an unusual love affair in the course of several intense winter-weeks. In this novel Roy Jacobsen gives us a welcome reunion with the people of Barrøy. This time he unrolls an even bigger canvas as he delivers a powerful and eventful novel about a fateful year in Norwegian history. ‘Roy Jacobsen’s novel creates plot without sweeping gestures and effects. The unspoken dramas lie in the subtext of many of the utterances. Through the art of suggestion, the reader is constantly drawn into the underlying tension of the book, which is created through the interplay and exchanges between the novel’s protagonists. Few other contemporary Norwegian authors match him in living up to the Hemingwayesque motto of “show don’t tell”, using language that bears the stamp of the terse style of the sagas. It is masterly.’ Tønsbergs Blad 6/6 Great, great art from Roy Jacobsen ‘The only thing to be said about this book is that it is fantastic. Gripping. This is less to do with the novel’s story than the very way Roy Jacobsen has told it. He has a fantastic story to tell, true, but in another author’s hands it could easily have become a mess of sentimentality. In Jacobsen’s it has become great, great art.’ Fæderlandsvennen 6/6 Beautiful and brutal ‘He is the master of the coastal folk, Roy Jacobsen, a virtuoso, poetic portrayer of coastal culture – with its fish, boat crews and practical activities. (…) The novel is safe in the hands of a novelist who commands a wonderfully beautiful language and has a poetic power. The dialogue and the powerful expressions in local dialect create authenticity. The chapters and scene after scene are rounded off with elegance and finesse. Roy Jacobsen masters the short format. A joy for heart and soul.’ VG 6/6 ‘Jacobsen’s poetic prose is well-tempered for the most part, and yet it is remarkably rich in precise, era-appropriate nouns. Among the novel’s most outstanding qualities is its capacity to fill the rooms of the empty houses on Barrøy with ghostly traces of the past.’ Morgenbladet ‘Roy Jacobsen is a true storyteller; with his capacity to give the reader both overview and detail in the same image – without losing perspective. (…) In White Ocean, life is portrayed with both beauty and brutality.’ Bergens Tidende 5/6

In the Best Sense

Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg

Helene grew up with foster parents Anna and Helge. She has now started her own family and moved back to her home town in the hope of saving her marriage with Karl. It is winter, they are living in a huge old house, and Karl is working out of town. He says that he cannot come home because of the weather. This novel tells the story of Helene's search for companionship: about feeling like a guest in her foster parents' house, about young love, longing and loneliness. Helene and her growing sense of unease are headed for a storm: will Karl come home?I beste mening is an insightful novel about belonging. Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg explores communication problems in close relationships and how people can become lonely even in the most seemingly ideal situations. It is also a novel about those that fall between the cracks, about those who are too unforgiving for most, but not confident enough when it comes to those closest to them, and about how the incorrect assumptions we make about the motive of others can have serious consequences. ‘A strong story of being disconnected and the need to belong. … This book’s strength is the author’s insight into what it means to be human. It is with warmth that she investigates what is necessary to feel that you belong, how expectations of dedication can be too high and how trust is a risky business.’5/6 FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

Tomorrow Everything Will Be Dark: Marlen's Story

Sigbjørn Mostue

The parasite MTG turns people into killing machines. Now it has reached Norway. Marlen understands what lies ahead, the end of everything. But she refuses to give up, and together with her family she tries to avoid death. Marlen will have to call up all her resources of courage and will-power to meet the challenges which await her. This is the second book in the critically acclaimed series I morgen er alt mørkt. Civilisation is falling apart, and people are fleeing throughout the town. As in all wars, it's every man for himself, with the strongest fending for themselves and the weakest, especially women and children, outwith the protections of modern civilised society. But Marlen doesn't let herself fall apart. She tries to preserve her humanity, a task which is far from easy, and she has to stretch her moral boundaries far beyond breaking-point. Rights for books 1 and 2 have already been sold to Denmark. This is our biggest potential action story for export. 'The story is like a clenched fist in the stomach, and I would not be surprised if yet another Young People’s Prize for Literature awaits him.'DAGBLADET HELGEAVISA ‘Sigbjørn Mostue always writes well, and this fast-moving and absorbing novel is no exception. Marlen’s Story is both entertaining and thought-provoking. Is nature taking such a brutal revenge? Are we facing an unstoppable epidemic?’ROMERIKES BLAD ‘A virus is creating a pandemic where infected people go mad and attack everybody around. It becomes a struggle between life and death and a moral struggle to make the right choices. … Can it be morally defensible to kill people who are obviously sick? Can social cohesion be maintained in an extreme situation which can easily develop into everybody for himself or herself?’NRK.NO

Today. Yesterday. And Other Days.

Inger Wold Lund

A family sit on the train, eating sausages from a large plastic container. A couple move all of their belongings into the bathroom. A young man speaks ardently about a mistake in the translation of Kafka's The Trial. The sky changes colour from black to blue, and as it reaches a particular nuance, all the birds start to sing. Inger Wold Lund writes short prose based on everyday events. Her art is not in the language as such, but in the excerpts from reality – the narrator's perspective of the world around them. In a way, these pieces of prose are also a call for increased receptivity: how do we see what we see? How much of reality is lost to us because we don't keep our eyes and ears open?

Jacob and the Dog

Liv Frohde

Now and then there is a children's book that manages to tell a completely new story while also reminding us of great children's classics. Jacob og hunden is one of these books. The story of Jacob, a boy grieving the loss of his dog and eventually finds a new friend, is touching, recognisable and exciting, and presented using warm and natural language ideal for reading aloud. Asbjørn Tønnesen provides the beautiful illustrations. ‘Beautiful, exciting and unsentimental. … it is entirely possible that Liv Frohde has written a new classic with this liberating, old-fashioned and beautiful book.’DAGBLADET‘A traditional tale of high quality.’AFTENPOSTEN

I should have said I love you.

Audun Myskja

Are we looking out for the important moments in our lives? Are we following our dreams?When our time comes, can we manage to close life's book with the reassurance of knowing that we have lived the life we wanted to? Dr. Audun Myskja has sat by many deathbeds and had many difficult but fulfilling conversations with the dying. Here he writes about people who will soon have completed their life on Earth. People's inmost longings and wishes come out, with remorse about what didn't happen, joy about the bright moments, and the love and sincerity which life also offered. Myskja weaves the stories together with his own reflections based on his long experience as a doctor. This is a warm and thoughtful book which moves the reader to reflect on his own life and what it is being used for.