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The Day goes by

Gro Dahle

Pym’s Day trudges and tramples, shoves and pushes, pesters and hassles. The Day hangs heavy on Pym's shoulders, like a sack he has to drag around with him everywhere. You have to make friends with your Day, says Grandma. You get the Day you deserve, says Mum. Smile at the Day and the Day will smile back, says Dad. But that’s easy for them to say, Pym thinks, because nobody knows how exhausting Pym’s Day is; only somebody who knows the Day can know that. Together, Pym and the Day tumble down into a place where nobody can hear them. And perhaps you need to fall into the very deepest of deep depths to work up the courage to whisper ‘Help me’. The Day is a dark, intense and poetic tale of childhood depression – a powerful picture book about how dark things can get when The Day demands too much of you.

Dance!

Haddy Njie

Dance! is a book about friendship and exclusion. But it is also a book about the love of dance. The sheer love of dance. Everyone is looking forward to the school’s winter party. ‘It’ll be such fun!’ my best friend says. ‘But I hate dancing! I can’t do it. ‘You’re too scared to try!’ ‘I CAN’T do it!’ Luckily my best friend has a plan. A plan that may cost us our friendship. Dance! is about friendship and courage. And about sometimes needing to scream. Loudly!

The beautiful days

Rannveig Fern Leite Molven

On an island at the mouth of the fjord lies a house where Edith lives with her daughters, Agnes and Cecile. They have lost a father and a twin sister. The house contains a telephone exchange and a telegraph, which Edith operates on behalf of the whole island community. The German Gestapo officer, Wilhelm, stops by regularly to interrogate Edith about who they call and when. At the same time, a young man is in hiding from the Nazis as he waits for a boat to arrive at the island. The Beautiful Days is a beautiful, poetic novel based on potent material, with an unbroken thread of tension quivering through the entire story.

The Absolutely Enormous Look-and-Find Book

A gigantic look-and-find book with 1,000 items to discover! Explore villages, cities, beaches, zoos and an imaginary country in this exciting interactive book. Unfold the brightly coloured scenes to reveal ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS pictures chock full of fun activities. CE-merket: Egnet for barn i alle aldre

The New Fish

Simen Sætre / Kjetil Stensvik Østli

In the early 1970s, a group of scientists researched how to make more food for the population of the world. They looked to the sea.They sampled genes from salmon in 41 Norwegian and Swedish rivers, and designed a new salmon that was fatter, more docile, and faster growing.This was the beginning of a new industry - salmon farming. The industry spread from coastal Norway to all corners of the Globe. Jobs were created, business boomed and salmon farmers became extremely rich. A new type of food, the salmon sushi, spread around the globe. But as soon as this new fish was released in nature, unexpected things started to happen. Wild salmon stocks disappeared, diseases spread in salmon farms, salmon louse swarmed and the new industry became highly contested. In a prize-winning five-year investigation, authors Simen Sætre and Kjetil Østli has taken a closer look at the global salmon industry. For the first time, the global history of salmon farming is told. The result combines nature writing from Norwegian fjords, the coast of Canada, Icelandic landscapes and the far south of Chile with classical muckraking and character-driven literary non-fiction. The authors start out with a question: What happens when you place a new animal in the sea? This book gives you the answer. Most people might not download an audiobook about the Norwegian farmed salmon industry for fear that it would be too niche to be of interest, or not quite broad enough to be relevant. They would be mistaken. (…) an exceptionally powerful investigation into the farmed salmon industry, sure, but it’s also about much more than that: mankind’s hubris, the limits of technology, the boundlessness of greed, stomach-churning accounts of animal cruelty and an overwhelming feeling that you can’t eat salmon, or really trust any food, or trust anyone (…)THE NEW YORK TIMES – AUDIOBOOK OF THE WEEK ... 365-page exposé in the vein of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring ...NEW YORK TIMES ... an extraordinary piece of environmental journalism.GRAY'S SPORTING JOURNAL Lies and torture – This book about salmon farming is exceptional investigative journalism.Five stars out of sixDAGBLADETThe story about «The New Fish» is necessary, readable and will provoke far into the corridors of Power.Five stars out of sixSTAVANGER AFTENBLAD (major Norwegian regional newspaper) Journalists Simen Sætre and Kjetil Østli have written a compelling and thought-provoking book, deserving of many readers. The book’s central claim is that the industrial salmon farming of today not only ruins life in the fjords, but it also contributes to exploit limited resources which could have been put to different and better uses elsewhere. AFTENPOSTEN (Leading Norwegian daily newspaper) Close to 52 million salmon die in the fish cages every year. The new fish cannot complain, it has no voice, but it never shuts his eye. Some of what they see is conveyed by Sætre and Østli in this moving and upsetting book. Well done.MORGENBLADET (Norway’s leading weekly intellectual/cultural newspaper)This is top-class journalism. They ask open questions without moralizing, with an underlying critical gaze.VÅRT LAND (daily Norwegian newspaper) The New Fish is the story about how the Norwegian governing powers, administration research and politicians forgot the division of roles and in a disastrous way was involved in promoting the interests of the salmon farming industry. Almost at any cost, and with no consideration for other interests, such as environment, eco systems or animal welfare – and maybe even the health of people.DAG OG TID (weekly Norwegian intellectual and cultural newspaper) This modern Icarus tale about Man’s attempt to tame the salmon is probably the most important political debate book published this year.KLASSEKAMPEN (major Norwegian daily newspaper with tone-setting book-section) The text is captivating and exciting, without compromising the book’s seriousness.Jakt & fiske, Ole Kirkemo The authors' skills of dissemination are world-class.Biologen(quarterly Norwegian biology review) The New fish is a much-needed review of the billion-dollar industry that is Norwegian salmon farming. But more than that it is also an equally exciting and well-written story about man´s cynical and at times mindless march towards domination over nature. This is a book that risks seriously clouding you joy the next time you find crazy cheap salmon in the deep freezer in your store.Patrik Svensson – author of international bestseller The Book of Eels You will choke on your sushi, or at least it will lose its taste, if you are one of us who care about ecology, animal welfare and democracy. Exemplary researched and masterly written. This book is this year’s most important non-fiction publication.Morten Strøksnes – author of international bestseller Shark Drunk The New Fish is an in-depth and brave expose of the dark secrets of the salmon farming industry. I have great respect for Kjetil S. Østli and Simen Sætre. They demonstrate the best of investigative writing despite aggressive reputation of this industry.Alexandra Morton – author of Listening to Whales and Not on My Watch – and probably the world’s biggest salmon activist Industrial salmon farming will, in time, come to be seen as the most destructive form of factory farming yet invented, a horrific endpoint of the twentieth century’s obsession with profit no matter the cost. Around the world, the salmon industry’s methods, technology, political influence and dubious product are coming under increasing question and attack. This important book tells the truth hidden beneath the dark waters: it explains what happened, how it happened, and why it must be stopped.Richard Flanagan –author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North and winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014 Industrial salmon farming is an ecological travesty and a moral tragedy, and this book is a powerful and timely expose of an industry driven by profit and not much else. It should be required reading for anyone who includes salmon on their menu. Reading it reminded me, time and again, that I made the right decision 35 years ago when I stopped eating fish.Jonathan Balcombe - author of Super Fly, and the international bestseller What a Fish KnowsØstli and Sætre provide a catchy depiction of the process which made salmon farming a Norwegian super business… They shed light to the problems that are linked to salmon... The result is a readable book… Amidst all the serious reflection there are many lighter, interesting anecdotes…Tuomas Niskakangas, Helsingin Sanomat - Finland The New Fish is full of weighty matters… The colour chart is just a minor detail in Kjetil Østli’s and Simen Sætre’s new book. Still it sums up the whole story of salmon farming where the illusion of naturalness requires constantly bigger portions of artificiality… You lose your appetite for lesser reasons… The content of The New Fish makes it a startling book… In the end this is not a story about fish, it’s a story about humans.Image - one of the most valued magazines in Finland with focus on high-quality feature journalism A masterpiece of investigative journalism examines the decay of salmon business… The expedition of the Norwegian journalist duo offers more and more outrageous examples of the problems of the rapidly growing industry… Kjetil Østli and Simen Sætre have written an exceptionally effective non-fiction book… They describe the special field in an enviably accessible way. The readable but disturbing story makes you turn the page holding your breath. A same kind of book should be written about all fields of animal production… Five stars.Kulttuuritoimitus - a Finnish online media focused on culture journalism

The Shadow Bride

Anne Elvedal

What did Rebekka and Martin set in motion with the old spirit board in their previous life? Helene's foster sister May-Liss disappears on her way back from the store. Helene blames herself, she was meant to watch her sister. To learn if May-Liss is still alive, Helene defies the warning to never use her ability to communicate with the dead – and gets thrown into a dangerous game controlled by dark forces. Who is the dead girl Helene talks to? Who is rocking the old doll bed at night? Can she trust the sheriff's son, who claims to also have special powers? And most importantly: Can Helene trust herself? The Shadow Bride is the second book in Anne Elvedal's paranormal horror trilgy.

Thereafter

Harry Man / Endre Ruset

Over the space of four and a half years, and through the pandemic, Norwegian poet Endre Ruset worked with UK poet Harry Man to write poems in memory of those who were killed during the tragic events of the Oslo bombing and the mass shooting on Utøya Island on 22 July 2011. Rather than write a conventional book of elegies, they were interested in preserving some of the values held by these young and politically active teenagers and young adults. They finally arrived at the idea of concrete elegies. These poems, written in the shape of faces, draw upon a long history of traditional elegy that travels as far back as Virgil’s Georgics. Additionally, Man and Ruset blend found poetry from eyewitness testimony, court documents and material used in the 22nd July Centre in Oslo, so it is the victims and survivors who are brought to the foreground. For the past ten years, the conversation around mass shootings has focussed on the perpetrators with little attention paid to the real human cost. One of the ways in which we might begin to repair that damage is if we refocus our attention on the world around us – we turn to poetry in times of extreme emotion for this purpose; to help us to make sense of what Douglas Dunn referred to as the otherwise ‘resistant’ subject of grief. This book's intention is to continue that longstanding tradition of empathy and to exercise poetry's capacity to remind ourselves that even in our individual solitude, profoundly, we can still share in one other's humanity.Harry Man

That’s Why You Need to Know that I am Sami

Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen / Randi Helene Svendsen

Ella Marie won Norway’s Stjernekamp talent show, she brought the Sami vocal tradition of joiking into thousands of homes. She has used her new-won star status to draw attention to climate issues and voice her opposition to mining operations in Reppar Fjord. According to her mother, she was born with a fist raised above her head. This book is a young Sami woman’s identity project, in which she tells readers about her relationship with nature, joiking and Sami culture – but also about prejudices and the darker history of the Sami people, which must never be forgotten. The combination of knowledge and experience makes "That´s why you need to know that I am Sami" a wide reaching and valuable book. Ellen Marie Hætta Isaksen´s book works as a good ABC of the Arctic Areas of Norway for outsiders. But it is also necessary as a recognizable story for the young Sami today. MORGENBLADETA powerful answer to a question you might not have thought to ask.As a conveyer of a contemporary look at the Sami, she is a unique storyteller. The book has temper and engagement, facts and interpretations. This is a book like no other I have ever read before. Thank you for the book, Ella Marie!NRKThis book has the power needed for changeElla Marie Hætta Isaksen´s book is Sami, proud and totally necessary. VÅRT LAND

Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog

Karin Fossum

We’re in it together, she said. No matter how it ends, we two are in it together – can you promise me that? That she’ll die pretty soon? They looked at each other and smiled. After all, it was only a game. Aksel is a journalist with the local newspaper whose boss says he’s ‘good at tragedies’. His sister Ellinor has lost her job and is desperately seeking to escape from reality. Brother and sister have been close since childhood, bound together by destiny. A gas leak on a one of the big farms kills several hired hands in their sleep. It looks like an accident. In a nearby house, an 80-year-old woman is found lying at the foot of her stairs one day, with a crushed skull. Somebody has left the place in disarray to make it look like a burglary. In Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog, we meet a new and unusual detective: Eddie Feber – a man blessed with joie de vivre and eight children. Alert and seemingly chaotic, he nonetheless has strategies for bringing the dark truth to light.

You Don’t Remember This

Emely Benedicte Kahrs

Four women in a house in the forest. Three of them have recently gone through breakups, two have brought their children with them. Over a few short summer weeks, they share food and wine, as well as their experiences and frustrations with men and coupledom. And they boil eggs. Nelly tends her little girl lovingly, but her gaze also betrays guilt, shame and a hope that one day the girl will understand why her mother left her father. The book is painful and rich in detail, with fine, powerful tales of the women’s shared summer, described with tenderness and humour. At the core of the novel is the delicately nuanced, heart-rending tale of a mother who is afraid of losing a daughter.