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Bone Dance
Children's Books2017 · 56 pp · Age 3 - 9

Bone Dance

Bjørn Ousland

Being anxious is quite common. In this book, we meet someone who is afraid of most things. What happens when you run away from the big kids, climb over a wall and suddenly everything is much worse? Because in the cemetery, bones dance and the dead live. The littlest skeleton wants company and won't let go of his new friend. But what happens when they start performing a bone dance? This story is about overcoming fear.

Rights soldSold to Denmark
The Summer Gift
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Children's Books2017 · 88 pp · Age 6 - 12

The Summer Gift

Sidsel Jøranlid

A summery, sweet and girly easy reader from the author behind Bettina brudepike. Bettina is dreading four deathly boring weeks at the cabin without any friends. But then she meets Kristine, and suddenly summer seems to be turning out just fine! Kristine even gives Bettina a nice summer gift. Perhaps it it's even too nice. Because what will Bettina give Christine? A pretty shell won't do. And where did Kristine really get the gift from? Sidsel Jøranlid is entirely “in-tune” with easy readers. She knows which topics are important and interesting for girls in elementary school. And Monia Nilsen's illustrations make us wish that we were little girls again – and that it will be summer soon.

Rights soldSold to Denmark and Faroe Islands
Bettina and the Sleep Over
Children's Books2017 · 96 pp · Age 6 - 12

Bettina and the Sleep Over

Sidsel Jøranlid

Bettina is invited to a sleepover with Anna and their friends, so they can finish the picture for the school play. But Bettina doesn't really want to. She doesn't like sleeping over at other people's houses, where nothing is like at home. But she can't say that, because she doesn't want the others to think she is a whimp. Maybe she can just ask her mom to pick her up in the evening? But then she loses track of time, and suddenly it's bedtime and Bettina HAS to spend the night. Sidsel Jøranlid knows how schoolchildren feel and how she should write in a way that engages them. And with Monia Nilsen's illustrations, the stories about Bettina come to life.

Rights soldSold to Denmark and Faroe Islands
The Joy of Good Order - Christmas
Self Help2017 · 256 pp

The Joy of Good Order - Christmas

Gunn Beate Reinton Utgård

Christmas is the main holiday for lists, and The Joy of Good Order - Christmas will keep everything you need to remember in perfect order. Shopping, traditions and plans. This book collects all your Christmas plans in one place, and can be used for years. Here you can make lists for household chores, gift shopping, advent calendars, Christmas cards, menus, budget, activities and much, much more. The book also contains recipes for Norwegian Christmas food, candy and snacks. This is the book you need to get inspiration, order and control in the wonderful waiting time before christmas.

Rights soldSold to Finland
Lightyears
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

Lightyears

Didrik Morits Hallstrøm

Sunstorms have made the earth uninhabitable. Humanity's last hope, 24 selected passengers in cryo chambers and with erased memories, are on their way to the closest habitable planet – 543 years away. Norway, the only conscious passenger on board, does their duties, getting the best out of its watch and overlooking the strange banging sounds from the air conditioner. Lightyears is a sad, beautiful and exciting journey back in time and space.Didrik Morits Hallstrøm writes Science Fiction that will give you chills. The depictions of the lonely life aboard the space ship «Vita» is written in detail and intensity, instantly gripping the reader. This is a story that could not have been told in any other perspective. Through short and compact narratives the reader is included in the life and routines of «Vita». The space ship, dead, empty and awful, is brought to life in an impressive way through the writing of Hallstrøm. This is a book that you can pick up without regret.AFTENPOSTENWorrying and thought provoking.I do not see the point to decide what this novel is actually about. I like that I for days after I end reading it still walk around thinking about what the book is trying to tell me, and then come up with new things.DAG OG TID Lightyears is this years best interstellar small town novel. And that is no small achievement. VG

Rights soldSold to Norway
Run For Your Life!
Children's Books2017 · 72 pp · Age 9 - 12

Run For Your Life!

Tore Aurstad / Carina Westberg

Tuva and Simen are on Easter vacation. While the kids are at home in the cabin, the parents go out skiing. On the radio, there are reports that two dangerous robbers have escaped from prison – the so-called “masked robbers”. Soon, some strangers show up outside the cabin. They are wearing scary masks and have equally sinister intentions. The sixth suspense story about snoops Tuva and Simen, who are always there when trouble happens."Classic easter suspence, including cabin life, bad weather and bandits on the run."DAGBLADET

Rights soldSold to Norway
Maaemo
Cook Books2017 · 384 pp

Maaemo

Esben Holmboe Bang

The remarkable book about the remarkable restaurant Maaemo – The only Norwegian restaurant with three stars in Guide Michelin.The spectacular pictures and illustrations of Norwegian nature, and the beautiful photographs of the food and the environment in the restaurant, take you on a journey through the tastes of Norway. Exactly like a meal at this world renowned star­restaurant in Oslo would do.The restaurant is run by Esben Holmboe Bang, and in this book he writes with honesty and engagement about the tastes, the identity, the vision and hard work it takes to bring the exceptional signature tastes to the tables of the restaurant. The book also gives the reader a chance to recreate Maaemo at home: 80 recipes for many of the signature dishes and tastes of the restaurant are presented in the book.‘To me this book is instantly classic. This is a book it will be referred to in many decades to come, when the food story from our little Nordic corner of the world is to be told.’ RENÉ REDZEPI – CHEF AT NOMA, DENMARK.‘This is a masterpiece, and at the same time a genuine encyclopaedia of one of the most important gastronomic periods in Norway. The book stands rocksolid, like a monolith for what is distinctive and real. It mirrors our country at its best. Showing the trends of our time, with the inspiration from traditions in times long past, taking us into the future. In this book the renewal of the Nordic kitchen is documented in a truthful and honest way. This is a book that will be passed down through generations to come.’ APPETITT

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Marrow & Bone
Children's Books2017 · 112 pp · Age 9+

Marrow & Bone

Arne Svingen

Three friends are on a hiking trip. From the top of the mountain, they have a view down onto the area where they live, and they see something strange. One of the neighbors gets into a fight with a stranger in the garden. The person who is attacked falls over, lifeless.The boys don't dare contact the police themselves, but instead end up at a fortuneteller who reads tarot cards. The fortuneteller looks into the future and warns them not to get involved.And yet they feel like they have to check. Is there a corpse in the neighbor's shed?

Rights soldSold to Denmark
Mulysses
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

Mulysses

Øyvind Torseter

Mule Boy goes to sea. And his travels go about as well as they do for many other boys on their first journey: poverty forces him on a dangerous trip with an eccentric adventurer who is searching for the eye of a sea monster. We follow Mule Boy's dangerous journey through the comic book format. We take part in the emotional gusts he undergoes – far from home, under an unpredictable captain and dealing with the strong feelings for a blind passenger that gradually start to appear.

Rights soldSold to 5 territories
If only
Literature and Fiction2017 · 320 pp

If only

Vigdis Hjorth

The playwright Ida Heier has met the love of her life: the professor Arnold Busk, who is ten years her senior. Both are married and have children. For several years she pines for him to let go of his family for her. But when he does their relationship moves toward the extreme, an obsession that borders on madness… «A great, tragic romance novel that hits the reader like a high-speed train.»DAGBLADET «With the novel If only Hjorth steps up a division. It is written with the blood of her heart, and might be her best novel.»VG «By the end of If Only, Hjorth reworks that old aphorism: unhappy stories are all alike. It’s the ones that eke out a kind of happiness that set themselves apart. Hjorth emerges once again, in this novel, as not only a chronicler of the bruised and bloody, but their champion, an author who grants her characters the power to author their own stories themselves.»Full Stop (US) «An absorbing study of inner turmoil ... gripping.»Guardian «Addictive ... The beauty of If Only is in the way Hjorth underscores how often love and suffering are bedmates.»Susie Mesure, Financial Times «Cult author Vigdis Hjorth’s most important novel ... If Only exposes the tragedy of both longing for and attaining one’s love object.»Mia Levitin, Monocle «Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.»Sheila Heti «A love affair consumes a Norwegian woman's life in Hjorth's breathtaking latest ... Hjorth's narration is both irresistible and exhausting, a headlong rush that describes and enacts Ida's feelings as she careens between love and hate for a man she knows isn't "worth the sacrifice." Like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, Ida has occasional flashes that she's acting irrationally, and Hjorth evokes the agony of her protagonist's self-entrapment to a devastating degree. It's an enthralling tale of passion gone to rot.»starred review, Publishers Weekly «Hjorth, the Norwegian novelist behind 2022’s Is Mother Dead, painstakingly chronicles a 30-year-old married woman’s all-consuming and volatile romance with a married man, which blurs the lines between passion and love.»Sophia Stewart, The Millions «The Norwegian author of Long Live the Post Horn! and Will and Testament has formed a small but formidable cult following in the US, and If Only should only grow their army. If Only starts off with enigmatic and addictive words of love and death that call to mind our favorite doomed affairs-painful and poetic, cursed and necessary, we must go back in time to understand how our heroine found herself on the brink, caught between passion and ruin.»James Folta, Lit Hub; Most Anticipated Books of 2024 «Feverish and intoxicating, If Only is a novel about the depths of a life-altering devotion and the connections between love, creativity, and self-making.»Foreword Reviews «Who are we without passionate love, and do we need heartbreak to truly know ourselves? If Only chronicles one woman’s questions of life, love and existence during a torrid love affair.»B&N Reads «Everything here that sets my teeth on edge – the claustrophobia and repetition, the endless torture the lovers put each other through – is exactly what makes Hjorth’s novel so remarkably, and horrifyingly, accomplished.»Lucy Scholes, Telegraph «Hjorth’s portrait of her heroine’s madness nearly always teeters towards comedy, which is one reason the book, though depicting suffering and shame, is such a pleasure to read.»Stuart Jeffries, Observer «In form and function, If Only paints a vivid portrait of desperation ... And for what? For love? For lust? For nothing? The question is not answered. It’s simply two lives laid out for ultimate destruction.»Frank Valish, Under the Radar

Rights soldSold to 11 territories
The Eyes of Rigel
Literature and Fiction2017 · 240 pp

The Eyes of Rigel

Roy Jacobsen

The Eyes of Rigel is the third book in the Barrøy trilogy. A strong, epic novel about a country and a people after a great war. In this moving story about a woman that does what everyone tells her not to, Ingrid Barrøy ventures out on a hazardous quest to find the young Russian Alexander, a man she had a love affair with and who is the father of her child.-- ‘Gripping road movie about a mother and child in search of a Russian refugee.’ ‘(...) few authors other than Roy Jacobsen can weave together the local, the national and the global; the shadows of the past and our conflict-ridden world in the here and now.’ Stavanger Aftenblad 6/6 ‘When we read The Eyes of Rigel (and the two other books), we hear the language of northern Norway. And it isn’t just in the dialogue either. The depictions of the environment transport you to that part of the country even when the reality is described in perfectly standard Norwegian. This is the work of a master. (…) Roy Jacobsen has done it again. It is melancholy, it is beautiful, it is funny and it is extremely good. If this is the end of Ingrid Barrøy’s story, then it’s a worthy ending.’ Book365 6/6 An unusually beautiful voyage ‘The third book in Roy Jacobsen’s novel cycle about Ingrid Barrøy is a beautiful, poetic and sometimes brutal story. (…) The whole of this great little novel is a vibrant portrayal of life after war, life after catastrophe, life after love. (…) Read it yourself, this extraordinarily beautiful voyage from sea to forest, inland and back, among people with internal and external scars, in a war for peace.’ VG 6/6 ‘Roy Jacobsen takes factual, known events as his starting point, then goes on to broaden the horizon, step by step, until we are left with truths about the human condition, mortality and vulnerability.’ Klassekampen Ingrid’s Wonderful Adventure ‘Jacobsen’s images of a society undergoing rapid development are as sharp and finely drawn as his glimpses of nature, forest, birdsong and the absence of the sea – in what also becomes a Wonderful Adventure of Ingrid Barrøy. (…) This book is a high point.’ NRK

Rights soldSold to 18 territories
Rotten Richard
Children's Books2017 · 80 pp · Age 9 - 12

Rotten Richard

Vigdis Hjorth

How to beat Rotten Richard? He is so big and he runs so fast! He is there every day when Mari and Lars is walking to school, pushing Lars into the snow, rubbing his face in the cold and wet. Stupid, creepy, rotten Richard! Mari thinks. But she is afraid to shout it. Mari just hides behind a tree watching, feeling scared and strange inside. A story for young readers from Vigdis Hjorth, the bestselling author of Jørgen + Anne = True.

Rights soldSold to Sweden