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The Agent syndrome
Literature and Fiction2020 · 304 pp

The Agent syndrome

Nils Gullak Horvei

The main character tells us: ‘When my wife joined the government, she started to talk like a politician. And these people she started hanging around with … they saw me as a nobody, a freeloader. Spying was my revenge. But most of all it was exciting. Everybody thinks you’re an insignificant author hanging onto your wife’s coat tails and begging for pocket money. When actually you’re a spy! But then you could say things took off, and I lost control.’

Alone Through
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Children's Books2020 · 256 pp · Age 12+

Alone Through

Michael Stilson

An action-packed YA novel about soccer, performance anxiety, dreams, doubts and hopes. Fredrik from Just Play Ball is 17 and already a star player for Mjøndalen. Rumours are flying about bigger clubs and generous contracts, and one day his father turns up with an offer from top German club Hertha Berlin. Fredrik travels to Germany, but soon he discovers that something doesn’t add up. Why has he been picked to play at the Bundesliga series opener, against no less than Bayern München, just days after arriving in Berlin? What’s up with agent Marko? And why has Hertha spent so many millions on bringing over a player when nobody in the club knows who he is? Fears and dreams collide in front of 75,000 spectators at the Allianz Stadion, and there’s a fine line between success and disaster. Is the price Fredrik is paying for life as a professional footballer too high? And what happens if he lets down his team, his father, his manager and Line? Who really cares about Fredrik? Are millions in the bank really any help against loneliness and the fear that everyone will forget you when the storm is at its height?

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All the Little Birds
Mystery and Crime2020 · 320 pp

All the Little Birds

Hanne Gellein

Pathologist Silje Andersen has left behind a difficult past and moved to Trondheim. During the autopsy of a young boy, she discovers a fateful connection. Judge Ingeborg Witsøe Berg is still grieving the loss of her daughter Maja, killed in an accident. But as she prepares for an important trial, Ingeborg finds a bird, a great tit, inside her house. This prompts two questions: how can her daughter’s favourite bird have found its way into a closed room? And what really happened the day Maja drowned in Nid River? All the Little Birds is a thriller with a terrifying premise. Two women are united in their quest to seek out the truth and the people who are hiding in the shadows. Because nothing is as it should be in Trondheim.Promising Debut The writer succeeds with creating believable characters and keeps the thrill up to the very last page. We are very much looking forward to reading new crime novels from this author. *****TRØNDER-AVISAGellein's debut is bloody and promising.ADRESSEAVISA

All the Songs are About You
Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 228 pp

All the Songs are About You

Sondre Lerche

All the Songs are About You consists of enthusiastic and personal essays about music, some of them reaching as far back as into childhood days in Bergen, and the young Lerche´s almost self-effacing obsession for the band a-ha and vocalist Morten Harket. In other texts he writes about other heroes like Prefab Sprout, Fiona Apple and Milton Nascimento. There is also room for concert experiences from the United States, with amongst others St. Vincent, Beyoncé and Kygo. And there is also long distance running, in Los Angeles, with ambient in his ears. According to Lerche there are no guilty pleasures in music. There is only pleasure. And just as important as the music we know and love are the more coinsidential musical meetings, those who take us well outside our comfort zone. Music that some might find useless can have powerful meaning for your neighbour - or millions of people. The texts of this book embrace that fact.

All Three in the Forest
Children's Books2020 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 6

All Three in the Forest

Widar Aspeli

All Three in the Forest is a colourful look-and-find book about going out into the forest to look for cuddly toys that have gone missing.Ane and Brage and Vera are looking for Growler and Fox, but they are not alone in the forest and plenty of strange things may happen. The trees are teeming with animals.Some can swing. Some can sing.A lot can climb.Some high. Others higher.Are they all there?Just look … Widar Aspeli and Nora Brech are back with a fantasy-filled game in playful rhyme. All Three in the Forest is a stand-alone sequel to One, Two and a Tree (2018).

Everything That Is New
Literature and Fiction2020 · 104 pp

Everything That Is New

Anna Fiske

Everything That Is New is a picture book for adults. We meet a young woman and follow her over several weeks in texts and illustrations. She has a job, a husband and child, and lives in an apartment block but now has to move. To a new place, to a new home. The main character in the story is due to start a new job and her child will start at a new nursery school. Everything is new and strange. A cosy, intimate and poetic book about problems everybody can relate to.

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The Anti-feminist
Literature and Fiction2020 · 144 pp

The Anti-feminist

Rune Salvesen

Damned anti-feminist, Stine says to her husband Fillip. But she doesn’t know a thing. Because Fillip hasn’t told her about what happened when he was a child. When he has to clear out his mother’s house after her death, the smell of cheap perfume and cigarettes still lingers. Among all her belongings, Fillip finds his old diary – where he wrote about everything. Now he must face how the experiences of his childhood home has affected him and his family.Salvesens painful little novel deals with raw masculinity, depicted with tenderness and understanding instead of condemnation. It positions Salvesen as an author with a big heart as well as a something important to say. And we are not exactly spoilt with writing like that. KLASSEKAMPEN

Anton does not want to go for a walk
Children's Books2020 · 32 pp · Age 0 - 6

Anton does not want to go for a walk

Amadeus Blix

Anton does not want to go for a walk is a fun, catchy and cozy picture book for readers between 3 and 6 years. Colorfully illustrated Anton is big and soft and kind and a super playmate. Anton is the best dog in the world! There is only one problem: Anton refuses to go for a walk! All dogs like to go for walks, don’t they? The family tries everything to get the big dog out of the house. But will they manage to persuade Anton? First book in a series about Anton.

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Aubergine and Tahini
Cook Books2020 · 256 pp

Aubergine and Tahini

Vidar Bergum

Delicious home cooking from Turkey, the Middle East and other exciting places – that’s what Vidar Bergum is offering you in his new cookbook. You’ll find the familiar, the new and the surprising, along with plenty of luscious flavours and dinner-table experiences. Aubergine and Tahini – Home-Made Food from Turkey, the Middle East and Beyond is an inspiring, unpretentious book about everyday food, and the way it is made and enjoyed in these regions. Food that is quick to make, and food that takes a bit longer but that you can still find time to make in your busy everyday life, with a bit of sensible planning. And, as in Hummus and Pomegranates, Vidar tells you a bit about the food culture, the people and the origin of many of the recipes that have been prepared in countless kitchens around the world for centuries. In this book, you’ll find a plethora of vegetarian recipes bursting with lovely, exciting flavours. Because, as Vidar says: ‘Meat is more like a side dish where I live; it’s the seasonal vegetables, the lentils and chickpeas that are the basis of everyday food.’ But home cooking is also social food, food you invite friends and family to eat and maybe also help prepare. That way, the table will be filled with tasty, aromatic dishes with and without meat. And, to round it all off, Turkish coffee and a sweet titbit. In this book, you’ll find recipes for all this and more. Not only is Turkish cuisine an inspiring, varied and relatively simple way to approach the rich array of dishes from the Middle East; Vidar is also a communicator who manages to present authentic food in a way that makes you want to try it out at home.Andreas Viestad, Dagbladet Magasinet

Lovely Creature
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2020 · 384 pp

Lovely Creature

Karin Fossum

A single mother finds a disturbing drawing in her son’s room. A young man and a teenage boy meet by chance on the shores of the deep lake in Svartland Forest. The next day, sixteen-year-old Gritt Zeeland is found dead in the same forest. There are so many reasons why a pretty young girl might be in danger. Police inspector Sejer finds himself dealing with a distressing murder mystery that has many possible solutions. Gritt Zeeland let almost nobody get close to her, but there were plenty of people –young and old – who had noticed her. Lovely Creature is a profoundly penetrating crime novel about beauty and ugliness, tenderness and violence, great lies and painful realities.Reviews: Masterful! An extremely actual and masterly performed crime novel. Everything is so well done that you feel like immediately reading the book again just to see how all the dots are connected. ******VGSurprising and straight forward elegant. *****DAGBLADETFossum at her best ******TRØNDERAVISASo realistic and strong, just straight forward remarkable writing - no matter the genre. (...) Karin Fossums psychological reflections are impressive, and the progress of the narrative is impeccable. The book has plenty of surprises and the occasional twist that made me think: I did not see that coming. It does not get much better than that. ******NETTAVISENMore than an ordinary crime novel. ******TØNSBERGS BLADOne of Karin Fossum´s very best crime novels. ******ADRESSEAVISAOne of Karin Fossum´s very best!DAGSAVISEN

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Just a Mother
Literature and Fiction2020 · 272 pp

Just a Mother

Roy Jacobsen

After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has finally returned to Barrøy. Life has become more stable, but the war still casts its long shadows across the country. Former collaborators face cold shoulders or obscured retaliation. Others simply wish to leave the painful years in the past. One day a boy arrives on the island. Shortly thereafter, his father disappears. Ingrid assumes responsibility for the boy, and adopts him. As such, Mathias becomes a central part of the Barrøy community, together with Kaja, Ingrid’s daughter by birth. Life on the island is demanding, but the letters from friends in Oslo and Trondheim tell of a Norwegian society undergoing dramatic changes. Which stories should Ingrid keep to herself, and which ones should she bring to light? What kind of future is she imagining? Just a Mother is the fourth book in a series of novels that have delighted readers in Norway and abroad. It’s a novel about being a parent, being a part of a community, and about living under conditions that require hard labour. It is also a story about parts of our near past that have stayed in the dark. And it’s about an unusual woman, who has to navigate painful experiences in a rough, weather-beaten, and diverse society on the coast of Northern Norway.REVIEWSI demand that this book be read […] Roy Jacobsen writes truthfully, tenderly and sharply about the everyday heroes of toil and care.STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, NORWAYThe middle-aged woman and the sea […] sparkling depiction of coastal life […]ADRESSEAVISEN, NORWAYRoy Jacobsen has added a new chapter to his masterpiece. […]NETTAVISEN, NORWAYIt is a pure pleasure to read Roy Jacobsen’s novel Just a Mother. […] Just a Mother is a novel that keeps the reader captivated from the first to the last sentence.DAGBLADET, NORWAYRoy Jacobsen has written a beautiful and intense novel. […] poetic, virtuoso, warm and beautiful. […] No one describes the coastal and cultural history of the Helgeland coast as Roy Jacobsen.VG, NORWAYRoy Jacobsen raises the bar in the last volume […] Jacobsen stands out with a luminous mother portrait […] the best Roy Jacobsen has written about life on the Helgeland coast […]AFTENPOSTEN, NORWAYThe past as a mirror for the present […] Roy Jacobsen’s stories about the islanders on the Helgeland coast gradually resemble a magnificent saga about the basic human conditions in the struggle with nature. […] Roy Jacobsen’s own words that “a historical novel should be a contemporary novel” feel true. The author is a master of dialogues where secrets and trivialities form minefields and tensions.DAGSAVISEN, NORWAY With emotion, the reader follows the fate of these modest people. What separates us, and what unites us? For Roy Jacobsen, this is the essential question of this novel. A vast and passionate subject!LE JOURNAL DE LA HAUTE-MARNA, FRANCE

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The Bastard
Mystery and Crime2020 · 304 pp

The Bastard

Øistein Borge

A Jewish man searching for justice. Two Romanian siblings fleeing hopelessness. A Norwegian policeman on his first overseas mission. All meet their fate, just hours after arriving on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca. The temperature on the island is approaching 40 degrees – a heatwave appropriate for the hell that awaits Bogart Bull in this holiday paradise. And as befits a hell, there is also a devil here, pulling the strings.