Lise Villadsen and her YA-novel The Supermassive Black Hole Club has been bestowed with the high-profile Danish School Libraries Author Award of 2025 for ‘Book of the Year’.

The award is one of Denmark’s biggest accolades for children’s- and young adult literature and has been bestowed since 1981 to a writer that through their authorship has made an exceptional literary or non-fictional contribution to the experiences and/or knowledge of children and young adults. The award aims to celebrate the literature that truly makes a difference in schools. The nominated authorships are symbolized by a title released in the preceding year that must be of remarkable quality.

Before handing over the accolade during the award ceremony, the jury highlighted that:

“The Supermassive Black Hole Club is a novel, which largely revolves around identity and sense of community – and concepts such as commitment and sincerity.(…) Lise Villadsen has written a terrific book. (…) With loneliness as a starting point, the novel deals with the simple – but certainly not easy – art of having the courage to be yourself. But also to dare to let others in – and that whilst mistakes and white lies can turn out to open doors to others, the lies can also be a risky, knotty and dangerous path to choose.”

Irene has a burning wish: to become a mother.

She is happily married to the priest Thomas, who already has the young daughter Isabella from a previous marriage, and whilst Irene loves her bonus daughter, she longs to have a child of her own. Having tried in vain for many years to become pregnant, they are now faced with starting fertility treatments.

At the same time a new family moves in next-door to their vicarage and Irene, who already has developed a habit of listening in to her husband’s confidential counseling sessions, begin to keep an eye on the neighbors.

Is everything on the other side of the fence really as perfect as it seems? Ought she tell the couple that the church gravedigger is peeking through their windows at night? And is it only in her imagination, or does Thomas have a bit too much chemistry with the neighbor woman? When Thomas begins to act strange and suddenly wishes to withdraw from their fertility treatment, Irene has to get to the bottom of it.

What is she not seeing? What is it that’s preventing her from becoming a mother?

Let the Little Children Come is Lise Villadsen’s adult thriller debut. It is an intense, psychological thriller about paranoia, couple relationships and violent desires.

Lisa Ridzén’s internationally bestselling debut When the Cranes Fly South is the ‘Monthly Fiction Pick‘ at US retailer Barnes & Nobles this month and has continuously ranked high on their bestseller lists throughout September. It is currently coming in at No.1 on their paperback bestseller list, whilst also featuring at No. 7 on the bestseller list across all formats.

In a stellar recognition of her work, Finnish director and screenwriter Tiina Lymi took home the Best Direction prize at the 2025 Venice TV Awards for her black comedy-drama Queen of Fucking Everything. Lymi’s series was also nominated in the Best Series category.

The Venice TV Award, held annually in Venice, Italy, celebrates excellence in global television and highlights the cultural impact of TV programming across genres and borders.

On September 26, the new horror-drama Färjan (Blood Cruise), adapted from Mats Strandberg’s novel, premiered its first two episodes on SVT Play to strong reviews.

The six-episode series plunges viewers into a terrifying voyage aboard the Baltic ferry Baltic Charisma. Two vampires, mother Edith and her son Walter, board in disguise, and when communication with the outside world is abruptly severed, the ship becomes a floating nightmare. Passengers must face suspicion, violence, and the creeping dread that no one can be trusted.

Thirteen-year-old Kolbjörn Skarsgård makes his debut in a leading role as the vampire Walter. He shares the screen with a strong ensemble cast, including Tuppence Middleton, Björn Bengtsson, Jessica Grabowsky, Marika Lagercrantz, Arvin Kananian, and Johan Ehn.

Färjan is directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby, and the screenplay is written by Strandberg together with Malin Lagerlöf.

Alice, 18, comes from the countryside. She moves in with her father Max, a photographer, and his new family in the suburbs. The family consists of stepmother Siri, a radiant feminist building a career within the UN, and two half-brothers: Michael, a peer to Alice, and the idolized, broken “Prince” – two years younger, set to play the lead in the Free Amateur Theatre’s production of Hamlet, staged in an abandoned, occupied industrial hall nearby.

Alice takes the bus into the city and starts building herself a life. The Evening School, the Free University, the Film Archive, Veronica Seger’s apartment where legendary parties are held, the streets of the city – all of this is about to become hers. And the people: Veronica, who teaches her to write like a little animal; Pelle, who becomes her boyfriend; and Evelyn, a rejected poet and dancer in a performance group.

It is 1976/77. “The Ice Age,” says Siri, who remembers another time, full of struggle and political conviction. A time that would later be referred to as “the most peaceful postwar years.”

That’s a lie: in Germany, a war is being fought against a self-proclaimed urban guerrilla movement, sending ripples throughout the entire continent. Violence creeps in, fear eats its way through – paint the town dread paint the town dread – and the dollhouse existence crumbles in the most brutal way imaginable.

Nowhere Land / Women in Revolt is the first part of a trilogy. It is about being so young that life is a horizon of possibilities and resistance, about what it takes to become an artist, and what stories one tells when nothing has yet happened.

Paramount+ U.K. & Ireland has confirmed that The Crow Girl, based on the international bestselling trilogy by author duo Erik Axl Sund, will return for a second season.

The first season quickly rose to become the No. 1 trending TV series on Paramount+ in the UK following its release, earning widespread acclaim. The Times described it as “one of the finest British crime thrillers of recent years.”

Eve Myles (Hijack, Cold Water, Keeping Faith) returns as Jeanette Kilburn, joined again by Katherine Kelly (Mr Bates vs The Post Office, The Long Shadow), Clara Rugaard (Black Mirror, The Rising), and Victoria Hamilton (The Crown, COBRA). Additional cast members will be announced in due course.

Executive producers include Buccaneer CEO Tony Wood, screenwriter Milly Thomas, music icon Slash, Eve Myles, Federico Ambrosini, Niclas Salomonsson, and Erik Axl Sund. Charles Martin returns to direct, with Debs Pisani producing.

Produced by Buccaneer Media, filming for the second season will commence in Bristol later this year.

Click ‘Read More’ below to read the full article in The Hollywood Reporter.

Everything can be bought for money – except the truth.

The historic Villa Caledonia in Djursholm has burned down, and its owner, Miriam de Brenner, is found dead. At the scene, Inspector Claes Ståhl and his colleagues make strange discoveries – in the basement, there is a vast collection of antique dolls, a ceramic kiln, and bone remains. The will also reveals an unexpected heir to the family’s great fortune…

Behind the fire lies a tangled web of lies and bizarre relationships, family trauma, and crimes beyond anything one could imagine.

The Peacock Man is the first part of the trilogy Mara’s Children. A story about how abundance, trauma, and lovelessness can affect a family for generations – and create people who are dangerous to everyone, even themselves.