‘The Winners’ on the Indie Next List
Fredrik Backman’s third and final installment of the Beartown-trilogy The Winners, has been selected for the October 2022 Indie Next List, as chosen by US booksellers across the country. The novel is to be published on September 27 in the US and has also been included in BookPage’s list of most anticipated fiction of fall.
New Title: ‘Play With Fire’
Following a desperate phone call from her childhood friend Katja, Vega is forced to return home to the small village of Silverbro that she left for London ten years back. The girls were inseparable as children: Katja with her broken childhood and Vega with the void from her dead mother. But a shocking event ripped them apart. When Vega arrives to Silverbro, Katja has gone missing without a trace and this inevitably brings Katja’s aunt to mind, the teenager that disappeared more than thirty years ago. What has happened to Katja? Are the disappearances somehow linked and will Vega find Katja before it’s too late – or will their dark secret that threatens to destroy Vega’s life as she knows it come to light?
Lina Bengtsdotter, known for her highly praised and award-winning Charlie Lager books, is finally back.
Bog og samfunn’s summer bestseller lists
Norwegian Bog og samfunn has compiled the most sold titles for the months of June and July, and Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Scars grabs the No. 1 spot for fiction. On the children’s list, Jørn Lier Horst and Hans Jørgen Sandnes claims three out of the top five, The Search for the Camping King comes in at No. 1, Operation Ninja at No. 2 and The Search for the Unicorn at No. 4.
‘Locals’ (‘Stammisar’) to premiere in Swedish theatres
The relationship comedy Locals, which has already received great reviews, will see its Swedish cinema premiere Friday, September 2.
Locals, described as a beautiful ode to Stockholm Södermalm, follows an ensemble of normal people trying to keep their relationships alive without losing themselves. Through the playful dialogue on rhyming verse, they reveal their shortcomings and weaknesses, their frustration and their unsatisfied desires.
Among the cast we find a long line of artists from the Swedish hip hop scene including Linda Pira, Cleo, Jelassi, Jazlin and Parham to name a few.
Locals is directed by Måns Nyman, who has also written the screenplay together with Kristoffer Malmsten.
‘Killing Moon’ published in Norway
Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to death, in the wake of his life back in Oslo falling to pieces. He’s nearly managed to, but thus far failed. Harry has been helping an older film actress, Lucille, to get away from the grips of a drug cartel to which she owes one million dollars, and in return she’s given him shelter, company and a tailored suit.
In Oslo, two girls have disappeared and been found murdered and one of the suspects is a well-known real estate magnate. Katrine Bratt wants to bring in the country’s foremost serial killings expert, but the idea of collaborating with Harry Hole is out of the question for the chiefs of police. The real-estate magnate under suspicion on the other hand wants to hire Harry as a private investigator to clear his name from the case. Harry declines, but that’s before the drug cartel takes Lucille hostage. If Harry achieves the task, the real estate magnate will award him a bonus enough to cover Lucille’s debt.
Back home in Oslo, Harry puts together a team consisting of a cocaine-dealing childhood friend, a corrupt police officer and a cancer-stricken psychologist. The drug cartel has given them ten days. The clock is ticking, and a blood moon has been forecast over Oslo.
Killing Moon is the 13th installment in Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole series.
‘The Book That ABSOLUTELY Did Not Want To Be Read’ No. 1 in Sweden
David Sundin’s The Book That ABSOLUTELY Did Not Want To Be Read shoots to No. 1 on the official bestseller lists for children’s books in Sweden. The title is the third book in Sundin’s suite of troublemaker books determined to escape their reader.
Roslund & Hellström’s ’CELL 8’ to premier on Viaplay
The adaptation of Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström’s award-winning crime novel Cell 8 premieres in the Nordics, Baltics and Poland on Viaplay today.
A man presumed dead is arrested on a ferry between Sweden and Finland, throwing detectives Mariana and her boss Ewert Grens into a series of mysterious events. The case soon reveals a personal connection not only to Hermansson herself, but to a Death Row prisoner in the US and a grieving parent consumed by revenge.
Set in Sweden and the US, Cell 8 is a multi-layered story about capital punishment, revenge and social legacy.
Liza Marklund No. 1 in Sweden
Liza Marklund’s just published The Mire, the highly anticipated standalone sequel to The Polar Circle, enters the official Swedish bestseller list for hardcover fiction at No. 1.
‘The Wolf and the Watchman’ to be adapted into comics
Niklas Natt och Dag’s remarkable novel The Wolf and the Watchman will be made into a comics series. The comics album is being developed by Italian screenwriters and artists, in collaboration with the author. The comics, much like the original novel, will depict Stockholm in the late 18th century and will be enriched with added commentary by Niklas Natt och Dag. The album will be published in Sweden by Forum on October 26.
The Wolf and the Watchman, the first and internationally bestselling installment of the Bellman noir trilogy, has been awarded the Crimetime Specsavers Award for Crime Debut of the Year and The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for Best Debut.
Faldbakken awarded the 2022 Oktober Prize
Matias Faldbakken has been awarded the 2022 Oktober Prize. He was announced as the winner by Oktober’s publishing director, Inger Engelstad, who gave the following motivation: “Faldbakken is one of the most prominent writers of his generation, with a vast linguistic and stylistic register. He writes novels that are profoundly original, and that go their own way. There is a great authority coursing through everything he writes, along with a unique literary elation …”
The Oktober Prize was instituted with the purpose of strengthening and further developing significant, preferably younger, authorships that are particularly characterized by literary courage.