Jo Nesbø’s Rat Island and Other Stories claims the No. 2 spot on the official Finnish bestseller list for hardcover fiction for the month of October. Liza Marklund’s The Polar Circle can be found at No. 5 on the list.

Jo Nesbø’s Rat Island and Other Stories is No. 4 on the largest bookstore chain Suomalainen Kirjakauppa’s bestseller list in Finland. Antti Tuomainen’s The Rabbit Factor and Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man can be found on No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, on the bestseller list for paperback.

Jo Nesbø’s recently published The Jealousy Man and Other Stories is No. 1 and Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1793 is No. 2 on the bestseller list for crime & thriller fiction in Russia.

Jo Nesbø’s The Jealousy Man and Other Stories is No. 1 on the official Czech bestseller list.

The just published Russian edition of Nesbø’s The Jealousy Man and Other Stories has gone straight to No. 1 on the bestseller list for crime & thriller fiction in Russia.

Jo Nesbø and The Kingdom claim thet No. 1 spot on the paperback bestseller list in Sweden also this week. Liza Marklund similarly maintains her hold on the e-book list, where her The Polar Circle is No. 1.

Jo Nesbø’s The Jealousy Man and Other Stories is No. 1 on the official Serbian bestseller list.

Liza Marklund and Jo Nesbø divide the weekly lists’ No. 1 placements between them, with Marklund’s The Polar Circle coming in at No. 1 in audio and e-book and No. 2 in hardcover. Nesbø’s The Kingdom is No. 1 spot on the paperback list.

New on the lists are Jonas Gardell and Arne  Dahl, whose latest titles both debut in the hardcover category this week. Gardell’s A Happier Year does so at No. 4, and Dahl’s Meltdown at No. 5.

Kristina Ohlsson and Jo Nesbø each claim a top placement on the official paperback bestseller list for the month of August in Sweden. Kristina Ohlsson is No. 1 with her Storm Watch, while Jo Nesbø takes the No. 2 spot with The Kingdom.

Jo Nesbø’s The Kingdom remains No. 1 on the official weekly bestseller list for paperbacks in Sweden. Meanwhile, on the children’s books list, David Sundin makes his first appearance with the just published The Book That Really Did Not Want To Be Read, which lands the No. 3 spot. This title is of course the sequel to the already internationally beloved The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read.

Liza Marklund’s just published The Polar Circle goes straight to No. 1 on  the official list for hardcovers in Sweden. The paperback list’s No. 1 spot meanwhile goes to Jo Nesbø and The Kingdom, just out in paperback.

On Tuesday, Jo Nesbø and climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared together in an exclusive conversation at the Edinburgh TV Festival, in the fest’s Worldview Address slot, to discuss the climate crisis and the creative industry’s responsibility towards sustainability and a greener future and how writers and producers need to tackle it through storytelling.

The Edinburgh TV Festival is the largest media event of its kind in the UK, attracting several thousand delegates from the UK, rest of Europe and the US.

The festival’s creative director Stewart Clarke says about the event:

“It really was a long-term goal to get Greta Thunberg and get her to talk about what the responsibility is of the TV world of storytelling, for storytellers, and more than that, to frame things in a positive way in terms of how positive change can be effected, and what was great was to be able to pair her up with Jo Nesbo, the author who has spoken about this before. That’s an amazing matchup.”

Please click “read more” below to watch the event.