Jo Nesbø’s Rat Island and Other Stories comes in at No. 4 on the official list of the best crime fiction in the Netherlands.
This week’s bestseller lists in Norway have Stefan Ahnhem’s The Final Nail claiming the No. 1 spot at the top of the official paperback list for the fourth consecutive week.
Johan Theorin’s Weathered Bones appear on the No. 3 spot on the official fiction list.
Ulf Kvensler’s Sarek features on the official list for fiction in Sweden for the third consecutive week, claiming the No. 4 spot.
Spotify and the climate tech company Planethon is letting research and art meet in a new audio drama project called Twentyseventytwo. Three prominent Swedish writers and film directors have written audio dramas that take place 50 years in the future and is based on research data and future scenarios from Planethon. Henrik Björn’s story Ragna, told by Gizem Kling Erdogan, is now available for listening on Spotify.
In Ragna we meet Liv who lives in the great primeval forest with her grandfather who teaches her everything he knows about the world around them. But one day he takes her on a journey that will completely turn her world upside down. When everything is revealed, she must start making new difficult choices about the future.
Two audio dramas are also written by Tuva Novotny (The Wild City with Edvin Ryding) and Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (Do not cry over your bees with Maxida Märak).
The project is released in connection with the Stockholm +50 environmental conference to help raise awareness of the climate crisis.
Detective Agency No. 2 are on vacation. Tiril, Oliver and Ocho will spend the week at uncle Rasmus’ cabin in Sugarbay, but their holiday is soon interrupted. A thief is roaming the camping ground right by the cabin. Pool toys, camping chairs, diving equipment and decorations are among the things that have gone missing. Suspicion quickly falls upon the man known as the Camping King, as he’s got the largest camping van on site. Now he’s disappeared and Detective Agency No. 2 are right on his heels.
The Search for the Camping King is the ninth activity book in the Detective Agency No. 2 series. Along the way we get to take part in the solving of the mystery, just like in the other thrilling activity books from the Detective Agency No. 2 universe.
Stefan Ahnhem’s The Final Nail is No. 1 on the official Norwegian bestseller list for paperback fiction for the third consecutive week.
Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven, the political thriller set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque about the fisherman boy Adam (Tawfeek Barhom) who is thrown into a brutal power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite, was awarded Best Screenplay by the jury at the 75th Cannes International Film Festival, as well as the prestigeous Prix François Chalais Award for his film’s “dedication to the values of life affirmation and of journalism”.
Österlen is basking in the summer sun and the big antique market in Degeberga is just about to kick off. The gates have hardly opened before a brutal murder of a notorious antique dealer shakes the visitors to their core. Inspector Peter Vinton is called in from his vacation to investigate. Tove Esping, working hard to assert her position at the Simrishamn Police force, is assigned to assist him. Whilst the unlikely pair is investigating the murder, the locals are preparing for the television recording of Antiques Roadshow at the nearby Gärsnäs Castle. Vinston and Esping soon come to realize that the world of antiques is full of eccentrics, old conflicts and mysteries that are remarkably difficult to unravel. The question that it all boils down to: who is willing to kill in order to get their hands on the best find?
Death Goes Antiquing is the second installment of the bestselling Österlen Murders, a series of whodunits in which beautiful milieus and eccentric characters meet the cold specter of death.
The nameless protagonist and his girlfriend Maria have invited their friends Otto and Agnes over for dinner. Otto and Agnes are despondent as their cat Frodo has run away or possibly fallen out of a window. Dinner is ready. Let the drama begin.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect can be read as a bildungsroman or an anti-bildungsroman, it’s up to the reader. The novel unfolds during a couple of warm summer months in 2018. Our main character reads 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson, pretends that he’s the author Michel Houellebecq, via what he calls “the Houellebecqian thinking”, is further influenced by the movie Blade Runner 2049 and gets caught up in the delusion that his girlfriend Maria might in fact be an android or possibly just a hallucination.
Following two poetry collections, Andrés Stoopendaal makes a spectacular return to the realm of fiction. The term the Dunning-Kruger effect describes a psychological hypothesis stating that those who are incompetent are also incapable of comprehending their own incompetence.
The Hypnosis, directed by Ernst De Geer and written by De Geer and Mads Stegger, has finished filming. This is De Geer’s highly anticipated feature film debut after acclaimed shorts including The Culture which was a big festival success.
Herbert Nordrum (The Worst Person In The World) and Asta August (The Kingdom) play a young, Stockholm-based entrepreneurial couple who are trying to get a female health app start-up off the ground. On the eve of a competitive pitching event, the female partner undergoes hypnosis to break her smoking habit but in the process is also stripped of all her inhibitions. The premise for The Hypnosis grew out of De Geer’s observation of how modern society encourages people to be themselves but at the same time rejects people who do not conform to ideas of acceptable behaviour.
Mimmi Spång lead produces under production company Garagefilm International. The release date is yet to be announced.
Bulgaria, EMAS
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Greece, Memento
Closed by Emma Granberg
China, Beijing Science and Technology
Five-book deal closed by The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Ida Schabbauer
Poland, Smak Slowa
Two-book deal closed by Julia Angelin
Lithuania, Pflaŭmbaŭm Publishing House
Closed by Emma Granberg
Germany, Hoffmann und Campe
Closed by Julia Angelin
There are a lot of things to unravel in this pitch-black homecoming novel and Bengtsdotter succeeds really well in doing so on just under 300 pages.
– Göteborgs-Posten
It’s a powerful opening. In just a few pages, Selåker paints a portrait of a deeply flawed man on the verge of breaking point, while also capturing loneliness so vividly that the silence inside the house seems to scream from the pages. /…/ I’m looking forward to returning to the Wilderness Road and its surroundings, which Selåker portrays with a sharp eye in this dark and compelling first installment.
– Göteborgs-Posten
[A] brilliant thriller. /…/ [Winter Grave] is unsettling, occasionally hilarious and constantly thrilling. /…/ I make no secret of the fact I’m a fan of Heine Bakkeid’s writing (…). Winter Grave is also dark noir on an elite level.
– Harstad Tidene
You’re the One I Write About tells a tale as old as time. But it does so with fire and not without finesse. /…/ The result is a book you can read during a free period, but will carry with you much longer. Why? Perhaps because Åstot succeeds in capturing exactly how words fall between young people in this moment.
– Expressen
The Clan /…/ is recommended for anyone looking for a hard-hitting, contemporary thriller that delves into themes of power, loyalty, and violence.
– Münchner Merkur
Late at night, a doctor burns to death inside the closed forensic psychiatric institution Helix. The interrogations with staff and inmates are complicated due to patient confidentiality and psychotic illnesses. After another death in the same ward, Saga Bauer accepts a top-secret assignment.