The lauded and internationally beloved children’s book author Bobbie Peers’ is now finally available to readers aged 6-9! His new easy-to-read Explorers’ Club series is a topsy-turvy ride through a fantastical new world full of humor, adventure and quirky inventions.

Book 1: The Explorers’ Club and the Marshmallow Machine

Having put the final touches to her latest invention – a globe full of fun devices – Ella finds herself suddenly sucked into the world inside the globe. As she’s falling through the sky she’s saved by Felix, an airship captain and professional “discoverer.” Felix recruits Ella for his latest mission: To find out why the all-important Marshmallow Machine has stopped working. But standing in their way are the Piranha Pirates: armed, dangerous, and very hungry for the last remaining marshmallows.

Book 2: The Explorers’ Club and the Turtle Cannon

Ella and Felix journey to the desert and to a stilt-borne city wedged among its sand dunes to discover why it has started raining turtles there. The Explorers’ Club soon discovers the robotic turtles to be part of the evil Piranha Pirates’ scheme to steal the city’s precious silver spiders. The spiders’ webs are used to make the inhabitants’ silver suits that can deflect the scorching sun, and the city will be at complete loss without them. The Club decides to lure the Piranha Pirates into a trap, but as part of that plan they first need to venture into the pirates’ terrifying fortress.

A new case for Detective Agency No. 2! And this time, it’s personal.

Oliver’s bike has been stolen, and soon more go missing. It is clear to Detective Agency No. 2 that professional bike thieves are afoot in Riverton. Luckily, Tiril, Oliver, and Ocho are there to make their lives difficult. They have found the circle within which the thieves are operating – now they just have to find the thieves themselves!

Operation Radius is the sixteenth installment in the Detective Agency No. 2 series.

It was just announced that Stina Jackson’s The Silver Road is the winner of the 2019 Book of the Year Award, presented by Bonnier’s Book Clubs. The announcement was made today, on the second day of the Gothenburg Book Fair.

Jørn Lier Horst’s Ill Will dominates the Norwegian bestseller lists of week 38, coming in at No. 1 both in hardcover and e-book. Also on the e-book list is Anne Holt’s A Necessary Death, featuring at No. 4. Hedvig Montgomery meanwhile climbs on the non-fiction list, coming in at No. 4 with The Elementary School Age.

The brilliant screenwriter duo, Siv Rajendram Eliassen and Anna Bache-Wiig, behind the highly successful TV series Acquitted (2015-2016) and the praised feature film U -July 22 (2018), are now further establishing their position as storytellers with a strong and societally engaging voice.

Their new TV series Witch Hunt is the story of how one single action can trigger a scandal of national proportions with consequences affecting all the way up to Norway’s elite society. With a focus on power struggles and corruption, Rajendram Eliassen and Bache-Wiig delve deep into the psychological, relational and political consequences of whistleblowing.

Witch Hunt is produced by Miso Film Norway and will premiere on TV 2 Norway in early 2020.

NRK’s new series For Life and 22 July will both make their debut at the Cannes fall content market, the largest TV market in the world.

For Life, created by Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen, is a highly innovative crime series set in two timelines: in present day, as we follow investigator Victoria Woll, solving cases and putting criminals behind bars, and in the future, when she herself has been incarcerated. For Life will premiere on NRK in spring 2020.

NRK’s other anticipated series, 22 July, created by Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune, explores how ordinary people responded to the tragedy of July 22nd, 2011, when a heavily armed right-wing terrorist attacked a summer camp full of youths. 22 July will premiere on NRK January 2020.