Sofia Lundberg’s heart-warming debut novel The Red Address Book is No. 4 on the largest bookstore chain Suomalainen Kirjakauppa’s bestseller list in Finland.
Weekdays. Yesterdays. Laters. Presents. Life. Living. Ageing. Death. Life and death and life again. The memories.
The road. The ageing. The halting. The body and soul. House and home. Work. The wine. The wind. The car-driving. The walking. The country.
The sickness. The here and not there. The moments lived and the moments still left. The cranes. The love. The company. The loneliness. The emptiness.
Weekdays. Those that were. Those that are. Those to come. She, who was there. All that was and isn’t anymore.
Weekdays is a collection of excerpts from Ulf Lundell’s personal diary. Music, family life, writing, nature, politics, health, and society: he observes it all in the present, and looks back at even more in the past.
Niklas Natt och Dag’s novel 1793 has been shortlisted for the 2018 Crimetime Specsavers Award in the category ‘Crime Debut of the Year’. The award is handed out to a new star on the crime novel scene and to authors who have contributed in adding something new to the thriller genre. The winner will be announced during the Gothenburg Book Fair in September.
To see the list of nominees, click on “Read more”.
Three Minutes by Roslund & Hellström has been longlisted for the 2018 CWA International Dagger Award. The winners of all the CWA Daggers will be announced at the Dagger Award Dinner held in October.
Anders Roslund’s just published Three Hours claims the No. 1 spot on the official Swedish hardcover list. This marks the second week at the top for the novel, which entered the list at No. 1 last week. On the paperback list, Niklas Natt och Dag’s long-running bestseller 1793 comes in at No. 3. It also claims the No. 3 spot on the e-book list, where it’s joined by Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth at No. 5.
Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth is once again No. 1 on the weekly bestseller lists for hardcovers and e-books in Norway. Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes likewise stay on the hardcover list, coming in at No. 4 with Operation Shipwreck also this week.
Jørn Lier Horst’s The Katharina Code is No. 1 on the biggest online bookstore and second biggest physical retailer in Slovakia, Martinus’, e-book list. The Katharina Code also comes in at No. 2 on Martinus’ Top 100 list for printed titles, all genres.
The official Swedish bestseller lists for the month of April as well as the first week of May have been released.
For the first week of May the recently published Three Hours by Anders Roslund is No. 1 on the hardcover list. On the paperback list Niklas Natt och Dag’s 1793 stays put at No. 2 and is No. 5 on the e-book list. Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth claims the No. 3 spot on the same list.
On April’s bestselling list Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth is No. 1 on both the hardcover list and the audiobook list. On the paperback list Niklas Natt och Dag claims the No. 1 spot with 1793.
Photo: Film i Väst
Quick is inspired by Swedish journalist Hannes Råstam’s book Thomas Quick: The Making of a Serial Killer. It is the story about Sweden’s biggest legal scandal ever and about the reporter Hannes Råstam who alone questioned a whole legal system. A touching journalistic thriller about a man who sacrificed his own life in the search for truth.
In the role of the journalist Hannes Råstam we see Jonas Karlsson and as Thomas Quick we see David Dencik. Alba August plays researcher Jenny Küttim.
Quick will be directed by Mikael Håfström and the script is written by Norwegian author Erlend Loe. The film will start shooting in the western part of Sweden this year and is expected to have a Swedish cinema premiere in autumn 2019.
U-July 22, the film that seeks to recreate the horrific Utøya massacre in Norway 2011, had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Now it’s coming to theaters in Sweden. It has received outstanding reviews in Norway, Sweden, and internationally. At the Berlinale, U-July 22 won the prestigious 2018 Berlin Ecumenical Prize.
The Upcoming (UK) wrote: “This singular masterpiece demonstrates the power cinema can have to articulate the ineffable”, and NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) described it as “Nothing short of a masterpiece.”
U-July 22 is written by Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen. Directed by Erik Poppe.
North Macedonia, Antolog
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
North Macedonia, Antolog
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
China, Beijing ST
Closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Spain, Duomo
Closed by Linda Andersson
UK, Bloomsbury
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
Calm, methodical, and quietly gripping – classic Nordic noir precision.
– The i Paper
[SON is] definitely a promising start of a series. And the double cliffhanger right at the very end is masterful and elevates the final score another notch.
– Adresseavisen
Andrzej Tichý’s novel about a Sweden in dissolution challenges both the conventional novel form and the belief that social reforms are of any use whatsoever. /…/ Book of Events is a rejection of the notion of a central perspective. This is the literary form of social disintegration. This is literature that, also stylistically, seeks to reveal the collapse of social democratic Sweden.
– Politiken
Andrzej Tichý has written a polyphonic masterpiece about the Europe of the displaced. /…/ Book of Events is a novel that seeks the novel as a form of cognition. In this lies part of its hopefulness: in the attempt against all odds, in the movement through space and time, across planes of abstraction, between realism and unreality, from one word to the next.
– Information
Rydell makes the universal power of music evident in an impressive way.
– De Vrijdagavond
Diamonds and Rust is a story about wounds that never heal, about envy, betrayal and revenge, and about a crime so well and thoroughly thought out that it may never be solved. Not unless Hanne Wilhelmsen gets a chance to try.