Fredrik Backman’s compelling novel Beartown has made its first appearance on the New York Times Best Seller List for paperbacks, claiming the No. 5 spot. The paperback edition was published just last week.
The second season of Hans Rosenfeldt’s hugely popular London-set crime drama series Marcella premieres on February 19th on ITV and on Netflix in March. The series was created by Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder, with Rosenfeldt also writing the script.
Marcella has become one of the most popular new British crime shows on ITV. The premiere episode had 8 million viewers in Britain and the average audience rating was 6,8 million viewers for the first season.
Marcella Backland is a detective who, in season one, returns to her job as a detective after 12 years. She suspects that the killer she once chased has returned as well.
The official Swedish bestseller lists for January have been released and Niklas Natt och Dag’s brilliant debut novel 1793 is No. 2 on the hardcover fiction list. 1793 also appears on the e-book bestseller list, where it comes in at No. 2. Jo Nesbø’s The Thirst meanwhile comes in at No. 4 on the paperback list.
The New York Times Book Review has chosen Tom Malmquist’s In Every Moment We Are Still Alive as one of their 12 New Books We Recommend This Week. Lauding In Every Moment We Are Still Alive as “harrowing” and a “searing autobiographical novel,” the list quotes The New York Times’ Katie Kitamura’s rave review of the novel:
“This is narrative as raw material […] A novel about permeability, ‘In Every Moment We Are Still Alive’ captures the jumbled sensory experience of being profoundly, catastrophically overwhelmed. … It’s clear that Malmquist is explicitly interested in what can’t be contained, what continues to trouble.”
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Kristina Ohlsson’s Unwanted shoots up to No. 2 in its second week on the official Norwegian paperback list. Unwanted is the first installment in the thrilling Fredrika Bergman series.
Photo: HEIN Photography/C More
Petter S. Rosenlund (The Heavy Water War) is head-writer for the international spy thriller series Hamilton which is based on Swedish author Jan Guillou’s books.
It has now been announced that Norwegian Jakob Oftebro will star as Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton, who trained with the U.S. Navy Seals to become part of an illegal black ops cell within the Swedish military.
Swedish broadcaster TV4 and its streaming service CMore have commissioned the first two seasons of the show and it’s their biggest international project so far.
Hamilton will start filming in the second quarter of 2018 in Sweden and other European locations. The series will premiere exclusively on CMore next year, with a later linear airing on TV4 and ZDF in Germany.
Operation Shipwreck, the thirteenth installment in Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Detective Agency No. 2 series, is now out in Norwegian bookstores!
A violent storm has washed up the remains of a shipwreck on Riverton’s shores. Among the debris, Tiril and Oliver find evidence of a pollution scandal. But there’s also something that points to the existence of an old shipwreck just outside Riverton. It’s a new case for Detective Agency. No. 2, and this time they’ll not only have to dig deep, but dive deep, to find the truth!
Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ Detective Agency No. 2 series is crime fiction for the youngest – clever, engaging, and full of thrills! Join our heroes Tiril, Oliver and their dog Ocho as they solve mysteries that have even the adults of Riverton scratching their heads.
Jens Lapidus’ Top Dog is being adapted into a TV series by Filmlance and producer Teresa Alldén Willey. Veronica Zacco (The Bridge, Farang, Thicker Than Water) will be the head writer for the eight-episode show, and production is set to start in fall 2018.
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Fredrik Backman’s emotionally powerful novel Beartown has been shortlisted for the Audie Awards 2018 in the ‘Fiction’ category. The award is given out by the Audio Publishers Association in the US. The winners will be announced at the 23rd Audie Awards Gala on May 31st.
Tom Malmquist’s In Every Moment We Are Still Alive has been chosen by Financial Times as one of the Best Books of 2017 in the translated fiction category. The UK-based international daily newspaper writes the following about the novel:
“Urgent, heartbreaking and life-affirming, this autobiographical novel about grief and parenting probes the boundaries between life and writing.”
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
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– Sundsvalls Tidning
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– Göteborgs-Posten
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– 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
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– Expressen
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