Absinthe
Niklas Rådström
One early summer day, he is simply there—the blue tit chick that will come to be called Absinthe. Perhaps he has fallen from an overcrowded nest high in the tree’s crown, perhaps he has tried his wings too early. It is a small bundle of fluff with a…
A Happy Family
Stian Hjelvin Andersen
From the outside, the Löwborg family has it all: money, success, and power. From the inside, things are quickly falling apart…! Bente Löwborg, the mother of the family, spends her days tending to herself and to the perfect façade. Her husband Erik is…
No Man’s Land
Lina Nordquist
A gripping historical novel of survival, identity, and courage set in the unforgiving wilderness of 19th-century Sweden The year is 1858. Winter has tightened its grip on Hälsingland, the frost reaching deep into the earth as relentless snowstorms sw…
I’m Traveling Alone
Samuel Bjørk
A six-year-old girl is discovered hanging from a tree in the Norwegian countryside, dressed like a doll and wearing an airline tag around her neck bearing the chilling words: I’m travelling alone. With I’m Travelling Alone, Samuel Bjørk introduces re…
Purity
Andrzej Tichý
The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a colour wheel; a social realist kills h…
The Owl Always Hunts at Night
Samuel Bjørk
A teenage girl disappears from a residential home for vulnerable youths. When her body is later found, the discovery sends shockwaves through Oslo. She has been killed in a brutal, highly staged manner, her body carefully arranged and a white lily pl…
The Odyssey
Birger Emanuelsen
A powerful and tender father-son novel about memory, caregiving and a final promise written by award-winning literary powerhouse Birger Emanuelsen When a father slips into dementia, his son takes him to the family cabin on the far edge of the sea — a…
Wretchedness
Andrzej Tichý
Waiting by the canal in Malmö, a young cellist meets a disorientated junkie. The encounter sends him into a turmoil of memories, voices and associations. As the cellist oscillates between present and past, he is paralysed by doubt and confusion and h…
