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FicƟon Maria Adolfsson Run or Die Book 4 in the ’Doggerland’ series Karen Eiken Hornby is back! The harbor is crowded when Doggerland’s first pride parade takes place. Suddenly, the high spirits turn into horror when someone fires a weapon straight into the crowd. When the police arrive, the perpetrator is already dead. The pregnant Karen Eiken Hornby is determined to find out the mof behind the terrible deed. Slowly, the picture of the perpetrator's sad last stage of life emerge. But is that really the full story? At the same me, Karen is confronted with truths and lies of the past. RUN OR DIE is the fourth book in the internaonally bestselling series featuring Detecve Karen Eiken Hornby within the unique seng of Maria Adolfsson’s imaginary Doggerland islands, featuring its own local Rights sold Danish: People’s Press (1‐5) language, geography, and cultural tradions with roots in Britain and Estonian: Uhinenud Ajakirjad (1‐4) Scandinavia—the ideal seng for a Nordic Noir series with a twist. Finnish: Tammi (1‐5) Italian: SEM Libri (1‐4) Publishers of Doggerland Czech: Argo (1‐3) CroaƟan: Leo Commerce (1‐2) Praise for Between the Devil and the Sea (Book 3) Dutch: Luingh Sijthoff (1‐3) English (W): Bonnier Zaffre (1‐3) ‘A great and exciƟng plot… a great classic detecƟve story… but with her French: Denoel (1‐2) Hebrew: Keter (1) own signature style’ Hungarian: Gabo Kiado (1‐3) Icelandic: Forlagid (1‐3) — Skånska Dagbladet Polish: Foksal (1‐3) Portuguese (BR): Faro (1‐2) ‘Returning to Doggerland for the third Ɵme is pure pleasure. Maria Spanish: Salamandra (1) Turkish: Cinar (1) Adolfsson is great at plots but most of all she tells us about the ficƟous Doggerland and about Karen Eiken Hornby in a way that makes you PublicaƟon wish for a TV series. AŌer all, you want to see what they look like.’ Wahlström & Widstrand March 2021 — Dagens Nyheter 374 pages Material Swedish Final Copies English Sample Translaon 54pp Series Descripon Synopsis Film & TV Rights Rights Available Maria Adolfsson (b. 1958) lives in Stockholm where she writes full‐me. The Doggerland series has been translated to 18 languages to date and has sold over 260,000 copies in Sweden alone. Contact bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Madelene Andersson [email protected] FicƟon Kristina Agnér Afraid of the Dark Book 1 in the ’Småland series’ Two unsolved mysteries in the same family sixty years apart—is the shocking truth finally about to be revealed? Aer a heartbreak and broken engagement, Alva Fagerström leaves Stockholm for the coage in the dark forests of Southern Sweden that she has inherited from her mother. Alva’s mother Lena has just passed away of heart failure, and the praccalies of sorng through her mother’s things and geng the coage ready to sell will help Alva keep her mind off what to do about her life in Stockholm. Once in Småland, Alva is met with the stunning news that her mother’s death was in fact not of natural causes. What could possibly be the reason for someone wanng Lena dead, and staging her death to look like a heart‐aack? But, the murder is actually not the only mystery in the picturesque vil‐ lage that needs a soluon. The unresolved and mysterious disappear‐ ance of Evy, Alva’s maternal grandmother, back in the 1960’s is brought back to light. Can the two be connected? Along with her neighbour Susanna Frid and local police detecve Jona‐ tan Mogren, Alva starts asking quesons, trying to solve the two mys‐ teries in the family. With each step closer Alva gets to finding some answers is a step closer to danger, and suddenly she finds herself in the line of fire. For fans of Tove Alsterdal’s atmospheric crime, AFRAID OF THE DARK is Rights sold the first book in a planned four‐part series called ‘The Småland series’, All rights available centered around the ficonal town of Tosseboda. Each book takes PublicaƟon Albert Bonniers Förlag place in a different season, starng with summer for book one and March 2021 ending with a beauful winter landscape in book four. 350 pages Material Swedish Final Copies English Sample Translaon 100pp Series presentaon Synopsis Author Leer Film & TV Rights Rights Available KrisƟna Agnér, b. 1981, is a freelance developmental editor with a background within social work. The lakes and the woods surrounding her coage in Småland is what in‐ Contact spired her to start wring the ‘Småland series’. AFRAID OF THE DARK is her debut. Madelene Andersson [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Non‐Ficon Lars Berge Rogue Wave Adventure on the Seven Seas and a Quest For the Truth Behind a Family Seafaring Legend Acclaimed journalist Lars Berge embarks on a personal odyssey in the footsteps of a seafaring ancestor at the heart of an onboard miracle, from Scandinavia to the ports of Wales and the United States. The full‐rigged SS Alcides sailed the world at the height of the First World War. During one violent storm, a sailor was swept overboard, but instead of joining the names of long‐lost sailors that regularly ap‐ peared in the newspapers at that me, a miracle occurred. A rogue wave washed him back up on deck again. At least, that’s how the story goes according the account of what’s been told in one Swedish family for over a century. Unl the day Swedish writer Lars Berge decides to invesgate what really happened on that day, to the sailor J.W. Granström, his great grandfather, the man who was swept overboard, and then not. ROGUE WAVE is a book about the once cherished heroes of Scandina‐ via – the boys and men who lived and died at sea. Some found the women of their dreams while others drowned in liquor. Many found God, but even more were lost at sea. Berge weaves a story about leav‐ ing and returning home, a travel chronicle of sorts about sailors’ yarns, different harbours, waves, and new horizons. A book for all those who have tried grasping the mysterious depths of the seas, for fans of A Perfect Storm and In the Heart of the Sea. Rights sold ‘A masterful journalisc work and fine storytelling.’ All rights available — Svenska Dagbladet Opons Estonian: Sinisukk ‘Aer half the book, however, I capitulate and become Berge's involun- Polish: Czarne tary fellow traveler in the search for the truth in that story about the Publicaon monster wave. I allow myself to be taught about one or the other that Albert Bonniers Förlag sails into Berge's consciousness.’ August 2020 220 pages — Expressen Material ‘Berge has done what the rest of us wish we had done. Like a Borges in Swedish Edion the labyrinths of the library world or a Dan Brown among angels and English Sample Translaon 53pp Author Leer demons, he has, albeit for real, drilled into...his great grandfather's story...boy, oh boy, oh boy what a journey it will be...breathless and Film & TV Rights Rights Available explosive... ’ — Västerboens‐Kuriren Lars Berge (b. 1974) is a Stockholm‐based writer, journalist and documentary film maker. His debut novel, Office Ninja was translated into five languages and his first non‐ficon work, Project Wolf became an instant naonal bestseller and was nominated for the Contact internaonal Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage 2020. Johanna Lindborg [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Non‐Ficon Nina Burton The Six Walls of Life From the 2016 August Prize for Non‐Ficon winner comes a beguiling and in many ways exceponal nature memoir, an homage to the natural world around us. What begins with a renovaon of Nina Burton’s summer coage, swily turns into an exploraon of nature, life and philosophy in the hands of the award‐winning essayist. Within the walls, the ceiling and the floor of the coage and its surrounding garden, we encounter a host of animals—ants, honey bees, foxes, squirrels, blackbirds, badgers, pigeons and deer—making her house their home, which prompted Nina to explore what is awe‐inspiring and oen delighully surprising in each species. For instance, did you know that there are more ants altogether than the number of seconds that have passed since the Big Bang? And that in relaon to their size, their anthill cies can be larger than London and New York? Or, that a bird’s migratory insnct is so strong that an injured stork once escaped capvity and was found six weeks later having walked 150 kilometres, fol‐ lowing the migratory path of his flock on foot? This and many other remarka‐ Rights sold ble musings are woven together with scienfic exploraon in the absolutely Chinese: Guangxi NUP capvang THE SIX WALLS OF LIFE, in which Nina reveals the inner lives and English (UK): Mudlark / HarperCollins UK English (CA): Under offer hitherto unknown habits of the animals with which she shares her enchanted Danish: Kristeligt Dagblad Forlag space. Dutch: Van Oorschot Finnish: Schildts & Söderström A clear heir to the Swedish tradion of nature wring first made famous by German: btb Verlag Japanese: Soshisha Kersn Ekman, Nina Burton writes with boundless enthusiasm and an inspir‐ Korean: Open Books ing curiosity, while enlightening the reader about the greater natural world. Polish: Burda Russian: AdMarginem She transports us into her chirping, buzzing, humming sanctuary, leng us in Slovak: Ikar on the hidden secrets of the animals who have taken up residence on our Slovenian: Mladinska Spanish: Gallo Nero doorsteps and in our hearts. Publicaon Albert Bonniers Förlag September 2020 ‘A true giŌ to readers’ 264 pages — Svenska Dagbladet Material Swedish Edion ‘I was completely enchanted within ten pages’ Full English Translaon —Expressen Leer From the Author Film & TV Rights ‘Burton has unparalleled stylisƟc brio’ Rights Available —Aonbladet, on The Gutenberg Galaxy Nova Nina Burton (b.