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Norstedts Agency: Autumn 2020 Fiction Days and Days and Days Tone Schunnesson ��5 Cancelled Trip to Sabarmati Majgull Axelsson ��7 Monkey in the Middle Stephan Mendel-Enk ��9 An Unwanted Christmas Present Sara Molin ��11 Halleholm: Lovisa’s Choice Ruth Kvarnström-Jones ��13 Double Portrait Agneta Pleijel ��15 Your Hands Were Full of Life Suad Ali ��17 Troubled Water Maria Broberg ��19 Rolf Malin Lindroth ��21 Caesaria Hanna Nordenhök ��23 Magic Love Pixie Sofia Stenström ��25

Crime Fiction & Thrillers Rekke #1 David Lagercrantz ��29 Master of Dolls Lena Karlin & Åsa Schwarz ��31 A Grain of Truth Christian Unge ��33 Marviken Accounting Department Lars Wilderäng ��35 Darkman Anna Bågstam ��37

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Cover photo © Märta Thisner Fiction Bibbs is forced to make extreme decisions, whe- Tone Schunnesson’s new novel following Trip Reports re the lies ultimately become the sole thing with (2016), is a study of success and destruction, depen- any ounce of truth. dence and betrayal, celebrity and anonymity. Foto: Märta Thisner Märta Foto: LITERARY Days and Days and Days From the sample translation

When I walked into my medium’s office, the about such strength. summer after my first reality TV show was a hit, she glanced at me and said that I looked diffe- My time with Marite changed me, but I stopped rent. “Skinny?” I asked hopefully, and Marite visiting her in Årsta after she said that I’d lost replied: “No, established.” For three years I’d myself in the sauce and because she was sinking transferred her ten large every twelve weeks for all of her income, savings too, into building an unlimited access to her services in person or app no one would pay for. The app let you shoot on the phone, if I called after four. “You’ve lost slow motion videos. Marite wore an amber Tone Schunnesson (b. 1988) is a yourself in the sauce,” was one of the last things necklace, and when she told me about the idea former student of the esteemed she said to me, years later, when the knuckles on I didn’t want to hurt her feelings, so I didn’t Biskops Arnö Writing School. She is a my right hand were raw from having punched mention that everyone could already do this. regular contributor to Aftonbladet's the door to our building on Slip Street. Baby Everyone but Marite, with her burner phone Arts & Culture pages. was supposed to come with me to some whisky and solo fiftieth birthday celebration in Peru. event when out of nowhere he’d decided that After launching the app she started calling me Her debut novel Trip Reports (2016) it was ridiculous. The static started one street more often than I was calling her, and with was hailed by the critics as delightfully down from our apartment when the homeless mounting desperation. She owed the team in rebellious, hilarious and hard-boiled. woman on Reimersholme Island approached Poland a mint, and instead of paying her debt It was also a big commercial success, us like a wraith. “Could you spare a cigarette?” she kept giving them more work each week. It earning Schunnesson a reputation as she asked. I clutched the pack in my fist and was adding up. “Bibbs,” she said when she called an author to watch. gave her my back. “I can pay,” she said. Okay, hoping to sell me on more psychic hours, “The- so that’ll be two hundred, then, I said, avoiding re’s no such thing as investing too much in your eye contact, eager to continue the fight—the health.” Wait, how did you find those people in fight that was the only thing that could get my Poland, I wanted to know, and she told me that Baby to stay. Baby said, for Christ’s sake, Bibbs. she’d typed into a box that had popped up while “Give her a cigarette,” and without thinking I she was googling. Got it, I said, but I was out of turned around and threw the pack in her face. money. Maybe you could promote the app? she’d Baby looked at me and said you crazy bitch. The ask more than once during each phone call. I cigarettes tumbled out and rolled across the wet didn’t want to promote the app. The app would Days and Days and Days asphalt. It was the last day of the year that the link me with failure in a far too obvious way. Dagarna, dagarna, dagarna trees would still have their leaves, and in but a few hours the barren months would begin their My visits to Marite were something I’d afforded Tone Schunnesson reign. Baby entered the code and when the buil- myself in a year when the money was basically ding door slammed shut on me, with Baby on rolling in on its own. But my lucky streak ran Bibbs is just about to turn thirty-nine. At the Her boyfriend Baby has always provided stabili- the other side, I whacked it. It took a moment out, and Marite became an expense among same time there are those who are turning ty and when he dumps her out of the blue, she before my hand started bleeding, slowly, others once she started seeing me with a clarity twenty-six or nineteen. Even though Bibbs becomes devastated. When he walks out, she is as though the wound were hesitating. Got a that I could live without. I stopped taking all lacks talent, she has been famous for a while, also faced with an ultimatum: if she wants to light?, the woman asked, and I rooted around of her calls and stopped calling without say- but the good life is beginning to slip through keep her flat she must pay 100 000 SEK within in my bag, knuckles burning. I thought I had ing why. No way could I tell her that I’d been her fingers. And there seems to be a neveren- the next week. She no longer has access to that punched the door out of rage, but really it was shooting slow motion videos for years and that ding flow of unexpected expenditures. Like the kind of money – an amount that would have an appeal to return to myself. Yes, I was getting her feeling bad was making me feel worse. Also I rent. been easy to find ten years ago. lost in the sauce, I can’t explain it any better couldn’t afford her. I didn’t have the heart to say than that. I had hoped to be in possession of a that everything had seemed so brilliant, until it stronger character. Don’t we all. Us weak of wasn’t anymore. continues >> character have all at some point fantasized

Available material: English sample Original title: Dagarna, dagarna, dagarna | Publication: October 2020 | Pages: 268 Option publisher: Luchterhand, Germany Senior editor: Håkan Bravinger

5 6 questioning where she failed Fatima. In the After that, nothing is the same, despite the moral small town where she lives, she has become support she receives from her neighbour and known as a bold, outspoken teacher who never side-kick Rosemarie. Fear and a sense of urgency shies away from biting back at bullies or racists. has crept into her life. And then an old colleague And one day, during a walk with her beloved dog brings her unexpected news – he claims to have Daisy, her good deeds catch up with her. She is found Fatima.

Foto: Magnus Liam Karlsson Foto: assaulted by a group of masked men and ends up unconscious in hospital for weeks.

Cancelled Trip to Sabarmati

LITERARY / UPMARKET LITERARY From the sample translation ‘Are you hurt?’ Lykke says, but then, conscio- of Shame (which she always pictures as a large us of a slight quaver in her voice, she quickly brown 1940s-style linen chest, lodged in the clears her throat and falls silent. If everything furthest recesses of her brain), locks the chest Majgull Axelsson is a journalist and had been normal, she’d have ticked Daisy off and draws a curtain across it. She’s tempted to author with several bestselling works for lowering her wet, dirty belly onto the pretty yield to a fantasy in which she throws away the behind her. She started out writing Finnish rag rug, but right now that would be key, but controls herself in the nick of time. She documentary novels set in developing deeply unfair. Daisy saved her barely half an can’t let herself throw away the key to the Chest countries, most famously Rosario is hour ago. And if Daisy’s hurt, Daisy’s hurt. Be- of Shame. There’ll be more to be locked away Dead (1989), about child prostitution sides, she’s no spring chicken any longer. Lykke and concealed in future, she knows, though she in the Phillipines. Her major literary breakthrough came with novel April smiles slightly at her own thought, so consoling won’t let herself think about that now. The Witch (1997) which was awarded the in its banality this extraordinary afternoon, but whole point of the Great Chest of Shame is to August Prize that same year. then stops abruptly. avoid having to think, and when it’s shut and Ouch! locked and hidden behind a black velvet curtain Majgull Axelsson’s books have been Smiling hurts. And frankly, other places hurt in her head, she’s the most rational of all ratio- translated into 23 languages and her as well. Her head, of course, though she chooses nal people. Even though the imaginary key is in latest two books have sold more than to ignore that because she’s always chosen to the pocket of her imaginary trousers. End of. 300 000 copies in Sweden alone. ignore headaches, but her trousers are torn and when she inserts two fingers into the hole above Unfortunately, we (you, the readers and I, the her right knee to widen the tear, she sees she’s writer) will have to pause briefly here, give each still bleeding. There’s a sizeable flap hanging other a suitably courteous nod, and agree once loose over the gash, revealing the underside of and for all that Lykke isn’t mad, whatever we her skin. Dark pink with tiny white patches. may think of her and her imaginings. Mildly ec- She glances down at her palms. Dirt. Gravel. centric, maybe. A bit of an oddball. But certainly Cancelled Trip to Sabarmati Long grazes. A shudder runs through her body not psychotic or anything of that sort. It’s just Inställd resa till Sabarmati and suddenly it’s as if she can see the house, her that her mind doesn’t work like other people’s. house, the home she loves and that’s all hers, It’s always been that way, though the difference Majgull Axelsson metamorphosing into a gigantic matchbox, seems to have become more pronounced this while somebody – God, or the Devil (or maybe afternoon. That might be because of the blows Lykke and Fatima only have each other in this her exit: to start anew in another city under her one of his demons) – makes it expand in some to the head she’s just suffered. Her thoughts world. As a young teenager, Fatima, abando- birth name, Meera. Several years later she lives mysterious way so that the sitting room she’s flutter here and there, but at the same time she’s ned as an infant by the shore of the Sabarmati happily with her new family in Reykholt, Ice- in lengthens till she can hardly see the doorway descending heavily and deliberately towards the River and then rejected and deserted by her land, without giving her old life much thought. into the kitchen: but that only lasts for a mo- earth’s surface, towards what she calls everyday adoptive family, finally found an unconditional ment. Snap! There’s a loud twang as if someone’s life and reality, even though what’s just happe- safe haven in her aunt Lykke’s home. But when Lykke, on the other hand, is forced to live released a stretched rubber band, and an instant ned is far removed from everyday life and reality. Fatima turns eighteen, she disappears, and is with the uncertainty of what has become of later the room returns to its normal proportions. Nonetheless, she pictures herself kneeling on not heard from again. She has secretly planned the daughter that was never hers, constantly Lykke makes a jerky movement, bitterly con- her frosty lawn, desperately grasping a few vinced all of a sudden that she must be losing yellowy-brownish blades of grass, just so she can her marbles for good this time, then sets the hold on tight, really tight, to the earth. continues >> thought aside, tucks it away in the Great Chest

Available material: English sample Original title: Inställd resa till Sabarmati | Publication: October 2020 | Pages: 250 Option publishers: Ullstein, Germany • Iperborea, Italy • De Geus, Netherlands Senior editor: Gunilla Sondell

7 8 serious turn. Having no real intention of finding Monkey in the Middle is a humorous yet affec- a job, Rafael strikes up an acquaintance with a ting coming-of-age story about football and controversial local Rabbi and begins adopting brotherhood, as well as a young man's search for his new friend’s more orthodox views. His beha- identity and his yearning to belong.

Foto: Kajsa Göransson Foto: viour unsettles the family, especially Jacob, and soon politicial and religious antagonism thre- atens to tear them all apart. And the football pitch becomes yet another arena of conflict.

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Stephan Mendel-Enk (b. 1974) was “Stephan Mendel-Enk’s Monkey in the Middle is, “Mendel-Enk’s gaze is tender and his passion born and raised in Gothenburg. He is in the best possible way, a cheerfully written for storytelling authentic. Monkey in the Middle a journalist and has written several generational drama about political and religious is full of amusing sub-plots and observations, pieces for football magazine Offside antagonism, how this plays out in the family among them a really wonderful interior from and has also worked for Swedish home, on the football pitch. With narrative Jacob’s grandmother’s bridge club /… / It is Radio. drive, finesse and humour unfolds he presents a a generous way of fleshing things out, which story about a boy who watches the transforma- doesn’t involve dismissing things as not serious.” Mendel-Enk made his debut with the tion of an idolized older brother and its reper- Aftonbladet reportage book An Obvious Sense of cussions.” Vi Läser Style (2004). Monkey in the Middle can be read as a stand-alone sequel to his successful first novel Three Monkeys, which was published in 2010.

Monkey in the Middle From the sample translation Monkey in the Middle Most of Maccabi’s players had a stronger con- Maccabi they had joined the camaraderie and Apan i mitten nection to Judaism than to football. Guttkin the religion. That was how it was supposed to »With self-mockery and loved to tell stories about people where the work. But I suspected that it couldn't always Stephan Mendel-Enk roles were reversed. Real footballers, who had work out as planned. Sometimes it had to be the eloquent humour he played in division four or five. Who had grown other way around. That someone with a faint Jacob’s family has been plagued by death and divorce, portrays Jewish life up without any Jewish elements, just a diffuse Jewish connection played with the team and felt but following several years of turbulence, his world sense of something far back in the family tree. so ostracized that he never dared to approach appears somewhat peaceful again. The Berlin Wall has in 1990s Gothenburg. « Or something that was always present, but any Jewish context ever again. Or that someone come down, Rabin and Arafat have shaken hands and Ingalill Mosander, Aftonbladet never pronounced. A dad with numbers on his who had been a part of the group left it and felt Jacob has finally been allowed to play for the permanent- wrist, a mum that inexplicably turned off the tv more at home elsewhere. And there must have ly troubled Jewish football team Maccabi. when someone spoke in German. In some way been some that were caught in the middle, who or other, Guttkin had learned of their back- wandered around aimlessly without ever finding But when his older brother – the glorified Rafael – ground and lured them to the team. Through their footing. returns to Gothenburg from Israel, things take a more continues >>

Available material: English sample Original title: Apan i mitten | Publication: September 2020 | Pages: 240 Senior editor: Eva Gedin

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Foto: Kate Gabor Right soldto: Grada, Czech Republic Available material: Englishmanuscript also hometoalso Grandma Amelia’sdressmaker’s sold hisfamous cinnamon buns, the house was wasonly thiswhere Grandpa Johanbakedand grandparents, including abakeryand café. Not has inherited a18thcentury building from her idyllic little coastaltown Halleholm, where she Lovisa returns to her native Sweden and the fiancé inthe same week. Downon heruppers, don until she losther job and her self-serving Lovisa Lindegren was livingher- dreaminLon Kvarnström-Jones Ruth Halleholm: Lovisas val Lovisa’sHalleholm: Choice 13 and the mighty Halleholms. deep and bitter feud betweenthe Lindegrens decades earlier, Lovisa inherited hasalso the of the family. And following atragicincident she must sellit backto the Halleholm branch cide to sell the propertybefore she turnsthirty, But thewillcontains a catch. Should Lovisa de- couture for Stockholm highsociety. atelier where she oncecreatedmagnificent Halleholm. set inthefictive coastal community and thefirst instalment inaseries Kvarnström-Jones’ debutnovel, Halleholm: Lovisa’s Choice is their renowned Novel WritingCourse. the world by Curtis Brown Creative for one offifteen students from around Kvarnström-Jones was selected as years. Whileworking asacopywriter, lived inStockholm for thepast thirty born andraised intheUK,buthas Ruth Kvarnström-Jones (b. 1962)was continues >> have whatit takesto the carryon family tradi she must her she consider limited Does options. everything to makeLovisa sellhimthe building, With industrialistReuben Halleholm doing Lovisa faces aneven more difficult choice:does returns to town and stirsunexpected emotions, And whenReuben’s younger brother Axel andtion openThe Bakeryanew? Senior editor: PiaPrintz Original title:Halleholm:Lovisas val |Publication: September 2020|Pages: 334 overstarting my on own, Imay as well start swiped her eyes with her coatsleeve. “IfI’m Amelia have done? Lovisa lifted her head and she paused to what would consider: Grandma Standing here inher grandparents’ old house, time.” so much inone week isrough. Give yourself “No one’s ever too old tohome.Losing come back to Halleholm South.” twenty-seven, Pappa. Too old to scurrying come misplaced during the “I’m ridefrom the airport. thetered on flight to Stockholm and somehow She struggled to find the resolve she’d mus- “Lovisa?” Ollesaid. Hershoulders sagged. could quite be atraitor to self-assertion. and takenthe highroad backto Sweden. Shock request, she’d returned her engagement ring have been…inexcusable. Whichwas why, athis Alittleout. skinunder her fingernails would have stayed inLondon longenough to slugit the outrageoussound She reasonable. should Damn Charles-The-Ex and hisability to make life. Aflashofanger singed her frayed temper. pitchedbeen from the controls ofher own would the be softest placeto land now she’d The offer tempted. Herchildhood home you’re ready.” holm and South returntomorrow. Orwhenever tonight? You could backwith come meto Halle- ter’s back.“Areyou sureyou want tohere be OlleLindegren rubbedhisyoungest daugh- in hisjacket. who hadnever lether down, and buriedher face door hallway. She turned to her father, the man orcross-countryboots skiscluttering the side Lovisa Lindegren flicked the on light. No winter From manuscript the Lovisa’sHalleholm: Choice - 14 of love, loyalty and lusciouscinnamon buns. lago, from the 1920suntil present day. It’satale in apicturesquetown inthe Stockholm archipe- and Julietsaga;the taleofafeuding family set Halleholm: Lovisa’s Choice isamodernRomeo main loyal to her beloved Grandma Amelia? she want to pursuehappiness with Axel orre- as easysince. really gone down, and getting uphadnever been outdoor ice-creamstand. /.../ The sunhadnever by persuading Grandpa Johanto invest inan scratching,nettedred agood aknave’s ransom later, when the itch for independence hadrequi- by poking currants onto gingerbread faces and where she hadearned her firstChristmaskronor Lovisa took agulpofstaleair. Right here was bun offered sugar most sprinkles. with cold cheeks and nosesbickeredover which of creamy hot trays chocolate on whilechildren meeting friends, with mothers balancing mugs er hisbakery. Hisbakerybubbled with friends do so. Thisshadowy memorywas depot no long- swinging kitchen door. She didn’texpecthimto Grandpa Johandidnot bustlethrough the could relate. the tables were chairson scuffed and worn. She leholm’s mainsquare.The upside-down legsof wastelands insecond-hand lamplight from Hal- or greenprincesstårta cakes, were now grey coconut tops, dark chocolatebiskvi and pink with golden brown cinnamonbuns, crumbly The threebigbay windowsills, onceloaded over fifty years. aux thathadenchanted Halleholm residents for and assemble the Christmasgingerbread table- taught her to knead dough, whipupcreamcakes storm. The very placewhere Grandpa Johanhad The Bakery:always inahowling her port door. Adelugeofmemories beckoned her in. four-tier oven. twistclickedopenthe Aquarter roundness asenticing asany bunever bakedina Hergazefell doorknob, abrass on its golden tonight.” Agneta Pleijel is one of Sweden’s most cherished authors. Since her debut Double Portrait in 1970, she has been active both as a novelist, poet and playwright. From the sample translation Pleijel’s books have been translated begins politely. Then we will move on to art, Mrs Christie. into a number of languages and she Mrs Christie, he LITERARY has been awarded several prestigious Mr Kokoschka, she replies with a slight gri- Who are you as an artist? literary prizes. mace. Mrs Christie sighs. I am deeply embarrassed, I’m sure you don’t believe that our meeting is Mr Kokoschka, that my husband and grandson Her latest books are the bestselling pure chance, he says. have persuaded us to do this. I am totally oppo- and critically acclaimed A Fortune Of course it is. You got a commission and sed to the idea. I write simple crime novels. My Foretold and The Scent of a Man – decided to fulfil it. I’m not very keen on the idea mother-in-law, my first mother-in-law, found it both based on her own life. – you might as well know that from the start. shameful. She thought I should be writing bio- He stands up and moves the easel; he seems graphies of famous men instead, which would rather restless. Then he takes a folded striped be more appropriate for a woman. Stuff and apron out of his box and ties it around his waist. nonsense! It makes him look like a skinny cook. His face Who is an artist, Mrs Christie, if not you? reminds her of an elderly native American Kokoschka gazes at her from his chair, one Indian. Like some¬one in a story by Karl May. leg crossed over the other. Foto: Göran Segeholm Göran Foto: Winnetou, probably. An artist? That sounds rather important, I think we often overestimate chance, he Mrs Christie says. I assume that you are, Mr says. In fact everything is interdependent. It is Kokoschka. And Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, connected to what has happened in the past, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf. They are ad- and it determines the future. Let us get to know mirable, I’ve read their work. I’ve also seen some each other a little better before we start work, of Beckett’s plays. Characters buried up to their Double Portrait: A Mrs Christie. neck in sand, commenting on nothingness. All I thought all I had to do was sit still and keep very fine, very deep, and definitely not for me. I Novel About Agatha quiet. have done the only thing I can do – told stories You can change position whenever you like. about people. Christie and Oskar And I’m happy for you to talk. Writing has enabled me to be left in peace. About what, Mr Kokoschka? Kokoschka notices her hands. The fingers of Kokoschka Whatever comes into your mind. her right hand are drumming on the arm of her Nothing comes into my mind. I don’t like be- chair, rapidly and not entirely rhythmically. She Dubbelporträtt ing painted. End of story. And I’m not much of a seems unaware of it herself, but it reflects her talker. But feel free to chat away if you like. irritation. The movement fascinates him. Agneta Pleijel Kokoschka lights a cigarette. He offers her Then let us take love, Mrs Christie. When a glass of whisky. She shakes her head. She has did the girl in the photograph fall in love for the March 1969. In only a matter of months the Ameri- never learned to drink whisky, although she has first time? cans will walk on the moon and the world will never tried. Nor has she ever succeeded in learning to A hint of sorrow passes across Mrs Christie’s be the same again. A young man enters the gallery smoke. face. The question is cheap, as if it came from Marlborough Fine Arts in London, which is hosting Have you really tried? an old man offering a little girl sweeties during an exhibition with Oskar Kokoschka. The young man I have. But you carry on drinking. And smok- a train journey. The kind of old man she was wants to know how much the Austrian painter will ing. And talk as much as you want. I can never constantly being warned about. She shakes her charge to paint a portrait of his grandmother. »Agneta Pleijel is a think of any topics of conversation. head. Thinks for a moment, then makes her linguistic master and an Kokoschka bursts out laughing. decision. His grandmother turns out to be the world famous Let us talk about death, love, and art, he sug- Mr Kokoschka. Tell me about Alma Mahler. I mystery author Agatha Christie and the portrait will attentive psychologist. gests. In no particular order. believe you knew her. be a gift for her 80th birthday. The two ageing artists Mrs Christie can’t suppress a smile. My He is taken aback – by his own reaction too. reluctantly agree to the project and during six sessions Nothing is superfluous, grand¬son Mathew tells me that you paint cha- Alma, that really was a long time ago. He looks they forge a bond, reveal the fears and desires that nothing is missing. « racters, which sounds dreadful. Unfortunately down at Mrs Christie’s feet, encased in sturdy shape a creative life. It becomes a conversation about I’ve never seen any of your work. shoes. Gets the idea that there is water pouring death, love and art – in whichever order you choose. Göteborgs-Posten Kokoschka digs around in his box and finds over them. She is a water creature. The first on A Fortune Foretold the childhood photograph that Fischer gave impression always holds a truth within it. Mrs him, and holds it up to show her. She leans Christie’s fingers continue to drum on the arm forward and frowns, then she shakes her head, of the chair. looking less than pleased. He puts the photograph back in the box. Yes, that’s me. A very long time ago. Let’s not talk about death.

Available material: English sample Original title: Dubbelporträtt: en roman om Agatha Christie och Oskar Kokoschka Option publisher: Karakter, Poland Publication: September 2020 | Pages: 206 Senior editor: Lisa Lindberg 15 16 of his death and the imminent civil war, Nora Your Hands Were Full of Life is a gripping and daughter Sagal have no other choice but to portrait of a woman before, during and after leave their homeland behind. the perilous escape. Suad Ali writes a sweeping, vivid account of everyday life in Somalia, about in Sweden, where Nora tries to identity and displacement, about losses and new Foto: Kajsa Göransson Foto: They end up create a meaningful existence for herself and beginnings, offering a fresh perspective on the her daughter. But starting anew with nothing female refugee experience. turns out to be a challenge, especially for a strong, educated woman who was once a highly respected teacher and who finds herself cleaning school corridors in a Swedish small-town, where nobody understands her experiences, her background, her trauma. UPMARKET • DEBUT

Your Hands Were Full of Life Suad Ali, born 1990 in Somalia, is a From the sample translation political scientist and has worked with migration issues for refugee agency Nora sipped the lukewarm Somali tea. The sour she had used to protect her baati dress. She bent UNHCR. In 2018, Forbes Magazine aftertaste grew inside her mouth, waking up forward and filled in the henna flowers on each named her as one of Law and Policy’s her taste buds. She wriggled uncomfortably palm with surgical precision, then continued 30 under 30. and wondered whether it was worth spitting with the backs of the hands and up the arms. out the last of it. The ginger and cardamom had Nora gazed at Fardus’s face, deep in concentra- Your Hands Were Full of Life is her sliced straight through the milk. This crap is tion. The high cheekbones lifted the round face. debut. worse than the dishwater the coffee machine Her eyes were framed by black kohl. A faint at work serves up, Nora thought, firmly putting scent of oud reached Nora’s nostrils. down the green teacup. The colour had begun to Fardus had tried to paint Nora’s hands the flake off long ago. When the cup landed on the previous day, but the red henna hadn’t taken. second-hand rickety wooden table that Fardus She and Amina regarded it as a personal affront had helped her track down, the conversation to allow Nora to travel without, but all Nora about Nora’s impending trip to Somalia stopped could think about was her mother. She glanced abruptly. at the airline tickets on the kitchen table and “Iga daa! It burns! This is like asking for skin wondered if she and Sagal would make it in cancer,” Nora said. time. Fardus sighed and stopped waving the fan She quickly pulled off bits of dried henna made of supermarket advertising fliers over No- from her hands, crying out every time she yan- Your Hands Were Full of Life ra’s hands. Nora could have sworn that blisters ked out an invisible hair. A flower with distorted Dina händer var fulla av liv were appearing beneath the brown henna paste. petals and a stem that was much too long wound The smell of methylated spirits stung, and her its way up Nora’s arm. She had planned to set Suad Ali cheeks were wet. The colour lasts longer on off on her journey without any fuss, but the brown hands this way, Fardus had assured her news had spread like wildfire. The doorbell had Nora grows up as the oldest child of two in a refugee camps, the clan feuds, the brewing before nonchalantly pouring 50 ml into the red rung over and over again as Sandviken’s Somalis sheltered, privileged home in the Somalian city political unrest. As the 1980s turn into 1990s, bowl and mixing it with the henna. called round to convey their best wishes. No- of Baidoa. When her father is offered a job at the political turmoil intensifies and a mass “Cancer? The Swedes really have infected ra’s evasive glances made them bemoan their the hospital in Mogadishu, the family relocates exodus begins. When Ahmed is revealed as the your brain with their hypochondriac theories. privileged countrymen. Those Somalis who had and Nora begins her high school studies. Here editor of an anti-government magazine, Nora They’ve got a name for every condition you can the chance to visit their homeland were the last she meets and falls in love with Ahmed, the is forced to leave her cherished position as a think of.” link to the roots with which the others could no head of the student council, who also expo- teacher and the family goes into hiding, during Fardus sought support from Amina, who longer be reunited. Nora tipped another spoon- ses her to the country’s dark underbelly – the which Ahmed contracts malaria. In the wake nodded. ful of sugar into her tea before pushing the cup “Sit still, Nora. We can’t keep redoing this.” away. Fardus placed Nora’s hands on the newspaper continues >>

Available material: English sample Original title: Dina händer var fulla av liv | Publication: October 2020 | Pages: 246 Senior editor: Lisa Lindberg

17 18 LITERARY / UPMARKETNEW • THRILLER • DEBUT Rights soldto: Nagel &Kimche, Germany Available material: Englishsample, extensive synopsis whose destiniesareinexorably tiedtogether This isthestory ahandful about ofpeople veals whatreallyhappened. decades willpassbefore the springre- flood swallowedbeen by the Vindel River. Several ne believes thatNilashasdrowned, thathe has the samespot where Hebbe oncedied.Everyo- treacherous moorland and rapidforest streams, frosted flowerson hischeeks. Lying next to There rests Nilas,hiddenunder the mosswith Broberg Maria Bakvatten Troubled Water 19 years later, decidesto digoutthe truthnestling Håkan’sgirlfriendabout Petra who, many who longs for afather butgainsalittle brother, forbidden desirefor Margareta, Håkan about before andabout after. Itisthe story ofAssar’s by Nilas’disappearance inthe mid-1960s, the conscience canreach. loneliness, longing,villagegossip and how far sing memories. 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Foto: Ines Sebalj date. with more than20000copies soldto became asurprisebestsellerin2018 Her personal essayTheSpinster Literature Prize. awarded theprestigious Aftonbladet’s and novels. Shehaspreviously been published several collections poetry collection andhassince ofpoetry She madeherdebutin1985witha Mölndal, outsideofGothenburg. wright andartsjournalistbased in Malin Lindroth isanauthor, play- Pages: 117|Senior editor: Eva Gedin Globe, France •Piper, Germany• Bröd ogRoser, |Originaltitle: Nuckan Norway |Publication: May2018| The Spinster |Available material: EnglishsampleRightssoldto: | Gads,Denmark •Atena, Finland•Editions though it goes againsthuman natureto dismiss awaybe outsomewhere alongthe way. Even straight into darkness, hoping thatthere will return, forcing them to swimeven further in, They may reachapoint when it istoolateto divers who swimtoo far into underwater caves. symbols, suchasthe recurringthought ofpearl lucid styleisenhanced by her exquisite useof cuted and profusely well-written. The simple, deep into apsychological process, solidlyexe- shivers it causes.With thisportrayal she delves you simply must readingdespite keepon the evoke unease with that suchastylishexpression “Malin Lindroth possesses afabulous ability to issues burningwithin.” Aftonbladet ler inashort format with very contemporary damn creepy. The novel unfolds asafiercethril- and buoyantly lyricalatthe sametime/…/Itis to aprosethatisharshlyrelentless, amusing ofthetion absurdgapsinhuman relationships andher skills her sharpobservational percep- that she istrulyoutstanding. Hereshe applies named Rolf, shows thatit writer isasafiction and important Butthe book. new novel, simply Spinster, published two years ago, anexcellent through was awork essay ofnon-fiction, The and playspoetry since the 1990s.Herbreak- “Malin Lindroth haswritten short stories, novels, Press voices Rolf compassing story oflove, power and relationships. world, aswell aslaying the groundwork for the all-en- challenge the norms ofthe thatdictateourperception the shame away. away Thisisanact of liberation, to the word spinster: redeemthe uglyepithet and wash today asit was inthe Lindroth past. wants to reclaim historywrite apersonal thatisaslittle about indemand bubble told. can actuallybe Therefore she decidesto herself which narratives life about outsideofthe couple voluntarily singleshe receives She strongreactions. asks years.almost thirty When she introduces herself asin- Malin Lindroth is52,childless and abachelorette since (2018)Nuckan Spinster The

be Rolf.”be Sydsvenskan others thatdon’t matter…well, then it’s hell to in acontext, butthatyou among areanobody in the flock does not meanthat you aresomeone Ifparticipation all replaceable.”Itissobrutal. shadows. “There arethousandslikeme.We are the invisible and the insignificant outofthe colour to charactersand beige thereby brings pages to addressalot ofissues.Lindroth adds in The Spinster and inRolf she usesvery few investigation into loneliness and empathy. Both I like/…/reallyappreciateMalinLindroth’s ped to re-readsentences, note down quotesthat quicktobeen digesthadInot frequently stop- prose. Itisathinlittle whichwould book, have Lindroth’s accounts brief and her addictive incrediblybecomes fascinating thanksto Malin “On onehandit isareallytrite story thatstill Värmlands Folkblad creepy story, clearly ofthe kind.” macabre and there areseveral amusing elements inthis a perfect balance betweendespair and comedy to establishthroughout hislife. Lindroth finds control over the slight discipline he hasmanaged contexts except utter loneliness, and who loses powerlesssat inhisincreasingly flat, dirty inall image ofthe unsympathetic, eccentric loner, the light /…/Itisafascinating portrayal, the PERSONAL ESSAY PERSONAL NEW • THRILLERLITERARY Available material: Swedishmanuscript Hanna Nordenhök impoverished children, confine- amongdirt, mechanisms, amongmalehubris and lonely the 19thcentury with its disciplinaryideasand In hernew novel, HannaNordenhök revisits appearslikeacrypticlandscape. body dawn ofmodern gynaecology and the female shimmering pearl from anoyster. Itisthe out ofher mother’s body, likeslicingoutthe trician keepsayoung girl thathe oncecarved On aremote country estate,arenowned- obste Caesaria 23 imagery. for freedom through suggestive, dreamlike story animpossible longing thatportrays Caesaria ispart novel, fairy-tale, part and a incarceration. sed by and supervision punishment, assaultand ters emerges adollhouse existence, characteri- historical basedon eventsloosely and charac- ment and runaway From astory visions. thatis Foto: Kajsa Göransson Award in2013. as well asGöteborgs-Posten's Literary The NineSociety (Samfundet deNio), prizes from theSwedish Academy and major literary honours including Nordenhök hasbeenawarded several fictional debutin2011. collections,poetry shemadeher and theatre critic.After two acclaimed Stockholm andworks asaliterary Hanna Nordenhök (b. 1977)lives in Senior editor: Håkan Bravinger Original title:Caesaria| Publication: April2020| Pages: 248 in aworld and ofbeauty darkness.” Expressen pulled outofits dyingmother’s body. Survival, clouds, the and birds the trees.The calfbeing symbolical prose. The skiesandpoetically the of powerful ofthe institutions, because butalso ofvulnerabletions young people inthe hands oftheSara Stridsberg. Not because descrip- only che and Marie(2004),butthere ahint isalso of female and mind, body isThe BookAbout Blan- century doctors’ unrestrained interest for the themost evident considering 19th association, and there –the aresimilar traces inCaesaria compared to been POEnquist occasionally work, consistently solemn/…/Nordenhök has Nordenhök’s prose isalways lucidand ineach world she istryingto figureout/…/Hanna of the vulnerable, isolated child’s a gazeon “… Iread thisstory primarilyasaportrayal like ablackpearl.” DagensNyheter left isexistence itself, shimmeringand profound pain and grief. fades away, Society and whatis and frightening, sounds: alluring,full ofbeauty, creates her own world ofcolours, scents, light apparatus ofcareand violence, speaks and thus a nightmare? The victim,anobjectfor apast with the world adream, outside?Anillusion, their ownupon senses, without any contact grown uptrappedin their own relying bodies, is aDream.Whatreality to those who have gismundo inCalderon’s 17thcentury dramaLife way Herdilemmaresembles out. thatof Se- rella’s castles.Buthere there isno no liberation, a next-door-neighbour to Rapunzel’sand Cinde- straightappears assomething outofafairytale, Råby juvenile detention centre, house Caesaria’s identifiable reality: inDalby, inIndonesia, in enhök’s previousnovels played outagainstan as apressurevessel /…/Where Hanna Nord- the both Gardenthat recalls ofEden aswell se createsapowerful and complexsensation, “Hanna Nordenhök’s pro- wonderfully poetic Press voices Caesaria »Caesaria isanovel ofthehighest quality, andIhave no doubt that it will find readersthatadmireandperhaps evenadore « find it. it will Svenska Dagbladet 24 with diffuse only ties to reality.” Dagblad Gefle Lilltuna almost turnsinto afairy-tale castle, “Nordenhök portrays aminiatureworld where Norrköpings Tidningar mythological meaningto everything.” in whichHannaNordenhök successfully adds horrific and astonishing peepshow ofa novel, tal forces crashingthrough come inthisboth offerallyrical arabesque vegetation,the elemen and the 19thcentury Romantic movement’s remarkable history /…/Byusingbiblical images is brought to ahead –to accompany ahighly embellished prose, butthistimeeverything well asthe scenes macabre and the archaically themes and nuances from previousworks, as are trulyaffecting. 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NEW • THRILLERLITERARY Available material: Englishsample one ofthese nights she encounters amanwho drugs and peculiarunderground During clubs. with her friend best Angelicashe explores the samekind ofunconditional love. Together When hermotherdies, Nadja wishes to recreate almost mythical creaturesto Nadja. space for the malespecies –menthatappearas spirits and Itisaworld beasts. thatoffers little unconditional love inaworld inhabited by Nadja grows upsurrounded by her mother’s Stenström Sofia LoveMagic Pixie 25 deepthroating and throatsinging. It isanovel full ofspiritism, pulpliterature, spunky, butjustasmuch astory grief. about reach. MagicLove provocative Pixieisboth and vestigation ofhow far intimacy and love can ström returns with her first novel –anin- Following two Sten- poetry collections, Sofia herself into acomplexrelationship. are putinto motionand she recklesslythrows himselfthecalls Demon.Nadja’s fantasies Foto: Magnus Liam Karlsson Magic Love Pixieisherfirst novel. and HansFallada into Swedish. translated works by ElfriedeJelinek collection.a poetry Shehasalso debut in2005withVenus Vanish, poet andtranslator. Shemadeher Sofia Stenström (b. 1978)isanauthor, Senior editor: Håkan Bravinger 2020|Pages:Original title:MagicLove Pixie| Publication: January 239 of ribsisthe sameasfor humans she over. starts that Nadja isfrom space, and when the number qualities. ishoping Mom that it willturnout spread out with the checklist for extraterrestrial she counts her ribs.Besidethem StarPeople is bare back.Warm and slightly rough to her skin much. And her fingersslowly run down Nadja’s he letsher down she says: Dad loves you very caresforagain thatdadalso Nadja. Every time same way she vows does.Mom timeand time punch. She wants the world to look atNadja the at Nadja. Even her angerisdilutedinwarm fruit eyes arealways filledwith love when she looks pink tint: See,the menturnto look atyou! Her slightly thinner mouth with the sameshock she it grabs and, determined, she paints Nadja’s thousands –the lipstickalways athand. One day –pink,shiny,parted the finest amongtensof night inthe bright mid-day heat, her lipsare finger inslow Hershadowmotion. islikethe smack and suckthe lastofthe saucefrom her of the mouth, and makesit grotesque. Herlips make-up isappliedoutsidethe naturalborders sweater; covered with The deeppinkorviolet. kisses. Nude,with cheap jeansand anangora face issosoft and her lipsarealways readyfor Nadja turnsher face upto her and waits. Mom’s naked Her mouthcomes Mom’s mouth. first. 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She leans againasyourto born child, be Iwant to restin A moment latershe mumbles: IfIdiewant According to momit’s Japanese for Ilove you. Kakika! life inthree newborn breaths: earth on thatmighta being pronounce the substanceof ofherself,a part magnificent; butassomething up from her anesthesia? She doesn’tseeher as tradedher,That someone beforemomwoke that Nadja isakeyto another, place. better are from another world. Maybe momthinks to their parents; experience thattheir ancestors unexpected children; lackasenseofbelonging that have grown together. 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. Senior editor: Eva Gedin First bookto be published:Autumn 2021Pages: | ca 400 after alatenight out,Micaelasaves amanjust of her criminalyounger brother. One evening, forcepolice buthasfallen outofgracebecause pass. Micaelacontinues working within the The murder remains unsolved, and the years what Rekke told them turned outto true. be long thereafter the whole casefalls to pieces; At first Vargas himasasham,butnot regards out major flaws intheir investigation. and without hardly looking atthem, he points hawk-like Rekke isactingdistractedand erratic, intimidated by the exclusive environment. The pensive everywhere, art and Vargas finds herself suburb.in aposh Inside, there and arebooks ex- They seekoutRekke athisgrand family home have earned himquite areputation. interrogationalwhose lectureson techniques vises the teamto speak to Professor Hans Rekke, committed the The ofPolice assault. Chief ad- man arrestedfor the murder deniesto having team.Thetional evidence appearssolid,butthe officer,police isassigned aplacein the investiga- a reserve leaguematch.MicaelaVargas, ayoung A football referee isfound to beaten deathafter Lagercrantz David Rekke #1 personal portraits. With hiswide-ranging writingbackground Ican’t waitpersonal portraits. to dive into hisnew, story. crime veryown Thisissomething we’vetalkedabout am so looking forward to building my own universe, where I will be flirting am so looking flirting forward be my to universe, building own whereIwill »I have rarely met an author who can weave suchintricate andintelligent This story brims with the best I’ve learned from my from career thebest I’velearned as »This story with ajournalist brims and an author; from popular science, murder popular and anauthor; from mysteries and biographies. I plots, and with the same brilliance manage toplots, paint thesame deepandfascinating andwith brilliance with my childhood heroes: Holmes my Sherlock with Watson. childhood andDoctor « for a long while, and finally thisnew adventurefor alongwhile, andfinally can begin!« – David Lagercrantz – Eva Gedin 30 remarkable ability to solve the unsolvable. complete one another and form ateamwith a couldn’t more be different, but together they following ofbrilliance. The two manicperiods criminal brother; he by hisacutedepressions are haunted by their past:she by the fate ofher whenvision it to comes solvingmysteries. Both disoriented, unpractical, butwith anx-ray Heis She isskilled,strong,and street-smart. took for granted no longerseemssocertain. investigation. enough, And everything soon she a flamein her and she re-opensthe murder with strongdisbelief, butRekke’s wordsspark her old amonster. casehadbeen Micaelareacts blue, thatthe murdered football referee from slowly improves. One day heher, tells outofthe Rekke’sUnder herclose supervision, health in shambles. furniture init. Bothhismarriageand hislife are anymore, butalarge, lonely flatwith hardly any ela takeshimto hishome–not the grand house astonishment, the manisProfessor Rekke. Mica- as heto isabout jump infront ofatrain.To her »An eerily believable thriller about what could actually happen, pretty soon. « Dagens Nyheter

Master of Dolls Press voices “In Master of Dolls we are introduced to renow- “Åsa Schwarz has previously written several ned Robotics Scientist Heinrich Becker who is a works about the security hazards in modern fundamental figure in his area of expertise and society, and together with Lena Karlin, mostly who has successfully created robot Adam, who known as a translator, she has created an eerily gives an uncannily human impression during believable thriller about what could actually interviews, with witty remarks accompanied happen, pretty soon. And how dangerous it can by fifty-six pre-programmed facial expressions. be when you are a much too innovative scien- Foto: Kajsa Göransson Foto: The abilities are both frightening and fascina- tist.” Dagens Nyheter ting – and the product is popular to say the least. When Adam is stolen during a burglary at the “Guess if I was surprised when I was hooked university and Professor Becker appears to have from the first page. And thought the robot been kidnapped, the Security Service get invol- Adam was both charming and entertaining. ved and a ferocious pursuit begins. Becker’s wife This is a crime novel completely unlike the Master of Dolls Nora, rivalling colleagues and international cor- ones I usually read. It not only deals with tech- porations with specific interests are all investi- nology, science and robots, but it also raises a PSYCHOLOGICAL THIRLLER / TECH PSYCHOLOGICAL Dockfabriken gated while time is running out. It is exciting lot of questions about ethics and moral within from the first page to the last with a plot that the scientific advancement /… / Master of Dolls Lena Karlin & Åsa Schwarz knows how to persuade and trick the reader. But is a well-written, entertaining and clever crime A thrilling and astonishing crime novel on artificial the authors also want to say something about novel that pleasantly surprised me. The plot is intelligence. New author duo Karlin & Schwarz poses our relationship to artificial intelligence and completely unpredictable and makes you want important questions about what defines a human throughout the story a thought rears its head: to carry on reading to learn what happens /… / being and where to draw the line for what is ethically What may actually happen if advanced techno- Master of Dolls directly qualifies as one of the acceptable. logy and this type of knowledge would come in Favourites of the Year and it was totally superior to the wrong hands? Master of Dolls is set in an to everything else I read this month and thus Renowned Robotics Scientist Heinrich Becker and implicit future, but it feels uncomfortably close. becomes The Best Book of May.” Boklysten his ground-breaking invention, a robot named Adam, In a postface Karlin and Schwarz explain how (book blog) are kidnapped. Alex Lindhage from the National they want to increase our awareness concerning Intelligence Service is assigned to the case. During an these issues and present a number of suggestions “The story is told with wit and confidence, in- interrogation with Becker’s colleague Clara he realises that would make us better prepared. It is worth cluding well deployed cliffhangers but without that their working relationship is strongly characte- reading this part as well; the fictive story offers speculative scenes of violence. The plot is solid rised by competition and he suspects that she may be easy-going entertainment but the topic is based and the characters are sharply portrayed. Alex is hiding something. Lena Karlin has translated more than on reality. We shall hear from this duo soon a likable and sound police investigator without a a hundred novels, including works by again.” Göteborgs-Posten macho attitude.” Bibliotekstjänst (4/5) Assisted by Becker’s wife Nora, Alex tries to figure out Dan Brown and Ken Follett. who is responsible for the kidnapping and the number of suspects is increasing by the day. What was Becker Åsa Schwarz has previously published really involved in? As Alex puts the pieces together, several suspense novels and is often hired as a media expert on IT security he discovers an image of the successful scientist that is and artificial intelligence. far more shocking than he could ever expect.

Master of Dolls is a riveting crime novel that also Watch a video with Karlin & Schwarz by holding up your mobile phone investigates moral dilemmas surrounding robots and camera against this QR code. humanity.

Available material: English sample & extensive synopsis Original title: Dockfabriken | Publication: May 2020 | Pages: 388 Senior editor: Erika Degard

31 32 NEWCRIME • THRILLER FICTION Senior editor: Håkan Bravinger Original title:Ettlitet korn avsanning| Publication: May2020| Pages: ca 350 Available material: Swedishmanuscript &Englishsynopsis|Optionpublishers: seenextpage police andpolice everyone involved. else the events the puzzleboth hospital staff, the nothing anyone could ever have predictedand the samecar accident. The is ensuingchaos fighting to save aseriouslyinjuredperson from In oneofthe emergency rooms,Tekla Berg is was involved inacaraccident earlier inthe day. She appears tolooking be for anolder manwho Nobel Hospital, accompanied by alittle boy. A woman isfound wandering the corridors at Unge Christian Ett litet korn av sanning A Grain of Truth (Tekla #2) 33 will be beyond belief.will be no tracesto Whatshe hispast. eventually finds identityboy’s remainsunknown and there are rounding the womanand the little boy. The with obsessed the mysteryhas become sur- star surgeon KlasNyström. Meanwhile, Tekla liver transplant unit and the recruitment of Hospital with the launch ofacontroversial up agearinher attempt to privatise Nobel Hospital hasmoved Director Monica Carlsson Foto: Magnus Liam Karlsson books to date. more than78000copies of Unge’s audio original.Norstedts hassold the spin-offtitleAmbulance 906in the Tekla series,whichalsoincludes A Grain ofTruth isthesecond part in experience from Africa andSweden. hearted account ofhismedicinal Might Diewas published,anopen- 2018, IfIHave aBadDaySomeone popular podcast aboutmedicine.In internal medicine,andalsorunsa senior physician,specializingin Christian Unge (b. 1972),works as Senior editor: Håkan Bravinger Original title:Gårgenom vatten, går genom eld| Publication: April2019|Pages: 412 Available material: full English translation &Englishsynopsis the events setinmotion. Victor Umarov whosefamily empire isthreatened by criminal elements. Not leastthe powerful patriarch theboth board atthe hospital, the aswell police as The fire causes adomino effect involve thatwillsoon most private memories. thatevokeseerily familiar him,something about her amongthebe terrorists, butthere something isalso burns to hisface and body. Itissuspected thathe may arrive atthe scene where she rescuesamanwith severe attack with many casualties.Tekla isoneofthe first to Everything pointsalert. towards apotential terrorist ding, causingalarge fire,and putsthe cityon emergency A massive explosion ripsthrough anapartment buil - her thoughts keepreturningto her troubled childhood. beloved brother Simonhasmysteriously vanished, and But work isnot Tekla’s the thingon only mind. Her self-medicating with amphetamine. and acurse.She desperately triesto control it through intense photographic memory ablessing thatisboth is thatTekla hasanuncanny sensefor –an details patients. Whatmost ofher colleaguesdon’t know dize her careeraswell asthe lives and health ofthe thatmay makesbold decisions potentiallyalso jeopar - intuitive approach she copeswell under pressure.She Nobel Hospital inStockholm. With her unorthodox and Tekla Berg works asanemergency physician atthe Unge Christian eld genom Går genom vatten, går (Tekla #1) Hell and High Water anyone inSweden,andTekla else isarazor-sharp character who injectsme » ChristianUnge thehospital describes environment than better with lots of thrills. Donot miss!« lotswith ofthrills. – JensLapidus 34

FLX TV/Film rightssoldto: UK(WorldEnglish) MacLehose Press/Quercus, Wielka Litera, Poland Luitingh Sijthoff, Netherlands Balto, Lithuania Helios, Latvia Forlagid, Iceland Btb, Germany Tammi, Finland Helios, Estonia Albatros, Czech Republic Rights soldto: CRIME FICTION CRIME SCI-FI / MILITARYNEW / SPECULATIVE • THRILLER Option publishers: Hoi,Denmark • Jalava, Finland Available material: Swedishmanuscript will stop at nothing to reachtheir objectives. But Sweden hasmany old grudgesand enemies, who Sweden is built upon. cy soimmensethatit hasaltered the very foundations he himselftangledupinaconspira- finds Soon tions. prove far tosomething beyond hiswildest be expecta- counting Department. Anorganisation whosework to aneven more secretorganisation: MarvikenAc- When Thortriesto investigate the him source,it leads to avert planned terrorist attacks timeand timeagain. seem to have justthe right information, they areable from atop secretsource who almostmagicallyalways reach publicknowledge. information Byrelyingon arecompletelyillegalandHis missions must never Swedish security services, doing socalled‘wet works’. Thor works atthe mostsecretdepartment ofthe Wilderäng Lars Marviken Redovisningsavdelningen Department Accounting Marviken 500 000+ copies sold! copies Wilderäng continues >> 35 500 000copies inSweden. have together soldmore than publication inMay. Wilderäng’s books sold more than20000copies since its AccountingMarviken Department has (2019). Autumn Rain (2018)andTheDrop (2015-2016), Autumn Sun(2017), Midsummer (2013),TheStar Trilogy of Midwinter (2011),TheDawnof his successful booksTheDarkness and societal issuesshinesthrough in author. Hisgreat interest inpolitics Lars Wilderäng (b. 1970)isafull-time

Foto: Sören Håkanlind Senior editor: Jennifer Lindström | Publication:Original title:Redovisningsavdelning May2020| Pages: Marviken 437 Westberg, Authorwestberg blog) (book that Ihave learned to appreciateThor.” Peter invited atleastone more on adventure seeing suspense /… /Isincerely hope thatwe willbe ginative and reallyclever. And with plenty of circles inthisone /…/Itiswell-written, ima- positive terms, and Ilove how he moves inwild “Wilderäng hasadistinctive style,inthe most ding suspense.” DAST Magazine Heisvery abbreviations. skilledatbuil- weapon problems with Wilderäng’s the prose, besides and thought-provoking. Ihave no absolutely run wild. 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I for“The timehascome Sweden’s Tom Clancy CRIME FICTION Senior editor: Erika Degard Original title:Mörkermannen |Publication: November2020Pages: | 400 Available material: Swedishmanuscript |Optionpublishers: seenextpage team. and sabotaged evidencebeen points to her own She realises thatthe earlier investigations have which seemto connectedto be the new crimes. dentally, Harriet stumbles over several old cases her colleagues areassigned to the case.Coinci- spreading fear and inLandskrona, Harrietand A rapist withaspecific modus operandi is Bågstam Anna Mörkermannen (Lerviken #3) Darkman The 37 surprising thanshe expected. theon inside.The truthturns outto more be riet triesto find outwho maybe helpinghim same timeasthe investigation intensifies, Har- her father seriously ill.At Eugenbecomes the there islittle timeto contemplate romance, as colleague Eliasgives her cryptichints. Butsoon with Rikard isstillstrained and her charming On apersonal level, Harriet’s relationship Foto: Kajsa Göransson Harriet Vesterberg. the highlylikeable civilinvestigator in Bågstam's Lerviken series,featuring TheDarkmanisthethird partDebut. Specsavers Award for BestCrime later shortlisted for theCrimetime Stockholm Psycho, whichwas debut in2017withtheaudioserial Bågstam madehersensational of Stockholm. She lives withherfamily inasuburb lawyer attheSwedish Parliament. Anna Bågstam (b. 1977) works asa nap, Hungary •Marsilio,nap, Hungary Italy •Panta, •Eksmo, Norway Russia•Planeta, Spain Option publishers/Rights soldto: Metafora, Czech Republic •Rahva Estonia Raamat, •Btb, Germany•Hol - in fact be someone shein factsomeone knows? be childhood appearaspotential suspects. Could the killer former innocence and allthe familiar faces from her complex investigation. Suddenly Lervikenhaslost its injured husband inacontainer, Harriedispulledinto a her estate, followed by the discovery ofher critically When awealthy womanisfound murdered brutally at department. police with her father with and the takesupaposition local tive she sodesperately. injection needs Harrietmoves in she ishoping- thatachange ofscenery the willbe posi Feelingthe Coast. South alittle lostand unluckyinlove, Stockholm behind for the smallvillageofLervikenon Harriet isayoung civilinvestigator who decidesto leave (2018)Ögonvittnet The Eyewitness them, with devastating consequences asaresult. the clock,facing the choice tothe break rulesorfollow Harrietfind herself inadesperateSoon, fight against ambitious localpolitician, who turnsoutto abigot. be Margaretaboss, with Bladh,initiates an acollaboration Svärd, Harriet’s whose polishedexteriorhidesa secret. ling with the frailwith relationship attorney Rikard a closeeye her on forgetful father Eugen,and strugg- to find the perpetrator. At the sametime she iskeeping Civil investigator Harriet Vesterberg works ferociously tified. Clearly istrying someone to cover their tracks. severe corrosive injuriesand the victimcannot iden- be fishing villageLerviken.Itisinbadcondition, with napped. Meanwhile, washes abody ashore inthe little stances. and everything indicates thatshe kid- hasbeen A woman hasgone missingunder mysterious- circum Skuggspelet (2019) ShadowThe Players

38 CRIME FICTION CRIME General Non-fiction Göran Everdahl is a journalist, author and film critic with a significant background in Swedish Public Service. He has published several works of non-fiction, including The Book of Lagom which was translated into nine languages.

Per Naroskin is a psychologist, psychotherapist and well-known Swedish radio personality. He has previously published books on popular science, as well as a novel. Foto: Kajsa Göransson Foto: POPULAR SCIENCE / CULTURE Smile: A Field Guide Leenden – En fälthandbok Göran Everdahl & Per Naroskin

Our smiles are an unmatched social lubricant. At the right time it can save an uncomfortable social situa- tion, but a nasty grin can also be used as a well-aimed attack. Our smiles are nothing but an emotional commodity! Here is the indispensable field guide that introduces us to the plethora of ambiguous smiles and more importantly, how to recognise the real and the fake varities.

Göran Everdahl and Per Naroskin poses questions such as: Which of the face’s 53 different muscles are needed to produce a smile? Why does nobody like a »Yes, it is truly one of sycophant? Why are so many of us afraid of clowns? those coffee table books Why is it so difficult to smile on command? What is the point of dimples and how come a blissful smile is that you can leave out so scary? for your guests« interspersed with cultural history Scientific facts are Mariestads-Tidningen and eye-openers which make it impossible not to smi- about The Book of Lagom le. Join this exhilarating journey from old Etruscan statues to the devoutly smiling robots of the future.

Available material: English sample Option publishers: Smart Books, Bulgaria • W.E Time DigiTech, China • Euromedia, Czech Republic • Random Original title: Leenden: En fälthandbok | Publication: October 2020 | Pages: 184 House, Germany • Jaffa, Hungary • Sejong Books, Korea • Muza, Poland • AST, Russia • Evro Book, Serbia Senior editor: Cecilia Kerstell

41 42 Niels Overgaard (b. 1981) is an and explains how they can be implemented to In addition, this is also a personal book, where everyday stoic and a father of handle modern challenges such as social media, the author shares his embarrassing experien- small children. He is a journalist by smartphones, a busy working life and an irratio- ces from an anti-stoic life and tells us how he education and currently works as nal fear of terrorism in order to give you a life nowadays tries to put philosophy into practice Head of Sustainability at the largest with peace of mind, freedom and meaning. But in both his professional and private life. Foto: People’s Press/PR People’s Foto: commercial pension fund in Denmark be prepared: this is not a philosophy that takes the softly-softly approach. He has previously co-authored a book about personal efficiency. After having spent thousands of Danish kroner on psychologists and self-development books, he came across Stoicism, which he has worked actively to implement in his own life ever since. It’s Not All About You Press voices

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She has a huge passion for cooking and runs a popular Instagram account and also a podcast for Swedish ELLE.

Last year her first cookbook Chez Wood became an instant success with the cooking and lifestyle community. COOKERY / LIFESTYLE COOKERY

Winter at Wood’s From Autumn Dusk to Spring Flush Sofia Wood Target market Sales points Food with consideration no matter the occa- chilly days when the daylight is quickly • Women 25-55 with a love for all • A stunning seasonal cookbook that sion – rainy Tuesdays in November, a beautiful disappearing, to Advent, Christmas and New things beautiful and stylish. captures the mood and adds some New Year’s Eve and a social but inexpensive Year’s Eve, advancing towards the first signs of zest to the dark time of year. start to the new year. A book for those who springtime. Herein you will find recipes, as well • Readers that are equally interested in want to make the dark season brighter, warmer as thoughts on decorations and table setting. lifestyle and cooking. • Beautifully designed and aesthetically and a whole lot tastier. pleasing, illustrated by Frida Edlund’s The world of Sofia Wood is snug and welco- • Home cooks that want to find inspi- atmospheric photos. Sofia Wood’s winter book shows how both ming, sensual and meticulous. The recipes are ration in all the little details surroun- seasonal feasts and everyday cooking can shed surprisingly simple but very tasty and include ding a meal. • Simple yet sumptuous recipes using some light in the darkness and kicks off with vegetarian and vegan cooking, as well as fish seasonal produce. a cosy Halloween dinner. She leads us through and seafood.

Option publisher: Christian Verlag, Germany Original title: Vinter hos Wood | Publication: November 2020 | Pages: 192 | Size: 190 x 260 Illustrated: Fully illustrated throughout | Senior editor: Michaéla Marmgren

51 52 Sofia Wood is a freelancing creator and has previously worked as a PR executive in fashion, art and design.

She has a huge passion for cooking and runs a popular Instagram account and a lifestyle podcast.

Chez Wood has sold more than 16 000 copies to date. COOKERY / LIFESTYLE COOKERY

Target market Sales points

• Women 25-55 with a love for all • A cookbook that emphasises the dif- things beautiful and stylish. ferent components of a meal – from produce to ambience. • Anyone who is looking for simple, classic recipes accompanied by stun- • Highlights key contemporary trends ning photos. – sustainability as well as the need for recovery. Chez Wood • Anyone who wants to add a touch A Cookbook for Everyday Life, Downtime and Celebration of old-fashioned charm to everyday • Sofia Woods invites us into her perso- cooking and learn how to set an invi- nal space, which is both elegant and Sofia Wood ting table. cosy. This is a cookbook dedicated to elevating our Everything she does is accompanied by an ar- daily, as well as celebratory occasions and make tistic sensitivity, consciousness and awareness. them more beautiful and welcoming. The recipes are simple but sophisticated, lusci- ous and adaptable. There is a greater emphasis Herein you will find irresistible recipes, inspi- on attention to produce and details, rather ring table setting and thoughts about the mea- than complicated procedures. Everything boils ning of a meal: as an energy boost, as a meeting down to sustainability – on several levels – and place, as a demonstration of love. The meals a belief that the details make the difference. can help us get together, celebrate and unwind, and Sofia Wood shows us her way of enhancing every moment at the dining table.

Rights sold to: Christian Verlag, Germany Original title: Chez Wood | Publication: November 2019 | Pages: 159 | Size: 190 x 260 Illustrated: Fully illustrated throughout | Senior editor: Michaeéla Marmgren

53 54 Karin Bohlin has had a keen interest in cooking since an early age.

She has been involved with food styling, cookery classes and catering for smaller and larger groups of people. She has also helped producing several cookbooks and she writes cookery features for different magazines. COOKERY / SUSTAINABILITY COOKERY

Zero Waste in the Kitchen Zero waste i köket Karin Bohlin Target market Sales points Every year we throw away atrocious amounts The pace of modern society and the increasing • Eco-conscious consumers wanting to • No-frills, unpretentious advice for of food. At the same time many of us believe number of expectations lead to consumers minimise food waste. sustainable cooking and eating. that we don’t produce any food waste. Much experiencing a lack of time and confidence to of it is discarded as a consequence of products engage in planning and cooking. • Young families with limited shopping • Recipes that will suit both the vegan, being left at the back of the fridge and forgot- budgets. the vegetarian and the carnivore. ten about. Food production put pressure on the This book will teach you how to make use environment and seeing as more food is pro- of waste, liquids and crusts. In a simple and • Anyone looking for nifty solutions • An eye-opening introduction to a duced than actually eaten, the waste becomes inviting manner the reader is guided to a more on how to turn leftovers into brand more resourceful way of living – this an absurd misuse of resources. With less waste, resourceful way of cooking and how to regard new meals. is more than a mere cookbook. both the energy consumption and emissions small and large leftovers as the beginning of would decrease. your next meal.

For more info: [email protected] Original title: Zero Waste i köket | Publication: October 2020 | Pages: 151 | Size: 170 x 240 Illustrated: Fully illustrated throughout | Senior editor: Johanna Kullman

55 56 COOKERYNEW • /NON-FICTION VEGETARIAN Right soldto: Turbine, Denmark red inumamiand theoffolding art dumplings will find everything from Japanese ramen cove- Sri Lanka,Malaysia and Indonesia. Hereyou Japan, China,India, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, In Green AsianCuisine she covers thefrom best flavours.secrets ofsensational introduces usto gastronomic wizardry and the ajourneyus on through the Asiancuisine and ce your cooking habits. RainLundström invites Here isavegetarian thatwillenhan- cookbook Rain Lundström Umami Love, Ramen Joy and the Return of the Tofu Cuisine Asian Green 57 actually makeuseof. market and how to find the products you will learnhowwill also to navigate anAsiansuper- your vegetarian cooking.that willboost You discover raw materials, flavours and techniques market to brand new acquaintances. You will ingredients thatyou willfind inany super- The recipes span from convenient dishes with paneer. to home-made vegan kimchiand basicpalak flavours. search ofexciting new through mostofAsiain in Japan andhastravelled She haslived several years food creator. marketing, butalsoasa Chief. Today sheworks in was alsotheEditor-in- Vegourmet where she the food magazine Rain Lundström founded det grönaasien.indd67 Illustrated: Fully illustrated throughoutSenior editor: | JohannaKullman Original title:Det gröna Asien| Publication: March 2020| Pages: 162|Size: 190x260 • • • Target market

about theabout modernAsiancuisine. Anyone who iscuriousto learnmore new culinary challenges. Confident cooks home looking for flavours and techniques. Vegetarians wanting to explore new 58 • • • points Sales

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