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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 mo f 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 interna onally bestselling series featuring Detec ve Karen Eiken Hornby within the unique se ng of Maria Adolfsson’s imaginary Doggerland islands, featuring its own local Rights sold Danish: People’s Press (1‐5) language, geography, and cultural tradi ons with roots in Britain and Estonian: Uhinenud Ajakirjad (1‐4) Scandinavia—the ideal se ng 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: Lui ngh 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
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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?
A er a heartbreak and broken engagement, Alva Fagerström leaves Stockholm for the co age 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 prac cali es of sor ng through her mother’s things and ge ng the co age 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 wan ng Lena dead, and staging her death to look like a heart‐a ack?
But, the murder is actually not the only mystery in the picturesque vil‐ lage that needs a solu on. 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 detec ve Jona‐ tan Mogren, Alva starts asking ques ons, 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 fic onal town of Tosseboda. Each book takes PublicaƟon Albert Bonniers Förlag place in a different season, star ng with summer for book one and March 2021 ending with a beau ful winter landscape in book four. 350 pages
Material Swedish Final Copies English Sample Transla on 100pp ‘A book that begins with a detailed and wi y character list gives sky‐ Series presenta on high expecta ons that this will be a great whodunit. Southern debut Synopsis Author Le er author Kris n Agnér has no problems living up to those expecta ons.’ Film & TV Rights — Skånska Dagbladet Rights Available
KrisƟna Agnér, b. 1981, is a freelance developmental editor with a background within social work. The lakes and the woods surrounding her co age in Småland is what in‐ Contact spired her to start wri ng the ‘Småland series’. AFRAID OF THE DARK is her debut. Madelene Andersson [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Non‐Fic on
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. Un l the day Swedish writer Lars Berge decides to inves gate 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 journalis c work and fine storytelling.’ All rights available — Svenska Dagbladet Op ons Estonian: Sinisukk ‘A er 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 Publica on 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 Edi on the labyrinths of the library world or a Dan Brown among angels and English Sample Transla on 53pp Author Le er 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... ’ — Västerbo ens‐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‐fic on work, Project Wolf became an instant na onal bestseller and was nominated for the Contact interna onal Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage 2020. Johanna Lindborg [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Non‐Fic on
Nina Burton
The Six Walls of Life
From the 2016 August Prize for Non‐Fic on winner comes a beguiling and in many ways excep onal nature memoir, an
homage to the natural world around us.
What begins with a renova on of Nina Burton’s summer co age, swi ly turns into an explora on of nature, life and philosophy in the hands of the award‐winning essayist. Within the walls, the ceiling and the floor of the co age 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 o en deligh ully 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 rela on to their size, their anthill ci es can be larger than London and New York? Or, that a bird’s migratory ins nct is so strong that an injured stork once escaped cap vity 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 scien fic explora on in the absolutely Chinese: Guangxi NUP cap va ng 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 tradi on of nature wri ng first made famous by German: btb Verlag Japanese: Soshisha Kers n 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, le ng 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. Publica on Albert Bonniers Förlag September 2020 ‘A true giŌ to readers’ 264 pages — Svenska Dagbladet Material Swedish Edi on ‘I was completely enchanted within ten pages’ Full English Transla on —Expressen Le er From the Author
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Nina Burton (b. 1946) is a poet and essayist, famous for her unique style of combining lyric poetry and the natural sciences. In 2016 she won the pres gious August Prize for Non‐ Fic on for The Gutenberg Galaxy Nova, and has also been awarded amongst others the Swedish Nobel Academy’s Essay Prize, Sweden’s biggest non‐fic on award Stora Fackboks‐ Contact priset and Övralidspriset. Nina is a fellow of the Swedish Science Academy and the Amanda Bértolo Alderin pres gious literary associa on Samfundet De Nio. [email protected]
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Kerstin Ekman
Tullia’s World
Just like many other Roman women, li le is known about Tullia, beloved daughter of Cicero and the heroine of legendary author and erstwhile Swedish Academy mem- ber Kers n Ekman’s latest book.
Based on her interest in an quity, Kers n Ekman gives us an account of a young woman’s life and world, in a rich and tender book with both literary and personal elements that will appeal to fans of Ekman but also Mary Beard.
Excerpt: “Cicero’s daughter is the fragile thread in my story. I knew nothing about her at school or at university. If you wanted to learn about the women who lived during the era of the great men, you had to read about the great men — there was no other way. In fact, we know al- most nothing about the thoughts and feelings of women un l they started telling us about them. But this would of course take a very long me. Who Tullia was at heart? We may never know...”
‘TULLIA’S WORLD is an elegy of what we’re about to lose today, subtly accomplishedu like fully a bea pictured walk through the history of the Roman Empire.’ Op ons Danish: Gyldendal — Ulrika Milles, Dagens Nyheter Finnish: Tammi German: Piper
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Material Kers n Ekman (b. 1933) made her debut in 1959, as a writer of crime fic on. She Swedish Edi on English Excerpt was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1978, and le her chair in 1989. Her rich Outline narra ves, o en rooted in everyday lives, made her one of the most widely read Film & TV Rights Swedish writers of the twen eth century. She has won many major literary pri- Rights Available zes, including the August Prize in 1993 and 2003, and the Pilot Prize in 1995. Contact bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Maria Montner [email protected] Fic on
Clara Clementine Eliasson
I Don’t Like Mondays
Akin to Emma Cline’s The Girls and classic Thelma & Louise, I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS is an emo onally‐charged whirlwind of a debut novel, loosely based on the infamous ‘I don’t like Mondays’ 1979 school shooter Brenda Ann Spencer, focus‐ ing on the months leading up to the event.
‘Her name was Elisabeth Sumner, but I called her B. She made my life an adventure when I thought nothing was ever going to happen. I have to tell the story of her and everything we experienced, because in all other sto- ries, she was just the girl behind that shooƟng. And I need to write about my own guilt in what was to come.’
San Diego 1978. Fi een‐year‐old Julie leads a lonely, closeted life in a white picket fence suburb, when her neighbour B suddenly knocks on her door. B brings with her adventure, danger and kisses tas ng of cinnamon and whisky—along with the scent of dead birds, gunpowder and rage. What was to follow sent shock waves throughout the USA and the world, reverbera ng s ll today. 2019. Forty years later, when B escapes from prison where she’s been jailed for the 1979 shoo ng, Julie’s memories of their wild, impossible summer come back to haunt her; the summer B took her on an unbridled road‐trip where danger and despera on were their constant companions. But what happened that summer to cause B to commit the heinous act, and what was Julie’s role in it?
In this absolutely remarkable debut novel, Clara Clemen ne Eliasson pens Rights sold a de and passionate tale about the obsession of first love, the u er des‐ Danish: Gutkind pair of feeling doomed from the start, and of the freedom of running wild Dutch: Orlando German: btb Verlag in the hot, feverish nights among the flowering citrus trees of southern California. Hurtling at an impossible speed toward a dreadful end, I DON’T Publica on LIKE MONDAYS reminds the reader of the tragic yet life‐affirming Thelma Romanus & Selling & Louise, the hope of innocence in the face of evil in Emma Cline’s The August 2020 310 pages Girls, as well as the blinding fury toward an unfair world in Joyce Carol Oates’ Foxfire. Material Swedish Edi on Full English Transla on * The term ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ was coined by Brenda Ann Spencer in an on‐air radio Synopsis Author Le er interview minutes a er the shoo ng. Spencer’s bizarre response to the ques on why she opened fire on the elementary school across the road inspired Bob Geldof to pen Film & TV Rights the unforge ablet hi song of the same name. The character B in Eliasson’s book is Rights Available inspired by the real life Brenda Ann Spencer.
Clara Clemen ne Eliasson (b. 1991) is a graduate of Crea ve Wri ng and Botanical Stu‐ dies. Clara grew up in Stockholm and Las Palmas and spends most of her life travelling the world. A true polyglot, Clara speaks five languages. I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS is her Contact debut novel. Johanna Lindborg [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] FicƟon
Pernilla Ericson
300 Degrees
Book 1 in the Lilly Hed series
Who can you trust to help you put out the fire, when you don’t know who is fanning the flames?
It is summer 2023 and the world is on fire. A brutal heatwave plagues half the world’s countries with drought and firestorms in its wake. In Australia, whole suburbs have been wiped out and in northern Europe, towns and wooded areas from north to south are ablaze.
Police Inves gator Lilly Hed has recently le a promising, but chao c, fast‐track management career with the Stockholm police to seek a qui‐ eter existence in the archipelago town of Nynäshamn. She hopes that the idyllic coastal town will bring her respite from the secrets and dark‐ ness that made her change her life, but she soon learns that she can escape neither her history nor the climate crisis.
Soon a er her move, a major forest fire is reported, posing a massive threat to Lily’s new home, pushing the fire department, with the hand‐ some and kind Jesper Hansson at the helm, to its limits. What first ap‐ pears to be coincidental fires with natural causes soon turn out to be something much worse, and Lilly is put in charge of the inves ga on. In a desperate race against me and a raging firestorm, someone turns out not to be who they say they are, but what do you do when all traces of evidence are literally going up in smoke?
300 DEGREES is a page‐turning and atmospheric thriller where the climate and changing environment are as much part of the story as the Rights sold characters and plot, reminiscent of Jane Harper’s The Dry, where op‐ German: Fischer (1‐2) pressive heat, people showing their true colours under pressure, and Norwegian: Aschehoug (1‐3) dark secrets of the past are at the forefront. It is the first book in a cli‐ PublicaƟon Romanus & Selling mate‐themed crime series by Pernilla Ericson. August 2020 336 pages
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Pernilla Ericson is a journalist and columnist focusing on equality and climate issues at the Swedish daily, AŌonbladet. She debuted in 2016 with a crime series featuring Liv Kaspi, published by HarperCollins Nordic. 300 DEGREES is her fourth Contact crime novel and the first book in the series featuring Lilly Hed. Madelene Andersson [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Fic on
Åsa Hellberg
The Women at Flanagans
Book 2 in the Flanagans series
From the 800,000‐copy bestselling author Åsa Hellberg, the second instalment in the Flanagans series
Welcome back to Flanagans Hotel, where the gli era of London and glamorous visitors from around the globe come to stay. It’s now the 1980s, and rumour has it that yuppies, cocaine and all‐night par es is the new order of the day. S ll; intrigue, strong female leads and the longing for true love is always on the menu at our favourite hotel.
No longer working downstairs, Emma and Elinor have moved up in the world and own the hotel together. They have sacrificed everything for the hotel to stay successful, and even though they’ve reached their goal, the price has been high. Dark secrets that have been buried for years now threaten to come to light, and the ensuing shame and guilt might destroy them. Will their friendship endure these tough challeng‐ es, and will the hotel survive if the truth about the owners comes out?
Frankie, Emma’s daughter who is in her twen es, is a charisma c and brash young woman who takes every chance to act out against her mother. Emma struggles to become closer to her, but it seems impossi‐ ble: maybe the scars run too deep? Billie, on the other hand, dotes on her mother Elinor, but the pressure of being the perfect daughter drives her to Sweden to study at university. There, her future will change dras cally.
Rights sold The trilogy is centred on the Flanagans hotel in London, which starts in Danish: Lindhardt & Ringhof (1‐3) the 1960s with the first book, con nues in the 1980s with the second, Dutch: Xander (1‐3) Estonian: Varrak (1‐2) and eventually leads up to a drama c finale in the 2010s in its last in‐ Finnish: Bazar (1‐3) stalment. Under crystal chandeliers, on carpeted floors and in between German: Ullstein (1‐3) Spanish: Maeva (1‐2) wood panelled walls, we’ll get to know the women who in three gener‐ a ons run the hotel — each one with their own hardships, heartbreak, Op ons success, drama, and challenges that come with their own era. Bulgarian: Bard Lithuanian: Balto
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Material Åsa Hellberg, describes herself as “between 25 and 85 years old depending on Swedish Edi on Series Presenta on today’s mood.” She grew up in Fjällbacka, where part of her new series is set, Author Q&A and today she lives in Stockholm. Her debut Casanovas kvinna, was published in 2009, and she has since then published the bestselling trilogy about Sonja, as Film & TV Rights Rights Available well as the stand‐alone tles En liten värld, Toscana Tur & Retur, Gloria and EƩ oväntat besök. With sales of almost 1 million copies, she is one of Contact Sweden’s most‐loved commercial women’s fic on writers. Madelene Andersson [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Highlight
Gertrud Hellbrand
Dark Horse
Book 1 in the ’Dominion series’
An atmospheric new crime series wriƩen by a master story- teller, DARK HORSE will take the reader into the sinister heart of the decepƟvely tranquil Swedish countryside, where what you see might not be what you get.
When Mira Westman’s grandfather is found dead in his country co age, she decides to return to Hedsbro, the village where she grew up, to sort out his affairs. Everything seems to indicate that her grandfather fell and hit his head while drunk and the police are sa sfied it was an accident. But when Mira’s cousin Ville disappears without a trace from the neigh- bouring horse farm where he works, Mira begins to suspect that the sud- den death of her grandfather was perhaps not as innocent as looks would have it.
All around Mira the picturesque landscape of rolling pastures and fields are blooming in the May sunshine, but under the beau ful surface se- crets linger and darkness looms. Mira le Hedsbro as a teenager a er a horrific incident that s ll haunts her, making her even more determined to find out what has happened to her family. Who may have wanted to see her grandfather dead? Are her grandfather’s neighbours, equestrians Jerry and Patrik Hartley Lindskog, involved in the disappearance of Ville? Can Mira s ll trust her teenage love Adam, whose li le brother has turned into the village terror? Facing her past, Mira must ask herself how far she is willing to go to protect the ones she loves.
DARK HORSE is the first book in the ‘Dominion series’ by cri cally ac- Rights sold claimed Gertrud Hellbrand, and her first crime novel. The book is equal Danish: Grønningen1 parts twisty murder mystery and dark tale about family es, love, PublicaƟon HarperCollins Nordic betrayal, and jealousy. March 2021 384 pages
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Gertrud Hellbrand (b.1974) is a bestselling and cri cally-acclaimed author, and a teacher of crea ve wri ng. Gertrud lives with her family and their horses on a farm in Östergötland, south-west of Stockholm. DARK HORSE is her first crime novel, and the Contact first in a planned series set in the beau ful countryside where she makes her home. Madelene Andersson [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Fic on
Catharina Ingelman‐Sundberg The Little Old Lady Strikes Back
Book 4 in the League of Pensioners series
A deligh ul and heartwarming novel that proves the adage that it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.
This is the fourth book in the beloved and interna onally bestselling ’League of Pensioners’ series. Märtha and the League are back once again on a mission to set things right – and possibly commit one or two minor crimes in the name of charity.
When the police start to form suspicions against the group, following a string of blundering the s in Stockholm, the cra y pensioners flee to the countryside. To their disappointment, they discover that things are no longer the same as they once were outside of the ci es. The grocery Rights sold supermarkets and petrol sta on have closed for good, the younger Korean: Open Books (1‐4) Polish: Sonia Draga (1‐4) genera on is moving away and to top it all, their internet connec on Op ons isn’t working. Bulgaria: Colibri Czech: Argo It is me to strike back and do something about the situa on. The Dutch: Meulenhoff English (UK): Pan Macmillan League quickly cook up a plan: ‘Opera on Save the Countryside’ – with English (US): HarperCollins old tricks and civil disobedience up their sleeves. In addi on, ghost Estonian: Tänapäev Finnish: Schildts & Söderström tours, cow‐bingo and other daring ac vi es are arranged to a ract French: Fleuve Noir Hebrew: Keter Publishing people and jobs to the countryside. Hungarian: Animus Icelandic: Bjartur Interna onally‐bestselling author Catharina Ingelman‐Sundberg’s wi y Italian: Newton Compton Japanese: Tokyo Sogensha and insigh ul series the ’League of Pensioners’ is a comedy of errors Latvian: Lauku Avize Norwegian: Silke about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire for a be er quality Portuguese (BR): Editora Gutenberg of life leads them to rob and ransom. A contemporary and life‐ Romanian: Scandic Russian: Ast affirming entertainment series to be taken very seriously! Slovak: Fortuna Libri Spanish: Roca Editorial Turkish: April ‘The Best Exo c Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in interna onally‐ Publica on bestselling author Catharina Ingelman‐Sundberg’s wi y and insigh ul Bokförlaget Forum comedy of errors.’ September 2020 – Library Love Fest 320 pages
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Mari Jungstedt
In the Failing Light
Book 16 in the 6‐million‐copy bestselling Gotland series
Murder, historical intrigue, and personal troubles con- front detecƟves Anders Knutas and Karin Jacobsson in this new instalment by the Queen of Crime, Mari Jung- stedt.
When two Stockholm teenagers, spending their autumn break on a grey, foggy and quiet Gotland, disappear during a bike ride on the is- land and later turn up dead on a remote farm, Inspector Anders Knutas iniƟates an intense search for the cold-blooded murderer.
When the body of a curator at the island’s museum is washed up on a beach north of Visby, the police start looking for connecƟons. Knutas and his colleague and partner Karin Jakobsson encounter a challenging case to solve whilst facing major challenges in their own, private lives.
The series is set on the picturesque island of Gotland in the BalƟc Sea, south of Stockholm, with a landscape renowned for its spectacular scenery and unpredictable weather. It follows Inspector Anders Knutas, who works for the Visby police, where he has been in service for thirty years.
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Film & TV Rights Rights Available Mari Jungstedt (b. 1962) was a news anchor at Sweden’s largest tv broadcaster before she turned to wriƟng. Since the 2003 publicaƟon of Unseen, the first no- vel in her Gotland series featuring detecƟves Anders Knutas and Karin Jacobsson, she has published a book every year, launching the brand-new Andalucia series in 2020 with Before the Clouds Come, which sold over 100,000 copies in two months. Part of Swedish crime ficƟon’s elite, Jungstedt has been published in 20 Contact countries, and divides her Ɵme between Gotland and Stockholm. Amanda Bértolo Alderin [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] FicƟon
Åsa Leijon
Drowning in Silence
A haunƟng and atmospheric debut dealing with the aŌer- math of a disappearance, set deep in the isolated Swedish countryside where secrets are taken to the grave. It’s been almost a year since Jannica, the wildly popular daughter of OƩo and Mona, disappeared without a trace. Before, she was an inte- gral part of school-yard cliques, jealous gossip and sweet nothings whispered by adoring boyfriends, but now her name is only uƩered in hushed whispers: what kind of girl was she really, how come she was seen asking uncomfortable quesƟons, and, who might have hurt her?
Only Minna, Jannica’s wild and fearless baby sister, suspects what hap- pened to Jannica, but she is also looking for answers as to why. As their bereŌ parents have stopped seeing, hearing and noƟcing anything oth- er than their own grief, only the sparrowhawk keeps a silent watch above her as she scuƩles around the countryside to peer in through the windows of cabins and houses, listening in to conversaƟons that are not meant for liƩle girls.
But, beware of disturbing the peace in the closed community that claims it knows nothing, and where shameful secrets are kept not for years, but for generaƟons.
DROWNING IN SILENCE is a psychologically acute literary debut novel which took the author 10 years to write. A natural addiƟon to the Swedish rural noir tradiƟon, with the darkness of SƟna Jackson’s THE Rights sold SILVER ROAD and the interwoven lives of Elizabeth Strout’s close-knit All rights available community, Åsa Leijon paints a picture of the Swedish countryside and PublicaƟon Albert Bonniers Förlag its dark underbelly with precise and deŌ brushstrokes as we delve January 2021 deeper into finding the truths behind decades of booming silence. 416 pages
Material Swedish Final Copies English Sample TranslaƟon 103pp "It's like stepping into a literary world of one’s very own...Even though Author LeƩer Synopsis the story contains elements of crime, it is first and foremost about relaƟonships" Film & TV Rights Rights Available – Norra Skåne
Åsa Leijon, b. 1968, lives in Uppsala where she works as a high school teacher. Drowning in Silence is her debut novel. Contact Madelene Andersson [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Fic on
Lundgren & Lundgren
Where the Ice Breaks
Book 1 in the Arctic Circle series
The first book in an explosive new crime series reminis- cent of Giles Blunt’s John Cardinal series set near the Arc c Circle in northern Sweden, wri en by a female wri ng duo, one of whom is an ac ve police officer.
The snow is finally thawing in the depths of the wilderness in northern Sweden when an abandoned bicycle is found. A bike that belongs to a boy whose disappearance the previous summer has confounded the police.
Irene has recently le Stockholm to become a beat cop in Kalix, in the far reaches of northern Sweden just south of the Arc c Circle. Irene is working hard to adapt to the quirks of northern policing: an under- staffed and underfunded police district, gruelling shi s and a region made up of mul ple sprawling, largely unpopulated areas. And on top of that, she soon finds herself embroiled in a ba le of wills between her new bosses and her narrow-minded colleagues, almost all of them men.
In a small village nearby we meet Nina, a young girl who lives with her aunt and her cri cally ill mother. Her aunt’s dubious friends pervade them with a sense of danger, and it becomes increasingly clear that Nina and her mother’s welfare may be at risk.
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Larsson’s Kiruna series and the snowy se ngs of Louise Penny. Publica on Albert Bonniers Förlag WHERE THE ICE BREAKS is the first book in a new series by debut June 2021 350 pages authors Lundgren & Lundgren, one of whom is a police officer herself. Material The series and the unique se ng combines the some mes claustro- Swedish Edi on phobic life of a ghtknit community with the freedom and isola on of English Sample Transla on 75pp (tk) Series Descrip on (tk) a desolate landscape. Synopsis (tk)
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Jennie Lundgren (b. 1978) and Ulrika Lundgren Lindmark (b. 1972) are sisters-in- law living in Kalix and Gällivare, northern Sweden, respec vely. Jennie works as a police patrol officer and Ulrika is an accountant. WHERE THE ICE BREAKS is a Contact debut for both writers. Johanna Lindborg [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] FicƟon
Elisabet Nemert
Hill of the Fairies
Bestselling authorship—300,000 copies sold
Sweden’s beloved author of historical women’s fiction returns with a story of sisterhood across time and space, everlasting loyalty and unpredictable love. When Celine’s husband unceremoniously tells her that he’s found someone new and wants a divorce, her life falls apart in one fell swoop – she loses her job as a school‐teacher and is forced to move out of the house that she has lovingly built. Together with her single, successful lawyer sister Francine, she sets out to find a new life and a new home, and soon falls in love with a small co age on the edge of a lake in a small village in the north of Sweden.
Li le does she know that the house has been wai ng for her and her family pa ently to discover its past, as it has harbored and borne wit‐ ness to the drama c fates of many women over the centuries, lying close to a site where witches used to be burned alive in the 16th centu‐ ry, and according to legend, is built on the Hill of the Fairies.
Past and present are woven together as Celine’s daughter, the 7‐year old Sofia, has the ability to see what’s hidden for others, and in the a c, Celine discovers a diary belonging to Emilia, a fearless and beau ‐ ful widow who used to live in the co age with her family during the late 18th century that she reads together with Francine. Together, the women will discover that the house on the Hill of the Fairies bears many hidden secrets, as well as the powerful magic of healing, future hope and the possibility of new love. Rights sold All rights available Sweden’s answer to Sarah Addison Allen, Elisabet Nemert writes pow‐ OpƟons erful stories in the tradi on of Marianne Fredriksson, set in the border‐ Czech: Grada land of magic and realism, that are both educa onal and entertaining. PublicaƟon Bokförlaget Forum September 2020 416 pages Praise for Blue Longing: Material ‘This book is world‐class in all possible ways and certainly gets 5 out of Swedish Edi on 5 stars.’ English Sample Transla on 46pp Synopsis — Angelicas bokhylla Author Le er
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Håkan Nesser The Culpability of Albin Runge
Book 6 in the five million copy selling Barbarotti series
Barbaro is back—this me on Gotland! The #1 Swedish Bestseller. ”I shouldn’t be alive”, writes academic and bus driver Albin Runge in his diary notes in 2013. So, when someone seems to be threatening to kill him, he is very understanding, and even agrees with the would‐be killer. But, as the threats become increasingly bizarre, the police starts taking an interest in the case. However, they are too late, and soon, the unfortunate Albin Runge is dead. Much later, in 2018, Gunnar Barbaro and Eva Backman are on leave on the island of Gotland, when the strange case of Albin Runge is brought back to the surface. Something in the case from 2013 seems to have gone wrong. Really wrong. Or has it? Before The Le ‐Handed League (2018) six years since had past since we last read about Inspector Gunnar Barbaro . Now he’s back again in the sixth instalment of the series, but this me away from his be‐ loved home in Kymlinge sas he’ spending me on the picturesque is‐ Rights sold land of Gotland (where Nesser also lives, incidentally). Czech: MOBA Danish: Modtryk The ‘Barbaro series’ follows Detec ve Inspector Gunnar Barbaro , Dutch: De Geus and originally consisted of five instalments published between 2006 Finnish: Tammi German: btb and 2012. In the Le ‐Handed League, Nesser let his two most beloved Italian: Guanda characters, Van Veeteren and Barbaro , meet in an unprecedented Norwegian: Gyldendal Norsk Polish: Czarna Owca stand‐alone mystery. The celebrated Barbaro books has sold 2,5 million copies in Sweden, and more than five million copies interna‐ Firm Op ons onally. English (UK & COM): Mantle/Macmillan
Publishers of Barbarotti ‘Håkan Nesser is a brilliant author, who advances his story with a Bulgarian: EMAS good dose of humour. To spend a couple of hours in the company of Estonian: Pegasus Gunnar Barbaro and Eva Backman in your reading chair is me well Latvian: Zvaigzne ABC spent.’ Russian: Ripol
— Ölandsbladet Publica on ‘Well‐wri en and exhilara ng entertainment, characterised by Albert Bonniers Förlag August 2020 Nesser’s subtle humour, a page‐turner without blood‐curdling violent 398 pages scenes…’ — Dala‐Demokraten Material Swedish Edi on Series Presenta on ‘...the author dares to nurture that which is, and will always be, one of Film & TV Rights literature’s finest quali es – namely, its slowness.’ Available — Svenska Dagbladet
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Anna‐Karin Palm Memory, Written All Over
Your Face
An elegant memoir of the disappearance of a mind be- hind the veil of Alzheimer’s, about women’s roles over generaƟons and mother-daughter relaƟonships
You say: ‘What’s your mother’s name?’ I respond: ‘That’s you. You are my mother.’
In MEMORY, WRITTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE, Anna‐Karin Palm follows her mother’s gradual disappearance into Alzheimer’s disease, as she tries to understand her mother’s life, and how it has influenced herself and the family. It is a story about climbing the social ladder, about hunger for life, about family secrets and a complicated mother‐ daughter rela onship that can finally end in reconcilia on.
Anna‐Karin Palm reflects on memory, wri ng and how the story of a life is shaped. MEMORY, WRITTEN ALL OVER YOUR FACE is a strong and touching portrait of a woman’s fate, but also about a family that changes when death comes close.
With a sensibility similar to Sigrid Rausing’s Mayhem, the author lo‐ vingly a empts to depict her mother in her en rety, from all possible angles.
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that is admirable.’ PublicaƟon —Smålandsposten Albert Bonniers Förlag April 2021 236 pages
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Conny Palmkvist
Almost Good at Life
A deeply‐human and affec ng narra ve about a love greater than any words.
ALMOST GOOD AT LIFE is a moving story about a father’s love for his daughter who is unlike everyone else. When much‐longed‐for baby Lova is born, her arrival is joyful but marred by complica ons. Even though her father doubts his ability to be a good parent, he loves her beyond words.
But soon, anxiety wells up within him: why is it so hard to connect with Lova? Is she really developing like other children? And how does one connect with a child that lives in a world of her own? As everyday life becomes more difficult to deal with, father and daughter begin to dri apart.
ALMOST GOOD AT LIFE is an auto‐fic ve story about faltering as a hu‐ man being, and about bouncing back, proving it’s never too late to find one’s way home and to rebuild the most important of rela onships. A brave and moving story akin to Mar Leimbach’s Daniel Isn’t Talking and Love, Anthony by Lisa Genova.
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‘ALMOST GOOD AT LIFE is not only an autobiographical but also an extremely self‐revealing depic on of a father's rela onship with a different daughter. It really touched my heart, not least as a direct re‐ Rights sold sult of the intensity of the exquisitely beau ful language.’ ‐ Norra All rights available Skåne Op ons Czech: Albatros ‘Palmkvist’s le er to his daughter is acute and brilliant.’ Danish: Turbine
‐ Helsingborgs Dagblad Publica on Bazar Förlag ‘It's not just about understanding the quality of life of a child who is January 2021 220 pages different and her parents. What is ul mately revealed in Almost Good at Life is that each person exists based on their own condi ons. The Material Swedish Edi on world would be a more loving place if we admit that without judg‐ English Sample Transla on 70pp Synopsis ment.’ ‐ Sydsvenskan Film & TV Rights N/A Conny Palmkvist (b. 1973) is a Swedish writer, editor, ghostwriter, and literary cri c. Since his cri cally‐acclaimed 2005 debut, Hej då, allihopa, he has published eleven books to date, most recently the cri cally‐acclaimed The Helsingør Crossing, about the infamous ’sewing club’ that saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis. Palmkvist has received mul ple awards for his work, in‐ Contact cluding the Helsingborgs Dagblad’s Cultural Prize, Umeå Short Story Prize and Johanna Lindborg the Selma Prize. He lives in Helsingborg, Sweden with his family. [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Non‐Fic on
Conny Palmkvist The Helsingør Crossing
The so‐called ’Sewing Club’ That Raced to Save Jewish Refugees in WWII
The first‐ever full account of one of Europe’s most daring war me humanitarian opera ons.
A plucky group of unassuming Danes and Swedish security police risked their lives to orchestrate the safe passage of as many endangered Dan- ish Jews as possible across Øresund to save them from the grasp of occupying Nazis.
The four founding members of the group—a bookbinder, police officer, police clerk, and newspaper editor—assumed the seemingly innocuous code name of The Helsingør Sewing Club and, with the help of the po- lice in southern Sweden, they managed to ferry almost 1,500 persecut- ed Danes to Sweden by the summer of 1944.
Pu ng his own life on the line, the Sewing Club’s fearless master, Erling Kjaer, dubbed the ‘Red Carna on’, would cruise across Øresund in whatever boat he and his comrades had been able to procure, from ny fishing boats to a speed boat, dodging mines and German warships. This is the story of how he and the other anonymous ‘carna ons’ in the Danish Resistance collaborated with Swedish coun- terparts to help fellow humans in their hour of need, some mes at the cost of their own lives. Because it was the right thing to do.
Drawing on previously unpublished first-hand accounts and extensive research into both the Danish and Swedish ci zens involved in the op- era on, Palmkvist completes the picture by weaving together the hith- erto untold half of the story to render an engaging historical narra ve Rights sold Czech: Albatros in the spirit of Antony Beevor. Danish: Turbine
‘An outstanding book about courage and morality, well substanƟa- Publica on ted, exciƟng and at Ɵmes so moving that I got tears in my eyes and Bokförlaget Forum September 2020 had to take a deep breath before I conƟnued reading.’ 520 pages — A onbladet, cri c's choice Material Swedish Edi on ‘In the hands of an inferior stylist, it would’ve become an overly English Sample Transla on 80pp literal and overloaded work. But here, every word finds its place, Outline 11pp Author Le er with selecƟveness and restraint and in longer secƟons the author remains behind the scenes. The fate-heavy, tension-focused, tens- ion-driven material speaks for itself.’ — Sydsvenskan Film & TV Rights Under shopping agreement
‘Palmkvist brings to life the bookbinder who risked his life to save the Danish Jews.’ — Helsingborgs Dagblad Conny Palmkvist (b. 1973) is a Swedish writer, editor, ghostwriter, and literary cri c. Since his cri cally-acclaimed 2005 debut, Hej då, allihopa, he has published nine books to date. Palmkvist has received mul ple awards for his work, including the Helsingborgs Dagblad’s Cultural Prize, Umeå Short Story Prize and the Selma Prize. Conny lives in Hels- Contact Johanna Lindborg inborg, Sweden with his family. www.connypalmkvist.se [email protected] bonnierrights.se | [email protected] Non‐Fic on
Roland Paulsen What If
The New Age of Anxiety
This is not a self‐help book. This is a societal‐help book.
What if we are doing too li le about the Covid‐19 pandemic; What if I le my stove on and my house burns down; What if I’ve chosen the wrong part‐ ner? Asking “what if?” is our mind’s way of calcula ng risks, imagining things that may happen. According to Roland Paulsen, associate professor in Sociology at Lund University, we have now—on a collec ve level— developed an inability to live with that uncertainty.
When you are standing at a train sta on anywhere in the Western world, one in every ten people around you will be on an ‐depressants. It wasn’t always like this – the number of people who have been diagnosed with de‐ pression globally has risen by almost 20% in the last decade, and anxiety and depression are number one on the WHO’s list of reasons for ill health in the world today. So what has changed? We are financially be er off than we’ve ever been, have higher living standards than ever before, and s ll, we can’t seem to avoid rising anxiety levels and constantly asking ourselves: what if?
Wri en with clarity and passion, WHAT IF is as much a panorama of the cultural varia ons and historical evolu on of anxiety, as it is an inspiring call to ac on to do something about this societal epidemic. Constantly fasci‐ na ng, Paulsen takes us down the labyrinth of Max Weber’s ideas about disenchantment, ayahuasca trips as a measure of dampening anxiety, and poli cs as risk‐aversion rather than ideological dreaming. Based on hun‐ dreds of studies, ground‐breaking research, and personal, heart‐breakingly Rights sold Finnish: Tammi honest interviews, Roland Paulsen has wri en a sociological study of anxie‐ German: Goldmann ty in our me, which in its easily‐accessible style is Gladwellian in nature. Polish: Zwierciadło
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Jenny Rogneby
LEONA: An Eye For an Eye
Book 5 in the bestselling Leona series
Over 210,000 copies sold across the series. Leona’s father has gone missing. To her frustraƟon, Leona isn’t allowed to take on the case as she would have wanted, and instead she's put on the invesƟgaƟon where a cab driver has been found severely beaten and Ɵed up. But, as always, Leona isn’t too bothered with toeing the line between right and wrong, so she gets involved with her father’s missing person case aŌer all, and soon she uncovers a dark family secret.
Simultaneously, two young girls are seduced by the adventure of explor- ing the internet’s most dangerous and darkest corner: darknet. Un- wiƫngly, they become witness to a horrifying event that could be con- nected to Leona. As the pressure keeps building, Leona becomes sus- pected of the worst crime of all.
As fast-paced and acƟon-filled as the previous novels, AN EYE FOR AN EYE is the fiŌh book in the bestselling series about Leona Lindberg, the unusual invesƟgator who challenges norms and poses quesƟons about what lies behind the choices we make.
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and The Girl in the Spider’s Web Previous Publishers Dutch: Prometheus ‘Leona Lindberg returns to wreak her peculiar havoc...She differs from English (NA): Other Press typical noir an heroes...This instalment is more completely plo ed and English (AUS/NZ): Echo Press Finnish: Bazar more involving...Leona’s back! Lock the henhouse!’ Norwegian: Gyldendal Norsk — Kirkus Reviews on Any Means Necessary (Book 2) Polish: Marginesy
‘Jenny Rogneby is one of the biggest stars in crime right now.’ PublicaƟon Wahlström & Widstrand September 2020 — Amelia on With No Human Value (Book 3) 350 pages
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Ann Rosman
Into the Maelstrom
Book 7 in the Karin Adler series
Karin Adler returns in the much‐an cipated seventh book in the Marstrand series. Over 23,000 copies sold to date!
It is 1867 and a fire has razed an en re neighbourhood of Marstrand to the ground, leaving its inhabitants homeless and distraught. One of them is Johanna, who had recently moved to the town to work as a maid for the local goldsmith. Was the cause of the fire an accident or could there be more to it…?
Fast forward to Marstrand a hundred‐and‐fi y years later. Lo a has recently moved to the island to run a hotel and becomes acquainted with Karin Adler, who is on maternity leave following the birth of her first child. Meanwhile, Karin’s police colleagues, Robert and Folke, are called to the docks where a sailor has been found dead onboard a cargo ship. But ques ons are soon raised about the circumstances surrounding the death. And, is the frequency of the Swedish Mari me Administra ons’s helicopter rescue exercises so‐ mehow connected to the case?
Ann lives on the Marstrand island herself and finds inspira on in its vibrant culture as well as its rich and drama c past. In her own words: ‘Marstrand is like a gateway where two worlds meet: the present and the past – or why not reality and imagina on?’ Truth and legend colour this gateway, and connec‐ ons between past and present shape Karin’s inves ga ons, leading her and the reader back into mysteries of centuries past.
‘Policewoman Karin Adler is back and with her a new salt‐sprinkled detec ve story from Marstrand. A story with a dual meline where the historical Rights sold depic on is impressive.’ Finnish: Bazar
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and one contemporary, throughout with minor connec ons that add to the excitement. … Simply put, a long‐awaited and strong comeback.’ Publica on Albert Bonniers Förlag – Bohusläningen September 2020 422 pages
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Donia Saleh
Ya Leila
Nominated for Best Debut 2020
The humour in Queenie meets the style of Jonas Hassen Khemiri in this unapologetically political, disarmingly ho- nest, and heart-rendingly identifyable story about loyalty and love, and what happens when you step out of the box that someone else has designed for you. Leila and Amila are inseparable, in deep symbiosis that at times makes them feel immortal, but at others can feel like a claustrophobic nightmare. While Leila is quieter, shyer and has an easier time fitting in at school, Amila lives life out loud, not caring what her teachers or other students think about her. Together, they form an alliance against the ve- gan artsy boys; the school’s popular girls named ’the Glitter Pussies’ after pseudofeminist glitter paintings of vaginas and, worst of all, the traitors, like Yones, who tries his hardest to ignore his cultural background. When there are two of you against the world, who needs other people, right?
Their relationship is shaken when Leila is seduced by the cute vegan Leo, which brings into the fore-front her everlasting dreams of fitting in with the middle class around her. Perhaps she might even give the Glitter Pus- sies a chance? Is she turning her back on her background, or just trying to assimilate?
YA LEILA is a novel about loyalty that can equally lift you and confine you, about inherited generational trauma and the intense love between two friends. Nominated for both the Catapult Award and Borås Debut Prize for Best Debut 2020, YA LEILA is written in a darkly funny, fast-paced style Rights sold and we are treated to a new and refreshing voice in Swedish fiction. All rights available
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Philip Teir
Maiden Lane
A wise yet light‐hearted story about slow‐burning passion, about beginnings and endings, this novel is Marriage Story‐meets‐Normal People‐meets‐Knausgård. When Richard meets the beau ful and slightly older Paula at a Christ- mas publishing party, his feelings are s rred, as if all the pieces of the puzzle of his life have finally fallen into place. A year passes and Richard finds himself increasingly drawn towards Paula, as their friendship gradually deepens through online messaging, chance mee ngs at pub- lishing events and lunches, to – ini ally chaste – breakfasts over the papers at her apartment on Maiden Lane. She is the love of his life, and he hers.
But it is not just the pair who will build a life and home together; Rich- ard’s two children from his marriage to Sonja come to stay with them every fortnight. And with them arise the inevitable fractures and differ- ences in the new family constella on as exis ng and new habits and values collide. MAIDEN LANE is a novel that asks the ques on: ‘How do I want to live my life?’ and the challenges of living under the same roof.
‘In his wriƟng the observant Teir explores the possibiliƟes and impossi- biliƟes of love within and beyond the realms of bourgeois relaƟon- ships...A touching, chaste love story.’ — Dagens Nyheter Rights sold All rights available ‘In a tragic yet beauƟful manner, Philip Teir’s new novel exposes the impossibility of paradise on earth...He writes tastefully and delicately Publica on Wahlström & Widstrand about deeper feelings – never tackily or over the top.’ February 2020 208 pages — Svenska Dagbladet Material Swedish Edi on ‘Philip Teir and Hjalmar Söderberg share the same tonality, without the Finnish Edi on former necessarily imitaƟng the laƩer. Teir’s prose is subtle and immer- Film & TV Rights sive...It is appealing because it speaks of the realiƟes surrounding Rights Available passion.’ — Gefle Dagblad
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Karin Wallén
You, Me and New Year’s Eve
Colleen Hoover meets the film New Year’s Eve meets Anita Hughes in an entertaining and affec ng debut.
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999 and Stockholm is feeling the buzz of the new millennium; fireworks are going off, champagne corks are flying and everyone is dressed to the nines. Despite the glam occasion, Mirja feels red and cold, standing on a roof terrace in the Old Town, desperately lonely in the sea of party‐goers. Sick of her ailing soap‐opera ac ng career, she’s wondering when things will finally start going her way. But, just as she turns to go inside she sees her boyfriend of many years kissing another girl. Admi edly not the best start to a new millennium.
Nearby, Erik isn’t having the me of his life either. Just divorced, he finds out that he is about to lose his job, and what’s worse, the 100 000 kronor that he’s invested in the start‐up he’s working at.
In an apartment down the street, re red judge Monika takes her fire‐ works ski sh dog and goes to her lonely bed, before the clock has even struck midnight.
On the first day of the year 2000, Mirja, Erik and Monika wake up to a new day, a new millennium and a new world, blissfully unaware of how their lives will soon be entangled, and how they will all change irrevocably over the coming year. And, all this with the help of an old video store, a weather sta on, and a very special oak tree.
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Karin Wik
The Academy
Perfect for fans of Carol Goodman’s The Lake of Dead Lan- guages, THE ACADEMY is a haun ng suspense debut about the elusive and secret life of the students of an exclusive boarding school, deep in the forests of the Swedish north‐west and how far we are all willing to go to protect what we hold dear. Many years ago, Ida Rossi, now a journalist in Stockholm, le the Axel- son Academy under a cloud. Axelsons, a pres gious boarding school where tradi on and loyalty come before… well, everything.
Time has not been kind to the once successful crime reporter a er an important story went spectacularly wrong years ago, which has le Ida with severe trauma and an addic on to sleeping medica on. Now, Ida must reluctantly return to the isolated lakeside school deep in the pine forests of western Sweden, to report on the tragic deaths of two teen- age boys who were found brutally murdered on campus some months before. Will her fraught mind cope with being back in the place she has worked so hard to forget?
Once back at Axelsons, Ida is met with suspicion by both students and staff, and everyone at the school seem more interested in keeping the peace and quelling rumours that threaten the school’s stellar reputa- on, rather than helping to find out who murdered the two boys. A convenient scapegoat in the shape of a Polish caretaker has been found, though his guilt is far from proven. When Ida’s cabin is a acked one night it seems that her repor ng might take a dangerous turn. Rights sold As she becomes increasingly drawn into the psychological mind-games Danish: Lindhardt & Ringhof of the equally arrogant students and dismissive teachers, Ida’s own Publica on trauma c memories from the school are brought back to the surface, Bokförlaget Forum April 2021 threatening to derail both her professional and personal life. 270 pages
How far is The Academy willing to go to keep its reputa on, and how Material Swedish PDF far is Ida willing to go to get her reputa on back? English Sample Transla on 75pp (tk) Synopsis (tk) THE ACADEMY is an evoca ve suspense novel with a touch of Gillian Author Le er (tk)
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Caroline Eriksson THE SIMONE BOMAN SERIES
The Simone Boman series is a fresh start for bestselling author Caroline Eriksson, whose debut The Missing sold to 26 countries, and whose books have sold over 340,000 copies in Sweden
COME CLOSER, the first book in the series, is a dark and suspenseful drama, which builds tension layer by layer in the way that Caroline Eriksson has become famous for. Introducing Simone Boman, who in her line of work gets drawn into dark, interpersonal dramas, while wrestling her own demons that threaten to bring down her own family and create an even less convenƟonal marriage.
Swedish tle: KOM I MIN FAMN Published by: HarperCollins Nordic, 2020
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Mari Jungstedt THE ANDALUCIA SERIES
The new series by the interna onal mul -million-copy bestselling author—100,000 copies sold within two months of publica on.
In the new series by ‘one of Scandinavia's best crime writers’ (The Times) we are introduced to new fascinaƟng characters and an evocaƟve seƫng; the Málaga province in the Andalucia region of south- ern Spain, steeped in history and culture. When a presumed accident turns out to be a gruesome murder, Inspector Hector Correa enlists the help of Lisa Hagel, a Swedish university lecturer and trans- lator living to act as an interpreter between the Spanish police and the Swedish witnesses. The inves- ƟgaƟon takes a dramaƟc turn for Correa and Hagel, with clues poinƟng all the way back to General Franco and Spain’s bloody history.
Swedish tle: INNAN MOLNEN KOMMER Published by: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2020
Rights Sold: Danish: People’s Press (1+2), Finnish: Otava (1+2), Spanish: Maeva (1+2) Film and TV Rights: Available
Jona Elings Knutsson TROPIC OF CROCODILE
In the vein of Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks and Swedish literary sensa on Lina Wolff, the author fear- lessly explores the contours of the female experience.
Debut author Jona Elings Knutsson’s TROPIC OF CRODODILE is both a raw and touching depicƟon of loneliness and longing, and a darkly humorous saga, partly based on real events, that will take the reader from Stockholm, to Moscow, and all the way to the stars.
Swedish tle: KROKODILENS VÄNDKRETS Published by: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2020
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Håkan Nesser THE BARBAROTTI SERIES
The award-winning and bestselling crime series about Inspector Gunnar Barbaroƫ who solves crimes in the small town Kymlinge in the south of Sweden. Sold over five million world-wide.
Swedish tle: MÄNNISKA UTAN HUND (1), EN HELT ANNAN HISTORIA (2), BERÄTTELSE OM HERR ROOS (3), DE ENSAMMA (4), STYCKERSKAN FRÅN LILLA BURMA (5) DEN SORGSNE BUSSCHAUFFÖREN FRÅN ALSTER Published by: Albert Bonniers förlag, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2020
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Bengt Ohlsson MIDSUMMER NIGHT DREAMS
In Bengt Ohlsson’s tenth novel, we follow a group of young people into adulthood and middle age, through infatua ons, infideli es and divorce.
It's 1988. A 20-something friendship group go to Roslagen to celebrate Midsummer. During the night, Jenny and Olof reveal that they are expecƟng, and the news fill the friends with a strange feeling. Is it already Ɵme to grow up? But they have all the pre-requisites to create the happiest generaƟon yet. They don't know it now, but their annual midsummer celebraƟon will become a tradiƟon that they keep.
Swedish tle: MIDSOMMARNATTSDRÖMMAR Published by: Albert Bonniers, 2020
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Lydia Sandgren COLLECTED WORKS
A sensa onal August Prize winning literary debut, ten years in the making with sales over over 100,000 copies in Sweden and sold to 14 countries and coun ng interna onally
COLLECTED WORKS is a literary sensation, written with a rare confidence by debut author Lydia Sand- gren; a story about enduring love, the constant presence of the absent, friendships that last a lifetime and art in the borderland of truth and fiction. With as much precision and power in the depictions of the contemporary as in the retrospective, COLLECTED WORKS is a family saga of several generations from a new star of Swedish literary fiction.
Swedish tle: SAMLADE VERK Published by: Albert Bonniers, 2020
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Bo Svernström VICTIMS & CHILD’S PLAY
The previously untold story of the world’s largest music streaming pla orm, soon to be a Ne lix Original series!
VICTIMS, Bo Svernström’s debut, was a major Swedish success with sales of over 30 000 copies na- Ɵonally, with a #1 spot on Akademibokhandeln’s paperback bestseller list in 2018, and with rights sold to 11 territories and counƟng. CHILD’S PLAY is Bo Svernström’s second book, a standalone sequel also centering around Carl Edson’s Stockholm team. Bo Svernström is now wriƟng the third in the series, tentaƟvely called THE ACTIVIST, which is scheduled to be published in spring 2022.
Swedish tle: OFFRENS OFFER, LEKARNA Published by: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2018, 2020
Rights Sold: Czech: Grada (2), Dutch: HarperCollins Holland (1+2), Finnish: WSOY (1+2), French: Denoël (1+2), German: Rowohlt (1+2), Italian: Longanesi (1+2), Norwegian: Cappelen Damm (1+2), Polish: Foksal (1+2) Film and TV Rights: Available
Andrzej Tichy PURITY
An intense, polyphonic story collec on by an important and acclaimed voice in contemporary Swe- dish literature.
In PURITY, Andrzej Tichý combines a short-form, mulƟ-faceted narraƟve of the chaoƟc outbursts with- in the relaƟve order of society. With weight as well as humour, people are depicted as fallen—those who are in the process of doing so, and those who are sƟll waiƟng to fall—all against the foundaƟon of a violent civilizaƟon that tries to seize the meaning of one's own death sentence, rendered by Tichý with a fury of words in the style of Thomas Bernhard and an intensity of form akin to Fernanda Mel- chor’s Hurricane Season.
Swedish tle: RENHETEN Published by: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2020 Op ons: Czech: Argo, English (W): & Other Stories, Polish: Pauza Non-Fic on Film and TV Rights: Available
Maria Gunther SMART
In the style of David Epstein’s Range, SMART is an authorita ve and engrossing big think book about what science has to say about intelligence.
Doing for intelligence what Susan Cain’s Quiet did for introverts, and what Michael Lewis’s The Big Short did for our understand of economic crises, SMART aims to change the trajectory of the general discussion, telling us what the facts are while simultaneously debunking myths, quesƟoning poor research, and discussing the ethical ramificaƟons of research in the field. In a clear and accessible style, Maria Gunther has wriƩen an urgently important book in which the reader is invited to a fact- packed and well-researched, yet personally-engaged, journey of finding out what it really means to be smart.
Swedish tle: SMART: Vad vetenskapen säger om intelligens Published by: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2020 Rights Sold: All rights available Film and TV Rights: Not Available International Co-Agents, Exclusive Representation
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