Leif GW Persson and Roslund & Hellström No. 2 and No. 5 in November
The official Swedish bestseller lists for November are out, and Leif GW Persson’s Can One Die Twice? comes in at No. 2 in the paperback category. Not far behind is Roslund & Hellström’s Three Minutes at No. 5.
‘A Man Called Ove’ on the New York Times Best Seller List
Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove, the international bestseller about the loveable curmudgeon Ove, appears on the New York Times Best Seller List for paperbacks once again, claiming the No. 10 spot this week. This makes the total number of weeks the novel has appeared on the list 85.
Jo Nesbø & Bobbie Peers dominate the Norwegian bookstore bestseller list for November
Jo Nesbø’s fifth Doctor Proctor book, Can Doctor Proctor Save Christmas?, is November’s most sold Norwegian children’s book in bookstores. Right after it comes Bobbie Peers at No. 2 with William Wenton and the Luridium Thief. In fact, the entire William Wenton series makes an appearance on the list, claiming the No. 6 (William Wenton and the Orbulator Agent) and No. 11 (William Wenton and the Cryptoportal) spots as well.
Anonymous Content options Lars Kepler’s ‘The Hypnotist’ and ‘The Sandman’ for TV and film
It is now official that Anonymous Content has optioned Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna Series, and will start with both a film adaptation of The Sandman which Kepler and Niclas Salomonsson will executive produce, and a TV series adaptation of The Hypnotist that Anonymous Content has set at Paramount Television through the company’s first look deal. Anonymous Content’s Kerry Kohansky-Roberts and Steve Golin (The Revenant, Spotlight, True Detective) will executive produce the series, and they will produce the feature film.
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‘Three Minutes’ No. 2 in Sweden
Roslund & Hellström’s Three Minutes doesn’t budge from its No. 2 spot on the official Swedish bestseller list for paperback fiction this week. Three Minutes is the gripping second installment in the series about the successful infiltrator Piet Hoffman.
‘In Every Moment We Are Still Alive’ a January 2018 Top Ten title in Canada
Tom Malmquist’s haunting and powerful In Every Moment We Are Still Alive has been voted a Loan Stars January 2018 Top Ten title by library staff all across Canada. The Loan Stars Top Ten list is a curated list of the titles that will be published that month, carefully selected by library staff who wish to share their top picks with readers.
Stefan Ahnhem and Jørn Lier Horst No. 3 and No. 5 in Norway
Stefan Ahnhem’s Eighteen Below Zero claims a spot on the official Norwegian bestseller this week as well, coming in at No. 3 on the list for paperback fiction.
Jørn Lier Horst’s The Katharina Code likewise continues to feature on the hardcover list, claiming the No. 5 spot this week.
‘Operation Mummy’ and ‘William Wenton and the Orbulator Agent’ on the November bestseller list
The official November bestseller list for children’s fiction in Norway has been released, and Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes come in at No. 2 with their Operation Mummy, the twelfth installment in the Detective Agency No. 2 series. Bobbie Peers’ third William Wenton book, William Wenton and the Orbulator Agent, claims the No. 5 spot.
‘The Electric State’ published in Sweden
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA, where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside along with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline. As their car nears the edge of the continent, the world outside the window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.
Simon Stålenhag is the internationally lauded artist and author of Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood, the narrative art books that stunned the world with a vision of an alternative 1980’s and 1990’s Scandinavia, where technology has invaded the tranquil landscapes to form an entirely new universe of the eerie and the nostalgic. Now, Stålenhag turns his unique vision to America in a new narrative art book: The Electric State.
‘The Man Who Died’ one of the ‘20 best crime books of 2017’
Antti Tuomainen’s The Man Who Died, a critically lauded thriller brimming with the black comedy of life and death, has been named one of the ‘20 best crime books of 2017’ by the Irish Times.