The nominees for the 2024 Adlibris Awards have just been announced. Adlibris is the leading book retailer in the Nordics and the award was founded in 2019 to celebrate the site’s biggest titles. The nominated works have been selected by a jury of Adlibris employees, but the winners will be voted forth by the public.

Liza Ridzén has been nominated in both the “Fiction of the Year” and “Debut of the Year” categories for When The Cranes Fly South. Nominated for “Debut of the Year” are also Johanna Swanberg for Cassi, and Ebba Bandh for A Little Death. 

Amongst the nominated titles in the “Crime Fiction” category are Kristina Ohlsson’s Beyond Rescue, and Lars Kepler’s The Sleepwalker.

Finally, in the “Children’s Book of the Year, Ages 6-12” category, Martin Widmark has received a nomination for The Space Mystery. 

The winning titles will be announced on January 30, 2025.

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Cassi hadn’t always been drinking instant coffee from a PET bottle for breakfast, or numbed her evenings with a bag-in-box. She had gone from being successful, popular and happy, to being frustrated, depressed and wine-soaked in less than a year.

In an impulsive attempt to escape her life, she accidentally buys a secluded cottage in the countryside. But when she moves in, rumors have already spread that Cassi is an experienced self-help guru.

Instead of explaining the misunderstanding, she decides to embrace her new role and begins guiding the locals through their various problems. She creates a new existence with improvised forms of therapy, makeshift yoga and magical stones, and, to her surprise, a few really good friends.

But when has a life built on lies ever been a good idea?

Cassi is Johanna Swanberg’s literary debut; a book about hitting rock bottom and finding your way back, written with both humor and darkness.