Björn Natthiko Lindeblad’s I May Be Wrong enters the Sunday Times Bestseller List for hardcover nonfiction at No. 8 this week in the UK.
Kristina Ohlsson’s Icebreaker comes in at No. 5 in e-book and No. 7 in hardcover on this week’s official bestseller lists in Norway, meanwhile Storm Watch grabs the No. 3 spot on the paperback list.
Just published in Iceland, Heine Bakkeid’s third Thorkild Aske installment We Shall Not Awaken goes straight to No. 1 on the bestseller lists for all books and formats of leading book retailer Eymundsson.
Jørn Lier Horst’s A Will To Serve claims two spots on this week’s bestseller list for Saxo, Denmark’s biggest online book retailer. The book comes in as No. 1 on the list for e-books and No. 3 for audiobooks.
The second season of hit crime drama Bäckström premieres today, February 28, on C More and subsequently on TV 4 March 8.
Murder isn’t often good news. But Detective Sergeant Evert Bäckström (Kjell Bergqvist) can’t help but rejoice when he is told that Thomas Eriksson, a celebrity lawyer and his rival, has been killed. Bäckström’s good mood is however spoiled when he is assigned to the frustrating case and finds the list of people who wanted Eriksson dead to be endless.
Bäckström Season 2, directed by Andreas Öhman and Manuel Concha and written by Jonathan Sjöberg and Dennis Magnusson, is based on the novel The Sword Of Justice by acclaimed author Leif GW Persson.
Jørn Lier Horst’s The Katharina Code, just published in paperback in France, is No. 1 on the French bestseller list for crime fiction.
Ever since his arrest in Israel in 1979, the name Stig Bergling has been synonymous to espionage. He has been portrayed as a master spy and a true original. A lady’s man, married many times over but never to the love of his life. Time after time, he eluded Swedish justice, not least through the spectacular prison escape in October 1987.
But was Stig Bergling the spy all that successful? Who benefited from his escapades and who was sacrificed in order for him to gain his freedom? Jonas Bonnier’s skillfully constructed novel Fandango Calling challenges the myth surrounding Bergling and invites the reader to a breathtaking adventure in the bizarre world that agents live and work in.
Steinar Bragi’s The Disturbance is nominated for the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize. Instituted in 1962, the Literature Prize has since been awarded annually to a work of fiction written in one of the Nordic languages that is of “high literary and artistic quality”.
The winner will be announced on November 1st in Helsinki, Finland.
The jury says about the The Disturbance:
“The questions that arise during the reading of this novel are the big questions on the ethics of science and the present day. Some of them are familiar: When will artificial intelligence become so powerful that it will be indistinguishable from human intelligence? If the imitation of human intelligence can be perfected, will it be more perfect than the intelligence that each of us has been given? In films and literature, conflicts are often portrayed between humans and supercomputers, cyborgs or aliens. Such clashes usually end with the human spirit winning a narrow victory, which relies on mankind’s ability to love and believe – but who says that this is not also something that can be learned?”
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The official Finnish bestseller list for the month of January is out. Björn Natthiko Lindeblad’s I May Be Wrong comes in at No. 2 on the list for non-fiction e-books, while Måns Mosesson’s Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii claims the No. 5 spot on both the e-book and audio book lists in the same category.
Hit crime drama series Top Dog is returning for round two on C More and filming is underway.
Season 2 takes off two years after the events of the first season. Teddy has risen in rank, while Emily has been given a new assignment as a business lawyer. Both soon end up facing moral dilemmas that put their entire world in turmoil.
The second season is freely based on bestselling Swedish author Jens Lapidus’s books The VIP Room, Stockholm Delete and Top Dog.
Hans Jörnlind, Charlotte Lesche and Axel Stjärne are the writers of season 2, with Alexis Almström and Ahmed Abdullahi directing.
The premiere date is yet to be announced.
Croatia, Egmont
Closed by Emma Granberg
Brazil, Companhia das Letras
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Sri Lanka, Sunera Publishers
Closed by Emma Granberg
Spain, RBA
Closed by Tor Jonasson
Lithuania, Lectio Divinia
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
If you had to name one writer who has the knack of describing human relationships and their difficulties, a good answer would be the Swedish Moa Herngren. /…/ Herngren skillfully shows how family secrets and silence affect relationships between family members.
– Helsingin Sanomat
A touch of magic resonates from the very first sentence, a magic that permeates the entire novel. /…/ Mr. Saito’s traveling cinema is a sensitive and reflective coming-of-age story that, through its multifaceted, sometimes quirky, but above all endearing characters, offers a heartwarming exploration of growing up and friendship.
– Literaturkritik.de
An exceptionally successful Norwegian/French collaboration. (…) The result is a well-composed and thoroughly crafted crime narrative with a rich and complex cast of characters. Brilliant craftmanship.
– Verdens Gang
[A] breathtaking thriller.
– France Dimanche
[T]his is a thriller of palpable tension where every silence holds a piece of the puzzle.
– Trends in Riviera
A serial killer plagues summertime Oslo, and Harry Hole is teamed up with his archenemy Tom Waaler to crack the case. The murders bring up questions of fidelity and betrayal, while Waaler enlists Harry in his clandestine band of police vigilantes, imposing their own brand of justice. Harry is forced to settle the score with Waaler once and for all, and at the same time solve the riddle of the devil’s star. In a breath-taking chase through Oslo, Harry manages to do both.