Maja Säfström’s Amazing Facts About Baby Animals, published in the Czech Republic at the end of April, went straight to No. 10 upon publication. The official bestseller list for the month of May was just released and we can see that the book has steadily retained its No. 10 position in the category for children’s books in the Czech Republic.
Antti Tuomainen's novel Little Siberia is one of six novels shortlisted for the 2020 Last Laugh Award in the UK, awarded for the best humorous crime novel of the year. A team of British crime fiction reviewers will now select the winner, who will be announced on July 7th.
Grandpa Franz has brought Tiril, Oliver and Ocho on a secret expedition to a forgotten valley where dinosaurs once roamed the plains, millions of years ago. Out of the old bones retrieved from the valley, ten dinosaur skeletal-figures were once made, all decorated with gemstones. Through many years’ worth of research and pursuit, professor Burum has managed to find nine out of the ten valuable figures. Grandpa Franz and Detective Agency Nr. 2’s mission is now to follow in the professor’s footsteps and find the last dinosaur. Join in the search by finding tracks, solving codes and following the clues. Keep your eyes open. The solution is hidden in the text and images – and on the next page.
The Search for the Last Dinosaur is the sixth activity book in the Detective Agency No. 2 series.
Ulf Lundell’s Weekdays 3 is No. 5 on the hardcover list for week 21 in Sweden, and comes in at No. 6 in e-book. Stina Jackson’s The Last Snow features on the e-book list also, where it is No. 4. The Last Snow makes appearances on the hardcover and audio lists as well, where it is No. 7 and No. 6 respectively. Jackson’s debut title, The Silver Road, is No. 10 in audio.
Hedvig Montgomery’s The Adolescent Years grabs the No. 2 spot on this week’s bestseller list for non-fiction in Norway. The paperback list’s No. 2 placement goes to Jørn Lier Horst and The Inner Darkness, book 3 in the Cold Case Quartet. Smoke Screen, by Horst & Thomas Enger, follows close behind at No. 4.
The Inner Darkness, the third installment in the Cold Case Quartet by Jørn Lier Horst, is No. 2 on the biggest online bookstore and second biggest physical retailer in Slovakia, Martinus’, e-book list. The Inner Darkness also comes in at No. 3 on Martinus’ Top 100 list for printed titles.
The Icelandic edition of Niklas Natt och Dag’s debut novel The Wolf and the Watchman, translated into Icelandic by Hilmar Hilmarsson, has been bestowed with the Icepick Award for the best translated crime fiction title of 2019.
The jury praises the novel as “extremely exciting, with a narrative that is compelling and beautifully written, and that Hilmarsson manages to convey in a very convincing and natural way in his translation.”
Denmark’s largest book retailer Bog og Idé’s weekly crime fiction bestseller list sees Arne Dahl’s Freedom claim the No. 5 position for the second week in a row. Meanwhile Stefan Ahnhem’s X Ways to Die claims the No. 6 spot and Anders Roslund’s Knock Knock appears at No. 7.
The Swedish bestseller lists for week 20 see Ulf Lundell claim two No. 2 spots, in hardback and e-book respectively, with his Weekdays 3. Also making multiple appearances this week is Stina Jackson, whose The Last Snow is No. 4 in hardback as well as No. 5 in both the audio and e-book categories. In audio she is accompanied by Arne Dahl who comes in at No. 7 with Freedom, his latest installment in the Berger & Blom series.
The Norwegian bestseller lists for week 20 see Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Smoke Screen, the second title in the Blix and Ramm series, come in at No. 3 in the paperback category. Hedvig Montgomery’s The Adolescent Years, the fifth installment in her Parental Magic series, meanwhile nabs the No. 5 spot in non-fiction.
Netherlands, House of Books
Two-book deal closed by Tor Jonasson
Albania, Dudaj
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
Denmark, Bogoo Books
Two-book deal closed by Linda Andersson
Lithuania, Baltos Lankos
Closed by Emma Granberg
Bulgaria, Enthusiast
Closed by Emma Granberg
Taiwan, Azoth
Three-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
To some extent this is an exercise in literary adrenaline (you can gulp it down in one sitting) but its immersive brio is also hard to shake off.
– Daily Mail
SON is a triumph and should be sought out by anybody who enjoys intelligent, hauntingly memorable thrillers.
– Alfred FM Radio
Swedish author Lisa Ridzén’s debut novel has been a huge success. When the Cranes Fly South is a touching story about the lonely life of an old man in the northern Swedish countryside.
– Yle
Oliver Lovrenski is a gifted author.
– Sunday Telegraph
[Tool] is a novel you keep propulsively reading. Eiriksdóttir has me undividedly interested at once and throughout the entire read. /…/ Eiríksdóttir is an assured author in control of her language, her narrational technique and dramaturgy. (…) I have discovered an author whose books I will be longing for.
– Dagens Nyheter
Psychologist Kari Voss is grieving for her dead husband when she is thrust into a shocking local investigation, when two teenage girls are violently murdered in a family summer home in the nearby village of Son.
