The bestseller lists for week 22 see Jo Nesbø’s Knife appear at No. 2 in the paperback category, closely followed by Jørn Lier Horst’s The Inner Darkness at No. 3. Hedvig Montgomery grabs a No. 3 placement as well, featuring on the nonfiction list with The Adolescent Years.
Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes again feature on the monthly list for children’s books in Norway. Their Operation Trickster is No. 3 on the list, staying at the same placement for the second consecutive month.
The nominees for the 2020 Golden Screen Awards have been revealed. The Golden Screen (Gullruten) is the annual award for the Norwegian TV industry and their equivalent to the American Emmy Awards.
Pål Sletaune and Sara Johnsen are both nominated for their lauded TV series 22 July, Sletaune for ‘Best Director’ and Johnsen for ‘Best Script’. 22 July is also nominated for ‘Best TV Drama’. Øystein Karlsen, creator of the success series Exit, is nominated for ‘Best Script’ and ‘Best Director’ alongside Exit’s nominations for ‘Best TV Drama’ and ‘Best Innovation’. The much acclaimed TV series Witch Hunt, created and written by Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen, is also nominated for ‘Best TV Drama’.
The winners will be announced on July 19 and the award show will air on TV 2 Norway and TV 2 Sumo.
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.”
North Macedonia, Antolog
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
North Macedonia, Antolog
Two-book deal closed by Emma Granberg
China, Beijing ST
Closed by Emma Granberg
Arab World, Al Arabi
Closed by Emma Granberg
Spain, Duomo
Closed by Linda Andersson
UK, Bloomsbury
Closed by Josephine Oxelheim
With echoes of such writers as Carl Hiaasen and Christopher Brookmyre, this is delicious stuff, expertly juggling dark humour and quirky characterisation against the backdrop of a frigid northern landscape.
– Financial Times
Baasmo is remarkable in the leading role. There’s something about him that makes us feel a kind of desperate sympathy for him, even when he’s at his worst.
– VG
This [adult fiction] debut is captivating – and at times frighteningly relatable. /…/ Villadsen has written a gripping plot, and the reader is on edge from the first page.
– Littuna.nu
Calm, methodical, and quietly gripping – classic Nordic noir precision.
– The i Paper
[SON is] definitely a promising start of a series. And the double cliffhanger right at the very end is masterful and elevates the final score another notch.
– Adresseavisen
Diamonds and Rust is a story about wounds that never heal, about envy, betrayal and revenge, and about a crime so well and thoroughly thought out that it may never be solved. Not unless Hanne Wilhelmsen gets a chance to try.