Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People has just been published in Russia and is currently No. 1 at Moscow Books – one of the country’s largest book retailers.
What ought one do with one’s life? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal.
Then everything changes. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother – its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The most dire of these financial problems appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters, now keen to get their money back.
In the adventure park, Henri also crosses paths with Laura, an artist with a checkered past. As the criminals begin to collect their debts and as Henri’s relationship with Laura deepens, he finds himself faced with situations and emotions that simply cannot be pinned down in his spread sheets.
The first installment in a forthcoming trilogy, Antti Tuomainen’s The Rabbit Factor is a darkly comic novel about love, death and insurance mathematics.
A search and rescue team is sent into the remote and isolated Icelandic highlands to search for a group of missing people. What compelled them to enter the area in the middle of the harsh winter, into darkness and snowstorms? And why did they leave what little shelter they had, underdressed and vulnerable to the harsh conditions?
Meanwhile at the isolated radar station in Stokksnes, strange events take place. Here nothing is what it seems. Be it the pool of blood discovered in the pristine snow far from civilization, a small children’s shoe unearthed after being buried for decades or the gaping black hole in the bedrock by the sea that seems to attract people…
The Prey is a blood-curling and unnerving novel, guaranteed to make you shiver. In this stunning stand-alone thriller Yrsa Sigurdardottir proves once again that ”she is a generator of fear quite as adroit as such writers as Stephen King” (The Independent).
The Mirror Man, the latest title from the internationally acclaimed author duo Lars Kepler, is No. 1 in Sweden also this week. For the third week in a row, the novel is No. 1 in the three categories hardcover, e-books, and audio.
Operation Red Ribbon, Jørn Lier Horst & Hans Jørgen Sandnes’ eighteenth Detective Agency No. 2 book, is No. 2 on the children’s books bestseller list for the month of October. The No. 5 spot goes to William Wenton and the Centrifugal Catastrophe, the sixth William Wenton book by Bobbie Peers.
Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man claims the No. 1 spot on the Norwegian e-book list, additionally coming in at No. 3 in hardcover. Jørn Lier Horst’s A Question of Guilt is No. 3 in e-books and No. 5 in hardcover. The paperback list’s No. 5 placement goes to Kristina Ohlsson’s To Him Who Knocks.
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman is a nominee for the fifth annual Book of the Year Award.
The Book of the Year Award is the US book club Book of the Month’s prestigious and highly coveted prize, with nominees that represent some of the best and most popular fiction read by millennial women in 2020.
Starting on Thursday, November 13, the book club members will be able to vote for the best book of the year. The winner will be announced in December.
Fredrik Backman’s latest novel, Anxious People, has made it into the semifinal-round of the Goodreads Choice Awards in the Fiction category. The voting period for the semifinals ends on November 15, and a winner will be announced shortly after.
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Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man claims the No. 2 spot on the Slovakian book retailer Martinus’s e-book bestseller list. Jørn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger’s Smoke Screen features on the list as well, where it is No. 5.
Danny, Malik and Christian grew up on the same block on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Once the best of friends, they’re now nothing alike. While Danny went down the path of the criminal, Christian and Malik chose another track somewhere along the way. Now, Christian is a policeman and house-owner with a wife and children; Malik is studying to become a dentist while helping out at his father’s restaurant.
Danny is serving his sixth year in prison for a violent offense when he’s unexpectedly released on parole. The first thing he wants to do is find his old friends. But no one has seen Malik in weeks, and though Christian is part of the police, his search is bound by the limits of the law. But laws have never been an obstacle to Danny. He sets out to find his lost childhood friend.
On Parole is Jonas T. Bengtsson’s fifth novel.
India, Chaaya
Closed by Emma Granberg
Japan, Shinchosha
Closed by Tuttle-Mori Agency on behalf of Federico Ambrosini
Finland, Johnny Kniga
Two-book deal closed by Federico Ambrosini
Denmark, Modtryk
Two-book deal closed by Federico Ambrosini
Czech Republic, Grada
Closed by Federico Ambrosini
Serbia, Laguna
Closed by Emma Granberg
A dark and intense story about people who try to break free from their old lives, but where both society and surroundings refuse to let go.
– ELLE Sweden
Pascal Engman has a drive in his writing and constantly keeps the suspense high.
– Ölandsbladet
What could have been a sad story about old age, [Ridzén] has transformed into an extraordinarily sensitive and vibrant novel. In addition to the main character’s narration, the book also features brief reports from caregivers who take turns caring for him. This unusual way of telling the story shows old age from different perspectives and gives the story an authenticity that will touch you deeply.
– Medium.cz
With her debut novel, Lisa Ridzén establishes herself as a literary voice to watch. (…) When the Cranes Fly South captivates with its empathetic perspective on old age.
– EnVols
The prose is brief and driven, which creates high tempo through the novel’s many twists. The War is a burning portrayal of society.
– BTJ
Recently divorced and disillusioned by life, freelance journalist Desiree Swahn is handed a job by her new boss: to write a portrait of legendary star chef, Pierre Bernard. It’s an assignment far from the prestigious one she’d been promised. But Desiree and Pierre’s meeting will come to be more transformative than she could have ever imagined. Pierre Bernard’s life hasn’t only been filled with culinary accomplishments, but also passionate love and heart-rending sorrow. He takes Desiree on a journey through time, from the Grand Hotel in Stockholm in the 1920s, to Paris and a war-torn London, to a Budapest in upheaval, and the most iconic wedding of the century.
