34 titles
The Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci
Atle NæssAtle Næss paints a broad picture of Leonardo da Vinci. He follows his journey through Renaissance Europe – from the Medici’s court in Florence to the Sforzas of Milan, the Roman…
Dovre Crumbles
Harald BerntsenThis is Norway’s history the last 200 years, written in a way it has never been written before. A writers’ collective on the offensive combines industrial history, political…
Born a feminist
Marta BreenWe hear it all the time: Norwegian women have taken up needlework again, they are baking cookies and cultivating the role of ”housewife”. Seven out of ten young women think ”it…
Female Time Witnesses
Jakob LotheThe quotation comes from the 87 year old Blanche Major from Oslo. In Female Time Witnesses. Stories from the Holocaust, Major and nine other Jewish women talk about their…
Good Glide
Hans Olav HamranWhen do you choose glider or sticky wax? The author of this book spent seven years of research, experimenting and testing before he cracked the code. Now he wants to share his…
The History of the 50km Cross-Country Skiing Race
Thor GotaasThe world’s first 50 km cross-country skiing race was held on February 7, 1888. Several of the runners waiting at the starting line in Holmenkollen had smoked pipes to enhance…
The Story of Edvard Munch
Ketil BjørnstadThe story of Edvard Munch is a biographical novel, where Ketil Bjørnstad builds on Munch's own notes. The story is about the struggle against the uncomprehending contemporaneity,…
The Shadow of Hitler
Anette H. Storeide8. May 1945: Germany has lost the war, Nazism has failed and more than 55 million people are killed. "A zero, a break with the past, now everything will be different," say the…
Farewell Norway
Sverre MørkhagenOn May 17, 1837 the widow Gro Jonsdatter Rue and her son stood by the shore of Tinnsjøen in Telemark. Along with 57 others from the same rural community she was about to embark on…
Munch
Atle NæssIn this intense biography, the reader gets closer to Edvard Munch, to his life as a person and an artist. It is a book about art and love, about strength and vulnerability, about…