Catalogue - Brandt New Agency

Spring 2016
Finding, encouraging and cultivating literary talent
Brandt New Agency is based in Barcelona,
but has close ties to the Scandinavian market.
By finding, encouraging and cultivating literary
talent, we aim to offer a literary smörgåsbord
of the best and most innovative new fiction,
non-fiction, edgy titles and literature for young
people, with a focus on the exciting emerging
generation of authors, especially from
Scandinavia, Spain and Catalonia.
Authors
Ramzy Baroud
Iolanda Batallé
Boel Bermann
Elin Boardy
Mattias Boström
Roger de Gràcia
Álvaro de la Rica
Ingrid Elfberg
Åsa Ericsdotter
Mattias Gardell
Erik Granström
Emma Hamberg
Katerina Janouch
Jonas Jonasson
Sara Kadefors
Mats Lerneby
Christin Ljungqvist
Patrik Lundberg
Lluís Llort
Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel
Sara Paborn
Tony Samuelsson
Danny Wattin
Ramzy Baroud
Gaza, Palestine, 1972
Ramzy Baroud, an American-Arab journalist and media
consultant with a PhD in Palestinian Studies from
Exeter University, has given lectures in many
universities throughout the world on subjects ranging
from human rights and international politics to the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter:
Gaza’s Untold Story
Original language: English
Pluto Press, London, 2010, 232 pages
Genre: non-fiction
Foreign rights sold:
Éditions Demi Lune
(France),
World Books Publishing
(Arabic),
Sansuya (Korea)
Gaza is the frontline in the conflict between Israel and
the Palestinians and rarely out of the news. This book
explores the daily lives of the people in the region,
giving us an insight into what is at risk in each round
of violence.
Ramzy Baroud tells his father’s fascinating story. Driven
out of his village to a refugee camp, he took up arms
and fought the occupation while raising a family and
trying to do the best for his children. Baroud’s vivid
and honest account reveals the complex human
beings; revolutionaries, mothers and fathers, lovers,
and comedians that make Gaza so much more than
just a disputed territory.
Forthcoming title:
Exiled: A People’s History of Palestine, 2016
Iolanda Batallé
Barcelona, Spain, 1971
©Eddy Kelele
Equipped with a fresh, agile, yet sharp voice, Iolanda
Batallé faithfully transmits human passions and the
doubts and reflections they provoke.
Anything and Everything
Original language: Catalan
Columna, Spain, 2014, 195 pages
Original Catalan title: Faré tot el que tu vulguis
Genre: fiction
“There is nothing more deceptive than infatuation.
Even more when it’s someone who falls in love for the
first time at forty.” Nora, a married woman in her forties with a secret,
Foreign rights sold:
Planeta (Spain, in Spanish)
27 weeks
in the top ten!
meets Nacho, a young biologist, on an airplane,
and is unfaithful to her husband for the first time.
This meeting gives rise to a game of dependency and
passion that Nora draws on to create the pictures
for her forthcoming exhibition.
Anything and Everything is the journey of the awakening of a woman emotionally trapped by a conventional
marriage to love, sensuality and sexuality. It’s a novel
where the protagonist learns to do what she wants and
not what others want: the transformation from “I will do
whatever you want” to “I will do everything that I want.”
The Precise Limit of Our Bodies
Author: Iolanda Batallé
Original language: Catalan
Ara Llibres, Spain, 2011, 144 pages
Original Catalan title: El límit exacte dels nostres cossos
Genre: fiction
Foreign rights sold:
Gadir (Spain, in Spanish)
The brief but intense short stories hidden in this book
compose a portrait of our lives – what we have and
what we imagine we want – using the building blocks
of infidelity, affection, sex, love ... but above all, desire.
The Precise Limit of Our Bodies is an intriguing fresco
of 21st century life. The intensity of the stories, and their
ability to surprise and move us in a few short pages,
are suggestive of Raymond Carver. Using sparse but
incisive brush-strokes, Iolanda Batallé portrays our
lives and times, the small triumphs and the constant
questions, topped up with love, frustration and
bewilderment.
The Memory of Ants
Author: Iolanda Batallé
Original language: Catalan
Ara Llibres, Spain, 2009, 257 pages
Original Catalan title: La memòria de les formigues
Genre: fiction
Foreign rights sold:
Gadir (Spain, in Spanish)
Sample available
Joana has stopped chasing success: instead she
spends her time cleaning up the beach with a tractor.
As the machine traces drawings on the sand, she
magically relives her past. This voyage gradually
reveals her introduction to love, her relationship with
her grandmother and mentor, her conversations with
her husband and the traces left by those no longer
here. Small remnants of a life full of little fables and
discoveries, like the ants that carry home to their nests
all the things they encounter in their path. A novel
composed of moving stories whose heartfelt words and
wisdom reveal the true plot: the tapestry of existence.
Boel Bermann
Stockholm, Sweden, 1979
©Johan Wistbacka
Praised dystopian debutant author who combines her
interest for fantasy, science-fiction and horror with
working in the Swedish video game industry.
The New Children
Kalla Kulor Förlag, Sweden, 2013, 205 pages
Original Swedish title: Den nya människan
Genre: dystopian fiction
What happens when all the new children being born
aren’t normal?
Sample available
No children are being born and the world is in shock.
After a few years, women begin to get pregnant again,
but the new children are not like children used to be.
They don’t play games or show emotions, they only
watch silently. Against her will, Rakel becomes involved
when she kills one of the new children. She is among
the first to realize that the new generation is a threat to
humanity’s very existence.
More children are born and they develop faster than
normal humans. After a brutal incident at work, Rakel
escapes: From anxiety and betrayed love, seeking
solace in drink and the company of strangers. Until
she discovers something …
Elin Boardy
Gothenburg, Sweden, 1979
©Lisa Irvall
Boardy’s personal and unique novels radiate authenticity and give women from the past a voice. Characters
and historical periods come to life in a language that is
exact, beautiful and mature.
The Story of Mary Jones
Wahlström & Widstrand, Sweden, 2014, 254 pages
Original Swedish title: Mary Jones historia
Genre: fiction
Winner of Tidningen Vi
Literary Prize
The Story of Mary Jones is an adventure about
Treasure Island, Long John Silver, pirates, and parrots,
but narrated from the perspective of kitchen maid Mary
in the form of a journal.
Young Mary is packed off to Bristol to earn her own
living, and stumbles into a job as a skivvy at the Spyglass tavern, and finds that her master is none other
than the infamous Long John.
Silver and his wife Dolores become Mary’s only friends
and, before long, almost like surrogate parents.
The Story of Mary Jones is a homage to a great classic
novel in which the perspective is reversed, and the
women step up and become the protagonists. In this
version we learn about the kitchen work, the body’s
secrets and intimacies, the fear of violence in a lawless world, the love and the sorrow. This is a playful,
charming, skillfully and sparely written novel, where
Mary speaks with a clear and personal voice, entirely
independent from the classic vision of Long John Silver
and Treasure Island.
Towards the Light
Author: Elin Boardy
Wahlström & Widstand, Sweden, 2011, 227 pages
Original Swedish title: Mot ljuset
Genre: fiction
During the aftermath of World War II, 24-year-old Elly,
who nurtures dreams of becoming a painter and is
drawn to adventure, decides join her little sister Annie
on her honeymoon to Malaya, where Annie’s husband
will practice as a newly-qualified doctor. Elly suddenly
finds herself attracted to a mysterious man called Niels,
and his political awareness awakens something in her.
Towards the Light is a consuming, classically-narrated
drama marked by Boardy’s impressive ability to freeze
details and charge them with meaning. The atmosphere of the jungle is vividly described and Boardy
skillfully depicts the huge but undefined drama of the
mysteries of life and love.
All That Remains
Author: Elin Boardy
Wahlström & Widstrand, Sweden, 2008, 314 pages
Original Swedish title: Allt som återstår
Genre: fiction
Nominated for Borås
Tidnings’ Debut Award
A family saga set in the barren landscape of Sweden’s
wild west coast in the early 1800s. Times are scarce,
and the island’s youth have a burning desire to leave
for something better. Three of Emma’s siblings make
it all the way to America. She, on the other hand, gets
pregnant with the farmhand Emil. Side-by-side they
manage the farm while their brood grows. When Emil
contracts a deadly infection after cutting himself on a
rusty scythe, Emma’s whole world falls apart.
All That Remains is a gripping tale of a woman’s love,
loneliness and vulnerability.
Mattias Boström
Kolsva, Sweden, 1971
©Anna-Lena Ahlström
An expert on Sherlock Holmes, recognized by the
prestigious Baker Street Irregulars and Swedish Crime
Academy.
From Holmes to Sherlock
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2013, 514 pages
Original Swedish title: Från Holmes till Sherlock
Genre: narrative non-fiction
Foreign rights sold:
Modtryk (Denmark),
btb /Rabdom House
(Germany),
Quintano Forlag
(Norway),
Mysterious Press /Grove
Atlantic (US),
Head of Zeus (UK)
Full English translation
and long synopsis
available
A captivating essay on the most famous detective
in the world, a fast-paced and exciting living portrait
of a phenomenon, an icon of popular culture.
This book is about the man and the people who
created the Holmes legend. For the first time, the
fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the creation
and growth of the Holmes myth is revealed. About the
people who, sometimes against their will, made
Sherlock Holmes into today’s iconic figure. The tragic
story of a man who tried to escape from his own invention, and the inheritance that ruined a family dynasty.
It is also the story of unexpected fortune and success,
of actors, writers and readers who, over the decades,
have recreated and renewed the idea of this
most-famous of all detectives, reinterpreting the texts
for modern audiences and bringing Holmes up-to-date:
from the Gentleman-amateur of the 1890s to the quirky
genius that is Sherlock today.
Roger de Gràcia
Barcelona, Spain, 1975
Roger De Gràcia is a journalist, actor and TV-presenter.
His fresh and humorous voice depicts the modern
man.
60 days in Cuba
Ara Llibres, Spain, 2016, 186 pages
Original Catalan title: 60 dies a Cuba
Genre: fiction
60 days in Cuba tells the adventures of a man who,
in trying to find out who he is and not lose more of
himself, renders himself incapable of living in the
moment without dreaming about alternative presents.
Tastes and flavors, sex and the gradual breakdown
of a young but somewhat lost man on an island lost in
time form the background of the story, which begins
when a young couple with relationship problems
decide to spend 60 days in Cuba, travelling separately
with carte blanche to do what they like, and then meet
up again on a specific day and return home – together
or apart.
A literary adventure about being unlucky in love,
a crazy tale full of black humor, promiscuity
and provocation.
Álvaro de la Rica
©Danilo di Marco
Madrid, Spain, 1965
Álvaro de la Rica is a Professor of World Literature at
the University of Navarre and a respected literary critic
whose work has appeared in many newspapers including ABC, El Mundo, La Razón and La Vanguardia.
Don’t Leave Me Behind
Ediciones Alfabia, Spain, 2014, 216 pages
Original Spanish title: No te vayas sin mí
Genre: fiction
Jacob and Claire work together for almost six years.
They become friends and then they fall in love.
However, both are already married and, each in their
own way, fight what seems to be an impossible love.
First, they try to give up on love but, as time passes,
the pain of life, respect for commitments, and even
guilt, ensure that they are, at last, bound together even
more strongly.
Staten Island, Paris, the parks of Boston, and Geneva’s
Old Town, among other places, are witnesses to a
great love story that, perhaps, could have been yours
and mine.
Other titles:
Sept méditations sur Kafka, Gallimard, France, 2014
Kafka y el holocausto, Trotta Editorial, Spain, 2009
Julien Green, en el más profundo del bosque, Ediciones
Encuentro, Spain, 1999
Ingrid Elfberg
©Bengt Alm
Östersund, Sweden, 1958
Ingrid Elfberg is a successful crime writer and proud
IT nerd. Before becoming an author, her creativity was
expressed in her work with interactive media and as an
art director. Her literary career took off when she won
the Swedish Ballograf Prize for her short story
The Storm in 2004.
On Gallows Hill
Bokfabriken, Sweden, August 2016, approx. 350 pages
Original Swedish working title: Monster
Genre: psychological suspense
Erika, a Gothenburg policewomen, is on sick leave,
and returns to her hometown in northern Sweden where
she gets involved in a local investigation of what, at
first, seems to be a macabre suicide at a place where
criminals used to be hanged. When another man takes
his life shortly after at a site in Gothenburg where
Vikings made ritual sacrifices, the police believe the
deaths are, in fact, homicides. Why did the second
victim receive a video of the torture of the first?
Erika’s older brother is the main suspect, and she
becomes obsessed with finding the truth. Her only
lead is that that they were all classmates in school.
She soon finds out there are several violent incidents
related to this particular school class.
Erika’s investigation takes her back to her and her
brother’s childhood, and leads her to bullying and the
tendency of adults to turn their heads away from what
is too painful to see. It’s about being seen and what
happens when no one sees you…
The One You Should Fear
Author: Ingrid Elfberg
Bokfabriken, Sweden, 2015, 400 pages
Original Swedish title: Den du borde frukta
Genre: psychological suspense
When the body of a successful businessman is found
floating in the river, the national crime squad discover
remarkable similarities with other men who, just like
their victim, had been robbed before vanishing without
trace. The men had all been dating online. Soon, the
police suspect an impostor is carefully choosing
the victims.
Zora, the sister of one of the policemen working on the
case, suddenly gets fired from her successful job and
her boyfriend breaks up with her. Heartbroken, she
starts dating online but soon realizes that a woman
about to turn fifty doesn’t have the same market value
as before. However, just when she’s about to give up
she meets Carl, who seems to be the exception that
proves the rule.
When Carl suddenly vanishes, and with no one taking
his disappearance seriously, Zora decides to search
for the truth by herself. Her quest leads her to dark
family secrets and a hoaxer who seeks more than just
money and precious objects…
Other titles:
Till Death Do Us Part, Kabusa, Sweden, 2013, 343 pages
Say Your Prayers, Little One, Kabusa, Sweden, 2009, 292 pages
Åsa Ericsdotter
Uppsala, Sweden, 1981
©Nadja Hallström
Åsa Ericsdotter attracted considerable attention and
rave reviews with her poetry debut, Oskyld, published
at the age of 17. Since then, she has published six volumes of prose poetry. The Epidemic is her first novel.
The Epidemic
Bonniers, Sweden, August 2016, appox. 350 pages
Original Swedish title: Epidemin
Genre: fiction
Rights sold:
Actes Sud (France)
Sample available
The rising political star, Johan Svärd, has assumed
power in Sweden after a historic victory. The electoral
pledge of the new Health First Party: to eradicate the
obesity epidemic.
Postdoc war-history student Landon is seeking refuge
from political propaganda in the remote countryside.
He meets Helena, an overweight nurse who has lost
her job due to the government’s new rules on
employment. She’s been hiding from the authorities
since her daughter was placed in a special class for
the obese and the school nurse suggested her child
should have lap-band surgery.
When Helena suddenly disappears, Landon sets off to
search for her and becomes aware of the deadly threat
that surrounds him, as the methods of the Health First
Party become more and more spine-chilling.
The Epidemic is a dark depiction of a future not far over
the horizon where hysteria about diets and political
propaganda have turned discrimination into the norm.
This is a violent political allegory of rising right-wing
extremism in Europe, and about prejudice and scapegoats, food addiction, and political personality cults.
Mattias Gardell
Stockholm, Sweden, 1959
©Eva Wernlid
Mattias Gardell is a Professor of Comparative Religion
at Uppsala University, Sweden. He specializes in the
study of religious extremism and Islamophobia and is
one of the world’s leading experts on white supremacist
ideologies. The Race Warrior
Leopard förlag, Sweden, 2015, 448 pages
Original Swedish title: Raskrigaren
Genre: narrative non-fiction
Sample available
A fascinating, disturbing, and timely portrait of
a murderer and far-right racist terrorism in our time.
A documentary novel based on first-hand information
and numerous interviews with Peter Mangs, a racist
and multiple murderer who, for nearly a decade,
baffled the police and instilled fear in the citizens of
Sweden’s third-largest city, Malmö, where about 40 per
cent of the residents are first- or second-generation
immigrants. He attacked Muslims, blacks, Jews,
Romani, and “race betrayers” – white women who
socialized with immigrant men. Mangs expected that
the police would never suspect a well-behaved,
diligent, white Swede. He was right.
When Mangs was finally arrested he was described as
a confused person. Neither the police nor the prosecutor or the media understood that they were dealing with
an extremely ideologically-conscious racist.
Gardell introduces the reader into the world of Mangs
and the ideas that inspire him and other far right
terrorists like Anders Breivik. He also depicts the
personal dramas and background stories of the
victims, providing fuller understanding of the
consequences of far-right terrorism.
Erik Granström
Uppsala, Sweden, 1956
©Cato Lein
Sweden’s most acclaimed high fantasy writer, whose
rich stories about the world of Trachoria have mesmerized a whole generation of readers. Narratives that
combine philosophical and historical depth, humor
and enormous amounts of imagination.
The Fifth Conflux Series
Published by Coltso (Ersatz), Sweden
Genre: high fantasy
Sample and long
synopsis available
Swedish critics have praised the Fifth Conflux series
and the books continue to find new readers. The tale
begins when Colonel Praanz da Kaelve is sent to
investigate a ship that has supposedly smuggled
weapons to the sulfur island of Marjura. The Colonel’s
crew is an odd group that includes a dragon hunter
with a burnt face. During the trip, the Colonel soon
feels that more is at stake than a small uprising on the
island. The holy mountain of Ranz whispers that the
mysterious Conflux, an astronomical event crucial to
the future, is approaching. At the same time, immortal
forces are awakening under the ice of Marjura. These
events will lead to an army of the undead taking over
the island, a dragon being forced to become a slave,
and the immortal magician Shagul rising from his crypt.
When the magician at last returns to Trachoria after one
hundred years, he strives to keep the secret of the forthcoming Fifth Conflux to himself at any cost. However,
an unexpected company of heroes will form to seek
revenge according to the prophecies, including
Colonel Praanz da Kaelve, the dragon hunter and a
wind witch. At the same time, Trachoria’s neighbor and
archenemy, Ransard, is gathering forces to attack the
realm, where political tensions weaken the country from
within. As the Trachorian empire is near collapse and
the Fifth Conflux approaches, the central characters
are all drawn back to the polar isle of Marjura where the
saga began. Their mission is to avert disaster by stopping Shagul’s plans for world domination and let the
seismic and godly course of events that constitutes the
conflux come about. In the end, the magician Shagul
and his lust for freedom stands against the will of the
gods, but he sees himself overpowered and chooses
to be lifted from the pages of the world, rather than
conform to a tale written by others.
The Fifth Conflux series is an epic tale full of philosophical and political twists and turns. Granström’s dark
and enchanting universe evokes names such as Nick
Perumov, George RR Martin, and Ursula K Leguin. The
upcoming publication of Wanderland, the fourth book
about the world of Trachoria, concludes the series.
Titles in the series:
Role-play board game
based on Brimstone
Sleep published in
Swedish (Fria Ligan)
and Spanish (Summum
Creator)
Brimstone Sleep, 2011, 576 pages
Original Swedish title: Svavelvinter
All Little Butchers, 2011, 656 pages
Original Swedish title: Slaktare små
Deeds of Wrath, 2014, 584 pages
Original Swedish title: Vredesverk
Wanderland, June 2016, 570 pages
Original Swedish title: Vanderland
Emma Hamberg
Vänersborg, Sweden, 1971
©Anna-Lena Ahlström
Praised TV presenter, illustrator, journalist, creative chef
and one of Sweden’s best-selling authors of women’s
fiction. The author of the charming and smart feel-good
novels about the restaurant at Rospike station.
Next Stop Rosepike!
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2012, 350 pages
Original Swedish title: Rosengädda nästa!
Genre: feel-good fiction
Tessan is a young woman trapped by a bad relationship and the skewed expectations of others. She
devours cookbooks like other people read novels, but
spends her days serving instant mashed potato at the
hot-dog stand instead of cooking fantastic dishes for
Foreign rights sold:
Aronsen (Denmark),
Piper (Germany),
Juritzen (Norway)
gourmets. She wants something more from life, but
how can she get it?
Thirteen-year old Bror listens to his parents’ muted
arguments about getting a divorce through the
bedroom wall. He pretends he’s going to an imaginary
sailing summer camp so that his parents can have time
to themselves and reconcile. Now, all Bror has to do is
find somewhere to go for the next month!
Jane is an eccentric sixty-year old who cares for small
animals and flings her doors wide open to those in
need. Thanks to Jane’s magical touch, Bror and Tessan
meet at her house. Together, they take off to Jane’s
long-forgotten family home of Rosepike in the Swedish countryside, a journey that will change their lives
forever. A warm and humorous story about unconventional friendship unfettered by age, history or class and
delicious food and the joy of cooking.
In Case of Fire
Author: Emma Hamberg
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2013, 410 pages
Original Swedish title: Larma, släcka, rädda i Rosengädda
Genre: feel-good fiction
Foreign rights sold:
Aronsen (Denmark)
Tessan is determined to transform the dilapidated old
station building in the idyllic little village of Rosepike
into a cozy village inn. Jonny, the couch potato, spends
his time alone lounging on his sofa. His life fell apart
when he failed his physical. Now he’s reduced to doing
the paperwork in the little village’s on-call fire station.
Rafael, dressed in fluttering black Armani, moves into
the village’s large estate. Tremendously elegant
and trailing an alluring scent redolent of secrets,
decadence and adventure.
The three meet in this tale about passion, fear and
having the courage to break free from old patterns.
Spring Pursuits
Author: Emma Hamberg
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2015, 360 pages
Original Swedish title: Vårjakt i Rosengädda
Genre: feel-good fiction
Foreign rights sold:
Aronsen (Denmark)
Tessan’s got it all: her own restaurant, a baby – with
several potential father-figures −, and amorous glances
from a rich landowner. But running the restaurant
by herself isn’t really compatible with being a good
mother.
Suddenly two people turn up in the village offering
exactly the help Tessan needs. It’s great, even if she
can’t really understand why they’re doing this for her.
When she finally finds out, her life and the lives of
Rosepike’s inhabitants are turned upside down.
The third book in the series is about romance, finding
true love, and resolving problems with parents.
Katerina Janouch
©Thron Ullberg
Prague, Czech Republic, 1964
Widely-known sexologist, journalist and bestselling
author with almost a million copies sold of the Cecilia
Lund series.
Skin Hunger
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2016, 208 pages
Original Swedish title: Hudhunger
Genre: erotic
Rosanna Wilde, who’s just turned 40, is an author who
hasn’t written a line for several years and who lives in a
childless, loveless marriage. One day, there’s a strange
man standing in her kitchen − her husband’s friend
Samuel, who’s staying in the guesthouse for a while.
Rosanna embarks on an unexpected emotional
rollercoaster that turns her familiar life upside down.
Skin Hunger is the first of three novels about female
sexuality and opening the door to lust and passion.
The trilogy is about a mature woman’s erotic
awakening: desire and secrets, but also about power,
jealousy and exclusion. But above all about hunger –
life’s blood-red, throbbing pulse.
Forthcoming titles in the Rosanna Wilde series:
The Naked Game, April 2016
Covered in Kisses, Fall 2016
Cecilia Lund Series
Author: Katerina Janouch
Piratförlaget, Sweden
Genre: women’s fiction, suspense
Foreign rights sold:
Mlada Fronta (Czech
Republic and Slovakia)
Sample available
The Cecilia Lund series has proved to be a winning
concept, combining everyday life, relationships, and
family drama with nerve-tingling suspense.
In the eighth book of the series, published this summer,
the compelling heroine is now on her own after her
divorce, recovering her single life, and sharing custody
of her five children with her ex-husband John.
When the series starts, Cecilia Lund is a 36-year-old
mother of four married to John, whom she met in her
early twenties. In addition to being a wife and mother,
Cecilia is passionate about her job as a midwife and
can’t imagine what she would do without her work.
As the story unfolds, we witness Cecilia’s struggle to
keep her marriage together. When a new love enters
her life, Cecilia can no longer deny the obvious.
When crimes occur in the hospital, Cecilia soon
becomes a celebrity midwife. Like a real detective,
she determined to get to the bottom of the riddle. Liked
by many but hated by some, Cecilia’s bravery puts her
family in real danger. She sometimes seems to have
nine lives, and she is impelled to carry on by her belief
in doing what’s right.
Titles in the series:
The Shadow Witch, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2016
Barefoot, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2015
Blood Sisters, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2014
Dragonfly, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2013
The Motherhood, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2012
The Tigress, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2011
The Foundling, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2010
The Sisterhood, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2009
The Betrayal, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2008
Jonas Jonasson
©Sara Arnald
Växjö, Sweden, 1961
The hugely-successful author of The 100-Year-Old Man
Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared and
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden is back with
an intriguing new novel!
Jonasson’s two first novels have been translated into
more than 40 languages and have both topped the
bestseller lists in many countries, while the first has
been turned into a block-busting movie. In all, the two
novels have sold over 10 million copies.
Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All
Author: Jonas Jonasson
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2015, 310 pages
Original Swedish title: Mördar-Anders och hans vänner (samt
en och annan ovän)
Genre: fiction
Foreign rights sold:
BTC Sahinpasic (Bosnia
and Herzegovina),
Colibri (Bulgaria), Harper
Collins (Canada), Panteon (Czech Republic),
Modtryk (Denmark),
Varrak (Estonia), WSOY
(Finland), Presses de
la Cité (France), Carl’s
Books, Random House
(Germany), Psichogios
Publications (Greece),
Athenaeum (Hungary),
Forlagid (Iceland), Keter
Books (Israel), Bompiani
(Italy), Nishimura (Japan),
Open Books (Korea),
Meridiaan, Zvaigzne
(Latvia) Dutch Media
(The Netherlands),
Vigmostad & Bjørke
(Norway), Foksal (Poland), IKP EVRO-BOOK
(Serbia), IKAR (Slovakia),
Mladinska Knjiga (Slovenia), Salamandra (Spain),
La Campana (Spain,
in Catalan), Pegasus
(Turkey), 4th Estate, Harper Collins (UK), Ecco,
Harper Collins (US), Tre
Publishing (Vietnam)
Hitman Anders, recently out of prison, is doing small
jobs for the big gangsters, and would be doing them
quite well if it weren’t for his drinking, which is affecting
his professionalism.
However, his life takes a new turn when he meets a
female Protestant vicar (who is an atheist), and a
homeless receptionist at a former brothel now turned
into a 1-star hotel. The three join forces and concoct
a business proposition based on Hitman Anders’ skills
and his fearsome reputation. The vicar and receptionist
will organise the gangsters’ commissions and work on
PR and business strategies. By using the tabloids’ love
for headlines they’ll attract customers.
If it weren’t for Hitman Anders’ curiosity about the
meaning of it all. In conversations with the vicar, he
turns to Jesus and, against all odds, Jesus answers
him! When Hitman Anders turns to religion, the
lucrative business is in danger, and the vicar and the
receptionist have to find a new plan, quick.
Fast-paced and sparky, the novel combines various
motifs: the misinterpreted messages from the Bible
turned into egoistic incongruities and the consequences of fanaticism and idealization in any religion,
the sensationalist press, the entrepreneurial spirit
and dumb human stupidity – and underlying it all is
the tenuous hope that it’s never too late start again.
Sara Kadefors
Göteborg, Sweden, 1965
©Ulrica Zwenger
Roundly praised author whose sharp and edgy bestsellers appeal to readers of all ages.
His Name was Nathan
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2014, 260 pages
Original Swedish title: Hon som älskade honom
Genre: fiction
Malena is a slave to her turbulent emotions. During
a challenging period of her life she leaves the city to
find tranquility in the Swedish countryside. However,
her encounter with her new environment becomes
everything but harmonious.
The neighboring family, who she rents her little cottage
from, becomes her only security. In particular, she
spends a lot of time with Nathan, the man of the house.
On the surface, Nathan seems to be a steady person
and works with vulnerable children. But Malena soon
notices that, behind his confident façade, there is a
hidden darkness, to which she is compellingly drawn.
Too late, she realizes what the consequences of their
innocent companionship are for both her and her
closest friends.
This is a novel about the power of love and its ability
to heal and comfort, but also to divide and destroy.
A book that depicts our present society astutely.
Lex Novel
Author: Sara Kadefors
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2013, 320 pages
Original Swedish title: Lex bok
Genre: young adult fiction
What if you hate success but your alter ego becomes
incredibly popular?
Foreign rights sold:
Rosinante&Co/Høst
&Son (Denmark),
Planeta (Spain),
Grup62/Fanbooks
(Spain, in Catalan)
Film rights sold:
B-Reel (Sweden)
Lex thinks that everyone except Jonatan is an idiot,
the kind of person who will do whatever it takes to be
noticed and who have their entire future planned before
leaving school. She’d rather daydream and listen to
heavy metal than work on her ‘entrepreneurial skills’.
As a provocation, she secretly creates Maya. Maya is
not afraid of standing out or creating headlines. Maya
has a blog where she shows off and rebels against
anything that smells of success. But what happens to
Lex when the blog becomes incredibly popular?
Other titles:
Never Looking Back, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2012
Home Sweet Home, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2009
Paradise Lane, Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2006
Mats Lerneby
©Nicke Johansson
Gothenburg, Sweden, 1972
Mats Lerneby works as a reporter and researcher on
numerous subjects; new energies, euthanasia, football
and fan culture in Italy, and life on the Eastern European highways. He is also involved in researching and
producing international documentary films.
The Deserter
Skabetti Books and Agency, Sweden, August 2016, 325 pages
Original Swedish title: Desertören
Genre: suspense fiction
Journalist Eric Gallpol is divorced and heading towards
his forties and into bitterness. He has shared custody
of his daughters and is still emotionally paralized by the
divorce. He muses over his past, his relationships, his
shortcomings, the weather and the boring articles he’s
commissioned to do. Until one day, when he’s asked to
write a piece on a missing girl leading him to Rome and
Italy, a place he knows well and where he has good
connections and friends. And Lazio, his favourite team.
But, things aren’t going as easy as planned. It seems
he’s dealing with a case of slave trafficking and illegal
immigration. Through a mysterious and beau­tiful
woman, Erik begins to understand that his personal
des­tiny seems to be part of the problem and has
connections to the Second World War, the Italian
Camorra and his own family. The professional adventure turns personal and he loses control of the surprising situations that occur…
The Deserter is a colorful, entertaining and original
suspense novel set between Sweden and Italy, filled
with contrasts and impressions.
Christin Ljungqvist
Kungsbacka, Sweden, 1983
©Ola Kjelbye
Ljungqvist’s dark, psychological novels have been
appreciated by young and older readers alike. Her
novels about Hanna, on the subject of clairvoyance,
are light and ethereal but, at the same time, distinctive
and unique.
Rabbit Heart
Gilla Förlag, Sweden, 2013, 288 pages
Original Swedish title: Kaninhjärta
Genre: young adult fiction
Foreign rights sold:
Rosinante (Denmark)
Mary and Anne are twins, and so close it’s hard
to know where one starts and the other one ends.
Through Mary’s voice and Anne’s visions they can
function as mediums. And, in what seems to be a
coincidence, they come into contact with a group
of mediums searching for a lost girl, a quest that will
divide and change them – forever. Mary becomes
obsessed with finding the girl, while Anne does
everything she can to make them both turn back.
But the road they’ve chosen will unavoidably lead them
to a life-changing truth. The only person who might be
able to help is Hannah, the famed medium, but she is
determined to stop communicating with the dead and
leave the group behind.
Bird Child
Author: Christin Ljungqvist
Gilla Förlag, Sweden, 2013, 284 pages
Original Swedish title: Fågelbarn
Genre: young adult fiction
Once Hanna had two brothers, Samuel and Jens.
There was only a year between them, but Samuel was
sensitive and careful, while Jens was just the opposite.
Now they are both gone, and it’s all Jens fault. Maybe
Hanna knew what was about to happen, maybe she
could have stopped it. Is that why Jens is back, to get
his revenge?
In Christin Ljungqvist’s second novel for young adults,
Hanna plays the central role in a suggestive, thrilling
drama. Despite the tragedy of her childhood, and the
unexplained things that keep happening to her, Hanna
will tear herself away from the suffocating family ties
and break free.
Song of Foxes
Author: Christin Ljungqvist
Gilla Förlag, Sweden, 2014, 288 pages
Original Swedish title: Rävsång
Genre: young adult fiction
When Finn’s father dies, he has a breakdown and flees
to a life on the other side of the world without telling a
soul. A year and a half later he returns home. Finn’s
head is hurting, the TV turns itself on, and sometimes,
when Finn’s mother talks, it’s in his father’s voice. A
young girl with a magpie tattooed on her arm and an
attractiveness that leaves Finn speechless has moved
into the apartment below. It is Hanna, who sees things
no one else does, and more than she would like to.
Song of Foxes is a freestanding sequel to Rabbit Heart
and Bird Child.
Patrik Lundberg
Busan, South Korea, 1983
©Anna Wahlgren
Patrik Lundberg, born Jong Dae Kim and adopted at 9
months, is a Swedish journalist and columnist at Aftonbladet, Scandinavia’s largest daily paper. His genuine
works ask questions about identity and are witty, young
and exceedingly funny.
Chameleon
Rabén & Sjögren, Sweden, 2014, 224 pages
Original Swedish title: Onanisterna
Genre: young adult
Film rights:
Anagram film AB
The summer after secondary school graduation has
come to an end and Kim is on his first day at catch-up
college. He is the youngest in class and has no other
choice − high school was wasted on beer and loathing.
He and his friends were the popular guys at school,
and dreamt about leaving the sleepy Swedish village
of Sölvesborg for Oslo, Thailand and Australia, but
instead of Full Moon Parties at Koh Phangan, their
nights are spent at the local football club.
The problem is that life changes. A hundred synonyms
for dick doesn’t make anyone laugh anymore. And a
stone-broke 19-year old who lives with his single mum
and has to drive his sister to her after-school activities
every day is a loser.
Kim’s starting to realize that his surroundings are holding him back. He wants to write and have his work
published in the newspapers. But the closest he can
get to the media industry in Sölvesborg is a night job
as a paper boy.
Then he meets Robin, who introduces him to a new
world beyond the testosterone-laden hangout at the
football club.
Yellow on the Outside
Author: Patrik Lundberg
Rabén & Sjögren, Sweden, 2013, 205 pages
Original Swedish title: Gul utanpå
Genre: memoir
Rights sold:
Rosinante / Høst & Søn
(Denmark)
Solbitgil (Korea)
I like meeting new people, but at the same time I feel
uncomfortable when I’m introducing myself. Where are
you from? is a common opening phrase.
Jong Dae was born in Korea in 1983. At nine months of
age he was adopted and taken to Sweden, where he
was renamed Patrik Lundberg and grew up in a regular
dysfunctional family in the small town of Sölvesborg.
When Patrik had an opportunity to study for a semester
in Korea as part of his university studies, everything
was turned upside down. In his birth country he had to
confront the prejudice he’d grown up with. And now he
was suddenly “the awesome guy”, the Westerner who
all the girls wanted. And he realized that, for the first
time in his life, he could punch another guy in the face,
because the other Koreans were smaller, like him.
Yellow on the Outside is a story about exclusion, and
about not belonging anywhere. It is also a life-changing
journey, and a search for a family history and a sense
of belonging.
Lluís Llort
Barcelona, Spain, 1966
©Ana Portnoy
Noir at its best. Intelligent, satirical and humorous
portraits that dissect human weaknesses.
Lluís Llort, is a literary critic and editor of the weekly
Cultura supplement of the Catalan newspaper,
El Punt Avui.
Under the Asphalt
Original language: Catalan
La Magrana, Spain, October 2015, approx. 200 pages
Original Catalan title: Sota l’asfalt
Genre: noir
Foreign rights sold:
RBA (Spain, in Spanish)
Every day in Barcelona, around half a million passengers use the hundred and twenty-three kilometres of
the Subway network. Twenty-seven-year old Marcel
is one of the half-million. One Thursday, he goes out,
determined to find his father, who he hasn’t seen for
twenty years. The night will be long, the friendships
dangerous, the search intense and the result uncertain.
What is the thick layer of asphalt that isolates us from
the hidden subterranean dark? What if it moves while
we’re sleeping? In the labyrinth of tracks, tunnels and
stations, what is true and what is legend?
Llort uses a hypnotic, first-person narrative, sometimes
expressed as interior monologues, to narrate a nightmare that spirals down into darkness, interspersed with
criticism, eroticism, humour and violence. In addition
to his customary sharp dialogue and pinpoint descriptions, Llort adds plot twists and an insider’s vision of
everything to do with the Barcelona metro. Readers
will be amazed by what they do not know about this
underground world.
Collateral Legacies
Author: Lluís Llort
Original language: Catalan
La Magrana, Spain, 2014, 204 pages
Original Catalan title: Herències col·laterals
Genre: noir
Foreign rights sold:
RBA (Spain, in Spanish)
In the early 20th century, Francesca Puigmajor trusts
her beloved father and marries the Grau family’s heir
so that her father can become a shareholder in the
family’s cannery. Soon she discovers that marital life is
worse than expected and there is only one way out of
her domestic hell: killing her husband.
Collateral Legacies tells multiplying, interconnected,
branching stories over one century. Llort provides a
personal vision of human relationships, with large
doses of psychology in his characters, narrative
tension, subtle humor and social criticism.
A suitably noir novel, as we are used to from this
author, an intuitive renewal of the genre.
If the Dead Return
Author: Lluís Llort
Original language: Catalan
La Magrana, Spain, 2012, 217 pages
Original Catalan title: Si quan et donen per mort un dia tornes
Genre: noir
Foreign rights sold:
RBA (Spain, in Spanish)
How does a mother feel when she opens the door and
sees the son who disappeared 14 years ago? How to
react when he doesn’t want to say where he’s been?
Why has he returned? And, above all, what is making
him keep quiet?
Agustin Garcia is about to turn 18. After a family
argument, he takes off with some friends to spend a
few days at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. And
disappears, because he can’t choose the best of the
forks in the road that life and circumstances throw up.
Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel
©Ada Martínez Guerrero
Málaga, Spain, 1974
A young and promising Spanish literary voice with an
original, imaginative and personal humor.
The Great Imaginer
Plaza y Janéz / Penguin Random House, Spain
September 2016, approx. 450 pages
Original working title: Popoulos el imaginador
Genre: historical fiction
This is the story of the greatest imaginer of all time.
His own birth was an inexplicable event that went
against the laws of nature, even though, today, there
are few witnesses who can confirm the facts. Nikolaos
Popoulos was born in Athens at the beginning of the
16th Century, under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire.
He always wanted to be a writer, in order to leave at
least some traces of all the things that his unlimited
imagination had conceived. However, almost as if his
life were cursed, he was repeatedly forced to become
a man of action.
Amid the golden cities and most remote places of a
convulsive era, Popoulos the Imaginer takes us back
to the origins of fiction and shows us glimpses of some
of the main icons of universal literature. A historical
novel that sheds its coat and is transformed into fantasy, with doses of magic realism, adventure, and terror,
and which is, above all a homage to literature itself.
The Hypochondriac Hitman
Author: Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel
Plaza y Janés, Spain, 2012, 224 pages
Original Spanish title: El asesino hipocondríaco
Genre: fiction
Foreign rights sold:
Lit Edizioni (Italy),
Éditions Les Escales
(France)
Sample available
Mister Y. just has to finish one last job as a hitman but
to do this he must overcome a huge obstacle: it’s the
last day of his life. This professional assassin has been
dying from the moment he was born. He has survived
so many diseases that you’d think he was a medical
miracle. Currently working for an unknown client, his
orders are to kill the slick Eduardo Blaisten before he
dies from a stroke, gangrene or the worsening of
Professional Spasm Syndrome.
However, his bad luck frustrates all his attempts to kill
his victim. The book establishes a magical connection
between Mr. Y’s own struggles and the great physical,
psychological and imaginary suffering which tortured
Poe, Proust, Voltaire, Tolstoy, Molière, and all the other
famous hypochondriacs in the history of literature.
The Other’s Dream
Author: Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel
Plaza y Janés, Spain, 2013, 304 pages
Original Spanish title: El sueño del otro
Genre: fiction
Xavier Arteaga is a public high school teacher who
dreams every night that he is André Bodoc, an Editor
of the nightly news. André Bodoc is the Editor of
the nightly news who dreams every night that he is
Xavier Arteaga, a public high school teacher. But
who is dreaming about who? Who is real and who
is dreaming?
Sara Paborn
Sölvesborg, Sweden, 1972
©Anders Kylberg
A writer with a wry, dark style and unique humor.
A beautiful literary diamond awaiting discovery.
One Way or Another
Brombergs Förlag, Sweden, 2015, 195 pages
Original Swedish title: En eller annan väg
Genre: fiction
Sample available
Two very-different sisters on a road trip to Paris with
an Italian boyfriend, a turtle and a black Madonna in
the backseat of a midnight blue Jaguar. A feel good,
coming-of-age story about resolving the past to create
a future.
In a small Swedish village on a hot summer’s afternoon
in 1987, seventeen-old Frida’s elder sister, Marissa,
who everybody says is a painter of genius, returns after
seven years away. Using the urgent need for money
as a pretext, they set off on a road trip through Europe
in search of Marissa’s old art teacher, who might help
them sell the antique sculpture. The mystery behind
the black Madonna fascinates them and gradually,
the journey becomes a trip into the past, revealing their
unequal relationship, and the conflicts, pain and joy
of a shared childhood. The relationship between the
extrovert, bohemian Marissa, who has stopped
painting, and the pensive little sister Frida, who is afraid
of growing up, develops into a drama about trying to
find oneself, about art, music, trust and the will to live
life to the full.
The Rooster and the Sea
Author: Sara Paborn
Brombergs Förlag, Sweden, 2011, 302 pages
Original Swedish title: Tuppen och havet
Genre: fiction
A poetic, suggestive, comic story about the search
for freedom and who you really are.
On a harsh, barren island on the southwest coast of
Sweden, the everyday calm is rudely interrupted by a
Mexican rooster who wakes all the islanders at dawn.
To end the infernal noise, the characters decide to
catch a mysterious wild white mink said to live on the
island, since it’s well-known that mink eat birds.
Everybody has ended up on the island in search of
peace, and now they all get involved in one way or
another. The question is whether the characters are
able to shut out the world or if they need each other
to find themselves?
Family Fever
Author: Sara Paborn
Brombergs Förlag, Sweden, 2009, 230 pages
Original Swedish title: Släktfeber
Genre: fiction
After racking up 107 years, the family aunt dies and the
close family meet up for the funeral and the reading of
the will. However, now that the strongest personality
in the family has died, the status quo between the
remaining family members has changed and, for a few
hot summer weeks, life in the countryside is turned
upside-down. Perhaps reconciliation is possible after all.
Family Fever is an enjoyable, hilarious and absurd story
about a family and the old saying that blood is thicker
than water.
Tony Samuelsson
Karlskrona, Sweden, 1961
©Kalle Assbring
Considered one of Sweden’s key contemporary
authors. Praised for his literary qualities, strong
characterization and the important questions he
asks about fascism and the role of intellectuals.
The Kafka Pavilion
Wahlström & Widstrand, Sweden, 2014, 447 pages
Original Swedish title: Kafkapaviljongen
Genre: fiction
Shortlisted for the
Swedish Radio novel
prize 2015!
Foreign rights sold:
Argo (Czech Republic)
Sample available
The Kafka Pavilion is a counterfactual story and a free
fantasy which, like the well-received I Was an Aryan,
depicts a Sweden after the German victory in World
War II.
The story revolves around author and opponent of
the Nazis, Sigge Eriksson, who we follow from the
1940s after the end of the war and the Nazi takeover in
Sweden, to the 1970s, when Sigge, now a well-known
intellectual, has been forced into becoming part of the
Nazi cultural elite.
Tony Samuelsson asks uncomfortable questions about
the misanthropic cynicism of Nazism, and about
literature as both a source of illumination and a
blinding escapism.
The novel is about evil and oppression, underground
resistance movements and terrorist attacks – and about
denial and man’s underlying defense and survival
mechanisms. But, above all, it’s a story about the faith
both rulers and insurgents have in the power of culture
and, especially, literature, as one of the strongest influences there is.
I Was an Aryan
Author: Tony Samuelsson
Wahlström & Widstrand, Sweden, 2009, 377 pages
Original Swedish title: Jag var en arier
Genre: fiction
It’s the 1970s and Sweden is a natural part of the Nazi
empire that has conquered all Europe. Hitler’s protégé,
Albert Speer, has taken power after the Führer’s death
and has cleverly made the Reich function: politics and
culture are fused together. Hitler’s vision of the Aryan
ideal has been realized. Anti-Semitism is the rule and
the Jews have been deported east of the Ural Mountains.
Thomas is an ambitious sports journalist, brought up
in a powerful Swedish Nazi family. One night he meets
Karin and falls in love.
During an interview with an ex-convict who is now a
famous poet, Thomas is confronted with events from
the past that are now taboo and begins to doubt who
he is and what he has become.
Karin, a young literature student, has joined an antiNazi resistance group. Gradually she understands
she is part of a plan to kill the new Führer.
Danny Wattin
Stockholm, Sweden, 1973
©John W. McCormick
Roundly-praised author whose sharp and edgy bestsellers appeal to readers of all ages.
Herr Isakowitz’s Treasure
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2014, 256 pages
Original Swedish title: Herr Isakowitz skatt
Genre: narrative non-fiction
Foreign rights sold:
La Campana (Catalonia),
Fortuna Libri (Czech Republic), Politikens Forlag
(Denmark), Presses de la
Cité (France), Eichborn
(Germany), Uitgeverij Q/
Querido (Holland), Forlagid (Iceland), Bompiani
(Italy), Foksal (Poland)
Corpus Books (Russia),
Evro Giunti (Serbia),
Fortuna Libri (Slovakia),
Penguin Random House/
Lumen (Spain)
Grandfather, son and grandson set off on a road trip
to Poland. Their mission: to unravel the secrets of their
eccentric Jewish family and find the treasure that
Great-grandfather buried before being deported.
‘My grandfather didn’t tell us much about his
upbringing as a Jew in Germany in the 1920s and 30s.
But one story I was told over and over again was about
the treasure his father buried in the backyard before
he disappeared. When the legend was passed on to
my own son, his reaction was: if you have a family
treasure you have to go and look for it. That’s how my
son, my father and I ended up on a treasure hunt in
Poland.’
The book is a somber but comic tale about one of the
darkest chapters in modern history: a story of survival
and the human impulses that impel these strong,
eccentric characters forged in the shadow
of Nazism.
Excuse Me, But Your Soul Just Died
Author: Danny Wattin
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2009, 250 pages
Original Swedish title: Ursäkta, men din själ dog nyss
Genre: fiction
This is a story about the need for compassion in an
age of extreme individualism. Using the development
and commercialization of reproductive technology as
a starting point, Danny Wattin paints a world in which
we have sacrificed what we need in order to get what
we want. It is a society not so unlike our own; one where brokers sell Ivy league eggs to the highest bidder,
Nobel-prize winning sperm is found online, and pregnancies are outsourced to poor people in foreign lands.
So welcome to a brave and beautiful new world. A
place where ugliness is evil, children a human right
and love only can be found by those willing to risk
everything else.
See You in the Desert
Author: Danny Wattin
Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2007, pages 250
Original Swedish title: Vi ses i öknen
Genre: fiction
Adam Anderzon’s life is the definition of troublesome.
His boss constantly wants him to work overtime, his
girlfriend feels neglected and must be placated with
expensive designer clothes, his parents demand
grand-children, and his prospective parents-in-law
feel he’s simply just not good enough. He has however
one lifeline left, his late uncle Anton’s peculiar last will,
which will turn the young man’s life upside down.
This is a tale about shameful family secrets,
holier-than-thou politicians, repulsive mothers-in-law,
sexually frustrated life-style addicts and cats suffering
from Tourette’s syndrome. But it is also a love story.
Treehouse Boy
Author: Danny Wattin
Langenskiöld, Sweden, 2013, 213 pages
Original Swedish title: Pojken i trädkojan
Genre: children’s fiction 9-12
Foreign rights sold:
Albatros (Czech
Republic)
Johan is ten years old and lives alone in a treehouse
in the middle of the forest. Most of the time he enjoys
his life in the wild, together with the squirrel, Mimi, and
the rest of his animal friends. Johan keeps his distance
from the grown-ups, because he’s afraid they’ll put
him back in the orphanage. The only thing that is really
missing in his life is learning how to read all those
books he’d found and brought home. One day, he
meets a strange, tall man called Molvidsson who knows
absolutely nothing about children but everything about
books, and loves to read. So he decides to help Johan
fulfill his biggest dream − to be able to attend school −
by pretending to be his father. Unexpectedly, Johan’s
life takes a new, and not wholly uncomplicated, turn.
Treehouse Boy is a beautiful story about belonging
and having a home. With his unadorned, easy-flowing
language, Danny Wattin has created a modern but timeless Mowgli-like saga, full of humour and unexpected
events that turn your thoughts to the worlds of Roald
Dahl and Astrid Lindgren. The story expresses simple,
tender wisdom that is brought to life by wonderfullywhimsical characters, absurd schoolyard revolts,
explosive love letters and arm-wrestling principals.
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