Sirkel Forlag was set up in 2016 as an author´s cooperative enterprise. As of today, we represent six authors and have a catalogue of eight books, including poetry, non-fiction, an illustrated children’s book, a screenplay and four novels. Two of our novels have been supported by the Norwegian Arts Council. While our main mission is to promote innovative and independent authorship in Norway, we also hope to reach readers abroad through high-quality translations.
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Fagervik forlag was founded in 2019 - with the sole purpose of publishing Lene Lauritsen Kjølners novels about the funny private detective Olivia Henriksen - and other projects that might pop up from this author. The latest addition beeing the first book in the feelgood-series about Petra Pettersen. "Petra Pettersens perfect plan - eight weeks till Christmas". Obviously a christmas novel, and not crime this time. Lene is currently working on Olivia 8 - due to be published in june 2021. The author are from - and lives - in the archipelago in southern Norway, and all her novels take place in beautiful, idyllic surroundings - but with a twist, lots of humour and only one litte murder in each book. Petra has not yet experienced anything bloody - just a complicated love life...
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Son of Man by Sylfest Lomheim offers a groundbreaking retelling of the life of Jeshua, the figure known to the world as Jesus. This novel departs from traditional gospel narratives, providing a fresh and humanized perspective on Jeshua's journey from a modest upbringing in Nazareth to becoming a profound prophet. Through vivid storytelling, Lomheim explores the struggles, wisdom, and humanity of Jeshua, presenting a story that challenges conventional beliefs while deeply engaging readers. A narrative filled with historical accuracy and compelling details, Son of Man invites both believers and non-believers to reimagine the story of one of history’s most influential figures. It’s a tale that resonates with modern audiences, blending the sacred with the ordinary, and offering new insights into a life that has shaped Western civilization.
Å bli eldre – uten depresjon by Erik Wibe is an insightful guide that offers practical advice and heartfelt reflections on the journey of aging. Drawing from his own experiences as a 90-year-old, Wibe tackles the challenges and opportunities of growing older, from finding suitable housing and maintaining social connections to embracing new technologies. This book serves as both a manual for those navigating the later stages of life and a source of wisdom for younger generations looking to understand what lies ahead. With warmth and clarity, Wibe reminds us that aging can be a time of joy, learning, and continued personal growth.
It's 1967, and a young Norwegian family leaves Norway for California, looking for opportunity and the free and easy lifestyle. The young immigrants settle in a nice house in the suburb. The couple both find jobs, and the twin girls go to school. Dad buys a convertible, just like mom always wanted. She invites her three siblings for a Christmas visit. Two of them stay on, and the younger sister finds an American boyfriend. Every one wants a piece of the American pie, but the price gradually dawns on the blue-eyed immigrants, as they discover simmering racial divides and unrest over the Vietnam war, and watch the terrifying assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy on the nightly news. The American dream is bittersweet.
A young Jewish girl, Anna Sophie, is magically caught inside a brick wall during World War II, while German soldiers are raiding the library where she works. Just as magically, her presence inside the wall is discovered seventy years later by a young Muslim immigrant named Yakamoz. The wall in this story can be found in real-life central Oslo, next to the National Library, where Anna Sophie worked. Is The Man and the Wall fantastic realism, or is it realistic fantasy? Whatever it might be, the story of Anna Sophie and Yakamoz keeps you captured till The End.
On a quiet Thursday night, police officers arrive at Ingrid's door carrying a terrible message. Sondre is dead. Ingrid is told that her son was hit by a train after walking into an underground tunnel. The police have already decided that the young man committed suicide. He entered the tunnel of his own free will, dressed in a black suit and white shirt. Ingrid is not that easily convinced. How is it even possible, that her lively, bright and strong-willed boy could have killed himself? Why? Immediately after the funeral, she starts acting on her doubts. But her desperate search for answers is met with a wall of secrecy, lies and deception. This only makes her more adamant. She can't even grieve, until she finds out what led to her son's demise.
Mahin is born in a small village in the Soviet republic of Tajikistan. As a beautiful and stubborn young girl, she marries against the will of her father. Destiny strikes hard when she gives birth for the first time. The forces of nature are violent. Her baby dies, and Mahin recedes into a world of grief and loneliness. After her husband abandons her, Mahin finds a new life in the city, with many more challenges. The Dance of Life is the story of a vulnerable, but strong-willed woman, and her struggle to gain control of her own life.
The war in Libya has become a humanitarian disaster. This book reveals the dishonest methods that were used to influence world opinion to accept the need for a “humanitarian intervention” in Libya in 2011. It draws a picture of an operation in which a number of actors collaborated towards a common goal: to oust Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi . In 2011, the news media reported that Gaddafi had launched a genocide. Today we know that this claim was false. This book explains what actually happened during the war in Libya, and how everyone was deceived.
On her way home from school, Hope decides to explore a mysterious path across an old stone bridge. She suddenly finds herself in an enchanted place, where creatures of the forest become her guides on a path of discovery. This is a story about Hope, a girl who is bullied by her classmates. Beautifully illustrated, Hope’s Path is an inspiring book for children of all ages, about a girl’s discovery of her own source of inner strength and motivation, and the magical beauty and wonder of nature.
Drømmer om storhet is about a down-on-his-luck 40ish writer obsessed about Paul Waaktaar-Savoy of the rock group a-ha. Hobo has published a few books and poems in the past and now works as a proof-reader for a newspaper. He aspires to write a Nobel Prize winning literary novel, but has a loose grip on reality. He selects Paul Waaktaar-Savoy as his idol, as someone like him who struggled from a little known country to break out on the world scene. Hobo has a penchant for words. His favorite book is the dictionary and, of course, he plays Scrabble with his girl friend Helle. He and his odd friends make for a humorous story laced with actual tidbits about a-ha.
The book provides a complete guide onhow to reduce ongoing neck pain, get rid oflong-term neck pain and how most efficientlyto strengthen your own neck It is writtenin plain language, for all to understand, andgives actionable advice and exercises.The book is part of a series with books onback, neck, shoulder and knee pain.
This is the first book in a new series - planned as a series of at least four. A feelgoody novel - not crime - which takes place just before and at Christmas - with lots of humour, charm, love, conflicts - at a lovely island in the south of Norway. "Petra Pettersen works in a book store. She is married to Einar, fisherman at Hvasser, and has two grown daughters. Its a safe and predictable life, but she is bored. Petra have a dream. She wants to work «with art", but dont know what exactly. Suddenly she experiences a Eureka moment. That occurs just after she baked her traditonal christmas-cake, and just before Einar begins to exercise, but is purely coincidential. Just when Petra thinks she lives under a black cloud, she suddenly see hope. But the plan is not perfect. After all: is the hunky lawyer as good as he seems? Is it wise to participate at a cookery course and dismantle wild boars just before christmas? And what does she really know about her daughters' life? A meeting in a wine cellar might just solve Petras complicated plan. Or maybe not? Perhaps it is aunt Bertha's wonderful Christmas cake that changes everything?"
Mani is a recent economics graduate and has just got a job at the Ministry of Childhood and Adolescence. He’s a young man who lives with his father in an apartment in Haugenstua, a 1960s tower-block development in north-eastern Oslo, and he has a girlfriend he thinks he’s going to marry. He would have preferred to put his skills to use in the private business sector, where prestige and money count, since he is painfully aware that both his girlfriend and the environment around him only see the “public sector” with disdain. It doesn’t pay well either. His new working life implies adjusting to a new set of values in which an old apartment in the city’s old town is coveted more than Mani’s new, expensive apartment in Skillebekk, and in which Mani’s regular kebab shop is “genuine” and ranks higher than the Theater Café. At the same time, Mani becomes a proud contributor to the great common project called The State. Yellow Book is a novel about class and belonging, about the lives we live and what frames them. It is also a tale about where we come from and where we’re going. It’s a long way from Haugenstua to the heart of government.
No-knead baking is theeasiest and best way to get good results. Juststir it all together to make the dough! Thetechnique is brilliant when you want healthypastries, while not having much time, equipmentor previous experience. Best of all, itworks for all types of baked goods, fromsweet cinnamon buns to crunchy pizza traysand lovely fresh bread.
World History. With the past as a mirror is a formidable work. It is a story that takes us back 5,000 years and up to the present day. From the first civilizations in Asia and the Middle East, through the magnificent Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire 500 years ago, to the Industrial Revolution, the colonial era and US dominance, up to today’s uncertainty of China's role, climate and the future of civilization. Throughout this journey, Tvedt shows why civilizations have arisen, empires have perished and how the present can reflect the past. This is a book that provides new insights into the long lines of history and at the same time sheds a clearer light on our chaotic times. In his book, Professor Terje Tvedt asks the big question as to why the world has become what it is. He does so at a time when fundamental doubts are being raised all over the world about many of the explanations that have dominated in recent centuries. He shows how knowledge of world history is absolutely necessary to understand the present, and how stories about the past and present mirror each other. With an infectious enthusiasm, Terje Tvedt shares his endeavour to understand some of the long lines of world history. He also makes clear how such insights affect how we understand our own time and whom we have become.
"Sort gryte" is the seventh novel in the Olivia Henriksen-series. A series the author Ingvar Ambjørnsen described as: "Lene has created her own genre in norwegian crime." Lenes genre is described as hygge-prosecco-cosy crime - set in idyllic island-settings in the south of Norway. Some compare her novels to Alexander McCall Smith, Alan Bradley, Maria Lang and the great Agatha Christie. "The frontman in the death metal-band Frityricom is found dead in a jetty at Ankerholmen. The band participates at the Dark Night-festival. Olivia Henriksen mysteriously stumbles into the case thanks to her brother Oskar, a musician, and her hunky lover, Torstein, which is a local policeman. Olivia has a parallel case going on - one which involves burlesque-dancers and possibly sexual harassment. Who has done it? The womanizing agent? A member of a competing metal band?The ambisious parents of the child star? Or is someones troublesome lovelife a motive? Olivia solves the case, in her usually energetic style."
"When a bird watcher discovers the dead body of deputy mayor Kjell Andersen, floating in the mud in a bird sanctuary, Olivia is quickly on the case. She is already involved in another. closely related case. It seems clear to her that the cases might have something to do with the plans and protest concerning a new monster-bridge in the area. When a dead blackbird suddely appeares on the mayors front porch, nicely put to rest in a shoe box, Olivia goes to action ..."
The bubbling prosecco of crime - the eighth Olivia Henriksen-novel! Olivia investigates mysterious bones and a wedding ring under the hedge in Vigdis Svingens garden. Is it human bones? And who is "Gro", engraved in the ring?While Olivia is knocking on doors in the neighborhood, the most mysterious thing emerges: the romantic novelist Fie Frantzen, Ankerholmen's Barbara Cartland, is found dead, under her own bookshelves and antique typewriters. People do mourn her. The lover, the daughter, the neighbors, the colleagues ... Or do they really?Fie had enemies, something Olivia finds out in her own style. It gets a little complicated when she hangs under a game camera, attends a writing course at Havnehotellet and acts cool in mindfulness yoga, all while her mind revolves around Gro, the bones and the big question: Who killed Fie?After meeting publishers, local writers, the literary elite and wannabees, the solution slowly emerges. For Olivia is on the case, once again in collaboration with, Mona, Ulla, inspector Evert Karlsen and her own, somewhat skeptical lover, Torstein Krohn.
Sofie loves her life as owner of a bookstore and café on the pier in Sandøsund, where her friend Linn helps out when she is not translating books.When her great aunt Agathe moves to Spain and a shared housing for cultural-minded ladies, she gives away her squeaky, old villa as a gift to Sofie. She throws herself at Christmas decorations, jam, cakes and Christmas-yuccas, with the good help from her father and Marcel, who runs the world's nicest hotel.But the hotel's new chef, Francois, makes Sofie's Christmas heart beat in time with Linn's almond chopping. Too bad Sofie's racy sister, Tilde, also likes him. Francois has a past, but a most exciting past - and the future - may lie under the floorboards of Sofie's new house.
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"Shaken, Not Stirred" by Jan Kærup Bjørneboe offers a powerful and hopeful perspective on living with Parkinson's disease. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, this book provides an essential guide for patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers. It demystifies the challenges of Parkinson's while inspiring resilience and joy in the face of adversity.
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"Blücher The Inside Story - Vol 1" by Ronny Arnesen takes readers deep into the untold history of the Blücher, a German cruiser sunk during World War II. Through personal accounts from German soldiers and divers, this compelling narrative uncovers the human stories behind the tragic sinking and the subsequent exploration of the wreck. With a rich blend of historical accuracy and gripping storytelling, this book offers a fresh perspective on a significant event in naval history.
