Between 1941 & 1945 the Am Spieglgrund clinic in Vienna, ostensibly a children’s home for the wayward and chronically ill, was actually a Nazi killing ground, advancing ideals of so-called racial purity through a brutal euthanasia programme. Prodigiously researched and told from the perspectives of a ten-year-old inmate and a nurse, this is a difficult, […]
Girls Lost, the film based on Jessica Schiefauer‘s amazing novel The Boys, is a huge festival and awards success. The movie had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, with other festivals including Rome FF, Chicago FF, Gothenburg FF, Rotterdam FF, Budapest FF, Antalya FF, Newfest/New York and more. The film was also recently nominated for the European […]
Strong and beautiful words from Sebastian Barry in The Guardian today as he reviews Nordin Agency’s Prize winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg‘s latest novel The Chosen Ones. Barry writes that: You don’t so much read Sem-Sandberg as stand in the fiery wind of his prose. He makes his reader strangely complicit in his terrible subjects. He does not […]
A stunning political suspense debut by Camilla Sten! Last night saw the much-anticipated release of Camilla Sten’s debut novel A New Dawn, a dystopian novel of a world not far from our own. Though young, Camilla has always been writing and it was no surprise to the people closest to her when she finally presented […]
Check out this wonderful review for Camilla Sten‘s debut novel A New Dawn. The book is raised to the skies in Go’ kväll on Swedish Television and reviewer Francesca Quartery mentions forcefully that it absolutely has to be dramatized. We couldn’t agree more, of course.
We are thrilled to spread the news that Simona Ahrnstedt and her amazing contemporary romance novel All In gets a starred review in Publishers Weekly today. According to PW “Ahrnstedt neatly balances lusty romance and the tensions of corporate scheming at the highest level. Fans of strong women and powerful men will gladly buy stock in this story.” So don’t […]
When Booklist Online published there High-Demand Hot List we were thrilled to see that All In by Nordin Agency’s very own romance author Simona Ahrnstedt was featured alongside literary giants like Jonathan Safran Foer. All In. By Simona Ahrnstedt. Kensington, $25 (9781496706195). July. Best-selling Swedish novelist Ahrnstedt makes her American debut with this […]
Motivation: One year. The year when Ester and Isak meet. The year when Isak’s brother, Anton, is lured into a world of hate, swastikas and violence. The year when a boy is murdered. Jessica Schiefauer’s novel explains how easy it is to be influenced, the desire to belong. But it is just as much a story about […]
Congratulations to Anna Karolina, Mons Kallentoft, Markus Lutteman and Jessica Schiefauer for reaching the final in Stora Ljudbokspriset.
More happy news for Nordin Agency’s author Simona Ahrnstedt and her novel Die Erbin who came in as the bronze medalist in LovelyBooks.de‘s reader’s choice award Die Leserpreis. The book, published by Egmont Lyx Verlag in October this year, was chosen from hundreds of others in the category for best romance and Simona is the only non-english […]