New Swedish Books. Autumn 2016 1
AUTUMN 2016 The White House Petter Lidbeck THE WH
ITE HOUSE Lilla Piratförlaget Rights: Lilla Piratförlaget The summer holidays are here and Yussef is doing nothing. His friends Anna and Hellman trick him into going over to Anna’s house to fetch her wallet. But it’s not her house at all and he’s accused of burglary. When Hellman later disappears Yussef returns to the house. He shouldn’t have… The White House is a very well written thriller for tweens with quick-fire dialogue, unexpected turns, tense cliff hangers and a real energy to the storyline. With The White House Petter Lidbeck confirms his position as one of Sweden’s leading children’s authors. The Edge, The Cormorant Island Sara Lövestam THE EDGE, THE CORMORANT ISLAND Lilla Piratförlaget Rights: Pontas Agency Cormorant Island is a ghostly island guarded by black birds sitting on their nests and where branches of dead trees reach towards the sky. No one wants to land there. Johanna, Ludde and Olivia spot a man lurking around the island. It looks as if he doesn’t want to be seen. Together the three of them decide to investigate Cormorant Island and are dragged into a murder mystery. In 2015 Sara Lövestam received the Swedish Crime Fiction Academy’s prize for her book Truth with Modification. In the same year her young adult book Fire was nominated for the ‘Slangbellan’ prize, a very prestigious Swedish debut prize for children’s and young adult literature. The Edge, The Cormorant Island raises the bar for children’s and young adult crime fiction with a murder mystery and a story that’s extraordinary. 51