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Out of the World

The Wolves of Eternity

The Third Realm

Essays

In the Land of the Cyclops

Knausgaard Seasons Quartet Series by Karl Ove Knausgaard

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 3)

Spring

Summer

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 2)

Winter

Festive Tales for a Nordic Noël

A Scandinavian Christmas

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 1)

Autumn

My Struggle Book 1

A Death in the Family

My Struggle Book 2

A Man in Love

My Struggle Book 3

Boyhood Island

My Struggle Book 4

Dancing in the Dark

My Struggle Book 5

Some Rain Must Fall

My Struggle Book 6

The End

The art of Edvard Munch

So Much Longing in So Little Space

Writing the Beautiful Game

Home and Away

Vintage Minis

Fatherhood

The Morning Star

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The compulsive new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Experience a major new literary universe in the making 
 
'I read The Morning Star compulsively and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon Taylor 
 
Nine lives will be forever changed . . . 
One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes. 
 
Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly... 
 
'Brilliant storytelling' Independent 
 
'Addictive' Daily Telegraph 
 
'Captivating' Observer

Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star series (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity and The Third Realm) is published in thirty-five languages. Martin Aitken (Translator) Martin Aitken's translations of Scandinavian literature number some 35 books. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the International DUBLIN Literary Award (2017) and the U.S. National Book Awards (2018), as well as the 2021 International Booker Prize. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019.

Nine lives will be changed forever in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller. 
 
'Addictive' Daily Telegraph 
 
'Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling' New York Times 
 
One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes. 
 
Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly... 
 
'I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life 
 
'Brilliant storytelling... Epic' Independent 
 
'Captivating' Observer

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