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Carita Harju, Katja Pantzar
Find out how hot and cold contrast therapy can change your outlook, your wellbeing and your life!
Step into the world of hot and cold, where contrast therapy – pairing a good steam in a sauna with an icy dip in a lake or the sea – is an essential part of life in Finland. More than a trending pastime, the traditional Finnish practice of alternating hot and cold has a range of health benefits that boost mental and physical wellbeing, which greatly contribute to happiness. It’s also a large part of the reason Finland has been named the World’s Happiest Country for the six years in a row.
This definitive guide by two experts takes readers on a journey into the transformative powers of hot and cold by pairing the sauna, that quintessential hot Finnish steam bath, with a cold-water dip. Along the way, it serves up the inspiration and practical tools for creating a wellness retreat using the Nordic contrast bathing philosophy, wherever you are in the world.
The Finnish hot and cold method boosts happiness by increasing wellbeing and encouraging connection with nature. It’s the secret to how the world’s happiest nation keeps calm and carries on – no matter what life throws at them. Now you too can learn their secrets.
Rights sold: WORLD ENGLISH: Yellow Kite / Hodder & Stoughton (orig.),
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Hannele Lampela
What if your superhero costume looked like a butterfly and your only superpowers would be having a good heart and a lively imagination? Welcome to the embarrassing life of Benjamin Bateman!
✓ First joint series for award-winning and bestselling writer-illustrator super team Hannele Lampela and Pasi Pitkänen!
✓ Film in development!
✓ Book #1 was nominated for the Arvid Lydecken Award 2023
How will the super embarrassed superhero fare when the school turns into a rampage scene for his arch-nemesis? Paavali thinks that the math lessons are boring, and the exercises that teacher Sausola hangs on the board don’t make any sense to him. And it's super embarrassing that he gets the feisty and attention-drawing Supermuija as his tutor. Could it be because of something other than Paavali's terrible math skills? And why is the math problem 2+2+2 written on the school wall? What on earth is really going on?
21st century, Finland, contemporary, adventure, children's literature, 2020s, humor, illustrated book, superhero, world of superheroes, superheroes, male protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
KATI-E is an independent girl who loves animals just as much as electronics and coding. TI-BOT is the flying robot Kati-e built. Together they are the PET AGENTS, and their mission is to solve pet problems!
✓ A delightfully illustrated series for robot fans and animal lovers alike!
✓ Over 60 000 copies sold in Finland
✓ Series already sold in 8 territories!
The Pet Agents series is a delightful series about friendship and pet care, filled with adventures. Each book - which can be read in any order - features new characters, locations, and pets from miniature pigs to virtual dinosaurs. Engaging, full of humour, and dealing with animal issues in a child friendly way, the series has charmed readers in Finland and internationally.
Book #10:
The animal-loving Kati-e, robot Ti-bot, neighborhood friend Timi and the computer wizard X end up on a therapy farm, where the animals are in dire need of help. But to save the farm, Kati-e first needs to help a girl recovering from an accident to find her lost horse.
animal therapy farm, friendship, friends, coming of age, adventure, children's literature, independent girl, pets, flying robot, animal care, hobbies, technology, pet problems, illustrated book, love of animals, animals, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: Tammi
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Janne Malinen
A captivating middle-grade trilogy about being an outsider, of friendship, bravery, and loss.
✓ A mystery adventure trilogy where nothing is what it seems
✓ The atmospheric setting, strong characters and unique plotlines make this an irresistible read
✓ Series trailer in English available
✓ For fans of Astrid Lindgren and Harry Potter
The Secrets of Grimhill is a mystery adventure trilogy for middle-graders. Respecting the old traditions of the genre, there are mysterious whispers and dark corridors - but also friendship and laughter.
Book #3:
The final installment of the trilogy sees darkness rising from the East. The fate of Grimhill is on the shoulders of three children.
A chilling cold creeps over the fields and the Grimhill Sanatorium is covered in snow. Oskar, Vilma and Robin walk tirelessly and defy danger as they wander deeper into the dark forest to save Krista. Time is running out, and the closer the children get to their destinationl, the darker and more threatening the shadows become. The trio needs to face the evil that lives in the forest, and eventually one of them is faced with a hard decision to make. But could there also be something good hidden in the darkness?
friendship, mystery, adventure, castle, children's literature, bravery, loss, being an outsider, illustrated book, boy with an illness, boy with an illness, sanatorium, sanatorium, life & death, life & death, sickness, sickness, male protagonist
Rights sold: Tammi
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Kaisu Tuokko
The praised and bestselling crime series continues!
An elderly woman is found dead in Kristinestad, malnourished, dirty, and abused. She’s wearing the socks of the local nursing home, but the people there don’t recognise her. No one knows who she is.
Mats, the local police officer, starts investigating the case with his team, but establishing the identity of the murder victim proves tricky. Mats also has issues in his personal life, and same goes for the journalist Eevi, who struggles to get pregnant. While Eevi uncovers harsh truths about the treatment of the elderly in Kristinestad, Mats and his team find another body - and it seems Mats’ brother is also involved in the crime.
The Kristinestad Murders is a new, atmospheric crime series set in a coastal town in Finland, with intriguing main characters and interpersonal relationships. The author Kaisu Tuokko combines the thrilling crime plots with societal issues, and the result hooks the reader. The first installment in the series, REVENGE, sold over 12,000 copies within the first months, and the series is planned to have six installments.
21st century, Finland, seaside, journalist, crime, society, summer, small town, drugs, murder, relationships, addiction, Ostrobothnia, old age, community, archipelago, nordic noir, domestic abuse, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, police officer, Kristinestad, Western Finland, contemporary
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Jessikka Aro
A highly topical book featuring horrifying true stories about the secret operations of Putin’s intelligence services
- Sold to 5 territories pre-publication!
- Jessikka Aro is the winner of the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage of Journalism Award and her previous book, Putin’s Trolls, was sold to 16 territories and will be turned into a TV series!
Russia is threatening the West with World War III, even though it has been waging it for years. As its weapons, the Kremlin uses agents of chaos, a covert operation, fake priests spreading hate speech, hackers recruited from prison, and the gullibility of people.
Jessikka Aro’s new non-fiction book about the Kremlin’s world war presents the secret operations of Putin’s intelligence services in detail.
The book takes the reader on a breath-taking journey from the lobby of the Helsinki Courts of Appeal to the controversial Bronze Soldier statue in Tallinn, from the media center run by the Russian military intelligence from Berlin to the Russian troll factory that operated in Ghana in West Africa.
Read if you dare.
journalist, Jessikka Aro, internet trolls, reporters, Wagner Group, Putin, Patriarch Kirill, Vladimir Gundyayev, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, war, Africa, hybrid warfare, 21st century, Finland, contemporary, non-fiction, Europe, media, politics, USA, true story, trolling, online trolls, current, information war, Internet, misinformation, disinformation, smear campaigns, investigative journalism, Kremlin, Ghana, intelligence service, KGB
Rights sold: FINLAND: Johnny Kniga (orig.), GERMANY: Goldmann Verlag, CZECHIA: N Media, HUNGARY: Corvina, SWEDEN: Sensor Förlag
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Helena Åhman
How to succeed in demanding interactions? This book will help you discover the secret of meeting emotions and resistance without hesitation!
In this book, Finland’s leading business writer Helena Åhman, PhD, shares her fascinating journey and discovery of a crucial ingredient to succeed in challenging interactions. She describes her encounters with NASA’s astronauts and Ivy League professors as well as with captivating Finnish leaders from the dark north who have succeeded from New York City to Dubai’s deserts and around the world. The stories span from Virgin Atlantic’s executive team to Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s wisdom and from excelling in the world-renowned Finnish school system to heading the Finnish Air Force.
All the stories share the same themes – emotional courage, ability to encounter emotions and speak directly, also when met with opposition.
This book will guide you through the sandstorms of emotion – yours or others’- to talk about anything you need to. The book will help you to use its knowledge in your daily life, whether in the boardroom or the bedroom, and is served with the addition of Finnish rock lyrics on emotional courage.
non-fiction, business, emotions
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Elina Backman
The lovely summer scenery is twisted by a desire for revenge.
Saana Havas is spending midsummer with her Aunt Inkeri in Kaunissaari, Kotka, renovating her aunt's friend's villa and getting to know the mysterious neighborhood. When the midsummer celebrations end fatally, the dark history of the island begins to unravel.
The summer plans of Saana's boyfriend, police officer Jan Leino, are changed by the murder of a Finnish art collector in Nice. The message left by the murderer puts Jan on his toes. Will there be more victims? And how is everything related to a long-forgotten death?
Elina Backman’s Saana Havas series has charmed readers in Finland and abroad, selling to 17 territories. Her debut, ALL THE KING’S MEN, immediately prompted the press to call her a new star in the crime scene, and the atmospheric and elegant sequels have continued to captivate readers. The previous three books in the series have all been bestsellers.
Kotka, 21st century, crime, mystery, summer, 2020s, murder, relationships, island, Southern Finland, online journalist, true crime podcaster, female protagonist, midsummer
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Tommi Kinnunen
A densely atmospheric and arrestingly written novel about women’s fates in times of war, the difficulty of giving up, and how the proximity of death can change a person
In 2001, three siblings - Martti and twin sisters Eeva and Marja - meet in a small village in Northern Finland. Their mother Laina, an old woman who has been through the Second World War, is dying and the children have gathered to arrange the funeral. Even though the siblings have always been on good terms, Martti has always felt aloof, the odd man out. All of them reminisce about their childhood, but Martti remembers things slightly differently than the sisters.
As the novel progresses, the readers are transported through the decades and through Laina’s story, culminating in the Soviet partisan attack during the summer of 1944 that irrevocably changed Laina’s life. She has refused to recall the events and, at the same time, has denied her children the opportunity of remembering and recovering. “One can only talk about men’s war, as the women’s war is soundless and forbidden.”
As his mother’s death grows nearer, Martti reaches out to connect with his siblings and attempts to fill in the gaps in the story, but is it already too late?
Northern Finland, 21st century, Finland, 2000s, small town, death, 1960s, 1940s, sexual violence, Lapland, war, motherhood, siblinghood, Second World War, Second World War, 20th century, violence against women, intergenerational trauma, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, mother-son relationship, historical fiction, literary fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Tuomas Oskari
A desperate father, an unhinged president, and a conspiracy to change the world.
Former prime minister of Finland Leo Koski is a 39-year-old single dad, done with politics and traumatized by the murder of his true love. As the populist US president Chester Tyler is withdrawing the United States from NATO, Koski is forced to return to the White House for one more meeting.
Things unravel when the president is poisoned. Koski is faced with a horrible choice between his daughter’s life and the security of Europe. With the New York Times reporter Ashley Pegula by his side, Koski has only a few hours to find out who poisoned the president. And why?
Perfect for anyone looking for a smart and fast-paced thriller, The Eagle is the third, fully independent book in the Leo Koski series. The previous titles Their Turn to Burn and The Act of Gladius have been acquired by Bastei Lübbe in Germany and Their Turn to Burn was chosen as the BookBeat Newcomer of the Year for 2021!
single father, ex-politician, 21st century, contemporary, United States, thriller, murder, politics, father-daughter relationship, world politics, male protagonist, suspense
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Kaj Korkea-aho
An autobiographical story about a gay couple’s journey to co-parenting
After eight years together, Kaj and Niko, living in Helsinki, decide to try to become parents. They start dating women, but the search for a co-parent seems impossible at first. What has to be right so that one could dare trust a complete stranger? Whose sperm cells should be used? How do you plan the future of a family that is outside the norms, in a society that is still coded heterosexually?
Kaj Korkea-aho’s autobiographical text about how three parents had a child is irresistibly touching, painful, and humorous. It bears traces of all forms of expression mastered by Korkea-aho - novel, podcast, blog, and drama - and can also be used as a kind of handbook for others in the same life situation. The book grabs the reader like a baby with its little hand and doesn’t let go until the book has been finished and the wonder of life has become a fact.
Finland, Helsinki, queer relationships, contemporary, 2020s, LGBTQ+, parenting, parenthood, humor, queer, autobiography, male protagonist, queer protagonist, queer parents, childlessness
Rights sold: FINLAND: Förlaget (orig.)
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Arttu Unkari
The quirkiest cop in town! The Dad Man Series offers fast-paced adventures and humour for all ages – especially lower middle grade.
✓ Over 140,000 copies sold in Finland!
✓ Perfect for reluctant readers and for fans of David Walliams and Captain Underpants
✓ Books in the series have been nominated for the Storytel awards 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 (Best children’s audiobook), Best Newcomer of the Year 2020, and the Runeberg Prize 2023!
✓ Bold and fresh 4-colour comic-book style artwork that add visual jokes to the narration
✓ Work as standalones and can be read in any order!
Dad Man is a dad, and a policeman – but he also has a superpower! Too bad his superpower is one shared by almost all dads – an unwavering belief in himself and his own abilities. Dad Man truly believes he knows everything and can do anything, but as it goes with most dads, the reality is quite different. And it follows that Dad Man’s nine-year-old daughter Oona needs to solve all of the issues herself.
Book #5:
What’s worse than one Dad Man? Multiple Dad Men!
When Oona’s clumsy police dad gets his hand on the inventor Cherry’s newest machine, the results are catastrophic - suddenly the whole town is filled with Dad Man lookalikes!. And to make matters worse, the real Dad Man is lost among the copies. Oona and her friends need to find Dad Man before anything worse happens. That proves to be hard, for the group of Dad Men comes up with one stupid idea after another and the whole town is threatened with chaos. And a mysterious saboteur is tailing Oona and friends. Is someone trying to stop the world from becoming normal?
parents, adventure, children's literature, parenthood, humor, illustrated book, quirky father, policeman father, clever girl, multiple protagonists, male protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Riikka Jäntti
Little Mouse is excited, for it’s his first trip abroad! Little Mouse packs his backpack, sets off to the port with Mummy Mouse and aunt Lizzie, and walks through a big pipe to get on board. Even though everything on the cruise ship is big, the cabin is surprisingly small. How will it feel to sleep when the waves lull the boat?
On the other shore there’s a rainy but beautiful city which is fun to explore. But what kind of experiences will the journey home bring?
mother, summer, children's literature, child, travel, holiday, illustrated book, single mother, child protagonist, animal protagonist, cruise ship
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Sanna Isto
A haunted house. An Invisible boy. A summer of mystery and self-discovery
✓ Grounded fantasy for the 12+ audience
✓ Nominated for the Finlandia Prize 2023 and Topelius Prize 2024
✓ Sanna Isto is a two-time winner of the Arvid Lydecken award (2012 & 2017) and was twice nominated for the Finlandia Prize (2017 & 2023)
Spending her vacation away from the city and her friends was not what Pii had in mind for the summer she had been eagerly waiting for. And then even the holiday house turns out to be strange and peculiar. Who is the boy who moves around the house as if it were his own, and why can't anyone else see him?
Pii's experience of being an outsider turns into a strength, because she sees things that others don't notice. Soon she finds herself in the middle of a secret that overshadows the sunny idyll of the small village. Are the thefts of vacation homes and the unsolved death that happened half a year ago related? And what does the mysterious boy in the green cap have to do with all this?
Pii has to look for answers deep below the surface, and while diving for them, she also has to face herself. A vacation Pii expected to be boring turns into a journey of self-discovery, and in the end nothing - not even the ghosts - is what it seemed at first.
invisibility, family, young adult, mystery, contemporary, summer, fantasy, small town, death, loneliness, magical realism, self-esteem, teenage protagonist, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Salla Simukka
What would you do if you found a secret room in your house? A story about friendship and two boys in two worlds.
✓ Grounded fantasy with a classic feel for fans of Michael Ende and Maria Gripe
✓ Salla Simukka is the recipient of the Topelius Prize 2013 and Finland Prize 2013 and has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award every year since 2021. Her Snow White trilogy was sold into 52 territories
✓ JP Ahonen is a comic book artist and illustrator whose unique Belzebubs project has achieved cult status internationally
An exciting and touching novel about two boys, who live in the same house but in different realities. Can their friendship cross the border separating two worlds?
10-year-old Alexis’ family moves to a house where he gets the attic room. Another 10-year-old-boy, Max, moves to a house, where a great basement room is waiting for him. Soon the boys notice something weird in their houses: Alexis hears voices under the floor, even though they don’t have a basement. Max’s ears pick up someone playing an instrument from the attic, even though no one is there.
When the two boys finally meet, they realize that they can visit each other’s worlds at night time. But will their friendship endanger everything when the worlds start to blur into each other?
magical house, family, friendship, mystery, contemporary, middle-grade, children's literature, fantasy, bullying, magic, magical realism, boyhood, illustrated book, multiple protagonists, male protagonist, child protagonist, male friendship
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Saara Turunen
Is it possible to have a child and retain one’s own identity?
The protagonist, an artist, has dreamed about having a child for years. She and her husband try to get pregnant, but they face obstacles such as COVID-19 pandemic and the related lockdown, living in different countries, and unsuccessful IVF treatments. When their last effort bears fruit and the protagonist becomes pregnant, different contradictory thoughts and emotions such as fear, shame and horror come to her mind. Eventually, the child is born, and the protagonist finds herself in a new reality. Everything that had been important before now seems the opposite. Also, taking care of a child is not without its problems, leading the protagonist to feel inferior. Reason on one hand and animality on the other cause conflict in her life.
Hyena Days is a precise and straightforward story about childlessness and the contradictory nature of having a child. It depicts the hopes for a child and the unpredictability of procreation, the shame related to one’s body, and the demands placed on the female body. The novel delves into the incompatible ideas between artistry and motherhood but, above all, it depicts the physical dimension of human life.
childlessness, Finland, mother, contemporary, 2020s, body horror, motherhood, parenting, Spain, artist, parenthood, pregnancy, artistic identity, artistic career, pandemic, autobiography, autofiction, body image, female protagonist, literary fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Laura Andersson
The feel-good crime series with vivid scenery, strong characters and gripping cases!
The hot summer of 1947 gets a chilling twist as the body of a young boy is found near a girl’s orphanage, and Lili is asked to investigate. Soon she finds out that one of the residents of the home has also gone missing. The home and its residents are subjected to strict rules - has the girl run away, or is she also a victim of a crime? In the fear-filtered atmosphere it is tricky to distinguish between truth and the lies. To balance things out, Lili spends time among artists in Helsinki, who are ready to leave the war behind and embrace the future.
The Lili Flame Investigates series has been compared to Agatha Christie as well as to the Inspector Palmu series by Mika Waltari. Set in post-war Helsinki, the expressive narration and the charismatic characters have charmed readers - the two previous titles, Murder at the Mansion and The Mystery of the Circus Woman have been received with adoration!
female detective, female journalist, post-war era, reconstruction, crime, mystery, historical fiction, early feminism, freedom, gender roles, class society, companionship, murder, secrets, LGBTQ+, relationships, 1940s, orphanage, Southern Finland, 20th century, queer, women's roles, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, queer protagonist, policeman, whodunnit
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Pauliina Susi
Kisses and crimes in a hot summer town where bodies pile up faster than ice cream orders
The summer’s city festival begins on a tragic note as a young man dies of an allergic reaction in front of the private eye Tuulia Raja. The local pizzeria owners are suspected, and the residents of the small town do not react positively. Soon the situation escalates: something burns on the boulevard, and eventually, a body is found on the festival stage. Tuulia Raja’s skills are once again needed! But can she figure out who wants to destroy the summer idyll and why?
The Tuulia Raja books have charmed readers and critics alike. The murder mysteries are gripping, with exuberant humor and a dash of romance. The events take place in southern Finland, in and around the small town of Järvenpää. Each book has its own criminal case. The arc of the series centers on Tuulia, a forty-year-old flight attendant, and her progress as a professional private detective under the tutelage of her eccentric boss Yrjö Rahkonen.
21st century, Finland, female detective, crime, mystery, contemporary, summer, small town, 2020s, relationships, Southern Finland, humor, cozy crime, mother-daughter relationship, female protagonist, private eye, over-bearing mother, middle-aged woman, old man mentor, Järvenpää, whodunnit
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
✓ Funny and adventure-filled series for animal lovers and robots fans alike!
✓ Fresh quirky 4-colour artwork
✓ Teaches children about animals and pet care
The Pet Friends series is a standalone prequel to hugely popular Pet Agents, telling the story of how Kati-e and Ti-bot became a team and solved their first agent missions. Aimed at a slightly younger age group, this is the perfect series to read with young animal enthusiasts!
Book #5:
In the fifth Pet Friends book the first grader Kati-e, who hosts the pet column in school magazine, becomes an investigating journalist together with her robot Ti-bot. They meet curious cats in the school, and sense a scoop! The cat-and-mouse game is like catnip to anyone who loves a proper adventure - or the purring of a cat!
fall, friendship, friends, mystery, girl, children’s literature, coming of age, adventure, independent girl, pets, flying robot, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, speaking with animals, rats, humor, illustrated book, love of animals, animals, near future big city, astronaut father, engineer mother
Rights sold: Tammi
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Kaisa Paasto
If you could become a prank legend at school, is it worth going for it at any costs? This highly illustrated, bold story encourages even the most reluctant reader to keep on turning the pages!
✓ A funny and prank-filled story with a subtle message about kindness and accepting yourself
✓ For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
✓ From the successful author-illustrator duo behind the Anni the Friend Tamer series!
✓ Illustrator Mari Ahokoivu won the Puupäähattu Comic Book Award 2023 and has been nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2021
✓ Sequel coming in spring 2025
The fifth grader Elmeri has never seriously considered a career as a prankster. But he manages to do a superbly great prank - completely accidentally. Elmeri’s cousin Robin thinks his chance has come and becomes Elmeri’s Personal Prankster Trainer. With his coaching, Elmeri will be the amazing Prankenstein and his best prank will be remembered by future generations!
Elmeri also realizes that pranks may be a good opportunity to impress Mima, who lives on the same street and is quite OK. The pranks also help when Leo, the bully at school, needs to be dealt with. But when a planned prank involves a famous magician and the president of Finland, Elmeri has to ask himself: can you take it too far?
contemporary, school, children's literature, bullying, humor, school life, illustrated book, male protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: Tammi
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Tuutikki Tolonen
Unleash your creativity and discover the creatures who live right next to you in secret! This delightful picture book invites young readers to look at ordinary homes with new eyes.
✓ Encourages imaginary play & playful interactions between parents and children
✓ Tuutikki Tolonen is an Arvid Lydecken award-winning author whose Monster Nanny series has been sold into 37 territories!
✓ Anne Vasko is the recipient of the Rudolf Koivu illustration award 2010 and has been nominated for the Finlandia Junior 2010 and for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2017 & 2021). Her books have been sold to over 20 languages.
This charming picture book invites its readers to play a game: could there be secret creatures, living side by side with humans in ordinary homes? They leave signs to those who know where and how to look.
Why are there crumbs on the kitchen floor? Perhaps you have a crumbscraper living with you! The creature itself is so shy, you can rarely see it. How about the holes in your socks; did you know they might be the result of a lintbug? And when the remote control is lost again, maybe the amnesianos have stolen it.
home, children's literature, playing, imagination, power of imagination, illustrated book
Rights sold: WSOY
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Joona Keskitalo
Korppoo: a place where many have died.
✓ New crime series by an author hailed as Finnish Jens Lapidus!
✓ An alternative to police procedurals – crimes as seen from the perspective of local people caught up in them
✓ The Island Torn Apart kicks off The Outback crime series set in remote Finnish villages. Each part is a unique story with its own set of characters, creating a series of thriller-like visits to the ends of long dirt roads, unleashing the Finnish mental landscape at its most naked and exotic!
It’s a beautiful place – serene, a little piece of paradise – by the name of Korppoo. A place where people offer apple pie to passers-by and lend their tractor to their neighbors. Where everyone greets each other, joys are shared and grudges are borne forever. Then, Jennifer from Helsinki buys a guest marina on the island and brings death with her.
Sigge Boman, an embittered ferryman who lost the family boat to gambling, decides to get his own back. However, his liquor-soaked revenge expedition takes an unexpected turn when a floating corpse gets caught up on the bow of Sigge’s miserable outboard motorboat. He peers to look, stumbles, and sinks into the icy depths, clinging on tightly to the stiff body. He is rescued at the last minute and his drunken bungling is misinterpreted as a heroic rescue attempt. For the first time in his life, Sigge is appreciated – and that’s easy to get hooked on
Meanwhile, a new inn owner arrives on the island, the good-hearted Jennifer who brings death with her. Empty boats drift on the sea and a feeling of unease spreads among the islanders. Are these strange events just chance, or is everything somehow linked to Jennifer’s high-flying plans? Or is it the three Russians snapping up properties in the area at an ever-faster pace?
local drunk, businesswoman, lawyer, Korppoo, doomed love, 21st century, Finland, young woman, crime, mystery, contemporary, 2020s, thriller, secrets, island, business, fear, community, alcoholism, archipelago, real estate, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, lies
Rights sold: FINLAND: Bazar (orig.)
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Antti Ervasti
Internationally bestselling and easily approachable and comforting selfcare with a visual approach – created by an experienced Finnish psychotherapist and an award-winning illustrator
✓ Selfcare for the Instagram generation!
✓ Relatable and comforting illustrations of the human experience with all its struggles and wonders
✓ With expert advice from a psychotherapist on how to deal with common struggles and experiences
✓ Books sold 75,000 copies! Rights sold to 20+ countries! Bestseller in the MUJI stores in Japan!
”Even a small reflection on our financial habits helps tackle the feeling of being lost”.
Money has an impact on our lives, whether we wish it or not. Our relationship to money is individual, it is linked with our past, present and future. This book looks like its creators and tackles a touching and important topic: the relationship with money and mental well-being. It makes visible a phenomenon that easily goes unnoticed, and inspires us all to think about how we could reduce the stigma and how to face challenging feelings often associated with money and finances. Earn, Lose & Learn is an aptly written and illustrated, warm compassion book from the creators of the internationally renowned brand CupOfTherapy.
non-fiction, self-care, self-help, illustrated book, psychotherapy, finance, self-compassion
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Frank Martela
A guide to finding happiness by Finland’s leading happiness expert
- Rights sold at auction to Gummerus in Finland!
- New English material available!
- Frank Martela, PhD, is Finland’s #1 internationally bestselling non-fiction author – his previous title, A Wonderful Life, has been sold to 30 countries!
- A unique blend of personal stories and quirky anecdotes combined with deep understanding of the latest psychological research on well-being
- Finland has been ranked the happiest country 6 times in a row and Frank Martela has explained the secret to Finnish happiness for Fox News, New York Times, Scientific American and New Scientist.
Want to be happier? Stop searching for happiness. Obsessing about happiness is, paradoxically, one of the key obstacles for a happier life. For six years in a row, Finland has been the world’s happiest country and the wisdom emerging from this land of darkness and heavy metal teaches you to stop caring about happiness, about what others think, and about what happens next. This liberates you to take life as it is.
In this book, Finland’s leading happiness expert offers straight-talking life advice on why finding happiness is not about learning new things – it is more about unlearning patterns of thinking holding you back. Combining ancient wisdom with latest research and mixing it all together with quirky stories and Frank’s encounters with peculiar Finnish characters met in the forest, in rock festivals, and during his hitchhiking and other travels around the country, the book guides you to build a way of living where you are content and serene, yet actively engaged and energized to pursue your self-chosen purposes in life.
non-fiction, mental health, happiness, psychology, meaning of life, philosophy, self-help, wisdom
Rights sold: FINLAND: Gummerus
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Maria Turtschaninoff
An illustrated middle grade novel and supernatural thriller that turns a young girl’s emotions into a magic-realistic fantasy adventure - can her new stepmother be trusted or is she a dangerous ancient monster?
✓ Maria Turtschaninoff is a two-time winner of the Society of Swedish Literature Prize, a winner of the 2014 Finlandia Prize and has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award every year 2020-2024 ! Her children’s and YA titles have sold to 30 languages.
✓ INHERITED LAND, Maria Turtschaninoff’s first adult fiction novel, has been awarded the prestigious Swedish YLE Literature Prize 2022 and sold to 23 languages
✓ Peter Bergting is one of Sweden’s most renowned comic book artists and fantasy and children book illustrators.
The Manticore is told from the perspective of an unnamed protagonist who starts suspecting that her stepmother is in fact a Manticore, an ancient monster intending on devouring the protagonist and her baby brother. She realizes that no one can help her because no one would believe her. So as the Manticore starts fattening up the children, the protagonist hunts for a way to defeat her. She soon realizes that the only way to kill a Manticore is with a mythical object: the horn of a unicorn. But where can she possibly find one?
Maria Turtschaninoff is a multiple award-winning fantasy author, published in 30 countries, and Peter Bergting is the author and/or illustrator of over 50 books of fantasy, sci-fi and horror.
stepmother, mother, contemporary, girl, children’s literature, middle-grade, adventure, fantasy, baby brother, monster, female protagonist, child protagonist, illustrated novel
Rights sold: SWEDEN: Raben &Sjögren/Förlaget (orig.), FINLAND: Tammi
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Eeva Louko
Messy relationships, surprising twists, and harrowing thrills. Read in one sitting.
Ronja, Milla and Ansku together with their partners decide on a weekend getaway on the island of the historical Bengtskär lighthouse to enjoy sauna and relax. Milla also wants to introduce her new partner, a celebrity businessman.
The group barely has time to raise a toast before the mini getaway turns into a big nightmare. An autumn storm wreaks havoc, and Milla is missing as the women are meant to go to the sauna. The storm makes searching for Milla hard and cuts off the connection to the mainland. As the night advances, it becomes painfully clear that Milla’s disappearance is only the beginning.
Eeva Louko’s Ronja Vaara series was an immediate hit in Finland upon its publication in 2022, with the debut MURDER ON THE ISLE OF BLISS selling over 22,000 copies and the sequel LAND OF SERPENTS being a bestseller and critically acclaimed as well. The friendships between women in their 30s and 40s and the relatability of their everyday life combined with thrilling plotlines is a combination that is hard to put down.
Bengtskär lighthouse, 21st century, friendship, remote island, detective, crime, mystery, 2020s, murder, secrets, romance, 1940s, island, 20th century, archipelago, Finnish Archipelago, Turku Archipelago, nordic noir, cozy crime, thirty-something woman, local journalist, female protagonist, police officer, whodunnit
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Elina Pitkäkangas
The sequel to SANG takes the reader back to Fusang and the world where Kong Dawei is faced with impossible choices.
✓ SANG was the winner of the Topelius Award 2023, the City of Tampere Literature Prize 2023, and Kuvastaja Prize 2023!
✓ Praised by readers and critics for its convincing world-building, multifaceted characters and cinematic descriptions
✓ Rare representation of sign language in YA
The new novel about war and human relations by the winner of the Topelius Prize
Kong Dawei has returned to his home region, but nothing is the same. The second book of the duology, loved by readers and praised by experts, is a vivid and an intensive novel about war, morals, and ever holding love.
The sequel of the top-rated book SANG presents Fusang’s region Naraka, a workcamp where the unfortunate citizens are sent. The resistance is growing there. When Kong Dawei finds himself in the middle of The Iron Revolution, he must face the boundaries of his loyalty. Whose side does he want to be on? Can there be winners in the war?
soldiers, rebels, identity, race, friendship, dystopia, young adult, home, freedom, adventure, fantasy, boys, future, violence, LGBTQ+, China, mythology, slavery, war, feminism, teenage boy, queer, power, martial arts, scifi, royals, post-apocalypse, East Asia, Tibet, Fusang, sign language, cultural representation, wuxia, combat, Chinese mythology, teenage protagonist, male protagonist, queer protagonist, speculative fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), DENMARK: Straarup & Co
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Perttu Pölönen
The book that every social media user should read! The third book by popular speaker and sales success Perttu Pölönen!
Only a few dozen social media executives ultimately decide where the attention of billions of people will be directed. At the same time, a large part of the population is unable to explain how the internet works, even at a basic level. We have embarked on a massive human experiment with an alarmingly inadequate understanding.
Of the many consequences of the smartphones, only a few were desired, considered, and intentional. Smartphones have altered human behavior more profoundly in just two decades than any previous technology in the same timespan. We have allowed social media to alter our perception of the world, thinking, values, and behavior. The change has been unpredictable, imperceptible, and fundamental—mental health issues, shortened attention spans, polarization, and loneliness are just a few of the outcomes. Perhaps technology is not merely a neutral tool or a solution to our problems but rather a guide that reveals our real problems.
In his latest book, Perttu Pölönen asks what kind of technology we wish to use, who we want to develop it, whose interests it should serve, and what we use technology for. In the era of ChatGPT and generative AI, discussing design, values and ethics has become more crucial than ever. Billions of people are already "plugged into the system"—now we need to find answers to how that system should ideally work.
non-fiction, social media, technology, empathy, mental health, manipulation
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Martta Kaukonen
Nothing is as it seems.
✓ Sequel to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Follow the Butterfly!
✓ Rights to Follow the Butterfly have been sold to 15 territories, including UK & US!
Four years have passed since the events of Follow the Butterfly. Ira and Arto have teamed up, and both work as crime journalists for the Helsinki Today. Everything’s going nicely, until Ira starts suspecting there’s a serial killer on the loose in Helsinki.
The murders are investigated by Senior Crime Inspector Kerttu Leppänen, who leads the murder unit and eagerly waits for retirement. Unsolved cases haunt Kerttu, who is unable to forgive herself.
The past catches up with all of them – if they were ever free from its clutches in the first place…
impostor, Finland, Helsinki, young woman, journalist, crime, contemporary, suspense, murder, father-daughter relationship, Espoo, psychological thriller, unresolved murder, female serial killer, anxiety, half-sister, female protagonist, male protagonist, police officer, 21st century
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), GERMANY: Heyne, GREECE: Psichogios, HUNGARY: Partvonal Kiadó , POLAND: Czarna Owca, UNITED KINGDOM: Pushkin Press
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
KATI-E is an independent girl who loves animals just as much as electronics and coding. TI-BOT is the flying robot Kati-e built. Together they are the PET AGENTS, and their mission is to solve pet problems!
- A delightfully illustrated series for robot fans and animals lovers alike!
- Teaches children about animals and pet care
- Series already sold in 8 territories!
- 10 titles are planned in the series
In the 9th installment of the Pet-Agents series, the agents find themselves in the middle of an illegal wildlife smuggling operation which must be stopped! Kati-e saves Mrs. Frang’s dog, Dina, from an animal thief, and discovers an endangered cheetah. The cheetah must be released to the wild. This friendly act leads Kati-e and her friends to other adventures in the desert, jungle and savannah.
cheetah, jungle, poaching, big city, friendship, friends, coming of age, adventure, children's literature, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, pet problems, illustrated book, love of animals, jungle, animals, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Jenni Multisilta
A dream wedding underneath the northern lights - or a wedding nightmare before Christmas?
- A cheerful and witty romantic comedy set in the scenic Lapland!
- Latest title from the author of four suspenseful thrillers!
- For readers of Alexandria Bellefleur, Sophie Kinsella and Casey McQuiston!
Mila is a star vlogger, whose husband-to-be dumps her two weeks before the dream Christmas-time wedding of the century. For Mila, the idea of canceling the wedding is a disaster. And what’s even more important is to finish the wedding video series that her followers are eagerly waiting for! To solve this, Mila persuades her former teenage crush to be her pretend fiancé. Soon Mila’s siblings, Jesse and Laura, also find themselves caught within the web of lies weaved by their sister.
The wedding preparations in beautiful Lapland start to resemble a nightmarish undercover operation. Will the lies hold until Christmas Eve? Will Santa Claus get kissed on the altar? For whom do the sleigh bells eventually ring?
fake dating, 21st century, Finland, family, winter, social media, romance, LGBTQ+, relationships, Lapland, siblings, Christmas, marriage, siblinghood, humor, YouTube, social media influencers, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, queer protagonist, feel-good, contemporary
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Marika Riikonen
Let Finland, the nation of notorious introverts, help you to reclaim being alone!
- An entertaining examination of the stigma of loneliness
- A good life lived alone is a phenomenon that is taboo - and yet perfectly ordinary
A hermit, a lonely one, a spinster. Living alone, or even a short period of longing for some alone time seems to be an issue necessary for an immediate fix: the society punishes, relatives jab, politicians admonish, those in a happy relationship push their horrifying friends onto you, and the media just strengthens the stereotypes. What if someone wants to be alone, enjoys their own company?
The need for being alone – for “me-time” – is very common. Still, literature on it is scarce – even if being alone is connected to all aspects of life, the big and the small.
Alone - Yes, Please! examines this taboo-like phenomena thoroughly. It combines sharp societal discussions and humoristic observances by delving into existing literature and hearing from people that feel the need for solitude.
Based on the author’s own experiences, Alone - Yes, Please! shakes our strongly rooted idea that life revolving around family or a relationship, never mind the constant need for company, is the only right option.
stigma, taboo, singlehood, family, loneliness, solitude, introversion, extroversion, non-fiction, friendship, wellbeing, relationships, romantic relationships, independence, family relationships
Rights sold: FINLAND: Hertta Kustannus (orig.)
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Veera Salmi
A charming fantasy novel about Oboi who whilst searching for his lost sister ends up in an astonishing world of Aina Ponoi.
Could reading be super dangerous? Can a book be a freeway ticket to another world? Young Oboi doesn’t believe in stories, but ends up swept in one when he finds an entrance ticket in the middle of a mysterious book. The book takes Oboi to a strange fantasy world, Aina Ponoi, where he must find his sister.
Aina Ponoi is a place where everything is possible and Oboi is able to escape his worries - health troubles and his mother’s new relationship - for even a little while.
A standalone sequel to The Book of Oboi.
lost sister, mother, adventure, fantasy world, children's literature, sisterhood, 2200s, illiteracy, 23rd century, teenage protagonist, male protagonist, speculative fiction, forgotten city
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Katja Kettu
Katja Kettu’s stunning novel spins through ages whilst surrendering to the wilderness of nature and the deep yearning for offspring.
- A fascinating combination of autofiction and elements of magical realism!
- A critical success, a novel in which the power of words brings justice to the world, by one of Finland’s most internationally acclaimed authors!
- Rights sold to 8 territories and counting!
- Katja Kettu’s works have been sold to 24 territories!
An Author has a miscarriage and loses their ability to speak and write. From the Investigative Bureau of Heavens, a Detective is sent to the scene, but something goes awry. Soon, in the corner of the room, there appears Cat who starts examining a mysterious diary that once belonged to the Author’s Great Grandmother.
When a new life has been lost, the Author turns their gaze to the past and to the age-old words of creation in the old Finnish outskirts. The one who knows them, Great Grandmother, has the power of healers. The Great Grandmother’s diary sheds light on birth and death, love towards children, and the strength of heritage in one’s blood.
great-grandmother, miscarriage, Finland, death, diary, magical realism, life and death, author, meaning of life, life crises, cat, literary fiction, poverty, Lapland, infertility, 21st century, Helsinki, family, 2020s, satire, 20th century, 1910s
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), CZECHIA: Argo, DENMARK: Lindhardt og Ringhof, ESTONIA: Koolibri, GERMANY: Weissbooks, HUNGARY: Gondolat, ITALY: Mondadori, NORWAY: Pax Forlag, ROMANIA: Humanitas, SWEDEN: Albert Bonniers
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Hannele Lampela
Get ready for a sleepover adventure like no other with Itty Bitty Princess!
Itty Bitty Princess has a sleepover at her friend’s place. How exciting! What should she pack? And what should the princesses play? The sleepover itself feels exciting, but it gets even more fun when imagination takes flight and they end up visiting an amusement park at nighttime! Are there ghosts lurking about? And if there are, could they be kind?
sleepover, amusement park, being afraid, mother, father, family, contemporary, home, amusement park, dog, darkness, baby, ghost, mischievous little girl, night, female protagonist, child protagonist, children's literature, chapter book
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), ESTONIA: Kirjastus Elust Enesest
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #4: Mir (Fall 2023)
To solve the mystery of the beekeeper's lost bees, passionate and unyielding animal helper Kati-e has to break into a space tech lab to build a new shapeshifter robot that can perform a bee dance, all at the same time her astronaut father is leaving Earth.
Fluffy, funny, and adventure-filled, the series takes the reader into a totally different animal world, with a fresh twist on pet care. Packed with excellent storytelling, stunning artwork, interesting characters, and wonderfully clever storylines.
friendship, friends, mystery, children’s literature, coming of age, adventure, summer, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, speaking with animals, rats, humor, love of animals, animals, near future big city, astronaut father, engineer mother, illustrated book, girl
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Ilona Ahti
A funny middle-grade mystery series for fans of Roald Dahl
✓ Winner of the Runeberg Junior Honorary Prize 2024!
✓ Miila Westin is a Finlandia Junior Prize winning illustrator (2020) and her books have been sold into 14 languages!
✓ Ilona Ahti is an award-winning TV and film script writer and co-writer of the Oscar nominated film Girl Picture
✓ Independent sequel coming in fall 2024
The sock-trap has been set! A sock-monster, Stinker, is on the loose!
In the opening of this charmingly funny middle-grade series, top-secret cases are being solved. Why are there only odd socks in the cabinet, and where have the hairclips and remote controls vanished?
The peculiar events begin when a strange creature snatches the last pair of socks from ten-year-old Hilla. She catches a glimpse of a fluffy, golden tail and finds a color-changing hair as evidence. A top-secret mystery must be solved, in which Hilla is helped by her neighbors Maisa and Roni-Toni. Hilla's grandmother Mitsi clearly knows more than she's telling, and in the end there's an explanation for everything that no one would have expected...
family, middle-grade, adventure, children's literature, magical realism, equality, humor, disability, grandmother, illustrated book, magical creatures, female protagonist, monster protagonist, mystery, contemporary, home
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Laura Ertimo
In We Are Powerful! Lotta and Kasper delve into how people use power.
Best friends Laura and Kasper start junior high in a new school. In addition to the question of whether their friendship will survive in a new group, the two also start to wonder about power, as the nearby forest is under a threat.
How is power used? Does everyone have power? Who gets to decide what happens to the forest? Biodiversity loss and the climate crisis are real and a massive challenge - but how come it feels like not enough is being done? Who is responsible?
The book also peeks into our brain and ponders how humans are peculiar animals that are able to tell stories. Stories that we have the power to change. Could our connection to nature be the biggest story of them all?
contemporary, middle-grade, grassroot action, society, sustainability, children's literature, child protagonist, non-fiction, politics, cultural change, illustrated book, multiple protagonist, comic book
Rights sold: FINLAND: Into (orig.)
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Veera Salmi
Riegel the Jumping Eagle just wants to bully others. What should the other birds do? A picture book about real courage.
The life of the Duck and other birds in the Happy House is as soft and sweet as dessert dough. Until, one Wednesday, some eagles start building a ski jumping tower next to them.
First the eagles jump towards the House, then they come to the yard to bully the bird friends, and on Saturday they are already moving into the house!
What should the Duck do if he is too scared to stay, but also too scared to leave?
Independent sequel to the Nordic Council Award nominated picture book The Duck Who Was Afraid to Fly.
bullying, bravery, children's literature, courage, illustrated book, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig).
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Elina Hirvonen
What’s love all about? In Elina Hirvonen´s new novel, The Logbook of Love, conversations about love form a sea of connections among people from wildly different backgrounds and places.
The narrator tries to fight the darkness from taking over her mind by writing down people's stories of love. In Helsinki, a city silenced by a global emergency, she walks through the empty streets as her thoughts journey through time and space. She meets with friends and strangers, moves between the past and the present, shifts from country to country. Everywhere she goes, she talks with others about love: romantic love, the love for justice and human rights, marital love, the love of parents for children, the love that can bind friends from different cultures and backgrounds – and the love that, no matter how powerful it is, sometimes fails to bridge the gaps between people.
The individuals she encounters, and the love stories they tell, leave their mark on the narrator. Her reflections on what she has heard and experienced portray a world that’s heating up too quickly as it slips into conflict and violence, but where everyone still continues to search for meaning, hope and joy.
narrator, conversation, 21st century, Finland, Helsinki, love, friendship, non-fiction, hope, 2020s, human rights, world, marriage, pandemic, author, travelogue, power of love, justice, love story, female protagonist, parental love, narrative non-fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), WORLD ARABIC: Logha
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Sirpa Kähkönen
“A masterpiece, which is worth living for” - a celebrated author’s masterful and poetic confession of love to her mother
✓ #1 bestseller in Finland in printed books with more than 55,000 copies sold!
✓ Winner of the Finlandia Prize of 2023! Nominated for the Runeberg Prize of 2024 and the Savonia Prize of 2023!
✓ For readers of Elizabeth Strout, Tove Ditlevsen, Moa Martinson, and Natalia Ginzburg! Rights sold to 6 territories and counting!
✓ Sirpa Kähkönen has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literary Prize and five times for Finlandia Prize, is the two-time winner of the Savonia Prize and has received the Finnish Cultural Foundation’s grand prize!
Author Sirpa Kähkönen’s mother Riitta (b. 1941) died in March 2022 after a long illness. In life, she struggled to accept love. “I do not grieve your death, I grieve your life,” Sirpa Kähkönen writes, knowing fully well that her mother wouldn’t like the phrase. Her mother rejected love, despite longing for it the most. Riitta was athletic, beautiful, and gifted. A traffic accident at the age of 16 changed the course of her life for ever.
Drawing on her mother’s diaries, Kähkönen depicts the life of a 1950s girl and the dramatic change that followed the accident. The novel talks about community dance halls, a broken mind, flowing hems, a 1960s mother, anxiety, anger and hate, addiction, and moments of psychosis. It talks about how wars and other crises become corporeal, how violence is inherited, and how the culture of discouragement and submission is passed down through the generations in sayings and attitudes, with the author clearly seeing herself as part of the tradition of anger and violence.
The novel is permeated by a fiery love, as if an ancient Finnish spell that, with the power of words, is capable of bringing loved ones back from the dead.
bereavement, Finland, mother, family, Kuopio, memories, death, diary, daughter, author, parenthood, mother-daughter relationship, family history, understanding others, night, 21st century, 20th century
Rights sold: FINLAND: Siltala (orig.), AZERBAIJAN: Qanun, ESTONIA: Koolibri, GERMANY: Blessing Verlag, HUNGARY: Polar Könyvek, SWEDEN: Lind & Co
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Pauliina Susi
Can someone die of a bench press?
The quick-witted and charmingly hearty Tuulia Raja once again melts the hearts of cozy crime readers!
Starting her career as a private detective, Tuulia Raja is contacted by her childhood friend whose nude pictures have been leaked online. Although there is no paycheck in store for the job, Tuulia wants to atone for her past mistakes. The situation becomes more electrified when one of Tuulia's acquaintances, a gym entrepreneur, is found lifeless. Soon, Tuulia finds herself in the middle of a showdown within the local small-town underworld.
21st century, Finland, friendship, female detective, crime, mystery, contemporary, 2020s, murder, relationships, Southern Finland, humor, mother-daughter relationship, bodybuilding, female protagonist, private eye, over-bearing mother, middle-aged woman, old man mentor, Järvenpää, whodunnit, cozy crime, small town
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Maria Peura
A heartrending autobiographical novel about one’s own child being placed in an institution and about feeling out of place as a child
✓ The latest novel by award-winning author and playwright
✓ Maria Peura is a unique voice in Finnish literature, a portrayer of foreignness, growth pains and the mental landscape of Nordic people
✓ Maria Peura’s works have been nominated for the Finlandia and Runeberg prizes and have won the Nuori Aleksis and Olvi Foundation prizes!
The author starts putting together the story of her firstborn child – a child whose ill-being and problematic behavior eventually led to him being placed in a child protection institution. Only now, when everything is okay, does the author dare to put her own distress and guilt into words. “What mistakes did I make? How was I trespassed against and why has my child ended up broken because of me being broken?”
Maria Peura’s autobiographical novel is a relentlessly honest and lyrically beautiful depiction of the cycles of trauma, of the effects of violence, and the chance for light and survival.
mother-son relationship, Finland, mother, family, childhood, motherhood, parenthood, teenage boy, child custody
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Reetta Ranta
Rediscover your lost connection to nature by applying Nordic rituals in your own everyday life.
- Ancient and modern Nordic rituals as medicine for our hectic, disconnected, and urban lives
- A guide connecting with yourself, nature, and ancient roots
- What can we learn from the ancestors of the “happiest people on Earth”?
Can people who live their lives in cities, often more connected to technology than the world around us, benefit from ancient rituals and discover a life in rhythm with nature? What can we learn from the ancestors of the “happiest people on Earth”, the Finns?
Timeless Nordic Rituals is a book that invites us to take inspiration from long-forgotten and living traditions of the Finno-Ugric people, and to create rituals that strengthen our connection with nature, the cycle of life, and with our inner selves.
Rituals create a connection with the past, the present moment, and the future. Ancient cultures and indigenous peoples created songs, poems, rituals, and celebrations to bring presence and deeper meaning to life. In Finland we lived in harmony with the rhythm of nature, and offerings and chores were planned according to the seasons and cycles. With our urbanized and secular lifestyle, we have forgotten or abandoned many of the rituals and customs that have traditionally helped people transition from one season and life stage to the next.
Reetta Ranta’s work is rooted in research and study of Finno-Ugric mythologies, mostly unpublished in English. Her writing style is practical, playful, and the book serves as a joyful invitation for international audiences to learn, explore, and practise a little bit of ancient wisdom and ritual from the North.
seasons, solstice, adulthood, wisdom, Finland, wellbeing, non-fiction, coming of age, nature, Nordic, mental health, happiness, self-help, rituals
Rights sold: SKS Kirjat, GERMANY: Goldmann
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Vera Vala
The profiling skills of Salla Kotka come under pressure as she comes head-to-head with a serial killer.
Salla Kotka’s career as a forensic psychologist is progressing under the guidance of her mentor Ruth Segre. While interviewing serial killers, Salla meets again with a psychopath called the Groom. The man seems to know something about the serial killer Harlequin who is terrorizing Milan. But why does the Groom seem so interested in Salla?
Catching the Harlequin becomes even more important for Salla when the police claim that the perpetrator is someone close to Segre. Meanwhile, Salla is tortured by thoughts of her mother’s suspicious death and the secrets of the past.
Salla searches for a ruthless serial killer in the dark Milan night, but has evil managed to get much closer than she could have imagined?
Italy, suspense, 2020s, cult leader, trauma, serial killer, psychopathy, Byronic male hero with troubled past, female victims of violence and stalking, serial killer, psychiatrist, Milan Area, psychological thriller, forensic psychology, profiling, murder investigation, domestic violence, stalking, chess, Italian culture, Italian food, Italian criminal defense, violence against women, female protagonist, psychologist, detective, psychotherapist, lawyer
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Magdalena Hai
A chapter book series full of quirky characters and inventive plotlines – workdays are never dull in the Little Shop of Nightmares
✓ Super success: rights sold in 30 territories!
✓ Mystery and horror paired with laugh-out-loud humour for younger middle grade
✓ With quirky 4-colour illustrations on every page, this series is perfect for first-time and reluctant readers!
✓ Magdalena Hai is the winner of the The Kaarina Helakisa Prize 2020
Nine-year-old Nina starts her job at the Little Shop of Nightmares where she meets a bunch of weird characters – and befriends them! Spooky, quirky, and full of humour, this series for younger middle grade readers ticks all the boxes - no wonder it has been translated in 30 territories!
Book #4:
The Little Shop of Nightmares crew finds out that a pirate sailing competition is coming to town! Competing to be the fastest pirate ship are the Ghosts, the Zombies, the Sirens and the Better Pirates – all of whom want the Crystal Skull that has been given to Mr. Kook for safekeeping at the Little Shop of Nightmares.
When the Crystal Skull suddenly goes missing from the shop, little Nina and her friends start their investigation – and the suspects are a-plenty!
2020s, secret agent, pirate, siren, mermaid, fish people, harbor, theft, detective, mystery, contemporary, boy, girl, pirates, fantasy world, small town, humor, shop owner, peculiar shop, illustrated book, spooky, land octopus, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), PORTUGAL: PRH, SWEDEN: Hegas, TAIWAN: Morning Star
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Leena Lehtolainen
The newest, standalone crime novel in the ever-popular Maria Kallio series! German and Finnish publication in Fall 2023!
The City of Espoo is being menaced by the “Biris” gang that steals designer clothing, phones, and jewelry from other youth. One night, one of the members is stabbed to death, in a case which seems clear. Maria’s unit is investigating while being threatened by a cut in funding.
Maria’s home feels empty as her children have left the nest. An acquaintance contacts Maria regarding sexual harassment, and Maria tries to help - but her intervention seems to make things worse. And as a boy goes missing from a children’s home and Biris threatens with revenge, Maria has her hands full.
Finland, Helsinki, female detective, crime, thriller, Espoo, youth gang culture, harassment, female protagonist, Maria Kallio, 21st century
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), GERMANY: Rowohlt
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Pinja Meretoja
How did one machine come to feature thousands of years of technology?
- A beautifully illustrated title about everyday inventions and their origins
The smartphone includes a huge amount of functions that are the result of hundreds and thousands of years of progress. How did all these discoveries end up in a child’s pocket? Travels in Time delves into this mystery in a fun but precise way.
Lucy visits a second-hand store with her aunt. When Lucy doesn’t recognize all of the objects there, she comes up with imaginative ideas as to what their use might have been. A generation that has access to all sorts of tools in one device might not know about the past importance of all the appliances.
Travels in Time is a visual and easily approachable non-fiction title that presents to children the history of different inventions, such as writing, the camera, the radio, the computer, and many others. It also invites adults to have discussions with younger generations about their experiences growing up - how one had to wait for their turn on the phone when a sibling was chatting with friends, how the modem used to be slow or what songs one used to record on a cassette tape. Sounds familiar? Delve into the past and discover something new!
curious girl, antique store, 21st century, 19th century, history, contemporary, children's literature, aunt, time travel, 20th century, female protagonist, child protagonist, inventions, non-fiction, learning together, learning, technology, illustrated book
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Kirjastus Elust Enesest
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Hannele Lampela
The super embarrassed superhero-in-training Benjamin Bateman is back for another hilarious adventure!
How is the awkward superhero Benjamin Bateman managing when his archenemies are circling everywhere? The second book in the super funny middle-grade series!
Some weirdo succeeds in messing up Benjamin’s life with their little tricks: there’s salt in his hot chocolate and toothpaste all over the toilet.
Who on earth would do that? And the scary Mortem has not stopped chasing Benjamin. In order to take control of the situation, Benjamin has to learn to harness his powers - a vivid imagination and a good heart.
21st century, Finland, adventure, children's literature, 2020s, Vantaa, bullying, grandfather, humor, grandmother, illustrated book, superhero, superheroine, world of superheroes, superheroes, first crush, male protagonist, child protagonist, archenemy
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), DENMARK: Bogoo
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Mila Teräs
A charmingly sweet picture book about the beauty of living in the moment. Mila Teräs’ enchanting prose is accompanied by Nora Surojegin’s gentle illustrations.
- Mila Teräs was awarded the prestigious Kaarina Helakisa Prize in 2023!
- For fans of Leo Lionni’s Frederick
- Books by Nora Surojegin have been translated into 10 languages.
Millie the vole has a strange feeling. She is preparing for the upcoming winter well in advance. However, she feels like she has forgotten something. She is so busy planning and doing things that there is no time to go to watch the Moon and celebrate with other animals. When Millie decides to look up to the sky, she has to stop and stare.
The book tells of how important it is to stop: instead of the constant hurry and overachieving, it is important to pause and just exist without feeling guilty. At the same time, the book highlights what a wonder and secret life really is.
forest, nature, nature, mental health, night, children's literature, wellbeing, relaxing, illustrated book, mindfulness, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Karisto (orig.), ESTONIA: Hea Lugu
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A.R.S. Horkka
A remote island. The mystery of murdered children. A nightmare in the middle of the most beautiful midsummer.
- Nordic Horror: When the days are short, the nightmares are long - YA horror with a Nordic twist!
Book #5 Children of the Midnight Sun is a standalone title in the Nordic Horror Series.
16-year-old Dia is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother on a remote island, where a dark secret is revealed.
Dia is returning from her violin lesson when a menacing group of youths begin to follow her. Dia can escape them with the help of magic she learned as a child and the youth get lost in the forest. However, Dia is soon accused of drugging them. As punishment, she is sent to live with her grandmother on a remote island she fears. Dia is forced to confront her old fears and ends up in danger while solving the mystery of murdered children from decades ago.
The Nordic Horror series is a new horror series from the Nordics, where down-to-earth realism, northern darkness and cold, mystery, murder and mythology are woven together into a nightmarish drapery in the darkest corners of welfare society.
midsummer, Finland, young adult, middle-grade, summer, fantasy, horror, nature, mythology, island, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, speculative fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Sara Al Husaini
An honest and authentic debut novel & winner of the BookBeat Newcomer of the Year Award, a novel that shakes the reader to their core
A mother is escorting her daughter, trembling with fear, to the wedding suite door. This is what she’s been raised for ever since she was little, kept in wrapping paper like a precious sweet. This is the reason why she was brought back from Finland to Iraq.
“You shouldn’t have abandoned the headscarf”, her siblings say. “He is your husband now”, her mother says.
A Disobedient Girl is an astonishingly honest and authentic story about the history of subjugating and silencing women, about abandoning one’s faith, honor violence, forced marriage, Islamic morality, the price of freedom, and the desperate desire for the right to self-determination. Above all, it is about a fearless woman who wants to survive and change the world.
honor violence, discrimination, forced marriage, Finland, misogyny, contemporary, Islamic culture, human rights, religion, abuse, refugees, feminism, violence against women, Afghanistan, daughterhood, autofiction, female protagonist, literary fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: Like (orig.)
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Kaisu Tuokko
The peace of the idyllic seaside town Kristinestad is broken in the first installment of an addictive new crime series.
✓ For fans of Viveca Sten’s The Sandhamn Murders, Camilla Läckberg, Mari Jungstedt and Åsa Larsson!
✓ A perfect mix of Nordic crime, love triangle drama, and the beautiful surroundings of the old coastal town of Kristinestad, Western Finland
✓ Bestseller – over 12,000 copies sold, nominated for BookBeat’s Newcomer Of The Year Award 2023!
The body of a young man is discovered in the sea, and the criminal investigator Mats Bergholm is responsible for the case. At the same time, journalist Eevi Manner is sent to dig out a scoop of the event for the local newspaper. Both are surprised to find each other on the grim beach: the two have a past together – a past which they now need to set aside to solve the case.
Eevi is contacted by a young woman, and it becomes clear that the death is just one link in a chain of events unfitting the picturesque town. The full picture becomes clearer and clearer, although the secrets of the locals are buried deep. Social media and recordings can offer help in solving the case, but the lies and muddy memories of the people involved cast doubts in every direction.
Perfect for fans of Viveca Sten and Camilla Läckberg, this opening of the new KRISTINESTAD MURDERS crime series follows in the footsteps of strong female crime authors, offering gripping crime plots and interpersonal drama.
Kristinestad, Western Finland, 21st century, Finland, family, journalist, crime, society, summer, small town, social media, thriller, murder, secrets, romance, relationships, Ostrobothnia, revenge, community, teenage boy, archipelago, youth gang culture, teenage girl, sexual assault, nordic noir, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, police officer, seaside, contemporary
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Janne Malinen
A captivating middle-grade trilogy about being an outsider, of friendship, bravery, and loss.
- A mystery adventure trilogy where nothing is what it seems
- The atmospheric setting, strong characters and unique plotlines make this an irresistible read
- Series trailer in English available
The shadows over the castle grow, and no one is safe...
In the second part of the trilogy, fate leads the children from the shelter of Grimhill's walls to the dark alleys of the city and nightly meadow.
The cold autumn winds are blowing, and a new school year begins in Grimhill. Oskar, Robin and Vilma meet again with the familiar staff of the sanatorium and the new head doctor, Hjalmar Klemet. All seems to be well on a quick look, but underneath the surface the friendship between the trio is put to the test: Robin spends more and more time with the girl who arrived at the sanatorium in the spring and Vilma retreats more into her own world. The disturbing noises during the night are getting louder again and won't leave Oskar alone. The final piece of the map leading to the forest is finally found, and the children learn of a mysterious and life-threatening task. A task that only the three of them can complete.
boy with an illness, sanatorium, life & death, sickness, friendship, mystery, adventure, castle, children's literature, bravery, loss, being an outsider, illustrated book, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Satu Varjonen
Witchy tricks on social media!
The energetic and well-intentioned witch girl, Thelma, takes a deep dive into social media. As usual, mishaps are guaranteed.
Thelma’s friend Ornelia introduces her to the world of mobile phones and social media. And like any other child, Thelma is quickly swept in by the crystal display.
It turns out that witchcraft is pretty good at going viral. But is fame great for the little witch girl that has grown up in the middle of the forest? Might it even be dangerous? The human-averse Grandma Myrtle is herself aghast at technology.
Be ready for delightful magic and goofs in the usual Thelma-like way!
friendship, home, forest, girls, summer, children's literature, girlhood, social media, magic, summer holiday, witches, witchcraft, humor, grandmother, kindness, self-esteem, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Minerva (orig.), ESTONIA: Kirjastus Elust Enesest
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Hannu Sokala
They prefer to stay in the shadows. Who are the families with the most influence in the world?
- A bestseller in Finland with close to 8,000 copies sold!
- The newest title by the co-author of The 50 Most Dangerous Companies in the World, sold to 8 territories!
- English sample available, featuring 5 of the dangerous families: Rotenberg, Musk, Guriev, Grimaldi, Wallenberg
- Updates slated for 2024!
Very few of us know the Lees, the al-Nahyans, the Quandts, the Safras or the Wertheimers. We all know, however, their companies Samsung, Manchester City, BMW, Chiquita, and Chanel. Many of the world’s most influential companies are still family businesses, and many of these families go back many generations, some even to the 18th Century. Many of them operate around the world, and some are worth tens of billions of dollars. Still, we know astonishingly little about these families.
The stories of the families in this book contain larger-than-life characters, unbelievable plots, and numerous conflicts, tragedies, and successes. This non-fiction book by the experienced business journalist Hannu Sokala offers a comprehensive and surprising perspective on the world’s most important, and dangerous families.
contemporary, non-fiction, environment, United States, families, Europe, China, politics, economy, business, wealth, inequality, banking, well-known real-life families, companies, entrepreneurship
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava/Nemo (orig.)
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Reetta Niemelä
Black Moon Lighthouse continues the charming magical adventure of Saimi and her friends of the secret folk!
- Book 1 in the series won the Arvid Lydecken Prize 2022
- Nominated for the Finlandia Children’s and YA Prize 2022
- Illustrator Katri Kirkkopelto was nominated for the Finlandia Prize several times (2005, 2016, 2020) and is the winner of the Kylli Koski Prize 2009
- Author and poet Reetta Niemelä won the The Kaarina Helakisa Prize in 2011 and has so far been nominated for the Finlandia Prize three times
Something truly mysterious is happening in Bluehill! A group called “Bedtime’s Ugliest Fears Forgotten: Orcs Out at Night” aka B.U.F.F.O.O.N, which persecutes the secret folk, is circling the streets. Indeed, it seems that some folk have gone missing already! Saimi and her friends try to find out what it’s all about, but that is hard to do when adults are disturbing them. And if that wasn’t enough, a bunch of ghosts decide to celebrate the Kekri festival. Eventually the worst fears of Saimi and her friends come true: one of them disappears!
A dangerous operation begins, illuminated by the silver-coloured heartfires of dragons shining deep from within the ground. Is it possible that the ancient lighthouse would once more shine the beacons of the secret folk?
ancient lighthouse, harvest festival, environmental protection, adventure, fantasy creatures, children's literature, fantasy, magic, animal care, illustrated book, love of animals, resourceful young girl, veterinarian father, seaside town, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Lasten Keskus (orig.)
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #3: Bean (May 2023)
Brilliant and resourceful, Kati-e struggles to build a robot that can speak with animals, to find good homes for her four puppies, and she is forced to renovate an old roof-top water tank into her new home as one of the puppies wants to stay with her.
friendship, friends, mystery, children’s literature, coming of age, adventure, summer, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, speaking with animals, rats, humor, love of animals, animals, near future big city, astronaut father, engineer mother, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Laura Andersson
Unlikely investigator Lili Flame who’s charmed readers faces a new tricky puzzle!
In early 1947, Helsinki gets to see something exciting when an unusual troupe of female wrestlers from America performs in the city.
Lili and Riku Loimola, together with their friends, enjoy the performance, but, after the show, chaos erupts in the area. One of the star performers has been shot – and struck with a knife. Why two methods of killing? Could there be two murderers, too?
The Helsinki police are not particularly interested in investigating the foreign woman’s murder, but Lili and Riku won’t give up – the victim deserves justice. A terrific journey begins into the colorful and circus-filled past of Joy Johnson!
policeman, Finland, Helsinki, friendship, female detective, female journalist, post-war era, reconstruction, crime, mystery, historical fiction, film noir, early feminism, freedom, gender roles, class society, companionship, murder, LGBTQ+, 1940s, 20th century, queer, women's roles, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, queer protagonist, whodunnit, circus
Rights sold: FINNISH: Otava (orig).
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A.R.S. Horkka
Never meet your idol.
- Nordic Horror: When the days are short, the nightmares are long - YA horror with a Nordic twist!
Book #4 Murder Ballads is a standalone title in the Nordic Horror Series.
Will Krista manage to lift the demonic demo song curse before the Murder ballads will kill everyone?
Krista is a talented guitarist and singer who dreams of stardom with her wedding band. During her high school internship at a psychiatric hospital, Krista meets her heavy metal idol, the iconic lead singer of the legendary Pagan Angels. After helping the singer escape from the hospital with the help of some bandmates, Krista is rewarded with a notorious demo tape, that was thought to be lost. However, when the murder ballads come back to life, the curse must be broken and the monsters that became flesh must be destroyed.
heavy metal idol, psychiatric hospital, Finland, young adult, middle-grade, horror, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, speculative fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Sara Medberg
Mariam, the daughter of a highborn Persian lady and a Swedish tradesman, gets swept away in a breath-taking romantic adventure after she moves to Porvoo in the midst of Finnish War and becomes the talk of the whole city.
When her brother is arrested in Sweden, Mariam doesn’t hesitate in running to his aid. She’s read Jane Austen’s new novel Emma, whose independent heroine encourages Mariam to act. A mysterious baron promises to help her, but can she trust him? And why do his silvery eyes remind Mariam of something?
The Silk Sisters series has dazzled readers in Finland and abroad. Don a silk dress and let the story sweep you away!
independent heroine, Finnish War, Borgå, 19th century, Finland, romance, Sweden, baron, lady, regency, high society, Jane Austen, Porvoo, class, women's rights, female protagonist
Rights sold: Otava, DENMARK: People's Press, NORWAY: Kagge Forlag
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Magdalena Hai
Creeping horror for the YA audience
✓ Winner of the Finlandia Prize for children’s and YA literature of 2023! Nominated for the Topelius Prize of 2024!
✓ Rights sold in 7 languages & a bestseller in Finland with over 6,000 copies sold
✓ Magdalena Hai’s books have been sold in over 27 territories and she has been nominated for several prestigious awards (Finlandia Prize, Nordic Council Literature Prize)
✓ Magdalena Hai is the winner of the Finnish Literary Export Prize (2017) and Kaarina Helakisa Prize (2020)
When death touches your life, everything changes.
Lauri wakes up in the hospital after a fatal car crash and he doesn’t remember much about it. Mom is dead and now life has changed drastically.
When Lauri starts his slow recovery in a small town at his aunt’s house, he has an unpleasant feeling that everything is not right. The dead don’t stay dead and the beautiful neighbor Vilja-Maaria doesn’t want to live. When an ominous creature with antlers appears behind the window, Lauri begins to see nightmarish dreams that feel too real.
mysterious creature, death of a parent, young adult, small town, horror, death, nightmares, life and death, accident, recovery, teenage protagonist, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), DENMARK: ABC Forlag, ESTONIA: Päike & Pilv, HUNGARY: Metropolis, NORWAY: Gursli Berg Forlag, SLOVENIA: Didakta, SWEDEN: Epix, UKRAINE: Bohdan
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Mari Kujanpää
A contemporary and touching YA novel about the courage to be yourself and finding your own people.
- Mari Kujanpää won the Finlandia Prize in 2009
- Deals with body image, bullying and the pressure on teenagers to always be Instagram-ready
"Everyone else has a purpose, and they always walk without looking at their surroundings. Someone’s waiting for them somewhere. I'm not going anywhere and I'm not expected anywhere. Yet my feet are moving me somewhere".
Age 14, shoe size 42, height 175 centimetres, cup size AA and a hideously ugly face, that's how Malva is defined. She knows she is ugly, and the other pupils remind her of it daily with words and looks. Malva escapes to art and nature. Then along comes Runo, who is passionate about the same things.
My Ugly Diary is a delicate story about how a bullied girl hating her own reflection slowly recovers from the anxiety of her looks. Everyone who has been insecure about their looks can relate to Malva’s experiences.
Finlandia award-winner Mari Kujanpää writes directly and sympathetically about subjects that touch young readers.
modelling, 21st century, young adult, school, social media, 2020s, bullying, art, diary, teenage boy, self-esteem, being an outsider, teenage girl, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), ESTONIA: Varrak
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Laura Gustafsson
A turbulent story about animal-industrial complex, idealism, and companionship that transcends the boundaries between species.
Nominated for the Finlandia Prize 2023!
A professional activist approaching middle age realizes that she has lost her faith in life. For years she has been sneaking around in cowsheds, stared at horrible video materials and been patiently enlightening people. Still, even now someone asks whether she has thought about what the carrots feel. The animal-industrial complex continues to increase its output and it doesn’t matter that fashion houses are refusing fur clothing and people are pouring oat milk into their coffee. Faced with an overwhelming opponent, she must choose whether to continue fighting or whether it’s best to run away.
NOTHING REALLY DISAPPEARS is Laura Gustafsson’s sixth novel.
factory farming, animal rights, Finland, contemporary, animals, sustainability, animal care, activism, activist, literary fiction, ecology, hope
Rights sold: FINLAND: Like (orig).
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Pauliina Susi
✓ New series by a praised and award-winning crime author combines a murder mystery with witty dialogue and relationship drama like no other!
✓ Over 12,000 copies in the series sold in Finland!
Tuulia Raja is a resourceful flight attendant who keeps calm even in the worst of pickles. But when her employer is declared bankrupt, it is time to search for new horizons. A chance encounter leads her to meet with a private investigator, and in no time she is investigating the last moments of a now-dead business mogul. Everyone related to the case is hiding something, but what? Tuulia plans to find this out, no matter the cost.
Pauliina Susi’s Private Property opens the new Tuulia Raja, Private Eye series in which a quick-witted detective capably and cleverly handles the different cases that come her way.
flight attendant, private eye, over-bearing mother, middle-aged woman, old man mentor, Järvenpää, Tuusula, whodunnit, 21st century, Finland, female detective, crime, mystery, 2020s, murder, relationships, corporations, family secrets, Southern Finland, humor, mother-daughter relationship, female protagonist, contemporary, cozy crime
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Elina Hirvonen
Twelve-year-old Julia is spending more and more time with her friends, and Nis, the plush animal agent, is feeling lonely. Nis is haunted by memories of his childhood spent as an abandoned and misfit toy on a store shelf, until he became Julia's friend. Many of the other top fluffy agents of the World Council of Stuffed Animals also feel unneeded. The World Council gets a bunch of therapy alpacas to help the depressed agents, but will help arrive before it’s too late?
A toy manufacturer invites Nis to join him and leave the World Council once and for all. When Julia realises her stuffed animal is gone, she decides to stop time. She doesn't want to grow up, if growing up means parting ways with her childhood best friend, plush animal agent Nis.
Julia and Charlie are determined to uncover the true identity of the Toy manufacturer. As the children grow old, is it possible for them to keep the most important things from their childhood?
Finland, Helsinki, future, 2020s, friendship, mystery, children's literature, loneliness, geek girl, living plush animals, illustrated book, growing up, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Erika Vik
Nordic Noir meets Goth rock in this dark psychological thriller
✓ A rocking debut thriller by an award-winning author of three popular YA novels!
✓ Honorary award in Otava’s Crime novel competition
✓ Unique new voice in Nordic noir combining the world of rock music and dark desires
A fast-paced and intensive psychological thriller that takes a deep dive into the brutal world of the music industry.
Janne Kallamaa is a struggling musician at the lowest point of his popularity, a major Finnish rock star of the 90s who is rejected by his record company. Soon after, the CEO of said company is found dead. Is it suicide or murder?
Meanwhile, Janne is tormented by a faceless stalker whose threatening messages hide more than meets the eye. It's as if the stalker knows everything about the former star's life, even his darkest secrets.
Is there a connection between the stalker and a violent crime in Stockholm? How much is a human life worth when compared to immortal music? Janne feels the net starting to tighten around him and the city of shadows, hiding behind Helsinki’s facade and breathing the threat of violence, does not grant him mercy.
This dark debut thriller asks what we are willing to sacrifice for art.
rock star, struggling musician, music industry, 21st century, Finland, Helsinki, friendship, crime, 2010s, 1990s, 2020s, thriller, 20th century, artistic identity, stalker, harassment, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Atena (orig.)
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Emilia Elisabet Lahti
The Finnish philosophy of sisu shows us a new way to look at power—not as force and domination but as the harmonious expression of human character in everyday actions.
Finnish-born Emilia Elisabet Lahti explores sisu, world traditions, and modern research to provide a new way to approach leadership, resilience, and our power to create change.
Power is fundamental in our lives—we express it in every conversation, relationship, and choice we make. All too often, we equate force and domination with power, while gentleness and compassion are considered “soft” or “weak.” The destructive nature of this skewed perspective has never been more obvious, yet there is reason to hope. With Gentle Power, Dr. Emilia Elisabet Lahti shares an illuminating guide to an emerging shift in the way we define true strength—an approach that balances resolve with reason, grit with compassion, and personal success with service to the collective good.
To understand power is to realize that leadership is not just for some selected minority—we are all leaders whose choices impact those around us. “Each of us can play a vital role in the collective transformation that the world is calling for,” Lahti writes. “It all starts in our own heart, in our own gentle power.” Here you’ll discover a path of wisdom, resilience, and compassionate strength that will elevate your life—and uplift others to take part in a new revolution of human empowerment.
Finland, New Zealand, embodied fortitude, gentle power, conscious leadership, personal growth, human potential, personal transformation, ultrarunning, martial arts, post-traumatic growth, compassion research, positive psychology, systems intelligence, courage, empathy, sisu, resilience, leadership, non-fiction
Rights sold: WORLD ENGLISH: Sounds True (orig.), , ALBANIAN: Jakup Ceraja, CHINA: Cheers Publishing Company, JAPAN: Kadokawa, LATVIA: ZVAIGZNE, THAILAND: Amarin
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Asko Känsälä
Lead like a Finn! The Finnish way of leadership combines art and craftsmanship, like the great Finnish master architect Alvar Aalto.
- Discover a new, Nordic perspective of leadership! Find out what makes a company beautiful!
- Growing as a leader is like a craftsman’s path from apprentice to professional
- Full English text available!
- Over 6,000 copies sold in Finland! Rights sold to Estonia!
What does craftsmanship have to do with leadership? What makes a company beautiful? Asko Känsälä spent his career building successful businesses and coaching new leaders. He has refined his leadership experience of more than 20 years into a vision of leadership as a craft.
Growing up as a leader is like a craftsman’s lifelong path from apprentice to professional. Leadership is a way of thinking, and good leadership is good thinking. Leadership as Mastery: The Finnish Way presents the thinking patterns, tools of the leader-craftsman that good leadership requires.
Inspiring and humane, this book offers a new perspective on leadership, success in the business world, and a better working life.
craftsmanship, non-fiction, business, work, workplace, leadership, work life
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Ühinenud Ajakirjad
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Arttu Unkari
The quirkiest cop in town! The Dad Man Series offers fast-paced adventures and humour for all ages – especially lower middle grade
- For fans of David Walliams and Captain Underpants
- A perfect “Gateway series to literature” for reluctant readers
- Books in the series have been nominated for the Storytel awards 2020, 2021, and 2022 (Best children’s audiobook), Best Newcomer of the Year 2020, and the Runeberg Prize 2023!
- Bold and fresh 4-colour comic-book style artwork that add visual jokes to the narration
- 140,000 copies sold in Finland!
- 4 books available and more to come, with 5th book coming in 2024 - work as standalones and can be read in any order!
Dad Man is a dad, and a policeman - but he also has a superpower! Too bad his superpower is one shared by almost all dads – an unwavering belief in himself and his own abilities. Dad Man truly believes he knows everything and can do anything, but as it goes with most dads, the reality is quite different. And it follows that Dad Man’s nine-year-old daughter Oona needs to solve all of the issues herself.
Oona and her friends find out that Dadman would never have gotten into police school without help – from them! How is that possible? The friends have no choice but to jump into a time machine and go back to Dad Man's police academy years to find out.
The four friends find themselves at the centre of a mysterious series of art theft. The case is being investigated by the police academy's quirkiest cadets, including, of course, Dad Man! Luckily, Oona and friends have a clue of their own. There is a criminal in the police school who they have already caught once.
parents, adventure, children's literature, parenthood, humor, time travel, illustrated book, quirky father, policeman father, clever girl, multiple protagonists, male protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Riikka Sandberg
A fateful novel about friendship, passion and secrets buried in the sea from the end of the occupation of Norway till the 1970s.
✓ For fans of Karin Smirnoff and Kerstin Ekman!
✓ Sold to Norstedts in Sweden in a pre-empt!
1952. A gigantesque mail carrier lives on the island of Ørja with her boat-building father. His last boat is left unfinished, and the daughter takes on the task. The boat is sold to an island-dweller who is the subject of many chilling rumors.
1976. Tine arrives in Ørja to put up a traveling cinema. But what is even more interesting than the projector, is the wire recorder she finds in the shed. It talks of a tragic past that the island community has kept silent about.
A rebel. A spouse. A savior. A friend. A lover. How many lives can one person live? What happens when they collide?
travelling cinema projectionist, boat-builder father, literary fiction, friendship, post-war era, mystery, 1940s, 1970s, island, family history, family secrets, 1950s, Norway, 20th century, sculptor, archipelago, married couple, multiple protagonists, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig), SWEDEN: Norstedts
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Frank Martela
Are you ready to experience meaningful work and make it possible? Start your journey with this book!
- A revolutionary, mind-blowing book by Finland’s #1 internationally bestselling non-fiction author!
- Martela’s previous title, A WONDERFUL LIFE, has been sold to 30 countries!
- Making work meaningful is a moral issue, a well-being issue, and a performance issue!
Work occupies a more central role in our lives than just a way of making ends meet. At best, work fills our lives with meaningfulness, making our whole existence more worth living. At worst, it is a desperate toil that alienates us from who we are and what’s good in life. In modern knowledge work requiring expertise and self-management, innovativeness and productivity require commitment and high-quality motivation – key benefits that meaningfulness can offer.
How, then, can we make work more meaningful? In principle, the recipe for meaningful work is surprisingly simple: do personally interesting and engaging things, while making a positive contribution to other people. However, making that into reality is the tough part. Here, the book will offer you key tools, mindsets, and strategies to make both your own work and the work of those around you more meaningful.
The book relies on the author’s extensive research into meaningful work combined with examples of vanguard individuals and companies around the world that are making a new, more meaningful world of work a reality. Along the way we meet entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors, and politicians making their mark as forerunners of work with a purpose.
meaningful work, purpose, purpose at work, work life, management, well-being, pscyhology, philosophy, business, happiness, leadership, non-fiction
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Eeva Louko
The second title in the Ronja Vaara crime series from the rising star of Finnish crime literature takes the reader to the shadows of a pulsing summer night.
A late spring heat wave caresses the people of Lauttasaari, and Ronja Vaara is pleasantly busy with her new job at the local newspaper. When the body of a young woman is found on Käärmesaari (Serpent Island) near Helsinki, Ronja’s new boss senses an opportunity to make the newspaper the prime source for any information on the case. Reluctantly, Ronja contacts the chief investigator Anton Koivu, who is surprisingly willing to leak confidential information to Ronja - if she does him a favor in return.
Soon, another death shocks the people of Lauttasaari. Koivu and his team pick up the pace to solve the cases, but a surprising guest from the past throws them off balance.
21st century, Finland, Helsinki, friendship, seaside, detective, Scandinavia, crime, mystery, summer, 2020s, murder, secrets, romance, Lauttasaari, archipelago, nordic noir, cozy crime, thirty-something woman, local journalist, female protagonist, police officer, whodunnit, island
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), ESTONIA: Hea Lugu
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Riikka Jäntti
Little Mouse’s Fables is a charming and cheerful book for small readers and all Little Mouse’s friends!
Little Mouse loves storytime. Together with Mommy Mouse, they read the Grimm classics: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Sweet Porridge, Jack and the Beanstalk, and more! Riikka Jäntti’s lovely illustrations depict the mouseified adventures in these classic tales.
family, adventure, fairytales, fables, story, bedtime story, mother, fantasy world, child, single mother, children's literature, illustrated book, child protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat, FRANCE: Cambourakis
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Hannele Lampela
The hero of all mischief-makers, Itty Bitty Princess, tells us seven familiar stories from the perspective of the teeny bit naughty!
Have you ever thought of how a witch feels when her magnificent gingerbread house is eaten? Or the fairy who doesn’t get invited to a birthday party? Indeed, probably not so good.
Itty Bitty Princess has noticed that the ones who are already kind are the ones who always win the battles. Like her little brother. That’s why she has decided to tell a few stories from the side of the scoundrels, like the dragon that gets constantly poked by swords. After all, Itty Bitty Princess knows what it’s like to be kind and naughty at the same time.
fairytale characters, mischievous little girl, understanding others, mother, father, family, contemporary, fairytales, fantasy world, children's literature, dog, baby, big sister, kindness, illustrated book, home, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #2: Mop (October 2022)
The sunny, resourceful, self-reliant 6-year-old rat owner Kati-e is having the time of her life working as a little helper in a pet store. When it goes out of business, the devastated Kati-e sets up her own pet service so she can be around animals in the future, and ends up owning four puppies as a result.
friendship, friends, mystery, coming of age, adventure, summer, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, speaking with animals, rats, humor, love of animals, animals, near future big city, astronaut father, engineer mother, illustrated book, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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A. M. Ollikainen
The second book in a new fast-paced and addictive Nordic Noir series. A.M. Ollikainen are Finland’s Lars Kepler!
An old woman is found hanged in a forest. Paula finds out that she had terminal cancer and had almost emptied her apartment, knowing to die soon. Her death is considered a suicide, but Paula is not satisfied with it. There is something wrong in the picture.
A famous mountain climber is found hanging above a seesaw in a playground. On the other end of the seesaw Paula finds sand that is far too fine to be natural – the same kind of sand that was found at the forest. Paula realizes that the victims have been forced to balance on a seesaw before death, fighting for their lives. Paula Pihlaja has barely started the investigation when a third body turns up – a teenage boy, at another playground, hanged. A serial killer is on the loose.
mountain climber, K2, Finland, Helsinki, 1990s, teenager, prisoner, mental disorder, female detective, crime, contemporary, murder, motherhood, serial killer, serial killer, guilt, adoption, nordic noir, child neglect, female protagonist, police officer
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Host, DENMARK: Svane & Bilgrav , ESTONIA: Varrak, GERMANY: Bastei Lübbe, HUNGARY: Animus, LATVIA: Zvaigzne, LITHUANIA: Baltos lankos, NETHERLANDS: HarperCollins Holland, NORWAY: Aschehoug, POLAND: Czarna Owca, RUSSIA: Publishing House Gorodets, SLOVENIA: Didakta, Sweden: Bokfabriken, TURKEY: April
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Tuomas Oskari
Dark forces are returning to Europe.
The refugee crisis following the economic collapse pushes tensions within Europe to the extreme. As the Prime Minister of Italy arrives in Helsinki, a sniper's bullet ignites the powder keg.
The former Prime Minister of Finland, Leo Koski, believes himself to be a redundant retiree at 36, but an invitation to come to Helsinki in a disguise leads him to the focal point of the crisis. Leo encounters Sara, a young historian, who believes she knows what's behind the rapidly unfolding chain of events.
Who is Heimdall, whose plans threaten the lives of both the powerful and desperate refugees? Whose hands will the heavy sword of justice fall into?
21st century, Finland, contemporary, suspense, thriller, politics, economy, world politics, male protagonist, immigration, refugee crisis, ex-politician
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Aki Ollikainen
While on his rural tour in autumn 1914, the tenor singer Aarne Oden coughs up a life-threatening amount of blood, and he is diagnosed with tuberculosis. He is sent off to the tuberculosis sanatorium, the kingdom of those hanging on to life by just a thread.
At the same time, in a remote village in the north, the preacher and landowner Kustaa Anttola is preparing for the Michaelmas prayer proceedings. However, the preparations get interrupted when he finds the local madman Stye-Viljaami drinking in his barn. In his anger, Kustaa gives Viljami a heavy beating. During the prayers, Kustaa’s life is forever altered as Christ appears behind the window to listen to his sermon.
Aarne, who has recovered at the sanatorium, also finds himself in the north, supervising the transportation of munitions of the Russian Empire, from the coasts of the Arctic Ocean to the northernmost railroad station of the Empire. When spring comes, Aarne meets Christ on the shore of a wild lake and finds that the two have more in common than he thought. And soon, Kustaa Anttola finds two Christs on his land.
How do people see themselves when they’re forced to give up what they have constructed their identity on, and illness becomes the characteristic trait defining them? And how does one see their loved ones, marked by death and illness? What happens to a righteous preacher when the long-expected Christ arrives before him in the form of the creature most wretched?
Aki Ollikainen’s latest novel grows larger in size thanks to its lyrical language. The individual scenes are like expressionist paintings reaching over the visible world.
God, Christ, tenor singer, preacher, 1910s, Russian Empire, Arctic, beliefs, identity, death, religion, North, nature, illness, 20th century, multiple protagonists, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Siltala (orig.), HUNGARY: Polar
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Hannu Aaltonen and Tapio Keskitalo
A critical depiction of the destructive power of money in professional association football
During the 2000s, international association football has become a pompous, money-driven business. ‘The Beautiful Game’ has developed into a playing field with its own laws where oligarchs, sheikhs, and American billionaires run amok.
This startling book delves into the outrageously wealthy and powerful football clubs that do not abide by football’s own economic rules. Influential football bosses and governing bodies have become bogged down in bribe scandals, while small football countries like Finland have to count pennies.
The grotesque development culminates with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, where the authorities and organizers do not care about costs or construction worker deaths.
Sepp Blatter, Florentino Perez, Roman Abramovich, Chelsea, Veikkausliiga, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, UEFA, FIFA, Qatar, football, sports, sportswashing, women's football, football leaks, Russia, corruption, World Cup
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), ESTONIA: Helios
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Hanna Brotherus
A brave, honest, and touching story about a point of no return
For My Life is a story about the aging of a woman. The novel contemplates the essence of independence and one’s own body, the connections one creates with family and friends, and the transience of life.
A woman’s life as an artist and the mother of four children has kept her in motion incessantly. She’s found meaning in the needs and hopes of others. Once her children leave their childhood home, she needs to find purpose for her days once again. Freedom is difficult to grasp, the future is hard to see.
When the old family summer villa is sold, it’s time to dispose of things. Important memories. The clear fall air sees the woman set out on her own for the villa where no one is waiting for her – no one except inevitable change. She goes through her life and, amidst the silence, she finds a path to follow.
For My Life is a bare, brave, and honest novel. Its tone is easily recognizable as having the same beauty as Hanna Brotherus’ debut novel My Only Home, which gained immense popularity within an exceptionally large readership.
adult children, cabin, Eastern Finland, island cabin, butterflies, meaning of life, meaningfulness, becoming awake, children leaving home, blended family, parting with something, woman’s aging, menopause, new beginning, Finland, Helsinki, mother, friends, woman, 2020s, island, loneliness, funeral, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), GERMANY: Ullstein
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Mari Tossavainen
The story of the most well-known Finnish artist in the world, supplemented by previously unpublished correspondence
- A pioneering insight into the life and artistic work of one of Finland’s most beloved artists!
Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) is one of the most well-known Finnish artists in the world. Her modernist and realist works have been on display in galleries all over Europe, North America and Asia, a biographical film based on her life was released in 2020, and her birthday, July 10th, is a national day for the painted arts in Finland.
This innovative and fascinating book, drawing on previously unpublished correspondence and archival materials, paints a far more multithreaded picture of the life and artistic work of Helene Schjerfbeck and brings into light the significance of previously forgotten people in her creative work.
In her letters, Schjerfbeck divulged both her works and her thoughts not only to fellow artists, but also to her art dealer Gösta Stenman and people outside the artistic world. Among others, this book elucidates the friendship between Schjerfbeck and her childhood governess, Lina Ingman. The letters Schjerfbeck wrote to Ingman during the 1920s and 1930s show a different side to the artist, and Schjerfbeck signed them with her beloved childhood nickname, Ella.
Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), Lina Ingman (1851–1939), Fanny Churberg (1845–1892), Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Gösta Stenman (1888–1947), 20th century, early 20th century, Stenman’s art gallery (Stenmans Konstsalong), letter correspondence, archives, painting, women artists, women painters, artistic practice, art dealers, visual arts, artistic identity, modernism, disability, myth of the artist, fame, artistic career, 19th century, Finland, Sweden, art, biography, artists, art history, history, non-fiction, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Tommi Kinnunen
“No-one makes it through this life unbroken. The only thing that can surprise a person is the way in which each of us is broken.”
In 1947, Elna Suorajärvi, a teacher in her sixties, is given a teaching post by the remote Niemi school close to the Finnish-Soviet border. Nothing is as it should be: the school building turns out to be a barracks abandoned by the Germans, and an illness ravages her body. Of her sister Salli, Elna only has memories of bitter arguments and blows to her temple. Nevertheless, Elna gets on with it because she knows how to teach, even though some people find her difficult. Even then, the lonely winter weighs heavily on her mind and brings forth things that she’d rather not think about.
In his novel that follows the turn of the seasons, Tommi Kinnunen writes about a feisty teacher, about joy and about giving up, in a nuanced and full-hearted way.
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), ESTONIA: Varrak
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #7: Wild City (Sept 2022)
Pet Agents on a mission to help urban wildlife!
After Luca’s beloved dachshund Wilhelm dies from old age, a resourceful Kati-e will do anything she can to help him. She will even restore an overgrown and neglected medieval pet cemetery to its former glory so that Wilhelm could have the final resting place that Luca desires.
For the city authorities to agree to reopen the old pet cemetery, the Pet Agents must first participate in the city’s ambitious urban wildlife conservation project. Luca will never forget his beloved dog, but with Kati-e’s help and compassion, he finds ways to ease the sting of grief and memorialize his lost pet.
pet death, city safari, old age, pet cemetery, Halloween, friendship, friends, adventure, grief, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, pet problems, detectives, speaking with animals, compassion, urban wildlife, death, illustrated book, love of animals, animals, children's literature, autumn, big city, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Elina Pitkäkangas
An epic novel about love and power in a fictional East Asia of the future! When a person’s value is determined by money and happiness by family, what will be left when both are ripped away?
✓ Winner of the Topelius Award 2023, the City of Tampere Literature Prize 2023, and Kuvastaja Prize 2023!
✓ Praised by readers and critics for its convincing world-building, multifaceted characters and cinematic descriptions
✓ Rare representation of sign language in YA
The state of Fusang is recovering from a war that ravaged the world. 16-year-old Kong Dawei, an earnest young man, is living in a poor mountain village and tries to pay his adopted siblings’ citizen dues by transporting contraband goods at night.
After a series of unfortunate events, Dawei ends up in the southern capital which is ruled by the cruel matriarch of the White Tiger Clan. When there is nothing else to lose, Dawei has only one goal: to get back to his loved ones, his brother Ren and his friend and love interest Dray– whatever it takes.
Sang is an addictive fantasy novel that travels through cold mountains and humid cities, noisy bazaars and opulent halls, and the world after the Black Rain, in which one’s value is measured in money.
royals, post-apocalypse, East Asia, Tibet, Fusang, sign language, cultural representation, wuxia, combat, Chinese mythology, soldiers, rebels, identity, race, friendship, dystopia, young adult, home, freedom, adventure, fantasy, boys, future, violence, LGBTQ+, China, slavery, war, feminism, queer, power, martial arts, scifi, mythology, teenage protagonist, male protagonist, queer protagonist, speculative fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), DENMARK: Straarup & Co, GERMANY: CBJ Verlag, TURKEY: Indigo Kitap
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Leena Lehtolainen
The Crossing of the Green Dragon is a YA thriller about loss and the power of friendship. About things you don’t want to reveal to adults. About a world where fear and hope are entangled in each other, and where nobody makes it on their own.
- New YA thriller by Finland’s best-selling female crime writer!
- Leena Lehtolainen has sold over 2,5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 30 languages! In the US, only Jo Nesbø has sold more copies!
Who has painted the image of a green dragon taking flight on the electronic box at the crossroads? Why does it keep appearing again and again, despite being washed and painted over?
High school freshman Viggo knows that the original painting was done by his brother Joel shortly before his disappearance. Joel used to play Japanese mahjong and the green dragon was his favorite tile in the game. Joel has been missing for over two years and the police have no leads whatsoever. Did he leave of his own volition or is he the victim of a crime?
Selma and her friend Sennu Koivu used to go and see the painting. Sennu, the daughter of a Vietnamese Chinese mother, used to play an Eastern dragon in their childhood games and Selma the Western one. Together, the girls came up with the language of the dragons that nobody else could understand. Sennu has since passed away, and Selma often visits the dragon to seek connection with her deceased friend.
Selma’s sibling Savu has worries of their own. A gang idolizing roadman culture has managed to extort Savu to join them in stealing designer clothes. Selma doesn’t want to idly watch Savu’s demise. Can she gather the courage to share her worries with her former best friend’s father, who works in the police department’s youth intervention unit?
deceased best friend, missing brother, adult detective, roadman culture, youth gang culture, crime investigation, Japanese mahjong, family ties, youth crime, missing persons, Finland, Helsinki, friendship, Espoo, teenage boy, teenagers, young adult, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, male protagonist, multiple protagonists, 21st century, LGBTQ+
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Reetta Niemelä
✓ A new collaboration between the winner of the Arvid Lydecken Award 2022 Reetta Niemelä and textile artist and illustrator Eri Shimatsuka
✓ An important topic with appeal to all ages
✓ Teaches children about mental health and standing up for their individual needs
Once upon a time there was a fox the colour of a copper pot. He had very long and sensitive ears. Loud noises keep hurting the fox's ears. It had to dig deeper and deeper into his den to get to rest his ears. Where does the fox find silence? How would the other creatures in the forest understand that the silence is like a hammock, where one can safely fall asleep?
This beautiful story discusses sensibility and the need for silence. The touching text by award-winning poet and children’s author Reetta Niemelä is paired with charming illustrations by textile artist Eri Shimatsuka. The Fox and Silence is Eri’s debut children’s book.
sensitive fox, being sensitive, forest, animals, children's literature, mental health, illustrated book, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), JAPAN: Iwanami Shoten Publishers, LATVIA: Latvijas Mediji
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A.R.S. Horkka
Book 2: THE CLOCKWORK WHISPERER
Do clockwork zombies dream of steam sheep?
Two fifteen-year-old steam engineering cadets, Orca and Vapor, each make a death-defying trip to Helsinki, the Lead City, which is teeming with clockwork zombies and enemy soldiers, to retrieve their beloved mentor, Professor Aeris, the Imperial Clockwork Whisperer, and the Fire Stone, a magical object with the ability to heal the plague raging in the empire and end the war with the Blood Army.
students, steam cadets, professor, zombies, spymasters, engineers, university, greenhouse, deserted town, war zone, steam motorcycle, boat, military camp, zombies, zombie outbreak, mutant, pandemic, epidemic, plague, army, self-mutilation, chase, fugitive, walled city, magical artifact, fighting the system, bravery, reign of terror, execution, Finland, Helsinki, soldiers, love, dystopia, science, middle-grade, adventure, summer, sea, monsters, horror, prison, courage, steampunk, resistance, war, scientists, religion, escape, 1880s, 1890s, 19th century, alternate history, multiple protagonists, teenage protagonist, young adult, speculative fiction, alternate world
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), RUSSIA: Eksmo
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A.R.S. Horkka
Book 3: THE STAND-IN
The past haunts me. I haunt the past.
After a brain tumor diagnosis, 18-year-old Taika, an avid member of a historical reenactment group, develops a psychic connection to a medieval noblewoman, a Viking berserker, and a Finnish civil war photographer. Now, Taika must help them with their troubles, and they help her, to the point of curing her cancer. Ultimately, we learn that the ghost that has been haunting her has been herself all along.
actor, artist, medieval noblewoman, Viking berserker, war photographer, priest, bully, medieval time, Viking time, civil war, spring, Tammisaari, Southern Finland, Lieksa, Northern Karelia, prison camp, illness, brain tumor, psychic connection, telepathy, psychic link, schizophrenia, split personality, loss of reality, historical reenactment, suicide, father-daughter relationship, artistic creation, pain, reincarnation, crush, Finland, love, village, home, history, adolescence, empowerment, middle-grade, civil war, winter, summer, castle, death, bullying, cancer, ice swimming, dying, autumn, horror, children's literature, 20th century, 1910s, present, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, speculative fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Riikka Pulkkinen
This shiningly beautiful novel is an autopsy of girlhood and power
Philippa Laakso, aged seventeen, is found dead in her yard at home. Nothing suggests a crime, and everyone who knew her is certain she wasn’t suicidal. On the other hand, all who knew her seem to hold a differing view of her. The investigation sees them being interviewed, but behind every view and story is Philippa’s influence. She still has the people around her in a sharp grip: her friend, ex-boyfriend, teacher, neighbors.
Riikka Pulkkinen’s anticipated novel examines the power and comfort of make-believe and the thin line between love and play. Every character in the novel sees Philippa in his or her own way, as a mirror for fantasizing, anger, aspirations, comfort, and freedom, and uses their perceived image of Philippa to their own ends.
grieving mother, best friends, ex-boyfriend, pathologist, angry mother, narration, power, power relationships, dating, Finland, Helsinki, girlhood, 2020s, feminism, present day, teenage protagonist, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), LATVIA: Janis Roze Publishers, UNITED KINGDOM/WORLD ENGLISH: Scribe
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Vera Vala
“The heart of darkness is in the human mind.”
The Greater Milan area lives in fear. A mysterious stalker is terrorizing people, and a serial killer called the Harlequin is picking their victims, branding them with jewelry. Are the two cases connected?
Salla Kotka, starting her career as a forensic psychologist, gets pulled into the threatening chain of events as she begins working for a defense attorney. Their client is the suspected serial killer, and Salla needs to help the defense uncover the truth. But, in the end, does truth carry any value in the courtroom?
To make matters worse, her new job as a profiler seems like a battlefield, mined by suspicious colleagues and hostile clients. While Salla has to examine the darkest sides in others, she is also trying to come to terms with her own past. Can she trust anyone, even herself?
Byronic male hero with troubled past, female victims of violence and stalking, serial killer, psychiatrist, Milan Area, psychological thriller, forensic psychology, profiling, murder investigation, domestic violence, stalking, chess, Italian culture, Italian food, Italian criminal defense, Italy, summer, suspense, 2020s, trauma, serial killer, psychopathy, violence against women, female protagonist, psychology, psychotherapy, detective, lawyer
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Leena Parkkinen
The story of two sisters who become separated in a tragedy
✓ A feel-good novel by the award-winning author who has 12 international publishers!
✓ Book à la Carte award for Miss Stein’s Cook!
✓ Bestseller: already in its 5th printing!
A fabulous historical novel about a crime that separates two sisters, and about love that sets one human to serve another.
In Parainen, near the archipelago in Southern Finland, the stint two sisters have as helpers in a mansion ends in terrible bloodshed.
Twenty years later in Paris, the world-famous Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas hire a cook for their two-woman household - Margit, one of the two sisters whose lives were transformed by the tragedy in Parainen. The roles of the cook and the servant define both Margit and Alice, who is Stein’s lover, editor, muse, and typewriter.
A special trust and tension is born between the women. But Margit’s dark secret leaves none of them alone.
Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, servant, mistress, Finnish Archipelago, Turku Archipelago, use of power, control, class, couples, housekeeping, Finland, love, United States, Paris, sisterhood, murder, France, relationships, island, cooking, food, equality, 1930s, 1920s, San Francisco, writers, artists, letter correspondence, Parainen, queer, lesbian, 20th century, LGBTQ+, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, queer protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Maria Turtschaninoff
The roots of people and forest are intertwined in the depths of the earth.
Inherited Land tells multiple enchanting stories about short human lives on a small farmstead in the north of Finland with its golden cloudberries and mythical forest creatures. The hub of the narrative is a marsh close to the farmstead, and nature is the constant while humans are like dragonflies: here one day, gone the next. Across four centuries, the people face wars, epidemics, and heartbreaks, but in the woods they find shelter and a place to be themselves.
Inherited Land is a novel about the climate crisis without ever mentioning it by name. Instead, the novel explores what people have thought about their environment, how they have used it and why. The novel is a reminder of where we have come from, and what a relationship between humans and nature could look like in the future.
fey, Ostrobothnia, Nordic countries, Kokkola, farmstead, marshland, swamp, bog, forestry, man and nature, family saga, famine, survival, religion, folklore, emigration, urbanization, extinction, witchcraft, village, climate change, historical fiction, forest, Sweden, nature, grief, war, Finland, 19th century, 17th century, 20th century, 18th century, mythology, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, contemporary, magical realism, farmer, elderly, pioneer, mother, father, environment, woman, priest, scientist, man
Rights sold: FINLAND: Förlaget (orig. Finland-Swedish), Tammi (Finnish), SWEDEN: Förlaget, AZERBAIJAN: Alatoran, BULGARIA: Izida, CHINA: Rentian Ulus, CROATIA: HENA COM, CZECHIA: ARGO, DENMARK: Alpha Forlag, ESTONIA: Rahvat Raamat, FRANCE: Éditions Paulsen, GERMANY: Rowohlt, HUNGARY: L’Harmattan, ISRAEL: Hakibbutz Hameuchad – Sifriat Poalim Publishing House, ITALY: Bompiani, NETHERLANDS: Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, NORWAY: Bonnier Norsk Forlag, POLAND: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, ROMANIA: Editura Univers, TURKEY: Timas , UKRAINE: Old Lion Publishing House, WORLD ENGLISH: Pushkin Press
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Emmi Pesonen
A magical novel about two sisters who grow up in different families.
As children, Linda and her little sister Magda follow, in secret, how their father hypnotizes his customers. The girls listen to their most secret wishes, forbidden emotions, and dreamlike memories. The girls also act as statisticians and audience for their father’s magic tricks, and through it all, they love each other fiercely.
But their parents end up divorcing, and the two sisters are torn away from each other. Magda lives with her mother, drifts around in Helsinki, and ends up in a relationship with an adult man. Linda grows up with her father and gets the opportunity to try to reach her dreams of being an artist and to have her own family.
Years later, Linda’s daughter Indra finds her hypnotist grandfather’s box with contents that surprise her. Indra needs to face her memories: are they true or make-believe?
overprotective big sister, restless little sister, magician, hypnotist, trickster, theater director, addict, pain patient, sister, Porvoo, Töölö, hypnosis, theater, Finland, Helsinki, memory, family, 2010s, 1990s, 1980s, 2000s, city, 2020s, drugs, addiction, 1970s, motherhood, creativity, 21st century, 20th century, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, past, sisterhood, secrets, generations
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Salla Simukka
Autopsy of a relationship - literary suspense at its best!
Award-winning illustrator Nova moves with her partner, Isla, into a dream house in the middle of a forest. However, the calm and quiet of the light in a faraway region is not enough to fix the cracks in the relationship.
After the breakup, Nova isolates herself in her office to illustrate old Finnish horror stories, which unexpectedly reveal a link to the new home. Isla, in turn, does not seem willing to accept the situation but carries on in the shared home as if nothing has happened. When reality seems to distort, the confused Nova comes face-to-face with the sorrows of the past. In what does one dare trust?
A gradually darkening story about love - where it begins, what it survives, and how it ends.
men, isolated house, small village, breakup, house, art, nature, forest, Finland, love, home, climate change, mystery, forest, memories, horror, death, violence, women, relationships, sadness, LGBTQ+, 21st century, 2000s, 2020s, pandemic, queer, female protagonist, queer protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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A.R.S. Horkka
Book 1: THE SHIVERING
I don’t live in the cold, the cold lives in me.
When six-year-old Armas loses his parents in a plane accident, he is sent to a remote orphanage in northern Lapland, where children are called “hot bloods” who need to be “cooled down.”
What people don’t know is that by being “cooled down”, the children are actually losing their emotions to demons. To get his emotions back, Armas, now 16, has to kill each of these demons, including the oldest and most dangerous monster of them all – the demon queen called the Snow Lady.
orphan boy, orphan girl, demons, the demon queen, north, wilderness, orphanage, a cabin in the woods, nature, demons, emotions, feelings, numb, emotionless, empathy, nightmares, fear, mentor-student relationship, revenge, stabbing, escape, Finland, identity, love, mountains, adolescence, middle-grade, coming of age, winter, fantasy, monsters, horror, ice, nature, mythology, Lapland, 1950s, 20th century, male protagonist, teenage protagonist, young adult, speculative fiction, rituals
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Janne Malinen
A captivating middle-grade trilogy about being an outsider, of friendship, bravery, and loss.
- A mystery adventure trilogy where nothing is what it seems
- The atmospheric setting, strong characters and unique plotlines make this an irresistible read
- Series trailer in English available
- For fans of Astrid Lindgren and Harry Potter
The thoughtful and elaborate opening of a middle-grade trilogy opens the doors to the mysterious Grimhill sanatorium, where secrets and dangers lurk both on the labyrinthine corridors as well as in the surrounding forest.
Oskar is a perfectly average boy living with his parents in the red brick house by the biggest market square in the city. Everything changes when he is diagnosed with a serious illness. His parents send him to the remote Grimhill sanatorium, which from the very first moments feels suspicious and off-putting – and the staff don’t make it better. It seems like they are hiding something. Together with his new friends Robin and Vilma, Oskar gets pulled into a compelling adventure as they try to find out what is behind the ominous voices in the night. And what is hiding within the cold forest which seems to enchant the children?
The Secrets of Grimhill: Seven Lily-of-the-Valleys begins an exciting and warm trilogy where nothing is what it seems.
boy with an illness, sanatorium, life & death, sickness, friendship, mystery, adventure, castle, children's literature, bravery, loss, being an outsider, illustrated book, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Elina Backman, Heidi Holmavuo
A true crime story of a murder committed 67 years ago, the case reopened based on the work of two private detectives
In 1955, a young woman, Elli, was found murdered near her home in a small town in Northern Finland. Her father, who worked as a policeman, had also died in suspicious circumstances. Elli’s murder, however, remained unsolved. In 1972, a group of police officers demanded reopening the murder investigation, citing destroyed evidence and protection of someone involved.
Based on this claim, crime writers Elina Backman and Heidi Holmavuo started investigating the case in the 2020s. They travelled to the town of Kemi where the murder happened, interviewed locals and heard chilling things previously kept secret. Based on their research, the police decided to reopen the investigation.
Kemi, Finland, 2020s, Lapland, 1970s, 1950s, true crime, unsolved case, cover-up, young woman, murder, true story, crime writers, 21st century, 20th century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), DENMARK: Podster (audio)
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Hanna Meretoja
Close friends come together on the night of Ancient Lights to watch the chain of bonfires blaze across the archipelago and talk through their pasts and futures as the proximity of death ignites an intense passion for life.
Elea has just heard that she is seriously ill and wants to share with friends the sense of urgency that shakes her to her core. The push-and-pull of hope and despair permeates the narration that flows in the rhythm of the sea, in dialogue with Virginia Woolf’s Waves and Tove Jansson’s Summer Book. It captures the soul of the Finnish archipelago – the world’s largest island labyrinth.
Intellectual force is braided with subtle drama as personal emergency is woven into the fabric of global crises: the pandemic and climate change. Time is disrupted, but illuminated moments gleam in the dark. This intellectually fierce and passionate one-evening novel threads philosophical reflections into deeply intimate perceptions in a way that readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson will recognize.
The novel has received glowing reviews - it has been praised for its lyrical language, wisdom and boldness, complex philosophical reflection on illness, precise narration, and passion for life, love and nature.
literary scholar, researcher, sculptor, widow, pandemic, end of summer, archipelago, Turku, Parainen, sea, life crises, connection, summer party, shock, emergency, loss, storytelling, sea stories, narratives, Finland, love, friendship, seaside, climate change, contemporary, boy, girl, summer, 2020s, cancer, nature, water, grief, island, motherhood, artist, illness, pandemic, doctor, passion, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), GERMANY: mareverlag
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Tuutikki Tolonen
Agnes and her mother have moved into their mysterious manor where summer camps are held. Suddenly, drawings that no one claims to have drawn appear during an arts summer camp. A strange shadow is captured by Agnes’s camera, as if someone is standing next to the window in the empty room. Does the manor have more secrets to share?
art teachers, summer camp, summer camp, Finland, friendship, mystery, middle-grade, adventure, small town, children, old dog, magical realism, family history, family secrets, old manor, illustrated book, children's literature, 21st century, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century, female protagonist, child protagonist, photography
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Portál, ESTONIA: Eesti Raamat
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #1 – Bit and Mode (May 2022)
In order to have a pet of her own, the lonely six-year-old coding wizard and handy robot builder Kati-e rescues adorable rat twins from the trash can. She sneaks them home, despite her mother's allergy to rats, only to discover a mysterious stuffed animal hidden inside the walls of her room, which used to belong to the coolest girl in the neighborhood.
rats, friendship, friends, adventure, summer, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, speaking with animals, love of animals, animals, mystery, coming of age, humor, near future big city, pet store, astronaut father, engineer mother, illustrated book, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Riikka Jäntti
At last, DING DONG! Little Mouse opens the front door for the birthday guests. Little Mouse receives delightful presents from his friends and then it is time to feast: the birthday cake and other desserts are to everyone’s taste. Games and quizzes are also a part of Little Mouse’s birthday. The next morning Little Mouse gets a present from his mother, but ends up causing a surprising amount of trouble, especially to Mom!
party, telephone, playing, presents, mother, friends, child, phone addiction, birthday, home, autumn, illustrated book, children's literature, child protagonist, single mother, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), FRANCE: Cambourakis, GERMANY: Cross Cult, POLAND: Filia, ROMANIA: Editura Paralera 45
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Hannele Lampela
Where do annoying little siblings come from? Itty-Bitty Princess figures out the icky truth about babies in her own bold manner.
Of course, Itty-Bitty Princess knows that babies grow in mothers’ tummies. But how did they end up there? And how do they get out? And most importantly: why on earth would parents want a baby that poops a lot and wakes them up in the middle of the night?
This charming picture book by Hannele Lampela, illustrated by Ninka Reittu, provides answers to children’s puzzling questions about babies but also touches on the emotions that big sisters and brothers go through, when they hear a baby is about to arrive.
baby, big sister, babies, educational, nursery anarchy, mother, father, family, love, family, 2010s, home, sisterhood, dog, biology, contemporary, 2020s, humor, mischievous little girl, illustrated book, 21st century, child protagonist, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), DENMARK: Turbine Forlaget, ESTONIA: Kirjastus Elust Enesest , ITALY: Fabbri Editori, WORLD SPANISH: Planeta Mexico
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Riikka-Maria Rosenberg
Life and love of the nobility in 18th century Finland!
Anna Magdalena Lilliebrunn, a noblewoman approaching her forties, has a stain on her reputation and the role of an old maid looms in her future. Everything is about to change, however, as the notoriously hot-tempered officer Karl Gustaf Uggla from the neighboring manor is chosen to be Anna’s husband.
At the Haga Manor, Anna is met by a frigid atmosphere. The reserved relatives and her husband’s lover make sure that the new daughter-in-law will neither feel at home nor become lady of the house. Will the tough and self-willed Anna be capable of living in the manner that she believes in?
Anna of Haga Manor is the masterful opening chapter of a new historical novel series, The Ladies of Haga Manor, which is based on thorough research on the lives and fates of real women who lived at the real Haga manor. The ambience of the past is expertly captured and the reader will want to savour every word.
nobility, wife, brother, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, maidservant, 1750s, 1760s, 18th century, Tavastia proper, Haga Manor, Janakkala, countrylife, farm life, family bonds, true story, woman's life, Finland, Helsinki, mother, father, identity, history, romance, farm hand, marriage, countryside, nobility, manor, husband, sister, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Maria Katajavuori
Join the journey of a whale and a woman and uncover the keys to sustainability – the Earth can be saved with tools of human behavioral biology. Humans are like a whale in a glass bowl, trapped despite our big brains.
- Nominated for the Finlandia Prize in Non-Fiction 2022!
- Her previous book A Matter of Death and Life won the State Award for Public Information!
- Find out why the environmental crisis continues to worsen, although we know more about it with each passing day
- And what can we do to break ourselves out of this vicious and destructive cycle?
Humans are the most intelligent of animals. We know the effects of environmental degradation, but when we have to make a living or go on a vacation, our environmental awareness is suddenly forgotten.
The intriguing book reveals the paradoxes of environmental crisis and uncovers biological and cultural patterns that lead to overconsumption. Humans are like a beluga whale in a glass bowl, trapped despite our big brains. The whale’s story does, however, offer solutions as well. In addition to information, we need incentives that appeal to our natural selfishness and reward sustainable choices. By reshaping our glass bowl, the structures of our society, we can swim to freedom, away from the destructive whirlpool.
behavior, climate change, environment, ecology, climate crisis, climate action, sustainability, sustainable future, biology, biodiversity, ecological crisis, evolution
Rights sold: FINLAND: Atena/Otava (orig.)
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Laura Andersson
Post-war Helsinki is full of people looking to build a new life, and Lili Flame, who spent the war years in the US as a housemaid, is among them. However, the housekeeping gets swept aside when Lili breaks away from the traditional womanly roles of her time and begins a career as a private eye solving crimes which are too sensitive for the police. Lili gets help from her husband, a gay man who's becoming a companion like no other - even if the true nature of their marriage has to be kept a secret. The first case leads her to the party of a rich corporate family. The glamor and glitz of this segment of society is blinding, until the investigation takes a tragic turn and Lili realizes she has a much bigger mystery on her hands than she thought.
Inspired by Agatha Christie and the screwball comedies of the 30s, Lili and her curiosity will delight anyone looking for a good mystery, humor, and a little escapism!
female detective, post-war era, reconstruction, mansion, crime, mystery, historical fiction, film noir, early feminism, freedom, gender roles, class society, companionship, Finland, Helsinki, friendship, 1940s, 20th century, women's roles, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, queer protagonist, murder, LGBTQ+, queer, policeman, whodunnit
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Katja Pantzar
Discover how the happiest people on earth survive—and thrive—through tough times!
- Explores simple practices that makes Finnish life healthy for body and mind
- By the bestselling author of The Finnish Way, sold in 24 territories!
- Rights sold to 4 territories!
Sisu is a powerful mindset that makes Finland one of the happiest countries in the world, despite long winters, social isolation, and a history of challenging times.
In Everyday Sisu, journalist Katja Pantzar explores the simple practices that make Finnish life so stable, sustainable, and healthy for body and mind, even when life doesn’t go as planned. You’ll discover ways to boost your mental and physical resilience to face life’s challenges head-on, including:
- connecting with nature
- strengthening community
- using what you have
- reframing what you can’t control
- adopting a solutions mindset
- finding strength in the struggle
- dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and burnout
Featuring insights from Finnish experts in mental health, wellness, sustainability, social justice, and more, this practical and empowering guide presents a roadmap for overcoming what you thought you couldn’t — and finding hope and tools to create a brighter way forward.
social responsibility, green transport, blue therapy, self-development, burnout recovery, Finland, wellbeing, together, sustainability, courage, equality, nature, sisu, resilience, fortitude, Nordic lifestyle, winter swimming, nature therapy, mental health, bicycling, happiness, self-care, depression, sharing economy
Rights sold: WORLD ENGLISH: TarcherPerigee/Penguin Random House, , INDONESIA: Gramedia , JAPAN: Hojosha, THAILAND: Flying Bear Co.
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Ann-Luise Bertell
A person can miss someone else so much that they stop seeing the people living right next to them
It is the 1950s, a time of movie stars, but in the muddy villages of Ostrobothnia everything is as it has always been. The Canadian Finn Marlene and her twin sister Susanne only know the plains of Ostrobothnia through what their parents have told them. Now, their family moves back to Finland, but the return to Vöyri is just as bittersweet as setting off from the other side of the Atlantic was, and life doesn’t go exactly as planned. The cows’ hooves freeze to the field, mother’s lipstick, dreams and hats have to stay in a suitcase in the attic, and the job father was offered at the bank never becomes a reality.
Marlene is not a sweet girl like her constantly smiling sister, Susanne. She is curious and wants to find out about everything, like the mysterious places of the Kirksal in the village or how people have children. She sees the bitter war between her parents, feels her own desires rushing in, hears the malicious gossip of their neighbors, and learns the ancient knowledge of her grandmother. However, nobody talks about why, one day, father’s suitcase stands packed and ready.
Yearning is the coming-of-age story of young Marlene and the parallel novel to Longing, which was from the point of view of Marlene’s mother. Bertell’s prose captures the experience of being an immigrant and the thoughts of those who stay quiet, asking how blind one can be when it comes to one’s loved ones.
Bertell’s powerful and effortless narration recounts a family’s experiences, the longing of immigrants, and the challenging relationships between mothers and daughters in a 1950s village in Ostrobothnia.
1960s, 1950s, emigrated mother, longing, Finland, father, love, history, coming of age, Ostrobothnia, emigration, daughter, sister, Canada, 20th century, female protagonist, family, mother-daughter relationship, immigration
Rights sold: FINLAND (Swedish): Förlaget (orig.)
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Satu Varjonen
A humorous and magical series about the adventures of a young witch girl, written by Satu Varjonen with gleeful illustrations by Mari Luoma!
The sweet witch, Thelma, tries her hardest to make things good. But magic is one of those things that sometimes leads to quite unexpected things.
Thelma’s house is as busy as ever. The spring cleaning must be done, guests are coming and The Great Egg Hunt with its tantalizing prizes is about to start on the mountain.
The easter traditions of witches and humans cause Thelma a headache, especially when her ghastly great-aunt, Grandma Myrtle and Thelma’s new friend Ornelia get entangled in them too. And magic doesn’t always go according to plan.
grandmother, mountain, school life, easter, traditions, friendship, forest, school, girls, girlhood, magic, witches, witchcraft, pets, spring, humor, kindness, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Minerva (orig.), ESTONIA: Kirjastus Elust Enesest
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Reetta Ranta, Antti Huttunen
Back to Nature Finland is a calming, relaxing experience that takes you on a journey throughout Finnish nature, with a touch of ancient wisdom, mythology and local history. Based on the internationally acclaimed TV show!
- A visually stunning slow travel guidebook that introduces Finland’s enchanting nature to an international audience!
- Reconnect with nature and learn about the mythology and tradition connected to the most breathtaking places in Finland
- English PDF available!
- The concept is based on a successful TV show that aired/will be aired in Finland (YLE TV1), Sweden (SVT), Czech Republic (Prima), Slovakia (RTVS), Italy (RAI), China (CBM), Japan (WOWOW), Thailand (Truevisions), and Finnair in-flight entertainment
The book presents 24 beautiful travel locations in Finnish nature. It reveals stories about Finnish mythology related to those locations and provides delicious local food tips to enjoy when visiting. Learn the secrets of the Archipelago Sea, discover Lohja’s groves and caves, and meet the most beautiful tree in Finland. Travel with us from the Åland Islands, across the Nordic archipelago’s seashores and dunes, to the mysteries of lake Saimaa. Join us as we follow the origins of the Finnish national epic, Kalevala; climb to the top of Pyhä-Nattanen, the Mountain of the Gods; and explore some of the many sacred sites of Finnish Lapland.
The original Finnish book titled Metsien Kätkemä (‘Hidden in the Forests’) was based on the TV series by the same name. The series first format localization, Back to Nature Australia Season 1 (8 x 30-mins) is live now on ABC TV and has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the Australian viewers. The format has also been optioned by producers in New Zealand, UK and South Africa. The completed series (Finnish or Australian versions) have been sold to or broadcasted in Sweden, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, China, Japan, Thailand, India, and Finnair in-flight entertainment. Negotiations are ongoing with several other territories.
slow travel, Finland, non-fiction, nature, mythology, Lapland, food, Åland Islands, Lake Saimaa, nature, 21st century, contemporary
Rights sold: FINLAND: Gummerus (orig.)
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Lotta Sonninen
Channel your disappointments, resentments and negative emotions toward relationships into this helpful and trustworthy book!
Fill this adult activity book with your disappointments in relationships, reveal your true thoughts about your significant other (and exes!) and mark down the romantic duds. Reminisce about your worst dates, play some argument bingo and ensure that your partner’s errors are never forgotten!
The perfect book for you, who would really rather be single.
marriage, romantic relationships, divorce, love, relationships, breakup, satire, activity book, parody, self help, negativity, complaining, illustrated book, humor
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Tiina Raevaara
Has humanity become so powerful through its own merits alone? Or do other species deserve a thanks as well?
- An entertaining and narrative deep dive into the shared history of humans and animals
- The Finnish answer to Yuval Noah Harari and Rutger Bregman!
- Rights sold to 3 territories!
In her book ME, MY DOG, AND HUMANITY, Raevaara compellingly describes the coexistence between humans and animals, both personally and from the perspective of humankind, and seeks answers to a number of questions:
- Why does an exhausted person prefer to spend time with their dog than other people?
- Why do animals arouse such strong empathy in us?
- What does the human-animal connection mean from the perspective of evolution and humanity?
The domesticated dog is a much older creation of humankind than agriculture, religion or even writing. Mapping out the mutual journey between humans and dogs, Raevaara sheds light on the most fundamental essences of humanity and its relationship with nature.
Pleistocene, Paleolithic, Neolithic, Finland, mankind, domestic animals, humans, dogs, stone age, narrative non-fiction, brainy, growth, nature of humanity, human evolution, co-existence of species, living as a human being, burnout, animal companionship, love of animals, love of nature, contemporary, non-fiction, summer, woman, relationships, nature, author, depression, female protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava/Like (orig.), GERMANY: Knesebeck Verlag, NETHERLANDS: Uitgeverij Mozaïek
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Kaisa Paasto
Dealing with ghosts – and tricky cousins – is a lot more fun on a sunny island!
Get ready for some maritime vibes! If you like Vi på Saltkråkan (Seacrow Island) by Astrid Lindgren, this book may well be your new favorite.
Anni and her family spend the summer on a small island with her cousin's family. Anni doesn’t remember her cousin Niko that well, but oh boy, does he turn out to be a pest. Niko keeps telling Anni about a ghost on the island, an old laundry lady who was also named Anni. Anni is not a gullible person, but when the evidence piles up, it's hard not to be spooked... On a more fun note, a big treasure hunt is held on the island and Anni is determined to win it!
summer holiday, island life, handling difficult people, hermit, cousin, Finland, friendship, family, middle-grade, children's literature, island, summer holiday, farm, ghost, cousin, family members, neighbours, realism, siblinghood, creativity, community, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist, young girl, humor
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), GERMANY: Loewe Verlag
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Fun Academy
A brand-new children's non-fiction series created by Fun Academy, an official member of Education Finland
This fun series introduces four fun Kip Crew characters: Maco, Soca, Tuka and Waaba, who enjoy their adventures in space. However, you don’t immediately spot the elements of technology education with Maco, cyber security with Soca, healthy habits with Tuka and social skills with Waaba.
The Kip Crew series
Book 1 - The Kip Crew: Maco’s Spaceship
Maco is working on some amazing new inventions to make his spaceship more efficient and fun. Smeek has plans of her own.
Book 2 - Soca Solves the Secret Code
Soca has found a new language he is trying to learn to solve the mystery of Smeek the Lizard.
Book 3 - Tuka’s Space Olympics
Tuka organizes activities and sports opportunities for the Kip Crew. It happens that they accidentally also practice pre-mathematical skills while immersed in all the fun!
Book 4 - Waaba the Peacemaker
Waaba needs to solve some conflicts between other crew members before they can land. Social emotional skills are weaved into the story for you and your child to spot.
The Kip Crew also has two other fun learning book series: The Kip Crew Adventures and The Kip Crew Wants to Know More!
science, learning, adventure, children's literature, space, skills, modern, technology, education, illustrated book, alien protagonist, multiple protagonists
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Noora Kunnas
A bandit gathering at an awards gala causes havoc in town! The fourth title in this cracking detective series for middle-grade readers.
Nick and Lilly go camping and birdwatching on an island. Visiting Mabel’s inventor-friend Helga turns out to be anything but quiet when Pedro the Rooster vanishes. To boot, the news reports say that a bunch of bandits have escaped from prison.
Soon, they find out that the old factory building on the opposite shore is not being used for filming the newest season of a popular game show, but instead for organizing the Crowbar Gala, in which awards for the most successful bandits are given out. Without the wits of Nick, Lilly, and the mighty Mabel Merryweather, these goons would be able to continue with their mischief.
2000s, ex-inventor, birdwatching, awards gala, crime, adventure, summer, suspense, magic, humor, talking rooster, supergranny, children's detective story, children's literature, illustrated book, 21st century, multiple protagonists, child protagonist, grandmother, small town
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Arttu Unkari
If students act well-behaved and don’t cause trouble, something’s seriously wrong.
· The third Dad Man title nominated for Runeberg Prize 2023 & Storytel Award 2023 (best children’s audio book)!
· 4 books available and more to come
· A perfect “Gateway series to literature” for reluctant readers
- 140,000 copies sold in Finland!
- 4 books available and more to come, with 5th book coming in 2024 - work as standalones and can be read in any order!
When Oona and Eeli's class gets a substitute teacher, strange things start to happen at school: the students become obedient, and at the same time get all excited about playing the recorder. Meanwhile, a strange series of factory fires keep policeman Dad Man busy, who, as usual, is vigorously chasing a false lead.
The appearance of the new teacher at the crime scenes makes Oona suspicious. Even the adults start to become obedient as the weird flute playing trend is spreading like wildfire and this time Eeli is of no help to Oona. Will Oona succeed on her own in stopping the substitute teacher from taking over the world?
parents, adventure, children's literature, parenthood, humor, illustrated book, quirky father, policeman father, clever girl, multiple protagonists, male protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Laura Ertimo
Robots are all around us and we don’t even notice!
Friends Ro and Bot take a look at where one might bump into robots both now and in the future in this entertaining illustrated book. What do robots and humans have in common, and how do they differ? Do robots think, can they have a crush on someone or even get mad?
Everything becomes clear in this amazing book by award-winning, bestselling children’s non-fiction author Laura Ertimo.
robots, factory, robotics, artificial intelligence, mechanics, machine learning, contemporary, non-fiction, home, city, illustrated book, children's literature
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), ESTONIA: Kirjastus Avita, TURKEY: Yapi Kredi
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Veera Salmi
In the city where nobody reads - can a book save the World? What about an orphaned boy who doesn’t believe in stories?
A spectacular novel about a world where literacy has been decimated and a boy who does not believe in stories. Thirteen-year-old Oboi has run away to find his former homestead. He ends up in a peculiar and disaster-stricken city where no one knows how to read. People are led by the mysterious Wanda, who, via devices hooked up to one’s palm, says what everyone should know or do. At a flea market, Oboi meets a woman who gives him a book. According to her, this book can change everything and help find what Oboi thought was lost forever. Suddenly the story-averse Oboi notices he has become the hero, that orphaned boy deemed to save the whole world.
imprisoned sisters, freezing girl, two hundred years old graffiti painter, narrator of The Little Prince, homeless people, programmed people, 2200s, biosphere, orphanhood, imprisonment, programmed human, lost society, illiteracy, forest, adventure, sisterhood, Aristotle, children's literature, 23rd century, teenage protagonist, male protagonist, forgotten city, prison, factory, library, speculative fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), GERMANY: Cross Cult
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Martta Kaukonen
The great post-#metoo thriller
The harassment of women should be kept silent no longer, a small group of activists declares and demands justice. But at what price?
When #metoo spread through the media like wildfire, many victims of harassment felt hopeful – now we can talk about it, now the change begins. But the fire died, and things did not change. Traumas did not disappear, and justice is yet to come.
Sixty-year-old Anne hosts meetings for a group of people who will not be silenced. They start rehearsing a performance as an apology to the victims of harassment. Among them are acclaimed actress Minna who has spoken about her experiences publicly, former straight-A student Suvi who doesn’t want to leave her home anymore out of fear, and performance artist Roni who’s looking to upgrade his feminism from words to actions. Can they trust each other? Are they driven by a desire for justice or a wish for revenge?
1990s, Kuopio, Finland, Helsinki, 2010s, PTSD, art historian, actress, performance artist, vigilante, fake artist, genius, feminist, activist, cinema, unreliable character, unresolved murder, crime, art, revenge, depression, theater, feminism, painting, suspence, psychological thriller, justice, activism, sexual assault, 21st century, child prodigy, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Laura Ertimo
Can you travel with your roots on the ground?
In the third title of the Mini Science series – THE TRAVELLING PLANTS – our adventurer Plop ponders a tricky question: if rooted to the ground, how can one travel? Plants are the foundation of the Earth’s living network. But they are not here just for animals and humans – plants have their own mysterious life, which in the end is not so different from ours. They grow, reproduce and send off their offspring, and indeed, even travel around the world. THE TRAVELLING PLANTS shows how all of us are interconnected and need each other throughout life.
apple tree, pollinator, lynx, deer, forest, temperate zone, ecology, plants, animals, living planet, lifecycle, pollination, fruit, sapling, tree, imaginary scientist, contemporary, toddlers, science, non-fiction, picture book, reading together, question, children's literature, illustrated book
Rights sold: FINLAND: Karisto (orig.), ARABIC: Sefsafa Publishing, TURKEY: Yapi Kredi
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Eeva Louko
A crime-solving journalist investigates her father’s murder and the secrets of the tight community
After living abroad for many years, thirty-something Ronja returns to her childhood home in Lauttasaari, Helsinki after her father is found murdered by the seaside. Welcoming her back are a group of old friends whom it’s both comforting and painful to see again, and the young police officer assigned to the case who does not seem to be doing his work properly.
Unsatisfied with the police, Ronja decides to start investigating the background of her distant father. In the process she uncovers the old secrets of the community that have been kept under wraps until now, and puts her own life on the line. When everyone knows everyone, each person becomes a suspect.
Lauttasaari, Finland, Helsinki, 2020s, nordic noir, cozy crime, friendship, seaside, detective, crime, mystery, murder, secrets, romance, family history, archipelago, loss, thirty-something woman, local journalist, returning to childhood home, distant father, 21st century, autumn, female protagonist, police officer, whodunnit, island
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), ESTONIA: Hea Lugu, GERMANY: Heyne, ITALY: Newton Compton Editori, POLAND: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #6: Snowed In
Pet Agents in a Winter Wonderland!
After rescuing a swan stuck in a frozen pond, Kati-e finds out that the city’s only Pet Rescue animal shelter will be demolished just before Christmas. The Pet Agents are forced to engage in a pursuit across the Arctic Circle to track down Mrs. Frang, the animal shelter founder. She is the only person who can stop the demolition and save all the pets from the freezing cold.
northern witch, Santa Claus, North, Pet Rescue, animal shelter, arctic, demolition, skiing, snowshoeing, northern lights, ice swimming, Finland, big city, friendship, friends, adventure, winter, snow, magic, Lapland, Christmas, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, pet problems, speaking with animals, illustrated book, love of animals, children's literature, animals, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECHIA: Grada, POLAND: Media Rodzina, RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Sirpa Kähkönen
A heartfelt story of memories, youth, and searching for the people you’ve lost
In December 1964 Kuopio, in the eastern lake area of Finland, it’s a time of harsh, frosty days when the lake freezes in the grip of cold. As their parents are exhausted from the post-war world of reconstruction, three young people - Irene, Leo and Jaakko - are trying to find their way into a carefree reality and looking to solve the painful secrets of budding love and friendship.
In the tumultuous, revolutionary days of the early 1900s, Santeri and Linnea meet in the villa community of Terijoki on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. The Russian Revolution has plunged princes and princesses into poverty and decimated the grand villas, making the young couple set their only hopes on raising flowers and cherishing friendships. In 1964, Linnea and Santeri tend to their flower shop Paradise Lily like its own secret, living green soul.
At the heart of THE GREEN CHAMBER, as if in the deepest crevices of a tree, is the tale of Santeri’s trip to Leningrad. He has loathed the Bolsheviks ever since his youthful dreams were crushed by the Russian Revolution. At the start of 1964, however, something has broken within him, and he is ready to face the repercussions of this fractured relationship when he meets a young blonde girl. He follows her to Leningrad, though he’s sworn he’d never set foot in Leningrad before the Bolsheviks are expelled. This journey will become the most important one of his life.
florist, barber, steamboat captain, communist, gardener, Terijoki, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, Soviet Union, revolutions, Great Purge, growing flowers, cross-generational, Finland, Helsinki, Kuopio, childhood, parents, utopia, 2000s, winter, summer, memories, 1960s, forest, 1940s, politics, messenger, Russia, Finland, 1930s, Soviet Union, youth, 20th century, widow, senior life, teenagers, 21st century, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.) ESTONIA: Koolibri
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Heikki Aalto-Alanen
The love story of the world-famous, pioneering design couple Aino and Alvar Aalto, written by the Aaltos’ grandson
- 2023 is Alvar Aalto’s 125th Anniversary!
- World’s most prestigious art publisher Phaidon Press will launch the book in October 2023 for the English-speaking world and for the French-speaking world!
- Rights sold to 7 territories, most recently to France and Italy!
- Based on Aino and Alvar Aalto’s previously unpublished correspondence, photography, and drawings from 1921 to 1949
- Full English manuscript available!
Alvar and Aino Aalto are internationally celebrated for their architecture, furniture, glassware, and other interior design, but their personal lives have been relatively unknown – until now. This book, written by the Aaltos’ grandson, stands apart from countless other works on the Aalto’s lives and careers. It contains photos, sketches, and personal letters between Aino and Alvar, beautifully illustrating how inseparable this couple was both in work and love, and bringing a deeply human element to their story.
“Countless books have been written about Alvar Aalto’s architecture and other works. Recently, Aino Marsio-Aalto has also received the recognition she deserves in her own right as well as in her role as the partner of Alvar Aalto in his rise as one of the leading architects of the 20th century,” says Heikki Aalto-Alanen. “The voice in this book is personal. I want to tell the story of Aino’s and Alvar’s unique partnership, relationship, and their joint life work from the perspective of a family member. I also want their own voices to be heard.”
In addition to the photographs from the family archive, the book is illustrated with Aino’s and Alvar’s drawings of each other and of their children, along with architectural drawings and photographs.
Aino Aalto, Alvar Aalto, Finland, love, history, design, 20th century, architecture, letter correspondence
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), ESTONIA: Postimees, FRANCE: Phaidon Press, HUNGARY: Európa Könyvkiadó, ITALY: Salani, JAPAN: Soshisha, WORLD ENGLISH: Phaidon Press
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Carita Harju
The humble sauna can be your pathway to reducing stress and improving your health!
In her new book, Carita Harju sheds light on the diverse and multifold health benefits of the sauna and how the sauna has increasingly become a source of wellbeing by reducing stress, strengthening the heart, and improving sleep quality.
Saunafulness is divided into two parts. The first part offers the reader ample information on the health benefits of sauna, based on numerous studies, and presented in easily accessible writing. The second part provides the reader with a variety of natural wellbeing exercises that anyone can adapt to fit their own specific wishes. The exercises unite the mind, the body, one’s health, and all the different senses. Saunafulness can be practiced in any sauna with easy-access materials accompanied by clear instructions.
Finnish sauna culture, Saunafulness, Finland, Sauna, Relaxing, sauna therapy, mindfulness, healthy lifestyle, meditation, health, wellbeing, nature, forest, sisu, happiness
Rights sold: FINLAND: Viisas Elämä (orig.), , ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat, HUNGARY: Scolar Kiado, JAPAN: TOYO KEIZAI, INC.
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Anne-Maija Aalto
What is a person if you take away their memory? Who determines what we believe? A captivating story of rebellion, hope, and humanity..
- Finlandia Prize winner – The best Children’s & Young Adult title in Finland 2021!
- Finlandia Prize audience favorite 2021!
- Winner of the Young Aleksis Award 2022
- Rights sold to Editions Milan in France in a two-book deal!
Aleksei is a young man whose father runs a human research institute in Tokyo, which is now partly covered by the sea. New batches of test subjects regularly arrive at the facility, including one with Satomi, a young woman whose memory is set to be erased. Satomi becomes Aleksei’s trial case, since he is meant to continue his father’s work. But something is already churning beneath the surface, and the younger generation can see the horrors of the system their parents have created.
Finlandia Award winner Anne-Maija Aalto’s Where the Light Comes In is the dystopian love story of two very different characters with different values set in a water-covered former Japan. It is a stand-alone sequel to Aalto’s acclaimed novel Dragonfly and a tremendously skillful, captivating story of rebellion, hope and humanity. It was selected as the winner of the Finlandia Prize for Children’s & Young Adult Literature by futurist and non-fiction author Perttu Pölönen.
lovers, soldiers, rebels, anarchists, test subjects, young woman, young man, mother, father, Tokyo, Moscow, metropolis, big city, high rise, Human Research Institute, identity, race, family, love, friendship, revolution, rebellion, memory, dystopia, young adult, Japan, coming of age, near future, female protagonist, male protagonist, totalitarianism
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava, FRANCE: Éditions Milan, HUNGARY: Metropolis Media Group
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Reetta Niemelä
Black Moon Inn starts a new magical middle-grade series irresistibly blending mythology and environmental protection!
- Winner of the Arvid Lydecken Prize 2022
- Nominated for the Finlandia Prize 2022 - Audience favourite!
- Illustrator Katri Kirkkopelto was nominated for the Finlandia Prize several times (2005, 2016, 2020) and is the winner of the Kylli Koski Prize 2009
- Author and poet Reetta Niemelä won the The Kaarina Helakisa Prize in 2011 and has so far been nominated for the Finlandia Prize three times!
The animal-loving Saimi Salaper and her veterinarian father move to the city of Bluehill in order to set up a hospital for wild animals there. By coincidence, they buy an old inn, where one can hear weird noises behind closed doors, see rare butterflies fly past on the yard, and, at the rooftop, there seems to be… a perch for dragons.
Little by little, the house reveals its secrets to Saimi, and soon the Black Moon Inn is open for creatures of the secret folk who seek refuge there: the trolls, the fairies, and many more. But there’s a threat lurking just behind a corner, and the Inn takes both Saimi and the reader on an exciting adventure into the world of the secret folk.
resourceful young girl, veterinarian father, mysterious old inn, seaside town, environmental protection, fantasy creatures, children's literature, fantasy, magic, animal care, old factory, illustrated book, love of animals, adventure, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Lasten Keskus (orig.), ESTONIA: VARRAK
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Kaisa Paasto
If doing good was easy, everyone would do it!
Anni is inspired to do something good. Her class is shown a news clip about a hurricane in Brazil, and Anni sees a girl in it with a t-shirt exactly like one of her own. She must do something to help! Anni starts to make a movie with her friend Riia. The movie will be shown in the library auditorium to collect money for charity work in Brazil. But things don’t go as planned – the project is hijacked by “the pink girls”.
Anni’s mom, on the other hand, is having a career crisis, since her blog is not making money. But Anni can always be relied on for ideas! Anni learns that doing good is surprisingly easy – and surprisingly hard. The secret might actually be… teamwork
philanthropy, good works, team work, film-making, Finland, friendship, home, middle-grade, children's literature, school friends, school, present, family members, neighbours, pet pig, suburb, realism, pet pig, siblinghood, creativity, community, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist, young girl, humor
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ALBANIA: Muza Publishing, GERMANY: Loewe Verlag
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #5: In Deep Water
Pet Agents explore the underwater world!
After helping out a marine biologist with her out-of-the-ordinary pets, Kati-e and Ti-bot get the opportunity to join a marine research vessel as it sails out to sea! Soon the friends are deep under the surface as they try to get to the bottom of a new animal dilemma. The newly updated and waterproofed Ti-bot proves to be invaluable!
marine researchers, ocean, marine research vessel, marine research, plastic waste, saving seas, sealife, dolphins, big city, friendship, friends, animals, adventure, summer, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal love, animal care, hobbies, technology, pet problems, agents, detectives, speaking with animals, compassion, illustrated book, animals, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Hannele Lampela
- The second title of the Arvid Lydecken Prize-nominated series!
Part Two of the Tales of Wintertide series deals with growing up as a young woman through a reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale.
To become a member of the Storytellers Guild, Are must cope with a horrible task. A huge dragon holds over the city of Roses, and only Are can destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
But how do you tell apart a monster and who the real enemy of roses is?
Finland, 2010s, princess, evil king, hero, heroine, body positivity, self-compassion, ego, self-love, intertextuality, overcoming trauma, boy, girl, adventure, winter, fantasy world, children's literature, social media, bullying, magic, children, feminism, imagination, dragon, fairytales, 21st century
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Elina Hirvonen
How to help someone who does not want to be helped?
Charlie, aged 11, is more interested in hairstyles, fashion, music and skateboarding than focusing on school. Things get difficult when Charlie’s parents divorce and his mother, who has found a new family, leaves Charlie to stay with his dad.
Charlie´s plush monkey Mung Kee, a talented member of the Plush Animal League (P.A.L.), sees his misery and tries to help. But Mung Kee´s attempts are disturbed by the Gang President who is actively looking for a child to join his ranks to work as an undercover agent.
Julia and her plush toy agent Buck come to help and join Mung Kee in his mission to show Charlie the fatal consequences of letting his pain turn into anger.
sensitive boy, Finland, Helsinki, identity, future, 2020s, time travel, geek girl, living plush animals, outer space, children's literature, illustrated book, multiple protagonists, male protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Juha Itkonen
It’s 2050, and the choices made in 2019 still echo in the changed world. Can one still learn how to understand, to atone, to forgive?
Vilho’s father Ilmari, a forty-something theater director, is balancing successfully between the push-and-pull of career and family life, according to him. However, the tranquil peace of the wooden house is upset when Vilho’s widowed grandfather temporarily moves in with the four-member family. The tension between fathers and sons is palpable, and this sets off a chain of events that prove to be fateful for the entire family.
Thirty years later, in a wholly changed world, Vilho looks back at the lives lived in the early 2000s, the choices made back then, and the events of that fateful summer in an effort to understand his father. How do we become the people we are now? Who were the people who lived then? And did they have any clue how privileged their lives were?
2050s, Finland, Helsinki, 2010s, lakeside cottage, fatherhood, male ego, infidelity, young woman, mother, father, family, memory, pandemic, grandfather, son, theater director, theater, 21st century, multiple protagonists, male protagonist, near future, speculative fiction, father-son relationship, trauma
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Tero Mielonen
Have you ever wondered which children will grow up to be scientists? It’s kids like you!
- How to turn your interests into a job
- Includes jobs from humanities and science subject areas
- Inclusive illustrations
- Mari Ahokoivu won the Tieto-Lauri Award in 2022, the Puupäähattu Comic Book Award 2023 and has been nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2021!
South American Kat used to examine the starry skies with her father and now her job is to search for new planets. Marjane loved hunting for treasures, and she became an archeologist who solves the mysteries of ancient cultures. Eduardo loved playing video games. He did not become a professional gamer, but now he creates climate models and ponders what our world will be like in a hundred years. All kinds of people do science, and anyone can become a scientist!
children, scientist, archaeology, astronomy, engineering, pharmacy, humanities, professions, climate change, history, science, children's literature, nature, biology, psychology, illustrated book, multiple protagonists, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Ursa (orig.), BULGARIA: Enthusiast, LATVIA: Latvijas Mediji, SWEDEN: Epix
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Emma Puikkonen
Three women, three epochs and three destinies
The Black Mirror is a magically beautiful novel about a world run by oil. And about the humankind who must take a look at the black looking glass.
When Ida Tarbell is a child, black gold is springing from the ground in her hometown of Rouseville in the 1860s. When Lotte Teer is a child in 1973, people gather around on a picnic on an Amsterdam highway. Astrid Fuglesang has always dreamed of oil rigs and lands on one in the year 2028.
For millions of years, black liquid has hibernated beneath the earth and the ocean. When it is awoken, humankind can no longer live without it. Ida, Lotte and Astrid are driven women whose fates are swayed by oil. Each of them takes control of it, in a way.
climate change consultant, Amsterdam, oil, 21st century, 19th century, climate change, environment, United States, 2020s, nature, 1970s, Netherlands, economy, 1860s, women, Norway, 20th century, activism, activist, humanity, investigative journalist, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, queer protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Magdalena Hai
What happens to Earth when the elves return? The magnificent fantasy adventure continues.
After battling the great witches, Lune seeks to understand her mysterious power and erratic boyfriend Niemann. At the same time, the Elven forest gate opened by Lune has begun to live its own life. The beautiful Elven people are now flowing back to Earth from which they had been banished by the Principal. In Royaume, the Black Witch makes a grand re-entrance, but for the first time in a thousand years a rebellion is smoldering in the realm. The brilliant Minuit is stalked by a different kind of threat – a new court witch who wants nothing less than her heart.
The first installment of the series, The Third Sister, was nominated for the Finlandia Prize in Children’s and Youth Literature.
19th century, Earth, 2020s, Europe, LGBTQ+, Byronic hero, forest spirit, demonic cat, hive mind, Asian hero, black heroine, sinister elf, Shakespearian fairy, fairies, ice age, distant future, artificial moon, witches' planet, punk club, magical boarding school, punk, extinction of humans, ecocatastrophe, scifi, love, young adult, school, city, coming of age, queen, fantasy world, fantasy, romance, magic, love triangle, space, space, time travel, lesbian, witch queen, queer, female protagonist, male protagonist, queer protagonist, multiple protagonists
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Satu Varjonen
A humorous and magical series about the adventures of a young witch girl, written by Satu Varjonen with gleeful illustrations by Mari Luoma!
A heart-warming story about accepting differences and loving oneself!
Thelma, the little witch girl, starts school and ends up literally nose to nose with the popular girl, Ornelia. However, the extraordinary witch girl doesn’t get startled easily and decides to give it her all to fit in.
After a bunch of mishaps, Thelma realizes that instead of trying to please everybody, it is best to be yourself!
beauty standards, identity, friendship, forest, school, girls, children's literature, girlhood, bullying, magic, nature, witches, witchcraft, autumn, humor, grandmother, school life, kindness, self-esteem, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Minerva (orig.), ESTONIA: Kirjastus Elust Enesest
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Antti Ervasti
Internationally bestselling and easily approachable and comforting selfcare with a visual approach – created by an experienced Finnish psychotherapist and an award-winning illustrator
✓ Selfcare for the Instagram generation!
✓ Relatable and comforting illustrations of the human experience with all its struggles and wonders
✓ With expert advice from a psychotherapist on how to deal with common struggles and experiences
✓ Books sold 75,000 copies! Rights sold to 20+ countries! Bestseller in the MUJI stores in Japan!
MOMENTS BY MYSELF is an emphatically written and illustrated book from the creators of the internationally renowned brand CupOfTherapy, tackling a touching and important topic: loneliness and being alone. It makes visible a phenomenon that easily goes unnoticed but at the same time is something all of us experience at some point through our lives. This book is the perfect friend to have at hand when feeling lonely and also inspires us to reach out to the people around us and invites us to think about how we could reduce the stigma often associated with loneliness.
psychotherapy, non-fiction, self-care, self-help, illustrated book, self-compassion, loneliness
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Elina Hirvonen
Which spell is the best when it seems that the parents do not have enough time for themselves? Resourceful Princess Rascal has a solution to every problem!
When Mom looks like a red-eyed panda and Dad like an angry troll, and they snap at each other without any reason, it’s time for some Rascal spells and Onni’s insights. The solution is the world’s finest KISSING BOOTH.
“You have to go in there to kiss. Then you will love again. And never quarrel again. And we don’t have to move to Flower’s.”
toys, child's perspective, power of love, Finland, Helsinki, mother, father, 2020s, dog, little brother, ordinary superhero princess girl, power of imagination, children's literature, illustrated book, quarreling parents, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), DENMARK: Gads Forlag, ESTONIA: Kirjastus Elust Enesest
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Johanna Sinisalo
Predicting or altering the weather is the eternal dream of humanity. A merchant named Jonah, living in Assyria 600 years before the common era, gets caught in a storm. Is the storm a curse from God, or is it his own doing? In Finland in the 2010's, Leena Lind loves her job as a meteorologist, but the activities of an aggressive finance company have her wasting her expertise at menial tasks. When her daughter Leia plays a game that involves making a video of a thunderstorm, Leena's life is blown irretrievably off track and soon no one is safe anymore.
merchant, prophet, slave trader, messenger, glassmaker, meteorologists, little girl, Russians, villains, Assyrian empire, Mediterranean, Niniveh, Jafo, office, airfield, summer cottage, meteorology, weather, weather control, social politics, unemployment, corporations, parapsychology, Bible, Finland, Helsinki, history, home, Tampere, mythology, water, war, 7th century BC, 21st century, 2010s, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, relationships, speculative fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), DENMARK: Jensen & Dalgaard
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Katja Kallio
A passionate novel about the forbidden love of a misfit woman and a Soviet prisoner of war
Young Beata returns home to war-torn Hanko in the winter of 1942. When she accidentally encounters a prisoner of war who sees directly into her innermost being, life changes irreversibly. Forbidden love puts Beata and Ivan at risk for their lives, but they can’t stay apart. In the moment of reckoning, Beata has to ask herself whether one can ever truly know their beloved - or even themselves.
A stirringly beautiful and intimate description of hatred and its only counterforce - the connection between people.
Second World War, Continuation War, Hanko, prisoner of war camp, Nazi soldier camp, forbidden love, female role in society, seaside, home, sisterhood, small town, betrayal, 1940s, war, motherhood, Southern Finland, Finland, lesbian, 20th century, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, identity, intergenerational trauma
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Albatros Media a.s. – KNIHA ZLIN
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Gordon F. Sander
With the fate of his country and relations between superpowers in the balance, what is the President of Finland to do?
- A gripping and lucid account of one of the lesser-known crises of the Cold War
- The latest title from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter, historian, author and Nordic specialist
- World English rights sold to Cornell University Press! Rights sold to 3 territories!
In the fall of 1961, Soviet and American tanks faced off at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin in an explosive confrontation known as the Berlin Crisis, which many feared might lead to World War III. At the same time, 1500 kilometers to the northeast, in Finland, the USSR and the US were squaring off for another potentially explosive confrontation over the Kremlin’s desire to maintain its sphere of influence over that country. This has become known as the Note Crisis.
The Note Crisis, the events leading up to it, and the three figures who were at the center of it—Urho Kekkonen, the Machiavellian president of Finland, fighting for his political life; Nikita Khrushchev, the feisty Soviet premier and Kekkonen’s sponsor; and John F. Kennedy, the US president, who sent a top secret message of support to Kekkonen—comprise the climax of Gordon Sander’s groundbreaking book.
Sander’s biography is based on three years of research and includes exclusive interviews with Khrushchev’s late son Sergey, and the President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö.
Urho Kekkonen, Nikita Khrushchev, Finland, Russia, 20th century, world politics, history, war, politics, Russia, USA, Finland, John F. Kennedy, Cold War, 1960s, United States
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), ESTONIA: Varrak, WORLD ENGLISH: Cornell University Press
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Leena Lehtolainen
Hilja Ilveskero is hired to a secretive nature holiday center of the super-rich in Eastern Lapland called Ilvesvaara. The owner of the place fears that the worst security threat comes from the inside.
Arriving at Ilvesvaara, Hilja notices that it is not just an ordinary spa hotel, but a luxurious theme park accessible to only eight guests at a time, where wildlife roams freely. Millionaire Aku Rautio is also due to appear soon. Hilja is already familiar with the man, as she has once spent a hectic night with him. When Aku mysteriously disappears, everyone in the resort comes under suspicion, including Hilja. Why doesn't Aku's wife want to report the disappearance to the police? Why did so many people in Ilvesvaara know Aku?
Leena Lehtolainen's fifth Hilja Ilveskero novel is a dense mystery of an enclosed space that shows that even a lavish setting and the latest technology cannot protect people from nature’s unpredictability.
millionaire, Finland, Hotel, 2020s, murder, Lapland, wealth, bodyguard, disappearance, present, female protagonist
Rights sold: Tammi, GERMANY: Rowohlt
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Ismo Leikola and Angelika Leikola
What is Hollywood like for a newcomer from Europe?
A Finnish comedian-writer couple arrives in Los Angeles. Is the city ready for them?
The authors share their personal story of navigating through the Hollywood comedy industry and the American way of life as a freshly arrived writer-comedian couple from a very different society. As they examine this new world and how their old one looks from afar, they end up realizing their life is like an ongoing stand-up bit. And that the line between tragedy and comedy is truly so fine it’s in many ways non-existent.
US&Us: Surviving Hollywood with Comedy is the international version of Finland’s #1 bestselling nonfiction title Suo, kuokka ja Hollywood, by the same authors, which was published in Finland in March 2021 and has sold more than 62,000 copies across all formats. Full English text available!
stand-up comedian, comedian-writer couple, Los Angeles, Hollywood, funny, stand-up, comedy industry, American life, outsider perspective, comedy, examining one's home country, Finland, 2010s, 2020s, emigration, humor, writer, cultural differences, autobiography, 21st century, United States, multiple protagonists
Rights sold: FINLAND: Siltala (orig.)
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Laura Ertimo
How has humanity survived this long? How can we, and other species, survive in the future? A much-needed book that helps make sense of the biodiversity crisis!
- Tieto-Lauri Prize Winner 2022 – Best Finnish Non-Fiction Children’s Title!
- Nominated for the Finlandia Award in 2021!
- Sequel to Weird Weather, sold to 18 countries!
- Mari Ahokoivu won the Puupäähattu Comic Book Award 2023
Lotta and Kasper keep seeing new worrisome news: dying bees, endangered animals, plastic in the Mariana Trench and on the glaciers of Antarctica, rivers polluted by mines, forest fires...
The children realize that even if the problems of climate change were solved, Mother Nature would still be in trouble! Climate change is only one part of an escalating environmental crisis. How will we survive?
Now retired fossil gremlin suggests that Lotta and Kasper set out on a grand journey through time in search of threads that may connect the past to the present and provide solutions for the future.
With the gremlin as their guide, the children find clues about the great changes that life has undergone in the past and how life has continued after major catastrophes. Through their journey, they come to see the roots of the current situation, understand why solving it is so tricky and learn how the human species has overcome previous crises to survive to this day.
Virginia, Indonesia, Ancient Egypt, Denmark, Lake Saimaa, pig farm, rainforest, plantation, grocery store, global, time machine, time travel, biodiversity, ecological crisis, food production, consumption, natural resources, natural history, evolution, cultural change, Finland, Helsinki, climate change, history, contemporary, science, non-fiction, home, middle-grade, hope, grassroot action, society, social change, sustainability, Earth, United States, Paris, geological timescale, past and present, children's literature, illustrated book, 19th century, 17th century, 20th century, child protagonist, multiple protagonists, comic book
Rights sold: FINLAND: Into (orig.), ESTONIA: Kirjastus Avita, GERMANY: Cross Cult, HUNGARY: Tessloff & Babilon
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Hanna Silvola, Tiina Landau
Learn how to stay on top of the investing game in an ever-changing world - and how to do it sustainably
This book reviews the latest methods of sustainable investing and financial profit making, describing how ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) analysis can identify future business opportunities, and managing risk to achieve abnormal returns. Megatrends such as climate change, sustainable development, and digitalisation increase uncertainty and information asymmetry and have an impact on the future returns on investments. From a profit perspective, it is largely about how ESG factors affect the long-term value added by companies and the valuation of companies in the financial markets. Although sustainability provides an opportunity for abnormal returns, this phenomenon must be considered in a critical light. This book describes the risks and limitations associated with the accountability and availability of ESG data and tools.
SUSTAINABLE INVESTING provides both practical models and academic findings for assessing the sustainability of investees and introduces practical tools and methods to practice ESG analysis. It focuses on the ESG analysis of equity investments and fund investments in institutional investment organizations, and provides a handbook for all investment analysts who are involved with investment decisions. Readers will benefit from understanding the methods, opportunities and challenges that professionals use in their ESG analysis with cases, interviews and practical tools for both institutional and private investors.
The English edition of SUSTAINABLE INVESTING is an updated version of the original Finnish title Vastuullisuudesta ylituotoa sijoituksiin.
ESG, investing, climate risk, finance, sustainable investing, market return, risk management, climate change, non-fiction, sustainability, business, management
Rights sold: FINLAND: Alma Talent, WORLD ENGLISH: Palgrave Macmillan, CHINA: Cheers Publishing, ESTONIA: Äripäev
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Noora Kunnas
The streets of Dalton have turned holey like Emmental cheese!
Mabel Merryweather’s friend Bruno and his goats have arrived from Switzerland to perform at the Dalton cheese festival. This fragrant event has attracted a lot of people to the venue, but to the horror of the townspeople, mysterious holes have started to appear on streets and courtyards at night. Who digs them – and why? The rumor spreads that the town is infested by aliens, but Lilly, Nick, and the mighty Mabel Merryweather don’t believe the gossip. With the help of yodeling goats, they dig up the truth.
2000s, mystery, adventure, summer, suspense, humor, music, theft, supergranny, child-hating uncle, children's detective story, cheese, children's literature, illustrated book, 21st century, multiple protagonists, child protagonist, grandmother, talking rooster, small town
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), POLAND: ZNAK, RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Salla Simukka
If your love can only be a secret, will it last?
Salla Simukka is Finland's most internationally bestselling author with the Snow White Trilogy (sold in 52 countries)
Varpu and Saga are two sixteen-year-old girls that are forced to stay in their hometown for the summer. After just one drunken kiss, prejudice and identity are shattered and it's revealed how behind the facade, everyone hurts and loves the same.
In The Dark I Can be Yours is a touching and beautiful title about great emotions in the summer. The authentic characters are supported by Simukka's light and airy narrative. Each side of the book tells one girl's story, which effortlessly melts together into a summer of love, insecurities, and exploration of two young people.
beach, playhouse, hidden places, two POVs, cancer, sadness, Finland, identity, friendship, young adult, sexuality, home, parents, coming of age, girls, summer, boys, parents, poverty, LGBTQ+, 21st century, 2020s, family, queer relationships, queer, queer protagonist, multiple protagonists, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi, FRANCE: Actes Sud jeunesse
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Koko Hubara
Bechi is in her thirties, and lives in Helsinki, where she is trying to finish her master’s thesis. Her mother Shoshana is a writer of Yemeni Jewish heritage. Her autobiographical novel shocked readers in Finland, but she has also burned all the bridges between her family in Israel.
What’s more, the fate of Shoshana’s brother is forever burned in to the minds of the family’s three generations of women.
When Bechi tells her mother about her pregnancy, many years of tension come to a head. How can two people remember everything so differently? More importantly, what are the things that they would rather forget?
1940s, Israel, 2020s, Sana'a, Yemen, 1960s, 1970s, Kibbutz, middle-aged mother, twentysomething daughter, elderly grandmother, Yemeni Jews, mother-daughter relationship, daughterhood, consent, internalised racism, autobiography, autofiction, city, memories, sexual violence, motherhood, cafe, 21st century, 20th century, female protagonist, intergenerational trauma
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.) FINLAND (in Swedish) & SWEDEN: Förlaget
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Riikka Jäntti
Little Mouse series – Book 7
The seventh book of the Little Mouse series describes how wonderful it is to go to camping in the summer.
One beautiful summer's day, Little Mouse’s mother packs a tent and a couple of sleeping bags and, of course, snacks. They're off camping!
On the island, Little Mouse helps their mother set up the tent, light the grill and prepare sausages and vegetables wrapped in foil. When it gets dark, Little Mouse listens to the sounds of the night in the tent. That's a crow. That's a seagull. Oh but that's a motorboat!
In the morning, they are both very hungry but luckily the island’s restaurant is open!
tent, camping, outdoors, swimming, mother, children's literature, nature, island, child, town, mouse character, summer, illustrated book, single mother, child protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat, FRANCE: Cambourakis, GERMANY: Cross Cult, POLAND: Filia, ROMANIA: Editura Paralela 45 , RUSSIA: Strecoza
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Tuutikki Tolonen
Agnes and her mother have inherited a beautiful old villa, but there seems to be something strange about it. There is a lovely scent of flowers in the air, even though there’s no flowers in the houses. Every morning, the lid of an old piano is found open even though no one has been playing it. More importantly, why can they hear steps on the staircase to the attic?
school friends, teacher, old manor, Finland, friendship, mystery, school, middle-grade, adventure, winter, small town, children, old dog, magical realism, family history, family secrets, illustrated book, children's literature, 21st century, 2010s, autumn, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Portál, ESTONIA: Eesti Raamat, ROMANIA: Editura Paralera 45
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Saara Turunen
The narrator of the book, a nameless woman, travels to Barcelona. She meets a foreign man and falls in love with him. The man is the total opposite of her in many ways. Where she has been brought up to exert control, to plan and to master her life, he is sort of a free soul. He doesn’t want to worry about tomorrow; rather, he just drifts freely, taking things as they come. The book discusses not only love but also writing about it. Is love a suitable subject to deal with if you want to be taken seriously? And what is love really? Is it comparable to the class system, a way of controlling property and heritage, or something else, something difficult to explain but unavoidable, for all of us to deal with at some point of our lives.
Turunen handles her themes in a melancholy and playful way. The short, clear sentences convey precise observations about the contradictions of life, norms, the expectations we face and the difficulties in fulfilling them. The narration flows effortlessly and takes the reader to a fascinating and private world, strongly connected with our times but at the same time teeming with eternal questions.
Barcelona, Helsinki, man, father-in-law, brother-in-law, love story, female perspective, infertility, norms, cultural differences, values, identity, love, 2010s, sex, death, 2020s, mother-in-law, class, therapy, life choices, 21st century, female protagonist, relationships
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Eesti Raamat, LITHUANIA: BALTO
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A. M. Ollikainen
The first book in a new fast-paced and addictive Nordic Noir series. A.M. Ollikainen is Finland’s Lars Kepler!
A cargo container is found in Helsinki with a dead body inside. The property where the container is discovered, belongs to one of the most notorious businessmen in Finland. As Police Commissioner Paula Pihlaja begins to investigate the case, traces lead back to the businessman's family, revealing decades of suspicious business ventures in Namibia.
Meanwhile, Paula’s own personal life is shaken by old memories that are now surfacing following recent events.When she was younger, she had to give her baby up for adoption. The boy, her son, is now in his twenties and facing a murder charge. Not only is Paula tormented by her own guilt about the adoption, she is also worried about what will become of her son.
prisoner, Namibia, Finland, Helsinki, 2010s, wealthy family, colonialism, guilt, adoption, female detective, crime, contemporary, murder, racism, motherhood, misogyny, nordic noir, 21st century, female protagonist, police officer
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Host, DENMARK: Svane & Bilgrav , ESTONIA: Varrak, GERMANY: Bastei Lübbe, HUNGARY: Animus, LATVIA: Zvaigzne, LITHUANIA: Baltos lankos, NETHERLANDS: HarperCollins Holland, NORWAY: Aschehoug, POLAND: Czarna Owca, RUSSIA: Publishing House Gorodets, SLOVENIA: Didakta, SWEDEN: Bokfabriken, TURKEY: April
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Laura Ertimo
Second title of Mini Science series - discover things invisible to naked eye! What are bacteria and viruses?
In the second title of Mini Science series – INVISIBLE WORLD – the adorable Plop will discover the things one cannot see: electricity, garden in the fog, darkness, micro-organisms and other invisible things.
When Plop will get sick, he will learn about bacteria and viruses and how to avoid them. Vaccinations can seem scary, but they keep us healthy!
Sometimes it’s better to stay home, even if this makes you bored, so that soon you could go discovering the Dark Side of The Moon!
home, yard, bacteria, virus, invisiblity, question, learning together, imaginary scientist, contemporary, toddlers, science, non-fiction, picture book, reading together, children's literature, illustrated book
Rights sold: FINLAND: Karisto (orig.), ARABIC: Sefsafa Publishing, ESTONIA: Avita, TURKEY: Yapi Kredi
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Hanna Brotherus
The only way to regain control of your body, soul, and life is to be completely and brutally honest
When her children leave their home, a woman wants to take a deep dive into the past. She wants to understand all the lives she has lived, to examine whose eyes she has seen herself through, to understand what she still has ahead of her. And she wants to have a fresh start in everything possible.
An uncompromising journey into the truth behind memories begins. All of the old wounds and traumas, some spanning generations, are ripped open and exposed with uncompromising honesty, revealing a life punctured by sorrow, illness, pressures, and death. The gates are wide open when the woman realizes she is the most important person in her life. Her body is her only home.
This heart-rending debut novel by the dancer, director, and choreographer, Hanna Brotherus, moves through a woman’s different life stages without excessive embellishment and in a relatable way. MY ONLY HOME is a fearless autofictive novel about the frenzy for life and the acceptance of incompleteness. Reader feedback emphasizes the moving and striking honesty in the book and how well one can identify with it. The book moves, touches, cleanses and has a profound impact.
Finland, Helsinki, 2010s, 1990s, 1980s, 2000s, Paris, 2020s, France, 1970s, tensions within family, nuclear family, dance, mother, father, girl, memories, death, drugs, motherhood, divorce, husband, brother, conflict, eating disorder, 21st century, female protagonist, 20th century
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), ESTONIA: Varrak, GERMANY: Ullstein, ISRAEL: Hakibbutz Hameuchad – Sifriat Poalim Publishing House
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Laura Ertimo
Weird Weather, the Activity Book provides fun pastimes for environment lovers. Fun tasks, brain-teasers and inspiring ideas unleash children’s creative powers. Through the activities, they will learn more about the world including both past and current changes happening everywhere in nature - as well as what can be done for a better future!
climate change, non-fiction, comic style, middle-grade, climate crisis, climate action, climate science, climate, environmental protection, carbon footprint, natural world, hope, positive, grassroot action, social change, sustainability, sustainable future, utopia, better world, activity book, illustrated book, children's literature, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Into Kustannus
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Arttu Unkari
Little siblings are always up to no good - sometimes they even get tangled in thefts!
· The second Dad Man title published in 2021!
· Nominated for Storytel awards 2021 (Best children’s audiobook)
· 4 books available and more to come
· For fans of David Walliams and Captain Underpants
- 140,000 copies sold in Finland!
- 4 books available and more to come, with 5th book coming in 2024 - work as standalones and can be read in any order!
Something odd is going on, because adults have started to behave stranger than usual - they are telling the truth!
At the same time, there’s a wave of mysterious gold thefts in the city - even goldfish go missing! Oona is sure that her cute little brother Veikka knows more than he lets on. But how to prove it? As usual, the totally incompetent policeman Dad Man is mishandling his robbery investigations, and Oona must rush to the rescue. But the evil little brother is always one step ahead.
evil little brother, parents, adventure, children's literature, siblings, siblinghood, parenthood, humor, illustrated book, quirky father, policeman father, clever girl, multiple protagonists, male protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), GERMANY: Mixtvision
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Sara Medberg
Bridgerton meets Jane Austen in 19th century Sweden in the second book in the Silk Sisters series
A story about the mistress of Blackthorn Castle, Arabella Öhrnmarck. She becomes widowed after an unhappy marriage and travels home to Stockholm to be near the Royal Court. But something strange is going on. Mystical incidents and threatening situations keep occurring. It seems that someone is out to silence her. What secret are they searching for? Then, a fascinating English duke begins to court Arabella…
The novel takes place in the years of 1815 and 1816 under the rule of Crown Prince Carl XIV Johan. The era is parallel with the life of the classical novelist Jane Austen, and the genre is regency romance, as is the popular series Bridgerton. The novel features well-known places, such as the still standing Royal Palace of Stockholm and the imposing castles of Drottningholm and Strömsholm.
lady, prince, 1810s, regency, privateer, Finland, winter, romance, Sweden, autumn, duke, footman, highborn, widow, abuse, conspiracy, traitors, high society, treason, coup d’etat, love over class restrictions, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, marriage, court life, castle, Stockholm, class, 19th century, women's rights, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), DENMARK: People's Press, NORWAY: Kagge Forlag, POLAND: Swiat Ksiazki, SWEDEN: Norstedts
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Juha-Pekka Raeste & Hannu Sokala
How could a few dozen business giants challenge the foundations of democracy, destabilize institutions, and determine the state of the environment?
- A Spiegel bestseller in Germany!
- Rights sold to 8 territories!
- Now a fresh, updated manuscript available with more updates slated for 2024!
Large multinational corporations influence how we think, what we eat, who we meet, how we spend our time, and even who we vote for. As those businesses grow, their influence and power over people and governments also grow. To make sure the future is not dictated by corporations, but by people, we need to know more about them.
This exciting nonfiction title by experienced financial journalists Hannu Sokala and Juha-Pekka Raeste covers 50 companies that comprise a large part of global market forces. They determine what kind of world we all live in. Some of the companies in the book are relatively unknown (Zhōngguó Yāncǎo Zǒnggōngsī and BlackRock), some are predictable (Google, Amazon), some may seem surprising (Ikea and Disney), and some are inevitable (Gazprom and Chevron).
Some of the companies benefit from our everyday needs (Cargill, Coca-Cola), some from our vanity (ByteDance, Facebook), and some from our greed (Goldman Sachs, Berkshire Hathaway). The book reads like a thriller, but it is nonfiction. It offers a comprehensive and often startling perspective on the most important, and dangerous companies in the world.
industry leaders, world, economy, business, IT industry, wealth, USA, Europe, China, inequality, industry leaders, banking, food, energy, contemporary, non-fiction, environment, Europe, China, future, politics, United States
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava/Nemo, ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat, GERMANY: Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, HUNGARY: Scolar, ITALY: Newton Compton, NETHERLANDS: A.W. Bruna, SWEDEN: Lind & Co., TAIWAN: Heliopolis
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Magdalena Hai
The Little Shop of Nightmares is getting buried in snow! Nina and Paddy are trying to find the cause of the snowstorm, but that’s easier said than done. A well-meaning but horribly clumsy snowman keeps getting in their way and stopping their every effort to stop the snowing inside.
2020s, bogeyman, snowman, ice age, contemporary, boy, girl, fantasy world, small town, humor, monster, ghost, shop owner, peculiar shop, illustrated book, spooky, land octopus, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), BULGARIA: Emas, ESTONIA: Postimees Kirjastus, GREECE: Dioptra, HUNGARY: Cerkabella, JAPAN: Holp Shuppan, KOREA: Gilbutschool, LITHUANIA: Briedis, NETHERLANDS: De Vier Windstreken, NORWAY: Fontini, POLAND: Znak, PORTUGAL: PRH Portugal, ROMANIA: Univers Publishing House, RUSSIA: Kompass Guide, SLOVAKIA: Ikar, SPAIN (Spanish, Catalan): La Galera, SWEDEN: Hegas Bokförlag, TAIWAN: Morning Star, UKRAINE: The Old Lion Publishing House
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Perttu Pölönen
Are you an expander, inspirer, crystallizer, or an enlightener? Find out how to forge your own, unique identity!
The years and decades to come will force each of us to rethink our place in this world. Traditionally, identity has been based on a profession, for example, but in the future it is worth building on skills.
Future Identities is an immersive book on identifying one’s own strengths and verbalizing them. If you were an extender, linker or cross-pollinator, what could you do in the future? In his latest book, Pölönen delves into the notion of identity and ponders their formation from different perspectives, then provides the reader with the necessary knowledge and tools to find their strengths and, by extension, their potential identities. Pölönen’s goal is not to arrange people into specific molds, but to break the molds.
non-fiction, future of work, jobs, titles, change, career, passion, ambition, career stories, entrepreneurship, self-image, identity, dreams
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Tuomas Oskari
A fast-paced debut political thriller set in late 2020s Helsinki that will keep you in its grip!
A deep economic crisis is tearing the Finnish people apart. In the midst of massive protests, a young woman sets herself on fire. She leaves behind a secret that could topple the government.
Young Prime Minister Leo Koski wakes up to a real-life nightmare. He's been thrust into a power game where the stakes are much higher than his own life. Koski has only 24 hours to unravel a plot that threatens the lives of thousands and the future of Finland as a whole.
The skillfully woven plot of this world-class thriller will continuously surprise its readers!
21st century, Finland, Helsinki, contemporary, suspense, thriller, politics, economy, world politics, male protagonist, society, politician
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Hannele Lampela
Greta’s little brother Kai has gone missing, but her parents act like he has never even existed. So, she embarks on a mission to find and save him, and ends up in the fairytale-like land of Wintertide, where she becomes a member of the Storytellers Guild. Before Greta can save Kai, she needs to learn to tell her own story.
But just what is her story? Is it a fairy tale about the Snow Queen? At least it seems as if it is; Greta must now become a member of the Guild to break the enchanted spell cast by the Queen of Coldness. It’s clear that the Queen is definitely not going to let Kai go without a fight.
Finland, 2010s, snow queen, storyteller, imaginer, self-doubt, heroine, intergenerational trauma, father, family, boy, girl, adventure, winter, fantasy world, children's literature, violence, magic, children, teacher, magician, imagination, hero, heroine, intertextuality, overcoming trauma, fairytales, 21st century, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Anne-Maija Aalto
- Independent prequel to 2021 Finlandia winner Where the Light Comes In!
- Topelius Prize Nominee 2020
- Young Aleksis Award Nominee 2021
- Rights sold to Editions Milan in France in a two-book deal!
A shocking, brilliantly told story about resistance in an unequal society. Two young women, Satomi and Mai have always stuck together. They were born in an internment village on an island that was called Japan before sea level rose. They are non-citizens whose purpose is to serve full citizens.
On good nights they go to the seaside together to wade. They still have that, even if everything else has been taken away from them.
Then Commander Rafikov takes Mai to make her a Nymph.
And Satomi can’t just wait anymore.
“I’m standing here and coming apart inside, just like that. I’m only thinking of the end.”
family, friends, commanders, remote island, village, internment camp, Japanese countryside, mountains, seaside, home, misogyny, climate change, Japan, soldiers, rebels, identity, race, family, love, friendship, rebellion, dystopia, young adult, girls, coming of age, near future, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, totalitarianism
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava, FRANCE: Éditions Milan
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #4: Lost in the Game
Kati-e and Ti-bot venture out into the virtual world!
A boy contacts Kati-e and tells her that he has lost his pet... dinosaur! Excuse me?
Kati-e soon realizes he’s talking about the virtual world and the dinosaur he’s lost is from an online dinosaur park. But it does not make the boy’s anguish any less, and Kati-e gladly accepts the challenge. It’s time for the Pet Agents to go off into the virtual world to find out who is playing dirty.
game characters, autumn, VR, VR, computer games, dinosaurs, big city, friendship, friends, animals, adventure, virtual reality, virtual reality, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, pet problems, agents, detectives, speaking with animals, compassion, illustrated book, love of animals, animals, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECHIA: Grada, ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat, POLAND: Media Rodzina, RUSSIA: Eksmo, SLOVAKIA: IKAR, UKRAINE: Ridna Mova
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Salla Simukka
Fifty teenagers aged 16-17 are introduced to a fully automated prison with no guards or other staff. Probability calculations have shown that each of them will commit a crime at some time in their lives that will send them to prison.
This is their last chance. They must solve their future crimes, confess them in the prison’s Confession Room, and demonstrate remorse. If they do, they will be set free. If they fail to discover their crimes before they reach age eighteen, they will remain in prison to serve their full sentences.
boys, non-binary, future, prison, prison, suspense, gender, musical, death, parents, social media, Finland, identity, love, friendship, rebellion, young adult, mystery, freedom, sexuality, coming of age, girls, LGBTQ+, queer, teenage protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Pegasus
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Pauliina Susi
Don’t trust anyone. Don’t panic. A suspenseful mystery set in the darkness of Lapland. For the fans of Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins and A.J.Finn.
A stand-alone sequel to The Rear Window and Siren!
New layers are added to the relationship between passionate world-improver Leia and hacker Timo, when Leia is left alone as a hostage in a cottage in the middle of winter. Has the man gone mad or are they both in danger? The idyllic Northern Lights dance in the sky outside, but inside the cabin things are getting more dangerous. The Hitchcockian suspense deepens, when the AI in the cottage suddenly starts to talk to Leia. But the biggest surprise is yet to come….
hostage woman, self-aware artificial intelligence, cottage in Lapland, Finland, winter, suspense, thriller, Lapland, technology, artificial intelligence, researcher, hacker, female protagonist, 21st century
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Johanna Sinisalo
The marriage of Siiri and Essi is already going through a rough patch, but when their 6-year-old daughter is caught cutting herself with scissors, their family-life is thrown upside down. What could cause such a young child to something like that? Is there someone – or something – telling her to do so? The parents turn against each other while trying to find an outsider to blame, but sometimes the true threat comes from inside…
baby brother, neuropsychologist, body horror, biology, sibling rivalry, neuropsychology, dysfunctional family, Finland, girl, horror, Tampere, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, queer parents, LGBTQ+, marriage, queer protagonist, speculative fiction, queer
Rights sold: FINLAND: Karisto (orig.)
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Lotta Sonninen
New adult activity book by Lotta Sonninen and Piia Aho focuses on the dark side of every workplace! Fill this book with your struggles with open office space, infuriating clients and all the needless meetings. List the worst managers, the most frustrating tasks and the idiotic organizational changes or policies.The perfect book for office rats and other invisible people behind the screen!
work, workplace, employment, office, satire, activity book, parody, self help, negativity, complaining, illustrated book, humor
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Frank Martela
Is happiness a worthy goal? What is the foundation for meaning in a secular society? Is life an existential void?
- An international bestseller with the rights sold to 30 countries and counting!
- The book to address our turbulent times, by the eminent Finnish happiness researcher Frank Martela, from the happiest country in the world!
Frank Martela answers these questions and more in a relaxed, conversational tone and with a wry sense of humor, placing some of life’s greatest philosophical concerns and quandaries into a modern-day context. Martela quickly and concisely gets to the heart of the matter – your place in the world and how to find meaning in life – yet the emphasis here is on what we do with the life we have and how we can make it more meaningful.
The search for life’s meaning is perhaps the most important quest we can undertake. And for any quest, it’s essential to have a guide. Philosophically probing yet eminently readable, A Wonderful Life is a book you can refer to again and again on your journey toward purpose.
life wisdom, self-help, big questions, non-fiction, happiness, psychology, meaning of life, philosophy
Rights sold: WORLD ENGLISH: Harper Design / HarperCollins, ALBANIA: Botime Koliqi, BULGARIA: Prozoretz, CROATIA: Planetopija, ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat AS, FINLAND: Gummerus, FRANCE: Editions Leduc, GERMANY: Blessing Verlag, GREECE: Klidarithmos, HUNGARY: Corvina, INDONESIA: Gramedia, ITALY: Edizioni Lindau, JAPAN: HarperCollins Japan, LATVIA: Zvaigzne ABC Publishers, LITHUANIA: Obuolys, NETHERLANDS: Ambo Anthos, NORWAY: Gursli Berg Forlag, POLAND: Czarna Owca, PORTUGAL: Editora 2020, ROMANIA: HUMANITAS S.A, SERBIA: Odiseja Publishing, SPANISH: Ediciones Uranos, TAIWAN: Crown, THAILAND: Biblio Co. , TURKEY: Orman, UNITED STATES: Harper Collins USA, VIETNAM: Bookland, WORLD ARABIC: Sefsafa
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Sara Medberg
Glamor, the courtly life, beautiful dresses, and passion!
Strict class hierarchy and fabulous silk ruffles rule in 19th-century Turku, where seamstress Charlotta is looking for her own Mr. Darcy. When baron Ridderlöw of Starfire Manor hires seamstress Charlotta Silke as a lady’s maid for her sister, their lives change for good.
Charlotta gets her hands on Jane Austen’s newly published Pride and Prejudice, which alters the way she sees her role as a woman. But the book’s ideas of modern love, marriage and early feminism are put to the test as the bitter war-torn baron Ridderlöw becomes romantically interested in Charlotta. Can an ordinary lady’s maid have it all: a meaningful life and the man of her dreams?
Finland, love, winter, summer, romance, Sweden, young women, autumn, baron, lady's maid, lady, seamstress, prince, 1810s, lady’s maid, women servants, girls, regency, nobility, courtlife, privateer, Napoleonic wars, love over class, Pride and Prejudice, castle, manor, restriction, gentleman, Jane Austen, 19th century, women's history, female protagonist, refugees
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), DENMARK: People's Press, ESTONIA: Varrak, NORWAY: Kagge Forlag, POLAND: Swiat Ksiazki, SWEDEN: Norstedts
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Maria Pettersson
Extraordinary, “bad-ass” women of history - meet pirates, psychics, priestesses, princess spies and dozens of other women whose stories your history teacher never told you
- A bestselling, nonfiction book in Finland with over 40,000 copies sold!
- Publication in Germany by Droemer Knaur! Rights sold to 4 territories!
- Now also available – an abridged version with a selection of 49 extraordinary women from history!
The captain who ruled the biggest pirate fleet in history. The scientist who changed our understanding of physics, while taking the most famous geniuses of her time as her lovers, and getting in trouble for gambling. The con artist who could fool any jeweler in Europe. The baseball star who played wearing a fake beard. Teenagers recruited by the Resistance because of their innocent looks, who learned to blow up railways and shoot Nazis from their bicycles. The master of Jujutsu who taught the Suffragettes to fight back. The cult leader who made her followers undergo cosmetic surgery to look more like her. The kidnapped girl who ended up ruling the biggest empire that had ever existed, with her female lover as her queen.
Extraordinary Women of History introduces over a hundred exceptional women from different periods of history and from all corners of the world. It is a veritable treasury of captivating stories and unsung ballads about the exciting women in history. Outrageous, amazing, terrible, heroic, thrilling and above all extraordinary; their life stories make the reader gasp and ask: “Why haven’t I heard of them before?”
Europe, historical figures, history, sportswomen, female scientists, female artists, female activists, female dissidents, female soldiers, female rulers, female adventurers, female criminals, Asia, Americas, successful women, women in science, women in arts, women in sports, non-fiction, women, Africa, biography, women's history, feminism, multiple protagonists, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Atena (orig), ESTONIA: Äripäev, GERMANY: Droemer Knaur , HUNGARY: Corvina
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Minna Lindgren
A hilariously horrible story straight out of the school world. Finland has the best schools in the world – or does it?
Marja Vehmarvarsi is a 62-year-old teacher, on the verge of retirement. The schools in Finland have been privatized at a brisk pace, and in order to get any work hours Marja has to come up with new learning games for phenomenon-based learning curriculum, and organize weekly meetings for cross-subject synergies.
Marja’s parents Aina and Toivo are almost 100 years old, but nevertheless passionate YouTubers, whose goal is to save the Finnish school system – whatever it takes. Marja’s popularity among the students grows as her parents’ radical plans spread over the internet.
elderly couple, mature daughter, lousy husband, public school, teaching, Finnish school system, privatisation, 21st century, Finland, Helsinki, contemporary, society, social media, teachers, satire, near future, humor, social media influencers, school life, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.)
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Riikka Jäntti
Little Mouse series – Book 6
Summer holiday is full of fun: going to the amusement park, playing by the beach and visiting the art museum. Buying strawberries and ice cream, and going to the cinema when the weather is too hot. Little Mouse knows that one must enjoy the summer, because it doesn’t last forever.
hot weather, summer holiday, restaurant, strawberries, movie, relaxing, diary, mother, home, island, child, museum, town, summer, illustrated book, single mother, children's literature, child protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat AS, FRANCE: Cambourakis, GERMANY: Cross Cult, POLAND: Filia, ROMANIA: Editura Paralela 45 , RUSSIA: Strecoza
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Noora Kunnas
The wild gang is back! Nick, Lilly, Supergranny Mabel and her speaking rooster face a new enemy: an art hustler. Second book of a new middle grade mystery series!
The town of Dalton is celebrating a local children’s poet’s 140th anniversary, and everyone is dressed up as a character from a poem. But amongst the happy people there’s also a gentleman thief who has terrorized art museums all spring. Through many mistakes and misunderstandings Nick and Lilly help the police to catch a thief – and to teach a lesson to a grumpy literary critic.
Black-and-white illustrations by Teemu Juhani
2000s, retired poet, gentleman thief, supergranny, child-hating uncle, art theft, children's detective story, adventure, magic, spring, humor, talking rooster, children's literature, illustrated book, 21st century, multiple protagonists, child protagonist, grandmother, small town
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), DENMARK: ABC Forlag, GERMANY: Mixtvision, POLAND: Znak, RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Emmi Itäranta
A scifi mystery and a love story that bends space, time, myth and science.
#sci-fi #future #space #moon #earth #marriage #secrets #activism
Lumi is an Earth-born healer whose Mars-born spouse Sol disappears unexpectedly on a work trip. As Lumi begins her quest to find Sol, she delves gradually deeper into Sol’s secrets – and her own.
While recalling her own path to becoming a healer under the guidance of her mysterious teacher Vivian, she discovers an underground environmental group called Stoneturners, which may have something to do with Sol’s disappearance. Lumi’s search takes her from the wealthy colonies of Mars to Earth that has been left a shadow of its former self due to vast environmental destruction. Gradually, she begins to understand that Sol’s fate may have been connected to her own for much longer than she thought.
Part space-age epistolary, part eco-thriller, The Moonday Letters is also a love story between two individuals from very different worlds.
LGBTQ+, 2160s, Mars, Moon, Earth, Finnish mythology, non-binary love interest, soul animal, space colony, space travel, environmentalism, ecoterrorism, lichen, clifi, family, friendship, woman, future, secrets, romance, healer, scientist, scifi, 22nd century, queer, female protagonist, queer protagonist, speculative fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), CZECHIA: Albatros Media, HUNGARY: Metropolis Media Group, WORLD ENGLISH (print, e-book): Titan Books ; WORLD ENGLISH (audio): Recorded Books
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Mooses Mentula
To escape the demands and responsibilities, Tino fetches a jar from the closet, digs out a pill, sets it on the back of his tongue, and accelerates the medicine’s journey to his stomach with some coffee. He sinks into images of lives that are experienced elsewhere, at different times, through the eyes of other people. He suddenly finds himself writing only stories – and not just stories of the world outside, but he is also writing his own life into a story which events he is no longer able to control.
The Others of Us takes the reader to the road with Jack Kerouac, to a bar with Charles Bukowski, and to have discussions with Edgar Allan Poe and Jane Austen. A lot of people have things to say, but who are actually worth listening?
Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen, writers, self-medicating, mental health, biography, writing, imagination, anxiety, tiny flat, own imagination, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), GERMANY: Weidle
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Laura Ertimo
This book has 10 stories, and 10 maps. They may sound or look like they are out of a fairy-tale, but they are real, true maps of our planet. The Enchanted Planet Earth is a children’s non-fiction book that also engages adults. Through magical maps it teaches about nature, oceans and the history of continents. The stories also provide a context where adults and kids can discuss the environmental issues and how people’s actions affect nature. Through narratives the book explains the real processes that change our planet and make the Earth habitable.
geological timescale, map art, atlas, endangered species, Earth, contemporary, non-fiction, ecology, Earth, fairytales, illustrated book, climate system, children's literature, migration, environment, nature
Rights sold: FINLAND: Kustantamo S&S (orig.), ESTONIA: Avita, POLAND: Eurograf, RUSSIA: AST Publishers, TURKEY: Alfa
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Elina Hirvonen
More than anything else, Julia, 10 years, wishes that somebody would like her. She can explain the structure of the universe, but has no idea how to talk to her classmates. What she doesn’t know is that she already has her very own best friend – her toy bunny Buck, who in reality is a top secret agent of the Plush Animal League (P.A.L.).
The P.A.L. headquarters is located in outer space where the agents follow children through their monitor, ready to act immediately when their child needs help. And Julia does! Buck turns Julia’s bed into a magic flying spacecraft and takes her on a ride through space and time. Buck wants to show Julia that the same things that make her feel out of place among her classmates now, are her unique character strengths that will make her happy and loved in the future. But the P.A.L. has an enemy; the Soldiers of Vombat, an army of forgotten toys. They plot to overtake Plush Animal League and control children’s actions and wishes. Julia finds out that she is the only one who can stop the evil plan!
geek girl, living plush animals, outer space, Finland, Helsinki, identity, friendship, future, 2020s, bullying, children's literature, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Magdalena Hai
Miss Swift lives happily alone in an extraordinary house. And she is not completely alone, she has twelve monkeys, some garden
tigers and one ghost to keep her company. But when a little boy appears on her doorstep, before Miss Swift even notices it Pekka and his two cousins are rummaging through her house, looking for their missing beast. And if there’s anything Miss Swift despises in this world it is children.
Miss Swift’s Weird and Wonderful House is a new fantasy story for middle-grade readers full of funny details and fast-paced events. Teemu Juhani’s illustrations bring the house and its eccentric characters to life.
2020s, magical creatures, witch, child genius, mystical house, regret, family, contemporary, boy, girl, adventure, garden, children's literature, fantasy, magic, siblings, countryside, time travel, single parenthood, illustrated book, chosen family, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Grada, DENMARK: Vild Maskine, RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Kaisa Paasto
Shy people of the world, unite!
Anni is a 10-year-old girl. When her friend Miisa moves abroad, Anni has a chilling realization: she has never had to find a new friend. Is it too late to learn how to make friends? Obviously, no one can learn a skill this big when they’re 10, can they? Anni also has another problem. Her new pet pig only wants to stay in his safe place, under the table. Good thing Anni’s brother has just had a back operation, as this means he has lots of time to lie in bed and dole out advice. Anni’s parents are alright as far as parents go, even if they laugh a bit too much at their own jokes.
So it’s not all bad – Anni just needs to become a ‘friend tamer’!
school friend, neighbour, conquering shyness, Finland, friendship, family, home, middle-grade, children's literature, loneliness, children, school, pet pig, suburb, realism, pet pig, siblinghood, creativity, community, illustrated book, present, female protagonist, child protagonist, young girl, humor
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi, ALBANIA: Muza Publishing, GERMANY: Loewe
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Veera Salmi
Leo and Isra are not the most popular kids of their high school. They don’t have high expectations, and nobody expects much of them. So why not take a break from school – and a break from life, and try to do something meaningful before it’s all too late?
Embark on a road trip with Isra, her friend Leo, 900 euros and a stolen sky-blue Hyundai.
eccentric boy, lonely girl, boy living in a foster family, teenagers, deceased father, missing mother, Eastern Helsinki, in a stolen car around Finland, broken youth, love of cinema, end of friendship, running away, roadtrip, future dreams, hopeful ending, Finland, Helsinki, contemporary, 2020s, being an outsider, lonely boy, young adult, 21st century, multiple protagonists, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Ann-Luise Bertell
A detailed and insightful story of four generations and what it means to be human, set in the heart of the Finnish Ostrobothnian plains
When Elof is ten years old, his father dies, leaving him and his little brother Ivar alone at the mercy of their relatives. Fear becomes their companion throughout life - a companion who can only be disciplined by the joy of storytelling, alcohol and women. Elof knows that he is a bit of a coward, but has learned that he must never show fear, especially not in front of others and never to his wife Olga, whom he never really gets close to. Pride is the most important thing to Elof, as is their homestead, Heiman, which is all the family has ever truly owned.
Homestead talks about how love and trauma are passed on from one generation to another. This intense family chronicle asks the question; what is the price you have to pay, if you never get to be yourself? Ann-Luise Bertell writes an epic tale with a great drive, crystallized in scenes with strong sensual sensations, full of rich emotions.
1980s, 1960s, 1940s, 1970s, 1930s, 1950s, Osthrobothia, being orphaned, family chronicle, emotional, Finland, love, family, history, childhood, war, son, generations, trauma, deceased father, 20th century, male protagonist, multiple protagonists
Rights sold: FINLAND (in Swedish) & SWEDEN: Förlaget (orig.), AZERBAIJAN: Alatoran, ESTONIA: Eesti Raamat, FINLAND (in Finnish): Tammi, GEORGIA: Merebashvilitykesson
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Emmi Pesonen
Warm, humorous and beautiful debut novel from the point of view of a stepmother. Patchwork family life, and new beginnings.
Amanda’s life is revolutionized when Onni curves into her life with a yellow minibus, chaos and four children riding along. She has been living an extended youth and cared mainly for her house plants until she met Onni and his kids. Happiness, the laundry pile and the dish mountains grow in their new home. Everything is always lost and the house is permanently messy, but Amanda firmly believes that love conquers all obstacles. But when Onni’s behavior starts to get weirder, she has to decide if love truly fixes everything.
inexperienced stepmother, charismatic and manic boyfriend, blended family, boyfriend, idyllic wooden house district, parenthood, humor, life choices, Finland, Helsinki, mother, family, love, family, city, children, 1990s, 20th century, female protagonist, feel-good
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), ESTONIA: Eesti Raamat
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Heidi Viherjuuri
Cousin Martti comes to visit Hilja, and it can mean only one thing: a full week of snow fun! Snowball fights, skiing trips, ice-fishing competition and other winter adventures become so wild that Mom needs to put an end to it. But Hilja knows how to make even the most boring day fun!
grandparenting, quarrel, ice fishing, Finland, village, childhood, forest, school, girls, winter, sisterhood, snow, countryside, skiing, sisters, neighbors, patchwork family, grandfather, Häme, Asikkala, cousin, schoolmates, neighborhood, Christmas holiday, New Year, 2000s, Christmas, humor, 21st century, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Mäkelä, RUSSIA: Strecoza
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #3: Charging Ahead
Kati-e, Tim and Ti-bot spend time in the countryside and make new friends
When the Pet Agents must find a new home for a miniature pig, they head out to the countryside. The organic farm is full of cute animals, and they help with the farmwork and have fun with the electric four-wheel-drive. But suddenly, there is also a mystery they have to solve! But what to do when Ti-bot disappears and there is no wi-fi coverage?!
farmer family, farm, countryside, countryside, farm, farm animals, big city, friendship, friends, adventure, summer, independent girl, pets, flying robot, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, pet problems, speaking with animals, compassion, illustrated book, love of animals, animals, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECHIA: Grada, POLAND: Media Rodzina, RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Meri Luttinen
A beautiful historical fantasy adventure set in an ancient Finnish fantasy world where a young woman finds her place in society
✓ Topelius Prize Winner 2020!
✓ Nominated for Finlandia Prize 2020!
✓ Nominated for Kuvastaja prize for best Fantasy Novel 2020!
On the white night of the summer solstice, 16-year-old Kainu stands at the edge of rings of earth drawn on the ground in her coming-of-age ritual. Young girls in her village discover their future role in life by taking part in this ancient “rite of the rings”. The rings they land on determine their role in the community, as matrons, mothers, or craftswomen.
The five inner rings are reserved for shamans and sages, and no one has landed on the innermost ring, the tenth ring, in over 500 years. However, when Kainu enters the innermost ring, that of a Great Sage, heavy responsibilities fall on her, and she has to go on a long journey to find out who she really is.
sage, healer, outsider, ancient Finland, middle ages, medieval world, Finnish mythology, prejudice, amulet, travel, loneliness, girl, city, coming of age, wolf, fantasy world, castle, fantasy, mythology, young adult, teenage protagonist, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), HUNGARY: Európa Könyvkiadó, RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Arttu Unkari
Adults who think they know everything and children who are forced to clean up the messes - the Dad Man series offers hilarious adventures!
· The first Dad Man title published in 2020!
· Nominated for Storytel awards 2020 (Best children’s audiobook) and Best Newcomer of the Year 2020
· 4 books available and more to come
· For fans of David Walliams and Captain Underpants
- 100,000 copies sold in Finland!
- 4 books available and more to come, with 5th book coming in 2024 - work as standalones and can be read in any order!
A horrific poop explosion flies the minister of education to the Moon in the middle of a regular evening. And even worse is yet to come: it turns out there's a mad inventor behind it all, who is threatening more explosions if no one solves his twisted riddle.
The pride and role model of the police force, the heroic Dad Man, is not one to flinch and immediately sets out to solve the case. However, his nine-year-old daughter Oona knows that Dad Man's investigations lead to nothing but disarray. Oona has no choice but to take matters into her own hands.
quirky father, policeman father, clever girl, parents, adventure, children's literature, parenthood, humor, toilet humor, illustrated book, multiple protagonists, male protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), DENMARK: Bogoo, GERMANY: Mixtvision
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Ulla-Maija Paavilainen
The breath-taking rags-to-riches story of Marimekko’s former owner and CEO Kirsti Paakkanen, who turned the fortunes of the iconic brand around. This is the true story of how a retired businesswoman took over the practically bankrupt Finnish design house and turned Marimekko into a successful worldwide brand name.
husband, employee, manager, designer, 1920s, 1950s, biographies, from rags to riches, women as entrepreneur, work before love, success, companies, women, design, Finland, Japan, mother, father, 2010s, 1990s, 1980s, 2000s, women, 1960s, France, 1940s, 1970s, fashion, advertising, independence, 1930s, 21st century, 19th century, United States, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), ESTONIA: Helios Kirjastus OÜ, JAPAN: Shodensha
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Tuutikki Tolonen
Moving to a new city is frightening enough for 11-year-old Agnes. But when she makes an exciting discovery at the local cemetery, the summer isn’t the same anymore!
Everything began on that one summer day when Agnes walked through the cemetery gate. She had just moved to a boring new town and left behind her old home and friends. But then something strange happened and her life became more exciting than ever!
She finds a tombstone that has the name Agnes on it – and the same birthday as hers! From that day on, Agnes keeps having dreams of a girl who hides a key in a beautiful garden. When Agnes stumbles upon the same garden, she knows she must find the key. But what will it open?
illustrated book, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist, families, old dog, new hometown, magical realism, family history, family secrets, Finland, friendship, mystery, middle-grade, adventure, summer, small town, 2010, bullying, divorce, children
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Portál, s. r. o., DENMARK: ABC Forlag, ESTONIA: Eesti Raamat, GERMANY: Carlsen Verlag, HUNGARY: Cerkabella, ROMANIA: Editura Paralera 45, RUSSIA: Rosman
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Laura Ertimo
A science series for the smallest in the family!
Mini Science is a new nonfiction series for the smallest in the family. The series will tackle big science questions with lovely illustrations, and encourages kids to wonder and ask questions. It feeds curiosity and is designed to start conversations about different topics that children might not think about on their own.
In Where Are You? we follow Plop, a little creature who guides us through space to the Earth and from there to the human DNA and finally to the world of atoms. Zooming in all the way from the enormities of space to the minisculness of atoms, we learn a great deal in between.
now, space, earth, playground, human body, scales, space, atom, cell, imaginary scientist, toddlers, science, non-fiction, picture book, environment, reading together, children's literature, illustrated book
Rights sold: FINLAND: Minerva (orig.), ARABIC: Sefsafa Publishing, ESTONIA: Avita, GREECE: Klidarithmos, TURKEY: Yapi Kredi
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Jyrki Erra
How many lives does a painting worth millions require before it reveals its secrets?
- Winner of Best Crime Fiction Novel 2020
- We recommend this novel to the fans of Dan Brown, John Le Carré and Umberto Eco
Axel Wallas is a Finnish painter and Caravaggio expert, who is asked by a professor of art history to advise on a painting that may be a masterpiece of Caravaggio himself. Axel is unable to give a definite answer on the painting’s authenticity.
The next morning the professor is found murdered and the painting is gone. Axel embarks on a journey where nothing is what it seems. Unexpectedly, Axel’s wife has also failed to return from her work trip in Rome and has left no clue as to where she is. Are the cases related? Axel travels to Italy in search of his spouse, but finds himself in the middle of a devastating power struggle. Will the trails lead to the real painting and to the revealing of the Caravaggio mystery?
painter, missing wife, Caravaggio, paintings, Finland, Italy, crime, mystery, suspense, thriller, murder, art, Rome, art history, power struggle, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Antti Ervasti
Internationally bestselling and easily approachable and comforting selfcare with a visual approach – created by an experienced Finnish psychotherapist and an award-winning illustrator
✓ Selfcare for the Instagram generation!
✓ Relatable and comforting illustrations of the human experience with all its struggles and wonders
✓ With expert advice from a psychotherapist on how to deal with common struggles and experiences
✓ Books sold 75,000 copies! Rights sold to 20+ countries! Bestseller in the MUJI stores in Japan!
CupOfTherapy – Together Through The Hours addresses a current and important matter: work–life balance. The book is like a strong bear hug with a great message: It is normal to face obstacles and problems, and we are important the way we are, with all our fur and everything . The book offers fiercely sweet encouragement amid all the challenges in our everyday life and work.
psychotherapy, non-fiction, self-care, self-help, illustrated book, self-compassion, workplace, work life
Rights sold: PORTUGAL: Bertrand
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Perttu Pölönen
Find out what are the 12+1 essential skills that will help you defeat the fear of the future!
The future is no longer awaited, it is feared. Development is not driven by enthusiasm, but by worry. We talk about challenges, not dreams. How can fears, worries, and challenges be turned into anticipation, enthusiasm, and dreams?
With the world developing so fast, we should not focus on what is changing but rather find what is not going to change. The next revolution is a human revolution, says Perttu Pölönen, a futurist, inventor and inspirational speaker. What makes us different from machines, makes us successful. We should develop courage, adaptability, compassion, storytelling, patience and curiosity, to name a few, in order to succeed in the era of machines, robots and artificial intelligence. Pölönen explains how.
Future Skills challenges assumptions about the future and provides insightful and thought-provoking observations. It has become an instant bestseller in Finland where its readers have reported to have changed their career paths and found meaning in their current jobs. Pölönen is a bright young mind whose personal experiences and stories make the book lively and engaging.
leaders, educators, skills, education, imagination, youth, life advice, easy-to-read, leadership, non-fiction, parents, hopeful, future, learning, collaboration, technology, empathy, students, creativity
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), ALBANIA: Publishing House "Jakup Ceraja", HUNGARY: Anna Inkeri Pap, INDONESIA: PT Pustaka Alvabet, PORTUGAL: Bertrand, SOUTH KOREA: BP Publishers, TURKEY: Büyükada, UNITED STATES: Recorded Publishing, UNITED STATES: Start Publishing
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Heidi Viherjuuri
Hilja is starting the first grade. Things are going well: she has practiced reading with the cows at the farm, and new friends are nice. But Hilja’s big mouth gets her into troubles every now and then.
schoolmates, neighborhood, zoo, trips, spying, Finland, village, forest, school, girls, girlhood, sisterhood, summer cottage, farm, countryside, sisters, neighbors, patchwork family, grandfather, Häme, Asikkala, everyday life, autumn, humor, children's literature, 21st century, 2000s, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Mäkelä (orig.), GERMANY: WooW Books, RUSSIA: Strecoza
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Heidi Viherjuuri
Hilja’s sister Veini claims that Christmas is just a publicity trick, but Hilja decides to prove that Christmas is real and magical. A secret operation begins, and it involves making an elf trap, lots of secret notes and spying on neighbors. Even Santa is not having it easy – he has to take part to Hilja’s lie detection test.
Many, many miscommunications are ahead before the family of the Green house can finally calm down for Christmas.
baking, Finland, village, school, girls, winter, girlhood, sisterhood, Christmas, waiting, countryside, Santa Claus, sisters, neighbors, patchwork family, grandfather, Häme, Asikkala, schoolmates, neighborhood, spying, 2000s, humor, children's literature, 21st century, female protagonist, child protagonist, Christmas
Rights sold: FINLAND: Mäkelä (orig.), ESTONIA: Eesti Raamat, GERMANY: WooW Books, RUSSIA: Strecoza
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Aki Parhamaa, Anders Vacklin
Set in Helsinki as it struggles through the harsh hyper winter, 17-year old Minako, nicknamed Bug, faces enemies both in video games and in real life. Her mother has disappeared, and the more Bug investigates the gaming corporation she works at, the more mysteries arise. Bug is also busy figuring out her own life: she has begun her studies at the prestigious game academy, but it isn’t easy being the most famous gamer in the world. Dangerous things are starting to happen in real life which should be taking place only in video-games. Can there be glitches in reality?
disappeared mother, famous gamer, game academy, suspicious corporations, Finland, Helsinki, family, friendship, young adult, climate crisis, winter, virtual reality, virtual reality, VR, video games, 16-year-old girl, 2110s, 22nd century, future flood-ridden world, futuristic world, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, teenage girl
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Lotta Sonninen
Let’s face it: motherhood, in all its glory, gives you so many reasons for bad moods. From stretch marks to all-consuming guilt, from toddler tantrums to teenage sulks – sometimes you wish you could put just press pause and put it all on hold, but you can’t. This taboo-breaking adult activity book encourages all mothers to vent safely, continuing the cranky path of the international bestseller “The Little Book of Bad Moods”.
Suitable for all mothers, from those with screaming babies, to those with intolerable grownup children. List the dumbest parenting advice you’ve been given, the most useless purchases, and reveal your biggest mistakes as a mother!
motherhood, parenting, children, families, satire, activity book, parody, self help, negativity, complaining, illustrated book, humor
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Euromedia / Knižní klub, ESTONIA: Postimees Kirjastus, GERMANY: Droemer Knaur, UNITED KINGDOM: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Aapo Roselius, Oula Silvennoinen
Wild East is a new nonfiction about the Finnish tribal wars and the fierce events of the year 1919.
The First World War did not end in November 1918. With the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Bolshevik revolution warfare in Eastern Europe continued for years. Revolutionary, counter-revolutionary and national armies of new nations struggled for the remnants of the destroyed empire.The war lottery attracted the Finns to carry it out the greatest dream of Finnish nationalism: Greater Finland.
front soldiers, schoolboys, women at war, Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Eastern Karelia, Russian Civil War, civil war, war generation, coming of age, veterancy, adventure, disillusionment, intervention, Finland, 1920s, 1910s, 20th century, First World War, First World War
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat AS, ROMANIA: Lebada Neagra S.C. Editura Lebăda Neagră S.R.L., SWEDEN: Lind & Co
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Satu Kettunen
A wonderful story about fears and conquering them by an award-winning illustrator.
Alma’s family has moved to a new house. It is big, and bleak, and far from the neighbors. Alma is certain that they aren’t alone: she sees shadows fleeing in the corners, and hears footsteps of the grokes.
Alma’s mother is a party planner, and that gives her an idea: She will throw a party for all the monsters and ghosts!
brave girl, mysterious house, conquering fears, moving to a new place, friendship, children's literature, fantasy, monsters, illustrated book, communicating with others, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Hanna-Riikka Kuisma
Trainspotting meets City of Gods in a suburban apartment building. Critical success and Finlandia Prize nominee in 2019.
When the high-rise was new it was the pride of the city, an example of modern living, a beacon of a brighter future. But today you won’t find happy homes, stylish decorations or successful people in this building. It has become the residence for those who struggle. In this concrete jungle, everything is connected and lives are fragmented, memories shattered by violence and substances.
addict and small-time drug dealer, temperance man, solitary child, sex worker, thirtysomething man, suburban apartment building, high-rise building, housing estate, converging lives, Finland, crime, poverty, drugs, class, suspicious corporations, investigation, hacker, thriller, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Like (orig.)
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Petri Tamminen
Sweet and funny picture book that teaches you how to meet Aliens — can be used with humans as well.
Space is huge and unknown, but perhaps somewhere there are real Aliens. One day they might come to visit the Earth, and there’s a chance that they land in your backyard. In that case it is good to know how to act.
This future classic will gently teach how to meet new people and act in new situations, things which are often difficult for all of us.
alien that visits Earth, young girl, aliens, spaceship, being different, communicating with others, shyness, home, children's literature, kindness, illustrated book, humanity, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Karisto (orig.), LATVIA: Latvijas Mediji
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Aino Louhi
Young love is often fragile and tragic. But it’s also beautiful and unforgettable. Discover the story of the Imaginary Girl in this breathtaking graphic novel.
Imaginary Girl is about the relationships of children, teens and adults: the bittersweet friendships, the crushes that make you feel paralyzed, the terrifying fear of being invisible – and the fear of being noticed.
Perfect for adults and young adults both!
1990s, 2000s, love interest, timeless, universal, elementary school, high school, outsider, girl's life, identity, friends, childhood, girl, small town, bullying, relationships, youth, 21st century, 20th century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Suuri Kurpitsa (orig.)
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Riikka Jäntti
Little Mouse series – Book 5
Winter is here and Little Mouse enjoys playing outside. But his fun is interrupted by piano lessons. And why do all the other kids have phones and lots of collectable toy figures? Luckily mom has lots of fun activities that will make him happy again.
cold weather, sliding, piano, argument, skating, mother, home, winter, children's literature, snow, child, town, illustrated book, single mother, mouse characters, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat AS, FRANCE: Cambourakis, GERMANY: Cross Cult, POLAND: Filia, ROMANIA: Editura Paralela 45 , RUSSIA: Strecoza
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Noora Kunnas
A fast and funny middle grade mystery series by a Finnish children’s book author who loves Roald Dahl and crazy stories!
- Series sold to 9 territories!
- Winner of the Prix Chronos 2023 in Switzerland!
Supergranny, a singing rooster, and mischievous mini pirates – a new series begins!
Nick and Lilly’s visit to their rule-loving, child-hating uncle turns into an adventure as the children get to know their exciting, eccentric neighbor: Mabel Merryweather. Mabel and her friends are preparing for a flower arranging competition, when the town is hit by a jewel thief. Nick, Lilly, and Mabel have their own problems as Mabel’s decorative miniature pirates have come to life and are rummaging through backyards. And what happened to the main judge of the competition – a pop singer Monika who disappeared that same day? Something must be done to bring peace and order back to the town of Dalton.
Black-and-white illustrations by Teemu Juhani
talking rooster, music star, crime, 2000s, adventure, summer, humor, supergranny, child-hating uncle, children's literature, illustrated book, 21st century, multiple protagonists, child protagonist, pirates, grandmother, small town
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), BULGARIA: Enthusiast, DENMARK: ABC Forlag, GERMANY: Mixtvision, HUNGARY: Pagony, ITALY: Terre di Mezzo, NETHERLANDS: Veltman Uitgevers, POLAND: Znak, RUSSIA: Eksmo
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Laura Lindstedt
A bold and brave novel about a young woman’s sexuality, the power of narration, and identity.
Natalia starts to see a therapist to help solve the problems in her sex life. It is clear from the beginning that she is not going to play by the rules of the therapy. The weekly sessions combine art, philosophy, literature, childhood memories, and erotic experiences as a method of treatment, and slowly they make Natalia lose all her inhibitions. She starts to enjoy the therapy – maybe too much?
The novel takes a deconstructive approach to the self-help narratives of our time and drives the tools of autofiction into a dead end, asking what is concealed, when everything is revealed.
Oedipus complex, French literature, Finland, Helsinki, 2010s, 1980s, Finnish village, 1970s, patient, therapist, therapy room, female sexuality, femininity, obsession, sex addiction, nymphomania, transgression, power struggle, writing therapy, mother, father, woman, reading, writing, visual arts, storytelling, literature, psychotherapy, man, 21st century, 20th century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat AS, FRANCE: Gallimard, GERMANY: DTV, HUNGARY: Scolar Kiado, ITALY: Elliot Edizioni, LITHUANIA: BALTO, NETHERLANDS & BELGIUM: De Bezige Bij, NORWAY: Oktober, ROMANIA: Humanitas Fiction, SWEDEN: Norstedts, USA: W.W. Norton / Liveright
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Magdalena Hai
Nina goes to buy ice cream after her first work day at The Little Shop of Nightmares. But at the ice cream shop she discovers a vampire – without teeth! Nina decides to help vampire Lucas, and find him new teeth from Mr. Krook’s shop. But while they look for the teeth it turns out that other things have gone missing too…
2020s, vampire, land octopus, contemporary, boy, girl, fantasy world, small town, humor, ghost, shop owner, peculiar shop, illustrated book, spooky, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), ALBANIA: Muza, BULGARIA: Emas, CZECH REPUBLIC: Euromedia, DENMARK: VILD MASKINE, ESTONIA: Postimees Kirjastus, FRANCE: Éditions Milan, GERMANY: HarperCollins Schneiderbuch, GREECE: Dioptra, HUNGARY: Cerkabella Konyvkiado, ITALY: Cart'Armata Edizioni, JAPAN: Holp Shuppan, KOREA: Gilbutschool, LATVIA: Latvijas Mediji, LITHUANIA:Briedis, NETHERLANDS: De Vier Windstreken, NORWAY: Fontini, POLAND: Znak, PORTUGAL: PRH Portugal, ROMANIA: Univers Publishing House, RUSSIA: Kompass Guide, SLOVAKIA: Ikar, SPAIN (Spanish, Catalan): La Galera, SWEDEN: Hegas, TAIWAN: Morning Star, TURKEY: Epsilon, UKRAINE: The Old Lion Publishing House
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Raisa Cacciatore, Erja Korteniemi-Poikela
Finnish parenting is world-famous! This eagerly awaited book explains how to talk to children about love and sexuality with warm empathy.
Can my kids have a crush or fall in love? What is normal development? Curiosity, playfulness, and sensitivity are all parts of sexual development. Expressing emotions and appreciating your body and experiences are bases for building good health and selfesteem. Respect in relationships, trust, love, and enjoyment are skills that can be supported from early on. This book provides easy keys to guiding children on their path towards well-being, intimacy and happiness. It features a comprehensive step-by-step model for a child’s development based on years of experience and research in Finland. All chapters include concrete exercises.
gentleness, sexuality, childhood, adolescence, sexual development, self-respect, sexual rights, sex, empowerment, respect, sex education, love, wellbeing, non-fiction, parenting, emotions, self-esteem
Rights sold: FINLAND: Minerva (orig.), HUNGARY: Scolar Kiado, RUSSIA: Eksmo, SOUTH KOREA: Bluemoosebooks
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Leena Lehtolainen
A man is abducted at Helsinki airport and left to drown in a remote lake. He survives and a journey for answers begins!
Aino is a ranger, located at a distant corner of the Finnish wilderness. One day she finds a man fighting for his final breath. The man, Tomas, has been abducted at the airport, drugged, and abandoned to die. Aino saves his life, and when Tomas recovers, together they hope to find out what happened and why. Tomas learns that he has gotten involved in a murderous plot by bloodthirsty motorbike gang.
Do they stand a chance against their new enemies? Can they find a way out of the nightmare that someone else has started? Or is it time to break the oaths, made so long ago…
ranger, linguist, 30-somethings, gang members, pedophiles, trust, Finland, friendship, forest, nature, nature, contemporary, female protagonist, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Pegasus, LITHUANIA: BALTO, RUSSIA: Gorodets
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Elina Hirvonen
Princess Rascal starts pre-school. She’s nervous about her new mates and new teacher. Especially nervous she is about going to the toilet. When she uses toilet words in a completely wrong situation, she’s sure that she is the most embarrassing girl in the world. But a solution for the problem can be found in her secret treasure chest.
friend, daycare teacher, fear of being left out, toilet emergency, toilet humor, Finland, Helsinki, father, friendship, 2020s, dog, little brother, ordinary superhero princess girl, power of imagination, children's literature, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Albatros Media, DENMARK: Gads Forlag, ESTONIAN: Kirjastus Elust Enesest
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Elina Hirvonen
As a small boy grows up in Iraq ruled by Saddam Hussein, fear is always present. His father is part of an underground opposition movement that tries to overthrow the dictator. The father ends up spending years in prison, and the boy learns that just one wrong word can put his life in danger.
The family escapes to melancholy Finland, a country recovering from financial depression. It is a safe country, but the boy grows up with mixed feelings: can one be a good Muslim and a good Finnish boy? When ISIS in rising in Iraq, the boy returns to his home country as a peace negotiator, hoping to build a county where his children can travel safely to one day.
resistance fighter father, brothers, Iraq, Bagdad, Najaf, Saudi Arabia Rafha refugee camp, Valkeakoski, dictatorship, conflict, boyhood, Finland, mother, identity, friends, 1990s, 1980s, boy, coming of age, Vantaa, religion, sisters, refugees, Helsinki, 21st century, 2010s, 20th century, male protagonist, parental love
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Laura Ertimo
This book answers children’s tough questions about climate change, and explains how we can all fight against it.
Weird Weather! is accurate but hopeful children’s nonfiction that explains how humans are responsible for climate change and what we can do to ensure a brighter future. It also gives tips on how everyone can make better choices and practice climate skills every day. But climate change won’t be beaten with tiny tricks, and this book also encourages talking to children about how to make changes in society, and how working together can change everything.
imaginary town, school, botanical garden, middle-grade, climate crisis, climate action, climate science, climate, environmental protection, carbon footprint, emissions, natural world, hope, grassroot action, together, society, social change, sustainability, sustainable future, utopia, better world, climate change, contemporary, non-fiction, home, children's literature, child protagonist, multiple protagonists, comic book
Rights sold: FINLAND: Into (orig.), DENMARK: Staarup & Co., ESTONIA: Avita, GERMANY: Cross Cult, HUNGARY: Ciceró Könyvstúdió Kft., ITALY: Edizioni Piemme S.p.a, LITHUANIA: Obuolys, MACEDONIA: Feniks, MEXICO (Latin American Spanish rights): Ordinal, NORWAY: Aschehoug, POLAND: AMBER Sp. z o.o., SERBIA: Odiseja, SLOVAKIA: Ikar, SPAIN: Norma Editorial, SWEDEN: Raben & Sjörgen, UNITED STATES: Skyhorse Publishing
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Raisa Cacciatore, Erja Korteniemi-Poikela
How do you turn attitude, strong will, and anger into independence and self-esteem? How to empower your child to manage challenging emotions? Aggression can be a positive driving force: all emotions are great resources if one learns to use them right. This is the Finnish “sisu” that is needed to change the world.
health, wellbeing, aggression management, childhood, adolescence, empowerment, respect, determination, facing adversity, non-fiction, parenting, emotions, sisu, self-esteem
Rights sold: FINLAND: Minerva (orig.), ESTONIA: Varrak Publishers, GERMANY: Droemer Knaur
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Minna Lindgren
A story of longing, love, and loss. For the fans of The Red Address Book – with a humoristic twist.
Kauko Koskinen is a man of order: receipts are organized, 60 years of calendars are safely stored, and every day has certain rhythms and routines. But when he gets banned from the dementia care home where his wife resides, his life turns upside down. Memories of his youth bring a person from the past back to his mind: where is his first love now? Kauko starts to track down a woman he knew sixty years ago, but is he chasing only a memory or a dream?
From internationally bestselling author of the Sunset Grove trilogy and The Angry Widow.
son living in father's basement, reminiscing, 21st century, Finland, Helsinki, contemporary, senior life, widowed man, grandson, widowhood, daydreaming, caregiving, nostalgia, first love, learning technology, old age, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.)
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Pasi Pitkänen
Eren has decided to accept princess Rola’s challenge and take part in the Monster Tournament. He finds an egg and hopes that it will hatch into a mighty monster. But when Eren’s monster is finally revealed, it looks more like a baby penguin. Can Eren train it to be his tournament monster, and could it ever beat princess Rola’s Storm Snail? Pasi Pitkänen’s incredible adventure story is brought to life by his vivid illustations. In the spirit of Pokémon and Where the Wild Things Are it is also a story of an ugly duckling and bravery.
Torrentia, snail, training, helping, saving the day, boy, monsters, bullying, competition, monster, princess, accident, fantasy world, children's literature, illustrated book, male protagonist, child protagonist, monster protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), RUSSIA: D&A Ltd
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Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #2: Tracking a Thief
Keen to solve new cases, Kati-e and Ti-bot hardly get any sleep!
Kati-e has been busy coding and Ti-bot has new skills! He hurries over to the zoo to test his brand-new language abilities - he can talk with monkeys and other animals! The Pet Agents are in for a busy day from clipping the nails of a pet rabbit to helping a depressed budgie. But soon, a mystery thief in the neighbourhood lures the Pet Agents away from their usual tasks!
friendship, friends, adventure, summer, independent girl, pets, flying robot, monkey, near future, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, pet problems, detectives, speaking with animals, compassion, neighbours, zoo, illustrated book, love of animals, animals, children's literature, big city, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECHIA: Grada, DENMARK: Bogoo, ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat, POLAND: Media Rodzina, RUSSIA: Eksmo, SLOVAKIA: IKAR, UKRAINE: Ridna Mova
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Inka Nousiainen
A heart-gripping story of loss, letting go, and of hope that won’t fade away – based on a true story.
In August 1989 a young man goes on a cruise boat with his friends, and disappears. The only thing that returns is a yellow backpack and endless sorrow. The tragedy changes the lives of the whole family. Uncertainty of the brother’s fate makes his little sister ask even years later, what happened on that night on M/S Fennia?
The sister, grown up with the trauma, returns to the memories of past with hope to finally be able to say goodbye.
grown-up sister, family, hope, memories, siblinghood, missing person, loss, missing brother, mystery, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), EGYPT: Sefsafa Publishing
7
Riina Kaarla, Sami Kaarla & Anders Vacklin
Book #1: New Pets & New Friends!
The first book in the bestselling series for the animal-loving and tech-savvy children of today.
Kati-e’s and Ti-bot’s schedule is full again. Sofia needs help choosing a dog breed, Mrs. Frang has to find a dog-walker, and a little kitten named Hugo has an upset tummy. But do you know what a diabetic alert dog is? And what do you do if you find a baby squirrel on the side of the road? When you join Kati-e and her robot sidekick for a day, you’ll find out!
mother, friendship, friends, adventure, summer, independent girl, pets, flying robot, coding, animal care, hobbies, technology, pet problems, detectives, rats, stuffed animal, illustrated book, coming of age, love of animals, animals, children's literature, near future, big city, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECHIA: Grada, DENMARK: Bogoo, ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat, POLAND: Media Rodzina, RUSSIA: Eksmo, SLOVAKIA: IKAR, UKRAINE: Ridna Mova
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Heidi Viherjuuri
The long-awaited fall break is here. Hilja and the neighbourhood grannies all squeeze into a tiny car and take a trip to the big city. The city is full of things to do, but are the grannies taking care of Hilja – or the other way around?
grandmothers, cousin, apartment, public transport, holiday, autumn, urban life, Finland, Helsinki, friendship, city, girls, girlhood, sisterhood, museum, travel, sisters, neighbors, patchwork family, autumn, humor, children's literature, 21st century, 2000s, child protagonist, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Mäkelä (orig.), GERMANY: WooW Books, RUSSIA: Strecoza
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Katja Törmänen
The Bear’s Bride is a spellbinding novel about two women, Aslaug and Freydis, from two villages in the far North. They say their prayers and leave their sacrifices for the Great Bear to keep their villages under its protection, even when the ancient ways of worship are under a looming threat. Unbeknownst to each other, they seem to be sharing not only a fate, but also a past. Will they succumb to what future has in store for them, or fight for their right to choose their own destinies?
vikings, Viking Age, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavia, fantasy, small village, Finnish mythology, mythology, female protagonist, speculative fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: Like
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Johanna Sinisalo
The story of a young woman, surrounded by a world at war, who lives in the middle of hostile forces in a Nazi fortress on the dark side of the moon
Renate’s Story is based on earlier versions of the original Iron Sky screenplay, and on the background research conducted by author Johanna Sinisalo, who led the film’s original story team. The novel will be launched simultaneously with the premiere of Iron Sky: The Coming Race in 2018.
male model, PR specialist, Nazis, president of the USA, young women, models, moon, satire, ideologies, nazism, racism, war, politics, fashion, advertising, consumerism, novelization, ecology, coming of age, United States, girls, New York, 2040s, 21st century, 2010s, 2000s, scifi, alternate world, speculative fiction, totalitarianism
Rights sold: FINLAND: Johnny Kniga (orig.), FRANCE: Actes Sud, SWEDEN: Story Side AB
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Miina Supinen
Twins Madeleine and Michelin love cooking! Together with their friend Slice and their baby sister Bebé, they start making a pizza for their football team’s bake sale. When their mysterious neighbor Rosemary pops by with her magical pepper mill, everything goes haywire – can they fix everything before the bake sale?
Madeleine and Michelin’s Cooking Club is the first installment in a new series for beginning readers. It’s full of humor and cooking tips, with colorful illustrations that compliment the story excellently.
twins, children passionate about cooking, kitchen, children's literature, cooking, food, illustrated book, culinary, multiple protagonists, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Aki Parhamaa, Anders Vacklin
It is 2117 in a flood-ridden world, 16-year-old Bug’s mother uproots their lives from Sea-Tokyo and moves her unwilling daughter to Helsinki Island after Bug’s father dies in an accident. Devastated, and rejected by her new schoolmates, Bug retreats in to the world of video games. When a mysterious parcel containing a virtual reality gaming suit arrives on her doorstep, Bug is drawn into a beta version of a new game set in feudal Japan. But the game proves to be more realistic and far more dangerous than expected.
2110s, 22nd century, future flood-ridden world, virtual feudal Japan, futuristic world, Finland, Helsinki, Tokyo, family, friendship, young adult, climate crisis, virtual reality, virtual reality, VR, video games, suspicious corporations, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, teenage girl
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Heikki Valkama
The top chef Riku Mäki faces danger again, when a Japanese billionaire – who’s also known for his culinary ambitions – sends him off to Greece to track down an ancient delicacy called the silphium. The billionaire is, however, not the only one who wants to find this legendary spice, which according to the story was last tasted by the emperor Nero himself.
Japanese billionaire, Greece, Japan, crime, thriller, food, celebrity chef, Japanese cuisine, culinary, cooking, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Salla Simukka
A collection of ”little awesome stories and little awful stories” from Finland’s internationally most successful YA author.
What is the most awful or the most awesome thing that has happened to you? Salla Simukka’s anticipated new book includes little awful stories and little awesome stories about young people’s lives. Why are under-fifteens not allowed in the basement? What happened in Dog’s Head Park? Who makes nightly visits in Klara’s solitary confinement room? What does it take to make out with lights on?
dog, Sweden, Moomin World, relationships, Finland, identity, love, friendship, young adult, parents, Estonia, coming of age, fairytales, girls, boys, future, amusement park, LGBTQ+, 21st century, 2000s, queer, teenage protagonist, horror, short story
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Ville Hytönen
Winter in Bug Forest is freezing, but sometimes little bugs’ love lets it warm up a bit! After the beautiful summer, Mr. Douglas makes his round to chat with all the bugs in the forest. He wants to find out more about their winter plans: who will hibernate, who won’t? Will the little litterbugs Muck and Grime really visit a bathhouse with their aunt? And who is now the every-changing object of Lovejoy’s affection?
Winter In Bug Forest is an independent sequel to Tales from Bug Forest, including a warm and descriptive mix of poetry and prose, accompanied by gentle, unforgettable illustrations that bring the characters to life. The book includes 8 tales and 4 poems about the everyday life in Bug Forest.
forest, winter, children's literature, nature, illustrated book, lyrical, insects, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Anne Leinonen
In this sequel to Bookwitch, Aura uses her powers of magic to venture from Helby to Helsinki in pursuit of the wicked witch Selma, and on a quest for the book that can save Helby. But Aura’s search for the book that contains the spells is like a hunt for a needle in a haystack: unlike Helby, Helsinki is full of books. Aura’s abilities are put to the test as she strives to save Helby, but at a cost…
Helsinki, young adult, fantasy, betrayal, magic, intertextuality, witch, parallel world, parallel city, banned books, magical books, female protagonist, teenage girl
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Minna Lindgren
”A Man Called Ove meets Sex and the City”
For the past 12 years, 74-year-old Ulla has cared for her paralyzed husband, a mean and slightly alcoholic man. At his funeral, all she can think is: finally! She reconnects with old friends and starts living every day as if it were her last. Her adult children try to stop her newfound debauchery in many ways – but the biggest change comes along in the guise of an older gentleman.
The Angry Widow is an amusing and entertaining story about how friendships and love affairs change when you grow old. With warmth and sarcasm Lindgren examines the questions of what it means to be seventy in a world where everyone over 65 ticks the same age box in a survey.
widowhood, caregiving, 21st century, Finland, Helsinki, contemporary, widowed woman, old friends, overbearing mature children, life starting at 70, steotype, love, friendship, freedom, society, satire, old age, humor, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), ESTONIA: Pegasus, GERMANY: Kiepenheuer&Witsch, ITALY: Marsilio, SPAIN: Penguin Random House Spain
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Riikka Jäntti
Little Mouse series – Book 4
Little Mouse and Mommy Mouse take the train together to the countryside to stay at their cottage on an island, pick berries, heat the sauna and cook sausages over a campfire under the starry skies. It’s a real treat for a little city mouse!
train, motor-boat, cabin, lingonberries, sauna, sausage, stars, mother, fire, island, child, countryside, autumn, traveling, grandfather, illustrated book, single mother, children's literature, child protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat AS, FRANCE: Cambourakis, GERMANY: Cross Cult, NEPAL: Kathalaya Inc., POLAND: Filia, ROMANIA: Editura Paralela 45, RUSSIA: Strecoza, SWEDEN: Epix Bokförlag
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Eeva Rohas
Tuuli is a struggling translator and a mother of Luna, a four-year-old girl. When Tuuli leaves her heavily drinking husband Ilja, the lives of three people change for good.
Rage is a gripping story of divorce, alcoholism, and attempts to recover. It’s also a novel about motherhood, commitment, relationships, and how people and literature are both just as tricky to translate. Three narrators paint a picture of one broken family, and one fragile lizard who seems to keep everything together.
alcoholic, middle-aged man, translator, Debrecen, Budapest, church, publishing house, alcoholism, recovery, trauma, language, Helsinki, young woman, childhood, summer, autumn, university, today, present, suburb, female protagonist, blind girl, gecko, young girl
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), BULGARIA: Perseus Publishing House
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Leena Lehtolainen
In The Killer’s Girlfriend, Lehtolainen delights the readers with short stories featuring the loved protagonists of her Maria Kallio and The Bodyguard books, but expands also into mystery and ghost stories. How does a librarian become a killer’s girlfriend? Is love stronger than death, and can a child have three fathers?
The capturing stories take their characters in unexpected situations and don’t let the reader off the hook.
Hilja Ilveskero, Maria Kallio, librarian, shoplifting, Finland, mother, love, murder, short stories, kidnapping, pregnancy, present day, multiple protagonists, humor
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Magdalena Hai
Highly imaginative world-building and mythological storytelling in a YA Space-Witch series inspired by Hayao Miyazaki, Neil Gaiman and Diana Wynne Jones
✓ Finlandia Prize nominated series!
✓ A series partly based on Earth and partly on the witch planet, Royaume, where the eternal night reigns!
✓ Magdalena Hai’s works have been sold to over 20 countries!
#1 The Third Sister
The Third Sister is a fantastic, manga-inspired adventure and the first installment in a new series called The Royaume Chronicles.
Ciel and Lune are best friends and daughters of the two great witches of Royaume. Ciel, the daughter of the White Witch, is preparing for her rite of passage, the witch song ritual, which will show her true soul and future as a witch. When Ciel steps in front of the mirror of songs, a terrifying truth is revealed: she is a sanschant, a songless witch. The last sanschant almost destroyed their whole world.
The girls must escape Royaume. They end up on Earth, where they find refuge in a school, run by a creature called Principal and attended by otherworldly students. One of them in particular, Niemann, rocks Lune’s boat. Who is Niemann, why can’t Lune resist him? In Royaume, the White Witch is doing everything she can to relocate her daughter. The fate of their world is again at stake.
Europe, Earth, 2020s, dragon, demon, brotherhood, good vs. evil, soulmate, chosen family, young man, love, friendship, young adult, contemporary, school, utopia, city, coming of age, queen, fantasy world, fantasy, sisterhood, romance, magic, love triangle, middle ages, space, space, time travel, lesbian, Byronic hero, forest spirit, demonic cat, hive mind, Asian hero, black heroine, sinister elf, artificial moon, witches' planet, punk club, magical boarding school, punk, extinction of humans, ecocatastrophe, scifi, sex positive, witch queen, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, queer protagonist, mother-daughter relationship
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
Tommy, dad, and Kerttu go to visit the new library! It is an exciting day: Tommy gets his very own library card – and ice cream at the café.
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, siblinghood, illustrated book, library, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Magdalena Hai
When Nina, 9 years, enters The Little Shop of Nightmares in hopes of getting a job, she is greeted by an odd sight: shopkeeper Mr. Kook is rolling on the floor, unable to stop laughing. With a little help from a ghost called Paddy, they start looking for the untickling powder to help him, but things are certainly not made easier by Mr. Kook’s world-domination-planning pet octopus Squishy McGoo, who is a bit too quick about getting into trouble with rollerblades on its tentacles.
2020s, monster, mayor, ghost, shop owner, peculiar shop, illustrated book, spooky, contemporary, boy, girl, fantasy world, small town, humor, land octopus, children's literature, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), ALBANIA: Muza, AZERBAIJAN: Alatoran, BULGARIA: Emas, CZECH REPUBLIC: Euromedia, DENMARK: VILD MASKINE, ESTONIA: Postimees Kirjastus, FRANCE: Éditions Milan, GERMANY: HarperCollins Schneiderbuch, GREECE: Dioptra, HUNGARY: Cerkabella Konyvkiado, ITALY: Cart' Armata Edizioni, JAPAN: Holp Shuppan, KOREA: Gilbutschool, LATVIA: Latvijas Mediji, LITHUANIA: Briedis, NETHERLANDS: De Vier Windstreken, NORWAY: Fontini, POLAND: Znak, PORTUGAL: PRH Portugal, ROMANIA: Univers Publishing House, SERBIA:Odiseja, SLOVAKIA: Ikar, SPAIN (Spanish, Catalan): La Galera, SWEDEN: Hegas, TAIWAN: Morning Star, TURKEY: Epsilon, UKRAINE: The Old Lion Publishing House
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Mikko-Pekka Heikkinen
A thrilling and amusing novel about extremist hipsters and in-migrants in urban Helsinki in the vein of Animal Farm and Look Who’s Back.
The countryside undergoes an economic collapse and the capital is flocked with in-migrants. Hillbillies, hicks and rednecks from all corners of Finland arrive to Helsinki en massé, and there’s someone who does not like that one single bit. Waltteri Finné, a born-and-raised Helsinki citizen, start-up entrepreneur, blogger and owner of a well-groomed lumberjack beard gathers his extremist hipsters to purge the capital from unwanted guests. But journalist Jyry Pesiö is on the case – will he succeed in preventing the hipsters’ terror attack, and more importantly, will he get his break-through scoop?
The City Wall is a novel with a thriller plotline about thriving cities and the emptying countryside. It’s about prejudice, patriots, problems and possibilities. At the same time amusing and serious, it manages to relay something important about our time while being completely preposterous.
journalist infiltrating a group, beggarman, radicalised start-up entrepreneur, black comedy, rural flight, radicalisation, Finland, Helsinki, summer, satire, prejudice, spring, humor, class, immigration, allegory, refugee crisis, multiple protagonists
Rights sold: FINLAND: Johnny Kniga (orig.)
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Anniina Tarasova
Reija Wren receives the chance of a lifetime when she’s assigned to travel to St. Petersburg to conduct an internal audit for her company. After years of having her career languish in the shadow of her father, the chairman of the corporation, Reija now leaves her pleasant yet bland fiancé in Finland to plan their wedding, while she dives headfirst into the champagne-soaked expatriate community of St. Petersburg. But as Reija’s investigation proceeds, the assignment turns dangerous and friends transform into enemies.
The Russia Account is a blithe and original depiction of a hard-nosed woman making her way in the business world. Part career woman, part detective, and part Rei Shimura or Bridget Jones, Reija is ambitious, fearless, and imperfect. At work she tracks every decimal point and crosschecks every sum, but in her free time you’ll find Reija at the poker table with a beer in her hand and a cigar in her mouth.
auditor turned corporate detective, expatriate community, twentysomething woman, sabotage, corporate crime, Finland, crime, Russia, suspicious corporations, female protagonist, St. Petersburg, business
Rights sold: FINLAND: Gummerus (orig.)
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Saara Turunen
The Bystander is a journey of one year in the life of its writer. When the narrator’s debut novel is published, she feels like everything has changed. Strangely enough, no one else seems to notice this. Thus begins an intensive year of esteemed literary prizes, ambivalent reviews, strange interview questions and awkward marketing activities. All the while the narrator ponders the meaning of it all. Why are we here? What is behind the space?
critic, spinster, irony, life of a writer, woman's role, 21st century, Helsinki, mother, father, identity, family, contemporary, art, satire, loneliness, sisters, life choices, writing, meaning of life, women in arts, author, female protagonist, Finland, countryside
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), SWEDEN: Wahlström & Widstrand
2
Aki Ollikainen
An idyllic midsummer’s day in Eastern Finland. People falling in love and taking care of each other, and nature sublime in its beauty. But darkness lurks around the corner…
Aki Ollikainen’s picturesque third novel is aglow with the rural idyll of a summer’s day and the fantasies of people wandering in the midsummer’s night. During a single day in Eastern Finland, the realities of multiple generations meet, time flows through itself, and strange things occur. And normal things occur as well. Two young people fall in love, two slightly older ones are struggling with their relationship, and two even older people have found a sublime tranquility in each other.
However, the magical world of A PASTORAL is also cruel and unpredictable. Dark clouds loom over the blue skies, a monstrous wolf wanders in the shadows and mocking ravens swing on a branch. And when the morning finally dawns, the ravenous death has raged amid the idyll.
migrant, worker, ravens of odin, pike called Kronos, lamb called Pan, present, time, generations, life and death, Finland, love, wolf, summer, memories, romance, nature, teenager, today, mythology, countryside, Eastern Finland, middle-aged couple, multiple protagonists
Rights sold: FINLAND: Siltala (orig.), CATALAN: Nits Blanques Edicions, FRANCE: Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson
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Tommi Kinnunen
„There are moments that are sharp as glass, that slash the past from the present. They drive away the certainty and awaken one to notice that that which couldn’t be believed to be true before is possible. In the wider world, wars break out and accidents happen, revolutions and coronations take place, and time is divided into passages according to them, but the turmoils of a human life are such that are not written down in the school books.“
The Tyynelä family has grown up in the shadow of a glass factory. Jussi, the eldest of the siblings, is passed around different jobs in the factory. When others hone their skills, Jussi only grows older. But he sees the world more sharply and in more detail than others. Jussi’s sisters have their own lives and worries. Helmi works at the factory but yearns for the moments one can not return to. The hot-tempered Raili, on the other hand, has a past in Helsinki that she doesn’t even realize to hide. According to her, one can make do in the world if one has the will to do so.
In his unimitable style, Tommi Kinnunen depicts the microcosm of an industrial village, the fates of people, and their interrelationships in the post-WWII Finland.
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), LATVIA: Zvaigzne, NORWAY: Pax Forlag
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Heikki Valkama
Rei Shimura meets Masterchef in this debut thriller set in Tokyo.
When Riku Mäki, a Finnish celebrity chef, is invited to a cooking contest in Japan, he is concerned that he will be heavily outperformed by the other contestants. What he should be worried about is fugu, the lethally poisonous puffer fish that someone is buying from the market with bad intentions. Mix in the yakuza and the dish is ready to be served.
Fugu is a culinary thriller set in Tokyo told from alternating perspectives. The story is decorated with a delightful array of detail reminiscent of Hideo Yokoyama’s SixFour, transporting the reader to the Japanese capital.
celebrity chef, chefs, Japanese cuisine, cooking contest, culinary, organised crime, Japan, Tokyo, crime, thriller, murder, food, yakuza, cooking, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
3
Heidi Viherjuuri
Hilja is a seven-year-old girl who lives in a wooden house that always needs some fixing. Her family consists of her mother, father, little sister Taimi and big sister Veini. Grandpa is also closely involved in the life of the Green House. He helps Dad with the renovation, takes the kids to fish, and tells jokes. Hilja has only seen her grandma in an old photograph. However, there are three ladies in the neighborhood who are making sure that Hilja doesn’t have just one grandma but three!
sisters, neighbors, patchwork family, grandfather, Häme, Asikkala, summer market, everyday life, summer, Finland, friendship, village, seaside, forest, girls, summer, girlhood, sisterhood, summer cottage, summer holiday, countryside, 2000s, humor, children's literature, 21st century, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Mäkelä (orig.), ESTONIA: Eesti Raamat, GERMANY: WooW Books, RUSSIA: Strecoza
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Leena Parkkinen
The Countess and her Little Brother are about to embark on a big expedition into the rainforest in their back garden on a quest to track down the mythical Bogeyeribbon anaconda, a terribly dangerous giant snake. Equipped with harpoons and binoculars, the intrepid duo are ready for the jungle, where they encounter bloodthirsty swamp leopards, croaking frogs, goat traps and all sorts of other incredible things. The siblings are helped on their way by Little Brother’s matchbox-sized monkey, and a granny who lives in a house on stilts.
A skilfully-told humorous adventure story about siblinghood and adventures in one’s own back garden.
little brother, big snake, house which looks like a puppy, anaconda, odd giant woman, backyard, river, the Amazon river, the Amazon forest, home, boy, girl, adventure, fantasy, island, siblinghood, sister, old woman, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.)
1
Pauliina Susi
A stand-alone sequel to The Rear Window!
Security at the port of Barcelona is already tight when Leia Laine and her sister embark on a luxury cruise of the Mediterranean aboard the Siren a new, luxury cruise ship. Their holiday becomes increasingly overshadowed by strange coincidences and a growing sense of unease in Leia as she begins to suspect that all is not well aboard the luxury liner with its thousands of passengers. Soon, the relaxing holiday onboard the vessel turns into a living nightmare as Leia witnesses firsthand the injustices of global inequality, a terror threat, and the face of a ghost from her past.
ship crew, refugee child, hacker, Monaco, refugee crisis, Italy, society, sea, suspense, thriller, France, Mediterranean, Spain, human trafficking, researcher, harassment, female protagonist, cruise ship
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), GERMANY: DTV
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Sari Peltoniemi
The Key Keeper Trilogy, Book II
The people of Little Reed must help the citizens of the underground world Subterra! The world of the tiny, gentle gnomies has fallen under the tyrannical rule of someone called Obergoblin.
adventure, fantasy world, children's literature, fantasy, illustrated book, parallel world, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Sissi Katz
An assured, sweeping debut about life, love and science with language like postmodern fireworks. With echoes of Diana Gabaldon, and H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine, a must-read for David Mitchell fans.
Coco Kafka and her colleague Chang are nearing a scientific breakthrough: they are about to find a cure for blindness. Their Russian rivals Popov and Karpov are hot on their heels: the race against time is on. But who’s playing tricks on whom? Where will the poisonous cholera toxin end up? Who stole the priceless Manet painting? And where in time and space is the mysterious Mrs. Sagiv now travelling?
The Amazing Life and Times of Coco Kafka is an abundant and mischievous debut about the unseeing and the seeing, of metamorphoses and crisscrossing realities, and of epic love.
alternate universe, scientific race, Finland, love, 2010s, science, Russia, thriller, China, Israel, scientists, espionage, scifi, laboratory, absurd, 21st century, alternate history, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Mila Teräs
The Fox Who Painted the Sky is a story about a little fox who wants to find the most beautiful color in the world and paint the sky with it. The fox’s friends suggest their favorite colors; grass-green, snow-white and sea-blue, but the little fox has a solution to please everyone – did you ever wonder how the Northern Lights came to be?
little fox who paints, high fell, colors, Northern lights, forest, sea, children's literature, learning, nature, painting, illustrated book, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Karisto, CZECH REPUBLIC: Kavka knižní a výtvarná kultura, GERMANY: Knesebck Verlag
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Sari Peltoniemi
The Key Keeper Trilogy, Book III
No one has ever drowned in the Reed Lake, but now villagers are falling through its ice. Underneath the surface, a world of its own reveals itself. But what has the clam of Wattenborg to tell to Oliver?
adventure, fantasy world, children's literature, fantasy, illustrated book, parallel world, male protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Saku Heinänen
After the vivid summer by the seaside, Zaida finds school even more disagreeable than before. The teacher seems to pick on her, her small circle of friends is shattered by pre-teenage angst, and Zaida becomes worried for the health of aging Ludwig. When her parents reveal their plan to take Zaida for a root-trip to India, she becomes anxious. In her escape from the difficult everyday, Zaida gets introduced to a group of youngsters who spend their time playing video games in a secret basement. Petteri, the gang’s attractive leader, wants to take a step deeper into the virtual world. He guides them into the sewer networks and server rooms beneath the city. The excitement of navigating the labyrinths and dodging guards turn into a nightmare, when Petteri’s hacker agenda of paralyzing the city gets out of hand. The ghastly characters from his simulations emerge and threaten to drag Zaida with them. In the vertigous climax Zaida gets morphed into her own virtual character. Where was the border between the concrete and the lore, or between the good and the bad?
About the series
The three novels combine psychological and magical realism with ghost stories to tell the story of Zaida, a girl adopted from a faraway country. She worries about her different looks and elderly parents, and as the only child feels lonely and disconnected. But allies and enemies in school are not all: in each of the books, Zaida gets swept into an adventure that blurs the boundaries of reality and fantasy. Balancing on the precarious threshold between childhood and adolescence, Zaida thus hovers between the worlds of everyday and imagination.
The stories follow each other in chronological order, but each book can be read independently, too.
The trilogy is richly illustrated by the author with atmospheric black-and-white drawings.
family, friendship, children's literature, fantasy, virtual reality, magical realism, autumn, imagination, illustrated book, video games, adopted girl, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Anne Leinonen
Bookwitch is a spellbinding Young Adult story set in a world where books are banned and witches rule in the realm of Helby, a parallel world to Helsinki as we know it. When seventeen-year-old Aura becomes an assistant at the House of Lost Dreams, little does she know she is about to discover a secret chamber full of books, and about her own destiny as a powerful witch who must face dark forces to save all that she loves. A gripping story about self-realization, betrayal and good triumphing evil.
parallel world, parallel city, banned books, magical books, young man, young adult, fantasy, betrayal, magic, missing mother, intertextuality, witch, female protagonist, teenage girl
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Riikka Jäntti
Little Mouse series – Book 3
Little Mouse has a long time to wait until Christmas! Luckily he has lots of things to do to get ready!
It’s almost Christmas and Little Mouse is looking forward to celebrating Christmas with Mummy Mouse and Grandpa and Grandma Mouse. But Christmas feels very far away and Little Mouse is very impatient!
Fortunately there are all kinds of things for Little Mouse to help with, like cooking gingerbread and choosing the right Christmas tree.
Christmas, marketplace, decorating, dark weather, fulfillment, mother, home, children's literature, child, grandfather, town, grandmother, Christmas, presents, single mother, child protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), BULGARIA: UNISCORP, ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat AS, FRANCE: Cambourakis, GERMANY: Cross Cult, POLAND: Filia, ROMANIA: Editura Paralela 45 , RUSSIA: Strecoza, SWEDEN: Epix Bokförlag
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Timo Honkela
In 2014, Professor Timo Honkela was diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer. At this turning point in his life, he decided that rather than giving up and waiting for his inescapable demise, he would devote his remaining time to serving the greater good.
The fruit of this effort, The Peace Machine, is a proposal for the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, language technology and pattern recognition to promoting peace in the world. In the book, Professor Honkela explains how to leverage advances in artificial intelligence to promote mutual understanding between people, provide insights on our emotions and foster justice for all.
world peace, humanity, language techology, promoting peace, culture, non-fiction, society, artificial intelligence, machine learning, justice
Rights sold: FINLAND: Gaudeamus (orig.), FRANCE: Editions Saint-Simon
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Pasi Pitkänen
Mathias takes his little sister Jenny to the circus for her birthday. Jenny adores lions; she has dressed up in a lion costume for the occasion and is invited in to the circus ring to pet a lion cub. Suddenly, a monstrous creature bursts through the roof of the circus tent, seizing the lion cub and Jenny!
Mathias and the lion cub’s dad set off on a rescue mission, far across the sea to a mysterious jungle island that is home to weird and wonderful creatures. But can Jenny and the lion cub be there too? And why are the island’s inhabitants so peculiar?
lion, giant lemur, circus, jungle, rescue, extinct animals, saving endangered species, biodiversity loss, animals, boy, girl, adventure, island, children's literature, illustrated book, child protagonist, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY, LITHUANIA: Aukso pieva
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
Tommy’s ear hurts and it makes him cry. But the nice doctor gives him medicine, and then Doctor Tommy is ready to examine all of his toys!
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, being sick, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Magdalena Hai
Modern classic fairytale – Rights sold in 9 countries!
Export Prize winner!
Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize nominee!
Arvid Lydecken Prize nominee!
Runeberg Junior Prize nominee!
In a barren land, when a little girl meets a gigantic cat that threatens to devour her, she makes it a smart offer. The girl leads the cat across the lands, looking for something to satiate its hunger before it eats her, but they encounter drought, destruction, and people who have nothing to eat except their dreams. When the cat gobbles up the girl, she finds something in its belly, something that has made it so hungry…
Grumblebelly Cat is a classic fairytale about a contemporary subject. The detailed, monochrome illustrations by Teemu Juhani add another layer to the story.
giant cat, greed (personified), hunger, greed, allegory, friendship, contemporary, ecology, girl, climate crisis, fairytales, fantasy world, children's literature, courage, child, ecological crisis, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Karisto (orig.), DENMARK: Vild Maskine, ESTONIA: Tiritamm, GERMANY: Cecilie Dressler Verlag GmbH, ITALY: Terre di Mezzo Editore, NORTH MACEDONIA: Antolog, POLAND: Widnokrąg , SWEDEN: Epix Bokförlag AB, TAIWAN: Morning Star, TURKEY: Dogan Egmont
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Elina Hirvonen
Princess Rascal is a spirited and resourceful little girl, like the kid sister of Pippi Longstocking!
You would think that Rascal is a just a little girl, but she’s also a princess with many crowns for different purposes: one for Important Thoughts, one for Great Adventures, one for Peaceful Dreams. When Mom gets mad at her, she must find the right crown to calm Mom down.
Princess Rascal is a picture book about a little girl who knows her mind and has a heart of gold, though sometimes it’s difficult to know the right thing to do. The book has been praised for its accurate and hilarious depictions of everyday life in a toddler family: sometimes parents get tired, too.
ordinary superhero princess girl, tired mother, power of imagination, problem solving, Finland, Helsinki, 2020s, little brother, children's literature, illustrated book, tired parents, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Albatros Media, DENMARK: Gads Forlag, ESTONIAN: Kirjastus Elust Enesest , LITHUANIA: Nieko Rimto/ Publishing House Nothing Serious
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Laura Ertimo
What Is Water? is an eye-opening non-fiction book for the whole family about the most important substance in the world. It examines water from four different perspectives: The Planet, Nature, The Human and The Dive. By popularizing physics, geography and history, for example, we get to know over 60 ways in which water is connected with life on Earth.
geography, science, non-fiction, children's literature, nature, water, Earth, illustrated book, bedtime book
Rights sold: FINLAND: Myllylahti (orig.), ESTONIA: Tammerraamat
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Antti Ervasti
Internationally bestselling and easily approachable and comforting selfcare with a visual approach – created by an experienced Finnish psychotherapist and an award-winning illustrator
✓ Selfcare for the Instagram generation!
✓ Relatable and comforting illustrations of the human experience with all its struggles and wonders
✓ With expert advice from a psychotherapist on how to deal with common struggles and experiences
✓ Books sold 75,000 copies! Rights sold to 20+ countries! Bestseller in the MUJI stores in Japan!
The CupOfTherapy illustrations are the results of Antti’s and Matti’s cooperation combining psychotherapeutic expertise and the artist’s talent to capture human experience and put it on paper. They discuss daily events, topical phenomena and their own experiences together and Matti sketches animal figures simultaneously. The topics and the reflection of their discussions are interactively and lovingly refined into CupOfTherapy illustrations.
CupOfTherapy offers encouragement, comfort and humor as suitable bites for different moments of life. A small big book from the creators of the hugely popular Finnish phenomenon CupofTherapy.
psychotherapy, non-fiction, self-care, self-help, illustrated book, self-compassion, living as a human being, humanity
Rights sold: NETHERLANDS: Balans
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Anssi Keränen
A rescue team embarks on a deep sea adventure.
One night, a gigantic whale appears in the harbor with an urgent message for Captain Cody: their mutual friend Tofu is in distress. Barrels of toxic waste have been found near Tofu’s deep-sea research center.
Captain Cody hurries to the rescue with his ship Lindy Hop. His friends Vince, James and Tautou, the monkey are also on their way. But the tricky rescue operation demands technically-advanced equipment. Will Tautou succeed in building an amphibian vehicle for their deep-sea operation? As the ingenious team prepares for their mission, crucial help arrives in the form of a new, heavyweight, friend.
friendship, adventure, sea, children's literature, illustrated book, environmentalism, sea captain seagull, ship, underwater world, pollution, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Leena Parkkinen
In 1956, Helsinki housewife Saara befriends her upstairs neighbor Elisabeth, who throws parties for artists, lives to eat and corresponds with faraway friends. As they get to know each other, Saara learns that Elisabeth is everything Saara is not: fashionable, independent, a citizen of the world. And a spy.
With echoes of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Linn Ullmann’s domestic portrayals, Decent Ingredients is a story about the bourgeoisie of Helsinki during the Cold War; about forbidden love, dangerous secrets and, about food, which reflects life, love, class, sexuality and politics throughout this richly-detailed and atmospheric novel by the award-winning Parkkinen.
housewife, couple, Stockholm, sexual identity, social class, role of women, Finland, Helsinki, love, historical, city, Paris, secrets, women, France, relationships, war, cooking, marriage, equality, spying, 1950s, letter correspondence, queer, lesbian, culinary, LGBTQ+, 20th century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.)
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Sari Peltoniemi
The Key Keeper Trilogy, Book I
Miranda, Vera, and Oliver end up in an adventure that changes their lives and the way they see people of their home village – there’s more than what meets the eye in the town of Little Reed.
One August day a strange flock appears in the sky. Among the regular northern birds colorful parrots and budgies carry a basket in which a petite blue-clad lady called Opri travels with her dogs Fnannel and Flamp and her skycat Natalia. She has arrived from a place called Heavenzky to Little Reed in search of her son.
It turns out Little Reed is a gateway between three worlds, and in the village lives a key keeper, who can cross these borders. Miranda and her friends start to investigate.
Who is the key keeper? And who has kidnapped Opri’s son? Why are the children of the village falling ill, and why is their school’s headmaster getting increasingly bad-tempered? What secrets lie in the tower of the school house?
abandoned house, rural village, adventure, fantasy world, children's literature, fantasy, illustrated book, parallel world, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Katariina Souri
While attending a mosaic course in Italy, Mona begins to have terrifying visions of a headless empress, Theodora, whose face Mona has been attempting to depict in her work. As Mona realizes that someone is pursuing her, Roni is trying his best to get his sentence repealed and come to Italy to help her. He threatens to tell authorities that he has been made a guinea pig in a medical research project that has resulted in strong hallucinations.
Mona escapes to her mother’s home in Venice, and begins to find out that her mother had many things in common with the murderous empress Theodora.
Finland, Italy, mystery, secrets, international crime, childhood trauma, mosaic artist, protagonist who experiences visions, visions, rituals, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Salla Simukka
In the heart of Sisterland lies a wonderful garden full of all kinds of peculiar creatures: wind fairies, dream weavers and asking flowers. And in one tree, on a swing, is Marissa. All Alice has ever wanted is a best friend and now her dream has come true! But the girls have not ended up in Sisterland by coincidence. They must find the queen who rules Sisterland to end the endless snowfall in their own world. However, Alice faces the hardest task when Marissa seems to have forgotten about their friendship.
girls, dragonfly, wolf, owl, fantasy creatures, pirates, queen, fox, dragons, winter, summer, fantasy world, garden, sea, castle, children's literature, girlhood, fantasy, sisterhood, soulsisters, Alice in Wonderland, Secret Garden, Snow Queen, portal, memories, Finland, friendship, school, middle-grade, adventure, fairytales, 21st century, 2000s, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), FRANCE: Hachette Black Moon, UNITED STATES: Crown Books for Young Readers
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Mila Teräs
Hugo and Lydia find a strange map between the pages of a book called ”Witch Mirror”. They follow the map to the Secret Library, where old and rare books are stored and cherished. From the library they find a way to a magical land where witches are preparing for a celebration. But when Lydia gets trapped inside an evil mirror, Hugo has to do everything he can to save her.
old librarian, library dog, secret library, evil mirror, forgotten books, family, boy, girl, fairytales, fantasy world, children's literature, fantasy, magic, witches, witchcraft, humor, suspence, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Laura Gustafsson
When the End of the World As We Know It arrives, Ahma is prepared. He has his house in the backwoods, a food cache and vegetable patch, and his guns. He can face The End alone, just like his namesake ’ahma’, the wolverine. Yet for reasons unknown even to him, the hardware store’s cashier Pamsu, Linnea, who looks after useless creatures like horses, and Kapu, the manliest man alive, all crash at Ahma’s cabin and he is forced to join their small tribe.
Laura Gustafsson’s third novel is a study of the human race: of the individual and the community. It’s inspired by survivalism, green movements, the Hobbesian social contract and notion of “a war of all against all”.
prepper man, secluded cabin, survivalism, end of the world, apocalypse, energy crisis, tribalism, society, small town, wilderness, male ego, absurd, environmentalism, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Into (orig.)
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Riikka Jäntti
Little Mouse series – Book 2
Having grown up a bit now, Little Mouse insists on doing everything on his own, from cleaning and baking to opening the door. It gets a little messy sometimes, but it doesn’t matter! Little Mouse’s friend Lyly comes over to play during the weekend. They build a little house and they play happily until they get into a quarrel over toys. Luckily, mom has a good solution.
failing, succeeding, arguing, fun, mother, friendship, home, children's literature, child, autumn, friend, illustrated book, single mother, child protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), BULGARIA: UNISCORP, CHINA: Beijing Yuntu Hongya Technology Co., Ltd, ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat AS, FRANCE: Cambourakis, GERMANY: Cross Cult, ITALY: Sinnos, NEPAL: Kathalaya Inc., POLAND: Filia, ROMANIA: Editura Paralela 45 , RUSSIA: Strecoza, SLOVAKIA: Fortuna Libri, SWEDEN: Epix Bokförlag
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Miika Nousiainen
Onni Kirnuvaara left to get groceries when his son was just a child – and never returned. The father was never mentioned again. Years later, during a root canal treatment, the son finds out that in addition to his bad dental karma he has a dentist brother, left behind as a child just like him.
The brothers embark on a journey to find out the truth about their father. After many detours they find themselves in the Australian outback. Lousy fathers are fathers too, after all.
On their way to Darwin, secrets are revealed, new family members are found, and lengths of dental floss are needed. Digging to the roots hurts, but under the Southern Cross the ache starts to ease.
Australia, Finland, Thailand, Sweden, dentist, uncle, half-brother, half-sister, half siblings, missing father, self-discovery, family relationships, child custody, estranged parents, family, sister, missing person, brother, man, contemporary, finding one's roots, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: XYZ, ESTONIA: Eesti raamat, GERMANY: Nagel & Kimche, HUNGARY: Kossuth, ITALY: Iperborea, NETHERLANDS: Prometheus, POLAND: Książkowe Klimaty, SWEDEN: Brombergs
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Leena Lehtolainen
The Charm of Ice tells the stories we don’t see
Pain, connection, justice. These are some of the eight themes The Charm of Ice team spoke about with eighty star ice skaters around the world. The Finnish trio, bestselling fiction-author Leena Lehtolainen, long-time figure skating journalist and editor-in-chief of the Finnish Figure skating magazine Kaisa Viitanen and globally renowned figure skating photographer and Sports Journalist of the Year 2016, Elina Paasonen interviewed and photographed Olympic- and World Champions and other skaters with interesting stories to tell across three different continents.
They met skaters in different conditions: off-season practices, during the ISU competitions, before and after glamorous ice shows. The hard, daily life, the nerve-wracking championship battles and the glittery glamour of the shows were revealed to us by the intimate interviews and the masterful and captivating photos taken exclusively for this book. Many of the skaters were surprised about the depth of the questions, many never asked of them before. A wide international community of figure skaters and coaches forms a kaleidoscopic view to the world of figure skating.
In The Charm of Ice the reader learns what kind of relationship the skater has with the ice; how you build a connection with your partner; and how one learns to endure the constant pain. It tells how a competitor accepts being constantly judged, and the specifics a figure skater has to fight. The Charm of Ice reveals the amount of physical strength the skaters have to achieve and the pressures they endure. But all in all, the sport is about the charm, and the reader can experience it through their favourite skaters’ stories.
Elina Paasonen’s photographs form a unique collection, differing significantly from basic newspaper feature photos. Paasonen, a former synchro-skating world medallist herself, can capture ’the’ moment of the program or off-ice setting in a unique and moving way, and many skaters are fans of her work.
Interviewees in the book include: Mao Asada, Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, Meryl Davis and Charlie White, Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, Kiira Korpi, Daisuke Takahashi, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, and Ashley Wagner.
Mao Asada, Kiira Korpi, Daisuke Takahashi, Anna Cappellini, Luca Lanotte, Meryl Davis, Charlie White, Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford, Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir, Tatiana Volosozhar, Maxim Trankov, Ashley Wagner, ice skaters, professional athletes, olympics, ice skating, olympics, strength, pressure, Finland, Japan, Italy, 2010s, USA, pain, power, 21st century, non-fiction, perseverance, sports
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), JAPAN: Sunmark Publishing Inc.
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Leena Lehtolainen
When the 92-year-old textile industry magnate Lovisa Johnson offers Hilja a job as her bodyguard, she does not hesitate. The businesswoman lives in a mansion that’s rumored to be haunted, after all. Johnson is childless, but her grandnephews and -nieces – a doctor, an oil industry lobbyist, a security guard and a clairvoyant – are eager for their cut of the inheritance. A combination of a mansion mystery and a fast-paced thriller, the novel is an anticipated new entry in the series.
threats, Finland, family, mansion, 2010s, wealth, fear, millionaire, bodyguard, 21st century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), GERMANY: Rowohlt
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Laura Ertimo
This dark and mysterious book tells gentle stories about darkness and sleep. Divided into four parts, What is the Night? draws narratives from disciplines including astronomy, nocturnal nature, the physiology of sleep, and dreams, ending with an epilogue of multilingual good night wishes.
Over four, beautifully-illustrated chapters What is the Night? spins a captivating tale of true facts interspersed with myths and legends, explaining how the moon gets its glow, to the Ancient myths of how the night was created. This is the perfect bedtime book to read to others, both old and young, or oneself.
night, bedtime book, sleep, science, non-fiction, children's literature, darkness, illustrated book, astronomy
Rights sold: FINLAND: Myllylahti (orig.), ESTONIA: Tammerraamat
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Kimmo Rentola
A meticulously-researched insight into critical points in the history of relations between Finland and the Soviet Union
- Winner of the Lauri Jäntti Prize for non-fiction literature!
- A title with huge resonance at the present time, with Finland joining NATO and the parallels between the Winter War and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Updated English edition available, published by Yale University Press in November 2023!
- Rights sold to 6 territories!
Professor Kimmo Rentola explores Stalin’s invasion of Finland in the Winter War, and the decade of fraught Soviet-Finnish relations that followed, including Finland’s exit from World War Two and a possible coup in 1948. This is a dramatic reconstruction of the Nordic republic’s unlikely survival, at a time when its very existence was at stake.
How did Finland evade Joseph Stalin’s crosshairs three times? Did Stalin have a special relationship with Finland and the Finns? Why didn’t he continue the Soviet onslaught on Finland during the Winter War in 1940? Why did the dictator back down from his aspirations and demands towards Finland during the peace negotiations in 1944? Why did 1948 remain the year of an unfulfilled coup in Finland? The answer lies in the relations between Finland and Russia which remain highly timely to this day.
Joseph Stalin has been one of the individuals with the most influence on the history of independent Finland. There are few who have made so many far-reaching decisions as Stalin: he decreed the beginning and the end of the Winter War, the Moscow Armistice of 1944 that ended the Continuation War was signed with his authorization, and when, in 1948, it was time to decide whether Finland would become a ‘people’s republic’ or not, he initially pushed forward but eventually backed down. All of these decisions can be seen as pivotal to the fate of Finland, its society, its independence, the life and death of the Finnish people.
Joseph Stalin, Soviet foreign policy, Winter War, Second World War, Cold War, 1940s, Finland, Second World War, Soviet Union, non-fiction, 20th century
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), GREECE: Papadopoulos Publishers, POLAND: REBIS, UKRAINE: Laboratory, WORLD ENGLISH: Yale University Press
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Vladislav Koržets & Kaarel Koržets
Detailed information of over 400 fish and other water inhabitants that can be found in the Baltic Sea area. More than 500 recipes, tips and instructions of handling different fish. Myths, beliefs, traditions, history and author's stories about fishing waters and cuisine. You will never need another book about fish!
Over 6.000 copies sold in Estonia!
recipes, fishing, Baltic, non-fiction, nature, cooking, food, culinary
Rights sold: ESTONIA: Sõnavald (orig.), LITHUANIA: Obuolys
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Tommi Kinnunen
„And don’t you ever become something just because someone else wants you to.“
In the 1950s, Helena is barely nine years old when she is uprooted from her remote home village and sent alone to a school for the blind in Helsinki. Little by little, she learns the smells, the sounds, and the numbers of paces of the big city. Forty years later, Helena’s nephew Tuomas voluntarily moves to the southern university city. Tuomas wants to fulfill the requirements and expectations placed on him. Secretly, he dreams of a family of his own. In the south, he also gets to know his aunt in a wholly new way.
What is it like to live one’s entire life as a bystander, to hope that one day people wouldn’t pay attention to their differences, but to their similarities? What is it like to travel a long way to become someone who one wants to be or has already been?
Tommi Kinnunen writes powerfully about otherness and finding one’s own path, of the wish to become a father, and of the skill of being a mother.
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), DENMARK: Gyldendal/Cicero, GERMANY: Penguin Verlag
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Ann-Luise Bertell
A story of emigration, of mothers, daughters and brothers, and what it is like to live with longing in your heart
The twilight of day is awaiting Maria Alina. The only visitors she has are dead relatives, J. R. Ewing of Dallas, and a home care nurse whose name she can’t remember. She has, however, an important task remaining: to write the story of her life for her daughter on the other side of the Atlantic. If there is one thing Maria Alina regrets in her life, it’s that she was silent when she should have spoken.
Death, sorrow, and longing have tinted Maria Alina’s life, which opens as a series of intense scenes starting in her childhood. She speaks about trips across the ocean, about staying put and forgetting, about brothers who believed they could fly, and about old women who know how to turn longing around.
A story of boundless yearning, suppressed tears, and restrained people, the novel has been inspired by the story of Bertell’s grandmother.
Canada, Finland, 1980s, 1960s, 1940s, 1970s, 1930s, 1920s, 1950s, elderly mother, mother, father, family, death, Ostrobothnia, emigration, daughter, generations, emigrated mother, longing, 20th century, female protagonist, mother-daughter relationship, grief
Rights sold: FINLAND (in swedish) & SWEDEN: Förlaget, FINLAND: (Finnish): Tammi
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Harri Nykänen
The fifth Ariel Kafka mystery.
Two-time winner of Finland’s Strongest Man contest, Jukka Aro, aka “Jimmy Boy” or “The Lion King,” is found dead in his home. Did he shoot himself or was he murdered?
While investigating the cause of Aro’s death, Lieutenant Ariel Kafka digs deep into the outlandish jet-set life of Jimmy Boy and his wife Dodo, a former erotic model. While attempting to solve the case, Ariel is thrown off his game by the return of a former girlfriend. The detective finds himself caught between two women during the most intense moments of this criminal investigation.
Helsinki, crime, murder, Judaism, bodybuilding, Jewish policeman, paparazzi, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Crime Time
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Anssi Keränen
Richard Scarry meets Finding Nemo in an energetic environmental adventure set in a Jacques Costeau-inspired world.
Seasoned Captain Cody, a seagull, explores the hidden corners of the ocean on his trusted little ship, Lindy Hop, with his friends Vince and James in tow. Early on in their journey a friendly dolphin pack introduces them to Tautou, a monkey who has lost his home island to rising sea levels.
During their oceanic adventure the group helps gather up trash from a beach and cleans up an oil spill. Finally they journey deep underneath the surface of the water to explore a rich underwater world. Here they meet the grandest creature in the animal kingdom: the blue whale.
sea captain seagull, ship, underwater world, pollution, adventure, sea, children's literature, illustrated book, environmentalism, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Katariina Souri
A woman named Vera commissions Mona to create a mosaic for Vera’s mother Ada, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The subject of the work – a replica of Russian artist Mikhail Vrubel’s six-winged Seraph – is oppressive and dark.
As Mona proceeds on the project, she begins to have new visions and uncovers secrets from the family’s past. Soon Vera’s husband is found dead with his tongue cut off and his chest displaying strange burn marks.
Finland, family, crime, mystery, drugs, secrets, St. Petersburg, mosaic artist, protagonist who experiences visions, visions, rituals, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Mila Teräs
The Duskspinner is about a tiny creature who weaves darkness. It’s an important job: after twilight falls the nocturnal creatures can start their shifts. But there’s someone who hates the Duskspinner: florist Keikander’s flowers need more light! Keikander decides to break the Duskspinner’s loom, but he doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions…
sandman-like creature, night, winter, children's literature, small village, Christmas, Christmas, nature, florist, bedtime story, illustrated book, sleep, animal protagonist, small mystical creatures
Rights sold: FINLAND: Karisto (orig.)
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Pauliina Susi
Hate speech. Sex trade. Racism. Single mom Leia Laine becomes entangled in much more than she bargained for when she takes on a project whose aim is to provide support to men who frequent prostitutes. It feels as if half of Finland becomes furious at her.
Among Leia’s new enemies are the new, sharp-tongued Justice Minister whose career is in danger thanks to some unseemly interactions online, and an online troll whose greatest thrill is in crossing virtual boundaries.
hate speech, counselling, prostitution, blackmailing, Finland, society, suspense, thriller, technology, politician, researcher, Stockholm, harassment, single mother, hacker, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), GERMANY: DTV
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J. K. Johansson
Venla‘s case is the undercurrent in all the parts of the series. The sudden disappearance of Miia and Nikke’s sister Venla in the 1980s left its mark on the whole family, and was never solved. As Miia finds herself being pulled back into Venla’s mystery, she begins to see connections between the stories of Laura, Noora and Venla.
family, suspense, missing person, converging lives, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: XYZ, ESTONIA: Pegasus, GERMANY: Suhrkamp Verlag
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Katariina Souri
Mosaic artist Mona Malin has a strange gift: she experiences intense and uncontrollable visions and sensations about people, even strangers. When a carpenter she knows is found dead, Mona begins to suspect that she may have killed him without her knowledge.
Roni Arosuo is sitting in a mental hospital for prisoners after murdering a man with seemingly no premeditation. His doctor enrolls Roni in a mosaic course organized by Mona, hoping that she might help him determine how this man with a previously clean record suddenly committed a shocking act of violence. Mona’s visions become more and more realistic, and soon Roni’s doctor is found dead.
mosaic artist, visions, rituals, neuroscience, mystery, drugs, murder, secrets, Finland, female protagonist, 21st century
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Saku Heinänen
The second story is about the short but intense northern summer. Zaida spends it for the first time in countryside: her uncle, who tragically passed away in the first novel, has left Zaida’s father his home in a village by the sea. The small community is sustained by a steel factory, which looms over it like a benevolent giant. The family tries to clean and fix the old house as well as adapt to the circumstances very different from their city life. Sofia, a retired neighbour, has lost her sight but has a strange ability to see into people’s minds. Zaida becomes close with Sofia and her granddaughter Tuija, already in the tumult of puberty. Their summer becomes filled with moments of joy as well as tricky conflicts. When the village is hit by the abrupt closing of the steel factory, the ghosts from the past seem to return. Zaida is drawn into time-warping episode, and joins forces with Sofia to fight for the existence of the factory – and of the whole village.
About the series
The three novels combine psychological and magical realism with ghost stories to tell the story of Zaida, a girl adopted from a faraway country. She worries about her different looks and elderly parents, and as the only child feels lonely and disconnected. But allies and enemies in school are not all: in each of the books, Zaida gets swept into an adventure that blurs the boundaries of reality and fantasy. Balancing on the precarious threshold between childhood and adolescence, Zaida thus hovers between the worlds of everyday and imagination.
The stories follow each other in chronological order, but each book can be read independently, too.
The trilogy is richly illustrated by the author with atmospheric black-and-white drawings.
family, friendship, summer, children's literature, fantasy, small village, magical realism, countryside, imagination, illustrated book, adopted girl, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Riikka Jäntti
Little Mouse series – Book 1
Little Mouse is a toddler, and doesn’t always behave exactly as Mummy Mouse would wish.
Although he wakes up happily on a spring morning, he doesn’t like getting dressed at all! Mummy Mouse takes him to daycare, where his other animal friends eagerly await their friend’s arrival. When his mother arrives to pick him up, he is in no mood to go home. And while he is glad to finish his sausages at dinner, broccoli is another story.
This sweet and delightfully relatable story is complemented by detailed, classic illustrations.
Also available:
#2: Little Mouse Helps Out
#3: Little Mouse’s Christmas
#4: Little Mouse’s Holiday
#5: Little Mouse’s Winter
#6: Little Mouse’s Summer
#7: Little Mouse’s Goes Camping
#8: Little Mouse and the Birthday Present
#9: Little Mouse Welcomes Spring
#10: Little Mouse Goes on a Cruise
And for some mousified fairy tales, check out: Little Mouse’s Fables
early spring, town, tantrum, every-day life, mother, friends, home, child, single mother, illustrated book, children's literature, child protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), AZERBAIJAN: Alatoran, BULGARIA: UNISCORP, CATALAN: HarperCollins Iberica, CHINA: Beijing Yuntu Hongya Technology Co., Ltd, ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat AS, FRANCE: Cambourakis, GERMANY: Cross Cult, ITALY: Sinnos, NEPAL: Kathalaya Inc., POLAND: Filia, PORTUGAL: HarperCollins Iberica, ROMANIA: Editura Paralela 45 , RUSSIA: Strecoza, SLOVAKIA: Fortuna Libri, SPAIN: HarperCollins Iberica, SWEDEN: Epix Bokförlag
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Saara Turunen
Love/Monster is a strong, unique novel about the lust for life, shame, yearning, and trying to belong somewhere. It is a self-portrait of an artist that expands into an exploration of cultural identity, gender roles, and the demand of being “normal”.
In Love/Monster a young woman is finding her own place in the world by constantly changing the scenery. Instead of answers, the only thing she finds is her own shadow, the feeling of worthlessness and the inability to love herself. The narrative voice is often playful and amusing, as the novel tackles big themes with the aid of humor.
Spain, Mexico, Finland, London, Berlin, Paris, young female narrator, handsome man, cultural identity, mother, father, friendship, gender roles, 2010s, 1990s, 1980s, 2000s, coming of age, adventure, girlhood, satire, travelogue, 21st century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Laura Lindstedt
Seven women meet in a white, undefined space seconds after their deaths. Time, as we understand it, has ceased to exist, and all bodily sensations seem to have disappeared.
None of the women can remember what happened to her, or how she got there. Performance artist Shlomith from New York, chief accountant Polina from Moscow, heart transplant patient Rosa Imaculada from Brazil, upper-class Nina from Marseilles who is expecting twins, Wlbgis from the Netherlands, who suffers from throat cancer, Senegalese Maimuna, who dreams of a career as a model, and Austrian teenager, Ulrike. They don’t know each other. They don’t know why they are there – or where they are. In turn they try to remember, to piece together the fragments of their lives, their identities, their lost loves, and to pinpoint the moment they left their former lives behind.
Lindstedt plays with genres from essay to poetry, transitioning from humour to rage – while asking her reader to contemplate the question of death’s inevitability and what follows it. As also in Lindstedt’s acclaimed debut novel Scissors, Oneiron addresses the challenges of communication on several levels.
Russian, American, Austrian, Dutch, French, Brazilian, 1970s, New York, Austria, Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Eagle's Nest, Netherlands, Zwolle, Marseille, Senegal, Dakar, Mali, Timbuktu, Sahara, Brazil, Salvador da Bahia, Judaism, Islamic culture, Islamic extremism, Germany, Moscow, 2010s, 1980s, 2000s, Russia, 1960s, France, Israel, afterlife, afterlife, communication, womanhood, performance art, ideology, shotgun marriage, terrorism, deception, anorexia, body memory, cellular memory, problems in communication, friendship, sisterhood, woman, death, poverty, violence, wealth, loneliness, reading, illness, telepathy, alcoholism, language, human trafficking, pregnancy, forbidden love, imagination, mountain, philosophy, infidelity, outside of time, empty space, coming of age, cancer, Kibbutz, sexual assault, 21st century, 19th century, Senegalese, United States, multiple protagonists, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), BULGARIA: Faber, DENMARK: Rosinante & Co, FRANCE: Gallimard, ITALY: Elliot Edizioni, LITHUANIA: Versus Aureus, POLAND: Poznanskie, ROMANIA: Editura Paralela 45, SPAIN: Armaenia Editorial, WORLD ENGLISH: Oneworld Publications
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Emmi Itäranta
The tapestry of life may be more fragile than it seems: pull one thread, and all will unravel.
In The Weaver, human life has little value. You practice a craft to keep you alive, or you are an outcast, unwanted and tainted. Eliana is a young weaver in the House of Webs, but secretly knows she doesn’t really belong there. She is hiding a shameful birth defect that would, if anyone knew about it, land her in the House of the Tainted, a prison for those whose very existence is considered a curse.
When an unknown woman with her tongue cut off and Eliana’s name tattooed on her skin arrives at the House of Webs, Eliana discovers an invisible network of power behind the city’s facade. All the while, the sea is clawing the shores and the streets are slowly drowning.
LGBTQ+, non-human animals, soldier, fictional timeline, floods, young woman, family, friendship, dystopia, coming of age, secrets, romance, island, dreams, resistance, environmentalism, queer, female protagonist, speculative fiction, future, alternate universe
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), , GEORGIA: Palitra L Publishing, GERMANY: Arctis, HUNGARY: Metropolis Media Group Kft., ITALY: Sperling & Kupfer
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
Tommy feels big and brave when he and his grandmother visit his mother in the hospital. But when Tommy sees his wrinkly baby sister for the first time, he suddenly wants to be mommy’s little boy again.
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
jealousy, children's literature, parenting, siblinghood, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Karo Hämäläinen
Alone is a psychologically precise portrait of a top athlete, who had a burning will to succeed and a manic hatred of losing. He raced against his inner demons to meet the high standards he had set for himself and achieved everything in life – except for one thing. Alone is a story of loneliness and unrecruited love.
Karo Hämäläinen’s award-winning novel is loosely based on the life story of the greatest distance runner of all times, the “Flying Finn” Paavo Nurmi, who ran his way to the top of the world in the 1920’s. It reads as a literary novel set against the backdrop of the rapidly industrializing Finland of the 20th century, echoing “Running” by Jean Echenoz.
Paavo Nurmi, athlete, olympic winner, Flying Finns, running, non-fiction, sports, ambition, 20th century, olympics, autobiography
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Elina Hirvonen
Helsinki, less than a decade in the future. Laura Anttila is lecturing at the university on climate change, hope, and the responsibility of humans. In the hallway, she is confronted by two police officers.
Laura's daughter Aava encounters a woman who has just lost her daughter in a Somalian village. Having returned to her apartment, Laura hears that someone is shooting at people from the rooftop of the Lasipalatsi building in Helsinki.
When Time Runs Out is a powerful novel about parenthood, about finding your place, and about the responsibility of people to intervene in the course of events.
lonely boy, climate change specialist mother, NGO worker sister, distant father, extremist online friends, 2030s, Mogadishu, Somalia, extremism, responsibility, finding hope in the darkest times, Finland, Helsinki, love, climate change, loneliness, parenthood, 21st century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), CROATIA: Naklada Ljevak, CZECH REPUBLIC: Omega Publishing, ESTONIA: Varrak, LITHUANIA: Baltos Lankos, SWEDEN: Leopard Förlag, UK: Manilla
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Aki Ollikainen
A writer and his great-grandfather – and a swamp with a spine-chilling past to unite them
In his second novel, Aki Ollikainen takes his readers to Tattarisuo, which has a dark and special reputation in Finnish criminal history. The narrator’s family has fallen apart, and his wife and son have left him. Reality has become unhinged, and the unresolved tragedies inherited from prior generations have started to overwhelm his thoughts. Many paths seem to lead him to Tattarisuo, a place where a man known as Witch-Kallio used to perform mystic practices.
On a second temporal level, the reader follows Heino, a bootlegger in 1930s Helsinki. Heino has a family, a wife and a son, and his life in order, but an all-too-human greed takes hold both in love and money, and Heino’s selfishness and carelessness bring about a chain reaction of events stretching across generations, with the nocturnal Tattarisuo as its starting or ending point.
smuggler, occultist, author, 1930s, crime mystery, mobs, fathers and sons, prohibition, occultism, evil, mental breakdown, Finland, Helsinki, crime, swamp, today, present, generations, 21st century, 20th century, male protagonist, fascism
Rights sold: FINLAND: Siltala (orig.), NETHERLANDS: Ambo Anthos
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Filled with atmospheric and vibrant photos bringing the Finnish sauna culture to life, The Sauna Cookbook includes recipes ranging from moose stew with root vegetables and stuffed whitefish to cakes and pies – all cooked using the heat of the sauna. Making use of the sauna’s hot rocks, stove and hot water in cooking is a long-standing Finnish tradition, and these recipes update old traditions for the modern palate.
Rights sold: ESTONIA: Pegasus, GERMANY: BTB Luchterhand
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Maria Peura
Having grown up in a northern Finnish town with a predominantly Laestadian population, Anni becomes more familiar with her roots and this sect of Christianity while working on her master’s thesis. Immersing herself into her research is helping her process her recent, painful divorce. Anni is also doing her best to support her 15-year-old daughter Mirka, who has sought refuge in drugs and is spiraling out of control.
When Anni meets an interesting man online and Mirka finds a supportive therapy group, life appears to settle into new routines. Suddenly, however, controlling and cult-like elements begin to surface in Mirka’s therapy, and Anni becomes concerned: the threads of manipulation are both invisible and difficult to break. Meanwhile Anni is re-examining painful buried secrets from her childhood. The lives of both mother and daughter are pushed to the verge. Maria Peura writes potently and honestly about the fragile human mind and the nature of manipulation.
manipulation, secrets, Lapland, cult, religion
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.)
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J. K. Johansson
The second part in the Palokaski Trilogy focuses on Noora, a desperately lonely girl with no friends. Once having desperately sought Laura’s friendship, Noora has followed the case and is prepared to do almost anything, including creating a second identity, to get even a fraction of the attention Laura received. Miia Pohjavirta is trying to move on, but is plagued by new suspicions as the people closest to her begin displaying strange behaviours and old traumas are brought to the surface.
Noora soon comes up with an elaborate and dangerous plan, and both Miia and Noora find out that the evil Laura encountered is closer than they could ever have imagined.
identity, friendship, suspense, loneliness, trauma, converging lives, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tami (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: XYZ, ESTONIA: Pegasus
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Kaisa Haatanen
With her 50th birthday approaching, publishing director Tytti Karakoski notices a decline in her previously springy energy level, enthusiasm and curiosity towards the world. Tiredness gives way to exhaustion and languor to indifference. Tytti isn’t quite sure what has happened, but thankfully her stable financial situation allows her to take part in an experiment: a writing sabbatical.
fiftysomething woman, sabbatical, aging, self-examination, writing, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Johnny Kniga (orig.)
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Markku Karpio
John Green meets Lord of the Flies in the Nordic wilderness: a gritty and realistic survival story about the healing power of friendship.
Suffering from life-threatening burns at the Korpisalo hospital, Ozzy can’t hear, see or smell anything; he knows only that his mother, little sister and father are all gone. Ozzy’s father, the HR director of a local paper machine manufacturer, suffered a breakdown during a brutal round of layoffs and burned his house down, killing himself, Ozzy’s mother and his little sister. During brief moments of clarity Ozzy tries to turn his thoughts to his former boy scout troop on their annual winter hike – a trek that turns into a dangerous game of survival in freezing temperatures.
The town’s widespread economic hardships have created a new pecking order at the local high school. Tensions come to a head when ninth graders Jont, Snipe, Rambo, Little Joe, Telly and Ferrari leave for a survival hike in the freezing woods. Hunger and cold add to the stress – and above everything hovers a worry over Ozzy’s fate.
scout boys, deprived town, coma, friendship, young adult, winter, relationships, wilderness, class, boyhood, survivalism, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Ville Hytönen
Hytönen peers into the secret world of insects in this delightful mix of poetry and prose. Bug Forest’s array of creatures ranges from angst-filled to well-meaning but stinky, and the mood alternates between rambunctious and lyrical. His warm and descriptive prose charms both kids and grown-ups, and Virpi Penna’s gentle, unforgettable illustrations bring the characters to life.
insects, children's literature, illustrated book, lyrical, forest, nature, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Koolibri Publishers
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Riina Katajavuori
Seven Brothers, authored by Finland’s national author Aleksis Kivi in 1870, is widely considered to be the most important novel in Finnish history. In this critically lauded work, Riina Katajavuori gives the story a modern – and distinctively feminine – spin that, in spite of its clever allusions, doesn’t require knowledge of Kivi’s original work. She throws a classic into a blender.
All the guys are crazy about 17-year-old Wenla Männistö, who is whole-heartedly enjoying her youth. Her mother is the practical but enigmatic midwife Marja Männistö. Alli Jukola, the mother of seven, contemplates the past while lounging on the edge of a cloud. We also hear from straight-talking washer Kajsa Rajamäki and Ansku Seunala, who believes in angels. All the while, the slacker brothers of Jukola trade bad jokes in front of the TV.
slacker brothers, woman's perspective, Seven Brothers, remixed classic, women, satire, parody, intertextuality, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Jussi Valtonen
When professor Joe Chayefski’s neuroscience lab in Baltimore is attacked by animal rights activists, he doesn’t connect the dots at first. But when he receives a phone call from Alina, his Finnish ex-wife, he begins to gradually realize that the threats on his career and new family are connected to Samuel, the son he left behind in Finland two decades ago. Joe soon learns that his son’s life has gone badly astray, and that Samuel has devoted himself to extreme animal rights activism. Samuel is now somewhere in the United States, but neither Alina nor the authorities know his exact location. Joe realizes that he has to take action to protect his wife and two daughters from his estranged son, by any means necessary.
activism, Finland, dystopia, mystery, modern, father, family, children, son, United States, multiple protagonists, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CHINA: China International Radio Press, CZECH REPUBLIC: Leda, FRANCE: Editions Fayard, GERMANY: Piper, HUNGARY: Cser, NETHERLANDS: Signatuur, UNITED KINGDOM: Oneworld Publications
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Saku Heinänen
The first novel spans one winter of Zaida’s life. The evil twins Janika and Stiina harrass her at school and outside of it. Zaida finds an unexpected ally in Otto, a boy from the parallel class. However, what really transforms her life is Ainu, a mysterious girl whom Zaida meets in a night-time park. Zaida’s old wise dog Ludwig leads her behind its locked gates in the night of the Christmas Day as the first snow is falling. Hiding this from her parents, Zaida begins to visit the park, which transforms to a vast forest with frozen lakes, meadows and hills. A deep friendship and mutual understanding develops between the girls. But why can’t Ainu come home to Zaida? Has anyone else ever even seen her? Finally, Zaida discovers a family secret, which turns the night-time adventures into a ghost story. When the snow melts, Zaida makes a desperate attempt together with Otto to unravel Ainu’s mystery. The book is a moving story about friendship, love, and trust.
About the series
The three novels combine psychological and magical realism with ghost stories to tell the story of Zaida, a girl adopted from a faraway country. She worries about her different looks and elderly parents, and as the only child feels lonely and disconnected. But allies and enemies in school are not all: in each of the books, Zaida gets swept into an adventure that blurs the boundaries of reality and fantasy. Balancing on the precarious threshold between childhood and adolescence, Zaida thus hovers between the worlds of everyday and imagination.
The stories follow each other in chronological order, but each book can be read independently.
The trilogy is richly illustrated by the author with atmospheric black-and-white drawings.
adopted girl, friendship, winter, children's literature, fantasy, loneliness, magical realism, imagination, illustrated book, being different, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Tommi Kinnunen
A delicately perceptive novel about people who build their dreams to forbidden heights
A young midwife named Maria arouses suspicion among the villagers. Diligently taking care of difficult childbirths, she finally gains the respect she craves for, but fails to notice that she has become a prisoner of her own longing.
Maria’s daughter Lahja, born out of wedlock, wants to incorporate into her own life all that her mother has rejected as ballast. A refugee returning to the north scorched by war, she yearns for contact in her marriage, while her husband, war hero Onni, wanders the cities, seeking fleeting, forbidden moments of happiness.
Decades later, Kaarina is decorating her mother-in-law Lahja’s house, now devoid of dreams, and wants to tear down what others have built to remain silent.
Oulu, 19th century, Finland, family, post-war era, society, war generation, LGBTQ+, trauma, Second World War, Second World War, 20th century, queer, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, queer protagonist, historical fiction, literary fiction
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.), AZERBAIJAN: Agac Publishing House, CHINA: China International Radio Press, DENMARK: Gyldendal/Cicero, ITALY: Edizioni ETS, NORWAY: Pax Forlag
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Jorma Ollila
In this compelling memoir, Nokia’s legendary CEO Jorma Ollila presents a riveting account of the inner workings of the company that created the global mobile revolution. CEO from 1992 to 2006, Ollila led Nokia from near catastrophe to become the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturer. He built a company where visionary thinking and courageous decisions were combined with exceptional creativity and first-rate engineering, leading to phenomenal growth.
Follow Ollila’s personal and professional journey, where you’ll learn about the fine line between stratospheric success and disastrous failure. His stories are filled with lessons about the nature of leadership, the importance of shared values, and the need for strategic thinking.
Ollila offers a uniquely clear picture of life as a CEO, with many insights into how business is conducted at the highest levels. He is especially upfront about working with his executive and management teams as well as encounters with figures such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and George Soros. He offers poignant as well as illuminating stories of hair-raising risks and huge successes, but also of poor judgment and bad decision-making.
Jorma Ollila, strategy, non-fiction, business, technology, memoir, leadership, management, Nokia, autobiography
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), CHINA: The Wind Publishing, ESTONIA: Äripäev
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Miina Supinen
Deep in the Finnish wilderness stands a glittery theme park called Jingle Land, ruled by eccentric megalomaniac Veikko H. Halkio. His vision for a land where Christmas is eternal includes strippers dressed as sexy elves, hordes of creepy animatronic reindeer and the world’s largest chocolate fountain. In order to complete his dream, Veikko desperately yearns for his boyhood crush, Molli, to perform at the park.
Molli and Veikko share a dark secret, and she has spent most of her life trying to put the incident behind her. Now a happily married mother of two, she wants nothing to do with his holiday-obsessed extravaganza. But when a devastating accident leaves her as the sole breadwinner, she has to accept Veikko’s offer.
megalomaniac theme park owner, ex-performer woman, secrets, crime, suspense, sinister theme park, Christmas, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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J. K. Johansson
What happened to Laura Anderson?
In the first part of the Palokaski Trilogy, Miia Pohjavirta, a former internet cop, begins a new career as a counselor at her former high school. Nikke is her younger brother, a broad-minded school psychologist. Laura Anderson, a high school student and Nikke’s client, has gone missing as the school year begins. When Laura’s parents start a Facebook page to try and find their daughter, they open up a Pandora’s box.
Laura is an intelligent and unabashedly entertaining book. A reader feels a fondness for its characters like one does for friends or family members – loveable and infuriating, impossible to put aside. You simply have to read one more chapter.
school counselor, former internet cop, school psychologist, missing girl, mystery, suspense, social media, missing person, high school, converging lives, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: XYZ
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Miina Supinen
Ray Girl is a mystical love story, an unusual love triangle, a comedy about the collision between faith and science, a coming-of-age story that combines genres and a novel about an atheist who wants to belong to a cult. It is sure to make you laugh and likely to make you cry. The second, highly anticipated novel from a unique writing talent.
carefree woman, excavations, faith vs. science, Finland, coming of age, secrets, love triangle, relationships, love story, archaeologists, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Tapani Bagge
Mujunen encounters twists of fate in post-war Finland
”These are dreadful times”, says the Prime Minister of Finland in 1944. A treaty of peace has just been concluded between Finland and the Soviet Union and the Finnish troops are now fighting Germans in Lapland.
The Russian control commission has occupied the Hotel Torni in Helsinki, casting a long shadow over the entire country. Mujunen is interrogating prisoners of war, but is called to investigate the murder of a Russian captain – and to report to the commission. Are the Russians using the murder as an excuse to occupy Finland?
Finland, post-war era, crime, suspense, 1940s, war, espionage, noir, hard-boiled detective, 20th century, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Crime Time (orig.)
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Johanna Sinisalo
Set in an alternative historical present, in an “eusistocracy”—an extreme welfare state—that holds public health and social stability above all else, The Core of the Sun follows a young woman whose growing addiction to illegal chili peppers leads her on an adventure into a world where love, sex, and free will are all controlled by the state.
The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized. How did Finland turn into the North Korea of Europe?
Johanna Sinisalo’s tautly told story of fight and flight is also a feisty, between-the-lines social polemic—a witty, inventive, and fiendishly engaging read.
siblings, aunt, orphans, farm hand, dealers, Teisko, human rights, siblings, cult, illegal substances, shamanism, alternate history, breeding, Finland, dystopia, coming of age, gender, Tampere, drugs, addiction, nature, 21st century, 2010s, multiple protagonists, speculative fiction, totalitarianism, relationships
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), ARABIC: Al Arabi, CHINA: CITIC Press, GERMANY: Klett-Cotta, LATVIA: Izdevnieciba Petergailis SIA, SPAIN: Roca Editorial, TURKEY: Ithaki Yayinlari, UNITED STATES: Grove Atlantic USA
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Sari Peltoniemi
A magnificient sequel to I Hear the Forest Calling.
The Elven Son is a mesmerizing story about the importance of finding one’s roots and a reminder of the significance of friends and family.
About to start high school, Jouni is still pondering where his mother is. Together with his sister, Saara, he tries to find the place where he was born, hoping to find a way to his mother. Jouni has a falling-out with his girlfriend and downs a bottle of wine right before his band is about to go on stage. Later, Jouni ignores the warnings of his teacher and goes out on the night of Halloween, only to find himself followed by the dead. Can his sister save him? And will they find their mother?
family, young adult, fantasy, secrets, magic, nature, finding one's roots, teenage protagonist, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Ville Hytönen
A tale of friendship celebrating all the things that make us different.
Two lonely creatures – a donkey with weak lungs and a clumsy monkey – are both mocked and shunned by other animals because of their respective oddities. But what happens when the donkey and the monkey meet and decide that being wheezy or wonky are, in fact, qualities to proudly sing about?
lonely monkey, clumsy donkey, friendship, children's literature, loneliness, self-esteem, illustrated book, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ESTONIA: Koolibri Publishers
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Mia Kankimäki
A nonfiction narrative about a Finnish writer’s trip to Japan to look for her soulmate - who lived more than 1000 years ago.
Mia Kankimäki quits her job and embarks on an adventure. She travels to Kyoto to research Sei Shonagon, a Japanese writer and lady-in-waiting who wrote about her life in the court of Heian era Japan. Mia doesn’t speak a word of Japanese, and isn’t quite accustomed to scientific research, but her endeavor produces the most wonderful book about Japan, Sei Shonagon, and a middle-aged woman’s solo travels.
Despite her struggles and initial culture shock, Mia finds herself mesmerized by temples, cherry blossoms, kabuki theater, Zen meditation and tearooms. She reads The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon and finds a soul sister – a modern woman who loves making lists of all things charming, annoying, elegant and things that make one’s heart beat faster.
Sei Shonagon, 10th century, Thailand, Phuket, London, Heiankyo, Japan, Japanese culture, 21st century, Finland, Helsinki, Japan, Kyoto, Normandy, Tokyo, Japanese courtlady, Imperial palace, Train, literature, classics, beauty, lists, tsunami, non-fiction, travelogue, memoir, solo traveling, women's history, writing, cultural history, feminism, finding yourself, single woman, roommates, guesthouse, sabbatical year, female writers, changing one's life, airplane, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: Albatros Media / Motto, ESTONIA: Varrak, GERMANY: BTB, ITALY: Piemme, JAPAN: Soshisha
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The first Tommy book was published twenty years ago. To celebrate this, a new storybook is being published this year, which includes: Our Tommy; Tommy’s Night at Granny’s; Tommy and Apricot’s milk – and the brand-new story Tommy and Doctor Ear.
compilation, children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Aki Ollikainen
What does it take to survive in Finland during the Great Famine of 1866–1868?
A mother and her two young children trudge through a swirling snowstorm, with nothing but endless misery around them and golden, grand St. Petersburg as their destination. The endless winter and ruthless hunger have turned people into animals, and on their journey the family comes face-to-face with a reality that is nearly impossible to imagine today.
Meanwhile, the better-off Renqvist brothers have their own existential questions to deal with. Teo, a doctor, ponders in anguish what kind of god could let such a calamity fall upon mankind; Lars, an assistant to a senator, decides to bury his doubts by blindly trusting the decisions of his superior. When the hungry family and the Renqvists cross paths, humanity, in the end, triumphs amongst all suffering.
daughter, son, doctor, beggar, prostitute, Senator, 1860s, helsinki, class differences, beggars, refugees, surrealistic scenes, odyssey, Finland, family, climate, winter, famine, survival, countryside, public servant, mother, multiple protagonists
Rights sold: FINLAND: Siltala (orig.), CHINA: Guangxi Normal University Press Group, GERMANY: Transit Verlag, SPAIN: Libros del Asteroide, WORLD ENGLISH: Peirene Press
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Tapani Bagge
The black whirlpools of fate spin Mujunen from Helsinki to East Karelia.
The time is late summer, 1942, and the offensive phase of the Finnish Continuation War has bogged down in trench warfare. Former State Police Senior Detective Mujunen thinks his life is over, but then two femmes fatale and a nighttime air raid draw him back to work.
Communist prisoners escape from Riihimäki, north of the capital, and, soon after, a time bomb goes off in an antiaircraft ammunition depot in West Helsinki. One of the perpetrators is apprehended, but he escapes. One of these saboteurs, now disguised as a military lieutenant, is on the loose in Helsinki, as is the German Reichsführer of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, whose life Mujunen is obliged to protect. At the same time, Mujunen experiences a torrid romance with a co-worker and does his best to save the Jewish refugees whom the leadership of the State Police intend to expel to Germany – meaning certain death. Himmler offers the same fate for all of Finland’s Jews.
East Karelia, noir, Finland, Helsinki, Germany, suspense, 1940s, war, espionage, Continuation War, Soviet Union, crime, hard-boiled detective, 20th century, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Crime Time (orig.)
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Salla Simukka
Eighteen-year-old Samuel is the stereotypical nerd. His nights are spent playing on the computer and his days in bed. Now that he has finished school, Samuel is in danger of completely losing touch with society. But then he is invited to join a secret project that pays shockingly well. Samuel is caught up in the construction of a virtual world that is full of surprises. However, the biggest surprise for him is that he falls in love. Everything else loses its meaning when Samuel decides to save Emmi, the girl of his dreams. Elsewhere is an astounding vision of what the world of virtual gaming could become in the near future. It also deals with the difficulties of relationships between parents and children and the inability of adults to cope with many of the problems young people face. And of course it is a story of first love, which is always intense, turbulent and beautiful.
workplace, virtual reality, gaming, betrayal, ethics, Finland, love, friendship, rebellion, young adult, mystery, home, parents, coming of age, girls, boys, parents, virtual reality, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Sari Peltoniemi
Everyday life is full of magic. All you have to do to see it is look closely enough.
Heather is caring for a grave, the final resting place for little Anna from long ago. Heather ponders what Anna’s life was like. Meanwhile, Raoul and Rod are trying to figure out where they can get the money they need for this one really important thing. Thom comes across a strange bottlecollector. And Jack meets a mysterious water-cat, who talks big about building a spaceboat. Who on earth danced on the kitchen table last night with muddy shoes? And what does it feel like to be a stone?
Sari Peltoniemi’s everyday tales are composed of the joys and sorrows of the young, their finest moments and their gray days, too. They are about you, me, and Tuva from next door. Liisa Kallio’s sensitive illustrations are a fine complement to the tales’ wonderful ambiance.
cat, love, death, magic, children, everyday life, children's literature, illustrated book, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Salla Simukka
Have you ever wished that everyone else in the world would just disappear? You’d better watch out what you wish for.
Emmi Aalto is a 15-year-old girl who feels like she doesn’t have anything. She hasn’t figured out what she’s good at in school yet; she’s still just a “Potential”. Her family doesn’t seem to pay any attention to her at home. And she has never had any friends. Emmi decides to run away, so she could at least become the girl who disappeared. But when she comes back home, there’s no one there. Or next door. Or in the entire town. Everyone has disappeared – or have they?
cities, Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, building a society, virtual reality, Finland, identity, love, friendship, young adult, mystery, freedom, school, coming of age, fairytales, girls, boys, future, LGBTQ+, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, queer
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Magdalena Hai
The 11-year-old rag collector Gigi was born a princess. After her father lost his crown in a violent uprising, the royal family of Umbrovia has been forced to live in hiding in a busy harbor town. But then one day Gigi and her best friend Henry learn that someone knows their secret, their home is attacked and her mother is taken away. Together with her loving but unpractical father, and the grumpy but kind werewolf Mussovits, they must do their best to save their family.
The Beggar Princess is the first installment in the trilogy Gigi & Henry, which follows the main characters lives from pre-teens to adulthood. The story is set in an alternative history of the 1860s and it mixes fast-paced, julesvernesque adventure story with inventive alternate history.
1850s, alternate history, Alternate Greenland, Smugglers' island, orphan, king, usurper, werewolf, royalty, airship, smuggling, family, friendship, boy, girl, coming of age, adventure, queen, children's literature, fantasy, steampunk, poverty, immigration, pirate, princess, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Karisto (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
Tommy lives in a perfectly nice house with Dad, Mom, William the Worm, Mousedog, and Kitty the cat. But suddenly everything gets turned upside down at home. Mom is emptying the closets and cupboards and packing things into boxes. The bookshelf turns into a pile of boards, and pretty soon Tommy’s bed has been taken apart, too. Tommy begins to grow anxious. ”Don’t worry. We’re moving to a new house, the whole family. You’ll get your very own room,” Mom says cheerfully, but Tommy isn’t reassured.
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, moving to a new place, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Karo Hämäläinen
A topical, timely novel delving into the core of the European debt crisis.
The socialist opposition leader of Hellenia is ready to do his last favour to his fatherland: to sign – and to resign. A young and eager hedge fund salesman has his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show his boss what he is capable of. When the politician is kidnapped, billions of dollars are at risk (as well as some secondary matters, such as human lives).
In The Bailout, people and countries behave like the stock market: they pretend to be something they are not.
young hedgefund salesman, European debt crisis, crime, suspense, finance, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Leena Lehtolainen
When uninvited guests show up at the wedding of a Finnish businessman and his Russian girlfriend for whom Hilja Ilveskero is working, an international mystery begins to unravel. Hidden truths are revealed, and soon Hilja comes face-to-face with an unthinkable tragedy from her childhood: the murder of her mother.
ex-lover, criminals, Alps, Helsinki, 2010s, murder, nature, New York, bodyguard, international crime, 21st century, female protagonist, Russian criminals
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: ARGO spol. s r. o., RUSSIA: Azbooka-Atticus, TURKEY: Nemesis Yayıncılık A.Ş.
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Harri Nykänen
The fourth entry in the Ariel Kafka series.
In the neighbourhood of Töölö in Helsinki, a dead female is discovered with religious texts written onto her body. This is not a murder victim, however, but a body stolen from the morgue. Soon after its discovery, the body is stolen once more and ceremoniously burned in Helsinki’s Central Park.
Ariel Kafka’s investigation leads him to the enigmatic Brotherhood of the Holy Vault and one of its members Reijo Laurén, who is also suspected of stealing the body. Before Kafka begins to put together the mystery piece by piece, many people have to pay for their past sins with their lives
Helsinki, crime, mystery, Judaism, cult, religion, Jewish policeman, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Crime Time (orig.)
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Johanna Sinisalo
Albert Einstein is claimed to have said that if bees disappear from the earth, mankind has four years left to live. When mass bee-vanishings of unprecedented scope and devastation hit the United States, Orvo, a beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead. And one day, when Orvo goes to check on his hives, he is forced to witness something he wishes he had never lived to see. The queen is dead. The epidemic has spread to Europe. The world is coming to an end.
beekeeper, undertaker, meat farmer, eco-activist, apiary, meat farm, Other Side, grief, species extinction, bees, internet, Finland, future, death, mythology, zoology, 21st century, 2000s, male protagonist, speculative fiction, alternate world
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), BULGARIA: Perseus Publishing House, CROATIA: Naklada Ljevak, DENMARK: Jensen & Dalgaard, POLAND: Foksal Publishing Group
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Sari Peltoniemi
Nominated for the Topelius Prize 2012: A gripping tale that sweeps the reader along.
After a trip to Lapland, Jouni is confused to start with. Why does a skinny, tree-hugging woman appear in front of him both on the fells of Lapland and in the outskirts of his home town? Is he imagining it all – why does no one else see the woman? But when Jouni is on his way to a music shop with his best mate Mikko to buy a guitar, something happens to give him a profound scare.
‘I reckon what’s happened is that you’re being pursued by a spirit,’ says Romppainen when Jouni confides in his former teacher. ‘What I cannot tell you is why it’s happened and what it wants from you.’ Romppainen takes a thick volume called Mythical Tales down from the shelf.
‘This is not a tale,’ Jouni blurts out. This is real.’
‘Calm down. Sometimes fact and fiction are not as far apart as is generally thought.’
Jouni’s mother, a Koltta Sami, vanished when Jouni was little. Ever since, he has lived with his father and his sister Saara. Are the mysterious events somehow connected with his mother, is she under the spell of the forest magic or what has happened to her? The eagle owl, which has settled down in Jouni’s garden, could probably answer if you could understand it.
Jouni begins to get to the bottom of the mystery with his friend Mikko. He is helped by the membership register of a Lapp community and Romppainen, the charismatic teacher who taught Jouni throughout his time at the primary school.
In addition to supernatural events, Jouni gets into a spin because of natural events. Romppainen’s daughter Matleena is at the same school and first love hits him like a sledgehammer. Fear and love, secrets and reality transform his life.
young adult, fantasy, secrets, magic, nature, Lapland, Sami culture, male protagonist, contemporary
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Hannele Huovi
The giant maiden’s tears flow and a river bursts its banks but the tale has a happy ending.
The book is a lively story about the world’s last giant girl Tina Higgins, who suffers from loneliness. Peter Perkins, on the other hand, is an exceptionally small boy but he is not afraid of big things. He likes to think of stars, planets and other big and distant things. One day the giant girl and Peter meet each other…
‘I’ve always admired big women,’ Peter said.
‘I think everything small is beautiful,’ said the giant girl.
‘That means we’re well matched! he said.
‘True!’ The giant sounded happy, lifted Peter to her lips and gave him a kiss.
The giant girl’s kiss was like a rainstorm. Peter nearly fainted with happiness. His life with Tina the giant maiden would be grand.
giant maiden, tiny boy, love, friendship, children's literature, romance, loneliness, self-esteem, illustrated book, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), EGYPT: Boustany's Publishing House, ESTONIA: Võru Instituut, RUSSIA: TEXT, TAIWAN: Jia-xi Books Co., Ltd. / Literary Agency
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Karo Hämäläinen
The Buyout is a financial thriller. Instead of the world politics and violence characteristic of action thrillers, the suspense arises from the intrigues of people working in the capital markets. Karo Hämäläinen has combined the excitement of an action thriller with page-turning narration in a social novel. The result is a hybrid – a novel of unusually depth and narrative control that is also highly readable and entertaining.
asset management company, financial crisis, crime, suspense, thriller, business, finance
Rights sold: FINLAND:WSOY (orig.)
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Leena Lehtolainen
Hilja Ilveskero is visiting her lover David Stahl in Italy, where he is hiding from a Belorussian mobster. After David suddenly disappears, Hilja is forced to return to Finland to work for her former client who owns a restaurant. When someone begins threatening the business, Hilja is drawn into a web of international crime.
The Lion of Justice was published in August 2011, and it immediately hit the top of Finland’s official bestseller list and the bestseller list of Adlibris, the biggest online bookshop in the Nordic countries!
mysterious man, blackmail, Finland, Helsinki, Italy, 2010s, memories, thriller, violence, bodyguard, disappearance, international crime, 21st century, female protagonist, Russian criminals
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), CZECH REPUBLIC: ARGO spol. s r. o., RUSSIA: Azbooka-Atticus, TURKEY: Nemesis Yayıncılık A.Ş.
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Finland, Helsinki, crime, suspense, 1940s, war, espionage, noir, hard-boiled detective, 20th century, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Crime Time (orig.)
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Johanna Sinisalo
Pi is eight years old, and she’s had a rotten summer vacation so far. Her best friend Sanna is moving away, and her special hideout in the woods has been smashed. Even her big sisters, who are verging on adolescence, have changed so much she hardly recognizes them anymore. But then Pi finds a strange object that looks like a bracelet among the trash cans, and an even stranger creature: Schrödinger’s Cat, who according to its own words both exists and does not exist at the same time...
Schrödinger’s Cat, strange creatures, grade school, topology, quantum physics, Finland, adventure, girls, Tampere, children's literature, 21st century, 2000s, fantasy world
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.)
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Hannele Huovi
A merry fable about a little Too-wit Egg’s adventures in Too-wit Woods and on the Too-wit Mountain with heart-warming illustrations by Kristiina Louhi.
When the morning sun peeped into the Too-wits’ nest, Mother Too-wit felt she might be ready to lay an egg. She settled in the downy nest, watched the clouds drifting in the sky and rolled out an egg. The egg had jaunty spots, it was smooth as silk and altogether perfect. Mother Too-wit tapped the egg lightly and warbled, as she was wont to warble to her eggs, ‘Too-wit, too-woo, too-who?’
The next thing she knew, the egg started quivering and shivering, shifting and swaying, bouncing and bounding – and finally it sprang out of the nest. ‘Help!’ Mother Too-wit cried. ‘It’s on the run!’
owl, children's literature, humor, illustrated book, animals, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Hannele Huovi
When you are tiny,
you can fly on a feather,
or sleep under heather,
when you are tiny.
This baby book by two popular authors provides for a wonderful record of a childhood, and will amount to a treasure trove that will be a source of pleasure for life. It is a tender and beautiful gift book for babies and their parents; an empowering book for both.
childhood, children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, birth, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
When Tommy wakes up in the morning, he knows right away he’s in an unfamiliar place. He can hear strange noises from outside: a baby crying, a cow mooing and a big engine running. Tommy is visiting his cousins Gertie, Artie and Willie the baby.´The world looks very different at his cousins’ place compared to Tommy’s home in the city. You can see fields, cows, woods, a huge blue silo and on top of it all a real tractor chugging in the middle of the yard! The breakfast porridge tastes familiar, but the milk is different. It’s thick, yellow and sweet. “It’s our Apricot’s milk,” explains Gertie, and later Tommy gets to know Apricot the cow, along with her friends Rosemary, Marjoram and Thyme.
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
visiting cousins, children's literature, parenting, farm, countryside, farm life, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), LEBANON: Dar Kreidieh
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Riikka Pulkkinen
An addressing novel about the deceptiveness of memory, the mercy of a lie, and love
Elsa is dying. Her husband Martti and daughter Eleonoora are struggling to accept the crushing thought that they are soon to lose her. As Elsa becomes ever more fragile, Eleonoora’s childhood memories are slipping away.
Meanwhile, Eleonoora’s daughter Anna spends her time pondering the fates of passersby. For her, the world is full of stories. But the story that will change her forever is the one about Eeva, her mother’s nanny, whom her grandparents have been silent about for years.
Eeva’s forgotten story, which Anna first learns of when she discovers an old dress of Eeva’s, is finally revealed layer by layer. The tale that unfolds is about a mother and daughter, about how memory can deceive us – and sometimes that is the most merciful thing that can happen.
cancer patient, Finland, Helsinki, mother, father, family, love, memories, death, 1960s, cancer, illness, today, daughter, 20th century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
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Harri Nykänen
The third Inspector Kafka novel.
Ariel Kafka is assigned to investigate the death of a wealthy entrepreneur, a respected member of the Helsinki Jewish community and the father of his ex-girlfriend. Clues point towards the local Jewish circles, Israel, and a Finnish suspect who returns from Tel Aviv to set up an importing company.
Ariel finds himself embroiled in international intrigue that claims victims both innocent and guilty, and pits his own morals against the future of his nearest and dearest.
Helsinki, crime, murder, Israel, Judaism, international crime, Jewish policeman, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Kari Nars
The colourful history of great money fraudsters. A thrilling read of the most unscrupulous swindles of mankind published in English in March 2011!
Throughout the history of mankind unscrupulous financial crooks have swindled billions from their gullible victims. These sophisticated crimes are spreading like wildfire. Bernard Madoff’s incredible 65 billion dollar pyramid ruined thousands of Americans, including millionaire businessmen, Hollywood film personalities and cancer charities. He is the Criminal of the Century.
Ten of the world’s most interesting financial swindles are examined by Dr. Kari Nars in this unique book Swindling Billions. He reviews the nature and working methods of some of the great money fraudsters: what kind of people they really are, their thought processes, how they succeeded in cheating thousands of wealthy people, and what kind of people are liable to fall victim to such scams. Do they at all regret their nasty deeds?
fraudsters, Bernard "Bernie" Madoff, fraud, scams, Ponzi scheme, financial crime, crime, non-fiction, money, corruption, wealth
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), HUNGARY: HVG Publishing House, ROMANIA: Hardcover & Paperback SRL
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Sari Peltoniemi
Kaarina didn’t hesitate when Valeri asked her: – Will you come with me? I’m going to leave everything behind and start a new life.
The Servant of Dusk takes place in a world familiar from Sari Peltoniemi’s earlier fantasy novel, The Scale. Kaarina’s and Valeri’s ballad-like love story is intertwined with a fascinating alternative history and the timeless charm of fantasy – and with Jesse, whose game has turned into reality.
young adult, fantasy world, fantasy, suspense, relationships, parallel world, alternate history, teenage protagonist, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, visiting grandparents, garden, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Leena Lehtolainen
A thrilling series with a complex female protagonist, New York-trained bodyguard Hilja Ilveskero.
In the first book, Hilja’s client conducting real estate business in Russia is killed, and she is suspected of murder. She sets out to prove her innocence – both to the authorities and to herself. Going underground, she soon realizes that someone is after her. Can she trust anyone, even the people closest to her – and what is the price of betraying, or saving, another person?
Russian criminals, international crime, Finland, Moscow, love, 2010s, murder, nature, politics, bodyguard, Hilja Ilveskero, 21st century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), ARABIC: Al Arabi, ARMENIA: Guitank Publishing, CZECH REPUBLIC: ARGO spol. s r. o., RUSSIA: Azbooka-Atticus, TURKEY: Nemesis Yayıncılık A.Ş.
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Johanna Sinisalo
Young Finnish couple, Jyrki and Heidi, go on the hiking trip of a lifetime in Australasia with Heart of Darkness as reading material. To Jyrki’s great surprise, his girlfriend Heidi demands to come with him, frightened by the idea of several months of solitude. The trip gradually turns into a tortuous thriller with belongings disappearing and, even more mysteriously, reappearing. The travellers come to be at the mercy of untamed nature Birdbrain describes Western people’s desperate longing for somewhere unspoilt and primitive with biting irony. At the same time, it reveals the dark side of this longing, showing it to be an insatiable desire to control, invade and destroy.. Birdbrain reveals the dark side of the explorer’s desire: the insatiable need to control, to invade and leave one’s mark on the landscape. But what happens when nature starts to fight back?
male hiker, female hiker, alienated siblings, Lapland, Tasmania, hiking, birds, Finland, adventure, New Zealand, zoology, anthropocentrism, 21st century, 2000s, multiple protagonists, female protagonist, male protagonist, speculative fiction, relationships
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.), NORWAY: Cappelen Damm
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Sari Peltoniemi
Sari Peltoniemi mixes fairytale and reality creating a hilarious story where the usual situations are turned upside-down and inside-out.
Kerppu is a small black dog. She has lovely parents and a nice home but she is not exactly happy. She wants her own pet! All her friends have pets so why should she be any different. Kerppu whinges for so long that her parents give in: they give Kerppu a girl as a pet. Whopee! But now Kerppu needs to learn how to look after it…
Sometimes the combined living arrangements in the households with dogs and humans can be complicated. This goes for Kerppu, too: she gets into a lot of trouble and even in danger with her girl. But even then it is absolutely clear that they belong together. And in the end it doesn’t even matter who owns who.
little girl, pets, animal love, pet problems, humor, children's literature, illustrated book, female protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Miina Supinen
Jelly Control is a human comedy about family, happiness, corporeality, pleasure and self-deceit. It is also a lively novel about the dangers of eating jam, the ins and outs of gym etiquette and the basic principles of throwing the party of the year.
body image, bodybuilding, self-deceit, family, family, satire, humor, self-esteem, multiple protagonists
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Sari Peltoniemi
Oona is angry. She’s so furious that she walks into the lake with all of her clothes on and swims farther than she ever has before – over to the other side. The water scrapes against her strangely, and she gets a deep cut.
On the opposite shore, the landscape has changed and the people seem slightly odd, and no one has a mobile phone. A flying lizard? A mind-reader? People living in sheds? Daylight scares them? When Oona starts working in a shoe factory, she understands that some kind of evil is enveloping the whole village. Why won’t anyone talk about it?
The Scale is a youth novel that flits as smoothly as a lizard from one time, and one reality, to another. It ladles out a mixture of recent history, vampire stories, and pure fantasy. What if the world was just the tiniest bit different – by a cat’s whisker or the width of a lizard’s scale?
young adult, dragons, fantasy world, fantasy, suspense, relationships, 1940s, monsters, witches, time travel, parallel world, 20th century, teenage protagonist, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Laura Lindstedt
Laura Lindstedt’s impressive novel Scissors succeeds in developing from a description of contemporary adoptive parenthood and motherhood into a discourse on fundamental issues.
Scissors is a story of a woman, Maria, who adopts a little girl from China. Great expectations and the desire to love turn to inadequateness before the child’s blank stare. What happens if a child doesn’t respond at all? Or if the mother and the child are afraid of each other?
Lindstedt writes boldly about a woman’s life and the need to love one’s child. The novel discusses sensitive matters that are not often talked about: the distance between child and parent, the fear of failure and finally a mother’s mental instability.
Scissors manifests both a great command of language and structure and a skillful ability to manipulate plot.
1960s, Finnish village, China, Chinese town, France, Finland, Helsinki, 2000s, Paris, adoption officer, orphanage director, intercountry adoption, single-parent adoption, lack of love, self-deception, childhood trauma, abandonment, exoticism, mother, father, grandfather, mental breakdown, alcoholism, grandmother, adoption, problems in communication, motherhood, 21st century, 20th century, female protagonist, adopted girl, parental love
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.)
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Kari Nars
Is money the key to our happiness? This is what is widely believed to be true. After all, the basis of modern day economics assumes that increased wealth promotes peoples’ wellbeing. Why then, in the current climate of wealth and prosperity, do more and more people fall prey to stress, burnout, depression, alcoholism, divorce, or even suicide? Why do millions of children, young people and families feel increasingly bad by the day?
Nars also studies the secret that women seem to hold, the one that tips the happiness scales in their favour. Money and Happiness looks for answers to many puzzling and interesting questions and reveals the real keys to true happiness – fully supported by genuine and up-to-date research.
personal finance, wellbeing, non-fiction, money, wealth, happiness, burnout
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Tomi Kontio
A cow that has a trap door on its side tells the classic story of two siblings running away from home. The route is not long, but it is peculiar: inside a cow's stomach the children escape to Estonian airspace. In return for the trip, the Cow wants the ability to talk in the same eccentric manner as the children. But the children do not want to give away their eccentricity.
The Cow with a Trap Door on Her Side represents Kontio’s writing at its best: his masterful use of language and surrealistic literary landscaping. The book does not underestimate the readers or try to be educational. It manages to capture the confusion of childhood in a refreshing manner, as the children escape into the world, transported in the cow’s stomach. Camilla Pentti’s stylized illustrations suit the lopsided style of the book perfectly.
cow, running away from home, Finland, Estonia, adventure, children's literature, siblings, humor, absurd, illustrated book, child protagonist, animal protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos (orig.)
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Riikka Pulkkinen
What are our limits, and who draws them?
It’s a sweltering summer’s day, and Anja Aropalo is on her way home with two errands in mind: first, to water the roses, and then to commit suicide. She is slowly losing her husband to Alzheimer’s disease, and she has made him a terrible promise — one she’s not sure she can keep.
For Anja’s niece, Mari, death is a teenage fantasy of grieving family and eternal beauty, an escape from the dullness of her life. But the adventure she longs for seems to come within reach when she begins a relationship with her charismatic teacher, Julian. His six-year-old daughter, Anni, is a witness to their blossoming affair, observing the lies and truths of those around her as she tries to discover what it is to be an adult.
The Limit draws together these four people, all struggling to work out where their boundaries lie. In vivid, incandescent prose, Riikka Pulkkinen reveals how our limits can show us who we really are.
sick husband, small girl, alzheimer's disease, desire, Finland, 2010s, sexuality, death, beach, wife, teenage girl, 21st century, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Otava (orig.), GERMANY: Ullstein
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Harri Nykänen
The second entry in the Inspector Kafka series.
The police receives an anonymous telephone call about the discovery of two bodies who have been stabbed to death. Much to his surprise, Kafka recognises one of the victims as Maija Erkkilä, known in criminal circles as “Spider Woman.” The identity of the other victim surprises him even more: It is Aimo Ikonen, Helsinki Violent Crime Unit’s deputy commissioner.
The deeper Ariel and his subordinates dig, the more tangled the affair becomes, complicated by evidence of Ikonen’s troubled past. In the course of his investigation Ariel meets Ikonen’s artist daughter Saara, a woman more ill-fated than Maija Erkkilä, and one who leaves an everlasting mark on him.
Helsinki, crime, drugs, murder, Judaism, Jewish policeman, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Maria Peura
At the Edge of Light is a suffocating story of a true-life Romeo and a Juliet born somewhere in the far north, in a world of permafrost and insufferable people.
The novel is set in a close village community and tells the story of a girl and the boy she loves. Burning passion threatens to consume the lovers, and other people are a source of pain, but there is also room for absurd, ad-hoc humour. Peura describes her characters beautifully, heartbreakingly and with great honesty. Readers fear for them, and hope that the passion and curiosity that these young lovers struggle so vainly to conceal will not completely destroy them.
young lovers, family, love, secrets, small village, Lapland, nature, community, broken youth, female protagonist, contemporary
Rights sold: FINLAND: Teos
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Elina Hirvonen
In Elina Hirvonen’s accomplished debut, a young journalist named Anna Louhiniitty is trying to come to terms with the trauma of her past: the years she has spent trying to protect her mentally ill older brother, Joona, and the generational trauma she has inherited from her family and the legacy of WWII. She is sitting in a café, attempting to read Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, given to her by her lover Ian, a visiting lecturer from the U.S. It’s just over a year after 9/11, and as Anna processes her memories, she also tells us Ian’s story, who has suffered his own trauma as a bullied child with a father who succumbed to mental illness in the Vietnam War. In Hirvonen’s lucid prose, Anna grapples with her painful memories, as well as those of Ian and her family, and slowly begins to find the words to name her experiences and accept them. As she ends her quiet afternoon in the café, she knows she can go on, one day at a time.
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Harri Nykänen
The first entry in the Inspector Kafka series.
During the period known as the Days of Awe that lead up to Yom Kippur, Ariel Kafka, inspector in the Violent Crime Unit of the Helsinki police and one of two Jewish policemen in Finland, is confronted with the most difficult case of his career. Two Arabs are killed near the capital city and, shortly after, Kafka discovers two more bodies at an Iraqi-owned garage. Are these deaths evidence of gang warfare or international terrorism?
When it transpires that an Israeli Minister will make an unofficial visit to Helsinki, matters become truly complicated. The Finnish Security Police and Mossad all have a role to play and Kafka is on a trail that leads him back to his youth.
Jewish policeman, Helsinki, crime, suspense, drugs, murder, Judaism, terrorism, male protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
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Riina Katajavuori
A story about mothers and generations, and how wishes and expectations are passed from one generation to the next.
Tuulia is a housewife with a husband and two children. She is adamant about staying home as long as their youngest is still small, but at times she longs to return to the safer, more familiar halls of academia.
How to pass the tests of motherhood and parenting without flunking? Tuulia feels that she is an intermediary, carefully weighing her values and attitudes before passing them on. Her social life is also restructured, as other mothers step into view: a peer group with which she can share the growing pains of the playground.
Gifts is a novel that seeks to find the roots of the everyday, to remember the things that we often forget. Life with children is not an epic tale, but one built up of small, often irrelevant little events and associations – the details that are effaced in the face of more dramatic life changes.
motherhood, parenting, everyday life, generations, housewife, female protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
kindergarten, children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
young big boy, children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, birthday, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Maria Peura
A shocking yet bright work about a harsh subject.
Your Love Is Infinite tells about 6-year-old Saara, who has been taken to her grandparents’ house for the summer because her parents aren’t able to care for her. Grandpa is the only adult Saara believes loves her, but it is precisely his violent love that drives Saara into a world of fantasy and guilt. Saara longs for her mother, but she isn’t able to help, and Saara is left to her grandfather’s mercy.
Without blaming anyone, Peura weaves a taut, beautiful, powerful tale about a difficult subject: incest. She writes about children’s trust and dependence, and how they manage to survive.
violent grandfather, absent parents, incest, lyrical, secrets, religion, abuse, evil, child's perspective, sexual assault, young girl, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, Christmas, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, nature, illustrated book, cottage, fishing, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, zoo, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), LEBANON: Dar Kreidieh
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
visiting grandparents, children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), LEBANON: Dar Kreidieh
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Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, being sick, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), LEBANON: Dar Kreidieh
1
Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, young baby boy, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.), LEBANON: Dar Kreidieh
0
Kristiina Louhi
The beautiful Tommy book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
The adorable little boy Tommy and his development – from early baby days into toddlerhood and beyond – is followed with vivid images and an engaging story. Tommy was first introduced to the public in the book Our Tommy in 1993, and the books have since gained a classic status amongst children’s books.
young baby boy, children's literature, parenting, tantrum, bedtime story, illustrated book, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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Kristiina Louhi
A classic children's book series created by the award-winning illustrator and author Kristiina Louhi
Aino is a two-year-old girl who's days are filled with all sorts of familiar, but fun things: putting clothes on, going outside, eating, going to the store, playing and building a sand castle. Before washing up it is important to do the 'shower dance' and on the feather islands one can taste the blue ice cream.
young toddler girl, children's literature, parenting, illustrated book, female protagonist, child protagonist
Rights sold: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
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