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By Asta Olivia Nordenhof

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The Devil Book is a classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstar. Nordenhof has a sort of literary X factor. — OBSERVER A comet in Scandinavian literature. — OLGA RAVN Fizzes and soars. — MARK HADDON Guardian best translated fiction of 2025 A woman meets... Read More

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The Devil Book is a classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstar.

Nordenhof has a sort of literary X factor. — OBSERVER
A comet in Scandinavian literature. — OLGA RAVN
Fizzes and soars. — MARK HADDON

Guardian best translated fiction of 2025

A woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. Free in a new city, she reveals how she once sold herself to a man called T. Desperate for money, she accepted when T offered her lavish gifts and a suitcase full of cash in exchange for total control of her body. But at the last moment, she chose life and fled.

In London, the woman watches the people around her, searching for clues on how to live in the face of betrayal and loss, and what freedom really looks like. Intimate, revelatory and ultimately revolutionary, this is a portrait of a woman driven to the brink of destruction, who learns to believe in love again.

Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out. — Guardian

Defiantly unique. — Financial Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529934557

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 September 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Contributors:

Translated by Caroline Waight

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 106g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

Asta Olivia Nordenhof is an award-winning poet and author. Money to Burn, the first book in the Scandinavian Star septology, was first published in Denmark in 2020. It was awarded the PO Enquist Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. An international sensation and translated into eighteen languages, Money to Burn was published in English by Jonathan Cape. The Devil Book is the second in the series and was an instant bestseller upon first publication in Denmark.

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