Karl Ove Knausgaard

A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard is an unforgettable and fiercely honest exploration of childhood, family, and loss. One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, this introspective novel delves deeply into the author's own life experiences, offering a raw and compelling narrative that captures universal truths. The novel begins with the stark and...

From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn is a love letter about the world, written in short, dazzling pieces by a father to his unborn daughter. The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, it is a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter. "Inspiring, surprising... Autumn will warm and enlighten...

Night and blood were unchanged, night and blood had been with us always. The utterly gripping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Death in the Family. Night and blood were unchanged, night and blood had been with us always. In the summer of 1985, Kristian Hadeland leaves his life in Norway behind and moves to London to...

The future is no more, and eternity has begun. An immersive and enthralling novel from The Sunday Times bestselling author. The future is no more, and eternity has begun. It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts of a town in...

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys, and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys, and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. Moving... A circadian novel, set over one day... Entirely ingenious - Daily Telegraph Spring follows a father and...

Nine lives are brought together by the mysterious appearance of a huge star in the sky in this exhilarating novel from the international bestseller. Nine lives will be changed forever in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller. Addictive Daily Telegraph Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling New York...

‘Ferociously readable... I still can't get enough’ The Times If no one ever died, what would happen then? For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named...

The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard. "Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer, yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. For the...

A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine. In the Land of the Cyclops marks Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English. These brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his groundbreaking fiction. In this collection, Knausgaard discusses...

An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now. This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know. It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a...

From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard's unborn daughter. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter draws near. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it anew. While new life is on the...

A Scandinavian Christmas invites you to immerse yourself in a Nordic Noël through a collection of the very best Scandinavian Christmas tales, ranging from the timeless works of Hans Christian Andersen to the contemporary stories of Karl Ove Knausgaard. Experience a truly Scandinavian Christmas filled with visions and prophecies seen in dark, mysterious woods. Encounter toys and trees that come...

Adieu Maria Magdalena considers recurring themes and motifs from Mamma Andersson's oeuvre and suggests complex and potent feelings related to loss. Finding inspiration in work by other Scandinavian painters, including Carl Fredrik Hill and Vilhelm Hammershøi, Andersson explores the tension between interiority and the external world, imbuing her compositions with a haunting stillness and introspection. Departing from earlier oil-on-board paintings,...

An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now. Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case...

An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now. As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of his...

If no one ever died, what would happen then? Experience a major literary universe in the making from global bestseller Karl Ove Knausgaard. 'Ferociously readable. . . I still can't get enough' The Times If no one ever died, what would happen then? For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless...

Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. Knausgaard unearths the mysteries of the commonplace. — Observer In Summer, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about long days full of sunlight, eating ice cream with his children, lawn sprinklers, and...

This collection of Mamma Andersson's latest paintings spotlights the beauty and mystery of nature and the erasure of time. "What Mamma Andersson does in some of these pictures is on the one hand depict the illusions, the one thing which is another thing—masks, theater, statues, paintings—and on the other portray that which is only itself, potted plants, tree trunks, trees,...