The Third Realm

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 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 Valdemar and is lured to a secret death metal gig in a remote forest. Geir, a policeman, is investigating a ritual murder but chances upon something more horrifying even than the bodies in the trees—the last bodies he sees, because, as undertaker Syvert is the first to realise, people have stopped dying since the star appeared.

What is haunting the world—and why?

As profound as it is thrilling, Karl Ove Knausgaard's The Third Realm is a breathtaking novel about ordinary lives on the cusp of irrevocable change.

PRAISE FOR THE THIRD REALM

'A visionary epic. . . an exemplary masterclass in what fiction can offer' Guardian

'One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I've ever read. . . This book made me afraid of the dark again.' Brandon Taylor, Washington Post

'Unsettling, disturbing and riveting. . . as accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama series. There is no writer I would rather devour' Spectator

'A deeply strange, polyphonic gothic novel with echoes of Bram Stoker. . . conjures a fictive world that is at once strikingly humane, unsettling, and wholly unique' Ferdia Lennon

PRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD

'Addictive' Daily Telegraph

'Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling' New York Times

'Casts an existential spell. . . captivating' Financial Times