The Heirs of the Arctic

The bestselling Norwegian family drama

Aslak Nore, Sean Kinsella, Sean Kinsella

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MacLehose Press
29 July 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller & suspense; Fiction in translation

Series: The Falck Saga

The Falcks are one of the most powerful families in Norway. And where there is power, there is envy and greed.

December 2015. Six months after the revelations in a long-lost testament testament shook the Falck family to its core.

Hans Falck, who had most to gain from the contentious will, lingers in a hospital bed in northern Norway, gravely injured in an accident. Meanwhile, Sasha Falck, who succeeded her father as the head of the family's foundation, is pushing for a research expedition to the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Sea. Yet there are reasons to be cautious - relations with Russia are strained, with Norway's old Cold War adversary reborn.

The stakes are further raised when reports reach Sasha's ears of a foreign spy in the foundation, sparking a desperate hunt for the mole. And as the expedition nears the spectacular landscapes of the High Arctic, international tensions threaten to spill over into outright conflict - with fateful consequences for the Falck clan.

The Heirs of the Arctic, the second novel in Aslak Nore's bestselling Falck Saga, traces a tale of illicit love, geopolitical cat-and-mouse games and bitter power struggles, as the fate of one powerful Norwegian family becomes emblematic of the challenges facing Europe in the new century.

Translated from the Norwegian by Sean Kinsella

By: Aslak Nore
Translated by: Sean Kinsella, Sean Kinsella
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781529424546
ISBN 10: 1529424542
Series: The Falck Saga
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Aslak Nore (born 1978) grew up in Oslo. Educated at the University of Oslo and the New School for Social Research in New York, he then served in Norway's elite Telemark Battalion in Bosnia. A modern-day adventurer, Nore has lived in Latin America and worked as a journalist in the Middle East and Afghanistan. He has published several non-fiction books and three novels, the last of which, Ulvefellen was a national bestseller and won the Riverton Prize for best crime novel in Norway in 2018. He lives in Provence, France.

Reviews for The Heirs of the Arctic: The bestselling Norwegian family drama

With The Heirs of the Arctic, Aslak Nore confirms himself as the great new voice of the Scandinavian thriller. No noir novelist has achieved such mastery since John le Carré. * Livres Hebdo * Nordic suspense takes on other colours and renews the genre thanks to an author who came from the cold * Page Libraire * This saga will delight fans of 'Succession' * Elle *