Torkil Færø’s The Pulse Cure was voted by Bok365’s readers as their favorite book of 2023.
– It feels almost absurd. I have measured my pulse for four years and been seen as odd at the doctor’s office because I said that this has the potential to turn the healthcare system upside down. But that the message resonated as it did, and that people are so enthusiastic about the book, is enormous. I receive daily messages from people saying the book has changed their lives. This is the world’s first book on how to use a heart rate monitor in preventive health. It’s surprising how many have embraced it so far., Torkil Færø says to Bok365.
The Pulse Cure has spent 58 weeks on the best seller list and has been sold to five languages: Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Polish and World English. Færø believes that the book’s appeal lies in the fact that many people experience the immediate effects of The Pulse Cure, but also how health becomes similar to a game:
- It’s a gamification of one’s own health, something that I think many find very intuitive. We are terrible at recognizing our own condition. By nature, we are programmed to perceive external threats, not internal ones. So it’s incorrect to think that one can feel, for example, that they need more rest. No, otherwise, many wouldn’t end up burned out with fatigue. There are readers who have discovered cancer through Pulskuren, as their stress levels did not decrease after following my advice. And in such cases, I always advise contacting a doctor.
Færø adds that you don’t need a heart rate monitor to follow his Pulskur:
- My editor was very adamant that people should benefit from Pulskuren even without a heart rate monitor. And the advice on exercise, sleep, diet, stress, and alcohol doesn’t require a heart rate monitor to follow.
Read more about Torkil Færø and The Pulse Cure here.
Norway’s largest independent literary agency, Northern Stories, has been named a Gazelle Company by Dagens Næringsliv for the second consecutive year. In 2024, the agency grew its turnover from NOK 10.2 to 15.8 million – an increase of more than 50 percent, marking yet another record year.
We’re delighted to share that Agnes Ravatn has been nominated for the Booksellers’ Award 2025 for her brilliant new novel Doggerland. Her novel is also already sold to Poland, and in World English.
We’re proud to announce that Frode Helland has been nominated for this year’s Brage Prize for Nonfiction, Norway’s most prestigious literary award, for his extraordinary book Holocaust – A history told by the victims. This is a deeply moving and illuminating contribution to our understanding of one of history’s darkest chapters.
Northern Stories has hired Dilani Vamapahan as a literary agent. She was chosen from a pool of 175 applicants.
“A great honour,” says Kristofer Hivju about playing police investigator Ole Vik in the crime series Sogn Murders. The TV2 series is based on Jørgen Jæger’s bestselling books, and filming started this week in Sogn.