. Bound proofs available . Will receive blanket coverage across the press and broadcast media . Asne is an incredibly engaging and compelling speaker and will support publication with a full UK PR tour

The author takes a novelistic approach but this is journalism at its very best ... undoubtedly Seierstad's most powerful narrative to date Sunday Times Scrupulously researched ... Seierstad has a remarkable eye for the haunting detail, particularly of empathy, and of grief Mail on Sunday A chilling portrait of a killer ... Seierstad is a brilliant investigative reporter ... her book is a psychiatric case history, as well as a close look at Norwegian society, not least by paying as much attention to Breivik's victims, as to their murderer Guardian What emerges as Seierstad - a precise, distinguished war reporter and author of The Bookseller of Kabul - pieces together the evidence from police and court transcripts, from survivors, from Breivik's mother, is in part a more literary version of The Day of the Jackal The Times An astonishing piece of work ... One of Us looks straight at horror and doesn't flinch: it is classic reporting. We've been diverting ourselves so much recently with crime fiction making play with the eruption of evil into the apparently harmonious societies of Scandinavia. This is the real thing, beyond any novelist's imagining. We need to take note Evening Standard

Asne Seierstad was born in 1970 and studied Russian, Spanish and the History of Philosophy at Oslo University. An internationally bestselling author, she has also received numerous awards for her journalism. She worked as a correspondent in Russia between 1993 and 1996 and in China in 1997. Between 1998 and 2000 she covered the Balkans, including the war in Kosovo, for Norwegian television. In 2000 she published her first book, With their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia. After September 11th 2001 she went to Afghanistan, reporting for a number of major Scandinavian newspapers. The following year she went back to live with an Afghan family and wrote The Bookseller of Kabul, which was first published in English in 2003. It became an international bestseller, selling over two million copies. The paperback edition remained in the Sunday Times top ten for over a year. In spring 2003 Asne Seierstad reported on the war in Iraq from Baghdad and later released A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal. In 2009 she wrote her critically acclaimed book about life in Chechnya, The Angel of Grozny. Following the atrocities in Oslo and Utoya in July 2011, she attended the trial of Anders Breivik and wrote several articles about the atrocities and their aftermath for Norwegian and international newspapers. She then began work on One of Us, which became a European bestseller. All of Asne Seierstad's books are published by Virago. She is currently working on a book about Libya and the aftermath of Gaddafi.