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� is is the story of three young people wondering how you go about getting a few things sorted – starting with life itself. Johanna, Boris and Ana-Clara are checking out life and love – as well as dabbling with death.

Sincere, laid-back and yet full of yearning: a story about the loss of innocence and the many � rst times in life – love and sex, manipulation and the experience of death.

Imagine receiving a letter that questions everything you previously held to be true. � is is precisely the predicament Marie, a woman in her early 30s, � nds herself in as she reads the missive an old school friend has sent her. � e letter describes Marie’s happy life in Paris with Victor, a successful gallery owner. In actual fact Marie lives in Hamburg and is in a relationshsip with Johanna. What’s this all about?

A search for identity, love and truth - inescapably exciting and irresistibly soulful.

Jan SchomburgLight and Sound

A� er seven decades of peace, freedom and increasing prosperity, Germany is the most successful country in the world in geopolitical terms. In the wake of its moral suicide in World War Two, Germany has consistently taken a subor-dinate role and done its utmost to avoid the onside position with the allies. But many of the pillars on which the country’s post-war success story is based are in danger of collapse, forcing the Federal Republic to assume a more active role in the political as well as the military sphere.

Urgent questions are considered and discussed in a composed and unruf-� ed manner, without shying away from breaking taboos.

Carolin HageböllingThe Letter

Leon Mangasarian, Jan TechauGermany’s Leadership ResponsibilitiesServant Leadership as political strategy

Literary Fiction256 pages

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Ikigai

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It’s autumn 2014 and the landlord of number 13, the only unrenovated house le� on Hebelstrasse, has been vacating the building of its tenants for the past two years. � e three remaining occupants have made themselves comfortable in their various di� erent ways—and then one day a letter arrives. Eviction...structural renovation...notice to quit... � nal. � e � ght begins and the reader surprisingly � nds himself immersed in the commentary of the one protagonist whose fate is de� nitely at stake here: the house.

Trenchant, sometimes funny and profoundly moving – a novel about the last tenants of an apartment building that comes with many a surprising twist and turn.

Dresden, 1947, the second year a� er the end of the war. � e city lies within the Soviet occupation zone and is still a desert of rubble and ruins. Inspector Max Heller is summoned to the scene of a crime—but before he gets a chance to begin his investigation he discovers that the Russian military has removed the corpse of a Red Army soldier from the scene. At the same time, Heller makes a gruesome discovery in an abandoned rucksack: a man’s severed head...

A freezing winter, an occupied city, abandoned children, a brutal murderer on the loose—and Max Heller’s second case.

Madeleine PrahsThe Remnants

Ikigai: this resonant Japanese term stands for the joy that comes with � nding meaning in life and consequently concentrating on the things that are truly worthwhile. Research shows that those with high ikigai levels not only lead a more ful� lled life but also have a signi� cantly higher life-expetancy than those who haven’t yet found their raison d’être. In this manual, Bettina Lemke exp-lains the principles and o� ers readers guidance for discovering their own ikigai by using mental techniques and other exercises.

In the wake of the Danish "hygge principle" discussed in books the world over, ikigai is the new hot topic that captures the spirit of our times

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Bettina LemkeIkigaiFinding meaning in everyday life-The manual

Literary Fiction256 pagesPub. Date: August 2017

Crime Novel336 pagesPub. Date: October 2017

Self-Help / Spirituality160 pagesPub. Date: December 2017

It’s autumn 2014 and the landlord of number 13, the only unreno-vated house le� on Hebelstrasse, has been vacating the building of its tenants for the past two years. 55-year-old janitor Karl Kramer, 72-year-old Elisabeth Buttkies, a retired German teacher, and Marina, a 28-year-old part-time student who calls herself Jersey, are united in being the last of their kind, though they could hardly be more di� erent. � e three remaining occupants have made themselves comfortable in their various di� erent ways. � e world beyond their door isn’t always a very friendly place, or so they feel, but once they’re in their own separate enclaves they can lick their wounds or tend to their cats. All they want is for everything to stay as it is, suspended in time in a world that never quite exist-ed—and then one day a letter arrives from the new landlord.

Eviction...structural renovation...notice to quit... � nal…

� e � ght begins and the reader surprisingly � nds himself im-mersed in the commentary of the one protagonist whose fate is de� nitely at stake here: the house. � e last of their kind face a monumental battle for their fabled slice of heaven; their very identities. � e struggle is as irrational as it is bitter, harsh and unforgiving. Suspicion, accusation, slander and libel—they’ll stop at nothing. Barricades are erected, cats are poisoned and wigs torched. A shoulder is fractured, but just when they’re at the point of no return, one of them comes up with a brilliant plan. Contrary to all expectations, the last of their kind do what none of them had ever thought possible—they join forces despite all their di� erences.

In the end the geraniums are blossoming again, it’s springtime. Three of them are happy and one is dead.

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Madeleine PrahsNachbarnRoman


272 pages

Pub. Date: August 2017

Neighbours

352 pages

Pub. Date: 2014

Readers will fi nd themselves deeply

immersed in the lives of six people

spanning the period between 1989 and

2006 in a moving episodic novel packed

with wonderful tragi-comic stories of our

times –and the longing for a diff erent life.



P R E V I E W L I T E R A R Y F I C T I O N

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MADELEINE PRAHS was born 1980 in

Chemnitz, grew up on the banks of Lake

Ammer in Bavaria and now lives and works

as a cultural journalist in Leipzig. Her literary

work has won her many awards, including

the Jürgen-Ponto-Stiftung bursary and the

Berlin Literary Colloquium scholarship.

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An inanimate object comes to life commenting on the lives of the pro-tagonists - which are not so different from the ones we know.

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Trenchant, sometimes funny and profoundly moving – a novel about the last tenants of an apartment building that comes with many a sur-prising twist and turn.

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our Autumn 2017 list

Johanna can’t believe that she and Boris have never even kissed. Ana-Clara, Boris’s Portuguese girlfriend can’t be the reason. Johanna always wants to know exactly what’s going on – and why. How come one of her classmates made another one his slave, and why did Boris keep on smiling when the four guys in white beat him up in the club for no apparent reason? Why did he suddenly disappear from the swimming pond that night? Is he seriously intending to kill himself in Iceland? When Johanna sets o� to Reykjavik in search of him, she is amazed to discover that Ana-Clara is actually very likeable.

� is is the story of three young people asking themselves how you go about getting a few things sorted – starting with life itself. Johanna, Boris and Ana-Clara are checking out life and love – as well as dabbling with death.

This is the story of three young people asking them-selves how you go about getting a few things sorted – starting with life itself.

Johanna, Boris and Ana-Clara check out life and love – as well as dabbling with death.

Jan Schomburg

Light and Sound

256 pages



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JAN SCHOMBURG was born in 1976 in

Aachen, studied visual communication at the

Kassel Art Academy and audio-visual media at

the Academy for Media in Cologne. His debut

fi lm “Über uns das All” (Above Us Only Sky) pre-

miered in 2001, followed by “Vergiß mein ich”

(Lose Myself/Forget Me Not), which premiered

in 2013 at the International Film Festival in

Rotterdam.

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Sincere, laid-back and yet full of yearning: a story about the loss of innocence and the many fi rst times in life – love and sex, manipulation and the experience of death.

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Five men in their middle years: convicted former terrorists Muhammad, Suleiman and Jamil from the occupied territories and Israeli refuseniks Chen and Amil. Five former prisoners who founded the Peace Movement a� er their release, determined to give their lives a distinctly new direction.

It was Muhammad who approached Lizzie Doron in the � rst instance, but she would come to meet them all—enemies and adversaries turned allies; Palestin-ians who wanted to kill Jews and Israelis who refused to defend their country. She met with them over the course of a year, and the result is a moving narra-tive about former radicals who came to represent a perspective that remains steadfast against senseless hatred. Words are more powerful than Molotov cocktails, hand grenades or stones. And it’s o� en those who swim against the tide who o� er the best hope of salvation.

LIZZIE DORON was born in

1953 in Tel Aviv. She studied

linguistics before becoming a

writer. Her fi rst novel Ruhige

Zeiten (Quiet Times) won the

Buchman prize, and in 2007

she was awarded the Jeanette

Schocken prize. Critics cele-

brate her as an outstanding

and distinctive narrator who

instils personal experience

with universal signifi cance,

condensing it into poignant,

emotionally charged novels.

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

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256 pages

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An Israeli writer tells the story of a Pales-

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of two diff erent cultures – and a search

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Marten feels most at home in graveyards: they are quiet and their trees o� er plenty of shade. Even as a child he was the odd one out—and as an adult he takes up the profession that � ts him like a lid � ts a co� n: he becomes a funeral bugler, playing a last song for the dead. But when Marten � nds a bank card belonging to his just-buried former classmate Wilhelm, it marks the start of a bizarre odyssey. � rough no fault of his own, he is drawn up in a maelstrom of peculiar events and forced to confront everything he’s taken such great pains to avoid all his life: other people, money, adventure—and love. A funny and poignant novel about one of life’s conscientious objectors, an extraordinary, eccentric character who experiences the adventure of a lifetime over the course of a single summer.

JESS JOCHIMSEN was born

in 1970 and lives in Freiburg.

A cabaret artist, he has won

numerous awards and per-

forms in the top theatres all

over the country.

• a novel about music, funeral songs and taking life one step at a time

• a graveyard bugler experiences the adventure of a lifetime • highly original, offbeat and heart-warming

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Jess JochimsenLeavers’ Ball




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“People tell each other stories in order to survive—but for death they need music.”

Béatrice is in the middle of unpacking when the doorbell rings. She’s just moved from the city to an old mill by a lake somewhere deep in the provinces. She doesn’t know a soul here yet—so who on earth could this be? Outside her door she � nds a young man calling himself Alexander Vogt who claims that Béatrice was a long-standing friend of his mother Helga. He’s trying to � nd out why his mother disappeared for three years back in 1977.

Béatrice can’t remember a thing, but over the next few days she’s assailed by doubts: could Helga actually be Hedda, a friend from her university days who went underground? How much can she actually recall of that distant past and the period that came to be known as the German Autumn? Odile Kennel’s nov-el tells the story of a woman whose personal history re� ects that of the Federal Republic of Germany, posing the question of how we remember our own past.

• the portrait of a woman who changes her memories—and her life• how do we view the 1970s and our life today? • written with great sensitivity and precision – an intensely absorb-

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Odile KennelA View Across the Lake




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“But what if our memories mislead us?” ODILE KENNEL was born

in 1967 in Bühl near Baden-

Baden and grew up bilingual

in German and French. She

studied Cultural and Political

Science, as well as Cultural

Management. She has lived in

Berlin since 1999, where she

worked as a cultural manager

for a while. She is now a free-

lance translator and author.

In 2011, Odile Kennel was

awarded the Alfred Döblin

Grant for her work on “What

Ida Says”.

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What Ida Says

320 pages

Pub. Date: 2011

Tegel airport, Berlin, 2015: a woman who has just arrived from Munich hails a taxi. Nico, the driver, soon realises that he recognises the passenger in his rearview mirror.

Back in 1991 Nico and Jule spent a short but intensely passionate night together in the wake of a demonstration against the imminent Gulf War—and then nev-er saw each other again. What kind of life have they been living in the interven-ing years? Has their mutual attraction stood the test of time?

ULRICH WOELK was born

in Cologne in 1960, and did

research into astrophysics

before becoming a writer and

dramatist. A freelance writer

with several successful novels

to his name, he currently

resides in Berlin.

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Ulrich WoelkNight Without Angel




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BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

»C. S. Forester schrieb zu Beginn seiner Karriere drei richtungweisende Thriller, die ein neues Kapitel in der Geschichte der Kriminalliteratur aufschlugen.«BBC Radio 4

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Whitsun Sacrifi ce

320 pages

Pub. Date: 2015

What Love Is

300 pages

Pub. Date: 2013

Dresden, 1947, the second year a� er the end of the war. � e city lies within the Soviet occupation zone and is still a desert of rubble and ruins. All through that bone-chilling winter, life is dominated by housing shortage, hunger and disease. Inspector Max Heller is summoned to the scene of a crime in Dresden Neustadt by the newly-instigated People’s Police—but before he gets a chance to begin his investigation he discovers that the Russian military has removed the corpse of a Red Army soldier from the scene. All that remains is a frozen pool of blood and an abandoned rucksack. When Heller opens it, he makes a gruesome discovery: a man’s severed head...

A freezing winter, an occupied city, abandoned children, a brutal murderer on the loose—and Max Heller’s second case

Exceptionally well-researched; vividly portrayed, realistic and utterly absorbing

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A Thousand Devils

336 pages

Pub. Date: October 2017

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FRANK GOLDAMMER was born in Dresden

in 1975. A painter and varnisher by trade, he

is a relative newcomer to the literary scene,

though he began writing in his early twen-

ties, self-publishing his fi rst novels. To date he

has written three successful regional crime

thrillers set in Dresden and its surroundings.

A single parent, he lives with his twin chil-

dren in Dresden.

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This was the price of survival. He would pay for it with his dreams and his deepest, most unfathomable fears.

“A great setting for a thrilling story. “The Bogeyman” captivated me from page 1. (…) The inspector really grew on me, even if he seemed grumpy and withdrawn, he was a man who wanted to see justice done, even in these horrible days (…). “ Review from an independent bookseller

“An accomplished historical crime novel; a first-rate read that puts the reader right in amongst the ruins of Dresden. “Frankfurter Stadtkurier

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Dresden, 1944 - a brutal killer terrorises

a war torn city. Detective Inspector Max

Heller’s fi rst case.

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Imagine receiving a letter that questions everything you previ-ously held to be true. � is is precisely the predicament Marie, a woman in her early 30s, � nds herself in as she reads the missive an old school friend has sent her. � e letter describes Marie’s life in Paris—her husband Victor, the successful gallery owner—and her life-threatening illness. What’s this all about?

In actual fact Marie enjoys excellent health; she works as a jour-nalist in Hamburg and is in a happy relationship with Johanna. But the enigmatic letter shakes her to the core. On the spur of the moment she sets o� for Paris—and � nds herself in a life that seems strangely familiar, a life with which she feels an inexplicable connection… A search for identity, love and truth—inescapably exciting and

irresistibly soulful. An elegant, deftly told debut novel with a surprising conclusion.

Carolin Hagebölling

The Letter

240 pages

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CAROLIN HAGEBÖLLING has been living

and working in Munich as a freelance copy-

writer, concept designer and editor since 2010.

She loves the mountains, travelling, writing and

expanding her horizons.

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Maths and physics student Lenny has decided to propose to his girlfriend Zoe on their holiday in the South of France. But then the ring falls into the pool just as he is o� ering it to her!

When Zoe appears supremely unmoved by Lenny’s proposal and gi� despite the huge e� ort involved in retrieving it, Lenny grows suspicious. Just who is this guy Dominik, anyway, who suddenly shows up unannounced in her room? Although the answer means that Lenny has to look for alternative accommoda-tion, he’s not about to give up his true love without a � ght. So he forges a wicked plan that’s full of surprises—and not only for Zoe, either!

KATRIN EINHORN was

born in 1979. After studying

German and French she went

on to work as a teacher. Her

debut novel is inspired by

her experiences with her

dog Maggie and her old blue

moped. She lives in Trier with

her family.

· a mathematician, a love gone astray—and the onset of chaos in the life of a ‘homo faber’

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Four Legs in the Way of Love

256 pages

Pub. Date: 2014

Midhusbandry

304 pages

Pub. Date: 2015

It’s been a year since Karl Sönnings and his team of sleuths showed the Wester-land police force just how to arrest a serial criminal. Now Karl’s acquaintance Helga gets a call from her friend Wilma, whose lodger has disappeared without trace. Unfortunately she can’t report her as missing because there’s no o� cial lease—Wilma has been renting the � at out illegally. To cap it all, Sabine, the young tenant, has been working as a household help for Charlotte and Inge without either of their husbands’ knowledge. � ey haven’t declared her wag-eseither—and to think that Inge’s husband Walter used to work for the tax authorities! It’s just as well that the Westerland police are busy investigating the case of an unidenti� ed body, as it leaves Karl and his cronies undisturbed to search for the missing Sabine. But things take an unexpected turn when it emerges that the two cases are connected…

DORA HELDT, born in 1961

on the North Sea island of

Sylt, trained as a bookseller.

Since 1992, she works as sales

representative for a pub-

lisher and lives in Hamburg.

Between 2009 and 2016, her

novels were bestselling titles

of the year.

The quirkiest investigative team on the North Frisian island of Sylt is back with a bang!

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Dora HeldtWe’re the Good Guys!



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“We just saw your wife.” – “She’s been dead for ten years!”

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Bendix Steensen is stranded by a storm at Heathrow airport. At increasingly frequent intervals, he receives calls from his nine-year-old son Lewe, whose panic is clearly growing by the minute. His mum and grandma have been gone for hours, nobody’s answering their phone and he’s afraid he may no longer be alone in the remote house in Niebüll.

Bendix alerts the local police and although they don’t � nd anything suspicious, he does everything in his power to get back to North Frisia as quickly as pos-sible. But hindered by blizzards and storms, the journey seems endless. Mean-while, Bendix’s wife and mother are facing a struggle of a very di� erent nature —and Lewe really is no longer alone....

ANJA GOERZ comes from

North Frisia, works as a pre-

senter at Northwestern Radio/

Radio Bremen and radioeins/

rbb; she has homes in Falken-

see near Berlin and Bremen.

A sophisticated thriller with a strongly driven plot that pulls the reader in. The growing sense of unease and anxiety is offset beauti-fully by the affectionate depiction of the North Frisian people.

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Anja GoerzWait Till I get my Hands on You!



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Every autumn, Ireland’s most important festival—Samhain, a kind of Hallo-ween—is celebrated on the Aran Islands. It’s a wild night in which all the is-landers dress up to avoid being recognised by the spirits that abound—but one celebrant, a mysterious guest in Pattie Burke’s B&B on Inis Meaín, will not live to see the dawn.

He is murdered by the Green Man, a stranger disguised as a tree, providing Grace O’Malley, head of the Galway murder squad, with her third case. And it’s no walk in the park—not only does she have to deal with all sorts of traditions and phenomena unique to Ireland (such as the Society for the Right to Cut Peat), but she also discovers how painful the concept of homeland can be.

HANNAH O’BRIEN is a jour-

nalist and author who lived in

Great Britain and Ireland for

many years but now divides

her time between homes in

Cologne and on the banks of

the Moselle. A regular visitor

to Ireland, she is an expert on

Irish aff airs.

The third volume of the popular and successful crime series featuring investigator Grace O’Malley from Galway. Full of atmosphere and local colour, likeable characters, unusual cases and entertaining, humorous insights into the people and culture of the Emerald Isle.

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Hannah O’BrienIrish Night



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The Luck of the Irish

416 pages

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Irish Roulette

416 pages

Pub. Date: 2016

� ies Detlefsen’s twin daughters Telje and Tadje take the boat to Amrum for the annual autumn school trip, chaperoned by their class teacher Dr Niggermeier and “super-cute” student teacher Manuel Scholz, who is sporting a dashing pirate’s headscarf. � e crossing is extremely stormy but that doesn’t stop the kids from taking endless sel� es—until one of them discovers the body of young shipping magnate Bent Blankenhorn on the upper deck!

It’s all systems go for � ies and Detective Chief Superintendent Nicole Stappenbek, who immediately begin investigations on an island shrouded be-neath a dense blanket of autumnal fog.

KRISCHAN KOCH lives close

to the water: in Hamburg,

where he works as a fi lm critic

for the NDR (North German

Broadcasting Corporation),

and also on the North Sea

island of Amrum.

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Krischan KochFickle Teens and Fish in Batter



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Ein Küsten-Krimi

Spiked Fruit Jelly

272 pages

Pub. Date: 2013

North Sea Shrimps

272 pages

Pub. Date: 2014

Problematic pirates, perspicacious parrots, terrible teens and a chilled corpse....

Over 250.000 copies of

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Côtes du Rhône and Châteauneuf-du-Pape: two wine-growing regions, one on the le� bank of the Rhone, the other on the right. Two brothers, vintners on opposite sides of the river. When one dies, it looks at � rst sight like an accident. But Simone Latroye, a trainee on the dead winegrower’s vineyard, has good reason to believe that’s not the case, so she asks her godfather Martin Bongers – currently a vintner in Bordeaux – for assistance. � e erstwhile Frankfurt wine merchant rushes to her side immediately—only too well aware of what ambi-tion, envy and greed can drive people to...

After training as a manage-

ment assistant in advertis-

ing, PAUL GROTE studied

sociology and political science

in Hamburg. He spent 15

years living in South America,

from were he reported for the

press and radio on wine and

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Paul GroteThe Wrong Bank of the Rhone



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TWELVE VOLUMES IN THE WINE & CRIMESERIES:

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Bitter Chianti

352 pages

Pub. Date: 2014

Rights sold: France

Over 320.000 copies of

Wine & Crime books in circulation

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What’s more enjoyable? A

splendid wine or a juicy crime

thriller? Paul Grote gives us

both in one.

Frau im Spiegel

Rioja for the Matador

352 pages

Pub. Date: 2006

Rights sold: Poland, Greece

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was one of the greatest musicians and music patrons of the Romantic movement. Grandson of the great philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, he came from a respected, well-to-do Jewish family that convert-ed to Christianity.

His Grand Tour took him not to the “classically” popular countries of Greece, Israel, Italy or France, but to England, where he was enthusiastically received—not least because of his overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. He became so famous that people would greet him on the street with “Good morning, Mr Mendelssohn”. � e a� ection was mutual and remained undiminished until the day of this charming and gi� ed young man’s untimely death from stroke at the age of thirty-eight.

ROSEMARIE MARSCHNER

was born in Austria, has been

living in Germany since 1973

and works as a free-lance

journalist and author of

radio-plays. She has published

numerous successful novels.

• the only bio-fiction on Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to date• Rosemarie Marschner captures her subjects and their era with

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Rosemarie MarschnerGood morning, Mr. Mendelssohn



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512 pages

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A Room Full of Books

420 pages

Pub. Date: 2004

Over 90.000 copies sold

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Rights sold: Israel, Bulgaria, France, English World Rights, Italy, Spain (cast., cat.), Portugal

Else Schrobsdor� 's life resembles a dance atop a volcano, with the dancers slowly gliding into the violent center. Full of passion and admiration but also scepticism, Angelika Schrobsdor� tells us of the two lives of her mother.

More than 600.000 copies sold in Germany alone.� e classic memoir was awarded Best Book of the Year in Spain 2016!

� e life and times of a highly unconventional family; the light and shadow that played across their lives over � ve generations – from 1900 to 2015, from Munich to Leipzig via Miami and India. Recounted from six perspectives—partly historical, occasionally ironic, sometimes intensely dramatic, infallibly entertaining.

Original, vibrant, packed with charm and wisdom – a novel clearly born from an exuberant passion for story-telling

Angelika Schrobsdorff You Are Not Like Other MothersThe History of a Passionate Woman

Dresden, 1944—a brutal killer terrorises a war-torn city

Detective inspector Max Heller is summoned to the scene of a crime, where he is confronted with the savagely battered body of a woman. Very soon, the rumour mills start to grind: it’s the Bogeyman, prowling the ruins at night.

Exceptionally well-researched; vividly portrayed, realistic and utterly ab-sorbing, this novel is an unconditional appeal for justice and humanity.

Christopher KloebleThe Immortal Family Salz

Frank GoldammerThe Bogeyman



Crime Novel336 pages

Rights sold: English World Rights

Ikigai: this resonant Japanese term stands for the joy that comes with � nding meaning in life and consequently concentrating on the things that are truly worthwhile. Research shows that those with high ikigai levels not only lead a more ful� lled life but also have a signi� cantly higher life-expectancy than those who haven’t yet found their raison d’être. We all come equipped with ikigai, it’s a resource just waiting to be tapped in order to attain greater levels of inspiration, vivacity and energyy – to lead a healthier, happier life.

In her introduction, Bettina Lemke explains the principles of ikigai. In the main section she o� ers readers guidance for discov-ering their own ikigai through exercises. � e themes she address-es include conscious breathing, diet, sleeping patterns, exercise, inner peace, resilience, perfect � ow and � nding your individual rhythm of life.

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160 pages

Pub. Date: December 2017

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D A S P R A X I S B U C H

The Pocket Buddhist

112 pages

Pub. Date: 2009

More than 75.000copies sold!



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BETTINA LEMKE, born in 1966, is a translator

and editor and lives near Munich.

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IkigaiFinding meaning in everyday lifeThe manual

Rights sold: Latvia

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Gifts for the SoulFeel-ggod moments for each day

208 pages

Pub. Date: 2016

In the wake of the Danish hygge principle discussed in books the world over, ikigai is the new hot topic that captures the spirit of our times

Contains a wealth of practical exercises

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A� er seven decades of peace, freedom and increasing prosperity, Germany is the most successful country in the world in geopolit-ical terms. It has been actively involved in global security issues while steering clear of any hint of superpower politics. In the wake of its moral suicide in World War Two, Germany has con-sistently taken a subordinate role and done its utmost to avoid the onside position with the allies.

But many of the pillars on which the country’s post-war success story is based—the EU, NATO, the USA and France—are in danger of collapse, forcing the Federal Republic to assume a more active role in the political as well as the military sphere.

� is calls for a totally new strategy which must ensure the avoid-ance of reawakening fears – in the German people and the world at large. To this end, the principle of servant leadership adopted by economists could serve as a model. � e authors comprehen-sively explore this principle in relation to domestic, foreign and economic policy, as well as in terms of global geopolitics.

There will be three global nodes in the future: the U.S., China – and Germany for Europe.

John Kornblum, former U.S. ambassador in Germany

What are Germany’s responsibilities, both in the world and for the world?

Mangasarian and Techau consider and discuss urgent questions in a com-posed and unruffled manner, without shying away from breaking taboos.

Leon Mangasarian and Jan Techau

Germany’s Leadership Responsibilities

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LEON MANGASARIAN is a native Californian

with a doctorate in political theory. He has

been living in Germany for 25 years, reporting

for various news agencies, and has partici-

pated as a rapporteur at numerous interna-

tional summits.

To read more go to http://www.bloomberg.

com/authors/AOkPRcjq4tU/leon-mangasarian.

JAN TECHAU, a native German, was a

long-standing director of Carnegie Europe, an

infl uential think tank based in Brussels; he is

now director of the Richard Holbrooke Forum

of the American Academy in Berlin.

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� e Islamic Republic stands for an authoritarian yet modern society ground-ed in technology and the military which managed to retain a unique Iranian culture. But Iranian society is rent by an ongoing struggle: Which roles are tradition, religion and western in� uences to play in the future? At the same time the country is far more open than other authoritarian powers in Asia. Iran is on the cusp of a new tomorrow. And women are playing a central part: unlike their Arab neighbours, they enjoy a high level of education and are therefore a driving force for social change.

� is book focuses on everyday Iranian life beyond the state. Charlotte Wiede-mann brings in-depth knowledge to her exhaustive analysis of the Iranian worldview, the at times almost obsessive national pride and the deep-seated fears originating in centuries of colonial oppression.

CHARLOTTE WIEDEMANN

is a journalist and author spe-

cializing on the Islamic World.

She has published several

books and written on Iran

for die Zeit, GEO, NZZ and Le

Monde Diplomatique amongst

others. She has travelled

Iran extensively for eleven

years, both as a journalist and

privately.

• includes a chronology and chart depicting the state structure • a multi-faceted narrative portrait of a country significant in both

economic and political terms • an exploration that goes way beyond stereotype thinking

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The New IranBetween hope and despotism



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An inside view of the most important power in the Middle East

We’ve become blithely accustomed to a whole range of foods and drinks due to their ready availability: from staples such as meat, early crop potatoes, cereals, co� ee and tea to almonds, tomatoes, citrus fruit and red wine. But this agree-able state of a� airs is unlikely to last.

Changing weather conditions, too much rain or too little, extremes of drought, frosts and heatwaves – as well as ever new strains of pesticide-resistant para- sites—are endangering the world’s harvests, leading to cost increases and shi� s in agricultural areas. In this book, established experts consider the e� ects of climate change on ten of our most popular staples. How do we prepare for the future? What alternatives are there?

WILFRIED BOMMERT was

born in 1950. He has a doc-

torate in agronomy, was the

founder and leading editor of

the West German Broadcast-

ing Station’s environmental

department, and is co-found-

er of the World Food Institute.

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Wilfried BommertMarianne Landzettel

Scorched AlmondsHow climate change aff ects our menu



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• a fresh look at a hot topic• revelatory and rousing • for all those concerned with sustainable consumption and a healthy diet

What foods will the future serve up?

MARIANNE

LANDZETTEL started her ca-

reer as a German radio report-

er before going on to work

for the BBC for ten years. She

now writes a blog focusing on

organic food for the English

Soil Association.

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� e relentless advance of the Front National is changing the French political landscape. Marine le Pen, the party’s head, is quite clearly reaching out for presidency. Julia Heyer describes how the Front National has become increas-ingly slick and professional and how it manages to attract such untold levels of support among the French electorate. Le Pen has managed to turn her party into a viable option for academics and the well-o� .

“French political discourse has been driven by excessive emotion, if not out-right hysteria, for far too long. What we need to do is analyse the causes of the virulent expansion of the Front National and its penetration of one demogra- phic stratum a� er another; we need to consider e� ective strategies and o� er viable alternatives.” Heyer takes a close look at the party’s leading lights, Marine le Pen and her niece Marion Marechal le Pen, as well as various other in� uential players. Describing recent developments in French society, the book examines the causes and consequences of the Front National’s overwhelming success in the light of the rise of right wing political parties across all of Europe.

JULIA AMALIA HEYER

graduated from the German

School of Journalism and

studied international relations

and European law in Berlin

and at the Institut d’Études

Politiques in Paris. She was

SPIEGEL’s Middle Eastern cor-

respondent based in Tel Aviv

for many years, and during

the 2011/2012 fi nancial crisis

she reported for the magazine

from Athens. Heyer has been

director of SPIEGEL’s Paris

offi ce since 2014.

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Julia Amalia Heyer

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What’s stirring up France – and who’s doing the stirring?

Frustrated by what he sees as patchwork politics, Omid Nouripour presents a tangible political approach for dealing with Islamist terror in terms of both internal and foreign policy. He holds that “IS” can be defeated by adopting a prudent combination of ideological, military, political and monetary resources.

� e war against “IS” has to be of utmost priority (as is currently the case only in Iraq). Capping its revenue streams is of pivotal importance (q.v. the Panama Papers). Iraq is the key to success, not Syria. But even more dangerous than the Middle East are those African countries with weak state structures, or Paki-stan with its nuclear bomb. � e architecture of security requires fundamental change. We’ve spent � � een years � ghting the War on Terror to no avail, and it’s about time we considered other strategies.

OMID NOURIPOUR was born

in 1975 in Tehran. He has been

a member of the German

parliament since 2006, and

is foreign aff airs spokesman

for the Green Party, as well as

holding various other offi ces.

An old hand at politics and

a renowned expert on the

Middle East, he is the only

member of the Bundestag

who can speak Arabic and

Persian.

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Omid Nouripour

What to do about JihadistsA Policy Approach to the War on Terror



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• the first book by an active politician offering a comprehensive concept for domestic and foreign policy

• based on the author’s formidable wealth of experience and his unique knowledge of local conditions

Keith Richards is busted for the � rst time and Che Guevara is shot dead. � e Beatles release Sergeant Pepper and the “Colonel’s Coup” takes place in Greece. In Germany they are working on emergency laws. Martin Luther King takes a stand against the Vietnam War and Twiggy is star model of the year. A woman kitted out as a man takes part in the Boston Marathon—an event from which women are banned. When the truth comes out, it sparks an international scan-dal…

� e year 1967 unfolds in the form of iconic events and encounters that Sabine Pampérrien recounts as current events. Based on authentic material, her book focuses on life—the quotidian and the exceptional, the general atmosphere and the public opinion, the heroes and the villains of politics, literature and popular culture.

SABINE PAMPERRIEN PhD

read law, literature, history

and communication studies.

She worked in journalism and

television until 2003, after

which she struck out as a free-

lance journalist and author,

working for FAZ, der Spiegel,

NZZ and Deutschlandfunk.

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1967Scenes from an unforgettable year



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When women were banned from running marathons…

Michael Wol� sohn’s paternal grandfather Karl was a leading light of the Berlin entertainment industry—but in 1939 he was forced into exile and immigrated to Palestine. Justus Saalheimer, Wol� sohn’s maternal grandfather, was interned in Dachau in November 1938. Following his release in February 1939, he also immigrated to Palestine along with his family. Michael Wol� sohn’s father Max met his wife � ea Saalheimer in Tel-Aviv and the couple returned to Germany in the 1950s, embarking on a new life in the land of their former oppressors. � ough much of the family had been lucky to survive the Holocaust, it was to be the beginning of a protracted struggle for the restitution of property misap-propriated by the Nazis.

Is it possible to reconcile oneself with Germany’s past and live as the proud Ger-man-Jewish patriot Michael Wol� sohn describes himself as? How did his career as scientist and writer evolve? His ever-provocative, radical theories invariably led to his being targeted by both le� - and right-wingers in Germany, while his public persona and the fact that he married out of faith meant he was also long considered an enfant terrible by the Jewish establishment.

MICHAEL WOLFFSOHN

was born in Tel Aviv to Ger-

man-Jewish parents who fl ed

to Palestine in 1939. His family

returned to Germany in 1954,

and Wolff sohn was Professor

of Contemporary History at

the Munich Bundeswehruni-

versität from 1981 until 2012.

This book tells the story of three generations of a widely extended Jewish family—from the early 20th century to their present identity as modern-day Judeo-Christians.

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Michael Wolff sohnGerman-Jewish Children of FortuneA global history of my family



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In Search of World Peace

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Rights sold: Turkey

Rights sold: Spain (cast.), Brazil, Poland, Romania, The Netherlands, Korea, Italy, France

� e diaries demonstrate the appeal of Nazi ideology to young people in a frighteningly realistic way. As well as o� ering historical context, this book brings a new perspective to the highly topical theme of the ideological seduc-tion of adolescents.

� e only existing document of its kind. Review in New Books in German.

How do we go about striking a proper balance in life? Such a central tenet revolves around sustainability and our consumer behaviour. Self-image and health, both physical and psychological, also play a vital role, as do avarice, greed and envy – and, on the other hand, mutual respect, empathy and mind-fulness. Anselm Grün examines all these issues in depth; however his inten-tion is not to put forth a moral suasion, but to show us a path towards a more temperate and contented life.

Anselm Grün’s books have been translated into 30 languages and achieved sales of over 14 million worldwide.

Anselm GrünThe Art of Striking the Right Balance

History360 pages

Psychology320 pages

Self-Help / Spirituality160 pages

André PostertHitler Youth Franz SchallThe diaries of a young Nazi

Rights sold: Italy, Korea

Identifying the classical errors in reasoning we fall prey to and the dilemmas we � nd ourselves trapped in time and again, Jochen Mai shows us how we can improve our decision-making skills.

Common sense psychology for every eventuality; profound, knowledgeable – and entertaining. Features self-tests and pointers.

Jochen MaiHow I Set Out to Buy some Milk and Came Home with a BicycleThe deeper truth behind our decisions

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