Featured Topics: Spring 2024 Fiction
Spring 2024 Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction 32Results
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Year of Publication: 2024
Sybille RugeYear of Publication: 2024
9mm Cut
Novel
When a head turns up in a plastic bag on the front doorstep of the offices of the NGO Interni and the director is murdered, it’s clear that something is amiss with the organisation. And there is nothing worse for a charitable foundation than bad press. A worrying situation for the food and meat tycoon Wellinghofen, the main donor behind Interni, who sends his right-hand woman, under the...
Year of Publication: 2024
Gabriela JaskullaYear of Publication: 2024
Artemisia Gentileschi and a Woman’s Fury
Biographical novel
»I will show Your Illustrious Lordship what a woman can do.« Artemisia Gentileschi
She was a star – and she was notorious. Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1593 in Rome, garnered attention in her early years for her talent as a painter. At 17, she suffered her first dramatic stroke of fate when she was raped by her teacher, forced to marry after a high-profile court case, and then had...
Year of Publication: 2024
Zoë BeckYear of Publication: 2024
Brixton Hill
Thriller
Emma Vine has achieved everything there is to achieve as an event manager in London: she organises the most glamorous parties, represents the biggest stars, and has the most important clients on her books. But when her company in Canary Wharf falls prey to a cyberattack, Emma realises that someone is after her – both on the net and in the real world…
When the air...
When the air...
Year of Publication: 2024
Angela KraußYear of Publication: 2024
The World Building Must Be Erected. After All, We Have to Live Somewhere.
»From just a few, individual strands of reality, it was once possible, virtually without any funny business at all, to expect a particular future, they pieced themselves into a picture as if on their own, formed a house that you could walk towards, in which you could make yourself at home. That was once upon a time. From our contemporary reality, we cannot see anything on the horizon that calls...
Year of Publication: 2024
Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2024
Disappearing Act
Novella
Maria Stepanova’s new novella centres around an author referred to only as “M.” M. has been living in the city B. since leaving her home country, which is currently waging war on a neighbouring...
Rights sold to:
UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo Editions), USA & Canada (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Catalan (Angle), Brazilian Portuguese rights (WMF Martin Fontes), Portuguese rights (Rélogio d’Agua), France (Stock), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Greece (Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2024
Melanie LevensohnYear of Publication: 2024
The Morning after the Rain
Novel
Johanna loves her job. Working for the United Nations, she travels the world on humanitarian missions to bring desperately needed aid to the victims of war, persecution, and famine. But each time she...
Rights sold to:
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
Year of Publication: 2024
Jakob NolteYear of Publication: 2024
The Woman with Four Arms
Novel
The body of a young man is found lying on the banks of the Ihme river in Hanover. Inline skates on his feet, strangulation marks on his throat, and headphones still blaring in his ears. A case for the brilliant but abrasive Rita Aitzinger and her colleague Ilia Schuster from the homicide squad. Drifting between the opera house, the train station bar and the local burger joint, they quickly find...
Year of Publication: 2025
Urszula HonekYear of Publication: 2025
White Nights
Original Polish title: Białe noce, published in 2023 by Czarne
White Nights is the debut work of prose by acclaimed Polish poet Urszula Honek. At first glance, the volume is made up of standalone short stories about the tragedies and misfortunes that...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (MTO Press), Spanish world rights (Lumen), Arabic world rights (Dar Tashkeel), France (Grasset), Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Greece (Vakxikon)
Year of Publication: 2024
Hermann HesseYear of Publication: 2024
Memories of Hans
With an afterword by Volker Michels
In order to make the loss of those he had been closest to more bearable, Hermann Hesse had the habit of writing down his memories of the deceased as soon as he received news of their passing, right when the pain was most present. For Hesse, one of the most important functions of literature was preserving the ephemeral in words, conjuring up what was through the most precise depictions. These...
Year of Publication: 2024
Volker BraunYear of Publication: 2024
An Ongoing Attempt to Live With Violent Forces
»Earlier, you could have left the world behind, just up sticks and go, but now there’s no otherworld left, we live in the everywhere.« With a sharp eye for what holds the world together and with his famous linguistic virtuosity, in this new work of prose, Volker Braun tackles the big questions that extend all the way into the future. What are the qualities of the »everywhere« in which we live?...
Year of Publication: 2024
Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Ofer WaldmanYear of Publication: 2024
Real Time
Letters between Israel and Europe
In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ attack on Israel, Sasha Marianna Salzmann and Ofer Waldman began a correspondence to make sense of a world left shaken by the unfolding events. Sending each other letters and text messages, poems and music, the two authors attempt to find a language for the things they are seeing and experiencing – beyond the political events of the day. Ofer Waldman tells of...
Year of Publication: 2024
Maren KamesYear of Publication: 2024
Half Pigeon Half Peacock
I am surrendered to the white, as the white is surrendered to me. Here I am exposed to fear; here, fear is exposed.
A self finds itself, on »Sunday morning, half past seven, on the shores with the great crested grebes«. From here, a landscape is surveyed, whose contours only become clear through speaking and walking. Like floes, texts emerge from the whiteness. They...Year of Publication: 2024
Maren KamesYear of Publication: 2024
Hare Prose
»If that's all there is, I’m moving out!« someone yells and heads off in their seven-league boots and their travel socks. A hare in the back seat. We travel straight through time, through the ages, and out into pitch-dark outer space. In a hand-drawn plane through the sky and through memories: of two grandmothers, one pale, one dark, one in-tact, one damaged. A grandfather and his furrowed hands....
Year of Publication: 2024
Deniz OhdeYear of Publication: 2024
Pretending to Sleep
Novel
The building where Yasemin lived until recently is no longer standing. It had to be torn down after an explosion caused by Vito, Yasemin’s ex-boyfriend. The only thing left of the apartment she had...
Rights sold to:
Greece (Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2024
Enis Maci, Mazlum NergizYear of Publication: 2024
Karl May
Karl May is a curious phenomenon – a small-time criminal, a conman, and Germany’s most successful writer of all time. Millions of Germans grew up with his books set in the Wild West, and with his characters Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. Not Enis Maci and Mazlum Nergiz. In this book, the two authors try to get to the bottom of this phenomenon: What’s all this about lying and surviving? What...
Year of Publication: 2024
Rainald GoetzYear of Publication: 2024
Lapidarium
Plays
LAPIDARIUM is a book featuring three plays that address the dark matter of humanity in the early 21st century: torture, terror, suicide.
The comedy of manners REALM OF DEATH portrays the political process that led from the 9/11 terror attacks to the systematic torture of prisoners of war in the American detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. With reference to...
The comedy of manners REALM OF DEATH portrays the political process that led from the 9/11 terror attacks to the systematic torture of prisoners of war in the American detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. With reference to...
Year of Publication: 2024
Joost JensenYear of Publication: 2024
Rigor Mortis at the Bar
Gesine Felber Investigates #3
Enno Prester, an environmental activist and close friend of pub owner Gesine Felber, dies in her arms. His last words leave Gesine puzzled: the white horse rider is a thief. What’s that supposed to mean? Meanwhile, the company Friesenklima wants to build an environmentally friendly holiday resort near Sünnum, Gesine’s East Frisian hometown, promising the local inhabitants a piece of the...
Year of Publication: 2024
Kristin HöllerYear of Publication: 2024
The People Before Us
Novel
The island of Strand in the Wadden Sea off northernmost tip of Germany: Marlene has just finished university and started working in a shop in a historical village where everything is just the way it was at the turn of the twentieth century – the customs, the tradespeople, the clothing. One great big theatre set maintained by a cast of seasonal workers who live in simple barracks situated beyond...
Year of Publication: 2024
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2024
Light Years in the Dark
Novel
A shopkeeper who had big plans for the future has disappeared. His wife thinks her dreams are over. Then there’s the former owner of a removals business with a guilt complex, and a mysterious visitor from the Berlin demimonde. The fates of all these characters intersect in Munich, in a turn of events that causes all their lives to go off the rails.
Leo Ahorn has disappeared. And yet,...
Leo Ahorn has disappeared. And yet,...
Year of Publication: 2024
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2024
My Therapist is a Psycho
Expanded version
For people plagued by obsessions, madness, nightmares, or a fear of commitment, sometimes, chaos therapy, light therapy, happiness training or aromatherapy can help. But what should you do when all these fail? That leaves only one remedy: the cartoons of Nicolas Mahler! They’re definitely cheaper and easier to use. It certainly can’t hurt to give them a try.
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