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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: 2023
Stephan LohseYear of Publication: 2023
The Humming Underneath the Skin
Novel
»Axel has been missing for three days. I subtract the hours that have passed without him here from the eighty hours that I have known him. Twenty-six hours are left. In little more than a day it’ll be like I never knew Axel Peschke.«
Hamburg, 1977. Julle is fourteen. Shortly before the summer break, a new student, Axel, joins his class. Julle falls...
Year of Publication: 2022
Sybille RugeYear of Publication: 2022
Davenport 160 x 90
Thriller
Sonja Slanski runs the debt collection company »Claim Management«, which is also involved in some other kinds of shady business.
An obscure member of Frankfurt’s high...
Rights sold to:
German Audiobook (Thalia)
Year of Publication: 2024
Ulrike EdschmidYear of Publication: 2024
The Last Patient
She sat at the kitchen table, smoking, exuding a “seductive world-weariness of the kind familiar from the films of the Nouvelle Vague”. After turning her back on the country she’d been born in, Luxembourg, and the parents who had raised her, the protagonist of this new novel by Ulrike Edschmid turns up in the narrator’s share house in Frankfurt in 1973. Having been left by a man, she was looking...
Year of Publication: 2024
Thomas SträssleYear of Publication: 2024
Flight Novella
Erfurt, 1965: two students meet at the ‘House of the Red Army’. She is from East Germany, 21 years old, he is Swiss, 23. They fall in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together, but they’re separated by the Iron Curtain. The idea that he might join her in the East is inconceivable, so they desperately look for a way to get her to the West. When they realise that it is not possible to...
Year of Publication: 2023
Clemens J. SetzYear of Publication: 2023
Moons before the Landing
Novel
Worms in the early twenties of the last century. Peter Bender, a former lieutenant pilot in the German Army, makes a name for himself as the founder of a new religious community and with the...
Rights sold to:
Spanish world rights (H&O Editores), Italy (La Nave di Teseo)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Roof Music)
Year of Publication: 2024
Nora BossongYear of Publication: 2024
Reichskanzlerplatz
Novel
In her new novel, Nora Bossong paints a double portrait of the woman who became Magda Goebbels, the »first lady« of Nazi Germany, and the young gay man who, for a brief moment, was her lover. Two...
Rights sold to:
France (Les Ecales), Hungary (Open Books)
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German radio reading (HR/NDR)
Year of Publication: 2023
Marion PerkoYear of Publication: 2023
Vega – The Storm in My Heart
Vega # 2
Vega’s situation seems hopeless. She has been abducted and fallen into the hands of Bioverse, a powerful weather corporation. All because the secret she has kept her whole life was exposed: she can change the weather with the power of her mind, can conjure rain and summon the wind. In a world plagued by droughts and storms, this gift is priceless – a fact that is not lost on...
Year of Publication: 2024
Leif LindholmYear of Publication: 2024
Between Two Seas
Novel
Theo travels to the place where the North Sea meets the Baltic: to Skagen, the northernmost tip of Denmark. The beauty and the force of the sea have always fascinated him. As a marine biologist, the sea and its inhabitants – which he researched on thrilling diving expeditions – were his life. Until a tragic accident during one of his research trips. Ever since, he has been unable go in the water....
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