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Romy Hausmann

Dear Child

432 pages

February 2019


ROMY HAUSMANN was born in the former GDR in 1981, and became the chief editor of a TV station at age 24. There she has met a variety of protagonists, whose stories she told: Stories of domestic abuse, Somalian refugees of war and neglected children. Since the birth of her son she is working as a freelancer for several TV formats. Dear Child is her thriller debut.

“I’ve been excited about Dear Child from the minute I heard about it first and hav-ing read it now I must say I’ve totally loved it from the beginning to its gripping end. […] I think it ticks all the right boxes for the current thriller market around the globe.”

Stefanie Bierwerth, Publisher-at-Large, Quercus

• Film rights optioned pre-publication by Constantin Film

• For fans of Gone Girl and the Academy Award-winning motion picture Room

• Rights sold: English Language, Czech Republic, The Netherlands (pre-empt)

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“What an astute and exciting thriller! What a sound! I’m completely captivated by Romy Hausmann’s narrative voice. ”

Melanie Raabe, Bestselling Author of The Trap

And he called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. Just like God.A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by the father: Meals, bath-room visits, study time are strictly scheduled and meticulous-ly observed. Oxygen comes from a “circulation machine”, food is provided by the father only. He protects his family from the dangers lurking “out there” and makes sure that his children, conceived and born in captivity, will always have a mother to look after them. One day Lena manages to flee – but the nightmare continues. It seems as if her tormentor wants to get back what belongs to him. And then there is the question whether she really is the woman called “Lena”, who disap-peared without a trace 14 years ago.

Three people are liberated from years of hell on earth only to find unimaginable horror staring back at them. Romy Hausmann has written an emotionally charged, high-caliber page-turner that gets right under your skin from the very first line.

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On a hot summer weekend the old and critically ill patriarch Joseph invites his family to his villa on the Baltic coast. The extremely rich man with a colorful past accepts death as what it is. However, before he goes, he is unyielding in his desire to see his entire family one last time. The relatives haven’t been on speaking terms for years, but they all decide to come in the interest of their potentially approaching inheritance. Predictably the events escalate until, in the truest sense of the word, everything explodes.

FRANK GOLDAMMER was

born in Dresden in 1975.

A painter and varnisher by

trade, he began writing in his

early twenties, self-publishing

his first novels. For dtv he has

written several successful

historical crime thrillers set in

Dresden and its surroundings.

A single parent, he lives with

his twin children in Dresden.

240 pages

February 2019

Frank GoldammerSummer Act

• Bestselling crime fiction author Frank Goldammer shows a new facet – this time crime stays in the family

• Total sales of Frank Goldammer’s books with dtv: 100,000 copies• For fans of the film classic The Honey Pot

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When the Hiker comes, people die: eleven in the remote town of Tannenstein near the Czech border, then a gas station attendant in the Harz region, and a real estate agent in the Allgäu area. The killer materializes out of nowhere, murders without warning, and vanishes without a trace. The only person who stands in the Hiker’s way is Alexander Born, an ex-cop turned criminal. Years ago, the Hiker killed his girlfriend, and now Born wants revenge. He soon finds himself embroiled in a hunt that will end where everything started: in Tannen-stein.

LINUS GESCHKE, born in

1970 in Cologne, works as

a freelance journalist for

SPIEGEL ONLINE, Manager

magazine, and the Frankfurter

Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

He has won several journalism

prizes for his travel report-

ages.

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Linus GeschkeTannenstein


• Spiegel bestseller• For readers of Ian Rankin and Tess Gerritsen• A previous crime series by Linus Geschke is currently being filmed

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A darkly humorous family saga from the successful crime fiction author

Time of revenge

PRE-PUBLICATION PRAISE FOR TANNENSTEIN:

“In Tannenstein, Linus Geschke confronts readers with their own conscience - how much is one life worth to you? The writing is just as tense as it is fabulous.” Karla Paul, Buchkolumne.de

“More than just a bloody, eloquent thriller. Practically a sensation!” Verena Thies, Bayerischer Rundfunk

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David Ostrich, an Orientalist from Toronto, is about to investigate the legends from the book of Genesis on the Persian Gulf, when he receives an astonish-ing commission from the supervisor of a giant dam construction. Ostrich is asked to track down the supervisor’s missing daughter and, while pumping the frightened residents of the local work camp for information, stumbles across the secret that is holding together the desert nation.

At the Walls of Paradise is a dystopian novel acquainting us with a world in which political and environmental changes trigger massive migration. Said dam construction also serves the purpose of closing borders against millions of refugees already on the move.

Interwoven with these topical issues are the eternal questions of man’s relation to God and the quest for the Biblical paradise. A novel about the actuality of the book of Genesis and of the meaning of story-telling for our existence.

Afterword by: MICHAEL KÖHLMEIER born

1949 in Hard on Lake Con-

stance, lives in Hohenems/

Vorarlberg and Vienna.

400 pages

March 2019

Martin SchneitewindAt the Walls of Paradise

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A literary gem: Raoul Schrott lends his unique voice to Martin Schneitewind. Accompanied by Michael Köhlmeier’s insightful comments.

Established author Michael Köhlmeier has written and held numerous speeches over the years which always reflect his deeply humanistic approach to all topics, both in literature and in politics. In May 2018 he spoke to a large group of high-ranking poli-ticians. “Do not expect me to feign ignorance,” he said and pointed out to his audience just how politics nowadays are increasingly accepting blatant racism and hatred under the guise of “free speech”. His words are a bold commentary on today’s politics and their subtle disintegration due to libel and malice.

72 pages

September 2016

96 pages

November 2018

64 pages

January 2018

Being political in times of “Alternative Facts”

Michael KöhlmeierDo Not Expect Me to Feign Ignorance Speeches against oblivion

What is freedom, are we born free or is freedom conveyed to us by others? Can it be taken away? Is freedom only an absence of fear and constraint or does it not rather imply the need to take part in the political and social discourse? This essay by Hannah Arendt was first published in German by dtv in 2018. Accompanied by Thomas Meyer’s poignant afterword, the book obviously meets the spirit of the time and hit the top ranks of the bestselling lists in Germany for months on end.

Rights for the essay: Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary TrustRights for the afterword by Thomas Meyer: dtv(sold to: Spain, The Netherlands)

Hannah ArendtThe Freedom to Be Free

An appeal for more compassionBased on a fragment of a manuscript rediscovered in 2015, this text depicts the violent revolt of the London citizens in the 16th century against the Hugenot refugees. 400 years after its creation, the text is still a plea for a humane society in times of radical change. The editor and translator Frank Günther puts the fragment into a modern con-text and brings this alarm call from times past into the broader, political view of today.

Rights for the afterword by Frank Günther: dtv

William ShakespeareThe Strangers

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In 2014, the crisis-shaken book market causes even the sales of works by German classics Goethe and Schiller to plummet, which is why their publisher Cotta sends the two gentlemen (now 265 and 255 years old) on a reading tour. The itinerary will culminate in an open-air reading of Faust. Only reluctantly does Goethe agree to this plan. How annoying that his friend Schiller always seems to be two steps ahead of him, whether it’s in dealing with delayed trains, apathetic students, or an attractive bookseller traveling with them. And it doesn’t seem to get any better when Schiller develops new ideas on how to get things rolling…

CHRISTIAN TIELMANN was

born in 1971 in Wuppertal.

He studied Philosophy and

German at Hamburg and

Freiburg. Today he lives in

Detmold. He has been writing

books for children, young

adults, and adults since 1999.

224 pages

February 2019

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In her debut novel, Maike Voß tells the story of Viola and Leon. They are the best of friends − until they spend the night together after a concert. For Leon, this is the fulfill-ment of everything he has been secretly long-ing for. However, Viola panics, thinking she may have fallen for the wrong guy yet again, and that their friendship would be over. She leaves Leon’s apartment the next morning without a word. Leon cannot and will not accept Viola’s disappearance, and tries to figure out why she ran but without any luck. Viola not only is hiding, but trying despa-rately to get Leon out of her head. Because in the twinkling of an eye, she seems to have vanished from the face of the planet.

MAIKE VOSS was born in 1995

in Hamburg, where she also

completed her degree from the

Technical Art Academy in 2018.

She has chosen London as her

second home, which is where

she started writing her debut

novel That’s What it Looks Like

When a Firefly Dies.

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Maike VossThat’s What It Looks Like When a Firefly Dies

F I C T I O N

Jochen, Oliver, Bill − almost half of the human race is composed of men. They still set the tone for many issues, even though their facade started to crack a long time ago. Enough of a reason to look more closely. What facets character-ize the other gender? With a woman’s eyes, Johanna Adorján forges into this world and describes what − more accurately, who − catches her eye: a philos-opher who has made a name for himself as a soccer player (Lothar), a serial phone caller whenever he is on a train (Jürgen), a brilliant psychotherapist (Harald). Although some of the observations may seem familiar, others will be perplexing. However, one things is clear: men are like women − just different.

JOHANNA ADORJÁN, born

in Stockholm in 1971, is a

journalist and writer. Her

bestselling biographical

memoir An Exclusive Love has

been translated into sixteen

languages. Her collection

of short stories, My 500 Best

Friends, was published in

2013. She is a regular contrib-

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meine Zeitung’s arts section.

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Christian TielmannImmortality Isn’t a Solution EitherA Goethe-Schiller disaster

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Since the death of his wife, David has immersed himself in his professional life and in caring for his eccentric father. Occasional attempts at romantic rendez-vous fail as a result of David’s shyness. Until he falls for Selma. However, David’s deceased wife Elinor isn’t all that delighted about this development. As a ghost, she jealously watches over her husband, and eventually asks her medium Paula for help.

SUSANNA MEWE was born

in 1981 in North Rhine-West-

phalia and now lives in Berlin.

She writes plays, novels and

screenplays. Her work has re-

ceived several awards, includ-

ing the Munich Kammerspiele

Bursary, the Retzhof Drama

Prize and the Alfred Döblin

Scholarship from the Berlin

Academy of Arts.

304 pages

March 2019

Susanna MeweThe Afterlife Can Stuff It

Ghost meets My Best Friend’s Wedding

Nina stares distractedly at the little bakery’s shop window: “Intern wanted” it says. Bakeries have always been places of longing for Nina. She has just never given in to that feeling. Now, with forty well behind her, she applies, takes an unpaid leave from her job, and descends into the bakery every morning, as if entering a magical world. She never dreamed that she would find a new voca-tion, as well as a new love.

DANIELA BÖHLE, born in

1970, studied art history (fin-

ished degree) and medicine

(almost-finished degree) in

Cologne and Bonn, and then

moved to Berlin in 1999,

where she still lives with her

two children. She has written

a YA novel, regularly publishes

in magazines and anthologies,

and writes scripts for radio

programs.

320 pages

March 2019

Daniela BöhleMarzipan Butterflies

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They had been close friends since childhood: Marie, Alexandra, Friederike, and Jule. Regardless of where their lives took them, they gathered every Friday before Pentecost, at Marie’s enchanting house by the lake. Marie, the sensitive photographer, had held the four of them together, but that was a long time ago. The message of Marie’s early death comes as a shock to all of them. Since their quarrel ten years ago, they hardly have had any contact with each other. Marie presents a surprise to her friends: But then, they have to meet again.

Dora Heldt shifts stylistic gears and adopts a more serious tone: a story about the loves and lies that shape our lives, and the value of friendship, and the joy of remembering.

576 pages

First published 2018

W O M E N ` S F I C T I O NW O M E N ’ S F I C T I O N

The sweetest seduction since the invention of cake

Dora HeldtThree Women at the Lake

Three friends, four lives − and a house by the lake

• # 1 Spiegel Bestseller: More than 160,000 copies sold• Abridged version available (about 280 p. long instead of 576 p.)• Rights sold to: Italy (pre-empt)

DORA HELDT was born on

Sylt in 1961. A trained book-

seller, she lives in Hamburg to-

day. She has been a perennial

presence on the bestseller

lists thanks to her novels,

crime fiction, short stories,

and columns. Her novels are

regularly turned into films.

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The famous and beloved Irish environmental activist Cathal Connor is discovered brutally murdered. He had been recently seen on a talk show in which he had glibly and inventively argued for the protection of the forests south of Dublin. In her fifth case, Galway’s Commissioner Grace O’Malley and her colleague Rory Coyne discov-er several inconsistencies in the allegedly exemplary life of the victim. Connor wasn’t only leading a double life with two families; he was also hiding a dirty secret.

Just as in Tana French crime series, Hannah O’Brien uses the procedural to explore a topical subject in each of her novels, ranging from the microcosm of family life to the macrocosm of religion.

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 affairs.

432 pages

March 2019

Hannah O’BrienAn Irish Wake (vol. V)

The dark side of the Emerald Isle

The agent to the Doge Davide Venier is searching for clues: Within a short time span, three Venetians are murdered. At the same time, Portuguese merchants are striving to undermine Venice’s dominance of the spice trade. Davide, dis-guised as a merchant, he is to uncover the conspiracy - and ends up landing in the middle of the sea battle of Lepanto. Hardly back home, his girlfriend Veronica is abducted. The kidnappers demand a ransom for her life… the death of the Doge!

STEFAN MAIWALD was

born in 1971. The journalist,

amateur chef and enthusiastic

golfer lives in Italy with his

family and writes for various

papers and magazines. He is a

long-standing author for both

fiction and non-fiction at dtv.

304 pages

February 2019

Stefan MaiwaldThe Corpses of Rialto

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Fear has settled across Vieux-Port. The town’s residents are terrified of an old curse that pre-dicts they will all die in a flooding of the Seine. After the first victim dies, the mayor asks for Nicolas Guerlain’s help − but he turns down the request. At least, until another body appears. The priest has died an agonizing death in a tub full of river water...

BENJAMIN CORS is a poli-

tical journalist and television

presenter who spent many

years covering world news for

evening news programmes

and in-depth political analysis.

Today he works as a regional

political correspondent for a

broadcasting station. He grew

up as a Franco-German na-

tional and spent his childhood

summers in Normandy.

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Benjamin Cors Normandy crime series

Normandy crime series: Over 90,000 copies sold

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Nicholas Guerlain is supposed to be looking after a French minister but accidentally knocks him to the red carpet when his attention is dis-tracted by a familiar figure – is that not Julie, his long-lost love who vanished two years ago? Nicholas is transferred home to the Normandy spa town of Deauville for disciplinary reasons. Things go from bad to worse when he sets out to investigate a crime that goes back decades...

Nicolas has rehabilitated himself as a body-guard. He is now in the employ of a wealthy aristocrat in Normandy who has been receiving threatening letters for some time. Meanwhile, in Deauville, police find the murdered body of an under-age prostitute. Among her possessions they discover a telephone number which turns out to belong to a dead man Nicolas has just pulled from the Seine in the Normandy...

Bodyguard: the word that a dying man attempts to scratch into the ground. A word that leads to Nicolas Guerlain, a bodyguard of the French government. Nicolas realizes that a connection exists to the festivities on June 6, the memorial day for the Allied invasion. Attacks have seem-ingly been planned for this day. Unexpected as-sistance is provided by Julie, his former partner who has reappeared. But can he really trust her?

Jetsam (vol. I)

Coastline (vol. II)

Tidal Game (vol. III)

Beacon (vol. IV)



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Fredenbüll goes Reeperbahn

A fall storm washes a container ship full of electronics scrap up on Freden-büll’s coast. Between the snarled cables and discarded screens, a body appears! Everything points toward murder - and to the likelihood that the crime hap-pened in Hamburg.

In his seventh case, village police officer Thies Detlefsen must travel to the me-tropolis on the Elbe River. And the entire staff of the snack stand “Hidde Kist” is coming along as well, of course. Fredenbüll goes Reeperbahn… if everything goes well, that is.

KRISCHAN KOCH was born

in 1953 in Hamburg, where

he works as a film critic for

the NDR and Die Zeit amongst

others. He and his wife lives

in Hamburg and also on the

North Sea island of Amrum,

where he has the perfect view

on the North Sea mud-flats

and writes his successful

crime novels.

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February 2019

IN THE SAME SERIES:

The Pickled Herring

Squad (vol. III)

288 pages

Pub. Date: 2015

North Sea Shrimps

(vol. II)

272 pages

Pub. Date: 2014

Spiked Fruit Jelly

(vol. I)

272 pages

Pub. Date: 2013

Krischan KochMurderers Hate Herring (vol. VII)

• Volume VII of the popular seaside crime series• For readers of Anne George and fans of Agatha Raisin • Total sales of Krischan Koch’s books with dtv: 400,000 copies

With a surprisingly simple ruse, art student Harry Oldenburg snatches an oil paint-ing and three watercolours by Emil Nolde from a local museum. High-tailing it to the island of Amrum, his plan is to lie low until the commotion has died down. But it isn’t long before he finds himself being chased by a boorish ferryman, a love-struck tourist and his prying landlady. Harry disposes of these inconvenient pursu-ers, but getting rid of their dead bodies proves difficult. Eventually, he is forced to leave the oil painting behind as he makes a dramatic escape across the Wadden Sea. Eighteen years later, now a successful art dealer and thief, he returns to track down the missing picture...

304 pages

First published in 2009

Venice is in the throes of the biennale and awash with tourists. Harry Oldenburg throws himself into the fray. He and his girlfriend Zoe are planning to relieve the Guggenheim Museum of two valuable exhibits. But in the sizzling summer heat, the well-hatched plan goes pear-shaped: Harry finds himself in the bed of seductive art-ist Franca and discovers a corpse in her studio. When Zoe joins her lover in Venice, she is not amused but is nevertheless willing to help him on his raids. Too bad she’s frequently feeling rather queasy of late...

Always a stickler for detail Krischan Koch checked the possibilities of hiding a stolen painting at the Venice Guggenheim Museum – thanks to his wife’s assistance he is now certain that a Miró will not fit in the Ladies’ cubicles.

288 pages


• Neatly packaged murder mysteries, satires, art and travel guides

PRESS ACCLAIMS:

“Krischan Koch’s crime novels are the best fun you could wish for. High enjoy-ment, 100% guaranteed!”Susann Fleischer, Literaturmarkt.info

“With his dry, screamingly hilarious dialogue, Koch bounces his quirky characters off each other.”Lukas Jenkner, stuttgar-ter-zeitung Online

“Suspenseful, funny, and brilliantly absurd.”Anja Goerz, Radio Bremen

Krischan KochDeep In Shallow Water (vol. I)

Krischan KochSee Venice and Steal (vol. II)





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Dresden, November 1944: the population is groaning under the strain and dire privations of an increasingly menacing war. Detective in-spector 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 Fright Man, prowling the ruins at night.

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Frank Goldammer Detective Inspector Max Heller series

The Air Raid Killer (vol. I)

A Thousand Devils (vol. II) Dresden, 1947: The 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 in Dresden Neustadt by the newly-instigated People’s Police. The victim seems to be a Red Army soldier. But before he gets a chance to begin his investigations he dis-covers that the Russian military has removed the corpse from the scene...

The Forgotten (vol. III)Dresden 1948: a hot summer, three years after the end of the war. The great currency reform throws occupied and divided post-war Ger-many into a crisis. In the midst of the arduous reconstruction work, Detective Inspector Max Heller finds himself entangled in a case involving a fourteen-year-old boy, whose cause of death is anything but clear. While investi-gating this case, Heller runs up against a wall of silence.

US Editions:

Total sales of Frank Goldammer’s books with dtv: Over 100,000 copies

Rights sold: English language, Arab language, Greece, The Netherlands

Red Raven (vol. IV)In late summer 1951, Detective inspector Heller and his family are returning to Dresden from their state-authorized vacation on the Baltic Sea. His wife Karin will be leaving again immediately, having unexpectedly received permission to visit their son Erwin in West Germany. Heller is worried, but his new case isn’t leaving him any time to brood. Two men, Jehovah’s Witnesses, being held under suspi-cion of espionage die in their prison cells.

RITA FALK was born in 1964

in Bavaria and still lives there.

She is the mother of three

grown children and is married

to a policeman.

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For disciplinary reasons, Franz Eberhofer is forced to leave his post with the Munich po-lice and is transferred to his home village of Niederkaltenkirchen in Lower Bavaria. There, he is a pen-pusher with a cushy job – his patrols invariably ending up in the pub for a beer with Wolfi or at the dinner table of his stone-deaf grandmother. All very relaxing, which is just as well considering the trouble he has with his weed-growing old hippie of a father, who drives him round the bend with his perpetual playing of Beatles records. However, when a real case finally does land on his desk, it is truly bizarre – members of the Neuhofer family are being killed in the most peculiar ways. The investigations into these gruesome murders lead Franz Eber-hofer all the way to Majorca....

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The world is full of wonders - you just have to see them

Penelope is a happily-married primary school teacher – until tragedy rips her little family apart. She leaves her husband, breaks off all her friendships and almost entirely withdraws from the outside world.

It is only years later that she very slowly begins to feel her way back to life, to believe that love and happiness are possible. By her side are her mother and her neighbor Trudi, a fascinating woman in her eighties, with a mysterious past. Young Jason, who moves into the attic flat above her also plays a unique role in Penelope’s new life. They all help Penelope learn that the world is full of wonder for those with eyes to see it.

HANNI MÜNZER is one of

Germany’s most successful au-

thors. Her Fisher of Souls series

and the Honigtot saga have

reached millions of readers, in

Germany and internationally.

Hanni Münzer has lived in

Seattle, Stuttgart and Rome,

and has now settled in Upper

Bavaria with her husband.

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July 2017

Rights sold: ItalyPRESS ACCLAIMS:

“A book to hold on to like a best friend — wonderfully written, with lots of heart and soul.”Für Sie

“A novel so full of love that it can heal your heart. A strong story with charming and likeable characters that you won’t want to say goodbye to.”ARD Büffet (German television)

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Hanni MünzerAs Long As There Are Butterflies

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Martina Bergmann takes care of Martha, a woman in her mid-80s who has a particularly poetic outlook on life. Neither can say anymore how this came to be, but they are so happy sharing the same house that it hardly matters.

Pointedly and true to life Martina Bergmann portrays the experience of living with Martha, someone who, despite her illness, remains full of humor and wit. Her story shows that caring for someone suffering from dementia does not have to be a burden and, in fact, can be inspiring and life affirming.

And while this unconventional living arrangement strikes passersby as odd, Martina wouldn’t have it any other way.

MARTINA BERGMANN was

born in 1979 in Ostwestfalen.

After graduating high school,

she fled to the big cities of

Munich, Hamburg and Berlin.

She studied Humanities and is

a bookseller by trade.

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224 pages

February 2019



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• For readers of Arno Geiger’s The Old King in His Exile and fans of the movie Iris

• A poignant novel about living with someone suffering from de-mentia, someone who was a virtual stranger and now has become family…



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Life is Beautiful!While still young sisters, Adele and Elisabeth have left home to explore the exciting new opportunities offered by the post-war economic miracle.

In midlife, however, they regret having cut themselves off from their roots. They return to the southern Black Forest and decide to realize an old dream – their dream of a rose garden. Together they invest all that they have and tend a piece of wasteland in the hills, on the very spot where their brother Hans’ packaging company once stood.

Adele and Elisabeth want to give this land back to nature and create the most beautiful rose garden the Black Forest has ever seen. Against all odds and the voice of reason this is their chance to restore their family’s reputation and quite simply to become sisters again after all those years apart.

MARIE BRUNNTALER was

born in the southern Black

Forest and grew up on a

farm. She graduated with a

degree in biology, and during

the 1973 oil crisis, she began

working to promote a new

ecological mindset in the en-

ergy sector. She worked as a

landscaping specialist. Today

she lives with her son near the

Swiss border. The Simple Life is

her first novel.

250 pages

May 2018

Two sisters are making a fresh start in the prime of their lives

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240 pages

Pub. Date: September 2019

Martina BergmannMy Life with Martha

Marie BrunntalerThe Simple Life

• A novel for nature lovers and keen gardeners

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What would happen if you let an app make all the decisions in your life?

In Berlin, four young people start a new company and co-develop a new app, the so-called Ting which gathers body-related data, evaluates it, and then uses this basis to provide behavioral and decision recommendations.

The concept of Ting proves convincing - the app is wildly successful. However, in order to win more investors for the company, the four young start-up founders are soon forced to take part in a dangerous game. They sign a contract to follow all of Ting’s future recommendations, regardless of what happens.

c. 320 pages

To be published in

September 2019

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Artur DziukThe Ting

The first novel to be written about the lives and deaths of the women in the Red Orchestra.

Sabine Friedrich, author of the resistance novel Who We Are dedicates her work to the fates of those who resisted Hitler, with particular focus on the women. She deftly knits the lives and deaths of the Red Orchestra’s women in a grander tapestry. The author tells a deeply touching and evocative story leading to violent deaths at the hand of the Nazi regime.

c. 400 pages

To be published in

September 2019

SABINE FRIEDRICH

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ROMAN

SABINE FRIEDRICH

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ROMAN

Sabine FriedrichThe Red Orchestra

For fans of The Circle and Her

Two more novels are in preparation, one on the “Kreisau Circle” involving Helmuth James von Moltke, and one on “Operation Valyrie” involving Claus von Stauffenberg.

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