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Year of Publication: 2026
Tessa HansenYear of Publication: 2026
Adalina and the Love of Books
A Novel
Even as a child, Adalina loved the rattling sound of the Bibliomotocarro – the little library on wheels that Maestro La Cava would bring to her tiny Italian mountain village, brimming with stories. Years later, now a writer herself, she returns home and stumbles across the abandoned bookmobile in a garage. But there is no sign of the old maestro.
When Adalina learns that the book tours...
When Adalina learns that the book tours...
Year of Publication: 2026
Benjamin MaackYear of Publication: 2026
Application for a Job as a Human Being
A Depression Diary
In Application for a Job as a Human Being, Bejamin Maack recounts his daily life with depression. He writes about how confusing and difficult it is to live with this illness, and to love – his children, his girlfriend, himself. And how, time and again, he still manages. A disarmingly honest and direct and sometimes humorous depression diary.
When Benjamin Maack suffers another...
When Benjamin Maack suffers another...
Year of Publication: 2026
Magdalena SchrefelYear of Publication: 2026
Sky Blue
A Novel
What if it were possible to cool the Earth, but the sky would forever lose its blue? Hannah is working for an exhibition that is supposed to collect memories of this blue shortly before a global geo-engineering process will take place. Sulphur particles will be launched into the stratosphere, changing the way that sunlight is refracted. Seas and rivers will fade, and the Blue Planet will be...
Year of Publication: 2026
Josef WinklerYear of Publication: 2026
Fortune Is a Stern-Faced Angel
A Novel
»I write you – / into the world, until you’ve returned / by the spectral force of the word« writes Nelly Sachs in one of the poems that Josef Winkler quotes in his new novel, in which he writes his...
Rights sold to:
France (Verdier)
Year of Publication: 2026
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 2026
The Carousel
A Novel
Bernhard is 70, divorced, childless, and ever since he retired, he’s felt like there is something missing from his life. A new relationship? A hobby? Maybe volunteering? Nothing seems to fit together. But then he receives an invitation to Salerno – that place on the Italian coast where he’d spend a few months all those decades ago, and which at the time had seemed to promise a different life....
Year of Publication: 2026
Robert MenasseYear of Publication: 2026
The Life Decision
A Novella
Frustrated at being a small cog in a big wheel, Franz Fiala makes a »life decision« and quits his job at the European Commission. When he visits his mother in Vienna for her 89th birthday, however,...
Rights sold to:
France (Verdier), Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Hungary (Geopen), Turkey (Dergah)
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Hörverlag), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2026
Kim KoplinYear of Publication: 2026
Tomorrow's Dead
Thriller
Berlin, today. A young man is lying dead under the Caprivi Bridge in Charlottenburg – head shot, no papers, no witnesses. Detective Nihal Khigarian has only just gotten back from Hamburg, bruised up...
Rights sold to:
Domestic Rights Sales: German audiobook (Argon)
Year of Publication: 2026
Michael KrügerYear of Publication: 2026
The Reintroduction of the Hourglass
Poems
»Poems«, writes Michael Krüger in his afterword, »are the result of a life, of a particular experience, of an accumulation of impressions. When I look back upon the years in which these poems emerged, three experiences come to the fore that probably had the strongest impact on them: the rural setting in which I’ve been living for years, the death of my nearest and dearest friends – and the...
Year of Publication: 2012
Simone BuchholzYear of Publication: 2012
Ice Vipers
Crime Novel
It’s the end of the year. The world seems to be standing still, waiting for Christmas. Even the usually bustling streets of Hamburg’s St. Pauli have been transformed by twinkling lights and golden...
Rights sold to:
Finland (Huippu)
Year of Publication: 2026
Dita ZipfelYear of Publication: 2026
It's Light and Outside the World Is Turning
A Novel
After this holiday, the plan is that a perfectly matured embryo will be implanted in Linn’s uterus, and she will finally realise her dream of being pregnant. She and her partner Matze have been...
Rights sold to:
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
Year of Publication: 2026
Clara LeinemannYear of Publication: 2026
Yellow Monsters
A Novel
»All she'd done was fall in love. Is that supposed to be a crime or something?«
Charlie, a PhD candidate in mathematics, is sitting on the U-Bahn with a black eye googling »bad...
Charlie, a PhD candidate in mathematics, is sitting on the U-Bahn with a black eye googling »bad...
Rights sold to:
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
Year of Publication: 2026
Yevgeniy BreygerYear of Publication: 2026
hello nobody
A Road Trip in Verse
In a red Audi A6, our hero sets out on a trip from Austria to Germany to become the federal chancellor. He pauses at autobahn rest stops and in Penny parking lots, ends up at left-wing and right-wing protests, parks in front of the Bundestag, at a circus ground, and ends up in a police interrogation room. On the different legs of his journey, he encounters bizarre characters that suggest an...
Year of Publication: 2026
Judith SchalanskyYear of Publication: 2026
Marble, Mercury, Mist
What the World Is Made Of
It begins not with the white of a blank piece of paper but of a block of stone, a 17-tonne monster of solid marble. Months after a fateful encounter with this stone on a ferry off the coast of the...
Rights sold to:
UK & Commonwealth (Pushkin), USA & Canada (New Directions), France (Ypsilon), Italy (Nottetempo), Netherlands (Meridiaan), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Pequod), Korea (Mujintree), Poland (Ha!art), Greece (Antipodes)
Year of Publication: 2026
Thomas KunstYear of Publication: 2026
Masleboi
A Novel
»Otchanganarriva, late August
My dear Masahlena, I’m not allowed to use the word Otchanganarriva so much anymore. Otchanganarriva. Otchanganarriva. Otchanganarriva. Otchanganarriva. Now I feel better. We have to act as if we are very close to one another within a family, Masahlena. Are you on something. Your pupils are as big as oversized pupils. You’re freezing. Or is that me. I can’t...
My dear Masahlena, I’m not allowed to use the word Otchanganarriva so much anymore. Otchanganarriva. Otchanganarriva. Otchanganarriva. Otchanganarriva. Now I feel better. We have to act as if we are very close to one another within a family, Masahlena. Are you on something. Your pupils are as big as oversized pupils. You’re freezing. Or is that me. I can’t...
Year of Publication: 2026
Heike GeißlerYear of Publication: 2026
Michaela Kohlhaas
A Novel
»His sense of justice made him into a robber and a murderer.« That’s how Heinrich von Kleist describes the horse dealer Michael Kohlhaas in his eponymous novella, a man who goes on a bloody rampage...
Rights sold to:
Netherlands (Het Balanseer)
Year of Publication: 2025
Tanja ŠljivarYear of Publication: 2025
National Theatre
A Novel
The dramaturg who has just taken up one of the most esteemed positions at the Serbian National Theatre in Belgrade, namely head of the acting department, is young. Just 30 years of age. The National Theatre, on the other hand, is anything but young. With 150 years of tradition behind it, it is a rather conservative emblem of a country that itself remains rather conservative.
This debut...
This debut...
Year of Publication: 2026
Svenja LeiberYear of Publication: 2026
Nelka
A Novel
Lviv, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Nelka is picked up by soldiers and taken west with a large number of other women and girls. They end up on an estate in northern Germany, where they are forced to carry...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (Seagull), Netherlands (Meridiaan)
Domestic rights sales: German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2026
Helena FalkeYear of Publication: 2026
Five More Days
Thriller
Lis Castrop is a world-class chef. After years working at a famous London fine-dining temple, she can’t say no to an offer that seems too good to be true: The billionaire Harman family want to employ...
Rights sold to:
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Saga)
Year of Publication: 2026
Ann CottenYear of Publication: 2026
Bollards
Idylls
A straight volume of poetry from the most poetry-sceptical poet writing in German today. Rare goods! Read as bollards, these standing texts are embedded in a botanical substrate that was deposited in 2009: an innovative process of text recycling that unites solidity with conceptual fecundity. Bollards: Idylls releases pastoral scenes of the kind collected by Theocritus into contemporary...
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