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Year of Publication: 2026
Maria StepanovaYear of Publication: 2026
Anne in a Box
A Novel
Anne Lister was born in Yorkshire in 1791 and died in the Caucasus in 1840. A landowner, traveller, and diarist, she is sometimes referred to as the first modern lesbian. She documented her life in...
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UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo), USA & Canada (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora WMF Martins Fontes), France (Stock), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Denmark (Palomar), Sweden (Nirstedt/litteratur), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Siltala), Japan (Hakusuisha), Czech Republic (Akropolis), Bulgaria (Janet45), Greece (Gutenberg)
Year of Publication: 2026
Roberta GregorioYear of Publication: 2026
The Little Bookshop on the Canal Grande
A Novel
Following her divorce, Matilde’s long-held desire to brush up on her Italian takes her to Venice, where she instantly falls in love with the lagoon city – so much so that she spontaneously applies for the vacancy at the bookshop run by the enchanting Bruna.
But Bruna is hiding something. What is the story behind the mysterious book she keeps in a locked display cabinet and refuses to...
But Bruna is hiding something. What is the story behind the mysterious book she keeps in a locked display cabinet and refuses to...
Year of Publication: 2026
Gabriela JaskullaYear of Publication: 2026
Tamara de Lempicka and the Glamour of Women
A Biographical Novel
Her paintings adorn the houses of Madonna, Jack Nicholson, and Barbra Streisand – Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) was a popstar of modern painting. Her life was brimming with passion, danger, and boundless energy. She managed her own image as meticulously as she did the subjects in her glamorous paintings. The »Queen of Art déco« loved the Renaissance and strong women, the ruins of Pompei, and...
Year of Publication: 2026
Lutz SeilerYear of Publication: 2026
The Ticking Heart
A Novel
In the early days of the new millennium, Carl Bischoff returns to Berlin from the surrounding countryside, only to quickly head off again. His pilgrimage follows the path of a woman who seems to have...
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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German radio reading (rbb)
Year of Publication: 2026
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2026
What I Need to Be Happy
The Most Beautiful Stories from an Old Box
In the attic, amongst all sorts of tools, tattered books, and photo albums, a boy discovers a special little box, tucked away behind an old sofa. It is beautifully painted with birds and blossoms and a dancing mouse in a frilly skirt – but it is not until years later that he finds the key to the tiny lock and can finally uncover its secret: The box is a storyteller – it has wondrous tales to tell...
Year of Publication: 2026
Claire BeyerYear of Publication: 2026
Suddenly Christmas
A Novel
Christmas is a time of miracles… At the start of the festive season, Christiane, who has been living a secluded life since her husband’s death, meets Gero by chance. From the very first moment, they both feel a special connection. And so their first encounter is followed by a tender courtship. Between choir rehearsals, walks in the snow, and a trip to Salzburg, feelings develop that neither of...
Year of Publication: 2026
Dirk SchmidtYear of Publication: 2026
Final Show
Thriller
When Lucy takes a job as a social media consultant for the once-legendary rock band Crrowl, she knows there’ll be plenty of stress on the road, sleep deprivation, and controlled chaos. What she doesn’t expect is a band that harbours dark secrets. Crrowl was once the loudest, wildest, most dangerous rock band in Europe and had massive hits. But Crrowl’s mythic status isn’t based solely on music....
Year of Publication: 2026
Friedrich AniYear of Publication: 2026
Stations of Forgotten Happiness
On a »sun-drenched day in June «, Jacob Vrell leaves his apartment and heads toward a friend’s café. He has carefully planned every step and every word he intends to say. Yet time and again, something causes him to pause, take a detour, or let his thoughts wander. In the end, he does arrive at the café, just as he arrives at the other stations of forgotten happiness, but he also comes to realise...
Year of Publication: 2026
Constantin LiebYear of Publication: 2026
Wildboden
A Novel
1936, Frauenkirch, in the middle of the Swiss Alps, not far from Davos: surrounded by majestic mountains and tight-lipped countryfolk, Erna Schilling and the painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner live in the...
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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
Film rights sold
Year of Publication: 2026
Ilija MatuskoYear of Publication: 2026
Jugo
A Novel
They only see each other once a year, and each time, they end up in an argument. The father who came to Germany as a young man, started a family, worked in hospitality, and left the country thirty years later for Croatia. And his son, who lives in Berlin and has become a writer and is now holidaying in his father’s guest house on the Adriatic Coast. In their arguments, they free themselves from...
Year of Publication: 2026
Dana VowinckelYear of Publication: 2026
Anton and Alma
A Novel
Anton is Jewish, Alma isn’t. Both were raised in Berlin under very different circumstances and fall in love in their early twenties, in 2018. They move in together, get through the pandemic, and...
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USA (Summit US), UK (Tinder), Norway (Pax)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
Year of Publication: 2026
Clemens J. SetzYear of Publication: 2026
My Life as a Noise Band
Stories
Paul’s language is noise: monstrously blaring tracks in which he screams out his despair in a distorted voice. Away from the stage though, everything seems empty, nobody understands him or his...
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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Roof Music)
Year of Publication: 2026
Stephan ThomeYear of Publication: 2026
Better than Never
A Novel
After being postponed twice due to the pandemic, the »Grenzgang« festival is finally going to take place once more in the small town of Bergenstadt – but suddenly, the much-loved tradition becomes a...
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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
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
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...
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Netherlands (Het Balanseer)
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...
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France (Verdier)
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
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...
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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
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,...
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France (Verdier), Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Hungary (Geopen), Turkey (Dergah), Greece (World Books)
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Hörverlag), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
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...
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Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
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