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9mm Cut
Year of Publication: 2024
Sybille RugeYear of Publication: 2024
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...

Ship of Fools
Year of Publication: 2025
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 2025
A Novel

A state is founded, like all states, for eternity, but disappears after forty years, almost without a trace. Are the people who once lived there condemned to oblivion, their dreams just a brief...

Rights sold to:

France (Métailié)

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (DAV), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)


The Humming Underneath the Skin
Year of Publication: 2023
Stephan LohseYear of Publication: 2023
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...


The Curve
Year of Publication: 2025
Dirk SchmidtYear of Publication: 2025
Thriller

Who do you turn to when you're a terminally ill former mafioso who wants to rearrange your affairs and needs more than just a little help on your trip through Germany? Or if you're an American tycoon trying to track down the murderer of your daughter, who died in Berlin under mysterious circumstances? In these kinds of cases, you’d better call Carl. In years gone by, Carl ran the legendary...


The Last Patient
Year of Publication: 2024
Ulrike EdschmidYear of Publication: 2024
She sat at the kitchen table, smoking, exuding a »seductive world-weariness reminiscent of the films of the Nouvelle Vague«. Having been left by a man, she turns up in the narrator’s share house in Frankfurt in 1973 looking for a room. She was majoring in history and French. Three years later, after falling in love with a Spanish anarchist, she follows him to Barcelona.

After a few...

Flight Novella
Year of Publication: 2024
Thomas SträssleYear of Publication: 2024
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...

Before the Downfall
Year of Publication: 2025
Felix BohrYear of Publication: 2025
Hitler’s Years in the »Wolf’s Lair«

Not far from the East Prussian town of Rastenburg – Kętrzyn in today’s Poland – one of the central locations of the Second World War was hidden deep among the forest: the »Wolf’s Lair«. After...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Polity), Italy (Mondadori), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Poland (Otwarte), Hungary (Scolar)

Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Hierax Medien)

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