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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deHIGHLIGHT SPRING 2019 HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2019
“I’ve been excited about Dear
Child from the minute I ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
heard about it first and hav- TRAANVASILLAABLE
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 Flagship Title
globe.”
Stefanie Bierwerth,
Publisher-at-Large, Quercus
And he called the light Day Romy Hausmann
Dear Child
“What an astute and exciting thriller!
© Astrid Eckert
What a sound! and the darkness he called Night. 432 pages
February 2019
I’m completely captivated by Romy Just like God.
Hausmann’s narrative voice. ”
A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her
Romy Hausmann Melanie Raabe, two children follows the rules set by the father: Meals, bath-
room visits, study time are strictly scheduled and meticulous-
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
Bestselling Author of The Trap
ly observed. Oxygen comes from a “circulation machine”, food
Dear Child is provided by the father only. He protects his family from the
dangers lurking “out there” and makes sure that his children,
of protagonists, whose stories she told: Stories
of domestic abuse, Somalian refugees of war
and neglected children. Since the birth of her
conceived and born in captivity, will always have a mother son she is working as a freelancer for several TV
to look after them. One day Lena manages to flee – but the formats. Dear Child is her thriller debut.
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.
• Film rights optioned pre-publication by Constantin Film
Three people are liberated from years of hell on earth only
to find unimaginable horror staring back at them. Romy
• For fans of Gone Girl and the Academy Award-winning motion picture Room Hausmann has written an emotionally charged, high-caliber
page-turner that gets right under your skin from the very first
line.
• Rights sold: English Language, Czech Republic, The Netherlands (pre-empt)
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deHIGHLIGHT SPRING 2019 HIGHLIGHT SPRING 2019
Frank Goldammer Linus Geschke
Summer Act Tannenstein
© Heike Bogenberger
© Jens Oellermann
BEST G
SELTLHIN
OR
FRANK GOLDAMMER was
born in Dresden in 1975.
ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
LINUS GESCHKE, born in
1970 in Cologne, works as
AU A painter and varnisher by TR ANVASILLAABLE
A a freelance journalist for
240 pages trade, he began writing in his 384 pages SPIEGEL ONLINE, Manager
February 2019 early twenties, self-publishing January 2019 magazine, and the Frankfurter
his first novels. For dtv he has Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
written several successful He has won several journalism
A darkly humorous family saga historical crime thrillers set in Time of revenge prizes for his travel report-
from the successful crime fiction author Dresden and its surroundings. ages.
A single parent, he lives with When the Hiker comes, people die: eleven in the remote town of Tannenstein
On a hot summer weekend the old and critically ill patriarch Joseph invites his his twin children in Dresden. near the Czech border, then a gas station attendant in the Harz region, and
family to his villa on the Baltic coast. The extremely rich man with a colorful a real estate agent in the Allgäu area. The killer materializes out of nowhere,
past accepts death as what it is. However, before he goes, he is unyielding in murders without warning, and vanishes without a trace. The only person who
his desire to see his entire family one last time. The relatives haven’t been on stands in the Hiker’s way is Alexander Born, an ex-cop turned criminal. Years
speaking terms for years, but they all decide to come in the interest of their ago, the Hiker killed his girlfriend, and now Born wants revenge. He soon finds
potentially approaching inheritance. Predictably the events escalate until, in the himself embroiled in a hunt that will end where everything started: in Tannen-
truest sense of the word, everything explodes. stein.
• Bestselling crime fiction author Frank Goldammer shows a new facet – • Spiegel bestseller
this time crime stays in the family • For readers of Ian Rankin and Tess Gerritsen
• Total sales of Frank Goldammer’s books with dtv: 100,000 copies • A previous crime series by Linus Geschke is currently being filmed
• For fans of the film classic The Honey Pot
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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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deFICTION C U R R E N T A F FA I R S
Being political in times of “Alternative Facts”
Martin Schneitewind Michael Köhlmeier
At the Walls Do Not Expect Me to Feign Ignorance
of Paradise Speeches against oblivion
© Heike Bogenberger
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
ENGLPISLH Afterword by: just how politics nowadays are increasingly accepting blatant racism and hatred under
SAM TEION MICHAEL KÖHLMEIER born the guise of “free speech”. His words are a bold commentary on today’s politics and
TRANSILLAABLE
AVA 1949 in Hard on Lake Con- 96 pages their subtle disintegration due to libel and malice.
400 pages stance, lives in Hohenems/ November 2018
March 2019 Vorarlberg and Vienna.
David Ostrich, an Orientalist from Toronto, is about to investigate the legends
Hannah Arendt
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 The Freedom to Be Free
asked to track down the supervisor’s missing daughter and, while pumping the
frightened residents of the local work camp for information, stumbles across What is freedom, are we born free or is freedom conveyed to us by others? Can it be
the secret that is holding together the desert nation. 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
© Peter-Andreas Hassiepen
At the Walls of Paradise is a dystopian novel acquainting us with a world in Arendt was first published in German by dtv in 2018. Accompanied by Thomas
which political and environmental changes trigger massive migration. Said Meyer’s poignant afterword, the book obviously meets the spirit of the time and hit the
dam construction also serves the purpose of closing borders against millions of top ranks of the bestselling lists in Germany for months on end.
refugees already on the move.
64 pages
Interwoven with these topical issues are the eternal questions of man’s relation January 2018
Rights for the essay: Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust
to God and the quest for the Biblical paradise. A novel about the actuality of the Translation by: Rights for the afterword by Thomas Meyer: dtv
book of Genesis and of the meaning of story-telling for our existence. RAOUL SCHROTT , born in
1964, received numerous
(sold to: Spain, The Netherlands)
awards, including the Peter
A literary gem: Raoul Schrott lends his unique voice to Martin Huchel and Joseph Breit-
Schneitewind. bach Prize. William Shakespeare
Accompanied by Michael Köhlmeier’s insightful comments.
The Strangers
An appeal for more compassion
Based 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.
72 pages
September 2016 Rights for the afterword by Frank Günther: dtv
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deFICTION FICTION
Christian Tielmann
Immortality Isn’t a dtv’s new imprint bold addresses generation Y readers with
young, edgy fiction titles. Life in times of social media and globali-
Solution Either zation, gender debates, experiences of diversity and inclusion, and
the overcoming of stereotypes are topics that bold takes on
A Goethe-Schiller disaster
© Jochen Nues
− across communities and age groups, and beyond expectations.
224 pages
February 2019
CHRISTIAN TIELMANN was
In 2014, the crisis-shaken book market causes even the sales of works by German born in 1971 in Wuppertal.
classics Goethe and Schiller to plummet, which is why their publisher Cotta sends He studied Philosophy and
the two gentlemen (now 265 and 255 years old) on a reading tour. The itinerary German at Hamburg and
will culminate in an open-air reading of Faust. Only reluctantly does Goethe agree Freiburg. Today he lives in
to this plan. How annoying that his friend Schiller always seems to be two steps Detmold. He has been writing
ahead of him, whether it’s in dealing with delayed trains, apathetic students, or books for children, young
an attractive bookseller traveling with them. And it doesn’t seem to get any better adults, and adults since 1999.
when Schiller develops new ideas on how to get things rolling…
Maike Voss
That’s What
It Looks Like
© Gunter Glücklich
Einige
von
vielen
Johanna Adorján When a Firefly Dies
»... unter-
Men In her debut novel, Maike Voß tells the
MAIKE VOSS was born in 1995
in Hamburg, where she also
Some of the many
haltsam, klug,
bösartig,
saulustig...«
MATTHIAS
BRANDT
story of Viola and Leon. They are the best of completed her degree from the
´
friends − until they spend the night together Technical Art Academy in 2018.
JOHANNA ADORJAN © Nadine Kunath 336 pages
after a concert. For Leon, this is the fulfill- She has chosen London as her
February 2019
ment of everything he has been secretly long- second home, which is where
336 pages ing for. However, Viola panics, thinking she she started writing her debut
November 2018 may have fallen for the wrong guy yet again, novel That’s What it Looks Like
_
and that their friendship would be over. She When a Firefly Dies.
JOHANNA ADORJÁN, born leaves Leon’s apartment the next morning
Jochen, Oliver, Bill − almost half of the human race is composed of men. They
in Stockholm in 1971, is a without a word. Leon cannot and will not
still set the tone for many issues, even though their facade started to crack a
journalist and writer. Her accept Viola’s disappearance, and tries to
long time ago. Enough of a reason to look more closely. What facets character-
bestselling biographical figure out why she ran but without any luck.
ize the other gender? With a woman’s eyes, Johanna Adorján forges into this
memoir An Exclusive Love has Viola not only is hiding, but trying despa-
world and describes what − more accurately, who − catches her eye: a philos-
been translated into sixteen rately to get Leon out of her head. Because
opher who has made a name for himself as a soccer player (Lothar), a serial
languages. Her collection in the twinkling of an eye, she seems to have
phone caller whenever he is on a train (Jürgen), a brilliant psychotherapist
of short stories, My 500 Best vanished from the face of the planet.
(Harald). Although some of the observations may seem familiar, others will be
Friends, was published in
perplexing. However, one things is clear: men are like women − just different.
2013. She is a regular contrib-
utor to the Frankfurter Allge-
meine Zeitung’s arts section.
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deWOMEN’S FICTION WOMEN`S FICTION
Susanna Mewe Dora Heldt
The Afterlife Can Stuff It Three Women
at the Lake
© Wolfgang Frank
© Franz Schepers
304 pages
March 2019
SUSANNA MEWE was born DORA HELDT was born on
Ghost meets My Best Friend’s Wedding in 1981 in North Rhine-West- Sylt in 1961. A trained book-
phalia and now lives in Berlin. 576 pages seller, she lives in Hamburg to-
She writes plays, novels and First published 2018 day. She has been a perennial
Since the death of his wife, David has immersed himself in his professional life
screenplays. Her work has re- presence on the bestseller
and in caring for his eccentric father. Occasional attempts at romantic rendez-
ceived several awards, includ- lists thanks to her novels,
vous fail as a result of David’s shyness. Until he falls for Selma. However, David’s Three friends, four lives − and a house by the lake
ing the Munich Kammerspiele crime fiction, short stories,
deceased wife Elinor isn’t all that delighted about this development. As a ghost,
Bursary, the Retzhof Drama and columns. Her novels are
she jealously watches over her husband, and eventually asks her medium Paula
Prize and the Alfred Döblin They had been close friends since childhood: Marie, Alexandra, Friederike, regularly turned into films.
for help.
Scholarship from the Berlin and Jule. Regardless of where their lives took them, they gathered every Friday
Academy of Arts. 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 BEST G
quarrel ten years ago, they hardly have had any contact with each other. Marie
SELTLHIN
OR
presents a surprise to her friends: But then, they have to meet again. AU
Dora Heldt shifts stylistic gears and adopts a more serious tone: a story about
Daniela Böhle the loves and lies that shape our lives, and the value of friendship, and the joy of
remembering.
ENGLPISLH
SAM TEION
TRAANVASILLAABLE
Marzipan Butterflies • # 1 Spiegel Bestseller: More than 160,000 copies sold
© Sylvia Jungenkrüger • Abridged version available (about 280 p. long instead of 576 p.)
• Rights sold to: Italy (pre-empt)
320 pages
March 2019
DANIELA BÖHLE, born in
1970, studied art history (fin-
The sweetest seduction since the invention of cake ished degree) and medicine
(almost-finished degree) in
Nina stares distractedly at the little bakery’s shop window: “Intern wanted” it
Cologne and Bonn, and then
says. Bakeries have always been places of longing for Nina. She has just never
moved to Berlin in 1999,
given in to that feeling. Now, with forty well behind her, she applies, takes an
where she still lives with her
unpaid leave from her job, and descends into the bakery every morning, as if
two children. She has written
entering a magical world. She never dreamed that she would find a new voca-
a YA novel, regularly publishes
tion, as well as a new love.
in magazines and anthologies,
and writes scripts for radio
programs.
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deCRIME FICTION CRIME FICTION
Benjamin Cors Normandy crime series
Hannah O’Brien c. 432 pages / each title
An Irish Wake (vol. V) Jetsam (vol. I)
Nicholas Guerlain is supposed to be looking
© dtv / Heike Bogenberger
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
© Markus Kirchgessner
432 pages long-lost love who vanished two years ago?
March 2019 Nicholas is transferred home to the Normandy
spa town of Deauville for disciplinary reasons.
HANNAH O’BRIEN is a jour- Things go from bad to worse when he sets out to
The dark side of the Emerald Isle nalist and author who lived in investigate a crime that goes back decades...
Great Britain and Ireland for
The famous and beloved Irish environmental activist Cathal Connor is discovered BENJAMIN CORS is a poli-
brutally murdered. He had been recently seen on a talk show in which he had glibly
many years but now divides
her time between homes in
Coastline (vol. II) tical journalist and television
and inventively argued for the protection of the forests south of Dublin. In her fifth Cologne and on the banks of presenter who spent many
case, Galway’s Commissioner Grace O’Malley and her colleague Rory Coyne discov- the Moselle. A regular visitor Nicolas has rehabilitated himself as a body- years covering world news for
er several inconsistencies in the allegedly exemplary life of the victim. Connor wasn’t to Ireland, she is an expert on guard. He is now in the employ of a wealthy evening news programmes
only leading a double life with two families; he was also hiding a dirty secret. Irish affairs. aristocrat in Normandy who has been receiving and in-depth political analysis.
threatening letters for some time. Meanwhile, Today he works as a regional
Just as in Tana French crime series, Hannah O’Brien uses the procedural to explore in Deauville, police find the murdered body of political correspondent for a
a topical subject in each of her novels, ranging from the microcosm of family life to an under-age prostitute. Among her possessions broadcasting station. He grew
the macrocosm of religion. they discover a telephone number which turns up as a Franco-German na-
out to belong to a dead man Nicolas has just tional and spent his childhood
pulled from the Seine in the Normandy... summers in Normandy.
Tidal Game (vol. III)
Stefan Maiwald
Bodyguard: the word that a dying man attempts Normandy crime series:
The Corpses of Rialto to scratch into the ground. A word that leads
to Nicolas Guerlain, a bodyguard of the French
Over 90,000 copies sold
© Heike Bogenberger government. Nicolas realizes that a connection
exists to the festivities on June 6, the memorial Epreuve de traduction en
day for the Allied invasion. Attacks have seem-
ingly been planned for this day. Unexpected as- français à disposition
304 pages sistance is provided by Julie, his former partner
February 2019 who has reappeared. But can he really trust her?
The agent to the Doge Davide Venier is searching for clues: Within a short time
STEFAN MAIWALD was
born in 1971. The journalist,
Beacon (vol. IV)
span, three Venetians are murdered. At the same time, Portuguese merchants amateur chef and enthusiastic
are striving to undermine Venice’s dominance of the spice trade. Davide, dis- golfer lives in Italy with his Fear has settled across Vieux-Port. The town’s
guised as a merchant, he is to uncover the conspiracy - and ends up landing family and writes for various residents are terrified of an old curse that pre-
in the middle of the sea battle of Lepanto. Hardly back home, his girlfriend papers and magazines. He is a dicts they will all die in a flooding of the Seine.
Veronica is abducted. The kidnappers demand a ransom for her life… the death long-standing author for both After the first victim dies, the mayor asks for
of the Doge! fiction and non-fiction at dtv. Nicolas Guerlain’s help − but he turns down the
request. At least, until another body appears.
Total sales of Stefan Maiwald’s books with dtv: 100,000 copies The priest has died an agonizing death in a tub
full of river water...
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deCRIME FICTION CRIME FICTION
Krischan Koch Krischan Koch
Murderers Deep In
Hate Herring Shallow Water
(vol. I)
© Gunter Glücklich
(vol. VII)
304 pages
First published in 2009
KRISCHAN KOCH was born
With a surprisingly simple ruse, art student Harry Oldenburg snatches an oil paint- in 1953 in Hamburg, where
ing and three watercolours by Emil Nolde from a local museum. High-tailing it to he works as a film critic for
272 pages the island of Amrum, his plan is to lie low until the commotion has died down. the NDR and Die Zeit amongst
February 2019 But it isn’t long before he finds himself being chased by a boorish ferryman, a love- others. He and his wife lives
PRESS ACCLAIMS:
struck tourist and his prying landlady. Harry disposes of these inconvenient pursu- in Hamburg and also on the
ers, but getting rid of their dead bodies proves difficult. Eventually, he is forced to North Sea island of Amrum,
Fredenbüll goes Reeperbahn “Krischan Koch’s crime
leave the oil painting behind as he makes a dramatic escape across the Wadden Sea. where he has the perfect view
novels are the best fun you
Eighteen years later, now a successful art dealer and thief, he returns to track down on the North Sea mud-flats
A fall storm washes a container ship full of electronics scrap up on Freden- could wish for. High enjoy-
the missing picture... and writes his successful
büll’s coast. Between the snarled cables and discarded screens, a body appears! ment, 100% guaranteed!”
Susann Fleischer, crime novels.
Everything points toward murder - and to the likelihood that the crime hap-
pened in Hamburg. Literaturmarkt.info
In his seventh case, village police officer Thies Detlefsen must travel to the me- “With his dry,
screamingly hilarious
Krischan Koch
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.
dialogue, Koch bounces his
quirky characters off each See Venice and Steal
other.”
• Volume VII of the popular seaside crime series
Lukas Jenkner, stuttgar-
ter-zeitung Online
(vol. II)
• For readers of Anne George and fans of Agatha Raisin “Suspenseful, funny, and
• Total sales of Krischan Koch’s books with dtv: 400,000 copies brilliantly absurd.”
288 pages
Anja Goerz,
First published in 2011
Radio Bremen
IN THE SAME SERIES: 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.
Spiked Fruit Jelly North Sea Shrimps The Pickled Herring
(vol. I) (vol. II) Squad (vol. III)
272 pages 272 pages 288 pages • Neatly packaged murder mysteries, satires, art and travel guides
Pub. Date: 2013 Pub. Date: 2014 Pub. Date: 2015
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rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.deI N T E R N AT I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R I N T E R N AT I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R
Frank Goldammer Detective Inspector Max Heller series Rita Falk Eberhofer series
c. 340 pages / each title
The Air Raid Killer (vol. I)
Dresden, November 1944: the population is Winter Potato
groaning under the strain and dire privations
of an increasingly menacing war. Detective in-
spector Max Heller is summoned to the scene TE
Dumplings (vol. I)
of a crime, where he is confronted with the COMPLLIESH
ENG T For disciplinary reasons, Franz Eberhofer is
savagely battered body of a woman. Very soon, TEX E forced to leave his post with the Munich po-
the rumour mills start to grind: it’s the Fright AVAILABL lice and is transferred to his home village of
Man, prowling the ruins at night.
© Astrid Eckert
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
A Thousand Devils (vol. II) stone-deaf grandmother. All very relaxing,
RITA FALK was born in 1964
which is just as well considering the trouble
Dresden, 1947: The city lies within the Soviet Total sales of Frank in Bavaria and still lives there.
he has with his weed-growing old hippie
occupation zone and is still a desert of rubble 240 pages She is the mother of three
Goldammer’s books with of a father, who drives him round the bend
and ruins. Inspector Max Heller is summoned First published in 2010 grown children and is married
with his perpetual playing of Beatles records.
to the scene of a crime in Dresden Neustadt by dtv: Over 100,000 copies to a policeman.
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MARTINA BERGMANN was her first novel.
born in 1979 in Ostwestfalen.
After graduating high school, 250 pages
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she fled to the big cities of May 2018
February 2019
Munich, Hamburg and Berlin.
She studied Humanities and is
Two sisters are making a fresh start in the prime of their lives
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Martina Bergmann takes care of Martha, a woman in her mid-80s who has a exciting new opportunities offered by the post-war economic miracle.
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Pointedly and true to life Martina Bergmann portrays the experience of living dream of a rose garden. Together they invest all that they have and tend a piece
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Her story shows that caring for someone suffering from dementia does not have company once stood.
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Adele and Elisabeth want to give this land back to nature and create the most
And while this unconventional living arrangement strikes passersby as odd, beautiful rose garden the Black Forest has ever seen. Against all odds and the
Martina wouldn’t have it any other way. 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.
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COVER
Y The Ting
What would happen if you let an app make all the
decisions in your life?
PING 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
ROMAN it, and then uses this basis to provide behavioral and decision
recommendations.
S. 4
c. 320 pages
To be published in The concept of Ting proves convincing - the app is wildly successful.
September 2019 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.
For fans of The Circle and Her
SABINE FRIEDRICH SABINE FRIEDRICH
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Sabine Friedrich
DIE NACHT HAT
12 STUNDEN
The Red Orchestra
ROMAN ROMAN
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
c. 400 pages
Orchestra’s women in a grander tapestry. The author tells a deeply
To be published in
touching and evocative story leading to violent deaths at the hand of
September 2019
the Nazi regime.
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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