Fiction Autumn 2021

Hamburg in World War II: The wailing of sirens lies over the city, Hamburg Jews are deported in droves and high school graduates are sent to the front as quickly as possible. Where there had just...

Vienna, present day. An unexpected inheritance turns Lea's life as an insurance clerk upside down: her aunt Gloria, who lived alone, has left her a diamond necklace that has been in her family fo...

Meersburg, 1917. A romantic old inn on the shores of Lake Constance, surrounded by a stunning garden – for Helena Lindner and her sisters, the Lindenhof is a place of idyllic childhood memories. ...

Johanna is in her early fifties when her husband suddenly dies. Their marriage has been on the rocks for a long time, yet she suddenly feels lost and alone. When she goes through the letters of c...

Paisley has arrived in Aspen with nothing in her luggage except her skates. The magical wintry landscape takes her breath away, and when she sees the glittering, ice-covered Silver Lake stretched...

Portofino, 1909. Susanne Märzhäuser is a vivacious and adventurous woman – and on her very first trip to the riviera, she meets the love of her life. Achille Giraudo is desperate to get out of It...

World War I has ended, Martha and Paul have lost all their savings. Their daughter Ella is determined to become a doctor. But when her brother Rudi is expelled from Hamburg University, she has to...

Hamburg, 1867. The ice barons have long become legendary: these days, their northern ice travels halfway round the world, and even chills the champagne in Buckingham Palace. But the new generatio...

Stella Köhler has a stroke of luck: the 38-year-old's finances are in a fairly terrible state, when she unexpectedly inherits a house in Haffkrug on the Baltic Sea. She's a translator, and has wa...

Victoria leads a fulfilling life on her beloved walnut farm, which has been in her family for generations. However, since her mother passed away and her older sister Abigail – always a rebel – ha...