Fiction Autumn 2022

Southern France, 1880: "Bon appétit!" Fabienne is happiest when looking after the guests at the Lockkeeper’s Cottage. After all, the place is renowned for serving the best meals on the entire Can...

Munich, 1905. Therese Randlkofer’s expertise has introduced Germans to delicacies from all over the world, and Dallmayr’s displays are filled with hand-picked fruit from the Canary Islands, the f...

Princess Therese of Bavaria is clever and ambitious – and she does not want to marry, as time and social status dictate. Instead, she is drawn to faraway places – to Brazil, the land of her dream...

The young tanner’s daughter Arlette seems to have an enchanted life. She is not only stunningly beautiful, but also intelligent and ambitious. But when a nobleman rapes her and she becomes pregna...

Frankfurt, 1945. Ella Reichenbach has survived the nightly air raids, but her parents’ bookshop lies in ruins: the shelves are scorched, the windowpanes are shattered, and the books are gone. The...

Glasgow, 1892. Olivia has grown up poor, and it seems like all her dreams have come true when she gets the chance to study at the prestigious School of Art. But she is unprepared for this alien w...

Young widow Rebecca Seagrave has an ambitious plan: she wants to become a politician, and make the world a better place. But it won’t be easy – after all, she’s a woman living in eighteenth-centu...

Augsburg, 1939. The Melzer family and its staff are facing dark times. The Second World War is on the horizon, and it’s clear that it will change the lives of everyone in the city. The textile fa...

Hamburg, 1925. Otto Lagerfeld is at the Ohlsdorf cemetery, visiting the grave of his beloved wife Theresia. He is beset with grief and uncertainty about his family’s future. Will his brother Paul...

At the start of the twentieth century, Berlin’s KaDeWe department store is a glamorous citadel of luxury. It’s a world that Judith Bergmann, the daughter of KaDeWe’s in-house lawyer, knows all to...