Fiction Autumn 2023

Eight young people join a guided hike through Canada’s biggest national park. For the next three weeks, they will experience the wilderness and see the Northern Lights. But even in the wilderness...

Vienna, 1877. Plans are afoot to make sure that Countess Clea de Conteville makes the best possible match – but she can’t think of anything more boring than life as an aristocrat’s wife. At her f...

Maria Borchardt is no longer the woman she was that terrible Christmas in 1976, when the police came to Villa Borchardt and she found out about her husband Hanns’s shady dealings. But now is not ...

The South of France, 1888. Fabienne Durant has faith in herself and in her dreams. She is determined to take her place in the male-dominated world of haute cuisine, and planning to cook for a sop...

Bremen, 1874. Ever since she was a little girl, Bettina Vosskamp couldn’t wait to leave home and travel to India, where her beloved grandmother Lene had a tea plantation. When, many years later, ...

North Frisia, 1945. Germany’s defeat is only days away. The occupying forces are coming closer. Exhausted, nineteen-year-old Lena and her sister knock on the door of the vicarage in Niebüll. The ...

Mallorca 1952: The old hatred among the Delgados is still smouldering, family peace is far from tangible. The winery estates are in competition with each other, secrets kept for years are bubblin...

Munich 1827: Nanette has been the Seybachs’ governess for seven years. For seven years, she has also been keeping a dark secret. Now that her charges Johanna, Maximilian and Isabella have – with ...

Münsterland, 1895. Luise is Count von Scheweney’s oldest daughter, and her life is all planned out: she will marry nobleman Johan van Leeuwen, and spend the rest of her life among the elegant lad...

Uckermark, July 2018. On an old estate in the middle of nowhere, ninety-year-old Ottilie Rabe gathers her extended family around her to finalise her will. But when they come together, old wounds ...