Fiction Autumn 2024

I’m typing on an old typewriter; my Princess Standard 300, from the sixties, when it was not as easy as nowadays for a writer to add and change, to go back or forth, to improve or delete. I’m w...

Paula always tries to do everything right, but everything feels wrong: her husband Maik keeps putting her down, their rows are getting worse, and their daughter Lou is bearing the brunt. Zett is...

At least, that’s what Maria thinks when she takes a job managing the on-board shop on a ship captained by her brother Lukas. And if the two of them are going to be there, why not invite the whole...

North Frisia, 1946. Having been forced to leave Pomerania, young Lena Buth hopes to make a new life for herself here on the North Sea coast. Like countless other refugees, though, she is still be...

Elmshorn, 1938. The Kölln business is flourishing: the company’s first registered trademark, its deliciously delicate oat flakes, have set a new standard, and their range of products is starting ...

Between summer 1989 and summer 1990, East Germans hopped the border via Hungary, the Wall came down, and West Germany won the World Cup. In "Glorious", Brussig tells the stories of roller-skating...

Twenty-five years after the disappearance of Rebecca Maywald in Riga, her daughter receives an anonymous letter that points the finger at the Prokhoff diplomat family, whose Drei Linden foundatio...

In young scientist Mara Lux’s life, practically everything revolves around sleep. She lives in London, and is a leading scholar in the field – but has herself been tortured by insomnia for years....

Lulu, Elsa and Fanny couldn’t be more different – but they share one ambition: all three want to become doctors. But the university doesn’t officially accept female medical students, and in Munic...

Vevey, Lake Geneva, 1861. It is almost ten years since the death of Fanny’s father, famous chocolatier François Cailler. Fanny’s mother and brothers have taken over the family business, but altho...