Fiction Spring 2022

Four very different siblings have gathered in their old family home. They haven't seen each other in a long time, but have come to look after their mother, who suffers from dementia, while their ...

Following her mother's death, Veronika returns to her parents' house in Nuremberg's imperial forest to complete the sale of the old forester's lodge. Part of her is grateful for this temporary es...

Florence, 1534. No sooner have they sworn their eternal love, than the young merchant's daughter Calla del Giocondo and her lover are forced to flee the city. Samuele, the heir to the Bellani cos...

The Berlin district of Zehlendorf, 1933. Just as the Waldfriede clinic has finally made a name for itself and the clinic's director Conradi is admitted to the Berlin Society of Surgeons, storm cl...

Barnaba Carbonaro, a young man living in Sicily at the end of the nineteenth century, has a head full of dreams of wealth and plans to create a dynasty. And his dreams come true: clever and coura...

'Boy meets girl': anything can start with this sentence – there isn't a story that cannot be brought into the world with it. For Nora, too, a brief encounter changes her life entirely. All of a s...

I'm all alone now, is Jule's first thought when her mother dies. But when she goes to sort out her mother's flat, Jule discovers documents that show she was adopted. Jule never felt properly clos...

Mallorca, 1913. The Delgado family runs a small winery at the foot of the idyllic Tramuntana mountains. But when the competition on the mainland grows more powerful, the island's wine trade colla...

Rheims, 1858. When Jeanne Pommery is unexpectedly widowed, her deceased husband's rivals get ready to destroy his wine business. But Jeanne determines to continue running the business on her own,...

New York, 1965. Helena Rubinstein is ninety-five, one of the richest women in the world, and a glittering icon. Whether she's in London or Paris, Sydney or Manhattan, people everywhere recognise ...