Fiction Spring 2023

Max seems to be living on the sunny side of the street: his childhood, schooldays, university education and marriage have all prepared him to one day take over his father’s successful business. E...

In these highly topical modern fairy tales, François Lelord – a specialist in happiness, who is truly in his element here – tells the story of ten key moments in the animal-human relationship. Wh...

Rome, the centre of power and art: Tina reluctantly agrees to move to the Eternal City, where her husband Adamo Bellani, the scion of a Florentine beauty empire, plans to take up banking. On the ...

Mallorca, 1945. Antonia has suffered a serious blow, and has returned to Mallorca. She and her sister Carla are thrilled to be reunited, but their family is far from at peace. Antonia soon finds ...

Zehlendorf district, Berlin, 1948. When the so-called "raisin bombers" start dropping aid parcels from the sky, the staff at the Waldfriede clinic are relieved. The Berlin Blockade has spread mis...

After a huge row with her husband, Agnes knows she has to get out. As her marriage and her old life fall apart, she wanders aimlessly through Hamburg’s city streets. She ignores Tom’s phone calls...

Summer 1983. Lika has finally graduated high school. But before leaving her north-German home town, her father and her little brother, she takes a job waiting on tables at Kakadu, the local pub a...

Young journalist Nellie’s bold articles are the toast of New York. When her editor-in-chief asks her to write more about "women’s issues", she needs to come up with a spectacular new topic – and ...

Berlin, 1976. Unscrupulous real estate patriarch Hanns Borchardt is at the height of his career. He’s the man everyone wants to do business with, and his wife Maria and their two children, Holger...

Maximilian von Seybach is a passionate doctor. His greatest wish is to help the poorest in society. But his ambitious family think little of his plans, and when he discovers that his grandmother ...