Love or the Past – What counts for more? She knew too little about him as yet, but one thing she was sure of: he loved her. He'd not betrayed her, but didn't put up with someone else's ...

A new voice in German literature – prize winner ahead of publication. „My wife had moved into my home. She wasn’t from the area but came from further afield so the surroundings ...

High tension in the far north – a book swept by sea winds.Erik Flecker dies a horrible death. While trying to repair a light buoy on the North Sea mud flats, his hand suddenly gets stuck. As ...

‚There is no greater pleasure than leaving youth behind you’.» Albert Einstein Showing the first signs of age? How delightful! Memory letting you down? What a relief! In his ...

As in his bestselling Sweet Bird of Youth, Karasek’s trenchant self awareness invites us to recognise ourselves. F.A.Z. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Wit, satire and delight in absurd ...

‚We want it all, and that’s not asking too much’.Cool, clever and beautiful – these are the new feminists. They want it all – children and career, intellect and sex, ...

An exploration of the profounder implication of getting older and how to keep a young mind by caring for the generations of the future.What traces will I leave behind? How can I link my life with ...

Fully revised and updated, now with photos- the standard work on the Red Army FactionStefan Aust’s research has brought many new, often striking and mysterious facts to light.Were and indeed ...

The gripping insider account by the investigator leading the Federal Criminal Police special commission into the Baader Meinhof gang. In the Federal Criminal Police Office he was the man for ...

The inner development of an evil ideology – from its Christian roots to the present day. A book about that part of anti-semitism born of sexual envy, demonstrating not only what - at times ...

‚Some are on top,’ he said‚ and they are the winners. ‚And those at the bottom, they’re the losers.’ »And what if we refuse to go with that? ...

„Erös treads surefootedly between all fronts in the Pashtun Empire“. Der SpiegelReinhard Erös set up an unparalleled aid programme together with his family. Today Afghan Child ...

Hen and Mole – the dream couple find each other. Luck is nearer at hand than you might think. You just have to look very carefully. This is what Marie and Ambrosius came to realize when they ...

How to keep cheerful no matter what. A book to slip in your pocket, for when you’re feeling challenged.Whether the glass is half full or half empty is a matter of perception. Above all ...

It’s quite easy to be happy. It’s the small things that make life worthwhile!Happiness arrives by itself? Very rarely. Hardly ever. Never mind. It’s easy enough to conjure it up. ...

“We have Siegfried Lenz to thank for a poetic book – perhaps his most beautiful.” Marcel Reich-RanickiA warm summer on the Baltic many years ago. Benny Goodmann and Ray Charles ...

Composed with virtuosity, told with brilliance: after the great success of Silence At Last comes Ott’s new novel.He doesn’t want to be involved with the horrible happenings in the ...

Exploration of the world in 1438: A fascinating debut and a great historical novel.The Year of the Lord 1438. This book bears witness to the wondrous sea voyage of the cartographer Nicolaus Swart, ...

“ If you want to recuperate in New York, why are you flying to Miami?”This book tells of Seraphine’s sentimental journey home and also guides you through an American presidential ...

“An exceptional work.” Neue Zürcher ZeitungIt was known as ‘the German dance’, the Diabelli waltz on which Beethoven composed his 33 Variations. Irene Dische based her ...

An exceptional life-story to fascinate everyone, because it is a unique tale of defying fate.Maurice Ravel wrote his piano concerto for the left hand for him, Prokofiev his fourth, Richard Strauss, ...

“Nothing else prevails against death and destruction”: only love. The love poems of Walter Helmut Fritz in one volume.Because through you I know the present exists, I love you.Love ...

High School massacre: after her “incredibly good first thriller” (Bild am Sonntag) comes Roth’s brilliant new novel.The young maniac caused a terrible bloodbath at his school. ...

A vampire who wants to renounce his insatiable thirst for blood – for love. Does his chosen beloved know whom she is getting involved with?Unsolved crimes in Zurich. The victims are young ...

“The course of her life was set by the decision to move to Germany.”Fatma is eight years old when her parents decide to go to Germany. People in the village are saying that the streets ...

Modern gene research revolutionizes the human image. Darwin and Dawkins are on trial; the most recent gene research challenges Darwinism.At the moment a great upheaval is going on about how in the ...

For the 250th anniversary of George Frideric Handel’s death: a grand narrative treatise by Karl-Heinz Ott.The opera, London, castrati and divas people Handel’s world, but also ...

It is high time: ‘unofficial collaborators’ are breaking their silence. There were many more Stasi informers than anyone thought and most of them went undetected. Until now.At last ...

The true kiss – just for you! Anyone who has never dared to, who has always wanted to, who wants to do it for once quite particularly poetically – anyone who gives this book as a ...

Simply saying ‘thank-you’! An effusive ‘thank you very much’ – who wouldn’t want to hear that? Anyone giving this book as a present shows that the thanks ...

A crocodile for ChristmasIt is Christmas, the town is bright with glittering lights and Maja and Jan have great plans. But when a minor but drastic event threatens to upset everything, only the ...