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An enchanting parable of the power of imagination  A seaside village in Brittany is to make way for a leisure park but the villagers do not want to let this to happen. Marthe Simonet and ...

Deep feelings. Stormy times – Short stories by Asta Scheib.  Asta Scheib’s most recent novel Das Schönste, was ich sah (The loveliest thing I saw) about the painter ...

“In opera everything is falsehood… Truth only lies in the effects which emanate from it.” Edgar Degas  When your love of Italian opera is so powerful that there is no ...

“The pubs were willing but the beer was weak.” London is an adventure for every foreigner - not least because of British beer, which makes going to the pub an existential challenge: ...

Two sisters and a dark secret. A subtle psycho-thriller set in breathtaking scenery. On a sultry summer night Laura’s father and stepmother were bestially murdered on the island of ...

A great, unusual fantasy epic by a fascinating author. Horrendous creatures raid the island of the Luxinans and carry off some of the elf-like inhabitants to their dark kingdom. The father of young ...

“I had looked at her and known everything. There was no way out.” Joseph goes to Argentina to work for an NGO in Buenos Aires for seven months, leaving his girlfriend at home in ...

A remarkable debut, “magnificently constructed.” Hubert Winkels, Deutschlandfunk What does one do when there is a strange pair of men’s shoes outside one’s own front ...

The best of Heine’s Italian “Travel Pictures” “ It is just so lovely in Italy, even suffering is so lovely here and in these ruined marble palaces sighs sound much more ...

Martin Walser on Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Walser became aware of the universal relevance of Friedrich Nietzsche at the outset of his career. In this book he also shows that no-one can escape ...

New marginalia by Hellmuth Karasek. “A natural talent for satire!” Stuttgarter Zeitung Karasek’s comments on major and minor international events show a sure eye for ...

“Herr Lehberger, you’ve mislaid the lighter again!” Every two weeks Loki Schmidt and Reiner Lehberger met to exchange ideas. In the living-room in Hamburg-Langenhorn they ...

There is a proverb that knowledge is power – and that applies to love, too! Finding the right man to spend your life with is not a gamble, even though many women think it is. But it is ...

Human dignity is sacrosanct … and does not end at the door of the care home. “Now I feel that my mother did not suffer in vain.” Elke Gloor campaigned for a long time for ...

“I felt as though I was in a play. I thought: are you really ill?” “You have cancer.” For a lot of people this phrase always sounds like a death sentence, but after ...

“Our stars of happiness lie in ourselves.” Heinrich Heine For 75 days Achill Moser walked across the Alps and through Italy with his 18-year old son. For 1500 kilometres they ...

I swear on my grandchildren’s lives! I have not betrayed my husband. March 1984: Three young men from Thuringia flee to the west. It is a near miracle that they succeed in escaping over ...

Ludwig II – Popstar? Junkie? Genius? Or just mad? He was the best-known and most colourful King of Bavaria. Ludwig II dined out-of-doors in ice and snow, held conversations with ...

A wonderful secret weapon for parents and children. Lovely to read, lovely to give away: poetry written in the way children think. Poems and rhymes for children: a classic – newly ...

After Frauen und Schokolade (Women and chocolate) by Edward Monkton: Women love handbags. The relationship between women and handbags is such a passion that many women have run into debt for it ...

After Frauen und Schokolade (Women and chocolate) by Edward Monkton: The perfect man – of course there is no such thing. But perhaps at least the perfect one for you? Dreams about a prince ...

A story of seduction. For connoisseurs! A sweet defence of living one’s dreams without being ashamed. Emma loves chocolate more than anything else. This creamy, sweet, delicately ...

A small loving gift for a great emotion. A poetic declaration of love not just for Valentine’s Day – illustrated with charm and humour. The ideal declaration of love should be ...

The male as an adventure – delightfully politically incorrect. Never get angry about men again! This book is like a girls’ night out. The information about men and women being ...

A little jewel – superbly printed and in a new format. Stories that fluctuate between dream and reality“It’s incredible what the sea throws up and scatters around and ...

“Life without a pug is possible but pointless.” Loriot Full of joyful anticipation he walks across the light-coloured living-room carpet, leaving muddy paw-marks behind him. Her ...

A bunch of 'graffiti knitters' are on the loose in the UK – hellbent on liberating us from the forces of drabness. The Guardian The best projects from Knit the City. With instructions ...