Sven Regener

John Brownjohn

A clever and hilarious tragicomic novel of life in the bars of Berlin, Berlin Blues has been a bestseller in Germany and a film of the novel will be released later this year.

Berlin Blues

Sebastian Fitzek

He plays the oldest children's game in the world, hide and seek. Only the Eye Collector plays it to death. It's the same each time. A woman's body is found with a ticking stopwatch clutched in her dead hand. A distraught father must find his child before the boy suffocates - and the killer takes his left eye. Alexander Zorbach, a washed-up cop turned journalist, his covered all three of the Eye Collector's murders. But this is different. Zorbach's wallet has been found next to the corpse and now he is a suspect.

The Eye Collector

Karsten Flohr

Last Voyage of Sigismund Skrik

Peter Schneider

Lured to post-Communist East Berlin by an inheritence that includes an old apartment building, Eduard, a German scientist, soon finds the city transforming his life in bizarre, absurd ways. 10,000 first printing.

Eduard's Homecoming

Petra Hammesfahr

After meeting Susanne Lasko, a desperate, unemployed divorcee, by chance, Nadia Trenkler, a stylish Berlin investment counselor, hires Susanne, whom she closely resembles, to spend the weekend with her husband, with whom she barely interacts, so she can conduct an out-of-town affair. Of course, a lot more is going on than Susanne realizes. For one thing, Marcus Zurkeulen, a shady investor Nadia has been tricking, wants the money she stole from him. When the devious Nadia disappears, Susanne continues the deception with scary results.

The Lie

Doris Dorrie

Immersed in a midlife crisis, Fred Kaufman, who is dissatisfied spiritually by his wife, embarks on an unexpected journey of self-discovery when he decides to take his daughter, Franka, to a meditation center in the south of France to show her the true way of the Buddhist when she falls in love with a lama and plans to move to India. 10,000 first printing.

Where Do We Go From Here?

Dietlof Reiche

Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature.

Book One in the Golden Hamster Saga

I, Freddy

Alex Capus

Alex Capus follows every step of Robert Louis Stevenson’s last years, studying every clue left behind by the Scottish writer and reaching his own conclusion about the most dramatic turn in Stevenson’s life: his decision to settle in Samoa, where the climate was poison for his already diseased lungs.When he arrived there in 1889, neither Stevenson nor his family particularly liked the Pacific island and wanted to stay for only a few days. Yet soon afterwards he changed his mind and, intriguingly, spent what little remained of his savings on a plot of land and began living there on a meagre income. Before long Stevenson set about building an opulent villa and lived out the rest of his days in splendour. What had happened? Capus asserts that Stevenson not only wrote the world-famous novel Treasure Island here but searched for the treasure himself and furthermore found it towards the end of his life, on a little island he could see from the peak of the mountain in Samoa where he settled.

In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson

Sailing by Starlight

Gunter Ohnemus

A Russian mafia thriller, a road-movie adventure and an elegantly written love story.

The Russian Passenger

An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster, and supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in the past.

Ghost Ship

David Safier

This debut novel follows the trials and tribulations of Kim Karlsen, a television personality whose career obsession brings her some serious cosmic repercussions. In her quest to dominate the airwaves, Kim cheats on her husband, neglects her daughter, and mistreats her staff. It all seems worth it when she wins the biggest German Television Award, but sadly on the very same night she is crushed to death by debris falling from a Russian space station.... At the gates of Heaven, Kim is informed that she has collected too much bad karma in her life, and has a long road of atonement ahead. Reincarnation as an ant teaches her a few lessons in humility, ad she experiences life as a guinea pig and as a beagle before regaining human form just in time to sabotage the marriage of her husband to her back-stabbing best friend.

Bad Karma

Thomas Glavinic

Charlie Kolostrum carefully crafts his image, sometimes draping a black cloak over his shoulders and donning a black hat (though he knows smoking a pipe would be overdoing it). When friends drop by, he makes sure to leave a few books by Nietzsche on the table (though he prefers self-help manuals). The jobless, self-described wimp lives off the kindness -- and financial contributions--of his family and mainly compiles lists of rules to live by, daydreams about rock stardom, and schemes to bed any number of women (though he's unable to emotionally connect with anyone). A classic underachiever, Charlie stumbles through life--until the day he gets his big chance to change everything. This satire from one of Austria's most celebrated contemporary novelists shows that slacking can sometimes get you places.

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