Based on true events, this is a story of intelligent resistance and civic courage in times of inhumanity, then and now.

Award-winning author Erich Hackl draws a vivid picture of Second World War Vienna – and of the fate of people leaving the city, to start new lives in Iran, Australia, China and other places.

How the taciturn Vienna craftsman and passionate mountaineer Reinhold Duschka came to save two Jewish lives during the Nazi reign of terror. How he managed to hide Regina Steinig and her daughter Lucia in his workshop over four years. How the three of them, tied by an invisible rope, survived thanks to good fortune and mutual trust. What happened afterwards. This meticulously researched story develops an incredible undertow, while affecting the reader deeply.

Featured in New Books in German.

The far north of Iceland, around the turn of the nineteenth century. With his rope ferry, Jón Magnússon Ósmann transports people, animals and wares across the waters of the Skagafjord. He’s a fisherman and a seal hunter who sees ghosts and elves; a friend of all mankind who cares for and shelters those in need; and he’s also a God-fearing drinker and poet. Larger-than-life, strong and companionable, and yet so tormented by his own fate that the floods he has sailed for over forty years begin to lure him in. Bursting with life, this is an almost unbelievable story based on a real life.

Ambitious Mara has two goals: power and money. Since there is no direct path to neither due to her lack of education, she has to achieve her goals indirectly through men. Madame Pompadour is her unequalled idol. But then she unexpectedly falls in love with a young musician who, however, only exploits her feelings. From then on she sells her own grandmother… Tokarjewa draws a psychologically sensitive and tragicomic picture of a modern Russian ›femme fatale‹.

»By no means was Teresa what one would call a monastic creature. She was bored as much by the religious books as by the daily recitation of the prayers. Men should be happy down to the heart and cheer up the others, that was her sole wish.«

Dr. Armand Gruber always played an imposing role in Swiss journalist Mario’s life. Gruber is a man of old school ways. A brilliant German teacher, Swiss Army captain, fervent anti-communist. And for decades, he had been leading a double life. No one suspected anything. Not his wife and not his daughter Bettina, who had rebelled against her father her entire life. Nor his former favourite student and son-in-law Mario, who had to break away from Gruber, in order to become a left-wing journalist. Nor Bettina’s best friend Karina, who, as a daughter of a custodian working for the Swiss secret service, grew up in close proximity to Gruber’s secret. For he was a member of the secret resistance organisation of the Swiss army, P-26. Now, two decades after the end of the Cold War, Gruber can finally break his silence.

All Blum really wants to do on Malta is sell his porno mags, but he suddenly finds himself in Frankfurt, in possession of five pounds of cocaine. His first thought is to sell it quickly, and open a beach bar on a Caribbean island. But then all sorts of things get in his way: his own naïveté, the captivating Cora, the dangerous Rossi, the inscrutable Mr. Haq, and the countless, cashless people interested in his snow.

»The frogs, too, only seemed to be croaking innocently in the swamps. In reality, everyone had a plan.«
Jörg Fauser

The hunt for diamonds belonging to the drugs mafia is keeping Inspector Hunkeler on tenterhooks. A Lebanese courier gets rid of his wares before the police can seize him. The diamonds are found by a canal worker, who is determined to keep his lucky find. But the courier will do anything to get them back. With this, his first case, Inspector Peter Hunkeler from Basel makes his literary debut.

Once upon a time, there was a beach photographer who got hold of a monkey. The monkey's job was to make people smile, because it is easy to sell photographs of smiling people. One day, people just didn't smile anymore. The photographer gave the monkey a glass of schnapps and some white powder to make him funnier. And funnier he became – but ill as well. And then he wanted revenge…

- A book of comfort for times of loss. - Strikingly open and honest. - Hansjörg Schneider's last crime novel ›Hunkeler and the Eyes of Oedipus‹ was number 1 on the Swiss best-seller list. »When I wrote this book, I concentrated on authenticity rather than getting caught up with stylistic finesse. It is a diary of my grief. I could have chiseled a gravestone for Astrid. But as I am a writer, not a stonemason, this book is my gift for her instead.« When Hansjörg Schneider's wife Astrid died of cancer in 1997, they had lived together for more than thirty years. »The truth is that we loved each other from the very beginning, and for a lifetime.« After her death, Hansjörg Schneider kept a diary for one year. The result is a personal book about a great love and a moving document of grief.

Eleven-year-old Martin has nothing but the shirt on his back, and a black rooster which is both a protector and a friend. The villagers steer clear of the boy, finding him strange; far too smart and kind. They would rather mistreat him than acknowledge his talents. When Martin meets a travelling painter and seizes the chance to leave the village with him, he is led into a terrible world which, thanks to his compassion and understanding, he is able to resist, becoming a saviour for those even more innocent than he is.

At the beginning was the soup – and Waechter shows what became of it in over fifty wild, creative pages – each of them amazingly beautiful!

Star business lawyer Urs Blank, forty-five years old, specialist for merger negotiations, has his feelings under control. He has learned not to leave himself wide open, but to make use of the openness of others. But then his life runs off the rails. A trip with hallucinogenic mushrooms leads to a dangerous change of personality, from which no-one succeeds in saving him. Blank flees into the forest. Until he finally comes to understand: there is only one way to free himself from this nightmare.

When Holly arrives in heaven, it turns out her life is far from over: there’s a lot going on in the other world. The place is packed with people and animals, but amid the crowds she meets Frida, who has been there for a hundred years and knows her way around.
Together they set off towards the School for Angels. Because, as Frida explains, if you’re an angel you can go back down to Earth. Holly is desperate to see how her family is doing. There’s only one problem: ever since Bortel has been in charge of heaven, the school has been closed and the connection to Earth has been severed. 

With a pair of tights wound around her head, a sweater tied around her belly and golden sandals on her feet, Mimi rings at the door of her parents' home and tells her astonished mother that she is not Mimi today but Anne Other. As Anne Other, she does everything quite differently: she drinks her cacao without a fuss because milk is good for her bones, she cannot bear strawberry jam, which Mimi loves, and she allows Mrs Müller to tie her shoelaces because she cannot do it as well as Mimi. And then she tells Mimi's parents the terrible secret that has been concealed beneath Mimi's pillow for days…

The new novel by best-selling author Martina Borger.

When happiness, and catastrophe come dangerously close.

A child and a job – lots of love, not much time. A novel drawn straight from real life.

A job, a life, and a young son – single mother Sina has been juggling for years, but now her new partner Torsten is supporting her in the act. Plus, they have Ellen, an environmental campaigner in her late sixties who has exactly what Sina’s son Elvis wants so much: time, patience – and a dog. But then something bad happens to the sensitive boy. He keeps his secret bottled up and a fatal web of rumours spreads around the patchwork family.