WINNER GERMAN BOOK PRIZE 2024 • 150,000+ COPIES SOLD IN GERMANY • SELECTED BY LITRIX FOR POLAND FOCUS 2025-2027 • PRIX GRAND CONTINENTAL 2024 • SOLD TO 13+ COUNTRIES

Juno spends her days helping her seriously ill husband Jupiter cope with daily life. She is also an artist, and dances and acts. And she spends her nights, on the frequent occasions when she can't sleep, chatting to love scammers on the internet. Martina Hefter has written a moving novel about needs and desires. And about how far we are prepared to go for love. A whirlwind journey through cyberspace and the inexorable march of aging – and the eternal yearning to remain youthful – infused with subtle sadness and poignant nostalgia.

»This cutting-edge novel, groundbreaking both in its form and the themes it explores, touches upon the profound and the universal alike. Martina Hefter's fiction poses central questions to European readers, addressing them in all their facets.« Jury statement PRIX GRAND CONTINENTAL 2024 

A SWEEPING BIG HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD'S GREATEST CULTURES AND THEIR LASTING IMPACT ON US BY AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN RAIMUND SCHULZ (PREMIO NAZIONALE DI DIVULGAZIONE SCIENTIFICA 2023) • US ENGLISH, SPANISH, CHINESE RIGHTS SOLD

From Rome to China, from Athens to India, from the Celts to the Arabs: Raimund Schulz’s groundbreaking narrative offers a global history like never before. We experience over three millennia of turbulent human history and explore cultural spaces full of astonishing similarities and distinct characteristics - influences that we can still feel today.

Born in 1962 in Hildesheim, Raimund Schulz teaches ancient history at the University of Bielefeld. His previous book, »Abenteurer der Ferne«, won the 2017 »Research Prize for Geography and History«, was named »Historical Book of the Year 2016« by DAMALS, and was shortlisted for Austria's 2017 »Science Book of the Year« >> rights sold to: China (Beijing Science and Technology Publishing), Italy (Keller) , Poland (PIW), Turkey (Bilge Kültür), US WER (Oxford University Press).

»So deft is the author's handling of his material, and so lively his touch with ancient sources, that the reader never flags....« —Times Literary Supplement about »Abenteurer der Ferne«

WORKS BY FRANK ACROSS ALL EDITIONS HAVE SOLD MORE THAN 100,000 COPIES IN GERMANY ALONE • FOR READERS OF ARNO GEIGER »UNTER DER DRACHENWAND« (BENEATH DRACHENWAND MOUNTAIN), ROBERT SEETHALER »EIN GANZES LEBEN« (A WHOLE LIFE)

After the seizure of power, a new everyday life has returned to Ginsterburg. Some inhabitants of the small town suffer, others benefit - and most try to come to terms with the new order. Gradually, however, the abyss opens up beneath everyday life. A sensitive and atmospheric novel about love, family, friendship - and personal entanglements in the years 1935 to 1945.

Lothar dreams of flying. Just a young boy, his mother Merle can only watch helplessly as his dream of freedom drives her son into the arms of the Hitler Youth. A new era has dawned. As much as Merle distrusts it, she cannot escape it - not in her bookshop, not in her conversations with Eugen, the feature writer for the local newspaper in Ginsterburg. But while some fall silent and some slowly allow themselves to be corrupted, others know how to use the new distribution of power in their favour. Florist Gürckel rises to the position of district leader, factory owner Jungheinrich does excellent business, and doctor Hansemann also senses completely new opportunities. Heinz Rühmann continues to play in the cinema and the Silver Arrows race round and round the Nürburgring. But the war, fought on distant fronts, can soon be felt in the microcosm of the town, in the shattered relationships and souls of the people. And hovering over everything is a British bomber pilot who is inexorably approaching the once tranquil town of Ginsterburg.

Arno Frank was born in 1971 in Kaiserslautern, and is a writer and freelance journalist. He writes for numerous publications including »taz«, »Die Zeit«, »Spiegel Online«, »Dummy«, »Fluter« and »Musikexpress«. He lives with his family in Wiesbaden, Germany. His previous books, »So und jetzt kommst du/Your Turn« and »Seemann vom Siebener/Headfirst« (2023), have received critical acclaim and recommendations from the jury of New Books in German.

»Simply the most humane book ever [...] we get to know people, we suffer with them, we love with them, and I cried at the end.« Florian Valerius, ARD-Buffet, about »Seemann vom Siebener«

FOR READERS OF ELENA FISCHER AND OLGA GRJASNOWA • FAMILY SAGA FROM THREE PERSPECTIVES – THREE WOMEN AND THREE GENERATIONS

A vivid novel about the complicated love between mothers and daughters, about fleeing into the world and about how we can forgive each other.

The grandmother is one of the first ever female chemists. The mother is a distinguished doctor. The daughter is a computer science student. Science is the one thing they all have in common. But the bond between the generations is broken: Lucy has not spoken to her mother for years. Until suddenly a piano is delivered to her apartment. It is the Steinway on which Lucy learned to play as a child. She hates this piano. It reminds her of everything she had wanted to leave behind: the gilded cage of her overly sheltered childhood, the high expectations of her mother, and the lack of closeness between them. When her grandmother’s Polish maiden name surfaces along with the piano, Lucy spontaneously catches the next train to Sopot, the only link she has to her grandmother. She needs to tie up the loose threads of her family in order to take control of her own future.

Paola Lopez was born in 1988. She is a mathematician and is doing an interdisciplinary doctorate on artificial intelligence. She is currently a research associate at the University of Bremen. She was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize in 2023 for her work on her debut novel ‘The Sum of Our Parts’. Paola Lopez lives in Berlin.