Foreign Rights List

Foreign Rights List
Spring 2014
Fiction
Novels
Crime
Women’s Fiction
Fantasy
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▪9
▪11
▪14
Non-Fiction
▪ 16
Exclusive Agents
▪21
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l
Heinrich Steinfest
The Pantologist
“Heinrich Steinfest entertains at the highest level.
He literally opens the reader’s eyes to the sheer
variety and richness of creation.”
Denis Scheck, literary critic
About the Book ▪ Sixten Braun’s run-of-the-mill
life as a manager implodes one day in a freak accident in Taiwan: a whale explodes and Sixten is
knocked out by a part of its innards. As soon as he
is released from hospital he boards the first available aeroplane – which promptly crashes. Again he
survives, having in the interim encountered the love
of his life. And so it comes to pass years later – Sixten has long since undergone the transformation
from manager to swimming pool attendant – that
he is brought together with a child, who can’t possibly be his, but then suddenly is: a newly orphaned
boy called Simon who won’t speak apart from in a
language of his own, unintelligible to others. A boy
who is extraordinarily talented in unusual ways: he
can climb like a chamois; he can draw like Leonardo
da Vinci. It is also Simon’s doing that many a straight
line of Sixten’s life is coming full circle …
▪▪ More than 500,000 copies of Steinfest’s books
© Christian Hass
sold
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Hardcover
▪▪ March 2014
▪▪ 400 pages
▪▪ World rights available
Heinrich Steinfest was born in 1961. Albury/Australia, Vienna/Austria and
Stuttgart/Germany – these are the stations in the life of this illustrious and
celebrated cult author, whose books have sold more than 500,000 copies. He
received the German Crime Fiction Award several times and was awarded the
Heimito-von-Doderer-Prize. His book Ein dickes Fell (Thick-skinned) was
longlisted for the German Book Award.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 ▪ www.piper.de
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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l
Franka Potente
Dawning Slowly
After her acclaimed short story collection Zehn (Ten),
Franka Potente presents her first novel. It is a radical
portrait of protagonist Tim Wilkins: the financial crisis
has cost him his job, his inability to speak has cost
him his wife. The time has come to ask questions of
himself and his life.
About the Book ▪ Atwater, Los Angeles, is one of
the city’s better-heeled neighbourhoods: Tim, 49 and
a banker, has spent the greater part of his life here.
It is here that he built his house, here that he and
Liz, his wife, celebrated the birth of their son, Derek.
All that was long ago. Meanwhile Tim has reached
the lowest ebb of his old life having lost both his
job and his wife. A suitcase in each hand, she had
stumbled wordlessly over the lawn and into another
man’s car. Once his thoughts of revenge have blown
over, and he has sent his self-pity packing with the
help of whisky and his neighbour’s generosity with
sexual favours, Tim begins to reflect upon what went
wrong – and the way forward.
▪▪ More than 40,000 copies of Ten sold
▪▪ “She can, she wants to narrate.”
© Jim Rakete
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Hardcover
▪▪ March 2014
▪▪ 304 pages
▪▪ Rights sold to: The Netherlands
(De Bezige Bij/Thomas Rap)
Franka Potente was born in 1974; since playing the lead role in Tom Tykwer’s
film “Run Lola Run”, she has become one of the most sought-after actresses
worldwide. She also appeared in “The Bourne Identity” and its two sequels,
as well as in “Atomised”. Franka Potente lives in the USA with her husband
and two children. After her collection of stories, Zehn (Ten), 2010, Dawning
Slowly is her first novel.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 ▪ www.piper.de
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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l
Fabian Hischmann
In the End We’ll Chuck
Gold Around
Shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair prize
Fabian Hischmann describes with gentleness and
melancholy the cracks and fissures we skim across
and those we slip down – for they are part of who we
are.
© Rabea Edel
About the Book ▪ Max is a newly qualified teacher,
but that hasn’t changed the fact that his favourite
pastime is lounging lethargically in front of the TV
watching wildlife documentaries. Then comes the
call from his parents: they want him to look after
the house and dog while they are in Greece. On his
way there, little does he know he’ll be journeying
from Southern Germany to Crete, will have to face
the ghosts of his past in New York, nor that Jan and
Maria are about to enter his life again – he couldn’t
choose between them fifteen years ago. What about
now?
“I sit, legs wide apart, on the back seat. My Dad
is at the wheel of the estate, taking the twisting road
up to our house a little too fast as always. It’s the last
house in the place, beyond it the forest where so
much happened. It’s where I had my first cigarette,
where I fucked for the first time, and where I almost
killed someone.”
Specifications
▪▪ Berlin Verlag Hardcover
▪▪ February 2014
▪▪ 256 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
Fabian Hischmann was born in 1983 in Donaueschingen, and now lives
in Berlin. He studied Creative Writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut
in Leipzig and interned as a dramaturge at the theatres of Heidelberg and
Freiburg. In 2012 he received the Bremen Author’s Grant and in 2013 he was
a participant in the Jürgen Ponto workshop. His short stories have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. This is his first novel.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l
Thomas Weiss
Fleeting Acquaintances
About the Book ▪ “I’ve got to go back to the office
briefly, darling.” Those were the last words Berthold
Schulz’s wife said to him. She has been missing for
over a year, but there is no evidence that a crime
has been committed. An interesting tale, thinks the
narrator of our story, a journalist. He does some
research, writes about the case, and asks for his
readership’s help on the possible whereabouts of
architect Maren S. Was that really her selling windup birds in front of the Centre Pompidou? There
have been sightings in Poland, too, of a woman on
a bicycle. Then one reader contacts him convinced
she is working as a tennis coach in an all-inclusive
resort in Djerba, enclosing photo as proof. Electrified, the journalist immediately books himself onto
the tennis course and flies to Tunisia. Why then does
he name a bogus destination to his wife?
Thomas Weiss brings a brilliant twist to the Odysseus motif of the “eternally seeking” protagonist: at
the centre of his story is a woman. As intelligent as
it is deft of touch, this piece of literature makes one
thing clear: That yearning to leave the rat race of the
everyday – not one of us is a stranger to it.
▪▪ “A modern Odyssey. Daring, tender, true.”
© Sylvia Kammin
Thomas von Steinäcker, author
Specifications
▪▪ Berlin Verlag Hardcover
▪▪ April 2014
▪▪ 192 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
Thomas Weiss, born in Stuttgart, was the recipient of a scholarship to attend
the Authors’ Workshop at the renowned cultural institution, Literarisches
Colloquium Berlin, in 2003 and received numerous honours and grants. His
widely praised first novel, Schmitz, was published in 2004, followed in 2006
by Folgendes, and in 2007 his third novel, Tod eines Trüffelschweins. He is
working as a freelance author in Berlin.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 ▪ www.piper.de
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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l
Edgar Rai
The Divine Manuscript
An old musical manuscript, wreathed in mystery,
promises ultimate knowledge. It is feverishly searched
for by a man who believes he has nothing left to lose.
But is that really the case? The latest major novel by
best-selling author Edgar Rai is peppered with wit and
philosophical depth, and tells a gripping tale.
© Markus Schädel
About the Book ▪ Gabriel Pfeiffer doesn’t take
the clergyman who approaches him at the book fair
seriously at first. “It has to do with God!” he says;
that he might have made a discovery of real significance. What is the seasoned literary agent to make
of that? A few days later, however, reading in the
paper that the seminarian has been found dead in a
village church in Bavaria, his interest is piqued and
the story begins to hold him in thrall. At its heart is
a mysterious manuscript, which had beguiled scholar Charles Burney back in 1780. His quest took him
halfway round Europe until the precious item came
into his possession in Bologna. The remarkable
part was the trail of death that seemed to follow the
book: all its owners had died in mysterious circumstances. Gabriel is intrigued. He researches archives
in London and travels to the Bavarian village. What
he discovers is more than a simple, good yarn: it
does indeed deal with God, as was prophesised, and
with faith, with knowledge and love. In the end, it
also deals with life – and death.
Specifications
▪▪ Berlin Verlag Hardcover
▪▪ March 2014
▪▪ 304 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
Edgar Rai was born in Hessen in 1967. He studied Music and English. From
2003-2008 he taught Creative Writing at the Free University of Berlin and
since 2012 he has been co-owner of the Berlin bookshop, “Uslar und Rai”.
His breakthrough as a writer came in 2010 with his novel Nächsten Sommer
(Next Summer) with more than 100,000 sold copies. He lives in Berlin with
his family.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l
Birgit Vanderbeke
The Summer of Wild Boar
Milan and Leo are taking a holiday. Their first in a
very long time. They have limped their way through
the financial crisis and are gradually getting used to
“feeling alive and well” again – a deceptive sense of
well-being as their time in the Languedoc is about to
prove.
© Julian Vanderbeke
About the Book ▪ They spend the first days of
their holiday clearing work emails etc. But after a
powerful summer storm, the internet connection
is down, there is no electricity, no water from the
mains, the streets are flooded. A neighbour provides
them with essentials and sends them up to an elderly
couple who farm a little and breed angora rabbits.
Their wool, and Leo knows of what he speaks, is
spectacular. They only hope that the couple will not
be troubled by the wild boar that have been rampaging through the area all summer. They have come
down from the Cevennes in their multitudes to the
villages and gardens. There is drilling in the mountains for shale gas and the animals are the first to feel
the consequences. It is clear to Milan and Leo that
the crisis they had hoped to leave behind is palpable
even here in the idyllic Languedoc. They are faced
with a question: to return to their old life – or not?
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Hardcover
▪▪ March 2014
▪▪ 208 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
Birgit Vanderbeke, born in 1956 in Dahme, Brandenburg, lives in the South of
France. A prolific writer, she is the recipient of many awards, amongst others
the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for Das Muschelessen. Her most
recent work comprises the novels Das lässt sich ändern and Die Frau mit
dem Hund.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l
Thommie Bayer
The Short and the Long Years
Love can be mysterious, cryptic, and intense. Especially unfulfilled love. But is that what destiny has in
store for Simon and Silvie, brought together by two
unexplained deaths?
About the Book ▪ Silvie has lost her husband,
Simon his father. It is not only grief that connects
the two, however; Simon in particular senses a true
kindred spirit in the rather older Silvie. Soon he is
convinced that this is love. And yet he also believes
he must bide his time, for Silvie is still in a state of
deep confusion after her partner’s death. He waits
until the right moment has come and gone, until too
much has happened that cannot be easily undone.
But fate and their mutual affection keep bringing
the two back to one another. The Short and the
Long Years is a classic tale of two lovers. Thommie
Bayer writes about the tragic asynchrony of love and
thereby creates, paradoxically, a novel in perfect step
with our times.
▪▪ More than 350,000 copies of Bayer’s books sold
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Hardcover
▪▪ March 2014
▪▪ ca. 272 pages
© Peter Peitsch
▪▪ World Rights Available
Thommie Bayer was born in 1953 in Esslingen. He studied painting and
worked as a song-writer and revue performer until 1985, when he started to
write stories, poems and novels. His most recent work is the successful novel
Vier Arten, die Liebe zu vergessen (Four Ways to Forget Love). Thommie
Bayer lives in Staufen, Black Forest, with his wife.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
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F i c t i o n ▪ Cr i m e
Sabine Kornbichler
The Voice of Oblivion
The second case for executor Kristina Mahlo
About the Book ▪ When Kristina Mahlo enters the
house of the deceased, Albert Schettler, there is no
ignoring the signs of his paranoia. The doors have
several locks; all the windows have grilles over them.
In a letter he left behind he writes that someone will
try to lay hands on the explosive contents of his safedeposit box in the bank. Kristina puts this down as
persecution mania, but the documents are indeed
stolen. Were Schettler’s fears well-founded after
all? Kristina’s investigation will bring unimaginable
truths to light…
▪▪ One of Germany’s best crime authors
▪▪ “Gripping!”
Bild am Sonntag
▪▪ Prequel: Das Verstummen der Krähe (2013)
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Paperback
▪▪ September 2014
▪▪ ca. 432 pages
© Sabine Kornbichler
▪▪ World Rights Available
Sabine Kornbichler born in 1957, grew up by the North Sea and worked in a
PR agency in Frankfurt before devoting herself fully to her writing. Her first
novel, Klaras Haus (Klara’s House), was a great success. Kornbichler lives
and works in Munich. The Voice of Oblivion is her second crime novel featuring executor Kristina Mahlo.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
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F i c t i o n ▪ Cr i m e
Barbara Wendelken
The Village of Lies
About the Book ▪ A total nightmare for Police
Detective Viktoria Engel: whilst on duty she has shot
dead an innocent person, sixteen-year-old Rouven
Kramer. Desperate, she makes it look as if she had
been acting in self-defence. But the villagers have
their suspicions. When another corpse turns up
shortly afterwards, bizarrely mirroring Rouven’s
death, a wave of distrust breaks over the village, until
no one feels safe…
▪▪ When neighbors become enemies
▪▪ For the readers of Nele Neuhaus and Elisabeth
Hermann
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Paperback
▪▪ August 2014
▪▪ ca. 384 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
© private
Barbara Wendelken was born in 1955 in a village near Bremen. A trained
pediatric nurse, her children’s books have been published steadily since 1996,
as have her short stories in anthologies. When she isn’t writing, the author
enjoys the country life with her husband in Eastern Friesland.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 ▪ www.piper.de
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F i c t i o n ▪ W o m e n ’ s F i c t i o n
Maria Regina Heinitz
When the Summer Lost One
of Its Colours
A wonderfully bright and comforting family story
about love and responsibility and about the art of
growing up without losing the magic of childhood.
© Michael Korte
About the Book ▪ On a carefree day in the summer of ’76, Bénédicte finds her mother Aimée in her
studio – she has tried to kill herself. Shortly afterwards her father moves with her and her younger
brother, Marcel, to Westphalia. He is to become
the director of a medical clinic there. He responds
evasively to questions about their mother; at least
she writes them letters. Brother and sister explore
the many rooms of the old villa and the enchanted
garden on the fringes of the clinic. Then school begins and Bénédicte becomes friends with the highly
gifted Susi Engel who can listen like no one else and
knows everything about politics, the Red Army Faction and sex. And she falls in love with Mischa of
the racing bike. She travels with him to Hamburg to
the opening of her mother’s exhibition. She doesn’t
encounter her Mum, as hoped, but she does discover
a painting that reveals her long-kept secret abode. At
last Bénédicte understands her father’s night-time
absences and why her mother never wanted to meet
her in spite of the letters – and she also recognises
her right to her own happiness.
Specifications
▪▪ Bloomsbury Berlin Hardcover
▪▪ March 2014
▪▪ ca. 496 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
Maria Regina Heinitz, born in Isny (Allgäu) in 1968, studied German
Language and Literature and French. She worked as an art buyer and photo
producer. In 2009 she received the Advancement Award for Literature from
the Cultural Office of the city of Hamburg. Maria Regina Heinitz lives in
Hamburg.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 ▪ www.piper.de
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F i c t i o n ▪ W o m e n ’ s F i c t i o n
Anne Hertz
The Thing About My Sister
About the Book ▪ Sisters Heike and Nele couldn’t
be more different. Heike is happily married, has
three children, and lives in a lovely cosy home. Nele
is a restless single, enjoying city life to the absolute
full. In short, they live in two separate worlds and
avoid one another. All they have in common is their
pseudonym “Sanne Gold” under which they publish
best-selling novels – in fact they don’t even write
the books themselves any more. They barely grin
and bear the occasional shared public appearance.
It is after one of these evenings that disaster strikes.
Heike is seriously injured in an accident. Overcome
with feelings of guilt, Nele looks back over their
shared life as sisters and asks herself how things got
this far. The answers she unearths will turn the lives
of both upside-down.
▪▪ More than 1,000,000 copies of Anne Hertz’
novels sold
Specifications
▪▪ Pendo Hardcover
▪▪ March 214
▪▪ ca. 320 pages
© Melanie Dreysse
▪▪ World Rights Available
Anne Hertz is the pseudonym of the Hamburg-based authors Frauke Scheunemann and Wiebke Lorenz, who not only write together, but as sisters have
spent a great part of their lives together. Before Anne Hertz entered the world
in 2006, she had been born in 1969 and 1972 in Düsseldorf. Fifty per cent of
her studied Law, while the other half read English. Afterwards, 100% of her
worked in journalism. Anne Hertz has 2.5 children and at least 0.5 men.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
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F i c t i o n ▪ W o m e n ’ s F i c t i o n
Gaby Hauptmann
Darling, Are You Coming?
About the Book ▪ My husband has no time for
me! How often has this been at the forefront of
Nele’s mind? But now she knows – it’s worse when
Bjorn has too much time. Released from his job he
is disturbing her holy rituals and turning everything
inside out. Nele is relieved when he finally discovers a new passion: his first Harley Davidson. But is
it really necessary that he also falls in love with his
son’s girlfriend, all part of the motorbike gang? A
refreshing take on new phases in one’s life and the
entangled paths love has to traverse to reach its destination.
▪▪ “Gaby Hauptmann seems to know all paths of
love.”
Bunte
▪▪ More than 8 Million copies of Hauptmann’s books
sold
▪▪ Translated into more than 20 languages
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Paperback
▪▪ May 2014
▪▪ ca. 270 pages
© Isolde Ohlbaum
▪▪ World Rights Available
Gaby Hauptmann, born in 1957 in the small town of Trossingen, is a freelance journalist and writer; she lives in Allensbach on Lake Constance. Her
novels are all bestsellers, have been translated into many different languages
and turned into highly successful films. Her most recent novel Ich liebe dich,
aber nicht heute (I Love You, Just Not Today), ranged on the bestseller lists
for several months.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 ▪ www.piper.de
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F i c t i o n ▪ Fa n tasy
Richard Schwartz
The Wars of the Gods
Power of the Ancients
The Wars of the Gods draw close to their epic
climax!
Power of the Ancients is the next stage in the Wars
of the Gods saga by Richard Schwartz. In the prequel, the companions entered the Titans’ fortress and
seized its greatest treasure but Havald has broken
away from them. Now Leandra and her friends are
up against the greatest threat of all: the Necromancer Emperor.
About the Book ▪ Havald, the angel of death,
has broken away from his friends who now have to
combat on their own. Leandra and Seraphine question Havald’s decision as they know it will lead him
into the dark. Will they activate the Power of the
Ancients to save Askir and Illian? Or will the Necromancer Emperor swallow the empires without
Havald’s protection? In this disturbing novel, Richard Schwartz is positioning his protagonists for the
grand finale of his high fantasy series.
▪▪ More than 300,000 copies of Schwartz’s books
sold
▪▪ “Suspense, surprise and humor lead the reader on
his journey with Havald.”
Fantasybuch.de
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Paperback
▪▪ October 2014
▪▪ ca. 544 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
▪▪ THE WARS OF THE GODS SERIES:
Die Rose von Illian (The Rose of Illian)
Die weiße Flamme (The White Flame)
Das blutige Land (The Bloody Land)
Die Festung der Titanen (The Titans’ Fortress)
About the Author ▪ The author Richard Schwartz was born in Frankfurt
in 1958. He was trained as an aeromechanic and studied electrical engineering and computer science. But his passion is fantastical worlds, which he puts
down on paper at night – with great success: He has been nominated several
times for the German Phantastik Award.
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F i c t i o n ▪ Fa n tasy
Leon Reiter
Now
A breath-taking hunt through time
Time is a core constant of our universe. Thrown out
of joint, it can turn into an unpredictable adversary.
When a failed experiment interferes with the passage
of time, only a journey into the past can prevent the
world from vanishing into chaos.
About the Book ▪ While working on a research
experiment into time, the scientist Sivamani commits an error with grave consequences and now the
very fabric of the world risks being perforated by
abnormalities known as time-bubbles. At the moment Sivamani can curb the development of these
abnormalities – but for how much longer? The only
way to prevent chaos is to travel back inside a timebubble and stop the experiment before it even starts.
But it’s not easy. Nobody knows what time or place
a journey in the time-bubble can lead to and there is
the danger of time paradoxes. A small team of four
specialists from Europe is set to carry out the top
secret mission – the hunt for the right time begins...
▪▪ Fast-paced, suspense-packed and masterly – an
extraordinary novel about time travelling
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Paperback
▪▪ September 2014
▪▪ ca. 368 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
About the Author ▪ The author Leon Reiter was born in Freiburg in 1977.
He claims to have spent most of his time with abandoned studies and badly
paid jobs. Now he uses these experiences for his novel which “hits where it
hurts”.
Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich ([email protected]) ▪ Ms. Sarah Reinbacher ([email protected])
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Non-Fiction
Andreas Altmann
Unholy Land
A Journey through Palestine
So many assassins, yet more victims.
In reality the Holy Land is a land condemned, condemned to discord, violence and hopelessness. But,
Andreas Altmann asks, is it condemned precisely
because of what it is, namely a place Jews, Christians
and Muslims must keep sacred?
About the Book ▪ Andreas Altmann talks to Jews,
Muslims and Christians, trying to understand what
drives them. What causes the hate that makes Palestinians victims of Israeli policy and on the other
hand turns them into offenders against Israel? He
travels through towns and villages, sharp-eyed,
ruthlessly curious, always on the look-out for special
stories, stories which will give him and us the key to
understanding Palestine. He shows us spectacular
images, lets us share experiences and encounters,
both brutal and poetic. His lucid and harsh observations, and above all his conclusions, will stir controversy, because his view is not tainted by preconception, ideology, and certainly not by any religion.
Andreas Altmann excels at coming close to the
people, at understanding their lives in the shadow of
a poisonous past and a sinister future…
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Hardcover
▪▪ March 2014
▪▪ 304 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
▪▪ Reporter Altmann at his best: close-up, prejudice-
© Gunter Glücklich
free and gripping
Andreas Altmann is one of Germany’s best-known travel-writers and has
been awarded numerous prizes, including the Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis, the
Seume-Literaturpreis and the Reisebuch-Preis. His most recent best-sellers
are Das Scheißleben meines Vaters, das Scheißleben meiner Mutter und
meine eigene Scheißjugend as well as Dies beschissen schöne Leben. Altmann lives in Paris.
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Non-Fiction
Arne Molfenter
A Spy Named Garbo
The D-Day Secret
The spy who saved D-Day
This is the man who deceived Hitler and the entire
German Secret Service for years and influenced the
course of the Second World War with one spectacular
operation: Joan Pujol Garcia, known as Garbo. Arne
Molfenter relates the true story of the Spanish double-agent that Graham Greene modelled his international best-seller Our man in Havana on.
© Gunther Salazar--
About the Book ▪ Eight weeks after the allied
invasion has actually taken place, 22 German military divisions are still waiting for the supposed main
assault. They are waiting in vain because Garbo has
successfully misled them. Operating as one of the
Germans’ most important sources in England, the
agent has convinced them that the allied landing was
still imminent and would take place at Calais. What
the German leadership does not know is that Pujol
is the most important double-agent working for the
British Secret Service. He plays a decisive role in Operation Fortitude, the Allies’ diversionary manoeuvre deliberately designed to mislead the Germans
about the time and place of the planned landings.
The British called Pujol “Garbo” in reference to the
film-actress Greta Garbo. But what do we really
know about this greatest of all war-time “actors”?
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Hardcover
▪▪ April 2014
▪▪ 288 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
Born in Leonberg in 1977, Arne Molfenter attended the Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich and studied Politics and Economics in Berlin, Munich
and Milan. He has worked as an editor, reporter, and correspondent, for BBC
World Service, the TV channel ARD and Die Zeit newspaper. Today, he works
for the United Nations in Brussels and Bonn.
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Non-Fiction
Michael Schmidt-Salomon
Hope, Guys
A Better World Is Possible
The philosopher Schmidt-Salomon opens our eyes
to humankind’s sunny side.
Is humanity nothing more than a rogue creation of
nature which wouldn’t be missed if it simply disappeared off the face of the Earth? Definitely not, says
philosopher and best-selling writer, Michael SchmidtSalomon. He believes our biological and cultural development demonstrates that we have the potential
to get better still, still more ‘human’. An impressive
appeal for faith in humankind.
© Evelin Frerk
About the Book ▪ Of all the animals on the planet,
human beings are the cleverest and exhibit the most
empathy, imagination and humour. Man has created breathtakingly beautiful works of art and developed highly sophisticated ways of unlocking the
secrets of the universe. No other living creature has
so unselfishly cared for the sick and the weak, so
tirelessly fought for freedom and justice against all
odds. Much has been written about the dark side of
humankind while its sunny side has been neglected.
This book highlights it. It’s a declaration of love for
our sometimes unappreciated race. And it shows us
how it’s worth committing to humankind instead of
just giving in to the absurdity of the world.
Specifications
▪▪ Piper Hardcover
▪▪ March 2014
▪▪ 368 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
Michael Schmidt-Salomon, PhD, born 1967, is a freelance author and philosopher. He is chairman of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, a humanist
organisation that is critical of religion. He is a frequent interview partner in
print media, TV and radio. His published books include Jenseits von Gut
und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil) and Keine Macht den Doofen (Of Sense
and Non-Sense in Life).
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Non-Fiction
Helge Timmerberg
The Fairy-Tale-Lady, the Sultan,
My Harem and I
“The most extraordinary, the most ­entertaining,
the most strident and, at the same time, the
­wisest of German travel-writers.”
Frankfurter Rundschau
In search of the art of story-telling: Helge Timmerberg’s biography is in itself a long journey to the
Middle East with Egypt, Marrakesh and Istanbul as
its settings.
© Frank Zauritz
About the Book ▪ Lose pages from a fairy-tale
known as The Pearl Caravan: Since one wintery
night in Berlin more than 30 years ago, Helge Timmerberg has been intrigued by this story and by
its creator, Elsa Sophia von Kamphoevener. She
disguised herself as a man so she could join the
company at Turkish camp-fires and collect the best
tales. With a powerful sense of comedy, Timmerberg
illustrates how the story of the queen of fairy-tales
opened doors, hearts and wallets. He writes about
his attempts to conquer Hollywood with her story
and about his own quest which, over many years,
led him to Cairo and the Bosporus. And he writes
about Morocco, the country which freed him from
the agony of a broken heart, blessed him with a good
friend and, in the end, even brought back his father.
Specifications
▪▪ Malik Hardcover
▪▪ April 2014
▪▪ ca. 256 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
Born in 1952 in Hessen, Helge Timmerberg went to India for the first time
at the age of 17. It was there that he resolved to become a journalist. Since
then he has been writing travel reports and stories from all over the world for
publications such as Stern and Die Zeit. He lives in St.Gallen and Vienna. His
books include Tiger fressen keine Yogis, Shiva Moon, In 80 Tagen um die
Welt and African Queen.
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Non-Fiction
Benedikt Böhm
Face to Face with Manaslu
Speed Mountaineering in the Death Zone
„World-class athlete, Oxford-educated businessman, chiseled Adonis, savior of the Dynafit brand
and leader of a global touring revolution: all Benedikt Böhm lacks is a cape.“
Backcountry
He climbed Manaslu, one of the world’s highest
mountains, in record time. And yet Benedikt Böhm
had nothing to celebrate. Just a few days earlier an
avalanche near his camp had claimed many lives.
© Moving Adventures/E.O.F.T.
About the Book ▪ Autumn 2012 saw one of the
worst climbing accidents in the Himalayas. Benedikt
Böhm had been planning to speed climb Manaslu
when several mountaineers were buried by an avalanche. With his bare hands he rescued survivors
from masses of snow. Now he recounts the tragedy
in a book which tells us why, in spite of everything,
he decided to go for the summit just a few days afterwards. Looking back, he examines key moments
of his mountaineering career: the conquest of
Gasherbrum II, his first eight thousand meter summit, a dramatic fight for survival on Broad Peak,
the defeat on Manaslu five years earlier. He writes
of tough decisions and lonely successes, as well as
of friendship and rivalry on the mountain. And he
shows how expeditions, family and career can all be
reconciled.
Specifications
▪▪ Malik Hardcover
▪▪ April 2014
▪▪ ca. 256 pages
▪▪ World Rights Available
Born in Munich in 1977, Benedikt Böhm has been uncompromising in his
attempts on peaks of more than 8,000 metres. A competitive sportsman from
the age of 10, he was a member of the German national ski mountaineering
team from 2003-2006. He studied in Massachusetts and Oxford and is senior
manager at Dynafit, a ski touring equipment company. His film about the
Manaslu tragedy, “Fünf Tage im September” will be released in 2014.
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