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Donne Leon Earthly Remains
Commissario Brunetti's 26th case
Spiegel Bestseller #1
Sunday Times Bestseller #5
Publishers Weekly Bestseller #9
Donna Leon’s public is getting larger and larger and Brunetti’s focus as well: While leaving the alleys of Venice behind, Brunetti discovers a big crime in the laguna. A cosy and yet very uncosy novel.
Praise by the press:
»Donna Leon has established Commissario Guido Brunetti as one of the most engaging of fictional detectives.«
Sunday Times, London
»Earthly Remains is one of her best.«
Marilyn Stasio / New York Times
»A vacation for your own soul.«
Kirkus Reviews, New York
»Leon[’s] ... novels, with their unparalleled evocation of landscape and sensitivity to character, have attracted an audience that encompasses fiction readers of all kinds.«
Bill Ott / Booklist (starred review), Chicago
»Leon's novels are always a pleasure.«
Washington Post
»Donna Leon is the undisputed crime fiction queen ... Leon's ability to capture the social scene and internal politics [of Venice] is first-rate.«
Baltimore Sun
»[Leon] is terrific at providing... a strong sense of the moral quandaries inherent in Italian society and culture.«
San Francisco Chronicle
»[A] wonderfully atmospheric series.«
Minneapolis Star Tribune
»This series is ... superb, with its wonderful evocation of Venice's streets and piazzas, food, and the wonderful moods of an old, old world confronting a very new one.«
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
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Christoph Niemann Souvenir
A beautifully designed art book featuring over 150 ink and pencil drawings.
Christoph Niemann has provided covers for the New Yorker and New York Times Magazine and was commissioned to create a special edition of Zeit Magazin in 2016.
Christoph Niemann’s pictures tell stories of unfamiliar places. They are observations on travelling, arriving, and immersing oneself, on the melancholy of being on the road and the adventure of discovering new places. Virtuoso iconic sketches, capable of capturing the magic, light and mood of a place in a handful of strokes.
One of the most talented and inventive artists of our times: Christoph Niemann at Diogenes.
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Walter Nigg The Book of Heretics
On the lives and thoughts of Meister Eckhart, Jan Hus, Martin Luther, Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza, Blaise Pascal, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Leo Tolstoy and many more.
In time for the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses: This book puts the reformer into another perspective – the church and its critics throughout 20 centuries.
A vivid and lively read – packed full of knowledge.
»Heretics are often among the greatest pioneers of new ideas. Their contemporaries could often not yet understand them.«
Walter Nigg
English translation available.
Praise by the press:
»In spite of all its rich historical information, The Book of Heretics is as suspenseful as an exciting novel.«
Luzerner Neueste Nachrichten
»Each chapter is a self-contained and ingenious paper. The book's overall impression can be summed up in one word - overwhelming.«
Neuer Bücherdienst, Vienna
»Written with the fire of a man who is genuinely moved, and yet with sober clarity, artistic feeling and an intuitive talent.«
Stuttgarter Zeitung
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Benedict Wells On the End of Loneliness
#2 Dutch Bestseller List
More than a year in the top 30 of the Spiegel Bestseller List and 38 weeks in the top 20!
Rights sold into 24 languages.
»A book like a movie, full of life, hope, despair, laughter, tears.«
Christine / Westermann, WDR, Cologne
»On The End of Loneliness is a life-affirming, enriching work of literature with an international feel which asks important questions about what makes our lives our own and whether we are owed a certain kind of life.«
New Books in German, London
»Benedict Wells possesses a lightness of writing, which would fill anyone who has ever tried it, with envy. His characters come along naturally and we immediately want to know more about their lives.«
Der Stern, Hamburg
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Friedrich Dönhoff Secret Rulers
Sebastian Fink has a brand new case and a brand new love, a DJ named Marissa.
Sebastian is planning a trip to Italy with DJ Marissa, his new girlfriend. But sun, sea and sand will have to wait, because a series of murders is terrifying the people of Hamburg. The victims have nothing in common – except for their marked interest in refugees.
After numerous false leads, Sebastian Fink finally arrives at a place of horror that no one talks about although everybody knows it.
A highly contemporary novel about prostitution and traffic in women.
Praise by the press:
The English Dancer
»Once again the way Sebastian Fink snoops around the intrigues of the schemers is masterly – and turns out to be extremely exciting.«
Weser Kurier, Bremen
»Friedrich Dönhoff makes virtuoso use of the ways the genre offers him to ratchet up the tension. He lays cunning trails, allows plot strands to develop, and at the end brings them together again in a skilfully dramatic way. And then too, Inspector Fink is a figure who is as likeable as he is pleasantly disorganised.«
Volker Albers / Hamburger Abendblatt
»Friedrich Donhoff has given us a new identification figure in Sebastian Fink: likeable and clever.«
Frauke Kaberka / Frankfurter Neue Presse
Savoy Blues
»Readers can only hope Sebastian Fink gets some more cases. Because in his debut thriller Dönhoff has given us a highly filmable plot and taken a fresh look at a sensitive historical subject.«
Die Welt, Berlin
»No question about it: Sebastian Fink has the makings of a serial inspector.«
Nordkurier, Neubrandenburg
»Savoy Blues is a novel of psychological suspense in the Patricia Highsmith mould. We look forward to the next case.«
Stefan Maelck / MDR, Halle/Saale
»Dönhoff's writing is a model of clarity, and Hamburg transpires to be a most alluring setting for crime.«
New Books in German, London
»Savoy Blues is an exciting and briskly written thriller with lots of different strands which all come together in a terrific finale. More of the same, please!«
Ilias Abawi / Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Essen
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Tomi Ungerer Tomi: A Childhood Under The Nazis
The great illustrator Tomi Ungerer’s memoir of his childhood during World War II.
A touching and richly illustrated portrait of the artist as a young boy.
Tomi Ungerer is nine years old when German troops occupy Alsace in 1940. His French speaking teachers are replaced by Germans. German becomes the official language, with French banned under threat of strict penalties. Little Jean-Thomas, known by everyone as Tomi, becomes Hans, who now has to write in Sutterlin script at school.
Nothing ever gets thrown away in the Ungerer family – and so all the school exercise books and pictures Tomi drew as a child are still around. Even as a small boy, he captured everything he saw and that touched him in drawings. Using these pictures and documents, Tomi Ungerer tells the story of his everyday life in German-occupied Alsace, of the war and liberation. And he writes about the perfectly normal tricks, fun and games and experiences of a boy growing up. An incredibly lively memoir.
Praise by the press:
»Tomi: A Childhood Under the Nazis is a book full of question marks, a historical work filled with stories, a family album as a chronicle of everyday life.«
Konrad Heidkamp / Die Zeit, Hamburg
»With Tomi: A Childhood Under The Nazis, the outstanding artist Tomi Ungerer has finally proven to be a signifi cant writer.«
Thomas Bodmer / Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich
»A book for adults? A book for children? A childhood book for everyone!«
Le Monde, Paris
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Rights sold:
French (Belfond)
English world (Picador)
Russian (Hemiro)
»Maybe nothing is as incredible as reality. Besides, of course, the incredibly good fiction that Chris Kraus made of it. […] Kraus‘ passionate magnum opus.«
Harald Pauli / Focus, Munich
»Author Chris Kraus drags us through difficult decades and tells his story with such eloquence that you think you’re reading a history textbook in which every second sentence is a piece of art. […] This novel is a masterpiece.«
Jana Felgenhauer / Neon, Hamburg
»Wonderful plot, wonderful language.«
Kristian Thees / SWR3, Stuttgart
»With Cold Blood, his second novel, Chris Kraus achieved a brilliant German portrait of a century, which creates convincing new narratives by focusing not only on the Nazi period, but also the decades before and after.«
Alexis Schwarzenbach / NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich
»The most hotly anticipated book of the German literary calendar is an epic tale of betrayal and self-delusion spanning seventy years.«
New Books in German (US Jury Pick), London
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In the top ten of the Spiegel Bestseller List for 19 weeks - 6 of them on # 1!
Rights sold:
English world (4th Estate)
Italian (Sellerio)
French (Bourgois)
Czech (Metafora)
Japanese (Harper Collins Japan)
»Martin Suter provides a fresh approach; the novel is artfully structured, and the unexpected shifts in narrative perspective guarantee a gripping read.«
Ulf Heise / MDR, Leipzig
»A slick, very gripping story which tugs at your heartstrings!«
Annemarie Stoltenberg / NDR, Hannover
»This is a multi-layered, often moving novel, which despite dispensing with brutal depictions of violence [...] reads in many parts like a gripping thriller.«
Thomas Burmeister / dpa, Hamburg
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