What’s in a life? How do you capture it? How do you focus on the essential parts? My Alphabet reflects the abundance and diversity of life – its seriousness and its joys, its mundane routines and its deeply meaningful events.

»What this book is about? It is about everything. About what was, what is and what might be. It’s about games, about love, beauty, light – and about death and memories that will turn to dust and be replaced by imagination.« (Stefan Gmünder, Der Standard)

A moving coming-of-age novel about friendship and loss, in which the promise of departure and a new beginning is almost tangible.

When the cosmopolitan Ilija Trojanow devotes himself to his Thought Experiments on Curiosity, one thing is clear at the end: Trojanow’s great art is to convey knowledge in an entertaining way and to make the readership greedy for curiosity.

Paul Jandl strolls through time in a completely different way from the much-promised guidebooks or happiness doctors and shows in an exemplary way what personal and public happiness can look like.

Clemens Setz comes up with original finds from literature, film and history. It is a witty, dexterous approach to the concept of truth.

With a lot of knowledge of the world and confidence in life, Ilse Helbich lets us participate in what we sometimes lack too much of in some situations: serenity.

With a deft lightness of touch, Eva Menasse takes a look at the core problems of our time in a contemporary diagnostic manner.

Ilma Rakusa shows the inner and outer elegance in her subtle way.

Felicitas Hoppe invites us on a journey through spaces, dreams and times on which world-weariness turns into wanderlust, nostalgia into curiosity and desire into the fear of its fulfilment.

In five chapters, Esther Kinsky explores the questions of how hope and action, as well as hope and time, are connected and how necessary utopia is as an expression of collective hope.

There is only a fine line between courage and overconfidence. Weigh it up or decide impulsively? There is no universal right or wrong. Lotte Tobisch talks about this in her charmingly open way and spans an arc from personal experiences since childhood to examples from the present, such as politics and social media.

An exceptional debut that tells the imponderables of an entire life in an inspiringly poetic manner

»Inferno is a real discovery. An expressive, almost cinematic piece of literature that gives a silhouette of the time between the first pogroms and the end of World War II.« (Paul Jandl, NZZ)

»There are books that take your breath, that fill every single muscle with highest tension, and that take possession of the reader. Ally Kleins debut novel is definitely one of those stirring books.« (Björn Hayer, Spiegel Online)

Here you can read an interview of Andrea Scrima with Ally Klein.

»Bernhard Strobel manages with the cold view of a surgeon to capture even the smallest proliferation in the mesh of a relationship. His novel is an interpersonal psycho-thriller.«
(Ulrich Rüdenauer, Süddeutsche Zeitung)

»A literary concept album with a visual prose-poetry that is accessible and catchy as well as it has the spirit of the teenage rebellion like the best songs of the history of rock music.« (Gerald Lind, literaturhaus.at)