Bettina Gärtner’s novel Herrmann is an original portrayal of today’s times, with a humorous take on the quirky personalities we all know.
»Gerstl’s language is part of a universal, urban but equally provincial and Viennese world of fantasy, thoughts and reality.« (Thomas Rothschild)
In her novel Scopes Elfriede Gerstl coolly and wittily describes the period of the Viennese and Berlin avantgarde circles.
A novel about today’s precarious employment situation – about another »lost generation« and their lives beyond security.
A great novel about losses and upheavals, the pursuit of happiness and the question how to live a happy life in a world out of balance.
A captivating drama between love and individual fulfilment in the tropical heat of Nicaragua
»A language terrain in which foolishness and wisdom can barely be told apart.« (Maren Keller, SPIEGEL online)
Dancing on Concrete is a novel about how to overcome misery and how to reach bliss.
Echoes Chambers, a travel as well as a romance novel, but also an action novel and self-help book, provides for great literary joy.
This is a novel about middle age, when life is again reshuffled.
»Iris Hanika is looking for ›the ultimate thing‹ und poses the question how to escape his own life through reappraising the NS past.« (SWR)
The perfect lovestory for the generation of 40-soemthing, a romantic novel for adults set in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district.
The rediscovery of a novel, which was written in 1931.
»The roaring twenties of literature with Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis as background« (Reinhold Tauber, OÖN)
A fearless novel from 1929: Mela Hartwig debates the gender theories on a level with the contradictions of her time and manages to unsettle her audience even 80 years later.
Bettina Hartz’s debut novel is a book, that fascinates with its vivid language and and its magical, fairytale-like style.
»If someone is scared of getting older, they should try Grenzland Zwischenland. Who relates old age to anxiety and despair will not find better words of comfort.« (Karl-Markus Gauss, SZ)
»In her tales, Helbich achieves a tremendous effect with the elaborate combination of simple descriptions. She finds words for the unspeakable.« (Isabella Pohl, Der Standard)