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Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de Fiction/Novels Fiction/Novels Inger-Maria Mahlke Elisabeth Rank Unfinished Business Are You Still Awake?

A panopticon of precarious existences inhabit an Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves. apartment building in a multi-cultural neighbourhood Often, we trust them above all others. But just how in Berlin, and every one of them has unfinished busi- robust are our specially selected kinships? Elisabeth ness – with someone else, with themselves, and with Rank has written a poetic and sensitive novel about life. loneliness, love and friendship, but also about saying goodbye. About the Book About the Book Berlin-Neukölln: When shopaholic Claas Jansen is forced to move into an empty flat in his own apartment build- Rea and Konrad live together in a shared apartment, ing, there is far more to blame than just the banking cri- and are the very best of friends. As Rea’s thirtieth sis. And it’s not just Claas who sees his former life disap- birthday creeps ever nearer, a certain sense of dis- pearing in a rapid downward spiral. Here, on the brink satisfaction seems to weigh increasingly heavy on her of becoming a trendy capital city, no problem is any less shoulders: she feels like she has visited every club, existential: Everyone has unfinished business – the -Af lived every experience, seen every wild and beautiful rican dealers, who are working off their smuggling fees; sunset. Questions play constantly on her mind: what the legacy hunters and the Alzheimer-afflicted elderly; next? In what direction is life taking her? the part-time dominatrix, who leaves her nine-year-old son behind; not to mention countless other figures. A Konrad’s life, on the other hand, seems already to globalised community in a state of emergency. But in Specifications: be right on track; a track that leads him away from Specifications: the end, everything pans out according to the usual Rea. Suddenly, he has a girlfriend; the first in all these ways of the world. • Berlin Verlag Hardcover • Berlin Verlag Hardcover • 284 pages years. Unable to bear all of the new noises in the • ca. 280 pages apartment, Rea seeks refuge in a supposedly carefree Sensitive and radical, Inger-Maria Mahlke has sketched • February 2013 • March 2013 summer holiday – instead she finds simply that the much more than just a diagnostic portrait of the era – • World Rights Available • World Rights Available (except Bosnian, Ser- mess she is in becomes all the more obvious. Could hers is a great parable about the abysses of life on the bian, Croatian) it be that we have become too unattached and self- fringe of our gentrified world. centred for friendship?

Born in Hamburg in 1977, Inger-Maria Mahlke studied Law at the Elisabeth Rank was born in 1984 in Berlin. For the last ten years, Freie Universität Berlin and worked on various projects for the De- she has been working as a freelance author for various magazines partment of Criminology. In 2009, Mahlke was the prize-winner and publications. On a daily basis, she is also employed in the field at the 17th Open Mike, and in 2010 she was awarded the Klaus of digital brand management. Her first novel,U nd im Zweifel für © Sibylle Baier Michael Kühne Prize for her debut novel Silberfischchen. At the © Carolin Weinkopf dich selbst, was published in 2010. 2012 Festival of German Language Literature in Klagenfurt, she was honoured with the Ernst Willner Prize. Mahlke lives in Berlin.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] 1 Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de 2 Fiction/Novels Fiction/Novels Gisa Klönne Sophie Weiss Starling Song after Frost Humility and Pride The Queen of Suspense: Gisa Klönne returns with a major novel about dark family secrets. Powerful men relish power. And that doesn’t stop in A vicarage which harbours a dark family secret. A tre- the bedroom. They exercise it on women like Sophie. mendous tale of forbidden love with a tragic conclu- The scene Sophie frequents is not known to many. sion in 1945. A family divided by the German-German The truths it contains are titillating, kinky, and fea- border. And a musician’s search for her roots and a ture some prominent figures. voice of her own. About the Book About the Book Sophie and Richard meet at a slave auction. In his Ever since her brother perished in a road accident, late forties, he is a well-known financier and knows Rixa Hinrichs has been trying to forget: her grief, her his way around the secret world of S & M. She is bungled solo career and the mute melancholy of a young, curious, and an absolute beginner. mother who has always rejected Rixa’s passion for the piano. Richard introduces Sophie to exclusive circles; they meet in hotels and at private orgies. Sophie falls in Rixa tinkles her way round the world as a bar pianist love with him, who has a family and cheats on his until her mother’s death forces her return to Germa- wife with ease. When he realises that their affair is ny. It was a car accident, too – almost the exact spot racing out of control, he decides to end it. After one where Rixa’s brother had died years earlier. Search- last sexual encounter. A consenting one – to begin Specifications: Specifications: with at least. Sophie presses charges against Richard ing for answers, Rixa returns to her grandparents’ • Piper Hardcover vicarage in Mecklenburg in the north, a place associ- – but how can a woman speak of violence when she • Pendo Hardcover • 160 pages ated with carefree holidays as a child. However Rixa’s has willingly submitted to months of being chained, • February 2013 • 480 pages humiliated, and beaten? memories, it transpires, are not watertight: she be- • February 2013 • World Rights Available comes aware of a tightly guarded family secret which • World Rights Available continues to cast its long shadows into the present- Humility and Pride is an autobiographical novel day – not only her mother’s life is affected, so too her about sexual dependency and the capricious line brother’s and her own. In order to loosen its grip, she between dominance and desire, pain and love. Ex- will have to delve deep into her family’s past . . . plicit and authentic.

Gisa Klönne, born 1964, studied English and Politics and worked as an editor and journalist. Her highly acclaimed novels, centering around Sophie Weiss, born 1983, lives in Berlin with her husband. She works in superintendent Judith Krieger, were translated into numerous lan- the media industry. Humility and Pride is her first novel, in which she guages and won several awards, including the Friedrich-Glauser-Prize portrays a life her husband does not know. for Crime Novels. Gisa Klönne is the grandchild of a priest from Meck- lenburg herself and part of a family that was devided by the Inner Ger-

An old man, slaughtered, and a young woman in How far are you allowed to go for your child? distress – Andrea Sawatzki’s first novel gets under Just imagine, your child has been kidnapped and you one’s skin. are given the choice – either you become a killer, or you spend the rest of your life despairing over a missed opportunity. Which one would you choose? About the Book

Her red hair gleams through the green of the trees. About the Book Barefoot and distraught, she is found in woodland. What she tells the psychiatrist is heartrending. But is Every mother’s worst nightmare has just come true: it also the truth? Actress Andrea Sawatzki delivers an Tinka Hansson takes her eyes off her sleeping daugh- impressive debut. ter for only a short second whilst shopping outside the market in Kungstorget Square in Gothenburg. The dogs in the premises have been barking for days When she turns back, Lucy’s buggy seems to have dis- before Winfried Ott is discovered. The seventy-one appeared from the face of the earth. The initial mo- year old is lying naked in the bedroom of his villa, ment of panic quickly turns into a horrifying eternity murdered with a razor-sharp weapon. That same day – the girl remains vanished. And the investigations of the police chance upon an agitated young woman in the special commission team for “Missing Persons”, the woodland. Huddled beneath the lower boughs led by Greger Forsberg and Selma Valkonen, remain of a pine tree, she is frozen in her glittering dress of without any result. Specifications: Specifications: green sequins – with no recollection of how she came Four years later, Lucy’s father Leander is sent an • Piper Hardcover to be there. Admitted to a psychiatric unit, she cau- • Bloomsbury Hardcover anonymous letter with a mobile phone number. After • 176 pages tiously confides in her therapist. The tale she finally • ca. 420 pages • March 2013 tells is moving, tragic and shocking. Andrea Sawatzki’s calling it, he receives a message, instructing him to • February 2013 • World Rights Available first novel reveals a masterly grasp of psychology and go to the picturesque Fiskebäck marina. There, in a • World Rights Available a major storytelling talent. wastepaper basket, he finds the shoes that Lucy was wearing the day she disappeared, and a letter – his daughter is alive, but to find out where she is, he has to kill someone, and not call the police!

Andrea Sawatzki, born 1963, is one of Germany’s most popular actresses Born in 1960, Susanne Mischke lives in Germany and Sweden and has for TV and cinema, best known for her role of superintendent Charlotte successfully been writing novels and detective stories for the last 20 Sänger in the German TV-series “Tatort”. THE GIRL WHO WAS TOO GOOD years. Amongst other prizes, she has received the Georg Christoph is her first novel. She lives in Berlin, together with actor Christian Berkel Lichtenberg Prize for Literature and the Women’s Crime Fiction Prize © Christoph Michaelis and their two sons. from the town of Wiesbaden. Her bestsellers Mordskind and Die Eisheilige have been made into films. © Jens Niebuhr

Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] 5 Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de 6 Fiction/Crime Fiction/Women’s Fiction Christiane Fux Philipp Andersen / Miriam Bach In Quiet Anger Wait for Me What if…. The new case for undertaker Theo Matthies. … a man and a woman, who barely know each other, delve into a love story, ride for a fall, risk their lives, center their feelings About the Book and fears on a great, hopeless, wonderful love that never ex- isted, and therefore always will be? The dead body on Theo Matthies’s table is an unusual case. About the Book Reinhold Lehmann’s cause of death is a rabid bat bite. Even more unsettling – Theo was at school with the corpse. When They meet at a party, bestselling author Philipp Andersen and another school friend turns up dead shortly thereafter, fu- writer Miriam Bach. They spend a night together, in which neral director Theo is truly alarmed. Confronted by his past, scarcely anything happens – and which, nevertheless, changes he is compelled to revisit his role in a nasty game gone wrong Specifications: everything. The next morning, they exchange addresses, send Specifications: many years before . . . each other their novels, and fall in love desperately while read- • Piper Paperback • Pendo Hardcover ing them. Desperately because Philipp has been married hap- Previous Title: • 304 pages • 320 pages The Final Rest • June 2013 pily for years and Miriam does not want to assume the role of • May 2013 The death of old Anna arouses Theo Matthies’s suspicion. • World Rights Available mistress. Still, they live this passionate amour fou, fight with • World Rights Available When the police close the case, he decides to investigate each other and their love. In their desperation, they start to on his own and comes across a terrible crime dating back write everything down that happens between them. How will to the Second World War – and a murderer who has been their story end? In failure and inevitable separation? Or does officially deceased for nearly seventy years . . . their love have a chance?

Arthur Escroyne Gaby Hauptmann Killer in the Laurels I Love You, Just Not Today The gardener is not always the murderer. Au contraire: Arthur Es- croyne, Earl of Sutherly and passionate amateur gardener, is his fiancé About the Book Rosemary’s sidekick in her murder investigation.

About the Book Of course it is love supreme. It is special what they have, she and Carsten, always has been. But there was It is within the labyrinth of beeches in the picturesque corner of constantly something, or someone, in the way. Now at Gloucestershire that the body of a female student is unearthed. last it is their time to give love a chance; they are where Rosemary Daybell heads up the investigation. Hers is a working- they were always meant to be. It won’t be plain sail- class background; not so that of her blue-blooded fiancé and ing, though – what if life has stamped out the spark assistant sleuth, Harold Philip Arthur Escroyne, the 36th Earl between them? A wonderfully empathetic novel about the much spoken-of spark of love and life’s ability to Specifications: of Sutherly. While Rosy becomes embroiled in the web of love Specifications: among the suspects, Arthur is beset by botanical catastrophe: a fan its flames once again. • Pendo Hardcover parasite is among his prized laurel trees. It is a case of opposites • Piper Paperback • ca. 320 pages • ca. 320 pages attract as the couple go in pursuit of their mystery killers. Rosy’s • May 2013 Bestselling Author With More Than 8 Million Copies Sold! • April 2013 inimitable intuition paired with Arthur’s particular gifts of obser- • World Rights Available • World Rights Available vation bring them ever closer to the truth . . .

MICHAEL The War of the Gods – The Titans’ Fortress The Rule of the OrksPEINKOFER Michael Peinkofer’s ORKS novels are among the most Here comes the long-awaited fourth part of RICHARD successful fantasy books in recent years – now the time Richard Schwartz’s God’s Wars saga. Hinweise an Litho: has come for a new adventure for the heavy-hitting ork wie Vorgänger brothers Balbok and Rammar. Adion ulputat. Lore SCH WART Z About the Book tat, volorer aesecte About the Book Min utpat augueratum eumsan henit ad mincipissim

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www.piper.de Götterkriege • ca. 480 pages own soul awaits the moment of its release. Die Festung der Titanen kingdoms of Earthworld. Enter two orks, who enjoy 0000 fierce fighting almost as much as being rulers of the • March 2013 • World Rights Available kingdom . . . Specifications: Richard Schwartz was born in Frankfurt in 1958. He studied • Piper Paperback electrical engeneering and computer science and afterwards • ca. 704 pages worked as filling station assistant, postman, and system pro- • September 2013 Michael Peinkofer, born in 1969, completed a degree in media studies grammer. But his passion are fantastical worlds, which he • World Rights Available and worked as an editor for the cinema magazine Moviestar. His Orks- puts down on paper at night - with great success: He has Saga has made him one of Germany’s most popular writers of fantasy been nominated several times for the German Phantastik © Helmut Henkensiefken literature. His novels about the Magicians have become bestsellers. Award. Read more about the author at www.michael-peinkofer.de.

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Unwiderstehlich für The Orks - Saga: alle Fans der Orks The War of the Gods - Series: Sie sind die berüchtigtsten Ungeheuer aller magischen Welten: die Orks. Doch diese gefräßigen Ungeheuer sind nicht bloß grausam, einfältig und hinterlistig. Manche Orks sind dazu berufen, die Welt zu retten. In geheimer Mission brechen Balbok und Rammar, zwei ungleiche Ork-Brüder, zum sagenumwobenen Eistempel von Shakara auf und setzen Ereignisse

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The sequel of the successful ASKIR - SERIES, More than 250,000 copies of The Orks-Saga sold! with more than 250,000 copies sold! Rights sold to: Poland (Red Horse), Czech Republic (Fantom), the Netherlands (Mynx), Italy (Arme- Rights sold to: Italy (Armenia) and the Netherlands (Luitingh) nia), and Russia/Ukraine (Bookclub RU/UA)

A new, thrilling High Fantasy trilogy About the Book Das Schicksal der Menschen ist entschieden. Nur wenige haben den Dämonenkrieg überlebt und bauen das zerstörte Land Orison wieder auf. Doch in der Tiefe des Dämonenschlunds entging ROMAN ein einziges dunkles Geschöpf ihrer Aufmerksamkeit. About the Book The University of Giavolo is one Nunof erhebt the es sich noblest aus der Finsternis academiesund begehrt in Einlass in die neue Welt der Menschen. the kingdom. Here, the sorcerer VerbenaEs ist der letzte der altenteaches Dämonen, und erher magic

wird das Ende der Zeiten einläuten. Zeiten der Am Ende This is a story from the times of the Battle of the Silver art, but she also has a hidden agenda:»Überﬂ üssig together zu sagen, dass Meißners with her col- Mines, in which the free kingdoms fight against the Shadows schriftstellerisches Können überragend ist.« league Malachit, she has dedicated Frankfurterherself Allgemeine Zeitungto the creation that threaten to darken their world. It is the story of Helion, of golems. These bio-mechanoid monsters, half human, half Knight of the Moon Swords, who follows the last wish of his Specifications: machine, can be used for differentOriginalausgabe purposes – her newest ISBN ---- late master to defeat the Shadow Lords who rule the king- creature is also a terrible enemy in combat. , [A ] , [D ] When the seers dom of Eloy without mercy. Helion is the most determined • Brochure • February 2013 www.piper.de of the university foresee an attack on the magician, it is de- adversary of centuries-old Shadow Duchess Lisanne, who • 400 pages • World Rights Available 0000 cided that Verbena should be protected – by Rivu, a fear- combines beauty and cruelty in perfection. some ork. When an unknown kind of golem finally ambush- Specifications: es Verbena, she stays unharmed thanks to her bodyguard. • Piper Paperback Malachit, however, is abducted along with the prototype of • ca. 400 pages their new golem. Can they defeat the enemy golems and • May 2013 ADION ULPUTAT. Robert Corvus prevent their powerful invention from falling into the wrong • World Rights Available LORE TAT! • Original English manuscript hands? available! Min utpat augueratum eumsan henit ad mincipissim do ea faci blam erat. Ut duisi. Ustrud eum do er ilit digna commy nosto delit accummodo core facillaortie Servant - The Shadow Lords 2 venim ad dui et lamet inibh eros duisl enibh et vel ing elendre rcipit, quipit nos dipsustis dolesse quipit ipit luptatue mincilit utat. Ut praesed tin vent la acipit adiamcon. PAUL ERICKSON About the Book »Min utpat augueratum eumsan henit ad Hinweise an Litho: ADION ULPUTAT. SpotlackPaul Autor und Erickson mincipissim do ea faci blam erat. Ut duisi. facilla Piperlogo venim ad dui et adiamcon lamet inibh« LORE TAT! Dieter Krusche Min utpat augueratum eumsan henit ad mincipissim Centuries have passed since the eventsdo ea faci blam of erat. UtE nemduisi. Ustrudy eum: do er ilit digna commy nosto delit accummodo core facillaortie General Bren Stonner has won all ofvenim thead dui et lametbattles inibh eros duisl heenibh et vel ing The Superfriends of the Ring elendre rcipit, quipit nos dipsustis dolesse quipit ipit luptatue mincilit utat. Ut praesed tin vent has been sent into by the Shadow Lords ofla acipit Ondria. adiamcon. DIE

»Min utpat augueratum eumsan henit ad Isle of Night Die Wächter ULTIMATIVE He has forced countless cities to submit to the rule PARODIE! mincipissim do ea faci blam erat. Ut duisi. facilla of the dark kingdom. venim ad dui et adiamcon lamet inibh« Dieter Krusche Umschlaggestaltung:About the Book Originalausgabe Guter Punkt, München | www.guter-punkt.de ISBN 978-3-492-20000-0 € 00,00 [A] € 00,00 [D] Umschlagmotiv: © Sabine Zels, Guter Punkt unter Verwendung von Motiven Shutterstock &

Now, 197 years after Elien Vitan’s crowning, the WOLFF JONAS Sylwia Makris /This is the saga of the Wobbits and the magical bling, which www.piper.de www.sylwiamakris.com Shadow King’s oppressive “peace” weighs on the Bildrechte geklärt: 6719 x Agentur bestows its bearer an incomparable fashionable air... whole kingdom, to the extent that his soldiers can’t 0 Verlag Specifications: Originalausgabe ISBN 978-3-492-20000-0 even find any more enemies to fight. Just€ 00,00 [A] € 00,00 [D] when Bren Few are aware that it was not J.R.R. Tolkien that first came

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What becomes of a man who has survived his “fuck- Mario Giordano has collected them all in this ing youth”? Why, of course, he becomes a loser, a book: the childish joy at the first snow and the cheat, a thief of books, someone who fails in every- jealousy of the blissful sleep of others; the sud- thing he tries, be it as an actor, model or dish wash- den need to press every doorbell in sight and the er. But then: he would go on to know what is most anger at one’s own inability to be angry; the fear important in life and become one of today’s most of being caught when picking one’s nose and the brilliant journalists and travel writers. temptation of exceeding a threshold, or of sim- Countries and ideas, drugs and women, wrong-do- ply disembarking at the next station. ing and monkhood. There is almost nothing that he Specifications: would not try. Altman’s descriptions are relentless, Specifications: Big and grand emotions have found their way brutally honest about himself, but at the same time • Piper Hardcover into this book, not to mention those that are • Berlin Verlag Hardcover they are full of passion and wit. They tell the story of • 256 pages dark or nasty, mean or lovely, children’s emo- • March 2013 • ca. 200 pages someone who got away – someone who has decided • World Rights Available • February 2013 tions and parents’ emotions, secret emotions to take a close-up look at life as it is. • World Rights Available and the emotions of rascals, winter and summer emotions, office and train emotions, computer and weather emotions – it’s a little wonder of a book. Previous Title: MY FATHER’S FUCKING LIFE, MY MOTHER’S FUCKING LIFE, AND MY OWN FUCKING YOUTH A story set in placid province, a story full of abuse, humiliation, bigoted Born in 1963, Mario Giordano studied Psychology and Philosophy priests and Nazis in disguise. Andreas Altmann writes about his childhood in Düsseldorf. He is known primarily for his work as a screenwriter and youth. And how, in the end, a victim becomes a free human being. and author of books for children and young adults. His novel Black

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Every family has its bright and dark sides, its secrets and conflicts. The patients Petra Anwar visits know that there We all are influenced by the experiences of our parents and grand- is no cure for them. But Petra Anwar can still help parents and we all bear the burden of previous generations on our them by giving them the chance to die peacefully at shoulders. Psychologist and family therapist Sandra Konrad shares home. Anwar, together with writer John von Düffel, an expert’s perspective on the invisible heritage of our forbearers. tells of fate and possibilities in the last phase of life. About the Book About the Book People are different, but there is one thing we all have in com- Most people want to die at home, in their own bed, mon: a family with which we have to live. We can’t return Specifications: but few get this chance. Petra Anwar has helped them and we can’t leave them behind. We carry them in our • Piper Hardcover numerous patients and their families to make this genes and in our memories, in our values and our inclinations. Our families made us what we are, and we are bound to them • 304 pages last wish come true. She knows about the fears • April 2013 beyond generations and continents. Sandra Konrad shows that that go hand in hand with receiving medical care • World Rights Available it is worthwhile to confront your family “demons”, because the outside hospital walls. Nevertheless, this shared better we understand our families’ past, the easier it will be for time is very dear to the dying and their relatives: to us to lead free and happy lives. Maike, who is given one more year with her teen- age daughter despite the tumour growing in her stomach, to Mr Hellig, who undertakes a journey to the sea in his wheelchair to see the lighthouses Tina Hüttl / Alexander Meschnig one more time, to Mr Bozkurt, who returns to his Specifications: small home town in Turkey because he does not You Won’t Catch Us want to die in a flat so far from home. • Piper Hardcover Hidden Children – Jewish Survivors’ Stories • 240 pages Petra Anwar’s mission is to help people die where • March 2013 • World Rights Available About the Book they have lived - without fear. Together with John von Düffel, she tells twelve true stories about peo- They sound like characters from fiction novels, but their stories ple who died at home. are true: survivors that escaped the Nazis’ machine of destruc- tion. Rahel Mann is one such survivor: As a five-year-old, she held out for months in a dungeon-like cellar. As unlikely as it may seem, it was the block warden’s wife who helped her and Petra Anwar, born 1965, works as palliative physician for the organisation brought her food. Rolf Joseph cheated death more than once “Home Care“ in Berlin. In Stopped on Track (Halt auf freier Strecke), a as a young man. He hid in a hole in the woods, jumped out Specifications: film that won the German Film Prize, she played herself: a physician who of the window when his pursuers came to apprehend him and cares for terminally ill patients and their family members at home. • Piper Hardcover finally escaped while being transported to Auschwitz. They sur- • 288 pages © Ricarda Schwerin John von Düffel, born 1966, is an author and works as dramatic advisor vived – against all odds. Tina Hüttl and Alexander Meschnig had • with numerous portraits at Deutsches Theater, Berlin. His novels On Water (Vom Wasser) and • March 2013 Houwelandt were bestsellers. the opportunity to meet these exceptional people. • World Rights Available

When in doubt, go for the bigger change: Pack your baby and set out on a journey of 15,000 kilometres from Munich to Beijing, Hans Kammerlander has a dream: to be the first one crossing Siberia and Mongolia, on a search for an individual, con- to stand on top of the second-highest summit of every temporary idea of what a family is. continent. The so-called “Seven Second Summits” are often extremely demanding, isolated and hard to reach. About the Book Having successfully climbed Mount Logan in May 2012, Kammerlander put a crowning finish on his quest. Julia Malchow’s only companion on her journey is her 10-month- old son Levi. For Julia, travel is more than being on the road, it is Specifications: the key to new ideas and unity, which is exactly what she is looking for after the birth of Levi. And this upends everything in her life. • Malik Hardcover But is it possible to travel to the most remote corners of the world About the Book • ca. 272 pages • with numerous coloured with a young child? A huge adventure which questions common Having undertaken adventurous expeditions to the photos ideas of the meaning of family and offers a fresh perspective on the • May 2013 world – and on home. summits of the 14 eight-thousanders and about • World Rights Available 50 first ascents, Hans Kammerlander set himself a new goal: climbing the second-highest mountains Stephan Orth of each of the seven continents. Granddad’s Iceberg His Seven Second Summits project became a On Grandfather’s Trail Through Greenland journey around the world, from K2 in Asia, which Specifications: took him to his limits, to Ojos del Salado on the • Malik Hardcover Ancestry research in the ice. One century after his granddad- at edge of the Atacama desert, and on to the jungles • 272 pages tempted to cross Greenland by foot, Stephan Orth is undertaking of New Guinea. But, surprisingly enough, it is a • with numerous coloured the same quest. Stephan Orth, renowned journalist for Spiegel- comparatively “easy” second summit, Mount Lo- photos Online and author of many bestselling books, shares his unique, • November 2012 obstacle-filled family expedition in a warm-hearted way and with gan in North America, which almost puts an end to • Rights Sold to: Italy (Garzanti) his ambitious project… a lot of humour. About the Book

In the summer of 1912, a small Swiss expedition achieves the feat of crossing and measuring the inland ice of Greenland. Among Hans Kammerlander, born 1956 in South Tyrol, has mastered 13 of the the members of the expedition is a young German architect who Specifications: 14 8,000 m peaks. He still lives in South Tyrol, where he led a climbing documents the pioneer’s quest meticulously and with spirit. A hundred years later, his grandson, who has never seen his adven- • Malik Hardcover school until 2003. • ca. 288 pages He often gives presentations on his expeditions and is the author of the turous grandfather, reads the diary, and afterwards, he knows one • with numerous coloured successful books: Abstieg zum Erfolg (2000), Am seidenen Faden thing for sure: It’s time to finally get to know his granddad. Even if photos this means taking off on an expedition which will demand of him • April 2013

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