PIPER Foreign Rights List

Foreign Rights List Spring 2015

Fiction

Novels Crime Women’s Fiction Fantasy

▪ 2 ▪ 8 ▪ 10 ▪ 14

Non-Fiction

▪ 16

Exclusive Agents

▪ 21

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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l

Inger-Maria Mahlke

As You Like “Inger-Maria Mahlke’s storytelling is ruthless and affectionate in equal measure.”

Thomas Hettche This furious and highly comic novel holds up a mirror: a woman fights for favour and attention. In an exploration of what it is to be special and the fleeting nature of power in social networks, Inger-Maria Mahlke brilliantly recounts an historical attempt at self-determination in the face of the rules of society. In so doing she also presents an impressive portrait of contemporary times.

© Sibylle Baier

About the Book ▪ August 1571: Elizabeth I is Queen of England and Mary Grey, her cousin, is enraged. She is twenty-six years old, small in stature, and has a claim to the throne. She has been under house arrest for a considerable time for marrying without permission. Her husband is now dead, like her sisters and her father, all executed. Mary Grey wants to be free, to have her own household, and to care for her stepchildren. Not one of these wishes is granted; rather than accepting this quietly, she rebels. She resolves to write her own version of events – calling to account the system of the royal court with all its caprices and curtailing of liberty, its wearisome rituals and economic constraints. She begins working through the past to find a new identity.

Specifications

▪▪ Berlin Verlag Hardcover ▪▪ March 2015 ▪▪ ca. 272 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

Born in Hamburg in 1977, Inger-Maria Mahlke studied Law at the Freie Universität Berlin and worked on various projects for the Department of Criminology. In 2009, Mahlke was the prize-winner at the 17th Open Mike. At the 2012 Festival of German Language Literature in Klagenfurt, she was honoured with the Ernst Willner Prize.

In 2014 she was awarded the Karl Arnold Prize for her second novel Rechnung offen (Unfinished Business). Mahlke lives in Berlin.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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f i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l

Heinrich Steinfest

The Green Blind What a gloriously spooky literary romp!

About the Book ▪ Theo has just started high school when one night, at 11:02 pm, with a rattling flourish, all of a sudden it is there: Billowing in the moonlight in front of his window is a green blind.

It disappears in the daytime, but every night at precisely the same time, down it rolls. That is eerie enough, and not only because Theo’s home has never had blinds or even curtains. More uncanny still, on closer examination it appears to have eyes. No, not eyes, binoculars. Small men are observing Theo through field glasses from the other side of the blind. Theo is convinced that an alternative world exists beyond his blind. A green world. After sleepless nights he summons his courage and resolves to step over into the other sphere… Forty years later, Theo has dismissed the whole thing as a childhood fantasy. Until suddenly it is back – the green blind.

▪▪ Heinrich Steinfest’s previous novel The Pantologist

shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2014.

▪▪ “Heinrich Steinfest entertains at the highest level.

© Christian Hass

He literally opens his reader’s eyes to the diversity and abundance of creation.”

Denis Scheck, literary critic

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Hardcover ▪▪ March 2015 ▪▪ ca. 256 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 Der Allesforscher (The Pantologist) was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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Silvio Blatter

Not Counting Our Days Good children and rebellious parents A book with its finger on the pulse by one of Switzerland’s major contemporary writers.

About the Book ▪ One family, four people, two generations. Isa and Severin, a radio presenter and a sculptor, are a dynamic artistic couple – but their star is waning. Who will follow in their footsteps if not their children? But times have changed and they are caught in the traps of bourgeois existence.

Isa, the woman with the distinctive voice, radio diva, celebrates one final triumph on the airwaves, then stands down. Severin has transformed a gravel pit into a studio and kingdom of his own. But one day men in security vests and dark masks appear, threatening to take over the place that Severin had thought safe from the passage of time… With elegance and intelligence, Silvio Blatter writes of the fulfilment of life plans and the areas of dispute between the generations.

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Hardcover ▪▪ “Blatter knows how to tell a story: gingerly, lightly

© Petra Amerell

he creates tension free of any underlying sensationalism.”

St. Galler Tagblatt

▪▪ March 2015 ▪▪ ca. 304 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

Silvio Blatter is a writer, painter and columnist considered as one of the “outstanding Swiss contemporary authors” (Südwest Press). Thanks to his trilogy Zunehmendes Heimweh (Increasing Homesickness), Kein schöner Land (No Beautiful Country) and Das sanfte Gesetz (The Gentle Law) he is known to a broad public. He received many literary awards, amongst others the ConradFerdinand-Meyer-Prize and the Prize of the Neue literarische Gesellschaft Hamburg. Silvio Blatter lives in Munich and Zurich.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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F i c t i o n ▪ n o v e l

Thommie Bayer

White Train to the South Who are you if you are living someone else’s life?

About the Book ▪ Chiara is from Castelnuovo in Italy. The reasons for her coming to Germany are nobody’s business. Now she is there and is living the life her friend Leonie left behind: Chiara lives in Leonie’s house on the hill and has taken on her job too, as a cleaner. Just for the interim, she tells herself, but she finds that she enjoys this life, the glimpses of the homes of strangers, bringing order to them.

She is particularly drawn to Mr Vorden’s apartment.

And Mr Vorden seems to feel a deep connection to her, too – every week when Chiara enters his rooms, she finds a sheaf of papers on his desk, containing a story. And every week she wonders whether the man, whose first name she does not even know, can read her thoughts. For his stories are closely entwined with her own life.

▪▪ An artfully ambiguous novel about the fascina-

tion of a borrowed life.

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Hardcover ▪▪ More than 500,000 copies of Thommie Bayer’s

books sold!

▪▪ February 2015 ▪▪ ca. 160 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

© Peter Peitsch

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. Thommie Bayer lives in Staufen, Black Forest, with his wife.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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Thomas Wendrich

A Rose for Putin A crazy story of East and West A kidnapping in a country with the tightest of border surveillance? There must be higher powers at play!

Two parents are fighting for their lost child; a detective is wrestling for the right answers; a Belorussian woman is fighting for her life; and an author is tussling with a director for the right story.

© Beate Nelken

About the Book ▪ An unexplained child abduction in Dresden in 1985? Magicked out of the country?

Unimaginable in those times of rigorously guarded borders – unless…

Johann Stadt has gone on an artistic retreat with his director to a country house in the Uckermark region of former East Germany to develop their material.

What befalls the screenwriter there is far more than the inspiration for an incredible story, however. He is confronted with the most unexpected of apparitions: suspicious village policemen, the corpse of a post-woman that keeps re-appearing, un-artistically minded local politicians, enterprising nuclear scientists, the long reach of the KGB, and, last but not least, a disturbed family of swans. Thomas Wendrich’s debut is a wildly veering on-the-road story.

An outrageous tale of the West’s squeeze on the East and the East’s influence in the West.

Specifications

▪▪ Berlin Verlag Hardcover ▪▪ Februar 2015 ▪▪ ca. 320 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

Thomas Wendrich was born in Dresden in 1971. He studied Drama and was a member of the Berliner Ensemble until 1999. There he played and learned from Schleef, Müller, Heise, Wilson and Zadek amongst others. Since the end of his studies he has been working as a freelance author, director and actor. Nimm Dir Dein Leben (Take your Life) received the German Screenplay Award. Since then he has made several movies, e.g. the adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s book Ich und Kaminski (I and Kaminski). He lives in Berlin.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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F i c t i o n ▪ N o v e l

Jochen Rausch

Revenge People in extreme situations, absurd chains of events, unfortunate circumstances, and the final spark that triggers the explosion – Jochen Rausch tells stories of burning intensity, and alarming truth.

About the Book ▪ Revenge explores those moments of human desperation, when suppressed anger comes to the surface in a radical embodiment of violence: the job centre employee who loses control in front of his clients and then loses his job and his wife; the local reporter who gets embroiled in an “honour killing” whilst researching a story in a socially challenged neighbourhood; the young couple in Berlin who want to change the world but set alight the car of the wrong person entirely…

Rausch succeeds in plumbing the depths of the human abyss in miniature, getting under the skin of his characters, and tracing their individual bruises.

From the length and breadth of the republic, from the margins of society to its heart – twelve intense short stories, precise in their language, and pared down to their essentials, open the reader’s eyes to the nuanced area between black and white, innocence and guilt.

Specifications

▪▪ Berlin Verlag Hardcover ▪▪ March 2015 ▪▪ 288 pages

© Thomas Hendrich

▪▪ World Rights available

Jochen Rausch is a journalist, writer and musician. He is programme manager at Radio 1LIVE (WDR) in Cologne since 2000. Restlicht (Vestiges of Light), a novel, published in 2008, was followed by a collection of short stories, Trieb (Drive), in 2011 and by Krieg (War) in 2013. Rausch lives in Wuppertal.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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F i c t i o n ▪ c r i m e

Karl Olsberg

Enter A power cut in Berlin signals the start of a series of attacks – an unknown group of activists by the name of NTR have declared war on the increasing enslavement of people through technology.

About the Book ▪ Detective Inspector Eisenberg and his special unit, “Internet”, are supposed to support the State Office of Criminal Investigation, but the officer in charge does not think much of SEGI, as the team is known, and their unorthodox methods. When a leading computer expert is murdered he bans their involvement. And when further attacks are carried out and the background story of the murder grows ever murkier, a dark shadow falls on the SEGI team… Internet terror, artificial intelligence, and the illegal surveillance conducted by the secret services are the highly topical themes woven into Olsberg’s new thriller in a story that packs a punch.

▪▪ Previous title:

Specifications

▪▪

▪▪ Berlin Verlag Paperback Delete

▪▪ April 2015

Rights sold to France (Actes Sud)

▪▪ ca. 384 pages

© Susanne Schleyer

▪▪ World Rights available

Karl Olsberg (born in 1960) wrote a doctoral thesis on the uses of artificial intelligence, which won the Wirtschaftswoche “eConomy Award”. His publications include two thrillers, Das System (The System) and Der Duft (The Scent), and a work of non-fiction, Schöpfung außer Kontrolle (Creation Out of Control).

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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f i c t i o n ▪ c r i m e

Susanne Mischke

Cold Trail Whoever it is, must be a monster The body of a man is discovered at the foot of a well – murdered in a grotesque manner. Detective Inspector Dante heads up the investigation and soon discovers that the victim had destroyed a family in his youth. Now somebody is out for revenge and is killing with the patience of a cat. Quietly, cruelly, out of sight. And it is not over yet.

© Jens Niebuhr

About the Book ▪ When Stephan Plate is found, it is almost impossible to identify him. He has been eaten alive by rats! Detective Inspector Francesca Dante, an impulsive Neapolitan, and her boss, Jessen, the reserved northern German with a penchant for tailored suits and ancient history, stumble upon a cold trail. Eighteen years ago, Plate had been involved in a crime: a family was taken hostage and a bank robbery went wrong. One of the daughters died, as did Plate’s accomplice. Dante and Jessen uncover much that does not add up and make a horrific discovery: everyone who was part of the plot has died in recent years, in a wide variety of ways.

A coincidence, however unlikely? Or do they have on their hands a campaign of revenge, meticulously planned and conducted with unnerving patience?

And, the most pressing question of all, who will be next to pay the price?

Specifications

▪▪ Bloomsbury Berlin Paperback ▪▪ March 2015 ▪▪ ca. 464 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

Born in 1960, Susanne Mischke lives in Germany and Sweden and has successfully been writing novels and detective stories for the last 20 years.

Amongst other prizes, she has received the Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Prize for Literature and the Women’s Crime Fiction Prize from the town of Wiesbaden. Her last novel Töte, wenn du kannst (Kill if You Can) was published by Bloomsbury Berlin.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ 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

Micaela Jary

Like a Faraway Song Sometimes love is like a faraway song, with undying echoes.

About the Book ▪ Hamburg, 1939: Marga stares after the train in despair. In it is her childhood friend, Michael, travelling to a place miles away. As far back as she can remember she has been in love with the Jewish clarinettist; what hours they spent together in the dance clubs of the young Hamburg swing scene. Although his origins compel his emigration to Paris, Marga is determined that they will meet again. For their love is like a song, with undying echoes. But its sweet melody is soon entwined with the chilling sounds of war…

▪▪ A moving novel set against the background of the

Second World War.

▪▪ From the author of the bestsellers Sehnsucht

nach Sansiber (Longing for Zanzibar) and Das Haus am Alsterufer (The House on the Banks of the Alster).

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Paperback ▪▪ August 2015 ▪▪ ca. 368 pages

© Rossigraphie

▪▪ World Rights available

Born in Hamburg, Micaela Jary is the daughter of the film composer Michael Jary. She grew up in the world of theater and music and worked as a newspaper editor. Through her father she met important swing musicians of the 1930s and 1940s, who inspired her to her novel Wie ein fernes Lied (Like a Faraway Song). She used to live in Paris for a long time and lives today in Berlin with her husband and her dog.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ 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

Nicola Förg

Happiness is not for the Weak-Hearted An enchanting cocktail of love story, comic detective novel, and Icelandic tale.

About the Book ▪ Sonja is a born worrier. Stressed by her job, disappointed by men, tucked away from the world in her hermit’s home. The apple of her eye is a cat named Lady Goggo. An independent kind of a cat, who is very curious, and is forever being trapped in unexpected places. Sonja attaches a cat-cam to her, a tiny camera that allows her to keep an eye on Lady Goggo’s wanderings. Except one fine day the cat films neighbour Sven in the act of strangling a woman! Has Lady Goggo filmed a murder? The next day the cat disappears. She has leapt into Sven’s bus, it seems, and is on her way with him to Iceland. Sonja’s beloved feline on the road with a murderer?! Taking her life in her hands, Sonja journeys to Iceland. And follows closely in Sven’s footsteps. Only to discover the very thing she had least expected to find…

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Paperback ▪▪ 450.000 copies of Nicola Förg’s crime novels sold!

▪▪ March 2015 ▪▪ 288 pages

© Alessandro Emrich

▪▪ World Rights available

Nicola Förg studied German language and Geography in Munich. She lives on a farm with her family, ponies, rabbits and cats. Her previous crime novels, published by Pendo, were all set in the Alps. Glück ist nichts für Feiglinge (Happiness is not for the Weak-Hearted) is her first novel set in Iceland.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ 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

Gaby Köster

The Boss She may be paralysed down one side after a stroke, but there’s no shutting her up!

The Boss is a road movie in a class of its own, exciting, funny, and with adventures galore. This is rock ’n roll, wheelchair style, for those not exactly smiled upon by good fortune. Yes, life can be a crock of sh*t: but when it’s up and running, there’s no stopping it, however tricky the actual running may be.

About the Book ▪ Marie Sander’s life has gone wrong. The successful rock singer, known simply as “the Boss” has hit rock bottom. She can only sit it out. In a wheelchair. A stroke, just before her fortysecond birthday. Perfect timing, then, to set off in pursuit of a criminal gang. To embark on an odyssey through half of Europe. To fall in love with a preening bodybuilder. To give two children back their parents. To start life anew.

Specifications

▪▪ Pendo Hardcover ▪▪ March 2015 ▪▪ ca. 304 pages

© Stephan Pick

▪▪ World Rights available

Gaby Köster is one of Germany’s most famous comedians. In her bestselling book Ein Schnupfen hätte auch gereicht (A Cold Would Have Been Enough) she talked about her stroke and her way back to life in a funny and touching way. Die Chefin (The Boss) is her first novel which she wrote together with Thomas Köller.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ 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

Adriana Popescu

Forever and a Day About the Book ▪ They thought theirs was a forever friendship. But then life happened. After seven years of being out of touch, Ben, Jasper, and Ella meet again at a class reunion. When the celebrations are nearing the end, the three of them decide to spend time in each other’s homes, like in the old days. For one night only. But so many questions remain unanswered, and the later the hour, the wilder Ella’s heart beats – until a few stray words from years gone by cause it to break. Perhaps forever.

▪▪ “A novel for the heart.”

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▪▪ “A love story free of clichés, but thrumming with

emotion and the thudding of a heart.” mybookblog.de

▪▪ From the bestselling author of Lieblingsmomente

(Golden Moments) and Lieblingsgefühle (Golden Feelings).

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Paperback ▪▪ May 2015 ▪▪ 320 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

© Notker Mahr

Adriana Popescu, born in Munich in 1980, was a screenplay writer for German TV before contributing to a variety of newspapers, magazines and cityblogs. In 2012, her self-published e-book, Versehentlich verliebt (Mistakenly in Love), became a surprise hit. This is her fourth novel published by Piper.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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f i c t i o n ▪ fa n tasy

Richard Schwartz

The Wars of the Gods The Wanderer The exciting finale to Wars of the Gods!

‘In the end it will come the one I chose as my angel, to wield the sword of light against the enemy’s host.

The legion of the dead will follow him, and on his side will be the gods – and hope.’

About the Book ▪ His debut novel The First Horn took the fantasy world by storm, capturing the hearts of fans. His books about The Mystery of Askir were highly praised, both by readers and in the press. His latest saga The Wars of the Gods has made Richard Schwartz one of the most successful German-language fantasy authors. In this sixth and final instalment, the climax of the series is close at hand – Havald, the Angel of Death, must confront the King of the Necromancers in a final battle. Will the prophecy be fulfilled?

▪▪ 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) Die Macht der Alten (Power of the Ancients)

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Paperback ▪▪ July 2015 ▪▪ ca. 544 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

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 and his books have been published in the Netherlands and Italy.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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f i c t i o n ▪ fa n tasy

David Falk

The Last Stand The trilogy’s dark finale, about the Last Warrior Neither an army of the undead nor the destructive power of the dragons can annihilate the race of men.

Yet the days of peace are still far off, for true evil has remained hidden in the shadows ...

About the Book ▪ In The Last Stand David Falk draws his high fantasy epic about the cynical warrior Athanor to an action-packed conclusion. Thanks to his own merits and his birthright, Athanor has been named king of the human realm. For the last warrior of Ardaia, however, this is a heavy burden, especially as the devastating battles have led to a flood of refugees, and the land is stricken with a new plague of the undead. Ancient creatures – so dangerous in life that the gods were forced to banish them from the earth – have awoken. Seeking answers, Athanor realises what is robbing the dead of their peaceful slumber – and that there is more at stake than simply the fate of men ...

▪▪ The Last Warrior-Series:

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Paperback ▪▪ July 2015 ▪▪ ca. 576 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

The Last Warrior

The Last King

Born in 1972, David Falk is a historian, bassist and denier of Facebook. When he isn’t just creating a fantastic world or indulging in his computer games, he travels on the trace of his ancestors through Europe – which serves an inspiration for new novels.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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Non-fiction

Florian Huber

Child, Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself An untold story. An enduring taboo For several months in 1945, a wave of suicides swept through Germany, swallowing up thousands of people, families and households. Florian Huber tells the story of one small German town from the perspective of people who experienced that unthinkable event.

© Carsten Schilke

About the Book ▪ On 30 April 1945 in Berlin, Adolf Hitler put a bullet in his brain. At the same time, in the small town of Demmin, ordinary people – women, men and children – flooded in droves to rivers and forests in order to kill themselves. It was the greatest mass suicide in German history, repeated in a similar manner all over the country. What abyss did those people glimpse that at the very moment Germany was freed from the Third Reich they saw death as the only way out? The repercussions of this moment of madness reverberated across the next two generations, and even into the present day, manifesting themselves as silence, repression and forgetting. Both the original moment and its aftereffects were motivated by a need to flee from the unbearable. Florian Hubner describes the mental and emotional lives of people during the Third Reich, alternating historical commentary with a study of their state of mind.

Specifications

▪▪ Berlin Verlag Hardcover ▪▪ February 2015 ▪▪ ca. 304 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

Born in Nuremberg in 1967, Florian Huber studied history and economy and wrote his doctoral thesis about the Policy of Re-education of the British Occupied Forces in Germany. He lives in Hamburg and writes scripts and historical non-fiction books. His documentaries about contemporary historical events, like the fall of the German Wall, the Olympia-assassination 1972 or 09/11, received numerous national and international prizes.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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Non-fiction

Thomas Darnstädt

Nuremberg The trial that changed the world Nuremberg, 1945: The Nazi elite are made to answer for their crimes.

About the Book ▪ It was a bold moment, without parallel in human history: at the end of the war there was no bloodshed, no peace treaty, but a trial. For the first time, the politicians and military figures who were responsible were brought before a court.

Nobody in Courtroom 600 of the Palace of Justice could have imagined what momentum the ideas behind Nuremberg would gather. The Allies’ proceedings against the ‘major war criminals’ (including Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Martin Bormann, Hitler’s private secretary) ended with twelve death sentences and lengthy prison terms. Thomas Darnstädt, who holds a doctorate in law and writes for the magazine Der Spiegel, shows how those 218 days changed the world, and how this spectacular trial led to the birth of modern international law.

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Hardcover ▪▪ May 2015 ▪▪ ca. 416 pages

© Manfred Witt

▪▪ World Rights available

Born in 1949, Dr. jur. Thomas Darnstädt is a lawyer and journalist specialized on citizens’ rights and international law. He has been writing for Der Spiegel for decades. He is the author of many books, the last one was published by Piper Der Richter und sein Opfer. Wenn die Justiz sich irrt (The Judge and His Victim). He lives in Hamburg with his family.

Foreign Rights Contacts: Ms. Sarah Reinbacher (sarah.reinbacher@piper.de) ▪ Mr. Sven Diedrich (sven.diedrich@piper.de) Piper Verlag GmbH ▪ Georgenstr. 4 ▪ 80799 München, Germany ▪ Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-735 ▪ www.piper.de

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Non-fiction

Friedrich Liechtenstein (with Joachim Bessing)

Super My life Artist, ornamental hermit, flâneur: the life of Friedrich Liechtenstein The video of him dancing through a supermarket garnered Friedrich Liechtenstein more than 20 million hits online.

About the Book ▪ ‘Supergeil’ – ‘super cool’ – was the word of the moment. People across the world, even international newspapers like the New York Times and the Guardian, were obsessed with Friedrich Liechtenstein. The multi-talented artist is an actor, musician, professional flâneur and utopianist. But who is he really? For the first time, ‘Germany’s most famous hermit’ (Die Zeit) tells the story of his life, from the days when he was living by his wits with no ties or commitments, surviving on cheap cream cheese and bread rolls, to the extraordinary success that his ‘Supergeil’ advert brought him, to finding himself as an artist and a human being.

‘The poverty I was living in meant I wasn’t afraid of anything. And my art grew out of this feeling.’

▪▪ “Left and right, old and young, rich and poor —

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everyone finds Friedrich Liechtenstein cool.”

The New York Times

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▪▪ Piper Hardcover ▪▪ March 2015 ▪▪ ca. 256 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

Friedrich Liechtenstein studied Drama in Berlin, where he has been living since 1995. He is a professional puppet player, theatre director and comedian.

He began his career as an electro-pop musician in 2003. His album Bad Gastein was welcomed enthusiastically by critics.

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non-Fiction

Stephan Orth

Couchsurfing in Iran On holiday in the ‘axis of evil’ Officially it’s forbidden. Nonetheless Stephan Orth, a writer for Spiegel Online, couchsurfed his way 9,000 kilometres through Iran, encountering all sorts of absurd adventures in a country very different from the ‘rogue state’ we imagine.

About the Book ▪ A bikini party in the strictly religious city of Mashhad? Nothing is impossible!

Stephan Orth travels up and down Khomeini & Co.’s country, swapping hotels for private homes, sleeping on dozens of Persian carpets, breaking laws every day, living, celebrating and grieving with the most hospitable people in the world. Along the way he gets to know Iran from a very different perspective.

Behind closed doors the veil is dropped, taking people’s fear of the moralising Mullahs with it – life is colourful and rebellious, full of longing and dreams, opening up a world much broader than the ancient stone walls of the Persian palaces.

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▪▪ Malik Paperback ▪▪ March 2015 ▪▪ 240 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

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Born in 1979, Stephan Orth studied English, Economics, Psychology and Journalism. Since 2008 he has been working as an editor in the travel section of Spiegel Online. For his documentaries he received the Columbus-Prize several times. He is the author of the number one bestseller Sorry wir haben die Landebahn verfehlt (Sorry We Missed the Runway).

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non-fiction

Helmut Krausser

Bayern Munich Everything you want to know about Star of the South. A tongue-in-cheek nod to the record-holding, championship-winning German team, the object of both cult-like adoration and profound loathing, both a successful commercial enterprise and a synonym for Bavarian national pride.

About the Book ▪ In summer 1974, Helmut Krausser entered the Munich Olympic Stadium for the first time. Bayern Munich were playing Hertha Berlin. Chanting fans were still relatively rare – there were hardly any women in the stadium, and it would not have occurred to the crowds of elderly men to start bawling at the pitch. There were six World Cup holders on the team, but they only scraped a 2-1 win.

Nonetheless, that was the day that Helmut Krausser fell in love with the club. Erudite and humorous, he recounts the club’s unprecedented and triumphant progress, shedding light on the internal life and widespread impact of the club whose motto is ‘mia san mia’ – ‘we are who we are’. He writes about top goal-scorers from Franz Beckenbauer to Thomas Mueller, about training sessions and footballers’ wives, about fan chants, the club’s supporters and the first ever double yellow card.

Specifications

▪▪ Piper Paperback ▪▪ March 2014 ▪▪ ca. 224 pages ▪▪ World Rights available

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to know about ▪▪ Also available: Everything you want to know

about Formula One. Born in 1964 in Esslingen, Helmut Krausser writes novels, stories, poetry, diaries, radio dramas, plays, screenplays and music. He was night watchman, newspapers advertiser, singer in a rock’n’roll band and journalist. He studied Roman Archeology. His novel Fette Welt (Fat World) was adapted into a film. He lives in Munich and Berlin.

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