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Gabaldan, D.: Outlander - Feuer und Stein 20,00 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:55:31 +0200

The world success for the first time in an unabridged new translation. Scotland 1946: English nurse Claire Randall is on her second honeymoon when she curiously enters an ancient stone circle and suddenly faints inside. When she regains consciousness, she finds herself in the year 1743 - and from now on she is immediately a stranger, an "Outlander".

"Plump, lush, lustful, bold, historically accurate - and absolutely addictive!" Berliner Zeitung

"Gripping and heart-warming! This novel brings Scotland and its history to life in a unique way." Publishers Weekly

Harris, R.: Der Ghostwriter 8,95 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:55:31 +0200

British ex-Prime Minister Adam Lang wants to publish his memoirs. After the dubious murder of his ghostwriter, his successor does more research than requested and makes a discovery that could lead to world political chaos. Was the prime minister really in the service of the CIA?

Bock, T.: Die geladene Knarre von Andreas Baader 9,95 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:55:31 +0200

Historical contemporary novel.
The short summer of love and rebellion: Sebastian, Leander and Rieke rehearse the uprising Berlin, summer 2005: Gerhard Schröder has asked for a vote of confidence, forcing early elections. Barbecues are banned in the parks, and then the public order office also takes action against drinking alcohol in public. That's too much, decides a group of young students and rebels. They are all in the middle of their studies, beyond the euphoria of the beginning and before the onset of exam panic. Homework is a tiresome evil, but the timetable is pleasantly full of holes, and now it's semester break anyway. So they meet in the park, at the lake or at parties - and politics is always on the agenda. Sebastian in particular follows the parliamentary debates, press conferences and discussions on TV, gets upset about hypocrisy and power poker, but actually finds his relationship with Rieke much more exciting. When the idea of a blog comes up to articulate a counter-position, Sebastian is still on fire. But even the title is not really coming together, and meanwhile Leander is making much more radical plans. When Rieke suddenly brings a pistol in her handbag that is said to have once belonged to Andreas Baader, the situation escalates. Only a beacon seems suitable to attract the necessary attention. And since he has also started something with Luzie, Sebastian urgently has to make a decision...
Thilo Bock delivers a dazzling portrait of a generation beyond ideologies and utopias. The dissatisfaction with the circumstances is great, the fear for one's own future even greater, and appealing alternatives are rather scarce. Nevertheless, there is a willingness to radicalise that does not seem to shy away even from the extreme. With great sensitivity for sensitivities and ways of speaking, Thilo Bock tells of freedom, longing and responsibility.

Meyer, L.: Blunks Heimkehr 14,80 €

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:55:31 +0200

Blunk and Wolf, two kindred spirits but completely different men, and Tinka, a former prostitute, are the main protagonists of this ambiguous tale from the post-reunification era. The disparate trio is held together by the common hope of being able to recommission a wrecked steel ship that is stuck in an abandoned shipyard, unable to manoeuvre, in order to escape the adversities of their failed existences. But there is still an invisible bond woven by fate, providence or chance that binds the three together. Stylistically and linguistically committed to sophisticated contemporary literature, the author creates a multi-layered scenario of human passions, contradictions and sometimes also fulfilled longings with Blunk's Homecoming. Lothar Meyer, born in 1960 in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, studied literature, linguistics and musicology, lives and works alternately in Halle (Saale), Görlitz and Weimar. He has published several radio plays, radio features, short prose and essays as well as numerous cultural reviews, a scholarly handbook "In Christian Night" on the story "Kosmas" by Arno Schmidt and "Von Insel zu Insel", an anthology on islands in world literature (Insel Verlag Frankfurt/Main).