Fiction

Close to the Edge

My name is Ari, and this is the story of my first love. It doesn’t end well, I’ll tell you that right now. So if you’re into happy endings, you better put ...

Dogs and Hares

Dogs and Hares are like cats and mice. That, at least, is the situation in idyllic Beethorpe-on-Bee. The Dog and Hare families have been at daggers drawn for generations, and ...

Emma in the Land of Buttons

Ulrike Rylance’s Emma in the Land of Buttons is that rare thing – a fairy tale that is very funny and slily profound at the same time. Reminiscent of Alice ...

Frieda in the Bottle

Flo’s family-holidays promise to be the worst ever. But then she discovers a mysterious bottle under her bed. In it lives a tiny plump greenhaired woman named Frieda. Freaky Frieda ...

Fucking Fucking Good

Foreplay "Words for sex come in three categories. In the first category are those words that are used in biology books and that adults use when they talk to children ...

Mats and Milad

About young love and old hate Mathilda’s first meeting with Milad is rather shocking: She has to tear him off the rails at the last moment before a train arrives! ...

Merjem [Engl.]

Merjem broaches the issues of deportation and asylum in a story of crime and friendship, suspenseful and with a lot of heart – in a realistic yet funny way, it ...

Saving Raffi

Sammy’s pet is a very special hamster called Raffi – not only can he score goals, but also sniff out smuggled goods. One day, however, the dearly-beloved pet has disappeared. ...

The Fleas in the Opera

Explore the opera with Axel Scheffler's fleas The entire von Hupf family loves opera so much that they never miss a performance. But the Hupfs are not ordinary opera visitors, ...

The princess who sets off to save the prince

For brave princesses and shy princes A modern fairy tale about the princess who is to marry. But first she has to be kidnapped by a dragon and rescued by ...