'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve, he's going to end it all. But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea, but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later, and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?

Missouri, 1985: To escape problems at home, fifteen-year-old Sam takes a vacation job at an old movie theater. And for one magical summer everything is turned upside down. He makes friends, falls in love and discovers the secrets of his hometown. For the first time, he is no longer an inconspicuous outsider. Until something happens that forces him to grow up. A tribute to 80s coming-of-age films like The Breakfast Club and Stand By Me - the story of a summer that you will never forget.

A fantastic novel and without question one of the most extraordinary books of the year." Top Cultural
A unique boy who changes the fate of a village forever
In the small Mexican town of Linares, people still talk about the day old Nana Reja found a baby under a bridge. Surrounded by a swarm of bees, little Simonopio arouses suspicion among the superstitious villagers. But the landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales take the wild, mute boy in and love him like their own child. While the Spanish flu hits the region and the Mexican Revolution rages around it, they learn to trust Simonopio's gift and can thus save the family from the greatest disaster. But not all residents of the hacienda mean well with the boy ...
»A story that can be experienced with all the senses.«
VANGUARDIA ESPANA

Dora has moved to the country with her little dog. She urgently needed a change of scenery, more freedom, room to breathe. But Bracken, the small village in nowhere in Brandenburg, is not quite as idyllic as expected. There is still no furniture in Dora's house, the garden is like a wilderness, and the bus connection to the district town is a joke. But above all, behind the high garden wall, there is a neighbor who, with a shaved head and right slogans, seems to correspond to all prejudices. Having fled the lockdown in the big city, Dora has to ask herself what she is looking for in this anarchic emptiness: Distance from Robert, her boyfriend, who is becoming more and more alien to her in his dogged climate activism? Refuge because of the inner restlessness that prevents you from sleeping at night? Answer to the question, when did the world get so mixed up? While Dora is still trying to keep her own thoughts and demons in check, things are happening in her immediate vicinity that she could not have expected. She is shown by people who do not fit into any grid, who challenge her ideas and her previous life to the greatest extent and let her experience something that she would never have thought she was looking for.