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Publication of works geared toward a mass-market audience An intentionally small number of titles (15 to 20 titles per year) so as to give a maximum of attention and means to each work and thus optimise their sales potential, both in France and abroad. An ambitious strategy aiming to discover new talent and put French authors back at the top of bestseller lists around the world. In 20 years: 421 titles published, 302 made it on the best-seller lists, 250 have been widely sold abroad.
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Fiction

March 2022

As If a Bird Had Ever Asked For a House

by Marie Malcovati

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Fiction

January 2023

Was ihr nicht seht (What You Don't See)

by Magdalena Saiger

This poetic and philosophical debut is the story about an estrangement and about two unequal men.»What you don‘t see« accompanies an anonymous narrator who is leaving out of the blue, into the open.The existence of the text itself is a paradox, addressing an audience that was never supposed to exist. Writtenin Nowhere, an untraceable old coal mining area close to the highway. This is where the narrator finds anabandoned storage hall. It seems perfect for his plan to build a paper labyrinth that nobody should ever layeyes on. He is driven by anger and fed up with the art industry, he aims for something bigger: a work ofenormous dimensions, so big that it seems doomed to fail. But he is taking up the challenge with a fierceenthusiasm and the knowledge that perfection can only grow and exist in complete futility. Eventually hemeets his counter figure who he calls Giacometti. Giacometti is a rugged old man from the village that hadto give way for the coal mining. He shows resistance against the course of things, keeping the village awakeby telling its story while staring into the emptiness of the mine. The two men keep a close watch, searchingfor each other, but some distance always remains. Both dwell in and around the mine, becoming allies inthe protection of the place against its discovery by outsiders. But the uncertainty if the presence of one willbecome too much for the other stays. This book is the literary exploration of the question how far one goes.

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March 2022

Laborschläfer (Lab Sleeper)

Roman

by Jochen Schimmang

»It’s about the chain of associations that’s going on there. Not the dream remnants, could you pleaseforget Freud for a moment.«Rainer Roloff leads a secluded life. If you asked him about his employment history, he would describe himselfas a private scholar. Structure and routine are added to his life thanks to a long-term study on the influenceof sleep on memory, in which he takes part as a test subject. He regularly travels from Cologne to Düsseldorf,even during a pandemic, to record his thoughts after waking up in the laboratory.Roloff, one year older than the Federal Republic of Germany, is an ideal and productive subject, with anelephant’s memory and an awareness of the connection between the collective unconscious and individualmemory. Doctor Meissner, the director of the study, finds »very felicitous« most of what his test subject tellshim, a mixture of historical and personal memories and playfully absurd still-dream logic. But then thememory of the sleep researcher Dr. Meissner himself gets out of balance...Once again, Jochen Schimmang proves to be a master of a nonchalant melancholy, a subtle chronicler ofhistory of which he is the most sympathetic observer.

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Fiction

March 2021

Krumholz

Roman

by Flavio Steimann

A masterful novel about a girl and her murderer – based on a true story from Switzerland just before the First World War. In May 1914, a young woman was found murdered in a wood near Krumbach, in Switzerland. The murderer, a homeless man living in the woods, was the last person executed by the guillotine in the canton of Lucerne. Inspired by this true case, Flavio Steimann tells the story of Agatha and Zenz: Her mother died while giving birth to Agatha. Her father, grief-stricken, sets his broken-down farm on fire some years later and hangs himself, but only after bringing the deaf child to a safe place in the woods. Agatha‘s world is a silent one, making her an even more careful observer. She grows up in an institution “for the poor and the lunatic”, surrounded by mean nuns, where she learns embroidery and sewing and later finds work in a cloth factory. Her first blooming is put to an end abruptly as Agatha is diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to the countryside for a cure. Every day she goes into the forest with her embroidery frame – until one day, she doesn‘t come back. Zenz also comes from the poorest of backgrounds. Beaten and neglected, he makes a living by lying and stealing from early age. A better life seems within reach as he is taken to artistic circles Paris by a painter friend. But finally he has to turn back to Switzerland, where he lives in the woods, homeless. One day, he sees Agatha there … In his artfully composed novel, Flavio Steimann intertwines the fate of two people who could not escape their destiny.

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September 2022

Tote Winkel (Blind Spots)

Kriminalroman

by Sophie Sumburane

What if your husband was arrested for a rape that he admits to, and the victim looks exactly like you?Valentina is the pub king’s wife, she lives in a neat house with two adorable daughters. Every Wednesday,a young student comes to clean while she posts pretty pictures of her days in the suburbian idyll. What nobodyknows is that she has to count obsessively, disassociates, and forgets what she does or just did. Oneday she gets a call from the police: her husband has raped a woman and admitted to it. The victim is KatjaSziboula. She is a journalist, non-fiction writer; cold, controlled, living in a symbiotic marriage and constructivework relationship with Kay, a linguistic professor from South Africa who teaches in Potsdam. WhenValentina arrives at the police station and the officer shows her a photograph of the victim, Valentina recognizesherself on it, with a blue eye and a bloody lip. Did her husband really just mistake the two women,like she thinks at first? Is Katja her supposedly dead twin whose birth and death certificate she owns? Takingturns, Valentina, Katja and Kay tell a story that pulls the rug off from under your feet: suspenseful, shattering,outrageous.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2022

50 Ways To Leave Your Ehemann (50 Ways to Leave Your Man)

Nautilus Flugschrift

by Jacinta Nandi

How to Leave Your Man: Why it’s so hard for mothers to leave their partnersShe’s finally done it! The „World’s Worst Housewife" has left her partner and moved with her two childreninto her own apartment, or as she puts it: been gentrified away to the outskirts of Berlin. Jacinta Nandi hadalways expected that as a single mom, a whole other host of problems would be awaiting her. The mainproblems are financial: the truth is, it’s really hard for ordinary mothers - with ordinary incomes - to leavetheir partners and set up their own lives.Why does society make it so hard for women to leave men? Could it be that women in general, and mothersin particular, are not expected to be free? And if they do decide to fight for their freedom, they have to paya high price for it.Jacinta Nandi writes about slut-shaming and pity, the pressure to constantly justify yourself and society’spesky double standards. She shows us that it’s not only the violent relationships that are shitty, that beingtold what a great dad your ex is isn’t always helpful and why Isaac Newton was certainly not a single parent.She asks why married women show a lack of solidarity by baking ridiculously good cakes, and what it meansto be a single mom by choice. Why do mothers always have to be perfect while fathers are somehow alwaysgood enough? What has to change in order for mothers to no longer feel forced to stay in relationshipsthat are not serving them? Leave your husband – things can only get better!

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Fiction

March 2021

Restlöcher (Open Pits)

Roman

by Lena Müller

“You can't hold onto love. Just wait until it comes back.” Sando loves the Fox. The Fox, among all people. This young man with the unsettling smile who he met at a demo and who he cannot really get a hold of. But Sando has learned that you can't hold onto love, you have to wait until it comes back. He has learned that from his mother, who decided twenty years ago to leave her social background and to pursue her own goals, to not always be there for others: “The possibility of disappearance is always there. Because we are not just the ones the others want us to be”, she said. And now his sister Mili calls Sando because their mother has left their father – again. Without leaving a note. Sando agrees to embark with Mimi on the search, hoping to escape his lovesickness on the way. Lena Müller‘s first novel is about love and freedom, obligations and longing – and about what is left over.

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Phantombilder. Die Polizei und der verdächtige Fremde (The Police And The Suspicious Stranger)

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by Georgiana Banita

“Phantombilder“ (German for “facial composites” or “identikit sketches”, meaning literally “phantomimages“) is an analysis of police violence and institutional racism from a Cultural Studies viewpoint –and a plea for a constructive debateAfter the assassinations of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the USA, the need for a durable change inthe mentality of the police hat become obvious – worldwide. For Europe, too, the question arises: How toexplain the extent of police violence and police discrimination against people of color? Where to start theurgently needed changes for a new police culture?In her essay, Georgiana Banita shows: The powerful image of the “stranger” has always been a target andeven the ideological foundation of Western police apparatus. The narrative of the suspicious, potentiallydangerous “stranger” was at he origin and still is the backdrop of a general police suspicion against peoplewith a migration background, black people and people of color.In the USA, for example, the police introduced lethal firearms only after the abolition of slavery in order todiscipline freed slaves, and Europe also militarized its police force as a result of migration from rural and colonialareas to the industrial centers. Banita‘s analysis on the use of firearms, racial profiling, computer searchesand AI-supported crime prognoses, on deportation, border protection and infection protectionshows: The logic and practices of police control architectures cannot be imagined without the idea of a necessarydefense from the (supposed) foreigner.“Phantombilder” unfolds a cultural history of police suspicion and creates the basis for a constructive debatethat we urgently need.

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Social issues & processes

November 2020

Vergewaltigung. Aspekte eines Verbrechens (Rape. Aspects of a Crime)

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by Mithu M. Sanyal

Why do we speak and think about rape in the way that we do? Cultural critic MithuSanyal has written the first comprehensive analysis of the crime that shapes society'sattitudes towards gender, race and vulnerability.What exactly is rape culture? Why do we expect victims to be irreparably damaged? Whyis it so hard to think of men as victims of rape?

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September 2021

Kulturelle Aneignung (Cultural Appropriation)

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by Lars Distelhorst

What are we talking about when we discuss cultural appropriation? Yes, there have always been adoptions and appropriations of techniques, skills, motives etc. in arts and culture throughout history. We learn from each other, of course. That is not the point, though. Cultural exchange is not the same as cultural appropriation. Lars Distelhorst – from a white male perspective and knowingly so – writes about a subject that is as omnipresent as it is inadequately theorised, and with an extraordinary potential to polarise as well. Ethnic party-costumes or dreadlocks, white soul music or yoga – are those cultural appropriations? Discussions tend to escalate quickly here. Distelhorst demonstrates how the macro and micro level of cultural appropriation are connected. He discusses various definitions of the term, including the alleged assumption of essentialist cultural concepts. He analyses three dimensions of cultural appropriation: looted art and artefacts from colonised people, the unasked-for representation of other cultures, and the consumption of culture as commodity. Finally, Distelhorst relates cultural appropriation to anti-racist and anti-capitalist perspectives to use it in fighting against persisting systems of power and domination.

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September 2021

Für einen Umweltschutz der 99% (Environmentalism of the 99 Percent)

Nautilus Flugschrift

by Milo Probst

An exploration into history that points towards a future of climate justice. The imminent climate and environmental crisis is the result of historically grown and thus overturnable social conditions. Milo Probst takes the reader on a tour of emancipatory battles of the 19th and early 20th century, to show just what is possible – there is always an alternative. He shows connections and roots from the past from which something new can grow: Probst thus rediscovers Pierre Quiroule, an anarchist activist and author who, in the early 20th century of Buenos Aires, committed himself to a broader understanding of solidarity not only among humans, but including nature. He rediscovers a British socialist, Edward Carpenter, who tried to motivate workers to fight against air pollution in the 1890s, or again a Cuban independence fighter, anarchist and feminist Louise Michel and many others. Their stories show that real humanity is possible – in joint battles, in real solidarity and by breaking up with a system of methodical dehumanisation. Environmentalism of the 99 percent is a reinvention of anti-capitalist traditions. It definitely is anti-racist, feminist and decolonizing, internationalist and a class struggle. All of us who are exploited, discriminated against and excluded by the current system need to unite in understanding that climate justice and environmentalism are genuinely social questions.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2020

SPRITZEN. Geschichte der weiblichen Ejakulation (Squirting. A History of Female Ejaculation)

Nautilus Flugschrift

by Stephanie Haerdle

Do women squirt when they come? Yes, they do, there is lots of evidence!But female ejaculation is still controversial, even today. For some it is a myth, for the other everyday sexuallife, and it seems to depend very much on your political position whether you are willing to believe or not.What do we as a society really know about this aspect of female lust, what is common anatomic knowledgeand why are so many details still unknown?The search for traces and evidence of ejaculation of women leads well into pre-Christian times and aroundthe globe. And the finds are surprising: For thousands of years, ejaculation was a natural part of sexualexperience for both men and women. Only in Europe, in the 19th century, female ejaculation was beingridiculed, fought, ousted, tabooed, and finally largely forgotten – until it was rediscovered in the 20th century.“Spritzen” is a well-read and entertaining display of how female ejaculation was understood and judged,how certain concepts of female sexuality and female body made the perception of female ejaculationpossible, or impossible, or exploited in mainstream porn business, when female squirting cumshots werediscovered as a source of income rather than pleasure.Recently, a lot of new publications on vulva, vagina or menstruation appear, showing a renewed interest inthe female body. A current and well-founded inventory of female ejaculation is not among them.Stephanie Haerdle closes this gap. Her book aims to entertain, surprise, provide arguments and inform. Itexplains the »hardware« that makes female ejaculation possible (clitoral complex and female prostate), itexplores anatomy, gynecology and urology.

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