Die schützende Hand by Wolfgang Schorlau

Then, sixty years later, her niece, Anne, suddenly appears at her front door. But for the whole of her life Vera has never felt at home in the big, chilly house, yet she cannot bring herself to abandon it.

Read the full list here (in German) and see below for more info about some of the books on the list.Īltes Land ( Old Land) by Dörte Hansen (Knaus Verlag / Random House)įrom the publisher: “Five-year-old Vera has fled from East Prussia to the North German region Old Country with her mother in 1945. Steidel Verlag had bestseller success with On Finiteness ( Vonne Endlichkait), the last book written by Günter Grass. Independent publisher Mattes & Seitz made the list with Frank Witzel’s German Book Prize-winner, The Invention of the Red Army Faction ( Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion). Diogenes led the independent pack with eight fiction bestsellers in 2015, including Montecristo by crime writer Martin Suter. Without a major bestseller dominating sales, independent publishers made plenty of appearances on the fiction bestseller list in 2015. Other titles from K&W on the list include The Protecting Hand ( Die schützende Hand) by Wolfgang Schorlau and Concert Without a Poet ( Konzert ohne Dichter) by Klaus Modick.

Publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch, part of the Holtzbrinck Group, had the most books on the fiction bestseller list this year (10 titles), led by Jean-Luc Bannalec’s crime novel Breton Pride ( Bretonischer Stolz) which sold around 350,000 copies and took sixth place on the overall fiction bestseller list.

Michel Houellebecq: Unterwerfung (DuMont).

Paula Hawkins: Girl on the Train – Du kennst sie nicht, aber sie kennt dich.

Jojo Moyes: Ein ganz neues Leben (Wunderlich).

Jeff Kinney: Gregs Tagebuch 10 – So ein Mist! (Baumhaus Medien).

Of the top five bestselling novels of 2015 in Germany, just one was originally written in German (13 of the top 25 bestsellers were translations): Using data from market research company GfK Entertainment, The Boersenblatt was able to take a closer look at the diverse list of top books and publishers of the year. While there was no single title that outpaced all others on the bestseller lists this year, the Boersenblatt points out that this left room for more titles to shine.

The bestselling novel originally written in German was Old Land ( Altes Land) by Dörte Hansen. The bestselling work of fiction in Germany in 2015 was Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 10, according to a comprehensive look at the bestselling novels in Germany in 2015 published by The Boersenblatt trade magazine. The bestselling novels in Germany in 2015 were diverse, from children’s to crime, new voices to established authors, with plenty of translations in the mix.

Die schützende Hand by Wolfgang Schorlau