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The Woman Before

by Roland Schimmelpfennig ...

Translated by David Tushingham ...

Series series Oberon Modern Plays
‘You swore that you’d love me for ever’ Frank doesn’t recognise the woman at the door. She’s come to remind him of a promise he made twenty years before. A darkly humorous study of modern relationships and the things we say that may come back to haunt us. T**he Woman Before opened at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2005. ... Read more

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‘You swore that you’d love me for ever’ Frank doesn’t recognise the woman at the door. She’s come to remind him of a promise he made twenty years before. A darkly humorous study of modern relationships and the things we say that may come back to haunt us. T**he Woman Before opened at the Royal Court Theatre in May 2005.
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Dea Loher: Three Plays

by Dea Loher ...

Translated by David Tushingham ...

Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today.This volume brings together three of her plays to be performed in English.Olga’s RoomCommunist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga Benario’s story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow prisoners she struggles to hold onto her disintegrating sense of self. Based on real events of the 1930s-40s, ... Read more

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Dea Loher is one of the most powerful and individual voices in German theatre today.This volume brings together three of her plays to be performed in English.Olga’s RoomCommunist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga Benario’s story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow prisoners she struggles to hold onto her disintegrating sense of self. Based on real events of the 1930s-40s,
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Winter Solstice

by Roland Schimmelpfennig ...

Translated by David Tushingham ...

Series series Oberon Modern Plays
Christmas Eve.Bettina and her husband Albert aren’t happy.Bettina’s mother is staying for the holidays.Which is awkward.Not least because Bettina’s mother met a man on the train.And now she’s invited him around for drinks...Family, betrayal and the inescapable presence of the past reverberate through the UK premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s razor-sharp comedy. ... Read more

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Christmas Eve.Bettina and her husband Albert aren’t happy.Bettina’s mother is staying for the holidays.Which is awkward.Not least because Bettina’s mother met a man on the train.And now she’s invited him around for drinks...Family, betrayal and the inescapable presence of the past reverberate through the UK premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s razor-sharp comedy.
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Schimmelpfennig: Plays One

The Animal Kingdom; Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God; Idomeneus; The Four Points of the Compass

by Roland Schimmelpfennig ...

Translated by David Tushingham ...

Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright. This collection demonstrates the breadth and formal innovation of his writing.The Animal Kingdom depicts the unremitting battle for human survival in a merciless environment: the theatre.Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of Godhas been likened to a post-colonial Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Here two doctors who have returned ... Read more

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Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright. This collection demonstrates the breadth and formal innovation of his writing.The Animal Kingdom depicts the unremitting battle for human survival in a merciless environment: the theatre.Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of Godhas been likened to a post-colonial Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Here two doctors who have returned
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Stasi State

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by David Young ...

Series Book 3 - The Oberleutnant Karin Müller series
A gripping thriller set in 1970s East Germany, perfect for fans of Child 44, Phillip Kerr and Martin Cruz Smith.FOR THE STASI, IT'S NOT JUST THE TRUTH THAT GETS BURIED . . .The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate. But her power will only stretch so far, when every move she makes is under the ... Read more

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A gripping thriller set in 1970s East Germany, perfect for fans of Child 44, Phillip Kerr and Martin Cruz Smith.FOR THE STASI, IT'S NOT JUST THE TRUTH THAT GETS BURIED . . .The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate. But her power will only stretch so far, when every move she makes is under the
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Seat 7a

by Sebastian Fitzek ...

Translated by Steve Anderson ...

Watch THE CALENDAR KILLER on Amazon Prime now - a gripping adaptation of Sebastian Fitzek's bestselling novel WALK ME HOME.Germany's king of the thriller takes to the skies with a terrifying and twisted new novel.You know your fear is irrational, you've checked the statistics. Flying is safer than driving – nineteen times safer. Irrational, perhaps. But you're not wrong.Mats Krüger is terrified of ... Read more

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Watch THE CALENDAR KILLER on Amazon Prime now - a gripping adaptation of Sebastian Fitzek's bestselling novel WALK ME HOME.Germany's king of the thriller takes to the skies with a terrifying and twisted new novel.You know your fear is irrational, you've checked the statistics. Flying is safer than driving – nineteen times safer. Irrational, perhaps. But you're not wrong.Mats Krüger is terrified of
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Blue Night

by Simone Buchholz ...

Translated by Rachel Ward ...

Series Book 1 - Chastity Riley
Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley has been side-lined to prevent her from causing trouble, but her new job turns out to be far from dull when she finds herself involved in taking down an Albanian mafia kingpin. First in an addictive, wildly original series from the Queen of Krimi…'Stripped back in style and deadpan in voice, Blue Night is a scintillating romp around the German criminal ... Read more

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Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley has been side-lined to prevent her from causing trouble, but her new job turns out to be far from dull when she finds herself involved in taking down an Albanian mafia kingpin. First in an addictive, wildly original series from the Queen of Krimi…'Stripped back in style and deadpan in voice, Blue Night is a scintillating romp around the German criminal
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Brandenburg Gate

by Henry Porter ...

As East Germany collapses, a former Stasi agent is caught in the crossfire of international espionage in this "tour de force on par with John le Carré" ( Library Journal, starred review).Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger AwardSeptember 1989. In the tense final days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Communist government is on the brink of collapse. Even the Stasi, once a ... Read more

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As East Germany collapses, a former Stasi agent is caught in the crossfire of international espionage in this "tour de force on par with John le Carré" ( Library Journal, starred review).Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger AwardSeptember 1989. In the tense final days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Communist government is on the brink of collapse. Even the Stasi, once a
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Marzahn, Mon Amour

by Katja Oskamp ...

Translated by Jo Heinrich ...

A woman approaching the 'invisible years' of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the East Berlin suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR's largest prefabricated housing estate. From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she observes her clients and co-workers, listening to their stories with empathy and curiosity. Part memoir, part collective ... Read more

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A woman approaching the 'invisible years' of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the East Berlin suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR's largest prefabricated housing estate. From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she observes her clients and co-workers, listening to their stories with empathy and curiosity. Part memoir, part collective
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Best European Fiction 2013

by John Banville ...

Series series Best European Fiction
2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing! ... Read more

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2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing!
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Stories from Small Town Europe

by Ingo Schulze, Olga Tokarczuk, Mirja Unge ...

Featuring:Gyrdir Eliasson (Iceland) - Frode Grytten (Norway) - Micheal O Conghaile (Ireland) - Danielle Picard (France) - Mehmet Zaman Saclioglu (Turkey) - Ingo Schulze (Germany) - Roman Simic (Croatia) - Jean Sprackland (England) - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) - Mirja Unge (Sweden) What do we mean by small town? How has this innocuous term – one up from ‘village’, a couple down from ‘city’ – come to ... Read more

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Featuring:Gyrdir Eliasson (Iceland) - Frode Grytten (Norway) - Micheal O Conghaile (Ireland) - Danielle Picard (France) - Mehmet Zaman Saclioglu (Turkey) - Ingo Schulze (Germany) - Roman Simic (Croatia) - Jean Sprackland (England) - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) - Mirja Unge (Sweden) What do we mean by small town? How has this innocuous term – one up from ‘village’, a couple down from ‘city’ – come to
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Best European Fiction 2011

by Colum McCann ...

Series series Best European Fiction
The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print and online magazines such as the Believer, Bookslut, Paste, and the Huffington Post; radio interviews wi... ... Read more

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The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print and online magazines such as the Believer, Bookslut, Paste, and the Huffington Post; radio interviews wi...
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