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Berlin, September 1872. Still sitzt sie am Kamin, die Beine übereinander geschlagen, den Blick konzentriert auf ihn gerichtet. Ihr Ruhm hallt durch ganz Europa, doch ihr deutscher Verleger Max Duncker steht ihr zum ersten Mal gegenüber: der gefeierten Autorin, die die Welt als George Eliot kennt. Der rätselhaften Sibylle, die als zu anstößig gilt, um bei respektablen Familien geladen zu werden, und von der doch jedes Wort verschlungen wird. Max mit seinem Hang zum Spiel und zu schönen Frauen ist von seinem Bruder angesetzt, die große Dame zu umgarnen und die Rechte an ihrem neuen Werk zu sichern. Zudem soll er sich mit der Gräfin Sophie von Hahn verloben, Tochter aus vermögendem Hause und glühende Verehrerin der Eliot. Als Sophie auf ein Treffen mit der bewunderten Autorin dringt, das Max ihr jedoch entschieden verwehrt, entspinnt sich ein wahres Dramolett der Eifersucht. Wie in ihrem großen Erfolg »Die Germanistin« beschreibt Patricia Duncker ein obsessives Verhältnis zwischen Autorin und Leserin, erzählt von Begehren und Verfehlung. Ein rachsüchtiges kleines Spiel, hintertrieben von Liebe.

Berlin, September 1872. The Duncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business in the city. Clever, irresponsible Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as the older, wiser, Wolfgang is of making a profit. When Max's bad habits get out of hand, Wolfgang sends him to the Spa town of Homburg, to dance attendance upon a celebrity author - the enigmatic Sibyl, also known as George Eliot. As enthralling and intelligent as her books, she soon has Max bewitched. Yet Wolfgang has an ulterior motive: for his brother to consider Sophie von Hahn, daughter of a wealthy family friend, as a potential wife. At first, Max is lured by Sophie's beauty and his affectionate memories of their shared childhood. But Sophie proves to be nothing like the vision of angelic domesticity Max was expecting. Mischievous, wilful and daring, Sophie gambles recklessly and rides horses like a man. Both women have Max in thrall - one with her youth and passion, the other with her wisdom and fierce intelligence. Out of his depth, Max finds himself precariously balanced between Sophie and the Sibyl. What's more, Sophie worships the great novelist of questionable morals - and is determined to meet her. A compelling Victorian novel and a playful meditation on the creation of literature, Sophie and the Sibyl balances a tale of courtship and seduction with a fascinating, lively imagining of the writer George Eliot at the end of her boldly unconventional life, and the height of her fame

Toby Hawk, a solitary boy in an Amazon family, leads a mundane life focused on school and online activities. His world shifts dramatically when his mother becomes involved with a captivating yet mysterious scientist named Roehm.

The thrilling tale of a secret suicide sect and the musical mastermind at its center. Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger, the Best Crime Novel of the Year

Die schöne Sem fühlt sich von einem unsichtbaren Mann beobachtet, was Erinnerungen an den Mord an ihrer besten Freundin weckt. Trotz der Gefahr lässt sie sich auf ein erotisches Spiel zwischen Voyeurismus und Exhibitionismus ein. Eine Sammlung geheimnisvoller Geschichten, die Spannung erzeugt.

An intricate and self-reflective novel about that most delicate of relationships--meaning the one between writers and readers. The narrator, an anonymous graduate student, sets off on the trail of a French novelist named Paul Michel, who is currently confined to an asylum. Engineering his hero's release, the narrator finds himself enmeshed in a bizarre love triangle, of which the three vertices are himself, the novelist, and the late Michel Foucault. Sex, it seems, can be made safe, but the oddball intimacy of reading cannot.

Elizabeth Webster is a sixty-nine year old retired school teacher. She is a tough, old bird- spiky, cynical and adamantly independent; a woman who has never married, has no friends and lost touch with all her family. In Little Blessington, the village she lives in, the Miss Marple-like figure is regarded as something of a local oddity. Then one day a beautiful young Moroccan knocks at her door. Cherif's mother befriended Miss Webster on her holiday to Morocco and now the young man is here to begin university in the town nearby. Before she knows it, Miss Webster finds herself with an unexpected lodger. The two could not be more different- the gentle, shy, well mannered young man, bewildered by this strange, new world; and the sharp-tongued old spinster who guides him through its maze. Yet little by little, they become friends. But the villagers of Little Blessington are suspicious. Cherif is too handsome, too young and he's Arab. No good can come of this.

Die Geschichte folgt einer Frau, die im 19. Jahrhundert als Mann Karriere macht. Drei Männer ermöglichen ihr, als James Miranda Barry Medizin zu studieren. Sie führt ein abenteuerliches Leben, das die Gesellschaft der Zeit beleuchtet, während nur die Schauspielerin Alice Jones ihr Geheimnis kennt.