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25.5.2025

Happy Towel Day!

Towel Day is celebrated every year on May 25th as a tribute to the author Douglas Adams by his fans.
30.10.2024

Written Portraits

Written Portraits is a participative performance based on improvisation where, as painters do, Adrián Dozetas portrays a person improvising a poem with his typewriter and the person gets the poem in paper as a present.
24.10.2024

Miniatures

Author Günther Kaip and translator Matthias Goldmann will be present and read Miniatures both in German & English. Texts with a special swing and groove that arises in the balance between prose and poetry.
1.9.2024

Endless Mission III

Mehrdad Shamoradi Mofrad will present the third part of the Espionage trilogy Endless Mission.
11.8.2024

Wittgenstein Symposium

Philosophy is not a Theory but an Activity.
9.8.2024

Ellantir

Ellantir is a mystical world where humans coexist with tribal fehrokee, magical elluviae, mechanical vekwne, and fierce gargoyles.
28.6.2024

Soul-Soothing Poetry

Oftentimes, the wounds of the world weigh heavily on the mind - this poetry ensemble depicts it perfectly.
24.6.2024

The Membranes

The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese, first published in Taiwan in 1995.
6.6.2024

Waters

Sara Wolfberger will read from her debut poetry anthology, Waters.
31.5.2024

Death of a Boxer

Death of a Boxer is not one story, but a series of boxing stories.
17.5.2024

Death in the Ozarks

A cross between Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and a Cheers bartender, Sally Witherspoon, a 50-something accountant turned biker-bar owner, loves solving puzzles.
4.4.2024

Words through Walls

Words through Walls, accompanied by live music, will be read from by the author, Evelyn Holloway.
13.3.2024

Playing for Time: Guido Schmidt and the Struggle for Austria

Author Richard Bassett will present his new book, Playing for Time: Guido Schmidt and the Struggle for Austria
8.3.2024

Too mad to live. Too Mad to die.

100% hunterstyle - 100% Mad.

Martyr!

Known for his poetry, the Iranian-American author Kaveh Akbar releases his debut novel.

Blue Sisters

Dogs and Monsters

Mixing Greek myths with dystopia, this collection of short stories is a wild ride.

The Alaska Sanders Affair

After a decade, Joël Dicker released a sequel to his novel The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, originally published in French.

The Life Impossible

After bestsellers in both fiction and non-fiction, Matt Haig is back with a fiction novel.

Butcher

It is historical fiction at its finest about harmful experimentations on women in the 1850s.

Same As It Ever Was

Reaching mid-life and suddendly a lot of changes arise: how to deal with this?

All Fours

What would happen if one just seized the moment?

Her Side of the Story

A novel on what it is like to be a woman under fascist Italy, as the main character tries to figure out who they are.

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

After Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, this sequel had been long awaited.

If This Is A Man

If This Is A Man, originally Se questo è un uomo in Italian, is a World War II memoire writen by the Jewish Italian Primo Levi, released in 1947.
Red Side Story

Red Side Story

15 years after releasing Shades of Grey back in 2009, Jasper Fforde released the long awaited follow-up.

The Secret History

Published in 1992, The Secret History is the first novel by the American author Donna Tartt

The Neverending Story

The Neverending Story, originally Die unendliche Geschichte in German, is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende published in 1979.

A Gentleman in Moscow

Five years after publishing his New York Times besteller Rules of Civility, Amor Towles published his novel A Gentleman in Moscow in 2016.