OUR BOOKS
By V&Q Books
By V&Q Books
Our first ten books, lovingly brought to you from Berlin.
Daughters
Lucy Fricke
£12.99 £12.08A road novel about two women with difficult dads, translated by Sinéad Crowe
Paula
Sandra Hoffmann
£12.99 £12.08Beautiful autofiction examining the writer's relationship with her grandmother, translated by Katy Derbyshire
Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner
Francis Nenik
£12.99 £12.08The strange-but-true story of a German communist bookseller-turned-writer, translated by Katy Derbyshire
The Peacock
ISABEL BOGDAN
£12.99 £12.08A Scottish comedy of errors featuring a peacock gone rogue, a group of investment bankers, a Laird and Lady, a housekeeper with a broken arm and an ingenious personal chef. Translated by Annie Rutherford.
The Blacksmith's Daughter
Selim OEzdogan
£12.99 £12.08Part one of the Anatolian Blues trilogy, telling the beautiful and melancholy life story of Gül, who grows up in rural 1950s Turkey and moves to Germany to join the ranks of migrant labour that built the country. Translated by Ayça Türkoğlu and Katy Derbyshire.
Madgermanes
Birgit Weyhe
£14.99 £13.94Madgermanes is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. In this beautiful graphic novel, Birgit Weyhe depicts their search for belonging and a place to call home. Translated by Katy Derbyshire.
The Bureau of Past Management
Iris Hanika
£12.99 £12.08In this darkly humorous experimental novel, Iris Hanika shows how the crimes of the Nazi era hold the Germans in their clutches to this day. Beautifully translated by Abigail Wender.
Love Novel
Ivana Sajko
£9.99 £9.29Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us into a war between kitchen and bedroom, brilliantly translated from Croatian by Mima Simić.
52 Factory Lane: Books two of the Anatolian Blues trilogy
Selim OEzdogan
£12.99 £12.08Part two of the Anatolian Blues trilogy, as Gül forges a life for her family far away from Turkey. Translated by Ayça Türkoğlu and Katy Derbyshire.
Putin's Postbox
Marcel Beyer
£12.99 £12.08Eight essays on literature, art, language, Europe and life from one of Germany's most revered living writers.