Dora Heldt

Jamie Lee Searle

If you're nearing forty and your husband suddenly dumps you after ten years of marriage, and he has the gall to do it over the phone, it's bound to come as a blow. How ever will Christine get used to being on her own? She has to develop a whole new rhythm to her life, and boost her tattered self-confidence as she starts life afresh.

Life After Forty

To Christine, her Aunt Inge and Uncle Walter are reliable fixtures in the family, dependable and destined to be together forever. So when she spies Inge in the company of a man who is most certainly not her husband, life as Christine knows it takes a turn for the unexpected. Suddenly, what began as a blissful vacation with her gorgeous boyfriend on her native island of Sylt has morphed into a family drama of epic proportions -- and a rude wake-up call for Christine.

Tidal Shift

When recently divorced Christine despairs over her 44th birthday, her best friend and sister take on the enormous task of gathering Chrstine's friends from throughout her life for one big surpise party that will show the birthday girl just how much she is loved. Original.

Inseparable

Shaun Whiteside

Florian Illies

A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever.The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence.Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes.

The Year Before the Storm

1913

Thirty years have passed since Christine and her father Heinz had a disasterous vacation together, when her father left her at a gas station to teach her a lesson. But now Christine's mother is insisting that Christine and her best friend, Dorothea, take Heinz along on a relaxing girls' trip to the beach. Will this vacation also be a disaster? Or will Christine realize that she many not be too grown up to need her father?

Jamie Lee Searle

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