Archives de catégorie : Frankfurt 2026 Adult Fiction

MUSAFIR CAFÉ de Divya Prakash Dubey

What happens when two people determined not to fall in love keep finding reasons to stay? The phenomenal Hindi bestseller now in English.

MUSAFIR CAFÉ
by Divya Prakash Dubey
HarperCollins India, 2016/September 2026

In the bustling heart of Mumbai, Chandar and Sudha meet across a coffee-house table—two strangers bound by parental pressure, mutual reluctance and an unexpected honesty that cuts through every social pretense.

She’s a divorce lawyer who knows exactly how love ends. He’s a software engineer who doesn’t know what he wants from life. Neither wants marriage. Neither expects this.

From staged matrimonial disasters to tearfilled evenings at Prithvi Theatre, from seaside confessions to late-night messages left unsent, their story unfolds in stolen conversations and eloquent silences—the kind that change everything.

Now a major Netflix series, Musafir Café is a tender, witty and deeply human exploration of modern relationships, self-discovery and the terrifying beauty of connection.

Divya Prakash Dubey is known for his contemporary Hindi writing and has authored other books like October Junction and Masala Chai. His works are appreciated for their simplicity and emotional depth.

THE RABBIT HOUR de Sofija Stefanovic

A brilliant debut novel—part propulsive thriller, part pitch-perfect comic romp—that explores surprising tensions at the heart of the immigrant experience, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt.

THE RABBIT HOUR
by Sofija Stefanovic
HarperVia, June 2027

When the Andric family goes on a weekend away, 19-year-old Maja’s rich boyfriend goes missing. Something foul seems afoot. Is Oggie, her volatile war veteran brother to blame? Will the local cop find out—if he can break away from the hilarious affair he’s having with Oggie’s Aunt Vera? Will Jelena, Oggie’s mother, take the blame—all in the name of protecting her beloved son? Or will the family band together to cover up the crime, because blood is thick, especially when you’re an outsider?

Told in four rotating perspectives over the course of one weekend, Things We Do for Love follows a group of characters inextricably bound by family, conspiracy, desire, and first-generation dreams—who may or may not have stumbled into a murder plot. As absurdly charismatic as it is profoundly resonant, this is a true American novel for our times that introduces Sofija Stefanovic as an intoxicating, extravagant new voice in upmarket and literary thrillers.

Sofija Stefanovic is the creator and host of This Alien Nation, a program that celebrates immigration, and the author of the memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia. She’s a regular storyteller with The Moth, and has traveled with their Mainstage, telling personal stories across the country. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and other outlets. She lives in New York City.

THE ACTIVE GIN SOCIETY de Kathleen Flinn

An American woman inherits a flat in London, unaware that behind its walls lies the legacy of a notorious secret society whose shadow still falls across modern London.

THE ACTIVE GIN SOCIETY
by Kathleen Flinn
Crown, October 2027

After the sudden death of her father, American food writer Marnie Wells travels to London to settle his estate, expecting only a brief stay in the Covent Garden flat he left behind. Instead, she discovers hidden passageways, cryptic journals, and evidence that her home may once have belonged to a centuries-old secret society whose deadly secrets have remained buried beneath the city for generations.

Following the trail her father left behind, Marnie joins forces with Jameson Quinn, a charismatic historian researching London’s notorious gin craze and the clandestine organizations rumored to have shaped Britain’s past. As anonymous threats mount and strangers begin watching her every move, they uncover a conspiracy stretching from Georgian London to the present day, forcing Marnie to confront the possibility that her father’s death was no accident.

Rich in history, food, and atmosphere, and inspired by the real legends and secret societies of Georgian London, THE ACTIVE GIN SOCIETY is infused with folklore and magical intrigue, bringing centuries of hidden mystery into the present day.

Kathleen Flinn is an author, journalist, French-trained chef, and television producer. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. The book is in development with Fox Entertainment Studios and Fox Network as a streaming series, under the direction of Gordon Ramsay as his first venture into scripted television. Her acclaimed follow-up, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School, was named 2012 Book of the Year by the American Society of Journalists & Authors.

DIE BOTANIKERIN de Corina Bomann

A dual-timeline story of lost love, botanical discovery and a mysterious disappearance, following a London woman who becomes obsessed with the love letters of two botanists who traveled to Tibet in the early 20th century, by German bestselling author Corina Bomann.

DIE BOTANIKERIN
[The Botanis]
by Corina Bomann
Penguin Germany, May 2027

Photo credit: Nadja Klier

After Cleo was left at the altar by the love of her life, her days have been passing by without purpose. How on earth is she supposed to go on? Even her job at the historic London Lost and Found Office barely distracts her—until one day she opens an old suitcase and finds a Tibetan prayer flag along with some letters.

Out of curiosity, Cleo begins to read and is drawn into the story of Richard and Rosa—two botanists who traveled to Tibet at the beginning of the 20th century to research a rare species of rhododendron. Initially bitter rivals, their letters soon reveal a deep love. Until contact abruptly ceases.

Cleo can’t stop thinking about the love letters, and she wonders what dramatic end the relationship between Richard and Rosa met. She begins to research, delving into the history of the first female botanists, and has no idea that Richard and Rosa’s love will give her own life a new twist …

With sales totalling over two million copies, Corina Bomann‘s popular historical sagas are regular bestsellers, and her readers adore her strong women, passionate emotions and moving stories – such as her four-book Waldfriede saga set in a Berlin clinic, the two-part Rosenhag series set in Sweden, and now her new two-part Rosewell Castle series, which takes her readers into the fascinating world of butlerdom.

THE HEAVY de Shawn Martinbrough

In this contemporary noir thriller written and illustrated by Shawn Martinbrough, a hardboiled debt collector confronts the ghosts from his past while contemplating his future on the streets of New York City.

THE HEAVY
by Shawn Martinbrough
Abrams ComicArts, April 2027

In THE HEAVY, author and illustrator Shawn Martinbrough tells the hard-hitting story of Charles “Dukes” Duchamp, a New York based debt collector with a love for jazz and a loss that has haunted him for years. Each week, Dukes makes his rounds collecting money for Basil-Leon Panassie, an eccentric club owner with criminal ties in New York and abroad.

When Basil announces a change in business and a night’s worth of collections goes missing, Dukes pursues a vicious, former colleague who escapes to Paris. Although the City of Light holds dark memories for him, Dukes has never let a debt go uncollected, and in order to set things right, he must face his fears and retrieve what has been taken.

THE HEAVY is an original, contemporary noir themed graphic novel about rivals, revenge, and redemption.

Shawn Martinbrough is an Eisner Award nominated artist whose comic book projects include; Batman: Detective Comics, Luke Cage Noir, The Black Panther, Hellboy, Promethee 13:13, Anansi Boys and the NAACP Image Award nominated, bestselling kid’s book, Like Lava in My Veins published by Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Kids. He is the writer of Red Hood: The Hill for DC Comics, co-author of Judge Kim and the Kids’ Court for Simon & Schuster and is currently writing and illustrating original graphic novels for Ignition Press, Image Comics and First Second/ 23rd Street Books. Shawn has lectured about his career at Walt Disney Animation, Lockheed Martin, The Pentagon, Peterson Space Force Base, TEDx Mid Atlantic, The International Spy Museum, The California African American Museum, The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Society of Illustrators, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, Columbia University, Savannah College of Art & Design, The University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Temple University. He is also a Vanity Fair contributor, an art curator and currently draws / writes in Washington, D.C.