Nina George Popular Books
Nina George Biography & Facts
Nina George (born 30 August 1973) is a German writer, best known as the author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an international bestseller that has been translated into more than 28 languages as of 2015, and sold in more than 500.000 copies. She has published 26 books (novels, mysteries and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns. George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist and managing editor for a wide range of publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der Hamburger, as well as TV Movie and Federwelt. George writes also under three pen names. She writes non-fiction about issues of love, sexuality and eroticism, under the pseudonym Anne West. Under her married name Nina Kramer she wrote a thriller in 2008. She also wrote detective novels with her husband and co-writer Jo Kramer, their pseudonym being Jean Bagnol. In 2012 and 2013 she won the DeLiA and the Glauser Prize. Her first bestselling novel was The Little Paris Bookshop (first published in German as Das Lavendelzimmer on May 2, 2013). She moved to Concarneau in France, where she now lives with her husband Jo Kramer. George is a member of the administrative board of the Collective Management Organisation VG Wort. She is chairwoman of the VG-Wort ‘e-Book’ working group. Life and work Nina George was born in Bielefeld. She dropped out of school before finishing high school and worked in various catering establishments from the age of fourteen. She began in 1993 writing as a freelance journalist and columnist for magazines like Cosmopolitan, Penthouse, TV Movie, and Frau im Trend. In 1997, she wrote the book Good girls do it in bed, bad ones everywhere under the pseudonym Anne West. She lived in Hamburg. In 2008, she appeared under the name Nina Kramer in 'Thriller A Life Without Me' about women's reproductive health. George is Member to PEN, Das Syndikat (association of German-language crime writers), the Association of German Authors (VS), the Hamburg Authors’ Association (HAV), BücherFrauen (Women in Publishing), the IACW/AIEP (International Association of Crime Writers), the GEDOK (Association of female artists in Germany), PRO QUOTE and Lean In. Nina George sits on the board of the Three Seas Writers’ and Translators’ Council (TSWTC), whose members come from 16 different countries. In 2014, she delivered the keynote address in Berlin at the German Writer’s Conference to 140 attending writers. Nina George teaches writing at Literaturbüro Unna, Alsterdamm Kunstschule, Wilhelmsburger Honigfabrik, where she coaches young people, adults and professional authors. After her father's death, she wrote semi-autobiographical novel The Little Paris Bookshop, which talks about bibliotherapy, the fear of death and how this fear holds us back from living life to the fullest, the mourning process, and travel on river boat from Paris in the Canal latéral à la Loire, via Literary Sanary, to the south of Provence. There are meta-literary references to many famous literary works and authors in her novel, including Erich Kästner's idea of a list of books as remedies for different afflictions. At the end there's an appendix where she offers an alphabetical list of books and what she recommends them for, starting with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. She finds inspiration for writing in reading Jon Kalman Stefansson, Anna Gavalda, Dominique Manotti, Erica Jong, and Dorothea Brande. Works Books as Nina George 2019 The Book of Dreams, a novel 2017 The Little Breton Bistro, a novel 2013 The Little Paris Bookshop, a novel, Crown, ISBN 9780553418774 2010 The Moon Player, Knaur, ISBN 3-426-66336-8 - awarded the Delia 2011 - literary prize for the best German romance of the previous year by the Friends of German romance literature 2008 How the Hell, Fischer, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-596-17435-X . 2005 The Vocabulary of Men, Lappan, ISBN 3-8303-3123-1 . 2003 The Way of the Warrior, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-27309-8 . 2003 Jack, Queen, Checked, Death, Hamburger Abendblatt, ISBN 3-921305-12-8 . 2001 No Sex, No Beer and Lots of Dead, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-61844-3 .Books as Anne West 2009 What Women Dream and How To Get It, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-78338-X 2009 Sex for advanced skiers, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-78222-7 2009 Feeling - the feeling, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-78023-2 2009 Absolute Sex, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-78236-7 2007 Sex Goddesses Manual, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-77953-6 2006 One Day Sex, Knaur, ISBN 3-426-64448-7 2006 The Venus Effect, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-77900-5 2005 First Aid For Those in Love, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-77764-9 2004 Dirty Stories, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-62672-1 2003 Kamasutra Without Hernia, as co-author. Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-62288-2 2003 Why Men Are So Quick and Women Just Pretend, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-62468-0 1998 Good Girls Do It in Bed - Bad Ones Everywhere, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-60930-4Books as Jean Bagnol Commissaire Mazan and the blind angel, Droemer Knaur, 2015 ISBN 978-3426516539 Commissaire Mazan and the heirs of the Marquis, Droemer Knaur, 2013 ISBN 978-3426514238References External links Official website of Nina George Interview with Nina George. Discover the Nina George popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Nina George books.
Best Seller Nina George Books of 2024
-
Goodbye, Paris
Anstey HarrisInternational Bestseller A Book of the Month Club PickThe Little Paris Bookshop meets Jojo Moyes in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have ...
-
The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina GeorgeMonsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own? Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in ...
-
The Little Village of Book Lovers
Nina GeorgeA young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender, lyrical standalone novel inspired by the “bona fide internatio...
-
Totschlag hinterm Deich
Gisa Pauly, Jean Bagnol, Linda Conrads, Astrid Weiss-Bettzüche, Christiane Franke, Helga Beyersdörfer, Jan Schröter, Karen Kieback, Nina George & Regine KölpinWeihnachtskrimis regional – 12 mörderische Geschichten aus dem hohen Norden für die schauerlichschönste Zeit des JahresAn der Ostsee findet man nicht nur Bernstein am Strand... Neb...
-
La belleza de la noche
Nina George¿Cuántas mujeres distintas hay en una sola mujer?Una novela emocionante y lúcida que ha conquistado a más de 2.000.000 de lectores en todo el mundo.Claire, una exitosa bióloga en c...
-
Turning Pointe
Chloe AngyalA reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequitiesand a look inside the fight for its future Every d...
-
A Very Special Year
Thomas Montasser & Jamie BullochFor fans of 84 Charing Cross Road and Alan Bennett, this is the charming tale of a small bookshop and one very mysterious customer‘It’s not particularly difficult to run a successf...
-
The Little French Bookshop
Cécile PivotA letter writing workshop. Five strangers. Countless secrets bursting in between the pages.When French bookseller Esther loses her father, she decides to place an ad in a newspaper...
-
The Movies That Changed Us
Nick ClooneyNick Clooney, one of America's most respected film critics and historians, presents a distinctive catalog of movies that have influenced and altered not only the world of cinema, b...
-
The Book of Dreams
Nina GeorgeWarm, wise, and magicalthe latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between ...
-
The Little French Bistro
Nina GeorgeNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an extraordinary novel about selfdiscovery and...
-
Mordlust an der Leine
Nina George, Sven Koch, Cornelia Kuhnert, Christiane Franke, Fabian Skibbe, Susanne Conrads, Maria M. Lacroix, Regine Kölpin, Richard Birkefeld & Susanne RosenbergerWeihnachtskrimis regional – 12 mörderische Geschichten aus Niedersachsen für die schauerlichschönste Zeit des Jahres!Niedertracht in Niedersachsen: Von Uelzen bis Göttingen, von de...
-
War Stories
Michael MorpurgoSpecially commissioned by Michael Morpurgo to mark the 60th anniversary of VE day, this deeply moving collection features stories of war from the most wellloved voices in children'...
-
The Heart of the Ritz
Luke DevenishFour women join forces, with conviction, courage ... and styleFrance, April 1940. Orphan Polly Hartford has been sent across oceans to her Aunt Marjorie, known only from lett...
-
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Matthew SullivanWhen a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this “intriguingly dark, twisty” (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel from an awa...
-
Lost in Paris
Elizabeth Thompson“A luscious, layered story of inheritance, heartbreak, reinvention, and family. I adored this book.” Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling authorWhen a deed to an apartment i...
-
Dudley Moore
Rena FruchterRena Fruchter was Dudley's concert piano partner, and the friend who looked after him in the final years of his life until his death at the age of 66. This is her intimate portrait...