German-speaking BDH, deutsche Maggie has arrived!
Officially, the German edition of THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME from Cove Verlag releases on September 25th. Unofficially, no one keeps Maggie in a corner!
Copies are already making their way into readers’ hands, and the hardcover is currently showing as available to order from German retailers like Thalia and international ones like Blackwell’s.
Please do check the language before ordering – although the publishers have made the decision to preserve the original title, this edition has German translation text inside. Availability and international shipping will depend on the retailer and destination.
The German edition is a deluxe hardcover, with specially designed dustjacket and themed sprayed edges. I particularly love this inscription, which my rudimentary Siebenbürgisch-Sächsisch tells me says: “This isn’t a story. This is reality”.
Going to the Frankfurt Book Fair?
There’s an extra treat for anyone attending the Frankfurt Book Fair, October 7–11.
Cove are bringing a giant 3D version of the book to their photo spot in Hall 4.0, J2, so visitors can quite literally step into Maggie’s world!
Judging by the preview, it is large enough to accommodate even the BDH Higgra-like instinct of immediately climbing onto things. We want all the attentions! If any of you are going to Frankfurt, please take pictures so we can vicariously enjoy the giant Kair Toren.
Viel Spaß mit Maggies Geschichte! Sie wird sie neu schreiben – ganz egal, wie oft es sie umbringt.
Thanks!
The German copy is gorgeous! Congrats to all who speak/read German.
I’m a German teacher–this can go in my classroom library!
I am a school-librarian, guess what will be on my next order
(I have not read it yet, I will wait for part 3 to be released to start with reading them, part one is here at home at ‘waiting’, the genres involved are usually not my thing, but I hope to get into with all of them present, yes it’s not logical, but the ‘heart’ is not always logical)
Here’s my question… What do they do with that giant book after all the TKWNKM touring and advertising rounds end?
How big is your new place, ModR? Maybe we can stage a midnight ferret raid in a few months.
I’m afraid Mr Mod R would make me sleep with the stelkas!
But you’d really be saving money, Mod R. It could be used as your new wallpaper! (I’m not advocating to destroy a book, I’m going off the thought that it’s not a full book, just the pretty bit for photos.)
Think of how lovely that would look on the wall…… 😄
Maybe Roman can discuss with Mr. Mod R that it would make you happy. 😁
+1
Heehee
Probably display it at the publisher’s office in Hamburg? They got a gorgeous, quite big old warehouse turned into offices.
Last time I got the chance to visit (I’m a bookseller and used to work and live in Hamburg), they had some really interesting decorations. A lot of Harry Potter – “Cove” is an imprint of the “Carlsen Verlag”, the German publisher for HP.
Wow what a beautiful edition!
Why do they get the prettiest cover version EVER, the best sprayed edges AND a map on the inside cover???
Wish I spoke german
I don’t normally bother with German translations from English but I think this might be the exception.
I wonder if they translate the word names, and we will have Klee instead of Clover.
No it will be “Aster” and not “Klee” in the german edition. Cove did a statement about this on instagram at this post
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdosPqPCRn0/?img_index=1
There is their explanation:
Clover became Aster in German because the text explicitly explains the naming pattern — flowers/plants in her case — so we needed a name that would work as a plant name for German readers while still feeling like a plausible name in Rellas. The literal German translation, “Klee,” would have sounded odd as a name, while Aster keeps the botanical idea without jumping out quite so much.
Since Rellas is its own fantasy world and not based on an English-speaking real-world setting, simply keeping the English name “Clover” would not have been consistent either.
Love the thought going into that!
Thank you for finding that out! Yes, Aster does work much better as a name.
So cool!
It’s a lovely edition! So happy for all the German readers to be able to read it now! (If they didn’t already read the English version.)
Really jealous of that giant book photo op though! 🤩
I’ve seen that eddition and even though i have the English version i will probably buy the German one. It looks amazing.
Already started badgering friends who prefer to read German!👍
+1
Pretty book! Too bad I didn’t want to learn German when I was younger. Oh well.
Each iteration of the cover is more beautiful than the previous. Some of us might be tempted to own each one.
that is one *ing beautiful book!
I really like the cover and spread edges of the German edition. The giant book looks fun. I’d being stopping for a photo if I was anywhere Frankfurt but alas remain in California.
Will thalia know I already bought the EN version (ordered specifically) at their place? 🤣
Damn I like that design though I usually don’t read an english book in german. Still tempted…
Very pretty book! Congrats to HA. They did you proud!
Now I want to go to the Frankfurt book fair just to see the giant Maggie book and take a photo with it. I don’t even live in Germany so it’s not going to happen but I’d really like to 🤣
Should I google Heathrow to Frankfurt. . .
Heh. Maybe higgra-like to climb on it. Definitely muckrat-like intent to grab the giant book and run off with it.
Danke schön!
Congratulations. I wonder when the Spanish version will arrive; I’ve been waiting for it since early June. It’s already been delayed twice—now it’s coming out in 19 October.
Silent German lurker at the BDH fringes here and first of all great translation ModR! I’ll already have the signed UK version and devoured it twice bc obviously I’m loving it to pieces. I’m so excited that I’m visiting a Thalia store in Berlin this weekend where’s this huge book is currently displayed. My lovely friend whom I gladly infected with the HA fever last year will be joining me for fun pictures and will buy the sprayed edges version. And greedy as I am I might buy my first German copy of a HA book too. Who doesn’t need Maggie as ebook, audio book and two real books in two languages. I think it’s reasonable BDH behavior.
Where would I find it? I live in Berlin and would love to take a picture because not going to Frankfurt book Fair 🙁
Seems normal to me. If Mod. R allows, pls send a pic of the giant book to post here. Maybe u will meet some fellow Horde members there! Gl!
I think this is my favorite edition yet. It is gorgeous!
Guten Morgen BDH,
Perhaps I should not say it here, but the News Are to good and I am so happy Right now. Thalia sells the German Edition in a special box.
Don‘t continue reading, if you want to be surprised what‘s inside.
The box is as gorgeous as the book, it has a Journal in the same design, which is empty and can be filled with your notes. On the Front it says, „Things that tried to kill me“. It also contains Louisa Preissler pictures of Maggie and Everard. Maggie as a card and Everard as a Slip-Over carton. It has not the original painting with the 3 Moons as Cover.
The box has a Price of 35€ and can be ordered on Thalia, as long as it is available.
Greetings to everybody from Germany
Available
Mod R could you correct it?
Sorry.😬
Ohhhh! How do you know what’s inside the box? Please post link!
https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1079406635
I know it because I preorderd and it was deliverd fast with DHL and arrived earlier, before the publication Date.
There is also Candice Slater’s art of Maggie in front of Kair Toren on the inside of the slip over! It can be opened and showcased on the shelf. I love her art piece and was so happy they included both her and Luisas art. I didn’t expect that at all, I thought there would be two or three small goodies. And the notebook is gorgeous too!
So happy that we have the chance to get some art as well, I really hope we get the chance to buy Helenas as well, on vollum or otherwise.
We need this Box in the US! I would especially love to have the notebook of things that didn’t kill me….
Oh the temptation!! *grabby hands!!!!* especially the one with the book box on Thalia 😍😍😍 They don’t ship here *cries* … but the ones without the book box are a good price on Blackwells and you can also get this edition on Amazon UK too but it’s a bit more expensive there.
Why does this book make me want to buy every edition in all the languages?! *faint* if they eventually do it in Italian as well I’m so doomed😅
I have a friend obsessed with Harry Potter and everywhere she travels, she buys the first in the series in that language. She has 7 now.😂 I can see the BDH starting to collect that way. Hmmm, I’m in Germany, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie!!!!
Congratulations to House Andrews and to all the German readers!!!
So envious of Germans to have such a beautiful harcover edition!
In Czechia, Maggie comes out on 28th October and “only” as a paperback. Even though I read House Andrews books in English, I see it as an opportunity to make fans out of all of my friends and family members, so I will be definitely buying more than 3 copies :D. I also wrote to the Czech publisher (JOTA) how happy I am that they decided to pick up Maggie.
I hope that if Maggie will see some success in Czechia, other books by House Andrews will follow. We’ve only had Kate Daniels so far, all 10 books + Andrea’s book, and all in hardcover; but the covers haven’t been exactly eye-catching, so not many people know about it… (I still somehow managed to persuade a friendly acquaintance of mine to read it and she became an instant fan!)
Oh the sprayed edges on the German translation are beautiful!! Looking forward to the next UK version of Maggie 2 now
large enough to accommodate even the BDH Higgra-like instinct of immediately climbing onto things …
It’s like you know us, Mod R! Really well …
So who is the not local biggest fan plotting how to fly to Frankfurt to get into the 3D Kair Toren?? lol
I do not live too far (around 4 h) and really thought about it but we are on vacation at that time (which has a certain priority 😀 )
many thanks, guys. just ordered the special edition in German for my daughter. I hope she will like it.
Dear Mod R –
What do the last two lines of the post translate to in English? I could probably pronounce some of the words, from years of singing in German in chorus (everything written in phonetically), but I don’t know any German. Thanks!!
Enjoy Maggie’s story! She will rewrite it (the story) – no matter how many times it kills her.
Thank you!! 💖
The giant book is such a cool idea!!! All the special editions are beautiful!
Das ist klasse 🤩! Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum „Buchgeburtstag“ in Deutschland Haus Andrews 🥳🥳🥳
Liebe Grüsse aus Deutschland 🤗
(That‘s Great! Congratulations on the book release in Germany, House Andrews.
Love from Germany)
so pretty, my reading of German is passable, maybe I need to buy
Glad I saw this posting… Bought it right away for my niece as I prefer to read in English AND have already bought one of the beautiful hardcover editions additionally to the Kindle version which I read first. These hardcovers are so beautiful in all languages they are offered.
Good News: a version of the giant book can also be found in Alexa in Berlin. The local Thalia has a Carpet, that Looks like a 3d book if you take a photo in the right angle. They also sell the Thalia boxes, that come with additional stuff and you can take a peak inside the box before buying. Take a look on the cove and Thalia instagram for even more spots of the 3d books, scattered all over germany up until the beginning of october
Wow, I wish I spoke German-that book is beautiful! And the giant one in Frankfurt! So cool!
OK Horde-one (or more) of us HAS to get a pic with that book. To confirm it’s actually real, plus details for future ferret raids. Because, come on, there’s NO WAY the Horde won’t try for it. But we aren’t total idiots, we can w*it until after the book show. So hopefully at least one of us can go-for the Horde! I’m sure Mod. R can help with possibly posting a suitably blurred-faces pic, right? To protect the not-yet-guilty of anything? And their ferrets?
I was super excited about the German release and had the audiobook preordered— still a great story, although a few disappointing bits. A few idioms and other choices that don’t translate well that change Maggie’s tone, the way Solentine and Everard are read make them feel flat instead of well developed and attractive characters— but I am hoping when the print edition shows, I can read them back to life with my own inflection. Also — does anyone else love that ‘Magic’ in German is “Magie”?
I would love to Upload a Picture I just unboxed the Special Edition in German from Cove and it is hands down my favorite so far. The Notebook „The Book of Things That Tried to Kill Me“ is just so freaking cool, edges, Map, Luisas Art is just so fantastic. I think a have a bookplate somewhere from another Edition I might just put it in here. Yes, I can concur, it is totally typical Horde behavior to have E-Book, Special Edition in two Languages and Audiobook. Now I Need the Graphic Audio Adaption ASAP…but then… who in the Horde doesn‘t. Preferrably narrated by the Same Voice as the Audio Book (she is fantastic). Now off to Frankfurt in 2 weeks with my Kids (voracious Readers but 2nd grade – alas, too Young for HA Books).
So excited, thanks for posting!
I usually read all HA books I own in English as ebooks but now I’m tempted to get this one as a first HA real “paper” book in German.
Maybe it may feel strange at first to read Maggies story in German, my mother tongue? I’m so used to the English ones (I have all Kate Daniels as Graphic audio, all Innkeeper and The inheritance as English audio as well …)
Looking forward!