Recent releases and project updates from Kaufmann Editorial.
July 2026 · New release · 🕯️ Literary Fiction
Elias Thorne: The Last Lighthouse Keeper — Book One
The first volume of a new literary historical series is now available in paperback ($19.99) and on Kindle. Set at Blackstone Point — a Maine lighthouse that appears on no map — The Years of the Light follows the Thorne family across a hundred years of keeping the light, and one boy learning that a record can be accurate and still betray the living. Book Two, The Last Light, is in preparation.
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July 2026 · New edition · 📕 Print edition
Cigar & Cocktail Magazine Q1 2026 — now in print
The inaugural issue of Cigar & Cocktail Magazine arrives on paper. A large-format paperback edition ($62.50) of Volume I, Issue 1 — the full Cuba dossier, the blind KCS ratings, The Pairing Lab, and the complete Kaufmann Cigar Score methodology, set for the shelf rather than the screen. The Kindle edition remains available at $9.99.
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July 2026 · New edition · 🇫🇷 French edition
Talleyrand — Un roman de la survie : l’édition brochée
Le roman historique Talleyrand arrive en édition brochée (broché $82.29) — 491 pages, 28 illustrations pleine page, notes d’archives, glossaire et bibliographie. L’histoire du diplomate qui survécut à tous les changements de régime de son temps, de l’Ancien Régime à la monarchie de Juillet. The French-language edition of the historical novel is now moving into print alongside the Kindle eBook, which remains available at $9.99.
June 2026 · Announcement · 🧭 New series
The Kaufmann Traveler’s Guides — a new paperback series in preparation
A printed travel library is on the way: The Kaufmann Traveler’s Guides, the paperback companion to the Kaufmann World Travel Factbook. Each volume covers a destination’s history, cities, monuments, landscapes, food, people, and practical travel. The first title, United States of America, releases in Q3 2026, followed by Canada, Mexico, Japan and the Czech Republic in Q4 2026 — with further countries such as France, Germany, Cuba, Egypt, Italy, India and Brazil to come — until the series spans the full Factbook.
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June 2026 · New release · 🔥 Launch
Cigar & Cocktail Magazine — Q1 2026 · Volume I, Issue 1
The inaugural issue of Cigar & Cocktail Magazine is now available on Kindle ($9.99) and in a large-format paperback edition ($62.50). The Art of the Fine Smoke & the Perfect Pour — featuring Cuba, KCS Ratings, The Pairing Lab, Geneva, Tokyo After Dark, Monaco, Peru, Scotland, and the complete Kaufmann Cigar Score methodology. Q2 2026 is already in preparation.
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Juli 2026 · New release · 🇩🇪 German edition
Der Darm-Code — Wie Ihre Darmbakterien über Ihre Gesundheit, Ihren Geist und die Länge Ihres Lebens entscheiden
Von Radim Kaufmann & Bernhard Mann. Die deutschsprachige Ausgabe von The Gut Code ist jetzt als Kindle eBook (9,99 €) und als Taschenbuch (67,50 €) erhältlich. Eine umfassende Synthese der Mikrobiomforschung — von der Darm-Hirn-Achse über die Immunmodulation und den Stoffwechsel bis zur Langlebigkeitswissenschaft. Für Leser, die Evidenz statt Trends suchen.
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June 2026 · New release · 🇬🇧 English edition
The Gut Code — How Microbial Life Shapes Longevity, Immunity, Metabolism, and Human Health
By Radim Kaufmann & Bernhard Mann. The English-language edition of The Gut Code is now available on Kindle ($12.99) and in paperback ($79.44). A comprehensive synthesis of microbiome research — covering the gut–brain axis, immune modulation, metabolic pathways, and longevity science. Written for readers who want evidence, not trends.
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Upcoming · 2026
Why Marriages Fail
21 hidden patterns that destroy relationships — and how to recognise them before it's too late. Not a therapist's book. A systems thinker's book. 304 pages of patterns drawn from two decades of observation.
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May 2026 · New release
Kaufmann World Encyclopedia of Premium Cigars
The 588-page 2026 reference. 17 producing countries, 17 flagship brand profiles, 38 blind-calibrated reviews, and the complete cigar-anatomy chapter set. Featuring the KCS (Kaufmann Cigar Score) rating system.
May 2026 · The Voynich project
Living Diary opens for the Voynich Manuscript
A continuously updated public log of an AI-driven decryption attempt. No decryption is claimed. Every hypothesis is pre-registered, adversarially tested, and every label is provisional.
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Coming May 2026
How to Survive Divorce
From Emotional Collapse to a New Beginning. The companion volume to Why Marriages Fail. For the moment when the right answer turns out to be ending.