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Berlin Stories

Berlin Stories
  • Author(s): Robert Walser
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

A New York Review Books Original. In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural...

A Woman of War

A Woman of War
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

‘A powerful, haunting debut’ Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network ‘Incredibly powerful, harrowing but ultimately uplifting. I couldn’t put this down.’ Katie Fforde, author of A Rose Petal Summer ‘A fascinating story which had...

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
  • Author(s): Jefferson Chase (Translator), Oliver Hilmes
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1936

For sixteen days in the summer of 1936, the world’s attention turned to the German capital as it hosted the Olympic Games. Seen through the eyes of a cast of characters – Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, athletes and...

Secret Potsdam

Secret Potsdam
  • Author(s): Manuel Roy
  • Location(s): Potsdam
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

Let Secret Potsdam guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Potsdam guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants...

The Inmate

The Inmate
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A missing child. A desperate father. A terrible secret. Guido T has already confessed to two horrific child murders and led Berlin police to the bodies. The police are sure he is also the kidnapper and murderer of six-year-old...

The Porcelain Maker

The Porcelain Maker
  • Author(s): Sarah Freethy
  • Location(s): Berlin, Dachau
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history A daughter’s search for the truth Germany, 1929. When Max, a Jewish architect, and Bettina, a beautiful and celebrated German avant-garde artist, meet at a party their attraction is instant. In...

In Search of Berlin

In Search of Berlin
  • Author(s): John Kampfner
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): looking back over 800 years

Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn’t been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obsessed with memories, a place where traumas...

Fragments Of A Woman

Fragments Of A Woman
  • Author(s): Emma Venables
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Gentle Ingrid puts her life at risk when she tries to save her beloved daughter from her husband’s zealous beliefs. Liesel, a lesbian, marries a gay man in hopes that they can feign the ideal marriage and, in doing...

Anatomy of a Killer

Anatomy of a Killer
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

They say he’s a murderer. But how could he be? Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red ribbons show the police the way to their bodies, but there’s no trace of the...

Kairos

Kairos
  • Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (translator)
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1986

Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened...

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