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Every Spy a Traitor

Every Spy a Traitor
  • Author(s): Alex Gerlis
  • Location(s): London, Germany, Moscow, Paris
  • Genre(s): Espionage
  • Era(s): late 1930s

Trust no one. Suspect everyone. It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy...

Murder in Berlin

Murder in Berlin
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1933

(Blind Detective 4) First published as Out of Shot under A. C. Koning. Berlin, 1933. The Nazi regime is gaining devastating power as Hitler is appointed Chancellor and stark oppression begins to unfold in Germany, blind war veteran Frederick...

We Would Have Told Each Other Everything

We Would Have Told Each Other Everything
  • Author(s): Judith Hermann, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a series of three interconnected stories, Judith Hermann weaves together themes of psychology and friendship, unconventional childhoods, summers on the North German seashore and the act of writing itself. This is a literary narrative reflecting on when life...

Turning

Turning
  • Author(s): Jessica J Lee
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

‘The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, my breasts, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my...

Good Girl

Good Girl
  • Author(s): Aria Aber
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can’t escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery

Perfection

Perfection
  • Author(s): Sophie Hughes (Translator), Vincenzo Latronico
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene –...

The Banned Books of Berlin

The Banned Books of Berlin
  • Author(s): Daisy Wood
  • Location(s): Berlin, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1933 / contemporary

Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya. She can only watch on, horrified, as...

Once the Deed Is Done

Once the Deed Is Done
  • Author(s): Rachel Seiffert
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): End of WW2

To be truly alive means having to make choices. To be truly alive is also, quite simply, to love. Northern Germany, 1945. Dead of night and dead of winter, a boy hears soldiers and sees strangers – forced labourers...

The Invisible Web

The Invisible Web
  • Author(s): Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch (Translator)
  • Location(s): Freiburg, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
  • Era(s): contemporary

A gripping and atmospheric Black Forest Investigation featuring Detective Inspector Louise Bonì. “Oliver Bottini is one of the most sophisticated crime writers of modern times” Sunday Times In a Berlin hotel a man is beaten up, but it’s more...

Berliners

Berliners
  • Author(s): John Simmons, Andrzej Krauze (illustrator)
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): 20th century

Berliners is a poem that originated from a conversation in Berlin. After several visits to Berlin, and a recent work assignment there with the German Film Academy, John Simmons became fascinated by the role of the city in 20th...

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