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- Location(s): Berlin, England, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910 onwards
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and...
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.All he knows...
- Location(s): Berlin, Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, has lost his wife and child in a plane crash. In ALL SOULS’ DAY we follow Arthur as he wanders the streets of Berlin, a city uniquely shaped by history. Berlin...
Berlin Noir (‘March Violets’, ‘The Pale Criminal’ and ‘A German Requiem’)
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s 1940s
The three stories are set in 1936 (March Violets”), 1938 (“Pale Criminal”), and 1947 (the aptly named “German Requiem”) against the backdrop of the rise and fall of Hitler’s Nazi Germany. He left the Berlin police once the force...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Berlin Tales is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated with Berlin. The book provides a unique insight into the mind of this fascinating city through the eyes of its story-tellers. Nearly twenty years after the fall of the...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2011
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run...
- Location(s): Berlin, Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction, Novella
- Era(s): 20th Century up to 1945
The Observer’s Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize, and featured on BBC Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour Unloved sons turn their aggression on the outside world. Unloved daughters destroy the people they love,...
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