Filter:
- 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,...
- Location(s): Berlin, Munich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
An American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman. The news she has to convey is almost incomprehensible: the man’s sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1930s
Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés: marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers: dangerous, with its vice and intrigue: powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires-this is the period when Hitler was beginning...
- Location(s): Berlin, Glasgow, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
The protagonist here is a Glaswegian conjurer who has seen better days. Those who know their literature of the Gothic (and Louise Welsh is certainly of that number!) will no doubt spot that the author has christened her anti-hero...
- 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...
- Location(s): Berlin, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 and 1990s
Charles C. Jones – Chip – and Sidney Griffiths, have been friends since they were children the STates. They find themselves in Berlin at the start of WW2, jazz musicians in a band whic inludes Hieronymous Falk, who is...
- Location(s): Berlin, Germany, The North Sea
- Era(s): Modern
No witnesses. Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness. She vanishes without a trace from her doctor’s office during treatment. Four years later, Josy’s father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to...
- Location(s): Bavaria, Berlin, England, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s, 2000s
In previous novels, le Carré has delighted in taking us on a mystery tour. This time, the mystery is located in character more than plot. The absolute friends of the title are Ted Mundy and his East German friend,...
- Location(s): Berlin, Germany
- Genre(s): Novella, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Half Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn’t yet mastered the technique. Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set...
Please wait...
