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Munich Airport

Munich Airport
  • Author(s): Greg Baxter
  • 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...

The Berlin Stories

The Berlin Stories
  • Author(s): Christopher Isherwood
  • 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...

The Bullet Trick

The Bullet Trick
  • Author(s): Louise Welsh
  • 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...

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...

Half Blood Blues

Half Blood Blues
  • Author(s): Esi Edugyan
  • 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...

Therapy

Therapy
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • 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 Four years later, Josy’s father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to...

Absolute Friends

Absolute Friends
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • 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,...

Half Swimmer

Half Swimmer
  • Author(s): Jo Heinrich (Translator), Katja Oskamp
  • 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...

News from Berlin

News from Berlin
  • Author(s): Otto de Kat
  • Location(s): Berlin, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1941

June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl,...

Sorry

Sorry
  • Author(s): Zoran Drvenkar
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Berlin. Four friends. One extreme idea. One of the most gripping thrillers ever written. Kris, Tamara,Wolf and Frauke set up an agency called Sorry. An agency to right wrongs. Unfair dismissals, the wrongly accused: everyone has a price, and...

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