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- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945
Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and ‘moderate pessimist’, lives in constant fear. By night, he is haunted by nightmarish images of the bombsite in which he is trapped ― he, and the...
- Location(s): Brighton, Munich
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Not Dead Enough marks another welcome appearance for the author’s quirkily characterised policeman Roy Grace (who we’ve already met in Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead). Here, Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of a member of Brighton’s social...
- Location(s): England, Heidelberg, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
Of Human Bondage is absoulute Somerset Maugham. The book is set in the last decades of the nineteenth century and, part autobiographical, it is about a young orphan, his apprenticeship in art, then medicine as well as the theme...
- Location(s): Berlin, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
February 1941, wartime Berlin. Brilliant, idealistic young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains and leaving their battered...
- Location(s): Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Modern
Sandra Hoffmann‘s Paula is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer’s relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1980s
Set in Berlin months before the fall of the Wall, it follows the lives of a disparate collection of characters, centring on Friedrich Kaiser, a Generation X slacker living in the hedonistic atmosphere of Kreuzberg in West Berlin. Hitchhiking...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
April 1945. Hitler’s Reich is on the verge of extinction, and its enemies are already plotting against each other. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous...
- Location(s): Africa, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Following from The Burning Shore..Power of the Sword is a rich and thrilling adventure, a magnificent feat of storytelling that sweeps the reader from the deserts, mountains and cities of Africa to the heartland of Nazi Germany, and from...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various and modern
Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989...
- Location(s): Berlin, Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction
Description: In the rubble of post-World War II Berlin, artist Charlotte flees her past and everything she’s lost by responding to an ad calling for ‘strong women who can cook and do farm work’ in Iceland. But painful memories...
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