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Flesh-Coloured Dominoes

Flesh-Coloured Dominoes
  • Author(s): Zigmunds Skujinš
  • Location(s): Baltic Coast, Russia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery
  • Era(s): 18th Century to WW2 and modern

When Baroness Valtraute von Bruegen’s officer husband’s body is severed in two, she is delighted to find that the lower half has been sewn onto the upper body of the humble local captain Ulste. She conceives a child only...

Flight of Dreams

Flight of Dreams
  • Author(s): Ariel Lawhon
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1937

With everyone onboard harboring dark secrets and at least one person determined to make sure the airship doesn’t make the return trip, Flight of Dreams gives an utterly suspenseful, heart-wrenching explanation for one of the most enduring mysteries of...

Go Went Gone

Go Went Gone
  • Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe’s biggest issueRichard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing...

Goodbye to Berlin

Goodbye to Berlin
  • Author(s): Christopher Isherwood
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Discover the dark and decadent novella that inspired Cabaret. Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of...

Greeks Bearing Gifts

Greeks Bearing Gifts
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s / WW2

No 13 in the Bernie Gunther series…. 1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther’s latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have...

Homeland

Homeland
  • Author(s): Walter Kempowski
  • Location(s): Germany, Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1988

It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia – where the Nazi legacy lives on in...

In the Full Light of the Sun

In the Full Light of the Sun
  • Author(s): Clare Clark
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920/30s

In the Full Light of the Sun follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in a devastating scandal of 1930s’ Germany. It tells the story of Emmeline, a wayward, young art student; Julius, an anxious, middle-aged art expert;...

In the Garden of Beasts

In the Garden of Beasts
  • Author(s): Erik Larson
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The extraordinary true story of intrigue and emerging terror at the American embassy in Berlin during the tumultuous twelve months that witnessed Hitler’s rise to ultimate power in Germany.

In Times of Fading Light

In Times of Fading Light
  • Author(s): Eugen Ruge
  • Location(s): Eastern Europe, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In Times of Fading Light begins in 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel...

Katharina Luther: Nun, Rebel, Wife

Katharina Luther: Nun, Rebel, Wife
  • Author(s): Anne Boileau
  • Location(s): Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Saxony Anhalt
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

On 31st October 1517 Martin Luther pinned ninety-five theses on the Castle Church door, Wittenberg, criticizing the Church of Rome; they were printed and published by Lucas Cranach and caused a storm. Nine young nuns, intoxicated by Luther’s subversive...

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