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A Question of Time

A Question of Time
  • Author(s): James Stejskal
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1979

Berlin, 1979. When the CIA’s most valuable spy is compromised, the Agency realizes it does not have the capability to bring him to safety. If he cannot evade the dreaded East German security service, the result will be chaos...

A Woman of War

A Woman of War
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

‘A powerful, haunting debut’ Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network ‘Incredibly powerful, harrowing but ultimately uplifting. I couldn’t put this down.’ Katie Fforde, author of A Rose Petal Summer ‘A fascinating story which had...

A Young Man’s Game

A Young Man’s Game
  • Author(s): Paul Blake
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alec Foster is no Jason Bourne. He is Head of Section in Berlin for M16. He is fifty-one, and a borderline alcoholic counting down the days to retirement. Alec is told of a plot to assassinate a British Minister...

Acts of Omission

Acts of Omission
  • Author(s): Terry Stiastny
  • Location(s): Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In 1998 the gilt is starting to come off a new era. Mark Lucas, the recently appointed foreign minister, is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the...

Agent in Berlin

Agent in Berlin
  • Author(s): Alex Gerlis
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Suspense
  • Era(s): WW2

British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents in Germany. With diplomatic relations quickly unravelling, this pack of spies soon comes into their own: the horse-loving German at home in Berlin’s underground; the young American sports journalist;...

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
  • Author(s): Rebecca Donner
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1930s

Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment-a small band...

Ashes of the Amazon

Ashes of the Amazon
  • Author(s): Milton Hatoum
  • Location(s): Berlin, Brazil, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Mundo is a rebel – the embittered offshoot of a rich family, whose artistic vocation clashes with his father’s dynastic plans. Ashes of the Amazon charts his determined flight from the fraught centre of his family’s wealth – the...

Babylon Berlin

Babylon Berlin
  • Author(s): Volker Kutscher
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1929

Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath, was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the Vice Squad in Berlin, a job he...

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
  • Author(s): Jefferson Chase (Translator), Oliver Hilmes
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1936

For sixteen days in the summer of 1936, the world’s attention turned to the German capital as it hosted the Olympic Games. Seen through the eyes of a cast of characters – Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, athletes and...

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • Author(s): Alfred Döblin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

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