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The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures

The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures
  • Author(s): Jennifer Hofmann
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1989

9th November 1989, East Berlin, the day the Berlin Wall will fall – Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi agent whose life’s work, a manual on the demoralisation of political opponents, once made him renowned now faces an ailing psyche and...

A Berlin Love Song

A Berlin Love Song
  • Author(s): Sarah Matthias
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

Max is 17, a German schoolboy, when he meets Lili, a trapeze artist from a travelling circus that performs every year in Berlin. Lili is from a Romani gypsy family whose life and customs are very different from those...

A Darker State

A Darker State
  • Author(s): David Young
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People’s Police, is called to investigate. But her power will stretch only so far, when every move she makes...

A Death in Berlin

A Death in Berlin
  • Author(s): Simon Scarrow
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940

Berlin. 1940. Hitler’s rule casts a menacing shadow over the city. As the distant war moves closer, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke fights to keep criminals off his patch. But he is walking a tightrope. If his secret relationship with...

A Death in Denmark

A Death in Denmark
  • Author(s): Amulya Malladi
  • Location(s): Berlin, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Noir, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Meet Gabriel Præst, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmark’s Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim present in a page-turning Nordic murder mystery with a cosmopolitan vibe Everyone in Denmark...

A Ladder to the Sky

A Ladder to the Sky
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): Berlin, Europe, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

You’ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it’s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall. If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t...

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;...

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