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Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Miscellaneous
- Era(s): Various
Berlin is a city forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so it lives more powerfully in the imagination. Rory MacLean, Berlin: Imagine a City Located at the epicentre of modern Europe s most significant and turbulent...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1933
Berlin, 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe as Hitler comes to power. Clara Vine, an attractive young Anglo-German actress, arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting, she is unwillingly drawn into...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Early WW2
Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plunges the city into oppressive darkness every night, as the bleak winter sun...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Berlin: long-celebrated as a city of artists and outcasts, but also a city of teachers and construction workers. A place of tourists and refugees, and the memories of those exiled and expelled. A city named after marshland; if you...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN THE SECRET HISTORY OF PUNKS IN EAST GERMANY It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1922
A cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Julie Nowak has been missing since 7th September 2003. It broke her family. Only her father, Theo, doesn’t give up on her. On the 20th anniversary of her disappearance, Theo is contacted by podcaster Liv. She’s come across a...
- Location(s): Berlin, Kaliningrad (Königsberg)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1945 and modern
Herr Parker, bitte folgen Sie mir. Wir haben nicht viel Zeit. Die Kanzlerin muss Berlin in einer Stunde verlassen – und will Sie vorher sehen.” Königsberg, 1945. Die Rote Armee rüstet sich zum Sturm auf die Stadt, in der...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1905 to present
Set in contemporary Berlin, Disposable Man tells the story of Max Krumm: American expatriate, struggling journalist and the reluctant descendant of Holocaust survivors. Krumm also suffers from a mysterious genetic disorder: All of the men in his family are...
- Location(s): Berlin, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Berlin, on the eve of war. As soldiers muster on the streets, spies circle in the shadows, and Lottie Franke, a young woman from the Faith and Beauty Society – the elite finishing school for Nazi girls – is...
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