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The Mare

The Mare
  • Author(s): Angharad Hampshire
  • Location(s): Austria, Germany, Majdanek, New York City (NYC), Ravensbrück
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 / 1960s-80s

Based on a true story Hermine Braunsteiner was the first person to be extradited from the Unites States for Nazi war crimes. Hermine was one of a few thousand women to work as a female concentration camp guard. Prisoners...

The Officer’s Daughter

The Officer’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Zina Rohan
  • Location(s): Germany, Poland, Siberia
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s 1940s

This is an epic wartime romance which sees a headstrong young woman face hardship, danger and dilemmas as the forces of history sweep her across continents, while two men compete to claim her heart.It is suitable for fans of...

The Sinner

The Sinner
  • Author(s): Petra Hammesfahr
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Cora Bender killed a man on a sunny summer afternoon by the lake and in full view of her family and friends. Why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat,...

The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers
  • Author(s): Paul Grossman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Early 1930s

In the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler and his National Socialist party angle to assume control of Germany, beautiful girls are seen sleepwalking through the streets. Then, a young woman of mysterious origin, with her legs...

The Undertaking

The Undertaking
  • Author(s): Audrey Magee
  • Location(s): Berlin, Volgograd (Stalingrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2, mid 20th century

Desperate to escape the Eastern Front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises ‘honeymoon’ leave for him and a pension for her should...

The Unfortunate Englishman

The Unfortunate Englishman
  • Author(s): John Lawton
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

Having shot someone in what he believed was self-defense in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Wilderness finds himself locked up with little chance of escape. But an official pardon through his father-in-law Burne-Jones, a senior agent at MI6, means...

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
  • Author(s): Helen Grant
  • Location(s): Bad Münstereifel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In a nice small German town of Bad Münstereifel , young girls start disappearing. We experience the growing unease in town through the eyes of 11 year old Pia who is determined to unravel the mystery.

The White Circle

The White Circle
  • Author(s): Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch (Translator)
  • Location(s): Baden-Württemberg
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The final instalment of the acclaimed Black Forest Investigations brings the series to a shattering close. Louise Bonì, Chief Inspector of the Freiburg criminal police, gets intelligence from an informer that two guns have been bought from a Russian...

Traveller of the Century

Traveller of the Century
  • Author(s): Andrés Neuman
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 19th Century

*Shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize* A novel of philosophy and love, politics and waltzes, history and the here-and-now, Andrés Neuman’s Traveller of the Century is a journey into the soul of Europe, penned by one of the most...

Tyll

Tyll
  • Author(s): Daniel Kehlmann
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

He’s a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake’s like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he’s watching you now and he’s gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here! In a...

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