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The Berlin Crossing

The Berlin Crossing
  • Author(s): Kevin Brophy
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1993

This is a story told partly from the former GDR Michael Ritter, after the Wall has come down. Before his mother dies she urges him to seek out an Evangelical priest, Pastor Bruck, who know the truth about his...

The Berlin Stories

The Berlin Stories
  • Author(s): Christopher Isherwood
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1930s

Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés: marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers: dangerous, with its vice and intrigue: powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires-this is the period when Hitler was beginning...

The Boy in the Striped Pyamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyamas
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The Bridge of the Golden Horn

The Bridge of the Golden Horn
  • Author(s): Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
  • Location(s): Berlin, Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

This is the story about two cultures and the role of women, the conflict and hardships.

The Bullet Trick

The Bullet Trick
  • Author(s): Louise Welsh
  • Location(s): Berlin, Glasgow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The protagonist here is a Glaswegian conjurer who has seen better days. Those who know their literature of the Gothic (and Louise Welsh is certainly of that number!) will no doubt spot that the author has christened her anti-hero...

The Collini Case

The Collini Case
  • Author(s): Ferdinand von Schirach
  • Location(s): Berlin, Germany
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

For thirty-four years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes Benz. He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of Berlin’s most luxurious hotels and kills an innocent man. Young attorney Caspar Leinen takes...

The Fall of Berlin

The Fall of Berlin
  • Author(s): Antony Beevor
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

The Girl in Berlin

The Girl in Berlin
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wilson
  • Location(s): Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The Girl in Berlin Which side are you on? A novel about spies, lies and unearthing the truth. Summer 1951.The Cold War is at its height. Burgess and Maclean have just disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with the...

The Good German

The Good German
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s, post WW2

Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable – streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high...

The Good Thief’s Guide to Berlin

The Good Thief’s Guide to Berlin
  • Author(s): Chris Ewan
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

You can’t keep a good thief down. Charlie Howard – mystery writer and professional burglar-for-hire – is back in the saddle, robbing the people of Berlin blind. But his larcenous binge is about to be interrupted by a call...

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