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- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording evidence of...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1989
Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving Day 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis in...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990
BERLIN, 1990. On a chilly early morning walk, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbour, fellow Stasi officer Lothar, lying dead with a bullet wound to the temple. Despite the appearance of suicide, Emil suspects murder, for as...
- Location(s): Bad Münstereifel
- Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
Be careful what you wish for! Unassuming Steffi is resigned to working in the family bakery – essentially trapped in the small town of Bad Münstereifel – where she hangs out with her friends and boyfriend. On Walpurgisnacht (similar...
Zoo Station: Adventures in East and West Berlin
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
1980s Berlin. The life, the loves, the politics, the struggle of the Turks in Kreuzberg – this is a true depiction of “Alt-Berlin”
- Location(s): Berlin, England, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910 onwards
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and...
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.All he knows...
- Location(s): Ghana, Germany, London
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
- Era(s): 1459 to present day
WHERE IS ADA? In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again, and again the baby does not live. As she grieves the loss of her child, Portuguese traders become...
- Location(s): Berlin, Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, has lost his wife and child in a plane crash. In ALL SOULS’ DAY we follow Arthur as he wanders the streets of Berlin, a city uniquely shaped by history. Berlin...
- Location(s): Germany, London, World
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): Various
London in 1933, Germany during and after WW1, Sydney in the recent past, and New York City in 1939 are a few of the settings. I came to this book having read and very much enjoyed Stasiland: Stories from...
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