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Berlin Noir (‘March Violets’, ‘The Pale Criminal’ and ‘A German Requiem’)
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s 1940s
The three stories are set in 1936 (March Violets”), 1938 (“Pale Criminal”), and 1947 (the aptly named “German Requiem”) against the backdrop of the rise and fall of Hitler’s Nazi Germany. He left the Berlin police once the force...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Berlin Tales is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated with Berlin. The book provides a unique insight into the mind of this fascinating city through the eyes of its story-tellers. Nearly twenty years after the fall of the...
- Location(s): Germany, Togo, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from the injustices of her culture. Fauziya Kassindja’s harrowing story...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Gentle Ingrid puts her life at risk when she tries to save her beloved daughter from her husband’s zealous beliefs. Liesel, a lesbian, marries a gay man in hopes that they can feign the ideal marriage and, in doing...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can’t escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Last years WW2
Published as The Taster in the USA…. It’s 1943 and Hitler’s Germany is a terrifying place to be. But Magda Ritter’s duty is the most dangerous of all… Assigned to The Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat, she must serve the...
Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner
- Location(s): Germany, Corfu
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 20th Century
Francis Nenik‘s thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction Journey through a Tragicomic Century is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1986
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened...
Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters
- Location(s): England, Germany
- Genre(s): Historical, Humour
- Era(s): 1900s-2000s
In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann’s parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2011
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run...
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