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- Location(s): Berlin, Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction, Novella
- Era(s): 20th Century up to 1945
The Observer’s Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize, and featured on BBC Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour Unloved sons turn their aggression on the outside world. Unloved daughters destroy the people they love,...
- Location(s): Munich, Salzburg, Vienna
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1770s - 1840s
sophie, one of the Weber daughters is the narrator. 21 year old Mozart is first introduced to the four Weber sisters, to attend their open house music evening. Mozart is enchanted by the girls. This is a story with...
- Location(s): Berlin, Munich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
An American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman. The news she has to convey is almost incomprehensible: the man’s sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her...
- Location(s): England, Germany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Out of Africa with her degree and her all seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to makes sense of it all. What is she doing...
- Location(s): Munich
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
In 1920s Munich, homicide detective Axel Berg is called to the scene of a grisly homicide, the victim being a young society wife. Soon, a second body is uncovered: the discovery of a third indicates that Berg is dealing...
- Location(s): Europe, Harz Mountains, Stod
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything changes when her father dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind clues to a treasure called the Amber Room, one of the most...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Eastern Europe, Germany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
This classic of modern reportage by one of Britain’s most distinguished non-fiction writers describes what happened when he got access to the file on him kept during his years in East Germany by the Stasi, the infamous secret police....
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A missing child. A desperate father. A terrible secret. Guido T has already confessed to two horrific child murders and led Berlin police to the bodies. The police are sure he is also the kidnapper and murderer of six-year-old...
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