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The Pilot’s Girl

The Pilot’s Girl
  • Author(s): Catherine Hokin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1948/1949

‘Smile, nod, and don’t breathe a word of what happens here. Or I’ll put you on the next train to Auschwitz myself.’ Four years later. Hanni Winter shivers in her thin coat as she hurries through the empty Berlin...

The Secret Hotel in Berlin

The Secret Hotel in Berlin
  • Author(s): Catherine Hokin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1944

Berlin, 1944. ‘It is a great honour to have you here, Herr Hitler.’ Lili doesn’t stumble over the lie, her hand steady as she pours champagne. Everything must be perfect, no one can suspect a thing… Lili Rodenberg and...

The Silence In Between

The Silence In Between
  • Author(s): Josie Ferguson
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 / 1961

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your child… Lisette is in hospital with her baby boy. The doctors tell her to go home and get some...

Turning: A Swimming Memoir

Turning: A Swimming Memoir
  • Author(s): Jessica J Lee
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Modern

‘The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, my breasts, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my...

What Only We Know

What Only We Know
  • Author(s): Catherine Hokin
  • Location(s): Berlin, Aldershot
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Present Day &World War II

A door slammed and the unmistakable sound of boots came crashing up the hall. Liese held her little daughter’s hand so tightly, the tiny fingers had turned purple. The SS officer’s hand was at Liese’s throat before she saw...

The Moment

The Moment
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage,...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by...

Sleepless

Sleepless
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dark secrets past and present collide in Sleepless. A haunting novel of guilt and retribution from Romy Hausmann, the international bestselling author of Dear Child. It’s been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a cruel crime. After being released...

A Quiet Flame

A Quiet Flame
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s, 1950s

The action switches largely between Berlin in 1932 – and Bernie’s last abandoned case as a police officer when the mutilated body of a spastic teenage girl is discovered – and Buenos Aires in 1950 where he is invited...

AMOK

AMOK
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dangerous psychopath has taken over Berlin’s leading radio station and is holding everyone inside hostage in the terrifying and twisted new thriller from Sebastian Fitzek. ‘Good morning. It’s 7.35 AM. And you’re listening to your biggest nightmare.’ This...

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