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I Laugh Me Broken

I Laugh Me Broken
  • Author(s): Bridget van der Zijpp
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A fearless novel that tackles a difficult subject, I laugh me broken tells the story of a woman finding the courage to face her genetic heritage.   When Ginny makes contact with her estranged relatives and discovers that her genetic...

The Berliners

The Berliners
  • Author(s): Emma Harding
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mainly 20th Century

Original published as Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.tripfiction.com/books/friedrichstrasse-19/

Winter Work

Winter Work
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Spy, 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...

Siblings

Siblings
  • Author(s): Brigitte Reimann, Lucy Jones (Translator)
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960

1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth – a young painter – the GDR is her generation’s chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of...

Victim 2117

Victim 2117
  • Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • Location(s): Berlin, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the heart-pounding new installment of the No.1 bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department’s own – the enigmatic Assad. The newspaper refers to the dead body only as...

Blackout

Blackout
  • Author(s): Simon Scarrow
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Early WW2

Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly enforced blackout that plunges the city into oppressive darkness every night, as the bleak winter sun...

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
  • Author(s): Simon Scarrow
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

BERLIN. JANUARY 1941. Evil cannot bring about good . . . After Germany’s invasion of Poland, the world is holding its breath and hoping for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s hold on power is absolute. One freezing night,...

The Undercurrents

The Undercurrents
  • Author(s): Kirsty Bell
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes,...

Ghost Town

Ghost Town
  • Author(s): Kevin Chen
  • Location(s): Berlin, Taiwan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQ+, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan...

That Summer in Berlin

That Summer in Berlin
  • Author(s): Lecia Cornwall
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

Nazi power is rising again, threatening a war that will be even worse than the last one. The English aristocracy turns to an age-old institution to stave off war and strengthen political bonds – marriage. Debutantes flock to Germany,...

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