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- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Experience the haunting and exciting city of Berlin as never before, in the company of over sixty dazzling writers. Join them as Christopher Isherwood takes us to the cabaret David Bowie cycles through Berlin Anna Funder remembers Stasiland Ian...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mainly 20th Century
Sigi lived upstairs from Sara at Friedrichstrasse 19 yet before they met, Sara had no idea that Berlin could be so thrillingly irreverent or that sex could be so intoxicatingly wonderful. But then came the war, and hunger, loneliness...