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The Child Of Ukraine (formerly published as “Motherland”)

The Child Of Ukraine (formerly published as “Motherland”)
  • Author(s): Tetyana Denford
  • Location(s): Ukraine, Austria, Germany, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941 - Present Day

Ukraine, 1940. She cups her daughter’s face with her trembling hands, imprinting it on her mind. ‘I love you. Be brave,’ she whispers through her tears, her heart breaking into a thousand pieces. Sending her child away is the...

The City in Flames

The City in Flames
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Camden Town, Berlin, Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his...

The Gathering Storm (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book 1)

The Gathering Storm (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book 1)
  • Author(s): Alan Jones
  • Location(s): Kiel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1933-1940

Kiel, Northern Germany, 1933. A naval city, the base for the German Baltic fleet, and the centre for German sailing, the venue for the upcoming Olympic regatta in 1936. The Kästners, a prominent Military family, are part of the...

The German Girl

The German Girl
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Helsingør, Malmö
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary - Looking back to WWII

‘Our parents were taken. And if we go home, the Nazis will take us too…’ Hamburg 1938. Fifteen-year-old Asta is hurrying home from school with her twin brother Jurgen. The mood in the city is tense – synagogues have...

The Girl Behind the Wall

The Girl Behind the Wall
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she’s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta. Two sisters torn apart....

The Kitchen

The Kitchen
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women … as a startling, horrifying series of revelations emerge. When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the...

The Orphan’s Mother

The Orphan’s Mother
  • Author(s): Marion Kummerow
  • Location(s): Poland, Germany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1944 - 1989

1945, the German-Polish border: With Nazis on one side and Soviet forces approaching on the other, a mother and her little boy are separated, and so begins an unforgettable tale of courage, heartbreak and motherhood in wartime. As snow...

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 Secret War

The Secret War
  • Author(s): Louise Burfitt-Dons
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking), Hamburg, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Karen Andersen, private investigator, stumbles across intelligence in a Liverpool University that an ultra-right faction of the CCP plan to release a new highly contagious virus on an unsuspecting New York City.

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