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- Location(s): Berlin, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Present Day, WW2
New York, present day: On a whim, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to celebrated journalist Cordelia Capel. Within its case she discovers an unfinished novel, igniting a transatlantic journey to fill the gaps in...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husband, Axel, the zoo’s director. Together, they struggle to look after the animals through the air raids...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1961
First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Berlin. A city where nightclubs stay open from Friday night till Monday morning. A city with an underbelly as dark and addictive as the 24-hour drugs, drinking, dancing and sex in filthy toilets that it serves up. Three young...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as “a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision…a major talent” (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
‘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, 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...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1989
Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving Day 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis in...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Autofiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Born in East Berlin, Julia is eight when her actress mother uproots her family of four girls, by different fathers, in search of a better life. Their eventual landing in the remote countryside of Schleswig-Holstein solves no problems for...
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