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Agent in Berlin

Agent in Berlin
  • Author(s): Alex Gerlis
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Suspense
  • Era(s): WW2

British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents in Germany. With diplomatic relations quickly unravelling, this pack of spies soon comes into their own: the horse-loving German at home in Berlin’s underground; the young American sports journalist;...

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Author(s): Erich Maria Remarque
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story...

All Russians Love Birch Trees

All Russians Love Birch Trees
  • Author(s): Olga Grjasnowa, Eva Bacon (Translator)
  • Location(s): Frankfurt
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An award-winning debut novel about a quirky immigrant’s journey through a multicultural, post-nationalist landscape   Set in Frankfurt, All Russians Love Birch Trees follows a young immigrant named Masha. Fluent in five languages and able to get by in...

All The Broken Places

All The Broken Places
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): France, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to WW2

From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable,...

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
  • Author(s): Rebecca Donner
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1930s

Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment-a small band...

All the Lights

All the Lights
  • Author(s): Clemens Meyer
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk...

An Elephant in the Garden

An Elephant in the Garden
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo
  • Location(s): Dresden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Children
  • Era(s): WW2

Dresden, 1945. Elizabeth and Karli’s mother works at the zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. Then the zoo director tells her that the dangerous animals – including the elephants – must be shot before...

An Ordinary Youth

An Ordinary Youth
  • Author(s): Michael Lipkin (Translator), Walter Kempowski
  • Location(s): Rostock
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1930s

A bestseller in Germany, Walter Kempowski’s autobiographical novel is a sensorial coming of age story during the years of World War II and a chilling exploration of how one family adjusted to life under the Nazis Growing up in...

Anatomy of a Killer

Anatomy of a Killer
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

They say he’s a murderer. But how could he be? Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red ribbons show the police the way to their bodies, but there’s no trace of the...

Anna at War

Anna at War
  • Author(s): Helen Peters
  • Location(s): Germany, Kent
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): World War 2

As life for German Jews becomes increasingly perilous, Anna’s parents put her on a train leaving for England. But the war follows her to Kent, and soon Anna finds herself caught up in a web of betrayal and secrecy....

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