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A War of Flowers

A War of Flowers
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): Germany, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

British actress, Clara Vine, is in Paris to film her latest movie, having left Berlin under a cloud. Joseph Goebbels has become increasingly suspicious that Clara has been mingling in Berlin society and passing snippets of information to her...

A Woman of War

A Woman of War
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

‘A powerful, haunting debut’ Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network ‘Incredibly powerful, harrowing but ultimately uplifting. I couldn’t put this down.’ Katie Fforde, author of A Rose Petal Summer ‘A fascinating story which had...

A Young Man’s Game

A Young Man’s Game
  • Author(s): Paul Blake
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alec Foster is no Jason Bourne. He is Head of Section in Berlin for M16. He is fifty-one, and a borderline alcoholic counting down the days to retirement. Alec is told of a plot to assassinate a British Minister...

About People

About People
  • Author(s): Juli Zeh, Alta L Price (translator)
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Written by Germany’s #1 bestselling author Juli Zeh, About People takes place in the middle of lockdown in spring 2020 and subtly describes the social and very private consequences of the pandemic. Fleeing stay-at-home orders in the big city,...

Acts of Omission

Acts of Omission
  • Author(s): Terry Stiastny
  • Location(s): Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In 1998 the gilt is starting to come off a new era. Mark Lucas, the recently appointed foreign minister, is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the...

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...

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