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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...

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....

Ashes of the Amazon

Ashes of the Amazon
  • Author(s): Milton Hatoum
  • Location(s): Berlin, Brazil, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Mundo is a rebel – the embittered offshoot of a rich family, whose artistic vocation clashes with his father’s dynastic plans. Ashes of the Amazon charts his determined flight from the fraught centre of his family’s wealth – the...

Babylon Berlin

Babylon Berlin
  • Author(s): Volker Kutscher
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1929

Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath, was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the Vice Squad in Berlin, a job he...

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
  • Author(s): Jefferson Chase (Translator), Oliver Hilmes
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1936

For sixteen days in the summer of 1936, the world’s attention turned to the German capital as it hosted the Olympic Games. Seen through the eyes of a cast of characters – Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, athletes and...

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • Author(s): Alfred Döblin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • Author(s): Alfred Döblin
  • Location(s): Berlin

This is the German version. Available in English too.

Berlin Blues

Berlin Blues
  • Author(s): Sven Regener
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

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