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Bricks and Mortar

Bricks and Mortar
  • Author(s): Clemens Meyer
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1989 - present

Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in...

Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks
  • Author(s): Thomas Mann
  • Location(s): Lübeck
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The Buddenbrook clan is everything you’d expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family – wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. In...

Built on Sand

Built on Sand
  • Author(s): Paul Scraton
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Berlin: long-celebrated as a city of artists and outcasts, but also a city of teachers and construction workers. A place of tourists and refugees, and the memories of those exiled and expelled. A city named after marshland; if you...

Burning Down The Haus

Burning Down The Haus
  • Author(s): Tim Mohr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN THE SECRET HISTORY OF PUNKS IN EAST GERMANY It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military...

Burying Leo

Burying Leo
  • Author(s): Helga Gruendler-Schierloh
  • Location(s): Detroit, Augsburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Twentieth Century

After having been sexually assaulted during an audition, Ingrid, an aspiring young German singer and songwriter, wants to report the crime. However, her mother is vehemently opposed to getting the police involved. Instead, she talks her daughter into spending...

Changer

Changer
  • Author(s): Matt Gemmell
  • Location(s): Munich, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Techno-thriller: DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. Jutland, Denmark: a billionaire industrialist seizes control of a top-secret project that the European Defence Agency calls Destiny, manipulating it for his own ends. Edinburgh, Scotland: physicist Neil Aldridge’s life is saved by an...

Chimney Fire

Chimney Fire
  • Author(s): Suellen Ocean
  • Location(s): Germany, Israel, Munich
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): 1930's, 1940's, 1980's

American Rudy Steinberg is visited by a banker from Munich and told he has received an inheritance from his German father, Lothur Von Heinden. Problem is, Rudy was raised to believe that his father was Moses Steinberg, a Jew....

City of Shadows

City of Shadows
  • Author(s): Ariana Franklin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1922

A cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as...

Crooked Cross

Crooked Cross
  • Author(s): Sally Carson
  • Location(s): Bavaria
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Crooked Cross describes, through the eyes of one ordinary family, the Nazis’ growth in power between December 1932 and August 1933. It is extraordinarily prescient, anticipating all the horrors they were about to inflict on the world, and in...

Danger at Dead Man’s Pass

Danger at Dead Man’s Pass
  • Author(s): M G Leonard, Elisa Paganelli (Illustrator), Sam Sedgman
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Embark on a thrilling fourth adventure in the bestselling, prize-winning Adventures on Trains series – Danger in Dead Man’s Pass, from M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman, as Harrison Beck investigates an ancient family curse high in the German...

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