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Darling Mine

Darling Mine
  • Author(s): Jamie Bulloch (Translator), Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Julie Nowak has been missing since 7th September 2003. It broke her family. Only her father, Theo, doesn’t give up on her. On the 20th anniversary of her disappearance, Theo is contacted by podcaster Liv. She’s come across a...

Daughter of the Reich

Daughter of the Reich
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Please see details of this book under “People Like Us” – the two are the same book

Der Königsberg-Plan

Der Königsberg-Plan
  • Author(s): Alexander Weiss
  • Location(s): Berlin, Kaliningrad (Königsberg)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1945 and modern

Herr Parker, bitte folgen Sie mir. Wir haben nicht viel Zeit. Die Kanzlerin muss Berlin in einer Stunde verlassen – und will Sie vorher sehen.” Königsberg, 1945. Die Rote Armee rüstet sich zum Sturm auf die Stadt, in der...

Devotion

Devotion
  • Author(s): Hannah Kent
  • Location(s): Prussia, Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1836

1836, Prussia. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on her. A child of nature, she yearns instead for the rush of the river, the wind dancing around her. Hanne finds little...

Disposable Man

Disposable Man
  • Author(s): Michael Levitin
  • Location(s): Eastern Europe, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1905 to present

Set in contemporary Berlin, Disposable Man tells the story of Max Krumm: American expatriate, struggling journalist and the reluctant descendant of Holocaust survivors. Krumm also suffers from a mysterious genetic disorder: All of the men in his family are...

Dog on the Rhine: From Rat Race to Road Trip

Dog on the Rhine: From Rat Race to Road Trip
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Lambert
  • Location(s): Germany, Croatia, Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Current

“An Inspirational Travelogue”* Jackie and Mark Lambert gave up work, accidentally bought a caravan and decided to tour in her full time with their four Cavapoos, Kai, Rosie, Ruby and Lani. In their second year, with some actual caravanning...

Evil in High Places

Evil in High Places
  • Author(s): Rory Clements
  • Location(s): Bavaria, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

THE CLOSER YOU GET, THE FURTHER YOU HAVE TO FALL . . . Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective...

Faith and Beauty

Faith and Beauty
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Berlin, on the eve of war. As soldiers muster on the streets, spies circle in the shadows, and Lottie Franke, a young woman from the Faith and Beauty Society – the elite finishing school for Nazi girls – is...

Fake Accounts

Fake Accounts
  • Author(s): Lauren Oyler
  • Location(s): Berlin, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend’s phone and makes a startling...

Field Grey

Field Grey
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin

Bernie Gunther has been arrested and imprisoned several times, from Cuba, back to Germany. This is Gunther on top form, in Berlin 1954s with flashbacks to the 1930s, a keen eye for historical detail and each locale.

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