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Ghost Town

Ghost Town
  • Author(s): Kevin Chen
  • Location(s): Berlin, Taiwan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQ+, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan...

If The Dead Rise Not

If The Dead Rise Not
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s to 1950s

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations –...

Last Flight to Stalingrad

Last Flight to Stalingrad
  • Author(s): Graham Hurley
  • Location(s): Berlin, Volgograd (Stalingrad)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Berlin, 1942. For Werner Nehmann, a journalist at the Ministry of Propaganda, the dizzying victory of the last four years has felt like a party without end. But the Reich’s attention has turned East, and as winter sets in,...

Learning German (badly)

Learning German (badly)
  • Author(s): Tim Luscombe
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current

“Not many know and love Europe, and our complex relationship with it, like Luscombe. And no one can communicate that with such fantastically self-deprecating wit.” Federay Holmes, Associate Artist at the Globe Theatre London. With the possiblity looming that...

Madgermanes

Madgermanes
  • Author(s): Birgit Weyhe, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Mozambique, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Graphic Novel
  • Era(s): 1960s - 1990s

‘Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People’s Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for...

Metropolis

Metropolis
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners – after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that...

Other People’s Clothes

Other People’s Clothes
  • Author(s): Calla Henkel
  • Location(s): Schöneberg, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2009

2009. Berlin. Two art students arrive from New York, both desperate for the city to solve their problems. Zoe is grieving for her high school best friend, murdered months before in her hometown in Florida. Hailey is rich, obsessed...

Sisters of Berlin

Sisters of Berlin
  • Author(s): Juliet Conlin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

BERLIN 2019. A young writer is brutally attacked in her home and left for dead. For her sister Nina Bergmann, it’s the beginning of a nightmare that will threaten to destroy her marriage, her job and ultimately her life....

The artificial Silk Girl

The artificial Silk Girl
  • Author(s): Irmgard Keun
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The Commandant’s Daughter

The Commandant’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Catherine Hokin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1933 - 1947

1933, Berlin. Ten-year-old Hanni Foss stands by her father’s side watching the torchlit procession to celebrate Adolf Hitler as Germany’s new leader. As the lights fade, she knows her safe and happy childhood is about to change forever. Practically...

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