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The Silence In Between

The Silence In Between
  • Author(s): Josie Ferguson
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 / 1961

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your child… Lisette is in hospital with her baby boy. The doctors tell her to go home and get some...

The Turn of The Tide (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book #3)

The Turn of The Tide (The Sturmtaucher Trilogy Book #3)
  • Author(s): Alan Jones
  • Location(s): Germany, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941-1945 with additions from 2001

The Turn of the Tide is the third book in the Sturmtaucher Trilogy: a powerful and compelling story of two families torn apart by evil. As Hitler’s greed turns eastwards to the fertile and oil rich Soviet heartlands, life...

The Willow Wren

The Willow Wren
  • Author(s): Philipp Schott
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Begins in 1944

The touching and nuanced portrait of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a resourceful German boy. Ludwig is an odd and introverted child, growing up in Hitler’s Germany. While Ludwig’s father, Wilhelm, is a...

The Woman Outside The Walls

The Woman Outside The Walls
  • Author(s): Suzanne Goldring
  • Location(s): Hamburg, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1929 - 2017

I always knew it would come out one day. They are finding everyone who has stayed hidden. They would have come to me in the end. Hamburg, 1942. Seventeen-year-old Anna knows she can never tell her proud parents the...

Turning: A Swimming Memoir

Turning: A Swimming Memoir
  • Author(s): Jessica J Lee
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Modern

‘The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, my breasts, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my...

What Only We Know

What Only We Know
  • Author(s): Catherine Hokin
  • Location(s): Berlin, Aldershot
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Present Day &World War II

A door slammed and the unmistakable sound of boots came crashing up the hall. Liese held her little daughter’s hand so tightly, the tiny fingers had turned purple. The SS officer’s hand was at Liese’s throat before she saw...

The Moment

The Moment
  • Author(s): Douglas Kennedy
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage,...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by...

Dear Child

Dear Child
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Bavaria
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The No 1 International Bestseller – 250.000 copies sold in Germany – 5th bestselling paperback in Germany in 2019 A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their...

Sleepless

Sleepless
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dark secrets past and present collide in Sleepless. A haunting novel of guilt and retribution from Romy Hausmann, the international bestselling author of Dear Child. It’s been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a cruel crime. After being released...

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