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March Violets

March Violets
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Midnight in Berlin

Midnight in Berlin
  • Author(s): James MacManus
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Berlin, 1938. Newly-appointed military attache Noel Macrae and his extrovert wife Primrose arrive at the British Embassy. Prime Minister Chamberlain is intent on placating Nazi Germany, but Macrae is less so. Convinced that Hitler can be stopped by other...

Munich

Munich
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1938

September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain’s...

Munich Wolf

Munich Wolf
  • Author(s): Rory Clements
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Munich in the 1930s is a magnet for young, rich, aristocratic Brits. They come to learn German, but also to go wild, free at last from the suffocating constraints of strait-laced England. They ski in the Alps, swim in...

Murder in Berlin

Murder in Berlin
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1933

(Blind Detective 4) First published as Out of Shot under A. C. Koning. Berlin, 1933. The Nazi regime is gaining devastating power as Hitler is appointed Chancellor and stark oppression begins to unfold in Germany, blind war veteran Frederick...

My Grandmother’s Braid

My Grandmother’s Braid
  • Author(s): Alina Bronsky, Tim Mohr (Translator)
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): N/A

Sharp and tender at once, a humourous take on family dysfunction and human weakness seen through a young boy’s eyes. Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. When his grandmother―a terrifying, stubborn matriarch...

My Past is a Foreign Country

My Past is a Foreign Country
  • Author(s): Zeba Talkhani
  • Location(s): Germany, India, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Touching on often taboo subjects . . . Talkhani’s story of grit is a portrait of a young woman who refused to let others define her.’ ELLE 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid...

Nightfall Berlin

Nightfall Berlin
  • Author(s): Jack Grimwood
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

In 1986, news that East-West nuclear-arms negotiations are taking place lead many to believe the Cold War may finally be thawing. For British intelligence officer Major Tom Fox, however, it is business as usual. Ordered to arrange the smooth...

No Number Nine

No Number Nine
  • Author(s): F J Campbell
  • Location(s): Munich, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000

What do you do when your amazing, beloved sister dies? Hide in your room for two years. Sleep with a very, very wrong man. Leave home and start a new life, lying to everyone you meet including your kind...

Nujeen: One Girl’s Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair

Nujeen:  One Girl’s Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair
  • Author(s): Nujeen Mustafa, Christina Lamb
  • Location(s): Aleppo, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia, The Mediterranean, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2014

Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from...

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