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The Hidden Storyteller

The Hidden Storyteller
  • Author(s): Mandy Robotham
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in war-torn Germany. The war is over. But there are still secrets to be found amidst the ashes . . . Hamburg, 1946 The war is over,...

The Instant

The Instant
  • Author(s): Amy Liptrot
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wishing to leave behind the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. Searching for new experiences, inspiration and love, she rents a loftbed in a shared flat and looks for work....

The Invisible Land

The Invisible Land
  • Author(s): Hubert Mingarelli
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Dinslaken, Germany. July 1945. The war is over, and the allied forces are beginning to assess the damage. Among them, is a war photographer. As the rest of the press corp return home, he finds himself reluctant to leave...

The Kaiser’s Web

The Kaiser’s Web
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Various

Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth...

The Lakeside Chalet

The Lakeside Chalet
  • Author(s): Anna Camilla Kupka
  • Location(s): Tegernsee
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A chalet in bloom. A heart on the mend. And a second chance she never expected. When London yoga instructor Lucy inherits a grand lakeside chalet in Tegernsee, she’s not convinced a springtime Alpine escape is the cure for...

The Last Hawk

The Last Hawk
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wein
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

Nazi Germany is a dangerous place for a girl with a stammer – and although her father tries to keep her safe, Ingrid can’t help feeling like she’s let him down. But in the air, soaring high as she...

The Love That I Have

The Love That I Have
  • Author(s): James Moloney
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical

Margot Baumann has left school to work in the mailroom of a large prison. But this is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Margot is shielded from the camp’s brutality, as she has...

The Matilda Effect

The Matilda Effect
  • Author(s): Ellie Irving
  • Location(s): England, Hamburg, Paris, Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn’t win the school science fair, she’s devastated –...

The Museum of Cathy

The Museum of Cathy
  • Author(s): Anna Stothard
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the author of the Orange Prize long-listed, The Pink Hotel Cathy is a young woman who escapes her feral childhood in a rundown chalet on the East coast of England to become a curator of natural history in...

The Night Portrait

The Night Portrait
  • Author(s): Laura Morelli
  • Location(s): Milan, Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1492/ WW2

Between 1939 and 1943, the Nazis stole every known painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, imprisoning the original owners or worse. This is the story of the most infamous of these thefts… Munich, 1939 In fear of the brutal Nazi...

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