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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...

The House by the Lake

The House by the Lake
  • Author(s): Thomas Harding
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘A passionate memoir.’ Neil MacGregor ‘A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which...

The Innocent

The Innocent
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Cold War

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present: comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed...

The New Mrs Clifton

The New Mrs Clifton
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Clapham, Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Post World War Two

As the Second World War draws to a close, Gus Clifton, having been working with the interrogation teams in Germany and out of touch with his family, surprises his sisters at their home. But an even greater shock is...

The Package

The Package
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Emma’s the one that got away. The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as ‘the hairdresser’ – because of the trophies he takes from his victims. Or she thinks she was. The police aren’t convinced. Nor...

The Soul Breaker

The Soul Breaker
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Soul Breaker doesn’t kill his victims. What he does is much worse. He leaves them paralysed and completely catatonic. His only trace: a note left in their hands. There are three known victims when suddenly the abductions stop....

1989 The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall)

1989 The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall)
  • Author(s): Peter Millar
  • Location(s): Berlin, Germany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

1989: The Berlin Wall (My Part in its Downfall) It was an event that changed history, bringing the Cold War to a sudden, unexpected end and seeing the collapse not just of Communism but of the Soviet Union itself....

Nightingale and Co

Nightingale and Co
  • Author(s): Charlotte Printz, Marina Sofia (Translator)
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

Nightingale & Co is the first in a cosy historical crime series featuring the sisters of the Nightingale & Co detective agency in 1960s Berlin. Since the death of her beloved father, Carla has been running the Nightingale &...

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