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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)
- 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....
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s to 1945, 1950s onwards
It is 1920 and two baby boys are born, and are brought up as brothers in Berlin. Paulus and Otto are the twin sons of devoted and happy Jewish parents Frieda and Wolfgang Stengel. But one of the children...
- Location(s): Berlin, Brittany, Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1938-41
April 1941. German bombers are in the air, about to attack Belfast. Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland two years before. War-weary, he longs for escape. In remote Dunkerin, Kitty...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1982
Set in the East Germany of 1982, Winter in Berlin tells the story of a mysterious Scottish historian who has come to East Berlin to make a study of the historiographical treatment of Bismarck by East German scholars. But...
111 Orte in Berlin, die man gesehen haben muss
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
IN GERMAN ONLY. Kein Mensch kennt alle Geheimnisse dieser gigantischen Stadt. Neue Entdeckungen verraet ein Buch, das ein Trio junger Frauen unter Regie von Journalistin Lucia Jay von Seldeneck geschrieben hat. Es zeigt den Weg zu 111 unbekannten, skurrilen...
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