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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...

All The Light We Cannot See

All The Light We Cannot See
  • Author(s): Anthony Doerr
  • Location(s): St Malo, Brittany, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War...

A Quiet Flame

A Quiet Flame
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s, 1950s

The action switches largely between Berlin in 1932 – and Bernie’s last abandoned case as a police officer when the mutilated body of a spastic teenage girl is discovered – and Buenos Aires in 1950 where he is invited...

AMOK

AMOK
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dangerous psychopath has taken over Berlin’s leading radio station and is holding everyone inside hostage in the terrifying and twisted new thriller from Sebastian Fitzek. ‘Good morning. It’s 7.35 AM. And you’re listening to your biggest nightmare.’ This...

Blue Night

Blue Night
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster’s crown jewels, the career of Hamburg’s most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nose dive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to...

city-lit Berlin

city-lit Berlin
  • Author(s): Rory Maclain (Introduction)
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Experience the haunting and exciting city of Berlin as never before, in the company of over sixty dazzling writers. Join them as Christopher Isherwood takes us to the cabaret David Bowie cycles through Berlin Anna Funder remembers Stasiland Ian...

Daughters

Daughters
  • Author(s): Lucy Fricke, Sinéad Crowe (translator)
  • Location(s): Amorgos, Germany, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Fricke‘s Daughters tells the story of two women either side of forty on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers favourite in Germany, Daughters evokes laughter...

Fatherland

Fatherland
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the...

Friedrichstrasse 19

Friedrichstrasse 19
  • Author(s): Emma Harding
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mainly 20th Century

Sigi lived upstairs from Sara at Friedrichstrasse 19 yet before they met, Sara had no idea that Berlin could be so thrillingly irreverent or that sex could be so intoxicatingly wonderful. But then came the war, and hunger, loneliness...

Ghost Town

Ghost Town
  • Author(s): Kevin Chen
  • Location(s): Berlin, Taiwan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan...

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